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Our Holiday Potpourri Recipe will fill your home with the aromas of the holidays! Scents of cinnamon, cloves, oranges, and allspice–everything magical about Christmas time. It makes a festive office or neighborhood holiday gift too!  Why we love Holiday Potpourri Recipe We love the scents of the holidays! Our Holiday Potpourri Recipe can simmer away …

Christmas Wish List Giveaway… Christmas Wish List Giveaway! Good Friday Morning everybody…. we’ve had some technical difficulties around this little space!  NOT fun.  But, we’re back and I’ve rebuilt the days that were lost 🙂  Crossing our fingers that we’ve gotten everything backed up properly and that it won’t happen again!  There’s always something new …

Our Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars (copycat) Recipe is the perfect sweet treat! Today’s Cranberry Bliss Bar recipe is sure to make the whole family happy. I love this recipe and the fun time I had creating a starbucks copycat version to share with all of you!    Inspiration for Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars (copycat) Recipe …

Yarn Letters Gift Idea These cute Yarn Letters are a fun personalized gift idea that are adorable and not too difficult!  Just one visit to the craft store and you’re on your way… Yarn Letters Gift Idea 1 cardboard letter 1 yarn, color of choice (the thicker the better) 2 0r 3 fat quarters material …

If you didn’t see the awesome give away that started yesterday… make sure to get entered for a chance to win over $1100.00 in prizes including a Blend Tec Blender! Christmas Wish List Giveaway  Shepard’s Pie Shepard’s Pie… is one of my favorite ways to use up leftover mashed potatoes!  AND this time of year …

10 amazing Blogger’s have come together to give away over $1100.00 in prizes!!  This year for Christmas we thought it would be fun to GIVE AWAY something from each of our Christmas Wish Lists… AND here’s the really exciting part!! A Grand Prize valued at over $600.00!!   A Blend Tec Total Blender with 2 …

I love Eggnog Cookies I Love Eggnog Cookies… are for all of you out there that LOVE Eggnog as much as I do! I love it. Always have. AND I can’t tell you how happy I was when they started making a Halloween version of Eggnog a few years ago… the earlier the better I’m …

No Fail Pie Crust No Fail Pie Crust.. is as close to perfect of a pie crust as you can make!   My daughter, Madi and nephew, Carter got busy and made these delicious pies!  We ended up using store bought pie filling BUT, the crust is the important part, right?!  I’ll be posting Grandma Linda’s …

Today’s Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Topping Recipe is a family favorite for the holidays! Our sweet potato side dish is sure to be a favorite at your holiday table too. This pecan streusel topping and sweet potato casserole will be the star of your festivities.  Why we love Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Topping …

Merry Christmas Welcome to our Home!   I thought it would be fun to share our home this Holiday Season and also share some of the things we love about Christmas in our house!  One of the first things our children LOVE about Christmas is that Santa you see hanging on the wall in the …

Grandma Linda’s Rolls Recipe are one of our families most treasured recipes! Grandma’s homemade rolls touch a tender memory in all of our hearts!  Why we love Grandma Linda’s Rolls Recipe  Grandma Linda’s Rolls are my kids most treasured roll recipe to ever exist! Seriously. They believe no Holiday dinner is complete without these rolls… …

25 Festive Holiday Ideas   There are so many Festive Holiday Ideas out there on the web that I just couldn’t help but share a few of my favorites with all of you! Handmade Cinnamon Ornaments Cranberry Orange Bread White Chocolate Candy Cane Truffles Peppermint Candy Cane Sugar Scrub Christmas Tree Bread DIY Christmas Decoration …

Pumpkin Lime or Cranberry Orange Butter I’m not sure which combination is tastier?  They’re both delicious and with a homemade roll (I’ll post the one above next week) I’m pretty sure it doesn’t get any better. Pumpkin Lime and Cranberry Orange Butter   Pumpkin Lime and Cranberry Orange Butter they’re both completely delicious!    It’s …

Gram’s English Toffee I LOVE Christmas and especially Christmas Baking, it’s the one time a year that I make my Grandma Louise’s Christmas Candy.  As most of you all know my Gram had a cooking show in the 60’s and she’s the inspiration for my blog… baking her candy recipes always reminds me of so …

We love this doTERRA Pumpkin Pie Recipe is flavored with doTERRA essential oils like clove, ginger, and cinnamon! Cooking and baking doTERRA recipes are a deliciously wonderful way to bring rich flavorings to any dish! Essential oils in Pumpkin Pie is awesome because you know you are getting pure flavorings without extra processing and/or alcohol …

Candy Cane Crinkle Cookies Candy Cane Crinkle Cookies are a super simple recipe to throw together!  It’s starts from a cake mix and is ready in almost no time at all.  I’m in love with peppermint/chocolate combination at this time of year AND these cookies are the perfect combination 🙂   Candy Cane Crinkle Cookies are a …

What’s Cooking in your Kitchen?   A Weekly Dinner Menu Round-Up   Sometimes we all need a little help figuring out what to make for dinner!  What’s Cooking… in your kitchen, is a Dinner Menu Round-Up that will help take the guess work out of dinner!   Monday:  Gosh, I love pasta and this recipe …

Thai Chicken Pumpkin Stew I seriously don’t like to waste food so, what do to with half a can of pumpkin?  Give this delicious and easy Thai Chicken Pumpkin Stew a try!   Thai Chicken Pumpkin Stew… is super simple to throw together and with that pumpkin-creaminess plus a touch of Thai, it makes a …

Our slightly sweet oven baked Brown Sugar Banana Squash Recipe is the perfect side dish for dinner tonight! I love the aromatics that fill the house while our banana squash recipes are baking. I adore snitching squash recipes hot off the pan–I can’t stand to wait!  If you’re a squash lover like me, then our …

Simple Thanksgiving Place Setting   I just wanted to share this fun and simple Thanksgiving Place Setting idea with you today!   It’s super easy to put together and will add just that little bit to your Thanksgiving Table! I grabbed the large felt leaf, the bag of leaves, and ribbon at the dollar store, the …

Crock-pot Cranberry Orange Bread Crock-pot Cranberry Orange Bread is such an absolutely mouth-watering little loaf!  I’m such a sucker for anything orange and cranberry but THEN put them in a loaf and I’m all over it 🙂   Crock-pot Cranberry Orange Bread… would be totally fabulous as a side to any dinner or delicious idea …

Leftover Turkey Soup tastes amazing plus it’s an awesome way to use up some of that Holiday Turkey. I love leftover turkey recipes for the slow cooker, it’s a filling dinner with hardly any work.  If your house is like our house, we enjoy holiday turkey leftovers for at least another meal or two! Leftover …

Pot Roast Chili After making yesterday’s delicious Slow Cooker Pot Roast here’s a savory soup to use up any leftover’s 🙂    Pot Roast Chili is the best way I know of to use leftover Pot Roast!  Oh my… it’s just fabulous 🙂 I hope you all enjoy these back to back recipe- I love …