Category Archives: Recipes

St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast – Rainbow Waffles

I loved making this last year for the kiddo’s for breakfast. I will admit- it was alot of work. But its a MUST TRY and so very fun!! Rainbow colored food coloring ready…. Mixed up pancake mix into 6 bowls and colored each. You will need more red than you will need purple. Next photo…

Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration – 2011

Dr. Seuss birthday is coming up March 2nd. I thought I would share what we did last year. To inspire any of our readers. We will do another fun dinner too again this year. Decorations on the table…. Dinner we had Green Eggs & Ham, and Cat in the Hat style Pancakes (I don’t make…

Cheese Salad – AKA Pink Stuff perfect for Valentines Dinner

My family loves this dish. In fact we had it for Christmas but it is perfect for Valentine’s Day dinner or Easter. The color is so pretty and vibrant. It comes out looking a red/pink color.  Its official name is Cheese Salad– but in my entire family we call it Pink Stuff.  If we called…

Snowmen Hot Cocoa – Christmas Gift in a Jar

Another really great fit and easy to do. You will need Jar of your choice Zip top baggie Hot Cocoa Mix Large Marsh Mallows Set of – Gourmet Writer Food Decorator Pens, Assorted Colors, Set of 10 (Used only Black and Orange colors) Recipe Tag Ribbon or Bakers Twine CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD TAG I…

Adorable and Yummy Chocolate Christmas Mice

These mice we made last year and we will be making them again this year. They are yummy and so easy to make. You will need Jar of Maraschino Cherries with Stems Hershey Kisses Almond Slivers Chocolate Almond Bark (from Wal-Mart) or Chocolate Candy Melts Before starting- have all your Hershey Kisses unwrapped and your…

Another University of Florida Gator Party

Decided to break out all the Gator stuff and have a mini party.  U of  F (Gators) played FSU  (bummer we lost).  So I decided to dress up dinner and add a few fun things to enjoy the evening since the game started at 7. Made football cupcake wrappers and then cupcake toppers. Added some…

Turkey Bundles – Our favorite leftover dish

One of our favorite dishes using left over Thanksgiving Turkey. My kids look forward to this dish every year. 🙂 In fact we are having this for dinner tonight!! It is easy to make- and goes great with your left over Thanksgiving sides as well!!  (This recipe can be used with Chicken if you don’t…

Fall Pumpkin Pie Spiced Buttercream Cucpcakes

  These cupcakes are super fun!  Nothing difficult at all, yet they look fancy smancy 😉 Perfect for the Thanksgiving/Fall Holiday upon us!! This is definitely a “cheater cake” recipe. Except for the frosting everything else is from a mix 😉 Let’s start with assembling the Acorns. 🙂 You will need MINI sized Nilla Wafers…….

Roasted Garlic Tenderloin Dinner with our favorite EVOO

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Carapelli. All opinions are 100% mine. This dinner seems to be quite involved – but in reality it hardly took us much time at all to create and it was DELICIOUS!!! We enjoy cooking with EVOO – (extra virgin olive oil) Have you ever…

Halloween Brownie Push Pop Treats

  Wrapping up the last of my Halloween treats and will be moving on to Thanksgiving. 🙂  These were a hit at my daughters 1st grade class. 🙂  I loved how they turned out. I purchased these wonderful push pops from – http://www.culinarydirect.com I love their quality of their push pops and you can’t go…

Crazy Easy Pumpkin Cupcakes

If it is easy I have to try it!! And not only was it easy it was VERYYYY delicious. In fact– so delicious I have made it TWICE in 2 days. Because family keeps eating them so quickly 🙂 I saw this recipe on PINTEREST.  Many times. Over and Over again. That is when I…

Our 1st Decorated Cake – 40th Anniversary

This really isn’t a HOW-TO post. More of a — not too shabby we did it post. Last week my in law’s celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.  They were married young and still madly in love. 🙂 We wanted to make them a wedding cake. Chad laughed. I had high ambitions. We may be crafty…

Halloween Ghost Cookies

One of the easiest and quite tastiest cookies we made this week with the kids!  Ghost Cookies. All you need is – Nutter Butter Cookies, Mini Chocolate Chips, Wax Paper & White Chocolate Bark (found at Walmart) We melted our Chocolate Bark in the microwave. Start by dipping your 1st cookie. We used a fork…

Frankenstein Marshmallow Pops – Kid Friendly

These are so easy to make.  With kids its even more fun to do. Easy for little hands to help. Marshmallows, Chocolate Jimmie Sprinkles, Pop Sticks & Candy Melts Simply press the sticks into the bottom of the marshmallows We melted green candy melts into a glass cup. So that it was deep to submerge…

Pumpkin Cheesecake – A-MAZING!!

I really should have taken a photo of it nicely plated for you. However it never lasts that long. By the time it hits the plate, someone has taken it to eat. IT IS THAT GOOD!! We have made many different pumpkin cheesecakes over the year. This one TAKES THE CAKE 🙂 Seriously! What I…

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