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Special Occasion

Gourmet Honey Butter Roasted Carrots

Looking for an easy, yet impressive Easter side dish with carrots that’s both festive and flavorful? These Honey Butter Roasted Carrots with Feta, Pistachios, and Pomegranates are your answer! This gourmet side dish strikes the perfect balance of sweet, savory, and crunchy, making it a standout addition to your Easter, Thanksgiving, or Christmas holiday table. Caramelized carrots coated in…

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Cranberry Pork Tenderloin topped with a homemade cranberry sauce on a white platter with cranberries, and fresh herbs.

Cranberry Pork Tenderloin Recipe

Fall is in the air, holidays are around the corner, and we’re craving warm, comforting dishes. This Cranberry Pork Tenderloin with cranberry glaze is the epitome of holiday indulgence. The sweet-tart cranberry glaze, infused with the robust flavors of apple cider, apples, and warm spices, perfectly complements the succulent pork. It’s a dish that’s as beautiful as it…

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A slice of German Chocolate Cake is held above the whole German Chocolate Cake so you can see the 2 layers of cake with the buttercream and the coconut pecan frosting in between the layers and on top of the cake.

German Chocolate Layer Cake

This is the ultimate, homemade, from-scratch, melt-in-your-mouth, nutty, coconut-y, chocolatey, and Best German Chocolate Cake you will ever taste. Layers of German Chocolate cake with the sweet and crunchy coconut pecan frosting, and topped with a creamy chocolate buttercream frosting make a stunning, showstopping cake that is perfect for a special occasion like a birthday,…

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Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Pancakes dress up traditional pancakes with dried cranberries and white chocolate chips and make a delicious weekend or holiday breakfast or brunch. Click here to receive FREE recipes in your inbox! Love this recipe? Receive FREE recipes in your inbox! I want FREE Recipes! When I was a kid on holidays or…

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Apple Maple Bacon Stuffed Cinnamon Raisin French Toast

Apple Maple Bacon Stuffed French Toast

This sweet, salty, creamy and crispy Apple Maple Bacon Stuffed Cinnamon Raisin French Toast makes a breakfast extra special. It is perfect for a weekend or holiday brunch. We celebrated my sister’s birthday this past weekend. She and her husband love aviation and flying airplanes. So we went to see the movie about the famous pilot who…

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Mango Spinach Rice Salad by Flavor Mosaic

Mango Spinach Rice Salad

Mango Spinach Rice Salad, with a whole grain brown rice, mango, baby spinach, tomatoes, and red onions in a red wine vinaigrette, makes a delicious and colorful side dish for a fish dinner, barbecue or potluck.

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Orange Pomegranate Rosemary Pork Roast

Orange Pomegranate Rosemary Pork Roast

I was excited to be asked by the National Pork Board to participate in their Porksgiving program that honors people, who take the time to help others, by preparing a home cooked meal for them in recognition of their contributions. The hope is that this program will inspire others to thank those who go the extra mile to help others, such as teachers, caregivers, military, volunteers, and others. One of the best way to show your thanks is to prepare a home cooked meal for them.

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Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Potatoes and Green Beans

Green Bean Potato Salad with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto

This easy gluten-free Green Bean Potato Salad with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto makes an outstanding side dish to take to a summer picnic or potluck because it has no mayo and only 5 ingredients. This Green Bean Potato Salad with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto recipe features: A delicious Gluten-Free side dish Gourmet ingredients, such as Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Only…

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Lemon Parmesan Spinach Risotto

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,…

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Lemon Spoon Cake

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,…

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Cajun Blackened Catfish

Cajun Blackened Catfish

Cajun Blackened Catfish is a quick and easy, healthy, delicious, spicy Cajun seafood dish that makes an excellent weeknight supper or Mardi Gras party dish, and can fit into most healthy eating plans, including low fat, low carb, gluten-free, and paleo. This Cajun Blackened Catfish recipe features: A delicious, spicy, flavor fully seasoned seafood main…

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Spicy Pesto Shrimp Primavera

Spicy Pesto Shrimp Primavera

Spicy Pesto Shrimp Primavera is a restaurant-inspired, mildly spicy, hugely flavorful Shrimp dish with red bell peppers, asparagus, and spinach with a Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto with Parmesan cheese. It was not Hawaii, but for us, it was a couple of hours in paradise!  What am I talking about? I’m referring to an incredible dinner out…

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Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Tarts

Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Tarts

Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Tarts are two individual chocolate tarts made with buttery, crumbly chocolate graham cracker crusts, and a rich, creamy chocolate filling, topped with a beautiful shiny chocolate glaze with a mirror-like finish. It is pure chocolate heaven and a perfect dessert for Valentine’s Day.

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Homemade Fresh Cranberry Christmas Cake

Homemade Fresh Cranberry Christmas Cake

Homemade Fresh Cranberry Christmas Cake is an easy homemade moist white cake with orange zest that is made from scratch with fresh cranberries. This cake is perfect for a Christmas or holiday party. This cake screams Christmas to me!  Maybe it’s the cranberries or the fluffy moist white cake with the hint of orange flavor….

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Juicy Pot Roast with Italian Ranch Sauce

Juicy Pot Roast with Italian and Ranch Dressing Recipe

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #FoodDeservesDelicious #CollectiveBias Have you ever made a juicy pot roast recipe using salad dressing? It is not typically the first thing that comes to mind when using salad dressings. Instead of a regular salad, you might have made an…

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Bang Bang Chicken with Quinoa

Bang Bang Chicken with Quinoa

Bang Bang Chicken with Quinoa is a quick and easy stir fry with a Bang Bang sauce, like that of Bonefish Grill, with Sriracha, Sweet Thai Chili Sauce, mayonnaise and other ingredients served over gluten-free quinoa. My blogging friend, Shelby, is on vacation this week, and she graciously allowed me to write a guest post…

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Pan Seared Herb Roasted Chicken Thighs

Pan Seared Herb Roasted Chicken Thighs

This easy two step cooking method for the Pan Seared Herb Roasted Chicken Thighs results in tender, juicy, flavorful chicken with crispy, golden skin every time. Many of my recipes call for lots of seasoning, or spicy seasonings, such as my Cajun Blackened Chicken recipe.   However, some members of my extended family prefer less…

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Garlic-Parmesan-Orzo-Primavera

Garlic Parmesan Orzo Primavera

Garlic Parmesan Orzo Primavera is an adaptation of the popular recipe, Garlic Parmesan Orzo with Fresh Veggies, by Marion of Life Tastes Good, one of my favorite bloggers.  In addition to garlic and parmesan, my recipe has asparagus, peas, carrots, red bell peppers, and of course, orzo pasta. I have to be honest.  Until last…

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Coconut Fudge Cake

Coconut Fudge Swirl Cake

Coconut Fudge Swirl Cake is decadently delicious.  It is a rich, sweet, moist, chocolately, coconuty cake. I started with a good base vanilla cake batter substituting coconut extract instead of vanilla.  But then I swirled spoonfuls of Nutella Hazelnut Spread throughout the cake batter.  It is topped with a cream cheese frosting with coconut extract and…

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Hasselback Potatoes - Overhead Shot

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…

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Side view of Cherry Cheesecake Brownies drizzled in chocolate ganache

Cherry Cheesecake Brownies

These Cherry Cheesecake Brownies look beautiful and taste even better.  No box brownies here.  I use my Best Brownies recipe for the brownie layer and then a simple cheesecake recipe for the cheesecake layer.  Then it is topped with cherry pie filling that is swirled in with the cheesecake layer.   OMG!  But wait.  There’s…

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