Apple Cinnamon Overnight Oatmeal is what happiness tastes like! Simple and delicious, what more could you ask for?
Apple Cinnamon Overnight Oatmeal is what happiness tastes like! Simple and delicious, what more could you ask for?
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 hock. The aroma that filled my home when I made these beans was irresistible! So not only will your house smell incredible, but you will have a dish that is so good it will make you want to cry it is that delicious!
I have always loved green beans. We ate them a lot growing up. I remember picking beans in my grandparents garden and our own garden at home. After we had picked the beans, we would help my mom wash, snap, and bottle the green beans.
For Sunday dinner we would open a bottle of green beans and a can of cream of mushroom soup. We would mix the two together, heat them up, and serve them. I think we had green beans with cream of mushroom soup pretty much every Sunday. We usually had roast beef and mashed potatoes with gravy as well.
You know that saying, “Good things come to those that wait”! Well, that definitely applies to these beans. Yes, you simply can just open a can of green beans, throw them in a bowl, and heat them up in the microwave and be done. However, if you are willing to wait a little bit longer while the beans slowly simmer with the ham hock, you will be greatly rewarded!
With love from my kitchen to yours,
Carrie
2 lbs of fresh French green beans, washed and trimmed
1 ham hock
6 cups of water
1 medium onion, diced
2 tsp. of garlic, minced (about 2 cloves)
1 tbsp. of butter
1 tsp. of kosher salt
1/2 tsp. of black pepper
Instructions
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Creamy Crock Pot Mashed Potatoes
Autumn Harvest Salad with Creamy Pumpkin Dressing
Italian Cranberry Orange Pound Cake is worth every minute spent in the kitchen making it! It is soft, fluffy, and bursting with flavor. I made this cake a couple of times this week and I had to give most of the cake away because I knew if I didn’t, I would eat it all. Just like all amazing cakes, this cake is even better the next day.
Classic Thanksgiving Stuffing is the traditional stuffing that we all know and love. This is my go-to stuffing recipe because it is simple, yet moist and flavorful.
Classic Thanksgiving Stuffing is one of my favorite Thanksgiving dishes. I look forward to eating the stuffing just as much as the turkey.
I love the simplicity of this recipe and that it still has all of the classic flavors you would expect for Thanksgiving stuffing. If you like mushrooms, nuts, or dried fruit in your stuffing, go ahead and add it but it definitely is not necessary because this Classic Thanksgiving Stuffing can hold its own as is.
Whenever I think about my childhood Thanksgivings, two things come to mind. My Grandpa carving the turkey and Grandma’s stuffing. I remember going over to my Grandma and Grandpa’s house for Thanksgiving. Their house always smelled absolutely amazing. My grandma was an incredible cook. Each year she would make the turkey and stuffing and everybody else would bring the other dishes.
There were a lot of family members that would come so we had to cram in their house. Later as the family continued to grow in size, we had to change our location to a church because that was the only building large enough to fit us all. Thanksgiving should be filled with family and lots of good food, don’t you think?
I like my stuffing soft and moist but not soggy. This is where the eggs come in. The eggs help the stuffing to set up better.
If you want to save some time on Thanksgiving Day, you can cube the bread the night before and spread the bread cubes out in a single layer on baking sheets to dry overnight. If you don’t have to dry the bread out in the oven you can skip the first step in the recipe and save 25 minutes on Thanksgiving Day.
With love from my kitchen to yours,
Carrie
10 cups of french bread, sliced into 1 inch cubes
1/4 cup of butter
1 1/2 cups of onion, diced
1 1/2 cup of celery, diced
1/4 cup of flat leaf parsley. minced
1 tsp. of thyme
1 tsp. of rosemary
1 tbsp. of fresh sage or 1 tsp. of dried sage
1/2 tsp. of black pepper
2 eggs
3 cups of chicken broth, divided
Instructions
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National Pie Day is March 14th. I love any excuse to eat pie! I thought since we were friends and all, I would help you out by compiling a list of 25 fabulous pies. Now you don’t have to feel left out when you see everybody on Instagram and Facebook eating their pie. This list contains all different kinds of pies such as no-bake banana split pie, raspberry custard pie, and every pie in between.
With love from my kitchen to yours,
Carrie
Coconut and caramel should always be paired together! They are like best friends that only make each other better when they are together. Toasting the coconut really gives it a stronger richer flavor. I love switching up traditional recipes at times and this is a flavorful twist to my homemade caramel recipe.
These Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Cookies are the very essence of Christmas! Your kitchen will be filled with the amazing smell of Christmas as you bake your tasty gingerbread men. The cream cheese frosting is the perfect addition to the already amazing cookies.
This Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Cookie recipe took me 5 batches to perfect it. They were either too dry and flavorless or flat crispy and loaded with flavor. I wanted a gingerbread cookie that was moist and fluffy and packed with flavor. Five batches later, I have just that cookie. My kids were in heaven with all the cookies I was making.
So here’s to these amazing gingerbread cookies that will help make your Christmas complete!
With love from my kitchen to yours,
Carrie
1 cups of butter, softened
1 cup of dark brown sugar
½ cup of granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
1/2 cup of molasses
1 tsp. of vanilla
1 tbsp. of sour cream
4 1/2 cups of flour
1 tsp. of baking soda
½ tsp. of salt
3 tsp. of cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp. of ground ginger
2 tsp. of ground cloves
Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
2 oz. of cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup of butter, softened
2 cups of powder sugar
3 tbsp. of milk
1 tsp. of vanilla
Instructions
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Double Chocolate Candy Cane Kiss Cookies
Triple Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookies
Cranberry Pumpkin Cookies with Orange Glaze
Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Cookies are the best holiday treat! This recipe is easy and the cookies don’t spread and they stay soft for days. It’s a fun Christmas tradition to decorate them with the family.
Caramel Muddy Buddies are mind-blowing delicious! Once you try them I know they will become your go-to treat. My kids devoured them in no time at all.
Thanksgiving can be very stressful, trust me I know. It is always hard trying to find the right recipes for your dinner. So I thought I would help you out a little bit.
Mmmm….butternut squash is so yummy! I could eat it like candy! After I made the Pumpkin Alfredo Sauce, I figured why stop there. So I created this recipe with butternut squash and rosemary.