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A couple of weeks ago, I shared my favorite Carne Asada marinade with you, and today, I’m sharing my very favorite way to use that marinade: to make steak fajitas. You pair that tender, tangy, and super flavorful beef with slightly charred veggies, warm tortillas, sour cream, and guac, and it’s going to be a good time. Plus, since this is a recipe that does best with a nice long marinade, if you start marinating your fajita steak the night before, your meat can go from marinade to plate in less than 20 minutes when dinner time comes around. The fajita marinade we’ll be using on the steak is citrus-based, so it not only produces tangy and delicious meat, but the acidity of the orange, lemon, and lime juice helps break down the steak for a more tender finished product.

It’s been a while since I posted a small-batch frosting post, but I have a shiny new one for you this week, Small-batch Strawberry Frosting. Best of all, this is a completely from-scratch strawberry buttercream frosting that doesn’t use strawberry extract or freeze-dried strawberries, just five ingredients: strawberries, sugar, butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla. How to Make Strawberry Frosting with Fresh Strawberries Like my Vanilla Frosting and most of the other small-batch frostings on the site, this is an American buttercream, which means it’s made with butter and powdered sugar for a very rich and sweet frosting. If you have one, I recommend using an immersion blender with a chopper attachment to puree the strawberries for this recipe, because some blenders will have trouble processing the small amount of strawberries needed for a small batch of frosting.

Naan makes a great pizza crust alternative because it’s nicely portioned to make individual pizzas and when baked, has the texture of a good, medium-crust pizza. But it will add an extra 25-ish minutes to your dinner prep, so if you’re having naan pizza tonight because you need something quick, you can absolutely use your favorite store-bought sauce. If that’s a couple pizzas too many for you, I highly recommend freezing the leftovers (or double the recipe and make extras for freezing) because naan pizzas freeze extremely well. In the recipe below, I included toppings for Pepperoni, Cheese, Margherita, and Veggie Naan Pizzas, but you might also enjoy: • If you’re using leftover naan from a restaurant and it’s thinner than the store-bought naan in these photos, it will still work, but you may need to shorten the cooking time slightly.

Classic ooey, gooey 5-minute Fudge Sauce, just begging to be drizzled over ice cream, brownies, or pancakes and waffles. This is your classic ooey, gooey fudge sauce, just begging to be drizzled over ice cream, brownies, maybe even a pancake or two if you’re feeling real wild in the AM. And the best part is, if you have cocoa powder in your cupboard, you can probably make some fudge sauce right now because this recipe uses just five ingredients: sugar, cocoa powder, butter, milk, and optional vanilla. Try Frozen Hot Chocolate, Hot Chocolate, or make a cookie sundae with One Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie.