Category: Recipes

  • The Garden Charmers Favorite Valentine’s Day Recipes

    The Garden Charmers Favorite Valentine’s Day Recipes

    The Garden Charmers want to share a little love with you today.  Valentine’s day love that is. This great group of ladies have a tribe on Facebook where we help to share and promote each others websites.  The ladies are very talented in all aspects of DIY, gardening, and cooking ideas. I recently asked them […]

  • Muffin Tin Recipes – 35 Foods You Can Make in a Muffin Tin

    Muffin Tin Recipes – 35 Foods You Can Make in a Muffin Tin

    Are you looking for the perfect bite sized portions of your favorite recipes? The muffin tin recipes below make portion control a breeze. Muffin tins are not just for muffins anymore.  There are loads of creative ways to use your ingredients and then cook them in a muffin tin.  The finished recipe is a handy […]

  • 23 Favorite Holiday Fudge Recipes to Celebrate in Style

    23 Favorite Holiday Fudge Recipes to Celebrate in Style

    This round up features 23 of my Favorite Holiday Fudge Recipes. Some are my own recipes and others have been submitted by blogger friends of mine. The holidays are the one time of the year when I love making fudge and have it on hand all the time. I love it all year round, but my […]

  • White Chocolate Mosaic Fudge

    White Chocolate Mosaic Fudge

    This recipe for white chocolate mosaic fudge uses green and red cherries to give the fudge a mosaic jeweled look. This makes it just perfect for Christmas. I love making fudge. It is my favorite sweet treat.  I don’t make it very often, since I try to watch my weight, but Christmas time is when […]

  • Candy Cane Peppermint Kiss Cookies

    Candy Cane Peppermint Kiss Cookies

    These sweet treats are a variation on the normal kiss cookie that is so often seen this time of the year. These candy cane peppermint kiss cookies are lighter than the traditional kiss cookie but super festive. Perfect for a cookie swap or to take to your child’s school party. I love making cookies this […]

  • Snowman Christmas Cake – Fun Dessert Idea

    Snowman Christmas Cake – Fun Dessert Idea

    Your kids will love to make this sweet snowman Christmas cake.  The cake will be the hit of your Christmas buffet.   He is made of a chocolate base and covered in butter cream frosting and then decorated. The cake is easy to make and kids will love to help you decorate it with their favorite […]

  • Best Dessert Recipes – A Taste Sensation Overload

    Best Dessert Recipes – A Taste Sensation Overload

    Prepare to have your sweet tooth tempted with this collection of dessert recipes. I admit it.  I love desserts much more than I should.  I’ve gone through just about every phase of dessert cooking there is. From light fruit desserts to rich decadent treats that no dieter would be able to look at without gaining […]

  • Copy Cat Recipe: Red Lobster Nantucket Baked Cod

    Copy Cat Recipe:  Red Lobster Nantucket Baked Cod

    The Red Lobster restaurant is known for its signature cheddar biscuits, creamy clam chowder, and delicious seafood dishes of all types.  This copycat recipe shows an easy way to re-create Red Lobster’s Nantucket Baked Cod recipe at home with items that you most likely already have in your pantry.  As nice as Red Lobster’s dishes […]

  • Hot Turkey Sandwich with Cranberries & Stuffing

    Hot Turkey Sandwich with Cranberries & Stuffing

    Printable Recipe:  Open Face Hot Turkey Sandwich with Cranberries & Stuffing With Thanksgiving and Christmas usually comes left over turkey and lots of it.  I have a variety of recipes to use it up.  I actually love left overs and buy a turkey much larger than I need so that I can make the taste […]

  • 4 Layer Mexican Party Dip

    4 Layer Mexican Party Dip

    Printable Recipe:  4 Layer Mexican Party Dip This 4 layered Mexican dip is one of the easiest to make, but don’t let that fool you. The flavor is fantastic.I first got the recipe from my sister in law.  I’ve made this dip with both full fat cream cheese and meat chili, as well as fat […]

  • DIY Italian Herb Vinegar

    DIY Italian Herb Vinegar

    This recipe for Italian Herb Vinegar is perfect for any Italian or Mediterranean recipe. I love growing herbs and combing them with vinegar and oil gives me a great ingredient for cooking. Herb infused vinegar oils keep the flavor of the herbs well and add such a special taste to any recipe.  Make Your Own […]

  • Festive Dip in a Pumpkin Shell

    Festive Dip in a Pumpkin Shell

    There is certainly no shortage of pumpkins this time of the year.   We can carve them, paint them or cook them to use in both savory and sweet recipes. How about using your pumpkin in a different way?  Today I’ll be showing how to used it as a party bowl for dip. The bowl is […]

  • Cookie Recipes – Great Cookie Exchange Recipe Round up

    Cookie Recipes – Great Cookie Exchange Recipe Round up

    A cookie exchange is the perfect way to share your favorite cookie recipes with friends and family. Who doesn’t love a great cookie recipe? They are generally quite easy to make and family members are sure to love them better than boxes of store bought cookies. And this time of the year, many people have […]

  • Easy Appetizer Recipes – Dips – Finger Foods and More!

    Easy Appetizer Recipes – Dips – Finger Foods and More!

    These easy appetizer recipes are fun to eat and super simple for you, as the hostess to prepare. My favorite kind of party is one where there are finger foods.  I enjoy this either as the host or as the guest. Easy appetizers are a great way to start your party on the right foot […]

  • How to Cook Bacon in the Oven

    How to Cook Bacon in the Oven

    Use Your Oven to make Crispy and Delicious Bacon I had friends over for brunch the other morning and, instead of frying the bacon to go with the eggs, I baked it.  I don’t think I have ever had so many postive comments on something that I served.  Ahhh…bacon.    It seems that almost everyone just […]

  • Curried Egg Salad with Olives

    Curried Egg Salad with Olives

    If you love to use hard boiled eggs in recipes, put this curried egg salad with olives on your rotation. It’s the perfect filler for a pita pocket. Pita pockets are the perfect containers for any salad type sandwich. They hold the ingredients well and don’t spill the contents all over you  like a sandwich […]

  • 12+ Fabulous Peanut Butter Recipes

    12+ Fabulous Peanut Butter Recipes

    If you love the taste of peanut butter, these peanut butter recipes will be right up your alley. I am like Claire from Lost.  I can’t get enough Peanut butter.  I just love the stuff and could sit with a jar of Jif peanut butter and a spoon and lose a few hours.  So it […]

  • Roast Beef with Rosemary and Garlic

    Roast Beef with Rosemary and Garlic

    Printable Recipe – Roast Beef with Rosemary and Garlic. My husband’s favorite meal is roast beef, so I cook it often. I’m always trying new ways to delight his taste buds.  And for me, the flavors or rosemary and garlic pair perfectly with a big slab of beef. Tonight’s version is a studded roast of […]

  • Caramel Baked Apples

    Caramel Baked Apples

    Fall is the time of the year when apples are so plentiful. Apple pie, Caramel Apples, Applesauce and, of course, hasselback baked apples.  These caramel baked apples are a super delicious way to end a meal and you won’t miss a normal high carb dessert at all! Printable Recipe:  Caramel Baked Apples. I love using […]

  • Pilgrim Hat Cookies

    Pilgrim Hat Cookies

    Perfect for Thanksgiving – Pilgrim Hat Cookies It is such fun to have some treats for the Thanksgiving table that the kiddies will love.  These sweet Pilgrim hat cookies are the perfect choice to tempt the little ones (and the young at heart!) this Thanksgiving. They are easy to do and will have them wondering […]

  • Roasting Fresh Tomatoes

    Roasting Fresh Tomatoes

    Roasting Fresh tomatoes gives a great taste to any marinara sauce recipe. This is the time of the year when tomatoes are in abundance if you have a garden or visit your local farmer’s market.  Don’t waste the left over tomatoes from your garden.  I love sweet tomatoes straight off the vine in salads and […]

  • Decadent Lasagne Sandwich Recipe

    Decadent Lasagne Sandwich Recipe

    Take Lunch to a New Level with this Lasagne Sandwich Recipe. Looking for something special to serve for a lunch for your friends?  Try this decadent lasagne sandwich recipe.  Lasagne is one of my favorite meals.  I love the layers of goodness the seem to combine so well together.  But lasagne takes quite a long […]

  • Grilled Top Steak with Lime Marinade

    Grilled Top Steak with Lime Marinade

    At our house, we grill year round outside.  So I am always trying new ways to grill steak.  This recipe for grilled top round steak is easy to do. It does need marinating for at least 6 hours but you could do this over night in the fridge and then just throw on the BBQ […]

  • Home made Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel

    Home made Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel

    Printable recipe – Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel. One of my favorite treats whenever I go to the local fair at the fair grounds is a cinnamon sugar pretzel.  The sweet taste and soft texture of it is so much fun to eat. This recipe reproduces that feeling for me. It’s delicious and light and just the […]

  • Make your Own Potato Chips

    Make your Own Potato Chips

    Printable recipe – Make Your Own Potato Chips. We all love snack foods but they are just full of chemicals most of the time.  My favorite is potato chips.  There are many recipes out there for home made potato chips but many of them fail when I try to duplicate them.  This one comes out […]

  • Best Breakfast Recipes – Treat Your Taste Buds Delicious Morning

    Best Breakfast Recipes – Treat Your Taste Buds Delicious Morning

    Here are some of my favorites breakfast ideas from some very talented bloggers.  Breakfast is the start of the day. No matter whether you want something that you can grab and take with you, or a recipe that will fuel you for the day, there is a recipe below to tempt you. The recipes range […]