Red Velvet Cake

I love Red Velvet Cake with a rich cream cheese frosting. I especially like it piped with extra swirls and roses around the bottom and top. Even better is to ...

Company Cheesecake

Cheesecake is one of our favorite desserts. I have several that I like a lot. I especially love eating rich chocolatey cheesecakes when we go out to eat. But when ...

Carrot Cake

I love Carrot Cake! Even more, I love cream cheese frosting! Whether it’s on Red Velvet Cake, Italian Creme Cake,  or Zucchini Cake, cream cheese frosting makes the taste of ...

Scrumptious Cakes and Cheesecakes

Red Velvet Cake Roll

Don’t you just love Paula Deen recipes? Her stuff is amazing, and ...

Red Velvet Cheesecake

What a heavenly cheesecake! It’s rich, decadent, and oh, so chocolaty. This ...

Caramel Apple Cake with Apple Cider Frosting

It’s time to crank out those delicious fall recipes! And since now ...

Philadelphia Cheesecake

About 30 years ago John brought a piece of this delicious cheesecake ...

Carolina Skillet Cake

This is a delicious cinnamon streusel-flavored coffee cake with powdered sugar icing ...

Tips for Baking Cakes

I thought it would be helpful to put out some tips for ...

Apple Cake

Every time I make this fabulous recipe I get rave reviews. It’s ...

Blueberry Coffeecake

This is the most spectacular blueberry coffeecake recipe you will ever find. ...

Chocolate Buttermallow Cake

This gooey, chocolatey, marshmallow cake is to die for! Chocolate cake, butterscotch ...

Strawberry Shortcake

This is a mouthwatering dessert!  If you enjoy strawberries this is a ...

Italian Cream Cake

What an amazing combination of pecans, coconut and cream cheese! This cake ...

Hot Fudge Pudding Cake

For all you chocoholics out there, this recipe is for you!  Hot ...

Cherry Dump Cake Cobbler

Dump Cakes are fabulous-tasting desserts that take about 5 minutes to prepare, ...

Banana Split Dessert

This recipe is so yummy and delicious! What’s not to like about ...

Pumpkin Dessert

Pumpkin Delight! Pumpkin Dessert! Oh, my! This is a fabulous dessert and ...

Eclair Dessert

What an easy and fabulous dessert! It only takes a few minutes ...

Strawberry Twinkie Dessert

Fabulous 3-ingredient dessert that your family and friends will rave about! It’s ...

Sopapilla Cheesecake

Now this recipe is all over the web! The recipe is actually ...

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Oreo Chocolate Chip Cookies

I saw these fabulous looking cookies a week or two ago and knew immediately I needed to make them! Chocolate Chip Cookies with chunks of Oreo cookies in them! Do I hear an Amen! These cookies are fantastic and not much more work than making regular chocolate chip cookies. I followed the recipe pretty closely. [...]

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Fried Sweet Potatoes

2013 – Gluten Free Living I love this simple, appetizing dish! This is a yummy breakfast idea for sweet potatoes. It’s so quick and easy and very tasty, not to mention filling. I make Fried Sweet Potatoes up for any meal of the day or as a side dish because I never get tired of eating [...]

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Baked Ravioli

Baked Ravioli has the convenience of store bought ravioli pasta with the delicious homemade taste of it’s own marinara sauce and then covered with cheese to make it a very satisfying main dish meal. I used beef ravioli because I couldn’t find cheese ravioli without some raviolis being round, others crinkle cut, and still others [...]

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Guacamole Hummus

2013 – Gluten Free Living Do you like guacamole? Do you like hummus? Well I love both and the combination of guacamole and hummus is unbelievable! Lots of avocados with juicy tomatoes, cilantro, and diced green chilies are added to hummus ingredients which provide an incredible array of flavors that are heavenly. For those of [...]

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Tex-Mex Black Bean Dip

2013 – Gluten Free Living This marvelous Tex-Mex Black Bean Dip is the BEST you will ever taste! It’s filled with the Tex-Mex ingredients and spices popular in most Tex-Mex recipes: black beans, diced chilies, diced tomatoes, salsa, cumin, chili powder, and a Mexican cheese blend. It’s also served hot! Serving this dip hot makes [...]

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Luscious S’Mores Bars

These Luscious S’Mores Bars are S-P-E-C-T-A-C-U-L-A-R! They have a delicious graham cracker crust and topping, and inside they are filled with Hershey’s chocolate bars and marshmallow creme. Talk about heavenly. These Luscious S’Mores Bars have it all–texture, taste–they are a comfort food extraordinaire! Last summer I saw a picture of this delicious looking dessert and [...]

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La Madeleine’s Tomato-Basil Soup

2013 – Gluten Free Living Tomato-Basil Soup is one of my favorite soups since tomatoes are my favorite veggie. I love the creamy taste due to using real whipping cream, plus I enjoy the taste of fresh basil in anything. La Madeleine’s Tomato-Basil Soup recipe is SO easy, too. It only requires a handful of [...]

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Cracked Wheat Bread

This is another one of my fabulous Black and Decker Breadmaker recipes. I had to look all over creation to find cracked wheat though! I wasn’t looking in the right places. Sprouts and other wholefoods markets sell it on the aisle with hot cereals by Bob’s Red Mill. For this loaf of wheat bread I [...]

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Garlic and Herb Fries

2013 – Gluten Free Living These tasty potatoes are wonderful! I’m always on the lookout for fresh new ways to make potatoes so I don’t have to eat them the same way every time and when I saw the amazing pictures at Recipes For Our Daily Bread I knew I would have to try them. Then [...]

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Herbed Corn

2013 – Gluten Free Living I love corn on the cob. I remember as a kid going through my cousin’s corn fields in southeastern Ohio and picking it straight off the cob and eating it out in the fields. There was nothing quite like their sweet corn. Wow, it was delicious. Corn is still one [...]

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White Chocolate Cranberry Macadamia Blondies

I love finding great recipes off the back of boxes and especially chocolate chip packages! This fabulous recipe comes from the back of a package of Kroger’s Private Selection White Chocolate Drops. This decadent blondie is chocolate flavored since half of the white chocolate chips are melted and added to the batter. Then the blondie [...]

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Creamy Sweet Potato and Lentil Stew

2013 – Gluten Free Living I was really craving a wholesome dish made from sweet potatoes and lentils last week when I came across this recipe. Initially I was planning on following the recipe to a T. That is, until I looked at my can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce and found out it [...]

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Asparagus Mushroom Soup

2013 – Gluten Free Living Last weekend we found large bundles of asparagus on sale for $1.49 each at Sprouts, so I picked up a couple of them determined to find a way to make a creamy asparagus soup without making a sauce from milk, cream, cheese, yogurt or anything dairy. I succeeded beyond my [...]

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Spicy Guacamole

2013 – Gluten Free Living Are you ready for another guacamole recipe??? Oh, I do love guacamole. I think I fell in love with it the first time I ate it (which was while sampling this recipe below). I never liked the idea of avocados before that, and I don’t think I’d ever eaten avocados [...]

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Apricot Gelatin Salad

2013 – Gluten Free Living This luscious Apricot Gelatin Salad has been one of our favorites over the years. It’s made with apricot Jello, marshmallows, bananas, crushed pineapple, and has a marvelous cream cheese topping on top. Wow! Talk about wonderful. It’s a great salad to take along to potlucks or have when you’re having [...]

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Down Home Potato Salad

2013 – Gluten Free Living This scrumptious and tasty potato salad recipe is the very first recipe I ever tried or collected for potato salad. My mom never made potato salad that I recall. I remember eating it at family reunions when I was a kid and hating it! But back in the 1970s Betty [...]

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Mexican Taco Salad

2013 – Gluten Free Living This is a wonderful Mexican Taco Salad recipe where the beans are cooked with the meat mixture before tossing with the salad. It is quite tasty. I’ve made a few substitutions from the original recipe, such as sharp cheddar cheese instead of Velveeta, and pinto beans instead of kidney beans [...]

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Easy French Dressing

Easy French Dressing is just that, EASY! I mean really easy. You just add ingredients to a blender and emulsify a little and that’s it. For these pictures I just stirred the ingredients together but the recipe works a little better if you blend it before serving. This dressing has the rich flavors of many [...]

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Chunky Homemade Guacamole

2013 – Gluten Free Living I love Guacamole! If I’m eating quesadillas, fajitas, nachos, tacos, or any Tex-Mex casserole I want to eat it with Guacamole! I so enjoy eating avocados that I could probably eat one every day! Just plain. But, add my favorite vegetable, tomatoes, and the combination of the two just increases [...]

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Zucchini Parmesan Crisps

I saw a picture of this great looking recipe on FaceBook the other day and decided I needed to give it a try. Boy, am I glad I did. It’s so quick and easy, yet delicious. Zucchini is tossed with olive oil then dredged in a mixture of Panko Italian breadcrumbs and REAL Parmesan cheese [...]

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Quick Sourdough Bread

This quick and easy sourdough bread is made in the breadmaker, so you can have that great sourdough taste but without having to knead or wait for hours for the bread to raise before baking.  It has a wonderful sourdough-type flavor since it’s made with Greek yogurt and lemon juice. The texture is light and [...]

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Scalloped Corn

Ah, yes, ANOTHER one of my many corn casserole recipes! This one is so quick and easy to make since it only has a handful of ingredients. It also has a very nice taste since it blends the sweet flavors of creamed corn and the savory flavors from Italian bread crumbs and a little onion. [...]

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Cucumbers in Sour Cream

2013 – Gluten Free Living Cucumbers in Sour Cream is a really easy and tasty side salad that’s great to offer in the summer time when you have an abundance of cucumbers from your garden or your CSA. It’s a light, cool, refreshing way to eat cucumbers and so simple to make even a child [...]

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Buttermilk Wheat Bread

This is another wonderful bread recipe from my Black and Decker Bread Maker recipe book that I received when I purchased the bread maker. It’s a delicious and satisfying bread recipe that’s super easy to make since you use the bread maker. Spread a little butter on it and enjoy it with a tall glass [...]

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Ham and Lima Bean Soup

2013 – Gluten Free Living Ham and Lima Bean Soup is a wonderfully satisfying crockpot soup recipe with lots of shredded ham, soaked lima beans that nearly double their size, crinkle-cut carrots, garlic, onions, fennel, leeks and celery along with some wonderful seasonings. While I boiled the ham off on top of the stove, I cooked [...]

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Squash, Fennel and Potato Bake

When I saw this appetizing dish online last summer I knew immediately it would be one our family would love, but I wasn’t sure about the fennel. Chop up a fennel bulb and add it to the ingredients? Really? Well I made this tasty dish last week and it was fantastic. When you cut the [...]

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Grilled Salmon with Homemade Tartar Sauce

2013 – Gluten Free Living I’m not a big fish lover. Salmon is one of the few fish I eat and I’ll only eat it if my husband John grills it! He makes the best Grilled Salmon. He uses either lemon pepper, Old Bay Seasoning, or a Penzey’s seafood seasoning on the fish. He sprays [...]

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Gluten Free Cinnamon Roll Bread

2013 – Gluten Free Living Do you love the taste of cinnamon rolls with all the delicious icing oozing over the top and sides and a sprinkle of cinnamon in the pinwheel shape? What about a bread that tastes like cinnamon rolls? Now, how about a Gluten Free Cinnamon Roll Bread? Oh, yes! This delicious [...]

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Creamy Avocado Pasta with Roasted Vegetables

2013 – Gluten Free Living This amazing Meatless Monday recipe has pasta, a creamy avocado-garlic-lemon sauce, lots of roasted vegetables and then it’s sprinkled with pine nuts and Parmesan cheese. Oh, my! It’s a delectable, succulent, and vegetarian feast! You can easily make this vegan by leaving off the Parmesan cheese. I can’t get enough [...]

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Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Almond Bread

2013 – Gluten Free Living This delicious gluten free bread is filled with chocolate chips, sliced almonds, and bananas, and is quite tasty. It’s pretty easy to whip up too. I’m not going to kid you, purchasing gluten free flours are not cheap. You have to pay a LOT more, but if you’re gluten intolerant [...]

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