I love turning my simple Peanut Butter Cookie recipe into these fun Halloween Witches Broom Cookies. Everyone loves a good chocolate and peanut butter dessert! Halloween Witch Broom Cookies Many, many years ago I was flipping through a magazine in the checkout line at the grocery store and I saw cookies with a pretzel and […]
Pumpkin Pancakes
I promised to share some recipes to use up that wonderful pumpkin butter recipe from last week. Everyone loved this easy breakfast and it didn’t take any time at all to whip these bad boys up. What’s in store for this week….an easy flour-less cookie, a Halloween treat, a special edition of Tip Day Thursday, […]
Slow Cooker Taco Meat
Slow cooker taco meat may become your new favorite way to make easy dinners! Making taco meat in a crock pot will save you time and money, because you can use the taco meat for meals all week long! This is one of my favorite slow cooker recipes! Whether you have been slow cooking for […]
Pumpkin Butter
If fall had a flavor, it would be pumpkin butter. This Pumpkin Butter recipe is so easy and the cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove flavors have lots of time to develop and transform your pumpkin into something amazing. Slow Cooker Pumpkin Butter So, you learned how to do just plain roasted pumpkin, but sometimes you just […]
How to Roast Pumpkin
Skip the store bought canned pumpkin and make your own roasted pumpkin. Learning How to Roast Pumpkin is easy and you get to control what goes into your pumpkin. Did you know a lot of canned pumpkin at the store, isn’t pure pumpkin? It’s a mixture of winter squash. Shocking I know…so make your own! […]
Slow Cooker 10 Can Chili
10 can chili is my favorite chili recipe for the slow cooker! There’s no need to spend hours standing over a hot stove top to make a delicious pot of chili when you have this 10 can slow cooker chili recipe. Just dump in the ingredients, set the power to low, and GO! Slow cooker recipes […]
Grilled Pizza
On Saturday afternoon’s Hubbyman and I usually watch America’s Test Kitchen on PBS. It is a pretty neat cooking show…check it out sometime if you haven’t already. A couple years ago, they developed a pizza dough perfect for the grill. We love this recipe! I’ve only changed one thing about this recipe and that is […]
Easy Banana Bread using a Boxed Cake Mix
I try to make most things from scratch for my family. However, sometimes I like to take a shortcut and this is my favorite shortcut recipe. The taste is the same as a scratch recipe, but without all the measuring and mess. I promise…you are going to love how easy this is. The loaves in […]
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Oh my goodness….it poured down rain yesterday. We had some crazy storms come through and my daughter said it was the perfect day for some soup. It was! We love this soup. It is so quick and easy to put together, even at the last minute because I usually have everything on hand. I love […]
Baked Corn Chips
I was out of chips, I didn’t want to go to the store, and we were having Mexican for supper. I knew I had a bunch of corn tortillas in the fridge and so I decided to try making my own chips. Only problem….I didn’t want to fry them. Baked Corn Chips corn tortillas cooking […]
Italian Beef over Rice
For years, I made this dish with a packet of onion soup mix and it is an easy and delicious supper. Recently, I was trying to lose a little weight and came across a version of this dish that tasted just like mine. I ended up adding a handful of dried onion flakes and wouldn’t […]
Grilled Flank Steak with Peppercorn Pan Sauce
Hearst Ranch sent us some of their signature flank steaks to review. These are not just ordinary steaks, they are from grass-fed beef. We usually buy corn-fed beef, despite knowing that I shouldn’t and the taste is totally different. Grass-fed beef is a natural source of omega 3 fats, high in CLA, beta carotene and vitamins. It […]















