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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…
11.17.2025
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
11.07.2025
Graham Cracker Crust
You only need three ingredients to make this delicious graham cracker crust recipe. It is the perfect base for so many different pies! There is something about a graham cracker crust that makes me immediately fall more in love with a dessert. The buttery sweetness mixed with the cracker crumbs is absolute perfection. This is…
11.06.2025
Easy Green Beans Almondine
Green Beans Almondine is a simple side dish recipe that you will fall in love with. With just a few ingredients you have the perfect side to any holiday or weeknight meal. I know that I’m not alone in trying to squeeze every single vegetable I can into my kids’ diets. But it can be…
11.05.2025
Swirled Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars
Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars are the perfect dessert. These delightful swirled pumpkin bars will be easy for even the beginning baker. If you love pumpkin as much as I do, you are going to adore these delicious pumpkin cheesecake bars. They are based on my Easy Cheesecake Recipe, with the added flavors of pumpkin puree and…
11.03.2025
The Best Cheesy Potatoes (Funeral Potatoes)
These Cheesy Potatoes are a simple and easy side dish that everyone will love. When you need the ultimate comfort food, make this cheesy potato recipe. I have an amazing classic for you today. This recipe comes courtesy of my awesome neighbor, Tiffanie. She’s the neighbor you call in a pinch or when you need…












