Category: Recipes

Homemade Ranch Dressing

Homemade Ranch Dressing

The first homemade salad dressing I ever made was ranch. I have loved ranch dressing since forever. Until making it myself I never thought it could get any better than what I bought at the store. But let me tell you guys, IT IS better than store bought!!

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Lemon Pudding Cupcakes with Strawberry Lemon Frosting

lemon cupcake

Making these cupcakes over the weekend with my daughter brought back memories of my childhood. Not necessarily the cooking and spending time together part (my mom and I are both introverts so we would spend time apart rather than together) but the tartness of these wonderfully delicious cupcakes. When I would get my weekly allowance

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Chili Pot Pie

chili pot pie

If you’re anything like me, you’ve got at least a couple bags of leftover chili sitting in the freezer just waiting to be used up.  The only thing is, after eating so much of it over these past winter months I’ve gotten pretty tired of it. So, I could either let it find it’s way


Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken

sweet and sour sauce

I’ve mentioned before how much I love our local Chinese restaurant.  I’ve also mentioned that as much as I love it we can’t always go there when I get the hankering for it.  So, I’ve learned to do what most people do when they want something they can’t have…I learned to make it myself.


Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken

Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken

I love my slow cooker. It’s probably the closest thing I’ll ever have to a personal chef. I just throw everything in her (yes, she’s a her) and by dinner time it’s done. I wish everything else was so simple. Here’s an all-in-one slow cooker meal that is really good. What do I mean by all-in-one


Chicken Stir-Fry

Chicken Stir-Fry

I love our little Chinese restaurant we have here. If I could eat there every night I would. But I can’t, so I cook it at home. This recipe is full of vegetables, taste really good and it takes less than 30 minutes from start to finish.


Caramel Popcorn

Caramel Popcorn

I have a confession to make…I’m a snacker.  Yep, that’s me…a snacker. Phew! I’m so glad to get that off my conscience! It was eating me up!! Although I like to snack on just about anything, popcorn is ONE of my favorite. And although I would, more often than not, rather have a salty snack, nothing compares with this really crunchy and just a

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Breakfast Casserole

Breakfast Casserole

  This is my favorite Saturday morning breakfast casserole.  It’s pretty easy to put together and its very filling.  And although it contains spinach, my kids eat it up!  By no means am I saying this casserole is “healthy”. It’s just an easy way for me to add some green veggies into my kids diet that

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No-Bake Chocolate Chip Granola Bars

half cut granola bars

  I LOVE these things!  They are so quick and easy to throw together for the kids for a snack. I’ve tried to stop buying junk food as their snack. Honestly. I have. Most of the time. So, because I’ve stopped trying to buy junk food, most of the time, I have to have something