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11.23.2025

Baked Turkey Meatballs

Baked Turkey Meatballs are a delicious lighter alternative to my Grandmother’s Italian meatballs. Baked in the oven instead of fried, they are the healthy turkey meatball recipe you’ve been looking for. When looking for a good healthy turkey meatball, I immediately turned to my grandmother’s traditional Italian Meatball recipe. They are incredibly delicious. In this…
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11.22.2025

Crockpot Chicken Enchilada Casserole

Crockpot Chicken Enchilada Casserole is a quick dump and cook dinner that you will love for busy weeknights and lazy weekends. If you love the flavors of enchiladas but don’t always have time to roll up chicken enchiladas, this slow cooker casserole is the perfect solution. We still start with my homemade enchilada sauce, but…
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11.21.2025

Easy Crock Pot Chicken Marsala (5 Ingredients)

Crock Pot Chicken Marsala takes everything you love about Chicken Marsala and turns it into an easy slow cooker dinner. This is a fast chicken recipe to come back to over and over. Chicken Marsala is one of my family’s favorite dinners. Even my pickiest kiddo, who hates mushrooms with the fiery passion of hell,…
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11.19.2025

Cheesy Potatoes Au Gratin

Potatoes Au Gratin are a classic potato dish that is easy to make at home and is sure to win over any crowd. Thinly sliced potatoes combine with a rich béchamel sauce to give you the best side dish. This au gratin potatoes recipe went through multiple rounds of testing until I had the perfect…
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11.18.2025

8 Ways to Use Thanksgiving Turkey Leftovers

If you are like me, you make way too big of a Thanksgiving feast to make sure everyone has enough and then you have plenty of turkey leftovers. Nothing to worry about there! You can freeze your leftover turkey and use it later. But if you are still in turkey heaven, I have you covered…
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11.17.2025

No Water Bath Easy Cheesecake Recipe

This easy Cheesecake Recipe is perfect for those who are scared to make a cheesecake from scratch. This delicious and easy cheesecake is rich and perfect. Cheesecake is my husband’s very favorite dessert. He loves it so much that we actually had cheesecake for our wedding cake. He doesn’t like fancy flavors of cheesecake, so…
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11.16.2025

Quick Candied Carrots

You only need a handful of ingredients and 25 minutes to make these amazing candied carrots. They are lick-the-plate good. If you need more easy side dish recipes in your life, you will definitely want to try this simple candied carrots recipe. It is made with ingredients you probably already have on hand, and comes…
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11.15.2025

Perfect Crockpot Mashed Potatoes

These Crockpot Mashed Potatoes are the best I have ever had! Creamy, buttery, and made completely in the slow cooker. This is the perfect simple holiday side dish. These Crock Pot Mashed Potatoes are everything you want in a side dish. They are creamy, totally lump-free, packed with flavor, and really easy. I love serving…
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11.12.2025

Honey Garlic Chicken Thighs

Honey Garlic Chicken Thighs are an easy weeknight meal that everyone will love. The honey and garlic combine in the perfect sauce, which goes perfectly over the chicken and rice. Our family absolutely loves the flavors of stir fry recipes. Not only that, but they tend to come together on the stove-top so quickly. (Pssst…
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11.10.2025

Simple Beef Stroganoff Recipe

Beef Stroganoff is the ultimate comfort food. This 25 minute recipe is made with simple and easy-to-find ingredients and has such simple steps that it will become a regular in your house. One of the things I truly love about food is how it is used to care. When I gave birth to my youngest…
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11.09.2025

Best Turkey Brine Recipe

This turkey brine recipe makes the most moist and delicious roast turkey you will ever have. This is a recipe to keep and treasure year after year. This delicious turkey brine recipe was given to us by a family friend and it has been the only recipe we use for years now. It quite literally…
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11.08.2025

Leftover Mashed Potato Pancakes

Mashed Potato Pancakes are the perfect way to use up your leftover mashed potatoes. These cheesy fried up little potato bites are too delicious to be true. I am notorious for making too much food. Especially when it comes to the holidays. I would so much rather my guests go home full and happy than…
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