Our Club Sandwich is easy to make, delicious and filling. You’ll love this club sandwich for any meal of the day! This post is sponsored by Udi’s® Gluten Free. All comments and opinions are entirely my own. The Club Sandwich is a delicious staple lunch item at most restaurants – so why not make one at home? We love this…
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Crock Pot Recipes are an absolute staple in our busy home. You’ll be thrilled with this collection of the BEST slow cooker recipes on the internet! Crock pot recipes are a staple in any busy family’s home. This article is a collection of the best crockpot recipes we’ve found on the internet and it will keep your slow cooker full…
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This Football Field Cake is just what you need for your next football party or Superbowl Party! It was a HUGE hit! A football field cake is so fun! This month marks the end of college and professional football, but also the start of flag football season. Both very big events in my home – so we decided to throw…
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Baked Ziti is easy to make and even easier to enjoy! Make your Baked Ziti recipe with meat, or vegetarian, or mix it up. This Baked Ziti is the BEST! Baked Ziti is in my blood and my Italian grandmother would be proud of this baked ziti recipe! We always use ricotta in our baked ziti for the creamiest richest baked…
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Enjoy this easy black eyed peas recipe with your family and bring good luck for the new year! I made this delicious Black Eyed Peas recipe for New Year’s because they say it’s good luck to eat Black Eyed Peas on New Years. And who am I to turn down luck?! I’m warning you though, these black eyed peas are…
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This Easy Cranberry Upside Down Cake is only two basic ingredients and is a beautiful and simple recipe for your holiday dinner menu. Cranberry Upside Down Cake with Vanilla Sugar Drizzle has been calling my name ever since I stumbled across this Cranberry Duff recipe a while back. Today my grumbly tummy got the better of me and I commenced…
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If you’re making a Keto Breakfast, then we’ve got what you want! This is the BEST collection of keto breakfast recipes out there! Keto Breakfast can get boring and tedious if you’re relying on only eggs and bacon to get you through every day, but with this list of keto breakfast recipes, you’ll never be bored with breakfast again! My…
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Raisin Bran Cookies are easy to make and taste amazing! Chewy and delicious, they’ll be your family’s new favorite cookie! Raisin Bran Cookies are chewy, soft, and drizzled with a yummy sweet milk icing. It’s like all your favorite parts about breakfast wrapped up into a tasty dessert. You can make them in a cookie form or a bar form…
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Hot Chocolate Muddy Buddies Puppy Chow is a sure fire hit for the holidays. Makes a great teacher gift or party snack! I was first introduced to Muddy Buddies by my mother-in-law, when she handed me a bowl and said, “here, I made you some Puppy Chow!” A few thoughts ran through my head — Is she calling me a…
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Shepherd’s Pie is hearty, savory, delicious, and a great quick dinner recipe. Shepards Pie is also a great way to use of leftovers! Shepherd’s Pie is one of my very favorite meals. It’s simple to make and is a flavorful hit with the whole family. I love to toss in any leftover vegetables or meat so nothing goes to waste….
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Pink Sherbet Punch with lemonade and strawberry sherbet is the perfect light and refreshing addition to your next party. Does your family love a party? My family LOVES a party! Our Pink Sherbet Punch is a great option for the holidays or your upcoming party. It’s easy to make and everyone loves lemonade + strawberry! Serve your pink sherbet punch…
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This Crockpot Chili is simple to prepare and will make everyone happy at dinner time. Crockpot Chili is one of those hearty and delicious recipes that is perfect for nearly any occasion. Prepared with just six basic ingredients and spices, you’ll definitely want to add this simple chili recipe to your weekly meal plan. The beauty of crockpot recipes is that…
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Pecan Pie is a classic holiday recipe and this is the BEST Pecan Pie recipe you’ll ever try. This Pecan Pie Recipe is my brother in law’s favorite pie, and I have to admit it’s one of my favorites as well. The best pecan pie is one made with love, and also the ingredients in our recipe. Try it, you definitely won’t…
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Corn Chowder is the ultimate comfort food. Rich cream, hearty potatoes, sweet corn, and delicious bacon make this a FIVE STAR meal! Corn chowder is one of those dishes I just never get tired of eating. It tastes great and is easy to make, two things I love in a dinner! Make sure to serve your corn chowder with some…
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Ginger cookies are soft and buttery and melt in your mouth. They’re super addicting so make extra! Ginger cookies might be my favorite cookies of all time. If nothing else, they’re definitely the most addicting! Warm ginger and cinnamon with sweet sticky molasses makes a perfect cookie combination. Put together a cookie basket for friends and family with our ginger…
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Our Easy Holiday Cookies are the perfect cookie treat to make for your Christmas cookie exchange! Get the kids in the kitchen with you too! Easy Holiday Cookies are the best! Tis the season for COOKIES!!! I don’t know about you, but I just love delivering batches of cookies to my neighbors, especially this Holiday Sugar Cookie Recipe! Easy to make, delicious…
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Seafood Chowder is hearty, filling, delicious, and super easy to make. You’ll wow everyone with this simple Seafood Chowder recipe! Seafood Chowder is a favorite dish in our house. It’s rich and hearty, super filling and a total comfort food. It’s easy to prepare in the slow cooker, instant pot, or on the stove top! Make this Seafood Chowder recipe…
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Caramel Cheesecake is easy to make and such a delicious decadent dessert recipe. Perfect for any occasion! Caramel Cheesecake is the new favorite dessert in our home! We added some pumpkin spice seasoning to the caramel sauce to make it autumn ready, but you can easily fix this Caramel Cheesecake either way. We like to enjoy Caramel Cheesecake after a…
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Curry Ground Beef Stroganoff is a simple, quick, and super flavorful dinner idea that your whole family will love. This post is sponsored by Reames® and SheKnows Media. This Curry Ground Beef Stroganoff is a mash up of two of my very favorite recipes – ground beef stroganoff and our cabbage curry. My kids love it because it tastes great but…
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Apple Crumble is easy to make and fun to eat. We love making Apple Crumble for dessert, it’s a great option for a crowd too! Apple Crumble is so great and a super delicious dessert recipe. This apple crumble recipe has a delicious chocolate twist that you’ll definitely want to try. Serve your apple crumble after a filling meal of…
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Egg Casserole is a simple and delicious choice for breakfast. Make it ahead of time to keep things easy and quick in the morning! Egg Casserole is one of my favorite things to make when I know we’re going to have a busy week. You can make it in advance and heat it up in the morning when you’re ready…
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Yay for Crock Pot Ham! Crock pot ham is a total winner in our home. Admittedly, I’m not a huge ham eater. Bacon? Yes! Pulled pork? You bet! But regular ham? Meh, not so much. My husband and kids on the other hand are ham fanatics. So, I needed to figure out how to dress up a ham to suit…
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Yum Yum Sauce is a delicious white sauce that is typically found at Japanese steak houses. We have an easy quick version to make at home and dip everything in! I know Yum Yum Sauce is intended for Japanese food, but the truth is, we use it as a dip for everything. We’ve even been known to use it as…
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Keto Peppermint Mocha is the perfect treat for those mornings when you want to celebrate holiday flavors without holiday guilt! Keto Peppermint Mocha is so easy to make and tastes delicious. It’s creamy and frothy and won’t throw your diet into a tizzy! When you can’t justify the indulgence of traditional peppermint mocha, this is the way to go! You can…
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If you’ve never had a hamburger salad, now’s the time to change that! All the delicious flavor of a loaded burger with none of the guilt! I love a good hamburger salad! My husband once told me he “didn’t do salads” — which, I totally understand if the only salads you’ve ever been exposed to are those boring iceberg lettuce…
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Sausage and Peppers is the perfect ridiculously simple solution for a ridiculously delicious dinner! Sausage and Peppers is one of my husband’s favorite meals, and honestly it’s a big hit with the whole family. Sausage and peppers is also a super simple meal to make, especially when you do it all on one sheet pan with our One Pan Sausage and…
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Thanksgiving recipes are my absolute favorite recipes ever and Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday! If it were up to me we would celebrate Thanksgiving every single month. Check out our BEST Thanksgiving recipes here! Thanksgiving recipes are the best, and we have the best Thanksgiving recipes! If I absolutely had to choose, I’d say definitely don’t skip the stuffing recipe,…
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Potato Soup in the slow cooker or instant pot is the best way to make simple creamy baked potato soup, and with no milk or cream! Potato soup is one of the few soups I can eat all year long – even on the hottest days of summer. Oh, who are we kidding. I eat all the soups all year long….
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Taco Salad is the perfect quick and healthy dinner solution. Make them with chicken, beef, steak, shrimp, or even fish! Taco Salad is always an easy hit with the whole family. I feel like at least once a week the day gets away from me and I’m scrambling at the last minute to find a suitable dinner. I try to…
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Candy Cane Dust (or Peppermint Powder as it’s called in our house) is the easiest holiday recipe you’ll ever love to make. One ingredient. One step. About fourteen bajillion ways to use it. As soon as candy canes are available in stores (seems like October these days!), I make a big batch of this Peppermint Candy Cane Dust. We love…
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Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments are a fun tradition to make with your kids during the holidays! As you can see from the pictures of my cherub faced boys (who are still handsome, but considerably more gangly these days), we’ve been making Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments for several seasons now. This year Ninja Bread Cutters were all the rage. I tried to take new…
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This Mexican Lasagna is a simple but delicious dish that is perfect for a crowd or party! We’ve partnered with Mirum on this post, and you’ll be glad we did! Opinions are 100% my own. #WinTheCrowdWM I wasn’t much of a school lunch eater. It’s probably hard to believe given the path that I’ve taken and my job these days, but…
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Paleo Pancakes made with hazelnut flour and bananas are the best paleo pancakes you’ll ever have! Paleo Pancakes are so good! Pancakes are my comfort food. I don’t miss a whole lot of things on the paleo primal diet, but my husband makes pancakes about three or four times a week and I cry a little inside each time. I tried…
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Our stuffing recipe is the perfect side dish for your Thanksgiving turkey. Moist, flavorful, and delicious! Aside from turkey, stuffing is probably the most important dish on our Thanksgiving table. Okay, not probably, it IS the (second) most important dish on our table. My husband looks forward to the stuffing all year (and if we’re being honest, so do I)….
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Teriyaki Chicken is an easy dinner recipe that your whole family will love, my kids are so happy when we make this teriyaki chicken recipe! Teriyaki chicken used to be called “mall chicken” when my kids were younger because every time we would eat in the food court, they wanted teriyaki chicken. When they found out we could make it…
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Garlic knots are an easy recipe to make with crescent roll dough, butter, and garlic. My favorite part about going to eat at an authentic Italian restaurant is the delicious garlic knots. So, when we decided to have spaghetti for dinner tonight, I was inspired to try my own quickie version. They came out amazing and only took about two minutes…
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This Antipasto Salad was inspired by my Apple, Blue Cheese, and Walnut Salad. Also by my Italian grandmother. (Miss you so much, Dreena!). When we did a quick fried chicken dinner, the salad was such a great addition that I wanted to do another! This time I served pizza (with our famous pizza dough recipe) and it brought to mind…
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This Apple Bread is the perfect quick bread to serve at breakfast or dessert! Apple bread is such a great treat – eat it plain or slather with butter! And when you’re done, check out our banana bread and our sweet corn bread! You can find a huge collection of our favorite bread recipes here too! Apple Bread Ingredients Granny…
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Creamy Italian Dressing pairs perfectly with a delicious Antipasto Salad! I made this Creamy Balsamic Italian Vinaigrette Dressing to go with our Antipasto Salad the other night. I love this dressing because it’s full of flavor but takes no time at all to whip up. I find that salad dressings are something I always forget at the market. Which, better than…
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Italian Sloppy Joes are a quick meal idea that the whole family will love. Add them to your meal plan now! Italian Sloppy Joes are a simple meal that is super fun to eat and full of hidden healthy veggies. Perfect for kids and parents! We like to serve this with a quick spinach salad and some fresh French…
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Our Zuppa Toscana is even better than Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana recipe – add this simple Italian soup recipe to your menu plan now! This Zuppa Toscana is loosely based on Olive Garden’s Zuppa Toscana soup – inasmuch as I had some soup from a friend several years ago and she was trying to imitate Olive Garden’s soup. And it was good, so…
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Chili Mac is super easy to make and a delicious dinner sure to please the whole family! Chili Mac is a wonderful mash up of chili and macaroni and cheese. It’s easy to make and a great choice for weeknight dinners or game day food! Try it with our Wendy’s Chili Recipe or our Chili Recipe (No Beans). This Easy…
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Confession – I’ve made this Instant Pot Cabbage Soup three times in the last two weeks. It’s really good, really filling, and really healthy. The perfect combination! If you watch our live show, you know I’m maybe a touch obsessed with my instant pot. This cabbage soup is my new favorite recipe. Not only do I love it because it’s…
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Everyone is trying to figure out how to use the instant pot electric pressure cooker and with this amazing collection of easy instapot recipes, you’ll be set! If you’re looking for instant pot recipes and instapot recipes, you’ve come to the right place! If you watch our live show, you’ve seen me adapt several of our slow cooker recipes into…
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Buffalo Chicken Dip is easy to make and a total crowd pleaser. Make it ahead and pop in the oven on game day! Buffalo Chicken Dip is a favorite party recipe or game day recipe in our house. It comes together so quickly, but I also love being able to fix it ahead of time and keep it in the…
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Go ahead and pin this Beer Bread for later! You’re going to want to make it again! (and again and again!) You probably already have the ingredients in your cupboard! Okay, it’s BEER BREAD. Mildly cheesy, garlicky, heavenly, no-knead beer bread. But in light of being inspired by one of my favorite book series, we’re also calling it Tavern Bread….
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French Toast is a weekend treat at our house, and you’re going to love this recipe because it’s the Best French Toast you’ll ever make! French Toast is a favorite in our house. This French Toast recipe is easy to make and very delicious, try it once and it will become your Sunday tradition too! We like to serve our…
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Follow these simple steps to make a perfect broiled flank steak every time! Let us teach you how to broil flank steak! I didn’t always know how to broil flank steak! Confession time! Seemingly for-evvvver I was terrified to make flank steak. I had it a few times at restaurants and it was overcooked and so I figured if a…
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Roasted Cauliflower is one of the few vegetables I can make for dinner and hear no complaints! Our roasted cauliflower recipe uses fresh cauliflower, olive oil, and seasoned salt. Roasted cauliflower is my favorite! If you’ve never made oven roasted cauliflower, then you’re definitely missing out! I lied when I said my kids never complain when I serve this. Sometimes…
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Baked Pork Chops are a simple and delicious dinner solution and great addition to this week’s recipe meal plan! Our Baked Pork Chops were inspired by the pork chops with applesauce my mom made when we were kids. While generally never a fan of fruit and meat together, somehow apples and pork just work so well together! Serve it with…
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