Holiday

Flavor Mosaic recipes that are often served on specific holidays, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Valentine's Day, etc.

Cookies And Cream Cookies

Cookies And Cream Cookies, also known as Oreo Cheesecake Cookies, combine Oreos and cream cheese to make a sweet, chocolatey cookie recipe that is sure to become a family favorite! When I was making my Holiday Baking List, I wanted to add a cookie recipe that was delicious but different than what I have made…

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…

Apple Dump Cake with Caramel Sauce

Apple Dump Cake with Caramel Sauce is the easiest and most delicious apple dessert or apple cobbler to make! It’s so easy even the kids can make it, and they’ll love it! This is an easy yet sweet and delicious Apple Cobbler that is drizzled with a warm, sweet caramel sauce and is made with…

Spicy Peach Margarita

This Spicy Peach Margarita is sweet, tart, citrusy, salty, and spicy with that delicious peach flavor! With all that flavor, it is still a simple cocktail to make and no margarita mix is required! Pair this Spicy Peach Margarita with your favorite Mexican food recipes, including chips, salsa, fajitas or tacos, and enjoy a Mexican…

Pumpkin Sheet Pan Pancakes

Pumpkin Sheet Pan Pancakes with sweet white chocolate chips, is an easy Sheet Pan Breakfast, and a fun twist on both pancakes and a fall favorite, pumpkin. Why You’ll Love This Recipe! Making Pumpkin Sheet Pan Pancakes is a new way to quickly make a Breakfast for the whole family so everyone can eat at…

Instant Pot Baked Beans

These tender Instant Pot Baked Beans in a sweet, tangy, smoky sauce, make the best bbq baked beans, especially with bacon or ham, and is easy to make in the Instant Pot pressure cooker because no soaking is required! Baked Beans are always a favorite side dish at picnics, backyard BBQs, and potlucks. They go…

Eggless Sugar Cookies

These Eggless Sugar Cookies are thick, soft, sweet, buttery drop sugar cookies made without eggs, but taste like the old fashioned sugar cookies you remember as a kid. Is it Christmas in July? Sort of. National Sugar Cookie day is in July. Did you miss it? No worries, here is an Eggless Sugar Cookies recipe…

4th of July Recipes

Whether you are having a July 4th backyard BBQ or picnic or just planning your July 4th party for two, you love these July 4th recipes that include everything from salads, to BBQ, to red, white, and blue patriotic desserts! While this year many of us may be staying at home celebrating, we can still…

Strawberry Mini Pavlova (Meringue Dessert)

Strawberry Mini Pavlova is an egg white meringue pavlova dessert that is topped with strawberries and is soft and pillowy on the inside and crisp on the outside. One bite of this sweet, crispy, creamy meringue dessert with strawberries and you’ll agree that this is the best pavlova recipe! Topped with strawberries, and it is…

Instant Pot Pork Ribs

Instant Pot Pork Ribs, such as baby back ribs, are tender and flavorful on the inside, with an amazing BBQ spice rub, yet have the caramelized sweet, tangy, and smoky BBQ sauce on the outside. These Instant Pot Pork Ribs, which can be baby back ribs or spare ribs, are so delicious your guests will think you…

Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Shells

Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Shells combine the spicy flavor of buffalo chicken wings and the creamy, cheesy goodness of melted mozzarella, and salty blue cheese all stuffed into cute convenient pasta shells. It is like someone stuffed buffalo wings into the pasta shells but without the bones! Years ago, when I first made these stuffed shells,…

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…

Pineapple Ice Cream

Pineapple Ice Cream is a creamy no churn ice cream that is loaded with pineapple for a sweet summer dessert. It’s like a tropical vacation in a bowl! Made with just four simple ingredients, like my Strawberry Ice Cream recipe, chances are you already have everything on hand to make this epic pineapple ice cream…

Instant Pot Corn On The Cob

Instant Pot Corn On The Cob is the easiest way to cook sweet summer corn on the cob. You may never boil or microwave corn on the cob again. I love my Instant Pot as you can tell from all my Instant Pot Recipes! It is great for summer vegetables like corn, as you see…

25 Memorial Day Recipes

Memorial Day Weekend is here! To help you with your picnic or outdoor bbq meal planning, I have included 25 easy, mouthwatering recipes to help you celebrate the start of summer! Memorial Day across most of the U.S. signifies the start of summer. However, Memorial Day in South Texas is hot. Our summer usually starts…

Strawberry Upside Down Cake

Strawberry Upside Down Cake is a sweet strawberry dessert, made with fresh strawberries, and a made from scratch light yellow cake, that makes a beautiful presentation. It’s strawberry season. Are you looking for ways to use up fresh strawberries? This Strawberry Upside Down Cake is my latest favorite Strawberry Dessert, and looking at my blog,…

Instant Pot Ham and Bean Soup

Instant Pot Ham and Bean Soup is a delicious, hearty, budget-friendly soup made with a ham bone or ham hock, or chopped ham, and dried beans (no soaking required) with lots of seasonings in your pressure cooker. What is great about Ham and Bean Soup? There is no better comfort food than Ham and Bean…

Instant Pot Corned Beef And Cabbage

It is an Irish American tradition to serve Corned Beef And Cabbage for St Patrick’s Day, and the best way to cook it is in an Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker because the corned beef comes out incredibly tender and juicy and the vegetables are perfectly cooked. Instant Pot Corned Beef And Cabbage While it…

Cajun Braised Chicken Thighs

These Cajun Braised Chicken Thighs, are tender, moist, and juicy chicken thighs, with a zesty chicken gravy, that make a hearty, rustic, spicy comfort food meal, especially when served over rice or mashed potatoes. What Are Cajun Braised Chicken Thighs? Cajun Braised Chicken Thighs takes ordinary chicken thighs and seasons them with a zesty Cajun or…

Marinated Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas

These Marinated Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas, or Fajitas De Pollo in Spanish, are spicy, smoky, sizzling hot strips of chicken breast served with sliced red and green bell peppers, and sautéed onions in flour tortillas. What Are Chicken Fajitas? The first sentence of this article accurately describes chicken fajitas. Chicken Fajitas are strips of chicken…

Instant Pot Taco Soup

This easy Instant Pot Taco Soup, made with ground beef, chicken, or turkey, and loaded with Mexican taco flavors like chipotle, and can be ready in 30 minutes, and topped with your favorite taco toppings! Today, I’m sharing Instant Pot Taco Soup, one of my family’s favorite Instant Pot Soup Recipes, and one of many…

Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas

These Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas make the BEST Black Eyed Peas you ever laid your taste buds on. Cooked with andouille sausage, bacon, onions, garlic, herbs, and spices, you’ll want these good luck black-eyed peas not only for New Years Day but any time during the year! What Are Black Eyed Peas? According to…

Easy Grasshopper Pie

With only 7 ingredients, this no-bake Grasshopper Pie is sweet, minty, chocolatey and delicious, without alcohol, and is the easiest grasshopper pie you will ever make. What Is Grasshopper Pie? When I told my nephew that I was making a grasshopper pie for one of our holiday desserts, he got a puzzled look on his face,…