Avocado, Corn & Black Bean Salad
This Avocado, Corn & Black Bean Salad is kind of a dip and kind of a salad. We mainly eat it with blue corn tortilla chips as a side to grilled burgers or barbecued chicken. But we also love to grab a fork and eat …
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Lemony Chicken and Potato Soup
This Lemony Chicken and Potato Soup is an easy-to-make bowl of creamy deliciousness! Not too lemony, not too creamy, just basic in the best way and a hit to everyone I have ever served it to! And I have made this soup dozens of times! …
Skillet Ribs n Beans
Skillet Ribs n Beans is my go-to recipe for using up leftover barbecue ribs. The ribs are covered in a spicy, sweet sauce and nestled into a bed of baked beans. Easy, quick, so tasty, and requiring just a few ingredients! Great in the summertime …
Vermicelli with Butter and Parmesan
Vermicelli with Butter and Parmesan is a simple yet delicious side dish that I serve at our house at least once a week. Easy and quick to prepare, and great tasting — exactly how a side dish should be! We eat this yummy pasta on …
Sesame Lime Shrimp Salad
Sesame Lime Shrimp Salad is a super flavorful spring and summertime salad! A good many years ago I created this recipe — kind of accidentally– out of sheer necessity! I had some leftover boiled shrimp and needed to come up with a quick lunch to …
Pal’s Pineapple Poppyseed Cake
Pal’s Pineapple Poppyseed Cake is an easy to make, delicious cake that is perfect anytime! A treat that is somewhere in between an actual cake and a sweet bread, I make it all year round to eat at home and to take on the road …
Buttery Sauteed Mushrooms with Garlic
These super simple, super delicious Buttery Sauteed Mushrooms with Garlic are a fabulous side dish that can be ready in about 10 minutes. With steak, pastas, chicken, you name it – these mushrooms go with just about anything. I love being able to quickly throw …
Easy Caesar Salad
This Easy Caesar Salad is a great addition to a solid collection of salad recipes! Super quick– just throw together the homemade dressing and then toss with chopped romaine lettuce and some croutons. I like to add roasted sunflower kernels and a squeeze of lemon …
Steak Stir Fry
This simple Steak Stir Fry has been a mainstay dish in our home for many many years! It is a super easy, delicious recipe that my father-in-law shared with me after EJ and I first got married. It is one of those recipes that isn’t …
Fettuccine with Four Cheese Sauce
This Fettuccine with Four Cheese Sauce will knock your socks off! The homemade, creamy, decadent sauce full of cheesy Italian goodness is anything but your basic Alfredo. One of my most loved family recipes, it is sure to become one of your favorites. It is …
Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Cake
This simple Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Cake can be put together in minutes and is oh so yummy! My kind of warm weather dessert – easy and delicious! Starring ice cream sandwiches and strawberry cheesecake ice cream, it is sure to please everyone it is …
Cowboy Pasta
Okay so this Cowboy Pasta is decidedly NOT Italian, which both attracts and repels my husband EJ at the same time. It attracts him because it is delicious. It repels him because he is Italian and pretty much a purist in his love for Italian …