Oven Roasted Green Beans are so quick and easy they hardly qualify as a recipe. Yet they are so delicious your whole family will love them. As we get older we are trying to eat healthier, especially at the holidays to avoid those extra 7 pounds each year. These Oven Roasted Green Beans offer a…
Thanksgiving
Find scrumptious Thanksgiving recipes for your holiday dinner. We have everything from turkey, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, and pumpkin praline bread pudding.
Bacon Onion Horseradish Mashed Potatoes
Every other day when I am on a diet (wait, don’t tell me I’m the only one that does that) I look for ingredients that add flavor without adding additional calories. I was so happy to find De Nigris Seasoned Vinegars, especially their seasoned White Wine Vinegar, because they add amazing flavor to my everyday recipes without adding additional fat and calories. Another reason I like it is that it is all natural with no artificial preservatives.
Bacon, Onion and Horseradish Mashed Potatoes
We love mashed potatoes. It is a super flavorful potato recipe. However, when you add bacon, horseradish, and caramelized onions to buttery mashed potatoes, you take them over the top! The tangy notes of these horseradish-dijon mashed potatoes add an additional layer of flavor to traditional mashed potatoes, and the earthy flavor of the onion…
Red Wine Poached Pear Gorgonzola Salad #CleverlyPoached
Red Wine Poached Pear Gorgonzola Salad is a beautifully elegant green salad with bosc pears poached in red wine and combined with salty gorgonzola cheese and crunchy chopped walnuts for a flavor combination that is sure to impress your family and friends.
Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is an easy, delicious, moist pumpkin cake with a cream cheese frosting that the whole family will love. Tastes as good or better than the famous Pumpkin Roll Cake without the hassle of rolling the cake. For Thanksgiving a couple of years ago I decided it was…
Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Cheesy Potatoes
Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Cheesy Potatoes will make you a hero at your family get togethers. Cheddar cheese, sun dried tomato pesto, and scalloped potatoes combine for an easy, rich, creamy and cheesy side dish recipe. Who doesn’t love potatoes, especially cheesy potatoes with sun dried tomato pesto. I love potatoes prepared just about any way…
Garlic Parmesan Oven Roasted Cauliflower
Garlic Parmesan Oven Roasted Cauliflower is a delicious, healthy and savory side dish that is perfect for a weeknight meal or as a Thanksgiving or holiday side dish. Roasting gives vegetables such an earthy, savory flavor unlike any other cooking method. As a kid, I would not eat cauliflower. It was not until I was an…
Pumpkin Cookie Dough Chocolate Truffles
Pumpkin Cookie Dough Chocolate Truffles are luscious little bites of sweet pumpkin cookie dough with chocolate chips and covered in creamy melted chocolate! Pure heaven! As you may have noticed, I LOVE pumpkin! Maybe it was the Pumpkin Praline Bread Pudding or the Pumpkin Tres Leches Cake that gave it away. It could also have…
Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich
This Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwich, with cranberries, pecans (or walnuts), tomatoes, onions and celery, is a delicious way to use up leftover chicken without heating up the kitchen. I love chicken salad and chicken salad sandwiches. They taste great. They are creamy and crunchy, savory and even slightly sweet. They are a great way to…
Candied Peppered Bacon
Candied Peppered Bacon is a sweet and savory baked bacon that can be used in salads, vegetables, casseroles, pasta dishes, pizzas, and even desserts. Who doesn’t love bacon? It adds a smoky, salty, savory flavor to any recipe. So why mess with a good thing? Because I can. Sweet, smoky, savory bacon is even better….
Cinnamon Swirl Pumpkin Coffee Cake
Cinnamon Swirl Pumpkin Coffee Cake is a delicious pumpkin coffee cake with a buttery cinnamon-sugar mixture swirled throughout the cake. Have you ever made a mistake that ended up turning out much better than your original idea? That happened to me with this recipe, Cinnamon Swirl Pumpkin Coffee Cake. I originally set out to make Pumpkin…
Pumpkin Tres Leches Cake
When it comes to fall desserts, pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice reign supreme. And while pumpkin pie may be the go-to choice for many, why not try something a little different this year? Enter the pumpkin tres leches cake, a great recipe. It’s the perfect combination of fall flavors and decadent indulgence. It’s the fall…
Easy Chicken Pot Pie Casserole Recipe
Looking for a good chicken pot pie that’s quick, delicious, and a hit with the entire family? This Easy Chicken Pot Pie Casserole with pie crust is the answer! It’s a classic comfort food that combines a delicious layer of flaky goodness from a store-bought pie crust with tender chunks of chicken from a store-bought rotisserie chicken. The best part? It doesn’t sacrifice taste for…
Moist Chocolate Layer Cake
Moist Chocolate Layer Cake is perfect for every celebration, and a perfect first recipe to celebrate joining the Real Housemom’s contributor family! Great News! I’m joining the Real Housemom’s Contributor family. What does this mean? It means once a month I will write a blog post over at Real Housemoms. This calls for a celebration! That means…
Cinnamon Apple Pie Bread Pudding
Cinnamon Apple Pie Bread Pudding is a simple yet delicious dessert or breakfast that tastes like a combination of apple pie and cinnamon rolls. A delicious, sweet bread pudding with apples, cinnamon, walnuts, and sugar drizzled with a sweet vanilla glaze that is super easy to make. It is about this time in August when…
Oven Roasted Garlic Herb Parmesan Potatoes
Oven Roasted Garlic Herb Parmesan Potatoes…..just the name alone makes me hungry. Imagine buttery potatoes coated with olive oil, garlic, herbs de provence, and freshly grated parmesan cheese. MMMMM! I love potatoes pretty much any way you can fix them….mashed, baked, fried, but roasting especially brings out such a wonderful, earthy flavor to the potatoes,…
Grandma Lois’ Spring Pea Salad
Grandma Lois’ Spring Pea Salad is my Mother-in-Law’s recipe that she has brought to every holiday gathering for years. It is a tradition. It would not be a holiday in our house without Lois or her pea salad. She gave me the recipe to share with you. I love it, not only because it is…
Creole Green Beans
Creole Green Beans are savory and spicy and delicious with bacon, onions, tomatoes, chilies, and cajun seasoning and make a perfect Cajun Side Dish for Mardi Gras or any time. Creole Green Beans make a perfect side dish to any Mardi Gras celebration meal. Since there is likely a 100% chance I won’t be making…
Apple Walnut Cranberry Salad
This Apple Cranberry Walnut Salad includes a Mixed Green Spinach Salad with Green Apples, Dried Cranberries, Walnuts, and Gorgonzola Cheese. This simple salad explodes with flavor. This healthy green salad incorporates all the deliciousness of the cheese, cranberries, and walnuts, but avoids the heavier ingredients like some other cranberry salads. This holiday salad is the perfect fall…
Hasselback Potatoes
These Hasselback Potatoes make an easy, delicious and gourmet side dish whenever you want to impress that special someone, or honored guests, or just to have a healthy dinner. These potatoes get their name from Hasselbacken, the Stockholm, Sweden restaurant where it was first created. Basically these are dressed up baked potatoes. And the best…
Cheesy Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta
Cheesy Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta combines lots of my favorite flavors, such as bacon and ranch, into a creamy, cheesy, comforting chicken and pasta baked casserole. This Cheesy Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta is a budget-friendly, family-friendly, and delicious recipe. It is also an excellent way to use leftover chicken and leftover bacon (Is there ever any…
Glazed Carrots
During the holidays, fresh vegetables, including carrots, are not always the favorite in our family. However, carrots will probably be the one of the most popular vegetables. These glazed carrots will usually get a thumbs up from the non-vegetable eating crowd, even the kids. Even better, this glazed carrot recipe is so quick and easy…
Oven Roasted Asparagus
Sometimes simply fresh vegetables with fresh ingredients taste the best. And when preparing a holiday meal, simple, quick and easy are what I need when surrounded by chaos. This Oven Roasted Asparagus recipe from AllRecipes.com is perfect for a busy holiday dinner. It is a quick and easy, yet elegant, healthy, gourmet side dish, sure to please…
Cranberry Orange Cookies
With just days before Christmas I am busy baking cookies and cooking side dishes for a trial run. These Cranberry Orange Cookies turned out to be so amazing that they are not going to last until Christmas. I am going to have to make a couple of more batches before the rest of the family…