Layered Salad has layers of lettuce, peas, celery, hard boiled eggs, cheese, bacon, and more! Easy to make, and delicious to eat! My mom has been making this salad for as long as I can remember, and it’s always been a hit with crowds! It’s great for a potluck, barbecue, or any get together! …
The Sweetest Sweet Potatoes. This is seriously my favorite recipe for sweet potatoes ever! It wasn’t until a couple years ago that I discovered my love of sweet potatoes. I’m not sure why I hadn’t eaten them much before that. It isn’t like I had anything against them or disliked them, but they just weren’t …
Cornbread Stuffing is so much like the box stuffing but without all the yucky preservatives and chemicals. And it’s not too hard to make. In my quest to eat no preservatives, I now must make my own stuffing. The Hardworking Husband loves the stuff from the box. But look at these ingredients. I was finally …
40 Potato Recipes – Breakfast, Main Dish Dinners & Sides, plus Soups & Salads; everything potato!! Potatoes are such a versatile food. They fit well in a variety of recipes, and they’re delicious. Potatoes are a great source of vitamin C, and contain magnesium, potassium, phosphorous, fiber and calcium. I was surprised to find out …
Bacon Mac and Cheese is classic mac & cheese kicked up a notch with bacon. It is the comfort food of your dreams. It will take you back to your childhood. I worked at a guest ranch in my twenties. I learned a lot about cooking and life while I lived there. In the summer, …
Sweet Cornbread is the perfect cornbread. It’s a basic cornbread yet moist and delicious. It tastes like a mix but it’s made from scratch. There are approximately 1,000,000 cornbread recipes out there. Some with jalapenos. Some with kernels of corn. And some with cheese. I like basic sweet cornbread. If you’ve been a reader for …
Peas Cheese and Pickles is a great side salad that changes things up from a green salad. Great variety of flavors and textures. As a kid my mom made Peas Cheese and Pickles. I thought this was a family recipe and that no one besides our family had ever made it. I had never seen …
All it takes is 3 ingredients and 5 minutes to make this delicious Carrot Craisin Salad! This is seriously the easiest salad recipe ever. Three ingredients, and five minutes of your time (unless you have to shred the carrots by hand with a grater, and then it might be closer to 10 minutes), and you’ve …
Creamed Corn is a delicious side dish to make with fresh corn. It has great texture and flavor. It is a wonderful fall vegetable side dish. The garden is really going crazy. I have more cucumbers than I know what to do with. I hadn’t been in the garden in a couple days and the …
Autumn Roasted Sweet Potato and Arugula Salad has great fall flavors. Many of the ingredients are in season during the fall. It gives you a healthy way to enjoy the flavors of autumn. My diet has recently become very limited. I have had to cut out dairy, beans, nuts, and carbonated drinks. Some days it’s …
Baked Acorn Squash is an easy vegetable dish. With butter and brown sugar, it is slightly sweet, amazingly delicious and mostly healthy. I have grown acorn squash in my garden every year since we bought our house. I haven’t gotten much out of my acorn squash plants in the past. One year one of the …
Delicious Crock Pot Dr. Pepper Baked Beans with caramelized onions and bacon! Many years ago, before having kids, I took a dutch oven class. I was in college, and I needed an elective, and I thought dutch oven cooking would be fun. In the class, we were put into groups of 3-4 students. Each week …