Microwavable Cranberry Sauce Recipe
Welp, thanks to laziness and a bag of cranberries you can swag your way into your host’s good graces with this – actually delicious – super, simple homemade cranberry sauce recipe
Make A Chocolate Souffle In Your Dorm! [Candy Dish]
This chocolate souffle is super easy to make. All you need is a microwave! I don’t know if you watch Top Chef but souffles are always the most difficult desserts, they have to be perfectly timed and collapse very easy. The thought of being able to make one in a microwave is just too much to handle.

Intro to Cooking: Mango Salsa with Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Chips
Did you guys have a great Memorial Day weekend? I did. And by “I did,” I mean, I ate everything in sight. Just kidding, but it certainly feels like it. Nothing like a barbecue to remind you that it’s almost bikini season and you’re not nearly ready to flash those abs.
Intro to Cooking: Grilled Watermelon and Pineapple Salad
As the end of May gets closer, I start to crave the summer foods of my childhood: potato salad, greasy hamburgers, funnel cakes, Push Pops… It can’t just be me, right? However, a lot of those foods aren’t exactly, um, healthy. To lighten things up a little bit, let’s talk about fruit.
Intro to Cooking: Tomato and Garbanzo Bean Soup
Girls, finals are upon us. (And here are 10 ways I know it.) We’re all spending too much time in the library, a soul crushing activity when the weather outside is starting to look like it is actually spring and almost summer. Personally, all I want to do is lie outside in a bikini with an issue of Cosmo.
Intro to Cooking: Peanut Butter Noodles
Peanut butter. Who doesn’t love ~~to eat it on a spoon in front of the TV~~ the stuff? Ever since we were little kids we ate peanut butter cookies, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and if your mom really loved you, those peanut butter crackers that came in the plastic wrappers
Intro to Cooking: Potato Chickpea Stew
Super Bowl detox is now in effect. I won’t tempt you with my cheesecake bar recipe or my cheeseburger pie casserole this week. But one of our lovely commenters last week had a great idea: all day stew! This week we’ll look at a veggie-based stew that you can savor slowly and that will keep you full all day (sans chocolate).

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Intro to Cooking: DIY Thai Coconut Tofu
Coconut is rich in protein. It’s a favorite among fitness freaks (and CollegeCandy writers) for its ability to promote muscle growth. Coconut is also rich in Calcium, Vitamin A, and (good) fats. Studies show that it also helps maintain proper thyroid and kidney function.
Intro to Cooking: Potato Chip Chicken Tenders
I have a feeling there are lots of half-empty bags of potato chips around our rooms now that we are coping with the stress of a brand new semester. (Or…er….uh….always?) Perfect. You have the not-so-secret ingredient for this week’s fun, tasty, and super-easy recipe:
The Know: Peanut Butter Heaven
I love peanut butter. As in, please don’t judge me but I could sit in front of the TV with a spoon (or my finger?) and eat it like a bowl of ice cream. Or strawberries. If only peanut butter had the same fat and calories as strawberries. Then I’m certain all of life’s biggest problems would be solved.
Intro to Cooking: Peanut Butter Banana Bread
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston may be ancient history, but there’s one American super-couple that isn’t going anywhere anytime soon: peanut butter and banana. Today’s recipe takes the classic sandwich and, well, turns it inside out to create a savory snack or a meal on the go.
Intro to Cooking: Three-Ingredient Salsa
You’ve been eating nothing but junk food for the past week and now you want to eat healthier. However, you don’t want to surrender eating what tastes good, either. Plus, you have another party coming up and no time to cook for it. Yes, there’s a recipe for all of that.

Intro to Cooking: Peanut Butter Cheesecake Bars
Since we all snacked so healthily last week, I think we deserve a treat. And there is no better treat than cheesecake. Unless, of course, that cheesecake also involves peanut butter cookie dough. I know, right?