25-Minute Spicy Ramen

This ramen has ground pork, carrots, cabbage, sweet peppers, and a kick of heat!

My family has been eating different variations of ramen lately and this one was super fun because it has ground meat and seems like it's way easier to throw together than the others (it's really not but it seems that way with ground meat). I think this is one of the first ramen recipes I've made with any kind of nuts and I really love savory dishes with peanuts - SO MUCH. So all in all, this has a really great balance of flavors and textures. And it's quick to make!

Hoisin Stir Fry Bowls

This stir fry bowl has loads of flavor and a spicy peanut sauce to finish it off!

Stir frys are the perfect quick meal. They have so much flavor and you can put so many veggies in them. My oldest in particular probably likes stir frys more than other Asian style cuisine simply because the veggies maintain their crunch and he doesn't like when veggies get soft and mushy. I adore this particular stir fry for it's peanut butter sauce and chopped peanuts topping. I don't know why but I love all of these style recipes with peanut sauces and crunchy peanuts or cashews on them. There is so much savory goodness with those additions!

Snickers Chex Mix

Chex Mix with chocolate and caramel drizzles, Snickers bits, and peanuts - all the sweet and saltiness you want in a snack!

I'll be honest and say that I think that this is the best Chex mix I've ever had. I love a sweet and salty combo which is probably why I like Snickers so much. This Chex mix is supposed to be chocolate Chex based, but unfortunately we didn't have that so I used plain Chex. For as good as this recipe was with plain Chex, I can only imagine how amazing it is with chocolate Chex. This recipe has a chocolate drizzle, a caramel drizzle, Snickers bits, and peanuts. It's exactly what you'd want in a sweet Chex mix.

Peanut Butter Lover's Cookies

This is the perfect cookie for the pb-obsessed person in your life!

I love these cookies and I think the reason is the peanut butter chips and the honey roasted peanuts. They really make the cookie! I don't get enough recipes with peanut butter chips and I love them. The crunch of the honey roasted peanuts is the best. Plus you have bits of Reese's cups in there too with a peanut butter cookie base. It's sweet and salty, soft and crunchy. They really are the best cookies for a peanut butter lover!

Salted Nut Roll

This classic candy has a nougat center wrapped in caramel and peanuts!

I have always loved Salted Nut Roll candy bars and was totally miffed when I moved to Tennessee and couldn't find them. I was really happy to discover that Paydays were the same thing. This candy is something I had often at holiday time as a child and it's not exactly the same as a Salted Nut Roll candy bar or Payday, but it's still really really great. Same concept :)

Bacon Piggy Brittle #FantasticalFoodFight

Welcome to another Food Fight! Fantastical Food Fight is a group of food bloggers who will get a theme or ingredient each month and make some sort of variation for it. It could be traditional or nontraditional and can be found in a cookbook, on a blog, or be a blogger's own creation! For more details, check out this page.

This month's Fantastical Food Fight theme is CANDY. I originally was going to do hard candy, but had trouble finding a recipe that may fit the theme and figured my blogging friends might also have that same problem, so I broadened our theme to candy. There are so many good types of candy to choose from: fudge, toffee, taffy, brittle, hard candy, etc. I decided to try brittle once again. I haven't had the best luck with brittle. I think I need to invest in an instant read thermometer. But this recipe wasn't terrible at all. I think I just got it slightly too dark, but not burnt. So I can absolutely deal with that.

This was a recipe from Food Network Magazine that was in the "Name the Recipe" thing that they do and I could not find the name of it for the longest time. I went ahead and made it and decided to name it Bacon Piggy Brittle before finally discovering that it was named "This Brittle Piggy" which is SO cute. So whatever name you call it, it is definitely perfect for any bacon lovers you may have in your life, including yourself!

Kung Pao Chicken with Zoodles

Who needs noodles when you can have zoodles?! This Kung Pao Chicken is amazing and the zoodles compliment it perfectly.

I have been eyeing every blogger and their brother's posts with vegetable noodles. I generally try to NOT get more kitchen tools, gadgets, and appliances because I am running out of room. However, when I was grocery shopping and saw a relatively inexpensive spiralizer that was also fairly small, I had to pick it up. I am not necessarily concerned with making "healthy" foods and no one in my house is on a special diet. I don't go out of my way to make fat-laden food either. I really just focus on making a variety of foods and always serve up veggies alongside most meals. I didn't want a spiralizer to make veggie noodles that replaced regular pasta. I just wanted a spiralizer for the option to make veggie noodles instead of regular pasta for a dish.

I am a self-proclaimed veggieaholic and there are very few vegetables I won't eat. I especially love zucchini and really wanted to try zoodles. I was impressed with how easy it was to make them AND how great they were in this recipe. Just a little tidbit, we added sriracha to our individual servings for some heat. We're new to the sriracha bandwagon too, but we love it.

Asian Chicken Noodle Salad

I could eat the Thai peanut salad dressing with a spoon, but alas I had to save it for this wonderful salad!

You know how there's that thing where if you crave one thing, it means your body needs something else? I wonder what it means when you crave veggies. I have eaten a salad as a snack. I have no shame. Salads are just one of my favorite meals ever. I had a salad yesterday with no meat on it, but I do prefer chicken on my salad. I love the addition of cabbage to the lettuce and all the goodies that are in this particular salad before you even get to the dressing. I'm not kidding when I say I'd eat it with a spoon. The savory factor added by the peanut butter is straight up crazy! It's funny because years ago when I got the cookbook this recipe is from...I probably skipped past this recipe thinking it was crazy to have peanut butter in a savory dish...and even crazier to put it in salad dressing. But now, I am all for it! I wish I had been a fraction more willing to try new things back then.

Sweet & Salty Frito Snack Mix

Cheer on your favorite team with a batch of this addictive snack!

Hello, all! Today, I am over on Knoxville Moms Blog sharing this recipe for only the BEST snack mix ever in the history of man! :) Be sure to stop by and save the recipe.

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World's Best Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies claim to be the world's best pb chocolate chip cookie...I'm not necessarily sure they are the world's best, but they certainly are fantastic! I was a little thrown off by the recipe initially because I don't think I've ever added milk to a cookie recipe - ever. But I really liked that addition. It made the cookies more smooth.

Peanut Butter & Chocolate Chunk Pudding Cookies

So months and months ago, I was sitting around late at night and I was really craving some cookies. I couldn't really decide what I wanted, so I took to my baking cabinet [literally full of sugars, flours, chocolate chips, etc.] and pulled out what I thought sounded good. I had a bunch of vanilla pudding and I had chocolate chunks and peanut butter chips and that was all it took for me to know that I needed to have some pudding cookies in my life. The chocolate chunks are the perfect complimenting pair to the peanut butter chips. And, of course, the cookies are wonderfully soft and chewy with the addition of the pudding. I could not stop eating these. They were so good!

Asian Turkey Meatballs over Easy Thai Noodles

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Chocolate Fudge Reese's Cake Bars

So it's Monday, but obviously there is no Menu Plan Monday post...why? Because I'm in the middle of moving. Goodbye forever, New York! Hello again, Tennessee. Very happy to be returning back home to the south and leaving the military life behind. We're really excited to see our families...pretty much every day...not two times a year, if we're lucky. I hope to be back to MPMs by the end of the month. :)

I love chocolate and peanut butter together. I also believe that Reese's Pieces are supreme. Mini are even better. And don't get me started on this chocolate fudge cake...best.box.mix.EVER! It's my go-to chocolate cake box mix.

These cake bars are moist and oh so chocolately. The mini Reese's Pieces compliment the cake part perfectly and they are definitely something you want to be careful around. You may just eat a whole pan in one sitting!

Reese's Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Bars

I am so excited to share this recipe finally...I made it months ago. As always, it takes me forever to resize, add text, upload, and type up everything. And then now I'm only posting two recipes a week, if I get them done in time.

I'm already wishing I had another batch of these sitting around. Similar to the M&M Oatmeal Bars I've made, these things are addictive. I ate almost an entire batch of the M&M sort...and I ate too many of these for my own good too. I'm really not sure what it is...maybe the oatmeal? It just makes them so delicious and so much better than regular ole cookie bars. You guys have to try them!

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Popcorn

We've been testing out some new popcorn recipes for our occasional Friday night movie nights. We sometimes forget or do other things [like play Spongebob Uno]. I often will just put salt and cinnamon on our air-popped popcorn. Sometimes I do butter, but I am lazy and we don't have a microwave, so I skip that step a lot.

This popcorn is amazing, but it is also super rich, so don't eat too much of it ;)

Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies

I am convinced that pudding cookies are the best kind of cookies and here is why: they are the softest cookies and they keep incredibly well. They also are normally nice puffy, thick cookies. They are my ideal cookie.

I have been on a peanut butter cookie kick lately, so I had to make these when I had a craving. They taste pretty similar to the Loaded Reese's Cookies I posted here and I would love to do these again with some chopped up Reese's cups in them. Oh! And a note: use mini Reese's Pieces!! You ever notice how minis taste better? Mini M&Ms, mini Nilla Wafers - minis are the bomb!

Salted Peanut Nutella Puppy Chow

You cannot go wrong with traditional puppy chow or muddy buddies, but I've loved the variations I've tried so far: Thin Mint and Milky Way. I was dying to try another one as soon as possible. I figured the best time would be Christmas season since there's a lot of snacking around the holidays. We really loved this combination - it was just perfection to have the Nutella and salty peanuts.

Peanut Butter Lover's Rice Krispie Treats

I've only made a few variations from regular old Rice Krispie treats over the years and I really just preferred the original to the variations....until this recipe!

When I was really young, the church we went to used to have like a little brunch-y type coffee thing after the service. All the adults would socialize and us kids would grab some of the food and take off to play hide-and-seek because the church was huge. There were mint chocolate bars that were standard and so were peanut butter Rice Krispie treats with chocolate topping. We always called them Special K bars. These bars sated my appetite for those amazing treats that I haven't had in ages.

They could not have been more perfect. I loved the Reese's cups in them - that just really made them incredibly delicious. They are so sinfully sweet and decadent and scrumptious and many other descriptive words that I can't think of right now.

Classic Peanut Butter Cookies

I've been searching for a peanut butter cookie recipe (without pudding and what not - not that I don't like pudding cookies, but I wanted a classic cookie recipe) that wasn't dry or crumbly or that the cookie turned rock hard after an hour of cooling. I was so happy when this recipe turned out exactly how I wanted it to turn out. These are what I think of when I want a peanut butter cookie!

Monster Cookie Dough Dip

On my Pinterest appetizer and snacks recipe board, I have many a cookie dip recipes. I actually had a couple for monster cookie dough dip, but ultimately chose this one. Monster cookies are awesome because they have so much going on in them - oatmeal, M&Ms, chocolate chips, peanut butter - I mean it's perfect for when you don't know what kind of cookie/treat you want. You just have them all! This dip was simple to make and incredibly addictive!