Vegetarian Empanadas are loaded with a colorful array of vegetables, including sweet corn, red and green bell peppers, protein-packed beans, and aromatic spices, all wrapped in an irresistible flaky, golden-brown crust! While these savory hand pies can be enjoyed as hand-held snacks or appetizers alongside a creamy avocado cashew dip, they also make a hearty…
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The Best Shrimp Dip (with Cream Cheese)
This easy, creamy Shrimp Dip Recipe, made with tiny shrimp, cream cheese, mayonnaise, chives, or green onions, and a dash of hot sauce, makes a great make-ahead game day party appetizer. Serve the retro recipe with your favorite tortilla or pita or chips, crackers, or baguette slices, and let the party begin! My husband can…
Instant Pot Butternut Squash Bell Pepper Soup
Instant Pot Butternut Squash Bell Pepper Soup with ginger and carrots is thick and creamy and comforting with the earthy flavor of the butternut squash and bell peppers. The Instant Pot makes making this Butternut Squash Bell Pepper Soup even easier, and it is delicious when served with a nice fall salad and focaccia bread!…
Cookies and Cream No Churn Ice Cream
Cookies and Cream No Churn Ice Cream is sweet and creamy homemade vanilla ice cream with crunchy crushed Oreos throughout. The best part is that you don’t need to have an ice cream maker to make this no churn Cookies and Cream Ice Cream! As you can tell from our Cookies And Cream Milkshake, and…
Hobo Dinner Foil Packets
Grab some sausage, potatoes, carrots, and some seasoning for these fun Hobo Dinner Packets. Ready to throw on the grill or campfire for a quick camping or summer dinner. Campfire Foil Packets are a fun way to cook while camping and these Sausage and Potato hobo dinner packets make a delicious savory camping meal. Why…
10 Best Recipes To Use Up Leftover Ham
You cook up a large ham for holiday dinner! It is delicious, but now you have all this leftover ham. Here are some of the best ideas for how to use that leftover ham. These are my top 10 recipes for using leftover ham. With all the other food that you had for the holiday,…
Instant Pot Cilantro Rice
Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice makes the classic Chipotle Copycat Cilantro Lime Rice Mexican side dish recipe easier to make in the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker! It will be ready quickly for your Mexican dinner! Traditionally, this copycat Chipotle Cilantro Lime Rice is made in a rice cooker or on top of the stove, but…
Vegetarian Enchilada Casserole
This Vegetarian Enchilada Casserole is like a Mexican Lasagna or Tortilla Casserole that is packed with vegetables, Mexican flavors, and melted cheese! It transforms vegetarian enchiladas into an easy Make-Ahead Mexican casserole dinner that freezes well and your family will love! As you know living in South Texas, I love my Mexican Recipes, as well as…
Instant Pot Green Bean Casserole
Save time and oven space by making the traditional Green Bean Casserole in the Instant Pot. It is easy, delicious, and frees up precious oven space when preparing for a holiday dinner. I can’t believe Thanksgiving is just over 2 weeks away! This year Thanksgiving is going to be quite different due to the pandemic….
Broccoli Salad
Broccoli Salad is a perfect cold summer salad when trying to beat the summer heat by chillin’ at a backyard barbecue, picnic, or potluck, or as a favorite holiday side dish at Thanksgiving dinner. Broccoli Salad with dried cranberries, or Craisins, bacon, cheddar, and gouda tastes amazing! Add in red onions and walnuts and cover…
Homemade Green Bean Casserole
This Homemade Green Bean Casserole, a traditional green bean casserole that is made from scratch with fresh green beans and a homemade mushroom sauce and topped with french fried onions, will be a hit with your family and friends on Thanksgiving. I have been told by some members of my family that it is not…
Instant Pot Hot Dogs
Instant Pot Hot Dogs are the easiest way to fix hot dogs. Once you try it, you won’t prepare them them any other way. Perfect for parties, picnics, lunch, or game day! My husband is a huge baseball fan. He loves to go to the game. His dream is to travel across the country to…
Instant Pot Chipotle Chicken Cordon Bleu Pasta
Instant Pot Chipotle Chicken Cordon Bleu Pasta puts a delicious Mexican spin on traditional Chicken Cordon Bleu and turns it into chicken casserole. While we love traditional recipes, sometimes we like to tweak them to add bolder flavors since we enjoy a little more spice in our food. This Instant Pot Chipotle Chicken Cordon Bleu…
10 Cheap Soups For When You Are Broke And Hungry
10 Cheap Soups For When You Are Broke And Hungry include easy, delicious and most importantly CHEAP soups! The best thing about these soups is that they are so flavorful that you will not feel like you are making any sacrifices at all! Let’s face it, times are tough right now economically for many people. With…
Instant Pot Meatloaf (Philly Cheesesteak Style)
This Instant Pot Meatloaf includes the awesome flavors of Philly cheesesteak, plus a homemade meatloaf sauce, and meatloaf seasoning for a juicy, flavorful meatloaf made in an Instant Pot pressure cooker. However, it still has the wonderful flavors of traditional meatloaf by including the amazing meatloaf sauce, or glaze, and a homemade meatloaf seasoning. This…
Instant Pot Corn Chowder
Instant Pot Corn Chowder is a creamy, hearty, comforting chowder made with fresh or frozen corn, bacon, potatoes, cheese, green onions, made in the Instant Pot. Instant Pot Corn Chowder Corn Chowder is a comforting, soul-soothing, hug in a bowl! It is comfort food that is delicious in both the summer and winter. The sweet…
Jordan Marsh Legendary Blueberry Muffins
Jordan Marsh Legendary Blueberry Muffins are the same blueberry muffins that generations of families enjoyed for decades at the Jordan Marsh department stores in Boston and New England. What Are Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins? For those that grew up in Boston and New England, I’m going to make you very happy today. For you, this recipe…
Maque Choux (A Cajun Corn Side Dish)
Maque Choux is a creamy, spicy Cajun side dish made of corn, onions, red and green bell peppers, garlic, heavy cream, and Cajun spices. Maque Choux is the second recipe in our Mardi Gras Menu for those of you who, like me, can’t make it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. However, this Cajun side…
Brown Sugar Meatloaf
This Brown Sugar Meatloaf recipe is the best meatloaf ever! It is even better than Mom’s meatloaf with its brown sugar, onion soup mix, Worcestershire and hot sauce! What Is Meatloaf? To me meatloaf was a comfort food staple in our Southern household growing up. We had it for dinner once a week. However, for…
Instant Pot Salisbury Steak
Instant Pot Salisbury Steak with an onion and mushroom gravy makes a quick and easy pressure cooker comfort food dinner that is ready in 30 minutes. If you ever ate TV dinners, Salisbury steak was always a popular one. It is a delicious, savory, budget-friendly, hearty dinner that is often served with mashed potatoes and…
Instant Pot Chicken Stew
This easy Instant Pot Chicken Stew is a hearty, delicious comfort food that is an easy, dump and go, set it and forget it, 30-minute Instant Pot recipe with pieces of tender chicken, carrots and potatoes with herbs and seasoning. If you don’t have all day to wait for chicken stew in the slow cooker,…
Fried Cabbage With Bacon
Fried Cabbage With Bacon, with tender cabbage and savory bacon, makes a quick and easy, super flavorful Southern side dish for any meal, especially for St. Patrick’s Day. Why You’ll Love This Fried Cabbage With Bacon Recipe While this is a perfect side dish for St Patrick’s Day, I serve Fried Cabbage With Bacon all year…
Instant Pot Chicken And Wild Rice Soup
Instant Pot Chicken And Wild Rice Soup is a hearty, comforting, and creamy chicken soup made easy in the Instant Pot with chicken, wild rice blend, and lots of vegetables. Why Make This Instant Pot Chicken And Wild Rice Soup Recipe? While I love all my Instant Pot Soup Recipes, like my Chicken Tortilla Soup,…
Strawberry Crumb Bars
These easy Strawberry Crumb Bars, with a buttery crust, sweet fresh strawberry filling, and crunchy butter crumb topping make wonderful dessert bars for an afternoon snack, or to take to a summer party, picnic, or potluck. Why Make Strawberry Crumb Bars? It is Saturday, the day of my friend’s party, and she tells me to bring a dessert…