Making pie crust at home is so much easier than you think, and so much cheaper than buying store bought! When you realize just how easy it is to make pie crust I bet you'll find a lot more pies in your future. You don't need a dozen ingredients or professional tools—just four pantry staples and one simple secret to get those bakery-style flakes every single time. Why You’ll ...
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Slowcooker Ham and Cheese Pasta, the best ever comfort food.
This recipe is one that has been a family favorite for, well for as long as I can remember. It’s one of the very few things my mom could cook, this and the best ever Rice Krispie treats. I’m pretty sure anyone that can boil pasta can make this one, and that’s the beauty of it. Well that and the fact that it’s probably the best comfort food in the history of ever. It’s perfect ...
Yellow Curry Chicken Tenders
Chicken tenders are great, they're kid friendly and great for picky eaters. Honestly I pair Trader Joe's frozen chicken tenders with mac and cheese and have it on the meal plan about every other week, because having a kid is the perfect excuse to eat like a kid. Sometimes it's nice to have grown up food though, which is why I came up with this ridiculously simple recipe for ...
Vanilla Cookie Recipe (and my little kitchen helper)
It's the perfect time of the year to try out new cookie recipes, I recently made and shared the recipe for brown sugar spice cookies. More recently I made vanilla cookies, I made this easy vanilla cookie recipe last year too, I just forgot to share them! These cookies are really simple to make and they taste great, these taste like sugar cookies with a stronger vanilla flavor ...
Perfect Oven Potatoes
I am obsessed with potatoes. I love the idea of oven fries or oven potatoes, but they never seem to work for us, we have to bake them for well over an hour and they're never cooked evenly. It drove me nuts, oven potatoes shouldn't be rocket science! Through years of trial and error I finally figured out the best way to make oven potatoes (rather quickly too!) I make a couple ...
Best Ever Breakfast Potatoes Recipe
If it were up to me I would have potatoes with every single meal. I love potatoes, a lot. I tried out this recipe one afternoon when it was just Aliceana and I. I had skipped lunch and I couldn't wait a few hours for dinner, so I thought why not make some potatoes? Yep, I can make a meal out of potatoes. As soon as I tasted these I immediately texted AJ to let him know I made ...
Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
'Tis the season where it's completely acceptable to sneak carrots in your families desserts, right? We all need some bunny food as we prepare for visits from the Easter bunny. This treat is a refreshing dessert to eat in between stealing Easter candy from your children's Easter basket stash. (I might be crossing my fingers that Aliceana gets a few chocolate bunnies to share ...
Homemade Wisconsin Old Fashioned Mix recipe
The old fashioned is a staple here in Wisconsin and can be found at pretty much any drinking establishment from your local bar to the finest supper club. It is a cocktail that dates back to the early 1800’s and is still very popular among certain states to this day. It is more than just a drink it is part of the culture here in our state. Supper clubs here are judged by how ...
Cheesy Steak and Potato Soup with Bacon
Recently my wife mentioned that she was in the mood for a potato soup and being the man that I am I misunderstood her and said “oh I can make potato chowder”, she said no that is not what I want at all and I looked at her with a dumbfounded look on my face. She quickly and eloquently informed me that I was an idiot and did not know what potato soup was. She of course was right ...
Garlic Parmesan Crusted Baked Shrimp Scampi
Shrimp Scampi is definitely my weakness. I can't get enough of the buttery garlic goodness that is Shrimp Scampi. I always order it when we're out to dinner, but it gets pretty pricey and they don't serve you nearly enough shrimp. So I thought, I can just make it at home! ...then I thought. How can I make this even more tasty? I'm the kind of girl who will be halfway ...
Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Dip
Chocolate Chips make everything better, who doesn't smile at the taste of a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie? I know if I'm baking something chocolate and I have spare chocolate chips in the cupboard, you better believe I'm putting some in the batter. I advise that you make this amazing, addicting, and simple recipe for... Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Dip. Oh, yeah. I ...