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2024 was a delicious year here at The Cafe! These are our favorite new recipes of the year. Did your favorites make the list?
We shared the most popular recipes of 2024, and now it's time for our favorites! While we love every new recipe that is posted, we wanted to highlight some of our favorites. Although we're always trying and creating new recipes, I've made the Lemony French Green Bean Salad and the Chicken Pastina Soup many times since they were posted.
Have you tried any of these recipes? What were your favorites from the year? Thank you for all your wonderful and thoughtful comments this year. Here's to a delicious 2025!
Lemony French Green Bean Asparagus Salad
Looking for a new salad that's not your same-old, same-old? This delicious French Green Bean Asparagus Salad has a bright lemony dressing and lots of healthy veggies. Each bite is a burst of fabulous fresh flavor!
Ridiculously Easy Lemon Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta
A Ridiculously Easy Italian dessert that tastes like it comes from a fancy ristorante, this Lemon Vanilla Bean Panna cotta will make you look like a kitchen rock star!
Better Than Grandma's Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
A delicious take on old-fashioned grandma cookies. Shh... with chewy, toffee-studded interiors, crisp, buttery edges, and lots of melty chocolate chips in each bite, these Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies might just be a bit better than Grandma's!
Italian Chicken Pastina Soup (aka Italian Nonna's Penicillin Soup)
This cozy, comforting Chicken Pastina Soup is also called Italian Nonna's Penicillin soup because it's known to cure just about anything that ails you! It hits the spot on a chilly day, for sure!
Karen's Grapefruit Avocado Salad with Honey Lime Dressing
This Grapefruit Avocado Salad is bursting with fabulous flavor, a perfect blend of fresh, sweet, and savory with layers of great texture. On top of all that, it's super healthy!
Slow-Braised Sunday Sauce
This fabulous Slow-Braised Sunday sauce requires only 30 minutes of hands-on time and will transform your kitchen into a fragrant Italian trattoria
Rainbow Asian Noodle Salad with Ginger Peanut Dressing
With ramen noodles, a rainbow of fresh veggies and a fabulous Ginger Peanut dressing, you'll find yourself craving this Asian Noodle Salad again and again!
Ridiculously Easy Raspberry Jam Amaretti Cookies
These soft, pillowy Raspberry Jam Amaretti Cookies come together easily but look like they came from a fancy Italian bake shop! They're a sweet, delicious  (gluten-free) taste of Itay!
Ridiculously Easy Apple-Infused Balsamic Vinegar
This fabulous Apple-Infused Balsamic Vinegar costs a fraction of the price you'd pay at one of those fancy gourmet shops. Make it yourself, add our free printable labels and impress your family and friends!
Honey Chicken Tikka Masala
If you've got 45 minutes, you can whip up this fabulous Chicken Tikka Masala with a lick-the-bowl-clean delicious sauce, plenty of tender, moist chicken. A splash of honey takes it over the top!
Crispy Blueberry Almond Granola
Just a little heads up... this crispy Blueberry Almond Granola is addictive and it's impossible to eat just one little handful! No worries though... with oats, wheat germ, coconut, maple syrup, honey and a secret ingredient, it's also hearty and healthy!
Key Lime Cooler Cookies (with free printable labels for gifts)
These Key Lime Cooler Cookies are crisp, buttery shortbreads, cloaked in a cool cloud of powdered sugar. There is an EXPLOSION of fabulous lime flavor as they melt in your mouth!
Ridiculously Easy Orange Cranberry Amaretti Cookies
These delicious Orange Cranberry Amaretti Cookies are a beloved Italian gluten-free treat. With a thin, crisp outer shell, a chewy interior, and a fabulous seasonal flavor combination of sweet orange zest and bits of tart cranberries, they are an instant hit with the first bite!
Thought for the day:
But He was pierced for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on Him,
and by His wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on Him
the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:5&6
What we're listening to for inspiration:
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I (and my family) Love your recipes! Please send the following labels to the email listed below. Thank you for making me look like a Star Chef!!
Thanks so much, Patty! We are happy to send labels, just leave a comment on each post you're interested in. Thanks!
My recipe of the year is the french frangipan tart, especially the press-in crust pastry. I’ve used this method so many times now and am very grateful to you guys…all my friends rave about my pastry making skills now!
Awesome! Thank you for letting us know, Janey!