Happy Friday, sweet friends!Yesterday, I celebrated my 49th birthday! Yippee! I’m one step closer to the big 50! Okay-so I’m not exactly over the moon happy about THAT fact-but I am truly blessed to have such wonderful and supportive friends and family-who truly made my birthday-a VERY special day! Today it’s back to work-and what better…
Italian Pasta Salad!
Italian Pasta Salad! Pasta salad filled with fresh vegetables & herbs, pepperoni, cheese, and tossed with homemade Italian dressing! Who wants to use their oven to cook dinner when it’s super hot outside? Anyone? NO? Okay, Good. We are on the same page! Summertime is grillin’ time at our house for sure! And there is…
20 Sweet and Savory Strawberry Recipes!
June is right around the corner, and with it comes one of my FAVORITE fruits! There really is no comparison to the fresh strawberries mom and I pick at our local strawberry patch-versus the ones we are forced to buy in the grocery store when our winter stock runs out. With this in mind-I think…
Cranberry-Chicken Salad
The weather has been absolutely GORGEOUS, here in our neck of the woods! Yesterday the temps were at a record high of 80 degrees!!! Now, of course, this isn’t going to last (50’s next week)-so I decided to take full advantage of the glorious weather in the afternoon and get caught up on some outdoor…
Pumpkin-Apple Streusel Muffins
Pumpkin-Apple Streusel Muffins A moist and deliciously fall-inspired muffin filled pumpkin puree, spices & Apples, topped with a buttery crumble! With temperatures hitting a high of 48 today it appears mother nature has finally decided it’s time for fall in our neck of the woods! Although I do not like the colder temperatures, I do…
Creamy Macaroni Salad
Creamy Macaroni Salad  creamy Macaroni salad filled with fresh vegetables, chunks of ham & Cheese. Hello! I hope you all had a FABULOUS weekend! Hubby and I had a blast searching for treasures on Saturday, and although I didn’t find many ‘must-haves’, he scored several! The best part was watching him negotiate.  With his sense…
Easy Chicken Parmesan
Easy Chicken Parmesan Chicken Parmesan and I go WAY back!!! Years ago, when Mel was just a little girl with ponytails and an adorable gap between her two front teeth, she and I would spend every Saturday having a mother/daughter day. Sometimes we would just hang out at home and watch a Disney movie on…
Broccoli Salad
Broccoli Salad A quick salad filled with fresh broccoli, sliced almonds, & raisins+a creamy homemade dressing! Broccoli has never been a vegetable my family cared much for. You can bet that whenever I would put out a platter of fresh veggies with their favorite dip, broccoli would always be the only remaining veggie left. I would try…
Quick and Easy Veggie Pizza
Quick and Easy Veggie Pizza I don’t know about you all, but I’m still trying to get things organized around here after the holiday weekend! Most of our house got a good cleaning yesterday, and I’m starting on the kitchen today. We are still in the midst of the remodeling in this room, (still waiting…
Pumpkin Raisin Bread
Pumpkin Raisin Bread I know. I know. Why in the world am I posting a pumpkin recipe in February? Pumpkin is for fall. Right? I get it. But I LOVE pumpkin. I also LOVE raisins. I know a lot of people don’t but if you’ve never tried them in pumpkin bread, you really should! Those…