A while back I saw this recipe for a tomato sauce with butter and onion. Butter in a tomato sauce? I was intrigued and I had to try it. It’s Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce recipe and it’s…
Easy Nutella Cream Cheese Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Ever since I made these cookies (well I should say when I got them right because it took several tries), I have been excited to share them with you! Nutella, cream cheese, chocolate and powdered sugar…you cannot…
Easy Salted Caramel Brownie Trifles with Whipped Cream Recipe
This past summer, we attended the 50th anniversary party for our neighbors. Being married for 50 years is a huge accomplishment and they are such a fun couple! It was a potluck and someone brought a brownie…
Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie Bars
For the holidays…I’m all about pecan pie. A longgg time ago, I think Curtis and I were married for a couple of years, I brought a pecan pie to my in-laws’ house for Thanksgiving dinner. It was…
Easy Nutella-Stuffed Baked French Toast Recipe
I mentioned recently how much I love French toast and even more, I love convenient French toast. Do you love make-ahead meals as much as I do? Prep the day ahead and pop it in the oven…
Easy Dark Chocolate Dipped Funfetti Shortbread Cookies Recipe
I’m on my way to Utah to spend time with friends and I wanted to share these cookies with them (I have some in my carry-on) and with you. I love love sending cookies to friends, been…
[Super Creamy] Chocolate Chip Scones - DualFood
Are you like me? Wondering where the year has gone? I can’t believe the kidlets in my state are already back at school! I still remember my first recipe for the Land O’Lakes Kitchen Conversations panel this…
The Most Perfect Lemon Bars
One of Curtis’ favorite desserts besides cheesecake? Lemon Bars. I have made a few recipes in 11 years we have been married and no bueno. Until now! I have always known it’s the recipe, it’s the recipe….
Easy Nutella & Peanut Butter Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
Are you sitting down? I hope you are. Let’s just say these came out amazing and like always I have been so excited to share these with you. Sometimes, ideas come to me and sometimes others say…
Fried Donut Holes with Strawberry Glaze
1,000 Cooks for the Cure starts this Friday. It’s a program that KitchenAid does in partnership with Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The goal is to enlist 1,000 cooks from the U.S. to host a get-together…
Easy Spicy Shrimp and Goat Cheese Grits Recipe
The other day I received a card in the mail that contained some sad news. Someone very special to me passed away in February. It was his daughter writing me to give me the news. He was…
Easy Peanut Butter Mousse with Chocolate Cookie Crumble Recipe
I have a very special recipe to share with you today…it’s from my dear friend Glory’s new cookbook entitled Glorious Layered Desserts (note, you can buy directly from her or on Amazon. It’s filled with wonderful layered…
Easy Gnocchi with Brown Butter Cream Sauce & Kale Recipe
I’m having more fun working with Land O’Lakes (Kitchen Conversations) on this recipe! I’m a huge fan of butter, let’s face it: I love all kinds of butter. And brown butter? I’m an even bigger fan. Brown…
Easy Grilled Flank Steak with Chimichurri Butter Recipe
I’m excited to announce again to be partnering this year with Land O’Lakes on the Kitchen Conversations panel to bring you wonderful recipes with what else…my favorite ingredient: butter! Raise your hand if you like steak as…
Easy Roast Duck Breast with Black Truffle Cream Sauce with Mashed Potatoes and Carrots Recipe
I can shout it from the rooftops! I made roast duck breast! And it wasn’t that hard! Sorry for the many exclamation points. KitchenAid® recently put me up to the challenge again. I love their Kitchen Challenges…
Easy Broccoli Cheddar Cheese Soup
It’s no secret I love soup. Doesn’t matter what time of year it is, I will eat it! When Christine and I were planning a way to surprise Katie (she’s having her first baby next month!), all…
Easy Fried Mac & Cheese Bites Recipe
I have come to the realization…that I’m a Southern girl. I say hi to everyone when I’m walking down the street and smile. I like fried cheese and I love butter to pieces. Does all of that…
Easy Peanut Butter Cookie Brownies Recipe
I have something to admit, I always thought peanut butter cookies were boring or not that impressive. Curtis has asked me to make ‘just’ a plain ol’ peanut butter cookie forever. About 6 months ago, I said…
Easy Sweet & Spicy Four Ingredient Chicken Wings Recipe
It’s possible to have crackly and crispy chicken wings without a fryer. I’m in love. Ever since I saw Joanne’s recipe and video on how to make chicken wings in your oven, I knew I wanted to…
Easy Pistachio Pudding Cupcakes Recipe
I love the color green and I love pistachios…pistachio ice cream, you name it. My former co-worker used to make a pistachio cake with pistachio ice cream that I loved. He used a cake mix and extended…
Easy Red Velvet Cream Cheese Crinkle Cookies Recipe
I have always had a fascination with crinkle cookies but I always thought they would be hard or crunchy. Doesn’t the crackle crinkle on top of these cookies evoke hardness or crispness? I’m a soft and chewy…
Easy Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookie Pie Recipe
I have mentioned it before but before this year, I didn’t make my own pie crust, I always bought it. But ever since my friend, Suzanne, and I cooked & baked together earlier this year, she made…
Easy Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles Recipe
For this recipe, once again I’m participating with Land O’Lakes on their Kitchen Conversations panel along with Ree, Brenda, Maria and Sommer! It’s our fourth and final Kitchen Conversation for this year. I have enjoyed working on this so…
Easy Mini Buttermilk Pumpkin Pie Spice Donuts with Brown Butter Vanilla Glaze Recipe
I have a confession to make, I’m not a huge fan of pumpkin. I feel like I’m the only one on the planet that feels this way. But honestly, I’m opening up more and more to it…
