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  • Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

    These Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are hands down the best that I have ever had! Each cookie is packed ... read more

    Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
  • Soft and Chewy Rocky Road Cookies

    If you like Rocky Road Ice Cream, then you are going to love this Rocky Road Cookie recipe! ... read more

    Soft and Chewy Rocky Road Cookies
  • Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

      Oh my,  these cookies are addicting! I ended up giving most of them away because I ... read more

    Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
  • S’more Cookies

    If you love s'mores, raise your hand. If you wish you could have s'mores year round, raise your ... read more

    S’more Cookies
  • Peanut Butter Blossoms

    I like peanut butter cookies. I LOVE peanut butter blossoms ! When my local grocery store had a ... read more

    Peanut Butter Blossoms
Easy Sweet Buttermilk Cornbread tastes just like Southern cornbread. The moist, tender texture and buttery sweet flavor makes this the BEST cornbread recipe ever! This homemade cornbread is just as easy to make as a box mix. 

Easy Sweet Buttermilk Cornbread

Easy Sweet Buttermilk Cornbread with it’s moist and tender texture, buttery sweet flavor and slightly crisp edges, it’s no wonder we never have leftovers.

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Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad is a healthy, quick, and easy salad that everybody will love! I love how light and refreshing it is. It's the perfect side salad for brunch, lunch, or dinner. 

Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad

Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad is a light and refreshing salad. I love simple salad recipes and this Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad is exactly that. The creamy sauce is the perfect complement to the cucumbers and the dill really adds to the refreshing flavor.

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Easy S'more Cookies is the best recipe cookie ever! These cookies are super soft and chewy. The ooey gooey marshmallows and melted chocolate will hook you after just one bite.

Easy Smore Cookies

Easy S’more Cookies make eating s’mores year round possible. You no longer have to be sitting around a camp fire to enjoy the ooey gooey marshmallow with melted milk chocolate on top of a soft and chewy graham cookie. These cookies are crazy amazing. I even dare say that these Easy S’more Cookies are better […]

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Creamy Ranch Pasta Salad is the best pasta salad! My family always requests this salad for family parties. I love the ranch dressing, it is by far the best I have ever tasted. And, it's a great way to get your kids to eat more veggies.

Creamy Ranch Pasta Salad

  This Creamy Ranch Pasta Salad is a quick and easy salad that is always a hit at the parties! Ranch dressing always seems to make everything better and the homemade ranch dressing in this salad is no exception. The creamy ranch dressing, cheese cubes, ham, and all the yummy veggies make this salad unforgettable!

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These Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are the BEST EVER! They are super soft and chewy, and the flavor is out of this world! This recipe is quick, easy, and makes the perfect oatmeal raisin cookies every time. My family devoured them, even my picky eater loved them.

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

These Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are hands down the best that I have ever had! Each cookie is packed with so much flavor that you will be hooked after the first bite. These cookies are soft and fluffy and have the perfect chewy texture. This recipe is one that you will want to hang onto. I promise you won’t find […]

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Stir-Fried Sugar Snap Peas are so good it's hard to believe they are healthy! This recipe can be made in 7 minutes, so they are perfect when you are in a pinch. These peas are so addicting and are the perfect way to get your kids to eat their veggies!

Stir-Fried Sugar Snap Peas

This Stir-Fried Sugar Snap Peas recipe makes for an easy side dish for any meal. Seven minutes is all this dish requires until you can sink your teeth into these flavor packed peas. The natural sweetness of the peas goes perfectly with the vibrant ginger and savory garlic. The nutty flavor of the toasted sesame seeds creates the ultimate finishing […]

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Southern Style Green Beans

Southern Style Green Beans are melt in your mouth tender delicious. Cooking the beans low and slow with a ham hock gives these beans an irresistible subtle smoky flavor that really can’t be beat! This Southern Style Green Beans recipe is my favorite way to cook green beans! I love the smoky flavor from the ham […]

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Fresh Corn Salad with Avocado Cilantro Dressing-Look no further for the perfect side salad. This recipe is a must try for sure! It is a vegetarian, gluten-free salad that everybody will enjoy. The avocado cilantro dressing is so good I could drink it from a cup. On top of everything, else it is super easy to make too.

Fresh Corn Salad with Avocado Cilantro Dressing

Fresh Corn Salad with Avocado Cilantro Dressing is the very definition of a refreshing summer salad. The fresh corn from the cob is juicy and sweet. The Avocado and Cilantro Dressing is not only creamy, it is addicting too. I seriously could drink the dressing straight from a cup! When you mix the two together, you have an […]

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Easy Flag Cream Bars-This Easy Flag Cream Bars will be the hit at your party! They are so easy and quick to make you will be out the door in no time. This dessert is rich and creamy and I never have any leftovers. Everybody always wants the recipe.

Easy Flag Cream Bars

Easy Flag Cream Bars are a simple twist to my Strawberries and Cream Bars. This recipe is fast and easy to make but everybody will think it took you all day to make. Not only is this dessert beautiful, they are delicious too!

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Garden Salad Skewers with Avocado Ranch Dressing-Nobody can resist these yummy salad skewers! Everybody loves food on a stick! These skewers make great appetizers, finger food, or a grab and go side dish. My pickiest eater loves these. The Avocado Ranch Dressing Puts this recipe over the top with its creamy goodness! Trust me, you don't want to miss out on this one!

Garden Salad Skewers & Avocado Ranch Dressing

Garden Salad Skewers & Avocado Ranch Dressing are the perfect grab and go side dish or appetizer. Even the pickiest eaters love these salad skewers, because who can resist food on a stick?

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Toasted Coconut & Chocolate Rice Krispie Treats- These are the best rice krispie treats ever! My kids won't stop eating them. I love to make them because they are easy, delicious, and everybody loves them. I always get asked for the recipe and there are never any leftovers.

Toasted Coconut & Chocolate Rice Krispie Treat

Rice Krispie Treats are bumped up to a whole new level when chocolate and toasted coconut is added. Chocolate and coconut is one of my favorite combinations.  So it was only a matter of time before the chocolate and coconut combination spilled into a rice krispie treat recipe.

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M&M Cookie Bars. These cookie bars are soft and chewy and packed with chocolate goodness! I love easy desserts and this one is a home run. I tried many recipes for cookie bars and they were either too dry or flavorless. So I was ecstatic when I came across this one! I might even eat them for breakfast.

M&M Cookie Bars

I have searched high and low for a good recipe for M&M cookie bars. I have been craving them and was surprised at how few recipes are out there. The ones that I did find were either too dry or were lacking in flavor.

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Creamy Roasted Butternut Squash and Bacon Soup. Do you need easy dinner recipes? This soup is just that! It is super easy to make and is the perfect fall meal. I have a feeling that this is going to be at the top your list of dinner recipes.

Creamy Butternut Squash and Bacon Soup

I love all things Butternut Squash! One of my favorite ways to cook the squash is roasting it. So I was more than excited when I saw the roasted butternut squash and bacon Soup by Damn Delicious. I always know that any recipe from Damn Delicious will be amazing, hence the name! I put my […]

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The Best Gourmet Chocolate Chip Cookies. Who doesn’t love chocolate chip cookies? You might find it funny how many chocolate chip cookie recipes I have tried over the years. I finally found the perfect recipe! These cookies soft and chewy and the flavor is seriously mind blowing! Don’t spend all that money on the expensive bakery cookies when you can make your own at home for a lot less!

The Best Gourmet Chocolate Chip Cookies

I can’t say enough about these cookies! They are soft, chewy, and taste like the expensive chocolate chip cookies you buy at the bakery. Now you can make them at home for so much less. I am kinda picky about my chocolate chip cookies. I don’t like them dry or crumbly. I want the to […]

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Soft and Chewy Rocky Road Cookies

If you like Rocky Road Ice Cream, then you are going to love this Rocky Road Cookie recipe!

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Mexican Street Corn. I love Mexican food and this is one of the best recipes you will find! It is a great vegetarian and gluten-free recipe that will please everybody. It is an amazing side dish to serve along your favorite Mexican entrée!

Mexican Street Corn

Mexican, Corn, Recipe I have seen recipes for Mexican Street Corn popping up all over Pinterest. I love Mexican food and corn so I had to give it a try. I asked my brother who lived in Mexico for two years if he had ever tasted it. He said he loves the stuff and offered to […]

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Homemade Pretzel Dogs are the best pretzel dogs ever! This recipe is super easy and everybody always loves them! These Homemade Pretzel Dogs are a hundred times better than any store-bought pretzel dog.

Homemade Pretzel Dogs

  Homemade Pretzel Dogs are always a HUGE hit with my kids! Store bought pretzel dogs don’t even compare to this homemade version. The pretzel is super soft with delicious buttery flavor. Wrap it around a hot dog and you have a pretzel dog that nobody can resist!

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Every time I think about these Strawberry and Cream Brownies my mouth starts watering. They taste like a chocolate dipped strawberry. This is one of the best dessert recipes out there. End your summer the right way with a batch of these brownies.

Strawberries and Cream Brownies

Brownie Recipe, Strawberries, Dessert Recipes These brownies are so soft and fudgy. With the strawberry cream frosting and the strawberry ganache on top, this recipe is pure heaven!

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Cuban Turkey Cranberry Panini

The Cuban Cranberry Turkey Panini is a great way to use up your left over Thanksgiving turkey. Of course, if you don’t have any left over turkey, you can use sliced roasted turkey from your local deli. We love this sandwich at our house! I love anything that pairs turkey and cranberries together!

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Irresistible Taco Meat

Last weekend, my husband and I were busy building benches for our kitchen table (I will share all the details later this week). The kids kept asking what was for dinner.  I had been so busy with the benches that I completely forgot that we needed to eat dinner. Instead of running to the nearest fast food joint, I […]

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10 minute Homemade Hot Fudge

A few years ago, my good friend Laura made this hot fudge for a youth church activity. Before I even had a chance to taste it, I saw some of the young men drinking it straight from a cup. I knew that it had to be amazing and that I better hurry and get some before […]

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Watermelon Lemonade

It is so hot outside right now! On days like today, one of the only things that helps beat the heat is a cool refreshing drink. Wouldn’t it be even better if that drink was not only refreshing but it was also healthy? Well guess what, I have the drink for you. I developed this […]

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Watermelon Cucumber Pineapple Aqua Fresca

A few days ago I went for a run and on my way back I had to stop and pick up my daughter’s bike at her friends house. I don’t know if I am just out of shape or there is something up with her bike but I swear riding her bike a half mile […]

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Fiesta Corn

A couple of my boys would be perfectly content if they could live off corn for the rest of their lives! They will eat corn from the can or frozen bag.  But their all time favorite is corn on the cob. Every time we pass a corn on the cob stand, my three year old begs […]

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Lemon Blueberry Cookies with Lemon Poppy Seed Glaze are the best cookies you will ever taste! They are so refreshing and bursting with flavor. Every time I make these cookies they are gone within minutes. They are soft, chewy, and so easy to make. This recipe rocks!

Lemon Blueberry Cookies with Lemon Poppy Seed Glaze

Out of all the cookie recipes that I have come up with, these Lemon Blueberry Cookies with Lemon Poppy Seed Glaze are on the top of my favorite list! I LOVE anything with lemon in it. Lemon recipes always do really well on my site. The lemon recipes are always some of the top viewed recipes. Lemon and blueberry is […]

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Ranch Dressing Dry Mix

  At my house, if my kids don’t want to eat something and I pour a little ranch on it, chances are they will change their mind. It can’t be just any ranch off the street. We do not consume bottle ranch in this house. We might be self proclaimed ranch snobs, but we know a good […]

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Easy Flaky Gluten-Free Pie Crust

Easy Flaky Gluten-Free Pie Crust is simply magical. You shouldn’t let gluten stop you from enjoying a rich flaky pie crust. This quick and easy recipe will renew your faith in gluten-free recipes!

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Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting are my new favorite cookie. These cookies are what pumpkin is all about! The super soft Pumpkin cookies is the perfect match for the silky smooth cream cheese frosting.  Autumn just isn’t the same without these cookies!  

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Ham and Egg Salad Sandwich

Ham and Egg Salad Breakfast Sandwich is best way to start your day! This sandwich is loaded with hickory smoked ham, hard boiled eggs, and cheddar cheese. It’s the perfect sandwich for breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner.

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Simple Creamy Cheeseburger Soup

Simple Creamy Cheeseburger Soup is a soup that the whole family will love! It’s the classic all-American cheeseburger in soup form. This simple recipe is fool-proof and easy to follow so you will have more time to spend with your family outside of the kitchen.

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Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls

Easy Homemade Rolls are soft and fluffy. The smell that will fill your home as these rolls bake is amazing. There is no reason to be intimidated by bread making because this recipe is as easy as they get.

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Brown Butter Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

Brown Butter Pumpkin Snickerdoodles will make your taste buds sing! These soft and chewy cookies are the best of snickerdoodles and pumpkin cookies wrapped into one.

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Perfect Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies are so soft and chewy. The texture is unlike any other gluten-free sugar cookie recipe. These cookies are easy to make and the rich, buttery flavor is astounding! 

Perfect Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies

Perfect Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies are so soft and chewy. The texture is unlike any other gluten-free sugar cookie recipe. These cookies are simple to make and the rich buttery flavor is astounding!

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Peanut Butter Cookies are the best cookies ever! The peanut butter really shines in these soft and chewy cookies. This recipe is so easy anybody can make them and they will stay soft for days. 

Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut Butter Cookies are an all American classic and this recipe hits the nail right on the head. The peanut butter really shines in these soft and chewy cookies. This is a recipe you don’t want to miss.

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Quick and Easy Homemade French Bread

Quick and Easy Homemade French Bread tastes better than any bakery bread. This recipe produces a soft and chewy bread that is the perfect addition to any meal.

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