This Greek Chicken Pasta Salad is filled with cheesy tortellini, cucumber, tomato, feta, and a delicious Greek dressing. My sister introduced me to this simple meal hack years ago. Using a good premade dressing can make marinades and salads super easy . In this Greek Chicken Pasta Salad, the chicken is marinated in a Greek dressing (along with a little…
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Maple Caramel Pecan Sticky Buns – sticky maple caramel sauce cooked over soft, fluffy rolls with cinnamon, cardamom, & orange zest. One of my husband’s favorite treats is Pecan Rolls. Though I’ve made my Cinnamon Rolls and Raspberry Sweet Rolls many times before, I’d never tried my hand at pecan rolls. After getting the Dessert Person book I knew this…
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This easy Banana Snack Cake bakes more evenly than banana bread and is the perfect mix of a sweet bread and cake – you’ll love it! I love to make Cake and I love to make Banana Bread – but this Banana Snack Cake is the perfect mix of both. So easy to make, so light and fluffy, and filled…
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Easy Breakfast Tacos are a delicious, crowd-pleasing meal that my kids ask for every week: eggs, potatoes, bacon, cheese – can’t go wrong! We’ve been making these Easy Breakfast Tacos for years – it started when my kids were younger and pickier eaters – some would like the eggs and cheese only, others the bacon and potatoes. One thing I…
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Lightened Up BBQ Chicken Pizza The hunt for healthy, low-calorie meals continues! I’ve been following the Fitness Carli food plan and it’s been helping me so much to control how much I eat – I love that it’s not an elimination diet. Typically my diets eliminate groups of food, like “no sugar” or “no gluten” and I’m left feeling completely…
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Berry Avocado Salad This is it – one of my alltime favorite salads. I make it as a meal with chicken or as a side salad with no meat. I make it with fresh berries in the summer, or whatever berries I can find in the winter. I make it with either strawberry vinaigrette for a lighter taste or poppyseed dressing…
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Easiest Creamy Cheesecake I’m trying to put into words how much my family loves Cheesecake. Even my toddler will scarf it down. When I lived in Texas we’d do all our girls’ nights at Cheesecake Factory and they’d all beg me to bring some home for them. Now we don’t live as close to a Cheesecake Factory so I’ve made…
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Chex Christmas Crack This Chex Christmas Crack is gooey and chewy and crunchy and sweet and salty – it’s really everything that is delicious! Every Christmas season I make this Chex Christmas Crack. (Click here to see my other Holiday Desserts.) And every year I promise myself I won’t make it again until next holiday season because it’s so.dang.addictive! This…
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Chewy Microwave Caramels These Chewy Microwave Caramels are so easy to make (and failproof!). They are chewy and delicious and take only 6 minutes to make. One of our favorite Holiday Desserts is caramels. They are rich and flavorful without the hassle of cooking on the stovetop with a thermometer and worrying about the sugar burning. Just throw the ingredients…
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