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05.10.2017
Buffalo Ranch Pasta Salad
This Buffalo Ranch Pasta Salad is easy to throw together and totally delicious! This easy, creamy pasta salad recipe is perfect for any gathering. In the summer months it seems like there is always a need to provide some sort of side dish at a BBQ, picnic or other family gathering. I love the chance…
05.08.2017
Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta
This fast Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta comes is the perfect combo of spicy and creamy! You will love every single thing about this chicken dinner from how easily it comes together, to how delicious and comforting it is. I am so happy to be partnering with Sutter Home to bring you this incredibly easy weeknight dinner…
05.01.2017
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Cake
This Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Cake is three layers of brownie, cookie, and chocolate cake with peanut butter and chocolate frosting. Basically heaven on a fork. Do you remember last week when I shared my Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake and told you that more chocolate peanut butter amazingness was around the corner? Here…
04.28.2017
Spanish Fish
This Spanish Fish is a delicious and easy dinner that comes together in 30 minutes! Flaky white fish and simple spices make this dish a family favorite! This Spanish Fish recipe is an old recipe from the blog that I updated the photos on. It is a recipe just barely adapted from Eating Well, and one…
04.26.2017
How to Start Seedlings in Yogurt Cups
Once you know how to start seedlings in yogurt cups, you can get a jump on your vegetable garden each year! I’m so excited to be partnering with Yoplait to bring you this fun gardening tip! One of my very favorite parts about summer is having a vegetable garden. It’s one of my kids’ favorite parts…
04.24.2017
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
This Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake is such a perfectly delicious simple dessert! Just as I am sitting down to write this post I’m realizing that this is my third dessert in a row that is some combination of peanut butter and chocolate . . . . . . . . . . and…
04.21.2017
Fudgy Peanut Butter Hand Pies
These Fudgy Peanut Butter Hand Pies are made with only four ingredients and are super delicious. Fun to make with the kids and satisfies a sweet tooth in no time! These Fudgy Peanut Butter Hand Pies with Pillsbury pie crust are made so easily. If you are looking for dessert recipes for kids, this one…
04.19.2017
One Pot Meatball Stroganoff
If you’re looking for a quick, easy crowd pleasing comfort food, this One Pot Meatball Stroganoff is perfect. It only takes 35 minutes and tastes delicious! I’m so happy to be partnering with Gold’n Plump to bring you this amazingly fast and, amazingly delicious one pot meal! Gold’n Plump Chicken Meatballs are perfection in this dish…
04.12.2017
Lighter Fettuccine Alfredo
This Lighter Fettuccine Alfredo is a twist on the classic that is lower in calories, but completely satisfying and delicious! Sure to become a family staple. I am as happy as ever to be partnering with Horizon Organic to bring you this lighter version of a classic. We are Horizon lovers and serve their products…
04.07.2017
Sunset Sangria
This Sunset Sangria is made with orange, strawberry, rum and will quickly become a favorite! The name of my blog is no joke. I do enjoy a nice glass of white wine while I’m crafting. (Actually, a glass of white wine, a quiet house, some Florence + The Machiene, and my craft room seem like a slice…
04.05.2017
Taco Pasta Salad
This Taco Pasta Salad is a family favorite! This pasta salad recipe is perfect for BBQs, potlucks and big family gatherings! It has a secret ingredient that stops everyone in their tracks! Make a bunch of BLT Ranch Burgers, a big Zucchini Sheet Cake, a huge batch of my mom’s Bacon Spinach Salad and you…
03.31.2017
How to make a Beer Bread Dip Bowl
I mean, who wouldn’t want to know how to make a Beer Bread Dip Bowl? Basically the only way you will want to serve dips again! Years and years (and years and years) I had some friends that I would get together with to watch the Bachelor – so long ago in fact that this…