This Easy Queso Blanco Recipe is a quick way to make white cheese dip using Velveeta and peppers. Serve with chips as a side dish or an appetizer! Our favorite place to vacation is Wilmington, North Carolina. Over the years it’s become our home-away-from-home. We love visiting our friends who live in the area and, […]
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Slow Cooker Barbecue Ribs Recipe
This Slow Cooker Barbecue Ribs recipe is so easy to make and only requires three ingredients. The result is fork tender, delicious BBQ ribs! This recipe is inspired by my friend Becky who made this kind of BBQ ribs for me and my kids. When our kids were little and our husbands would be away […]
No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake
This No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake is super easy to make. It is a great dessert for making ahead of time to serve to guests or to bring to a friend’s house. You guys, this morning when I brought the kids to school the “feels like” temperature was -11° and tomorrow the high is going to […]
The Best Chocolate Layer Cake
The Best Chocolate Layer Cake recipe has silky smooth chocolate swiss meringue buttercream frosting and a dark chocolate cake dotted with chocolate pieces. I just celebrated my birthday and I this is the cake I made myself. I’m calling it THE BEST CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE. Claiming that something is the best is a pretty […]
Tropical Fruit Pretzel Salad
This Tropical Fruit Pretzel Salad is cool and creamy with sugared pretzels and fresh fruit. Serve this summer salad at your next cookout! With the endless stream of summer cookouts, it’s time for another summer salad recipe. This Tropical Fruit Pretzel Salad is cool and creamy with crunchy brown sugar pretzels and tropical fruit. It’s […]
No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake
This no bake strawberry cheesecake recipe is cool and creamy!! The chocolate wafer cookie crust is the perfect compliment to the easy strawberry cheesecake. It’s the middle of summer and it’s 95° out, when a friend invites you over for a dinner party and asks you to bring dessert, what do you bring? You certainly don’t […]
Earth Day Oreo Truffles
This fun Earth Day Oreo Truffles recipe makes bite-sized treats that look like the earth when you bite into them! It’s a delicious dessert for Earth Day. Earth Day is only a couple of weeks away and it’s a good reminder to think about how amazing the earth is and about how it supports life. […]
Chocolate Mint Fudge
This Chocolate Mint Fudge recipe is smooth and creamy with crunchy bits of mint Oreos and Andes mints. It’s easy to make with 5 ingredients! Chocolate and mint are a flavor combination that my whole family enjoys, but the guys are the biggest fans. They enjoy everything from Grasshopper Lattes to Shamrock Shakes, peppermint patties, […]
Caramel Cashew Bars
This chewy Caramel Cashew Bars recipe is a delicious combination of salty and sweet with oats, caramel, chocolate, butterscotch, and cashews! I was recently asked to make some type of bars as part of a lunch for a large group of volunteers. The first thing that came to mind was something chocolate because I love […]
Harvest Ooey Gooey Bars
Kids of all ages will love this Thanksgiving dessert recipe for Harvest Ooey Gooey bars with fun colors, yummy flavors and lots of oozing, creamy goodness. Disclosure: I am sharing this Harvest Ooey Gooey Bars recipe as part of my paid partnership with The J.M. Smucker Company. During the holidays, it’s always fun to have […]
Bacon Crusted Mozzarella Sticks
Bacon Crusted Mozzarella Sticks have cheese on the inside with a crispy bacon outside. They are the ultimate party food; an appetizer everyone will love. I know that I’ve loved bacon pretty much my whole life, but the first real memory of my bacon love affair is from when I was in third grade. I […]
Cheesy Barbecue Dip Recipe
This Cheesy Barbecue Dip recipe is a delicious appetizer that you can share with friends at a backyard barbecue or bring to holiday parties and potlucks. Barbecue recipes don’t need to be limited only to main dishes and sandwiches. Have you ever had a barbecue dressing on a salad? You’ve got to try it! What […]
Bloomin’ Grilled Apples
These bloomin’ grilled apples are stuffed with maple cream caramel sauce and pecans. Cook on the grill and top with ice cream for a summer dessert! Now that much of our cooking has moved from the oven in the kitchen to the grill outside the house, it is time for a summer version of the […]
Key Lime Cheesecake
This key lime cheesecake is so easy to make, yet it looks impressive. This no bake recipe features a macadamia nut crust with an ombre cheesecake filling. I am sharing this recipe for Key Lime Cheesecake as part of a sponsored post for the Melbourne Beach Villa Retreat in Florida. I’ve been sharing key lime recipes […]
Chocolate Ooey Gooey Bars
A recipe for Chocolate Ooey Gooey Bars that everyone will love with brownies on the bottom, marshmallow cream in the middle and Cocoa Pebbles Bars on top. Spring break and the Easter holiday are over. I hope you had a wonderful vacation. It was nice to have some time off of work and school but […]
Slow Cooker Honey Sesame Meatballs
Slow Cooker Honey Sesame Meatballs can be served as a party appetizer or over rice for dinner. These sweet and spicy meatballs are a crowd pleaser! Welcome back from a break and happy Monday! I am feeling rather groggy today. It has been more than two weeks since we’ve had to get up before the crack […]
Five Weeknight Meal Ideas
Here are five easy weeknight meal ideas that you can make in 30 minutes or less! Each one of these meals features a protein, a vegetable, and starch. This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Alexia Foods. The opinions and text are all mine. Who else has a hard time getting […]
Breakfast Pizza with Hash Brown Crust
This delicious recipe for breakfast pizza with a hash brown crust can be made for breakfast or as an easy dinner. It is topped with bacon, ham, and cheese. This post brought to you by Simply Potatoes. All opinions are 100% mine. Growing up, one of our favorite things to have for dinner was breakfast! […]
Spicy Bacon Wrapped Sweet Peppers
Spicy Bacon Wrapped Sweet Peppers are an easy appetizer to make when entertaining for the holidays. Everyone will love the combination of flavors. This post brought to you by Texas Pete. All opinions are 100% mine. Please tell me I am not the only one who loves appetizers. There are times when I order appetizers […]
Bloomin’ Baked Apples Recipe
Bloomin’ Baked Apples taste like apple pie with an ooey, gooey caramel center! This is an easy dessert recipe for fall and it’s made with Honeycrisp apples. Post is sponsored by Socialstars. Every year we wait for the fall and apple season to come around! Growing up, we had an apple tree in our backyard. […]
Butterfinger Ooey Gooey Bars Recipe
Today is the first day of school for my kids and even though it was definitely time for them to go back, once they are gone I’m always a little sad. My baby started middle school and that is so strange to me. He will do great though and he has his big sister there to […]
Peanut Butter Crunch Ice Cream Cake
This recipe for Peanut Butter Crunch Ice Cream Cake was a huge hit with my family. The combination of sweet and salty, crunchy and creamy is delicious! We are a family of peanut butter lovers! We go through more peanut butter in a week than most families use in a month. We have peanut sandwiches, […]
Ice Cream Social Ideas
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Smuckers. All opinions are my own. Although much of our time and thoughts are consumed with getting ready for back to school, we are also trying to squeeze as much fun as we can out of the last week weeks of summer. We’ve spent the last several days at the […]
Blueberry Melon Protein Smoothie Recipe
A blueberry melon protein smoothie is an easy breakfast recipe that is perfect for back to school. It also works as an after school snack or a quick, on-the-go meal. When I was a fourteen, I made my first airplane trip without parents, to visit my relatives in Washington state. My cousins and I had […]
Barbecue Pot Roast Recipe
This Barbecue Pot Roast recipe is a delicious twist on the traditional pot roast! Plus, the leftovers are perfect for barbecue roast beef sandwiches. Disclosure: Farberware Cookware sponsored this post and all opinions are 100% my own. I love making pot roast for my family and I typically make it in the slow cooker as […]
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Scotcharoos Bars
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Scotcharoos Bars are a dough bar with layers of cake mix cookies and scotcharoos with eggless cookie dough in the middle! I wasn’t sure what to make for my second cookie dough recipe. I did some brainstorming and then looked online and found that all of the great ideas I came […]
Funfetti Ooey Gooey Bars
Funfetti Ooey Gooey Bars are fun to eat with a rainbow of colors. It’s a combo of a cake mix cookie bars recipe and Fruity Pebbles Bars recipe! Disclosure: Smuckers sent me free samples of some new products and I use the cake mix in this post. #smuckersfirsttaste I had big baking plans last week […]
Peanut Butter Puffcorn Recipe
Peanut Butter Puffcorn is like Caramel Popcorn with the delicious addition of peanut butter! When I was growing up, we used to call puffcorn, baby popcorn, because while we were eating regular popcorn, the “babies” would get puffcorn. With no kernels or hulls, it dissolves in their mouths and it is safer for little kids. We […]
Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups
These Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups made with sugar cookie dough are filled with hot chocolate ganache, have a pretzel handle and mini marshmallows on top! Disclosure: Pillsbury provided me with Pillsbury Dough Products. All opinions are 100% my own. Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups are perfect for cold winter days and they are a fun holiday […]
Chocolate Peppermint Torte
Chocolate and peppermint are the perfect combination for holiday desserts! This Chocolate Peppermint Torte recipe is a layer cake filled with peppermint cream frosting. With Christmas just around the corner, it is time for a holiday version of one of my favorite desserts: a torte (or cream filled layer cake). There were a few flavors […]
Cleans Up Well Gifts In Jar For Men
This men’s mason jar gift is called Cleans Up Well. It is filled with men’s toiletries, including a moisturizer and scrub! Yesterday I shared five gifts in a jar, and one of them is called Cleans Up Well. I decided to make this mason jar gift for men after making so many gifts in a […]
Gifts In A Jar Homemade Gift Ideas
Gifts in a Jar are a fun way to give presents! These gift ideas are perfect for the holidays. Jars for artists, bakers, crafters, and more. This post is sponsored by Ball. All opinions are 100% mine. I’ve been making gifts in a jar for two years now. It all started with my Everything In A […]