This Apple Pecan Cream Cheese Cake made with fresh apples, cinnamon, chopped pecans, and a cream cheese filling, topped with a vanilla glaze is a delicious fall dessert your guests will love. Yay!! It’s Fall baking season, which means it is fall apple season! Never mind that it is 100 degrees outside here, I just crank up the a/c and start baking fall desserts! Baking makes me happy. Apples make me happy. So this Apple Pecan Cream Cheese Cake makes me very happy!!
Comfort Food
Cheesy Chicken Skillet Pasta
Cheesy Chicken Skillet Pasta is a creamy, cheesy 30-minute skillet dinner with shredded chicken, penne pasta, fresh asparagus, and chopped tomatoes, bell peppers and onions that is perfect for a quick and easy weeknight supper. Can I just say I love skillet dinners! Not just love, but LOVE LOVE LOVE! They are easy, delicious, and…
No Bake Peanut Butter Butterfinger Pie
This No Bake Peanut Butter Butterfinger Pie, with a Nutella chocolate hazelnut spread swirl, is an ultra rich and decadent make-ahead frozen chocolate candy pie that requires no baking. I’ve been on a dessert kick lately. Not only dessert, but frozen desserts. Not only frozen desserts but No Bake frozen desserts like the No Bake Banana…
Fiesta Garden Ranch Pasta Salad
This post is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and Ronzoni, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #RonzoniSummer http://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV This Fiesta Garden Ranch Pasta Salad is a healthy, colorful and flavorful Pasta Salad made with Ronzoni Garden Delight Pasta, greek yogurt, spicy ranch dressing mix, and lots of…
Cheesy Taco Potato Bites
These Cheesy Taco Potato Bites are spicy, cheesy bite-sized potato skins made with real Idaho® potatoes, taco-spiced ground beef, salsa, and melty cheese, and will be a hit at any party. This Cheesy Taco Potato Bites recipe features: An easy appetizer recipe that can be made in less than 1 hour. Quality Idaho® potatoes with flavorful…
Easy Picnic Potato Salad
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Maille® Mustard. All opinions are 100% mine. This Easy Picnic Potato Salad recipe makes your classic American potato salad that is perfect to take to a picnic or potluck this summer. This week has been potato salad week. Since I have made some unique…
S’Mores Chocolate Chip Pancakes
S’Mores Chocolate Chip Pancakes with chocolate ganache and marshmallow syrup make breakfast yummy, sweet, and fun! With this special breakfast recipe that was my June contributor post on Realhousemoms.com, you are in for a real treat because this is three recipes in one: the pancake recipe, the chocolate ganache recipe, and the marshmallow syrup recipe. Nothing…
Southern Banana Pudding Parfaits
Southern Banana Pudding Parfaits are easy yet delicious portable desserts made in mason jars with layers of crushed vanilla wafers, sliced bananas, banana pudding, and whipped topping! I love to cook from scratch when I have the time. However, sometimes I don’t want to wait, and want something sweet NOW!! I did not want to wait…
Lemon Parmesan Spinach Risotto
Lemon Parmesan Spinach Risotto is a creamy, savory Italian Risotto side dish, made with arborio rice, fresh baby spinach, lemon juice, and parmesan cheese! This Lemon Parmesan Spinach Risotto is my contributor post this month to the Real Housemoms’ blog, an awesome blog with not only recipes, but articles on DIY, crafts, cleaning and organization,…
Easy Banana Nut Muffins
This Easy Banana Nut Muffins recipe makes rich, moist, and delicious Banana Nut Muffins that are easy to make and have a rich banana flavor. Who doesn’t love Banana Nut Muffins? I have found that the key to really rich-tasting muffins with tons of banana flavor is to use really ripe, actually overripe bananas. If…
Slow Cooker Italian Meatballs
This Slow Cooker Italian Meatballs recipe makes a family favorite Italian-American main dish even easier by making it in the slow cooker. This Slow Cooker Italian Meatballs recipe features: A short history on Spaghetti and Meatballs in America; A description of the difference between Spaghetti and Meatballs and meatballs or “polpettes” found in Italy; An easy…
Spicy Cheeseburger Pasta Casserole
Spicy Cheeseburger pasta casserole is a delicious, budget-friendly cheesy skillet dinner that is one of our family’s favorite weekday suppers. I’m excited to share this yummy Spicy Cheeseburger Pasta Casserole with you because it features: An easy yet delicious skillet dinner that the whole family will love. A delicious, hearty dinner that can be on…
Lemon Spoon Cake and Cookbook Review
Lemon Spoon Cake is an easy, yummy slow cooker lemon dessert from the The Magical Slow Cooker cookbook, and is best served warm and topped with ice cream. This dessert is easy enough for the kids to help make for Mother’s Day. I was so excited when I heard that my blogging friend, Sarah Olson,…
Cakey Lemon Blueberry Brownies
Cakey Lemon Blueberry Brownies are yummy, moist, sticky, slightly tart, cake-like lemon brownies with sweet, juicy blueberries added for a fun sweet treat that is great for an easy dessert or afternoon snack. It’s April. Spring is in the air. Beautiful weather. People are coming out of winter hibernation and into the sunshine of the…
Blueberry Strawberry French Toast Casserole
Blueberry Strawberry French Toast Casserole is a delicious overnight casserole, made with day-old French, Brioche, Challah, or Italian bread, cream cheese, fresh strawberries, and blueberries, and topped with a sweet blueberry sauce that will feed a crowd for breakfast or brunch. In this post, you will: Learn how to make an easy, delicious overnight casserole…
8 Easy Slow Cooker Recipes
I’m sharing 8 Easy Slow Cooker Recipes so you can enjoy your day and have dinner ready in the evening when you get home! In today’s post I feature 8 Easy Slow Cooker Recipes that include a variety of recipes that will: Allow you to enjoy your day and have dinner ready in the evening…
Cheesy Pesto Chicken Pasta
Cheesy Pesto Chicken Pasta is an easy, delicious skillet dinner that is a great way to use up leftover chicken, and serve with pasta in a cheesy sun-dried tomato pesto cream sauce. For the last few weeks I have been cooking for my elderly Mother-in-law after she got out of the hospital. Since she prefers…
Bacon Spaghetti Florentine
Bacon Spaghetti Florentine is a quick and easy pasta dinner made with spaghetti, bacon, spinach, onions, garlic, and Italian cheeses, including mozzarella, parmesan, and asiago, that I can have on the table in 30 minutes. Oh my gosh! What’s not to love? First there is bacon. Need I say more? I could stop right here. But…
Chocolate Mug Cakes for Two
Chocolate Mug Cakes for Two are quick and easy, delicious, portion-controlled, chocolate desserts for you and your sweetheart that are perfect for Valentine’s Day or any day you would like a mini chocolate cake for one or two. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I’m starting to plan our menu. One thing I know is…
Aloha Barbecue Chicken Wings
Aloha Barbecue Chicken Wings are sweet and spicy chicken wings sweetened with pineapple preserves to bring a taste of Hawaii to your grill.
I have lived in Texas all my life and one of my all-time favorite foods is Texas barbecue.
Baked Pepper Sage Pork Chops
Baked Pepper Sage Pork Chops are an easy, delicious, savory main dish that can be served on a date night or a weeknight. These Baked Pepper Sage Pork Chops are so easy that I made them on a weeknight with ingredients from my pantry, which means I save money and save a frustrating trip to…
Big Game Ritz Jalapeno Poppers and Stackers
With the Big Game right around the corner, it is time to start thinking about what to food to serve or to bring to your Big Game party. Because for me, the best part of the party, other than visiting with family and friends, is the food; and these Ritz Jalapeno Poppers made with Ritz Crackers make snacking for the Big Game fun and delicious!
Easy Homemade Buttermilk Cornbread
Easy Homemade Buttermilk Cornbread is a dense, buttery, golden, semi-sweet cornbread that goes well with soups, chowders, gumbo, chili, chicken, roasts, and red beans and rice; and any other comfort food you can think of. Love this recipe? Subscribe to Emails to receive FREE recipes in your inbox. I LOVE cornbread! If I could only…
Chicken Broccoli Cheese Quinoa Casserole
Chicken Broccoli Cheese Quinoa Casserole is a twist on a favorite classic comfort-food casserole, Chicken Broccoli and Rice Casserole, because instead of rice, it uses high-protein, gluten-free quinoa to make it healthy yet delicious. I love the classic comfort food casseroles, like the broccoli cheese casserole my Mom made when I was a kid. It was always a…