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Salt Crusted Potatoes
Salt Crusted Potatoes Salt crusted potatoes are simply amazing! This is my new favorite way to cook potatoes. Potatoes seem boring. Like, there’s only so many ways to dress them up or cook them. This was a new and inventive experiment in making them. I’ve seen it done on TV, but never quite understood how it was done. Until I looked it up and decided to give it a try myself. Being a wife and homemaker, I am always looking to try new things because the same basic recipes get really boring after a while. The great thing about these potatoes are that the salt removes the excess moisture in…
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Steak and Beer Soup
Steak and Beer Soup Steak and beer soup is the perfect fall soup! I love fall and winter! I look forward to using the oven to cook with again, and I’m always thinking about soup. Fall is my favorite season to cook! Planning out meals that are hearty and comforting is exciting to me. We go from grilling and eating lighter foods in the summer to eating delicious comfort foods in the fall and winter. Easily my favorite time of year to cook. Today I decided to make a steak and beer soup. I have now fallen in love with this recipe! My husband liked it enough that he was…
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies are the perfect fall recipe to enjoy! Fall is easily my favorite season of the year. It is time for hoodies, football, pumpkin spice, falling leaves, and soup. I’ve had many compliments on these pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, including people who don’t typically eat pumpkin. I’ve been making them for several years now, and they’ve become a requested cookie from friends and family both. This post contains affiliate links If you love pumpkin pie and chocolate, I’m very confident that you will adore these pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! These cookies are the perfect vehicle to finally enjoy pumpkin and chocolate together, all…
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Easy & Delicious Fried Rice
Easy & Delicious Fried Rice Easy & delicious fried rice is a favorite recipe in my household. I must confess that I am not a big Asian food fan, but the one thing I’ll always eat is fried rice. Nathan and I went to a Japanese restaurant a while ago where we sat around a table and watched our food being prepared. It was a show, to say the least! One of my favorite parts is where they make the fried rice. It always looks delicious, and it tastes just as good. Watching it being made inspired me to give it a try at home by myself, and it has…
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Parmesan Roasted Asparagus
Parmesan Roasted Asparagus Parmesan roasted asparagus is easily my favorite way to enjoy this vegetable. Roasting it in the oven is simply delicious. I feel the same way about cauliflower as well. This is such a great recipe, because it gets people out of the funk of, oh, it’s asparagus!’ You know where you suggest it, and everybody wrinkles up their nose at even the thought? Yeah, even Nathan, my husband, does that to me. This is one of those recipes that even he was willing to try. I swear, putting garlic and parmesan cheese on anything will encourage him to try it. He may be a small child in…
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Lasagna Soup
Lasagna Soup Lasagna soup is a perfect fall dish! It is hearty, comforting, and delicious. Have you tried making lasagna soup yourself? If not, this is the perfect recipe! One of my friends recently posted on social media that she was making a lasagna soup and I thought that was just weird. Like, how do you turn lasagna into a soup?! Well, since I was on a soup kick, it seemed like something fun to try. This post contains affiliate links Fall is soup season in my house and I love finding new and perfect fall weather foods to enjoy on those dark and chilly nights. I figured I would…
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Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cookies
Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cookies Raspberry chocolate chip cookies are easily a favorite recipe of mine! Summer is right around the corner and that means raspberries! I don’t know about anyone else, but raspberries are my all time favorite fruit. I was excited when I found the idea to put them in cookies! Raspberries and chocolate are a fabulous combination. This post contains affiliate links These raspberry chocolate chip cookies need to be eaten within a couple of days so that they don’t spoil, but they will disappear when you aren’t looking! They are just that good. The smell alone is incredible. I stopped before Nathan was allowed to start dividing…
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Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies Candied bacon chocolate chip cookies are my new favorite thing! Who doesn’t love chocolate chip cookies or bacon? Combining the two just seemed genius. Nathan and a friend of mine are constantly asking me to add bacon to my recipes or find new ways to include bacon in dinner for them. These cookies just seemed like a natural idea. I’ve started wrapping my meatloaf in bacon because of them. I’m going to try wrapping asparagus in bacon as well, after I found a great recipe for it. This post contains affiliate links Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients: Bacon, pepper-crusted, thick cut, 12 strips ½…
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Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken Pot Pie Chicken pot pie is easier to make than you think! I love a good chicken pot pie! But let’s face it, I normally buy it from the freezer section of the grocery store to eat them. That isn’t really healthy, and it is surprisingly easy to make it myself instead. I don’t know about you, but if I can make it myself, I would much prefer that. This post contains affiliate links I start with cooking the chicken, as that is the part that takes the longest. But it is still easy! I use the crock pot to cook the chicken because that makes it tender and…
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Easy Apple Pie
Easy Apple Pie Easy Apple Pie is just delicious! It is also really simple to make. I’ve always considered apple pie to be a complicated dish. Because it looks really intricate and time consuming. But it isn’t! Anybody can make this, even someone who doesn’t bake much. That is what makes this recipe wonderful. This post contains affiliate links If this tells you how simple it is, I feel completely confident giving the recipe to Nathan, my husband, and letting him make it without any added instructions or reminders to make sure he does something. It is a great beginner recipe, or for those who don’t bake much. Easy Apple…
