Recipes, Cooking Tips & More

Slow Cooker Apple Butter

Making slow cooker apple butter is easier than you may think. This apple butter recipe is the perfect fall season treat to make and the great thing about apple butter is that it’s a concentrated form of applesauce. This treat is great as a hostess gift and certainly a favorite during those holiday feasts. Fall …

Sausage and Potatoes Dinner Recipe

by Brandy

Do you want an easy-to-make recipe for dinner tonight? We all have busy schedules and sometimes it’s simply wonderful to have a recipe like this sausage and potatoes meal to whip up, toss in the oven, and bake for a quick meal. The mixture of sausage with potatoes will transport you back to childhood as …

Double Chocolate Brownies

by Brandy

A double chocolate brownie with crumbs on a wooden counter.

Are you looking for a delicious recipe to make for the family that will leave them wanting more? These double chocolate brownies are just the recipe you’ve been waiting for. These brownies will surely cure that chocolate craving and leave your sweet tooth satisfied. Making your own double chocolate brownies truly helps you appreciate the …

20 Decadent Chocolate Desserts

by Brandy

A collage photo depicting 20 chocolate desserts.

What would life be like without chocolate? We don’t want to think about that and we don’t think you should either. In fact, it’s safe to say that we can all pretty much agree that this rich, sweet treat is what makes the world go round.

Cooking Bacon in the Oven

by Antonella

Want to know a secret? Restaurants cook bacon in the oven. It’s certainly the most efficient way of cooking lots of bacon, but that’s not the only reason they do it.

Even though I’m not cooking for dozens of people each morning, it often feels like I am. And oven bacon is the choice in my household. We’ll get into why oven bacon is better than stovetop or microwave bacon, and how to cook bacon in the oven, below.

Christmas Treats Roundup: The 10 Best Treats for the Holidays

by Antonella

The holidays are the one time of year that you have a free pass to indulge in endless Christmas treats. We’re talking iconic holiday desserts: peanut brittle, gingerbread men, s’mores, and the list goes on. This year, we’re ramping things up a bit with our roundup of the best Christmas treats for kids and adults to enjoy.

The 10 Best Winter Crock Pot Soups

by Antonella

Winter is the time I break out the crock pot and make enough of my favorite crock pot soups to get me through the season. It’s the only time I really want soup, so when the time comes around, I eat as much of it as I can.

15 Simple Kitchen Hacks to Make You a Pro at Cooking

by Antonella

Working in the kitchen used to be an all-day affair. Grinding grain for one loaf of bread took hours. Churning butter even longer. But since the beginning, we have been creating tools and inheriting kitchen hacks that speed up the process. But even as we reached the industrial revolution, when canning processes made meals faster …

Breakfast Tacos

by Brandy

I am sure you have heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day which is great because breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. And once a day isn’t enough for me – I love making breakfast foods for breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner. (Brinner is the best, isn’t it?) I …

Peppermint Hot Chocolate

by Brandy

Peppermint hot chocolate is my husband and kids favorite flavor. It’s the one drink I can order him at a coffee shop when we’re traveling to convince him to stop. My parents have a tradition when the boys stay at their place to make the boys hot cocoa every morning while they drink their coffee. …