These Cheddar Bacon Stuffed Celery sticks are the perfect snack or appetizer! Â Made with convenient Dandy Celery Sticks they come together in a flash! Easy to make and everyone loves them. Â Simple fresh ingredients are the key to these crunchy snacks! Bonus- they’re also low carb, which we love. Make sure you use Dandy Celery–…
Fast and Fresh Recipes
Here at Laughing Spatula, we’re known for our fast and fresh recipes! Be it Greek Sheet Pan Chicken with Feta, One Pot Mediterranean Orzo, Skillet Chicken with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce, our recipes are easy to make with TONS of flavor and the best part? You don’t have to be a master chef to make them! Cook on, you amazing semi-chef, you.
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Chicken Burrito Bowls
Everything goes in the pot for these ONE POT CHICKEN BURRITO BOWLS, even the uncooked rice! Â Tender chicken, taco seasoning, black beans, peppers and corn make up this super fast and tasty dinner. Tender chicken breast mixed with your favorite burrito ingredients and all done in 30 minutes in one pan! Â This is a go…
Taco Pizza
This Taco Pizza is a Sunday night staple around here! Â It’s easy to make, hits all of our favorite flavor profiles and feeds your family with a bit left over for the lunch box tomorrow! With just a few simple ingredients you can make this family favorite! Â Perfect for game day or as an appetizer….
Mushroom Carbonara
Mushroom Carbonara is a thick and rich with NO CREAM pasta dish that has tons of flavor! Â The most time consuming part of this recipe is boiling the water! How to make the best and easiest Mushroom Carbonara – Pasta – We like a traditional spaghetti pasta but linguine, fettuccine or bucatini would all work…
Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites
Make 4 or 4o of these easy to assemble Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites!  Chicken pieces wrapped in bacon and tossed in a brown sugar chili powder mixture for a sweet and slightly spicy appetizer. Bake these in the oven or use your Air Fryer. Instructions for both methods in the recipe card below. They are…
Baked Honey Mustard Chicken and Rice
Baked Chicken and Rice with Honey Mustard is a delicious one pan meal. Tender chicken breasts slathered with honey mustard sauce sit atop a bed of perfect fluffy rice, infused with sweet honey and zesty whole grain mustard. It’s an easy one pan meal your whole family will love! What pan to bake Chicken and Rice in? I…
Vegetable Gyoza
These Vegetable Gyoza are stuffed with fresh steamed veggies and tossed in an easy to make sauce of soy, fresh ginger and garlic. Â Crisp on the bottom and steamed tender in the middle, perfect for dipping and sharing! We prepare these Gyoza using fresh broccoli and cauliflower. Â Crisped up on the bottom and steamed for…
Sheet Pan Quesadillas
We love everything about this Sheet Pan Quesadilla recipe!  It makes a great dinner or snack.  It’s  easy to make.  And  it’s delish!  One pan, crowd pleasing appetizer…yay! Ingredients for Sheet Pan Quesadillas – 10 large burrito size flour tortillas – you can use smaller ones as well, it will just take a few more…
Braised Artichokes
Braised Artichokes is an easy recipe that results in the most tender and flavorful artichokes we’ve ever had!  Simple to prepare and so fresh, these are the perfect recipe for any time of year, but we love them especially during the holidays. The first step in preparing these delicious Braised Artichokes is to trim them.  This…
Easy Cranberry Bars
These Easy Cranberry Bars are perfect for the Holidays! We used the same recipe as our Easy Blueberry Pie Bars because we know it works! Fresh cranberries are the star of the show in these Holiday cookie bars! A little flour, butter, fresh cranberries and a bit of sugar make up this easy bar cookie…
Easy Cranberry Meatballs
Looking for an Easy Holiday Appetizer? Look no further! These Easy Cranberry Meatballs are sweet and savory and come together in about 30 minutes! This easy Holiday appetizer will be the one every body asks for over and over again. Easy on the cook and can be adjusted to make a large or small batch!…
Mushroom Rice – {oven baked recipe}
This ONE PAN Mushroom Rice recipe is easy and so delicious! Never underestimate the power of a good side dish. Elevate that simple dinner with this delicious and easy rice casserole! Let’s give easy side dishes some credit. They can lift a plain old chicken dinner up to a new level! This is one we…
Chicken Thighs in Air Fryer
Super crispy on the outside and juicy in the middle Chicken Thighs in Air Fryer recipe will be your go to easy air fryer dinner! Just a couple ingredients and you are assured perfectly cooked chicken thighs every time! Air Fryer Chicken Thighs Bone in or boneless chicken thighs cook up deliciously in your Ai…
Chicken Pot Pie Soup
Chicken Pot Pie Soup!  – This easy to make soup tastes like chicken pot pie only in soup form! And the best part is it takes less than 30 minutes to make! This soup will make you and your family happy for days!  It comes together in a flash using store bought rotisserie chicken or…
Thai Turkey Meatloaf
We are always looking for ways to use healthy ground turkey in our house, and this Thai Turkey Meatloaf is one we will make often! A turkey based meatloaf is infused with carrots, cilantro, water chestnuts, and infused with fresh ginger, topped with an easy store bought sweet chili glaze. After foraging in my fridge,…
