This Christmas Stovetop Potpourri is sure to bring warm, loving memories to your holiday. What is your favorite holiday scent? I’m posting this early so that I could share this amazing Christmas Stovetop Potpourri with you. I want your house to smell as amazing as mine will on Christmas Day. Your entire family will love…
BBQ Cranberry Baked Chicken
This easy BBQ Cranberry Baked Chicken is the perfect blend of sweet and spicy, and can be made with just a few ingredients in your pantry. Now that we’re firmly settled into the new year, I’m excited to be sharing recipes that are easy, yet elegant. Good down home cooking from my family to yours!…
Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas – 2016
This Christmas Stove Top Potpourri will fill your home with an incredible cinnamon, clove and citrus scent that is inviting, warm and perfect for this Christmas holiday. It’s sure to bring warm, lasting and loving memories to your family. Merry almost Christmas everyone! I wanted to re-share this amazing Christmas Stove Top Potpourri with you. It will…
Apricot Kolaches Cookies
These Apricot Kolaches cookies are a sweet apricot puree wrapped in a bite-size buttery, rich, cream cheese pastry – a beautiful cookie with the perfect amount of sweet for the holidays. Today’s post is especially fun for me, because this recipe is the very definition of a collaborative cookie swap on so many levels. And, I’m…
Cranberry Mimosa Cocktail
This festive, bold, and bright Cranberry Mimosa Cocktail will lighten your party up! With its tart, sharp, crisp flavor, this celebratory drink will bring fun, great color and a pop of flavor to your holiday. Bring on the holidays! Every where I go, I hear the sleigh bells jingling, and there’s ring ting tingling too. The holidays…
Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake
This Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake will blow you away with it’s creamy, velvet-y, rich pumpkin and cheesecake flavor – this will quickly become your new go-to favorite pie! My top three favorite pies in all of earth are: pumpkin pie, marionberry pie and cheesecake (which yes, happens to qualify as pie in my book). 🙂…
Home Cook Holiday Gift Guide – 2016
In this Home Cook Holiday Gift Guide, I’m sharing 12 of my favorite gift ideas for the home cook. And, there’s a bonus gift surprise for the men in the kitchen! These lovely gifts will go nicely in my dishwasher which I learned more about at Dishwasher reviews for 2019. Now that we’ve survived the…
Grand Marnier Cranberry Sauce
This Grand Marnier Cranberry Sauce is a make-ahead dish that will bring a cheery and spiked surprise to your holiday table. Fresh or canned? If you follow food news at all, this remains a highly debatable topic when it comes to cranberry sauce and the holidays. But, once you’ve tasted this Grand Marnier Cranberry Sauce, the…
12 Creative Non-Traditional Thanksgiving Day Side Dishes
Celebrate this friends and family heart-felt holiday with these 12 Creative Non-Traditional Thanksgiving Day Side Dishes. Thanksgiving Day is all about showing gratitude and being thankful for the blessings in our life and celebrating with family and friends. This holiday season, I couldn’t think of a better way to commemorate this heart-felt holiday than to partner with fellow…
Top 5 Tips for Hosting a Stress-Free Thanksgiving Day
Have a more fun, engaging and entertaining holiday party by including friends and family in your planning, and by incorporating these Top 5 Tips for Hosting a Stress-Free Thanksgiving Day. With only one week to go until the Thanksgiving Day holiday, I can imagine that if you are planning to host guests at your home,…