Family Friendly Recipes
Stuffed Pepper Soup Stuffed Peppers are great for dinner. However, they need plenty of time to cook. I have cooked Stuffed Peppers in the oven or in a crock pot. You just need to adjust the time for the crockpot, but typically they are more […]
Pecan Tassies Pecan Tassies (also known as Pecan Nut Cups or Pecan Delights)…are wonderful little nut cups, made with a cream cheese pastry dough and filled with a suburb pecan/walnut filling. The perfect bite-size treat! I tried to find the origin of this […]
Stuffed Shells Classic Stuffed Shells…another great Italian comfort food meal that is sure to become a family favorite. This recipe is another one of my Grandmother’s recipe that have been passed down through the generations. This is an easy dish that we serve with our […]
Stuffed Pepper Soup Stuffed Peppers are great for dinner. However, they need plenty of time to cook. I have cooked Stuffed Peppers in the oven or in a crock pot. You just need to adjust the time for the crockpot, but typically they are more […]
Pecan Tassies Pecan Tassies (also known as Pecan Nut Cups or Pecan Delights)…are wonderful little nut cups, made with a cream cheese pastry dough and filled with a suburb pecan/walnut filling. The perfect bite-size treat! I tried to find the origin of this […]
Stuffed Shells Classic Stuffed Shells…another great Italian comfort food meal that is sure to become a family favorite. This recipe is another one of my Grandmother’s recipe that have been passed down through the generations. This is an easy dish that we serve with our […]
Spaghetti Sauce (Old World Style) As I sit here writing out this Spaghetti Sauce recipe, the memories of sitting in my Grandmother’s tiny kitchen watching my Grandmother and Aunts make the sauce for Sunday dinner or the holidays come rushing back. Like many Italian families, […]
Antipasto Platter Need a quick appetizer for New Year’s. An Antipasto Platter is the perfect choice. No cooking which makes this appetizer extremely easy. The hardest thing you will need to do is marinate the cheese balls. Antipasto means “before the meal” and is similar […]
Focaccia I used to make bread from scratch years ago. There is nothing better than smelling fresh bread baking in the oven. 2020 is only a few days away and I have decided to add some bread baking back into my repertoire. I typically buy […]
Caprese Salad After Christmas, I like to keep it light and a Caprese Salad is just the thing to make the evening special. A very simple dish to make with only a few ingredients, grape tomatoes, mozzarella balls, fresh basil and balsamic vinegar. No recipe […]
Gingerbread Cookies This posting is somewhat bittersweet for me, as Gingerbread Cookies are typically one of the last Christmas cookies that I make each year. Gingerbread Cookies are the quintessential Christmas cookie. I have been using this recipe since the 1970s. It has the perfect […]
Spritz Cookies Your cookie jar should be getting filled by now with all of these cookie recipes I have been sharing. Every cookie baker should have a classic Spritz Cookie recipe in their repertoire and here is mine. Spritzgebäck, oftened shortened to Spritz in the […]
Holiday Dinner One of my favorite memories is the time my son and I went to Williamsburg, VA for the Grand Illumination weekend in December. The Grand Illumination is the firing of the guns and lighting of fireworks. There were beautiful decorations, period costumes and […]
Stuffed Pepper Soup Stuffed Peppers are great for dinner. However, they need plenty of time to cook. I have cooked Stuffed Peppers in the oven or in a crock pot. You just need to adjust the time for the crockpot, but typically they are more […]
Pecan Tassies Pecan Tassies (also known as Pecan Nut Cups or Pecan Delights)…are wonderful little nut cups, made with a cream cheese pastry dough and filled with a suburb pecan/walnut filling. The perfect bite-size treat! I tried to find the origin of this […]
Spaghetti Sauce (Old World Style) As I sit here writing out this Spaghetti Sauce recipe, the memories of sitting in my Grandmother’s tiny kitchen watching my Grandmother and Aunts make the sauce for Sunday dinner or the holidays come rushing back. Like many Italian families, […]
Antipasto Platter Need a quick appetizer for New Year’s. An Antipasto Platter is the perfect choice. No cooking which makes this appetizer extremely easy. The hardest thing you will need to do is marinate the cheese balls. Antipasto means “before the meal” and is similar […]
Focaccia I used to make bread from scratch years ago. There is nothing better than smelling fresh bread baking in the oven. 2020 is only a few days away and I have decided to add some bread baking back into my repertoire. I typically buy […]
