Olivia Hart

Olivia Hart

Olivia Hart is the founder of Bitezy Recipes and a passionate recipe developer dedicated to helping home cooks create delicious homemade meals with ease. She specializes in easy family-friendly recipes, comforting dinners, slow cooker favorites, quick weeknight meals, pasta dishes, soups, and crowd-pleasing desserts. Through Bitezy Recipes, Olivia shares tested recipes with simple ingredients and step-by-step instructions to make cooking enjoyable for cooks of all skill levels.

General Tso’s Chicken

Plate of crispy General Tso's Chicken with sauce and vegetables

This general tso's chicken uses flour-coated breast pieces and a sweet, tangy sauce made from sugar, distilled vinegar and soy sauce. There is no hoisin sauce or separate starch slurry in the sauce.

Apple Bars

Delicious homemade apple bars with a warm topping and fresh apples

These apple oat crumble bars layer chopped apples between a pressed buttery base and a loose oat topping, with a thin milk glaze after cooling. One crumb mixture does both jobs, so you do not need a separate pastry dough.

Tasty Churro Donut Bites

Delicious churro donut bites coated in cinnamon sugar

These churro donut bites are spooned cake-donut pieces with cinnamon in the batter and a cinnamon-sugar finish. They use baking powder rather than yeast, and the milk, egg and melted butter form a soft mixture that goes straight into hot oil.

Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta

Creamy Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta served in a bowl with fresh herbs

This chicken bacon ranch pasta uses thin seared chicken, crisp bacon and a cheddar sauce thickened with butter and flour. Half-and-half is the sauce liquid, and dry ranch seasoning provides its herb flavor.

One-Pot Creamy Spicy Cajun Sausage Pasta

Creamy Spicy Cajun Sausage Pasta in a one-pot meal

This one pot cajun sausage pasta cooks dry penne in broth, cream and undrained tomatoes after browning smoked sausage with onion and bell pepper. Pasta starch becomes part of the sauce, so there is no separate boiling pot or flour roux.