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05.03.2021
Strawberry Spinach Salad
This Strawberry Spinach Salad is the perfect side dish for a family dinner, or a great lunch! Beautiful ripe strawberries, sliced toasted almonds, feta cheese, and red onions all on a bed of rich green spinach and tossed with homemade balsamic poppy seed dressing. This Strawberry Spinach Salad is a very popular recipe here on…
04.30.2021
Jalapeño Ranch Dressing
This Jalapeño Ranch Dressing is your favorite ranch dressing recipe, with a simple spicy kick. It is delicious and perfect on any salad! I love homemade salad dressings. They are so easy to make and put your own spin on. This easy Jalapeño Ranch Dressing takes one of our favorite recipes and puts a little…
04.29.2021
Chipotle Corn Salsa
This Chipotle Corn Salsa is so easy to make at home. Such a delicious and easy corn salsa recipe that is perfect to eat with chips or on tacos. Sometimes when you get something from a restaurant, you decide you just have to make it at home so you can have it all of the…
04.26.2021
The Best Pico de Gallo Recipe
Whether it’s Taco Tuesday or Taco Any Day, you need The Best Pico de Gallo recipe! This recipe comes together with just a few fresh ingredients and is perfect for eating with chips or on top of chicken tacos! This recipe is a keeper! With Cinco de Mayo right around the corner, I wanted to…
04.24.2021
Crockpot Stuffed Peppers
Crockpot Stuffed Peppers are a delicious easy dinner to come home to. With it’s perfect Italian seasoning, the filling makes the best stuffed pepper recipe. My kids love stuffed peppers. In fact, my pickiest eater, finishes this dinner recipe faster than her siblings. Which speaks to just how delicious and amazing these are. Stuffed bell…
04.23.2021
Taco Bell Quesadilla Sauce
Taco Bell Quesadilla Sauce is the secret ingredient to making quesadillas over to top delicious! Made with just a few simple ingredients already in your pantry, this sauce will become a staple in your house. Quesadillas from Taco Bell are my husband’s secret weakness. He loves them, and it is no wonder. The sauce they…
04.20.2021
Parmesan Crusted Chicken Nuggets
These amazing Parmesan Crusted Chicken Nuggets are the chicken nugget recipe you love, all grown up. They are easy to make, full of flavor, and absolutely delicious. Parents and kids will devour this easy dinner recipe. Our family can’t get over how much we love this recipe. My husband and I aren’t exactly chicken nugget…
04.17.2021
Taco Stuffed Shells
These Taco Stuffed Shells make for an easy but absolutely delicious dinner! This is a taco twist on your favorite stuffed shells recipe! If there is one thing my family loves as much as tacos, it is pasta. We regularly have pasta night in our house, and our kids can literally smell the noodles boiling.…
04.16.2021
Long Island Iced Tea
The Long Island Iced Tea combines just about every alcohol in your liquor cabinet, but in the most magical way. You are left with a cocktail that is delicious, refershing, and a little dangerous. If it has been decades since you’ve had a Long Island Iced Tea, go ahead and let yourself feel like a…
04.15.2021
Chicken Taco Casserole
This Chicken Taco Casserole is the perfect comfort food! Even your picky eaters will love this amazing noodle casserole. Taco night is always a hit in our house. We make this Chicken Taco recipe literally once a week. It is one of our very favorites. So when I told my kids we were eating Chicken…
04.04.2021
Creamy Ham and Pea Pasta (30 Minutes)
This creamy ham and pea pasta is an easy 30-minute dinner made with leftover ham, frozen peas, Parmesan, and a simple homemade cream sauce. This is a creamy 30-minute pasta dinner that turns leftover ham into a genuinely great dinner, with frozen peas and a simple garlic and white wine Parmesan sauce. This recipe is…
03.28.2021
Scalloped Potatoes and Ham
Scalloped Potatoes and Ham is the creamiest, most comforting way to use leftover ham. You will want to make extra just so you can make this delicious casserole. If you are looking for a filling meal that will have you coming back for seconds, it doesn’t get much better than these Scalloped Potatoes and Ham.…












