from the kitchen

Appetizers

Photo of creamy spinach dip served in a clear baking dish on a wood board with pita chips in the background. This dip is served warm and is golden brown around the edges and topped with gooey cheese and green spinach throughout. Here there is a closeup of a hand dipping a pita chip into the dip just out of the oven.

Creamy Spinach Dip

Photo of delicious guacamole dip served in a square white bowl. The dip is sprinkled with a little paprika and corn chip strips as garnish.

5-Minute Guacamole Dip

Feature photo and closeup of dipping a celery stick into warm gooey buffalo chicken dip served in a square 8" x 8" glass baking dish. In the background you can see a hint of red pepper and celery slices in the background.

Easy Buffalo Chicken Dip

Closeup photo of a long white plate with delicious Jalapeño Poppers in two rows. About ten shown. They are all golden brown bread crumb topped in jalapeño boats cut lengthwise. This is a two bite appetizer!

4-Ingredient Mild Baked Jalapeño Poppers

Closeup of dipping a tortilla chip into 4 ingredient chili dip.

4 Ingredient Cheesy Chili Dip

main dishes

Smothered Onion and Mushroom Pork Chops plated with colorful carrot and cabbage coleslaw on top.

Smothered Mushroom Onion Pork Ribs

3 Ingredient Salsa Chicken baked in an oval glass baking dish topped with a generous portion of salas and melted cheddar cheese.

3-Ingredient Salsa Chicken

Close-up of one skillet beef stroganoff without mushrooms, made with ground beef, egg noodles, red bell peppers, and a creamy sour cream sauce, garnished with fresh parsley.

One Skillet Beef Stroganoff – Without Mushrooms

A warm, hearty bowl of Turkey Black Bean Chili made with ground turkey, black beans, onions, stop light peppers and the perfect balance of seasonings, shown here topped with a sprinkle of cheddar cheese and a dollup of sour cream.

Turkey Black Bean Chili

Close up of a Slow Cooker BBQ Pulled Pork sandwich on a sandwich roll with added sauce.

Slow Cooker BBQ Pulled Pork

Square feature photo of two stuffed green bell peppers with a ground beef and rice filling, topped with a deliciously creamy tomato soup and sour cream sauce. Served on a white rectangular plate and topped with a sprig of fresh parsley.

Stuffed Peppers With Ground Beef and Rice

side dishes

Vibrant square feature photo of Cream Alfredo Zucchini Noodles on a white pasta dish with a colorful green design on a white napkin in the background. The noodles have been tossed lightly in a creamy alfredo sauce and garnished with a sprig of parsley.

Creamy Alfredo Zucchini Noodles

A vibrant photo of a white serving bowl with zesty pepperoni pasta salad. You can see green onion, fresh basil leaves, pepperoni, vibrant banana peppers, black and green olives and grape tomato halves all glistening in Italian seasonings and dressing. Bright and colorful with summer sparkly aqua glasses in the background.

Zesty Pepperoni Pasta Salad

Photo of two stuffed twice-baked potatoes with bacon hot from the oven on a white plate. In background is another plate with more and a wicker basket. The potatoes have cheddar cheese mixed into the potato with green onions. bacon bits and seasoning mixed in. All are heaped full in the potato skin boats. Slightly brown on top but soft and delicious on the inside.

Stuffed Twice-Baked Potatoes with Bacon

Square closeup photo of creamy classic potato salad in a serving dish sprinkled with parsley flakes on top.

Creamy Classic Potato Salad

Desserts

Square closeup photo of a stack of three chocolate chip cookie bars on white parchment paper with other cut and ready in the background.

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars

Square feature photo and closeup photo of a slice of moist chocolatey cake with a coconut center on a white dessert plate. In the background is a hint at the full Bundt cake missing slices so you can see that the coconut tunnel runs throughout the cake.

Chocolate Bundt Cake With Coconut Filling – Box Mix Recipe

Square feature photo of a scalloped edge white dish with about six squares of homemade microwave fudge with colorful sprinkles. There is a small plate with more fudge in the background and a wicker basket and small white napkin to the side.

3-Ingredient Microwave Fudge

Square feature photo of three finished chocolate whoopie pies with chocolate cookie layers on a cooling rack in the background.

Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Marshmallow Frosting

Homemade blueberry muffins - just out of the oven, golden brown topped on a wood board with blueberries scattered around.

Homemade Blueberry Muffins

Easy Mini Cheesecakes - this is a square feature image with cupcake liners of individual size cheesecakes topped with cherries in sauce and dotted with blueberries.

Easy Mini Cheesecakes With A Vanilla Wafer Crust

Square feature photo of a banana pineapple mango smoothy. The color is a light pinky peach. It's served in a clear glass with an orange slice on the side of the glass with a a colorful red and white straw sitting on a multicolor bamboo placement in a summery setting.

Banana Pineapple Mango Smoothie

Closeup of cookies in the background and three deliciously chewy coconut cookies with a drizzle of milk chocolate over the top in the foreground.

Chocolate-Drizzled Coconut Cookies

Death by chocolate feature image in trifle bowl

Death by Chocolate Trifle – A Layered Chocolate Mousse Dessert

Closeup of a jelly roll cake plated old fashioned jelly roll on a stoneware plate.

Old Fashioned Jelly Rolls

Easy Apple Crisp feature image

Easy Apple Crisp

Flaky buttery pie crust - shown is a closeup of a slice of apple pie with a focus on the golden brown, flaky crust.

Flaky Buttery Pie Crust From Scratch