Ultimate Holiday Charcuterie Board
Holidays, Cheeseboards, Recipes Emily Schmidt Holidays, Cheeseboards, Recipes Emily Schmidt

Ultimate Holiday Charcuterie Board

The holidays is my favorite time to enjoy all the appetizers, especially themed cheeseboards and charcuterie! There are so many different ingredients and combinations for these but this board pretty much has it all! It’s a collection of the best of the best of holiday ingredients, flavors, and colors and makes the most stunning Christmas appetizer or meal!

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The Most Extra Italian Pasta Salad
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The Most Extra Italian Pasta Salad

Go ahead and file this one under my favorite summer recipes- it’s that good! Pasta salad is one of my favorite summer dishes and I especially love Italian ingredients in pasta salad. I started out wanting to make a basic summer Italian pasta salad but just kept finding more and more ingredients I wanted to add! I decided to just throw every possible favorite ingredient I could think of into one super extra Italian pasta salad. It has a little bit of everything- crispy pancetta, salami, pepperoni, toasty pine nuts, roasted red peppers, sun dried tomatoes, fresh arugula and tomatoes, feta AND mozzarella cheese, and a perfectly light and tangy lemony oil and vinegar dressing. I also used two different varieties of pasta to add even more texture and surprise to each bite! Find the full list of ingredients and instructions below!

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Sausage, Kale, Tortellini + Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup  |  Easy Trader Joe's Dinner Recipe
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Sausage, Kale, Tortellini + Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup | Easy Trader Joe's Dinner Recipe

If you’ve been following along for a while, you know that I love shopping at Trader Joe’s especially for quick and easy dinner options. I’ve shared lots of Trader Joe’s recipes here but by far my most popular is my quick, 2-ingredient tortellini and roasted red pepper tomato soup. I decided to do a new twist on this recipe and bulk it up a bit by adding sausage and kale as well as diced onion and some extra diced tomatoes. I didn’t think it could get much better than my original recipe, but this one tops it for me!

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3 Easy Thanksgiving Appetizers with Wilson's Grocery + Meats
Cheeseboards, Recipes Emily Schmidt Cheeseboards, Recipes Emily Schmidt

3 Easy Thanksgiving Appetizers with Wilson's Grocery + Meats

No matter the meal, yes even Thanksgiving, y’all know my favorite part is appetizers! Some may say that appetizers are unnecessary on Thanksgiving- they make you too full, there’s already too much food, and they’re too much work on top of all the other cooking. Well I say… those people are no fun (sorry)! I wanted to pull together 3 super easy appetizer options for Thanksgiving that you can serve alone or all together without any fuss, and I promise they will flow perfectly with your Thanksgiving menu! I love the idea of serving these all together for a mini Thanksgiving appetizer board as well. They compliment each other well and each have different savory, tangy, + fragrant flavors.

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Fun + Festive Halloween Cheeseboard
Holidays, Fall, Cheeseboards, Recipes Emily Schmidt Holidays, Fall, Cheeseboards, Recipes Emily Schmidt

Fun + Festive Halloween Cheeseboard

Halloween is just a week away and every year I love to make as many fun recipes as possible leading up to the holiday! So over the next week, I’m bringing you not one, but two, different takes on festive Halloween snack boards! This board is more along the lines of a traditional cheeseboard with the ingredients although I did make a few unexpected sweet additions! I tried to keep the overall color palette Halloween themed with plenty of pops of orange and lots of dark purple, chocolate, and bits of white. The end product is super bright + playful (not to mention tasty) and so perfect for celebrating Halloween!

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