Restaurant-style recipes for the home cook
Easy dinner recipes, side dish recipes, appetizers + party food ideas inspired by Coastal Living.
🏝 California Food, 🌮 Mexican Food & 🍍 Hawaiian Food
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Featured Categories
Browse our most popular categories. You are sure to find something crave-worthy in our more popular categories. If you're looking for appetizer recipes, signature restaurant-style Mexican Food, Hawaiian Food, Grilling recipes, and our mouthwatering fried rice recipes, you're sure to find something tasty to make for dinner here. Make sure to finish your meal off sweetly with a delicious dessert.
Seasonal Recipes
Recipes made with fresh seasonal ingredients. Find the perfect recipe idea for this season by browsing our Summer Recipes, Spring Recipes, or Fall Recipes. When the holidays roll around, you'll love our easy holiday side dishes, impressive holiday main courses, of course, all the holiday cookies you can hand.
Reader Favorite Recipes
Here is a collection of our top-rated reader favorite recipes. Find something new to cook today.
- Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
- Spam Fried Rice
- How To Make Focaccia From Scratch
- Spicy Dirty Rice – Rice, and Beans
- Homemade Peanut Butter Dog Treats
- Corn Salsa Recipe
- Dark Chocolate Mocha Cake Recipe
- Lemon Drop Martini (with Limoncello)
- Chocolate Chip Cookies with Fleur de Sel
- Restaurant Style Mexican Rice
- Blueberry Hand Pies
- Spicy Jalapeño Sauerkraut
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Most Searched Recipes
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Dessert Recipes
Every meal is sweeter when there's dessert! Here you'll find a collection of cake recipes, cookies, brownies, and dessert bars. Plus, even a few healthy dessert ideas.
Hawaiian Recipes
Growing up in Hawaii gave me a taste for many Island favorite recipes, and now I can share them with you. Whether you're planning a backyard luau or want to try some local grindz, I've got you covered. Check out all of my Hawaiian recipes.
Appetizer Recipes
Appetizers might be my favorite course. Check out a collection of small bites and party appetizer ideas. Gameday dips and munchable appetizer ideas for every party.
Dinner Recipes
Dinner ideas for every night of the week. You'll find classic recipes like Chili and Beef Stew, Slurpy Noodle Bowls, and Easy Chicken Recipes. Try out a few sheet pan dinners, or try your hand at Homemade Pizza Night.
Side Dish Recipes
Dietary Preference
If you have dietary concerns, you'll find tons of healthy recipes right here. Most of my meal prep recipes are keto recipes, and they are low carb and gluten-free.
Favorite Family Recipes
I am obsessed with collecting family recipes. This collection includes my own family recipes and some of my readers' favorite family recipes. Take a trip down memory lane, and you might find one of your lost family favorites here too.
Meal Prep Recipes
Do you need help with healthy eating? This is where meal prep comes in. Check out my collection of low-carb recipes that are keto-friendly. All of these easy meal prep recipes are also easily adapted to a plant-based diet.
