Strawberry Cheesecake Muddy Buddies. Strawberry cheesecake flavored muddy buddies with real strawberries and bites of graham crackers. An easy no bake snack mix that everyone will love! First off, do you call it muddy buddies or puppy chow? Because I grew up calling it puppy chow but it seems like most of the internet does not. Is that just a Midwestern thing? I made an absolutely divine cheesecake the other day for a birthday party.  It was a malted milk…

Full of gooey mozzarella cheese, ground beef, Italian sausage, and pepperoni this no boil slow cooker meat lovers pizza pasta makes a great busy weeknight meal. Pizza, it’s the one thing my kids will always eat and never ever complain about. Especially my meat loving teenage sons. Slow cooker meat lovers pizza pasta is pretty much as easy as dumping stuff in the slow cooker and switching it on. Now that’s one thing you’ll never hear me complain about! Serve…

Tender and juicy classic oven roasted chicken couldn’t be more easy or economical! This is one quintessential recipe you’ll come back to time and time again. I remember being a newlywed, a novice cook, and being completely intimidated by the idea of cooking a whole chicken. Tucking wings? Trussing legs? Carving? It was just too far outside my comfort zone. It wasn’t until years later when I became more conscious of stretching our budget and stretching my time that I…

Light and fluffy banana pancakes have the taste of banana bread baked inside to make an easy breakfast treat your whole family will love. Oy, I’ve been stuck in flood central. In fact, my city has had the worst floods this year since 1993. My town is basically an island right now, with all the major highways to and from the city shut down. Luckily we haven’t had any flooding at my house, but it’s still caused issues that have…

Pork is slow simmered with apples, onions, and root beer until it’s fall-apart tender, then mixed with barbecue sauce in this slow cooker root beer pulled pork recipe. Top off your root beer pulled pork with a scoop of coleslaw and then you‘ve got a heck of a sandwich. My husband’s best friend likes to joke that a trip to visit us isn’t complete unless he’s had some kind meat cooked in soda pop or cola. And it’s true, I…

Malibu Muffins are full of pineapple, coconut, maraschino cherries, and a hint of rum flavor for a breakfast treat that packs the flavor of summer days sitting beach side. It might seem wrong to make breakfast with the flavors of a cocktail, but one bite of these Malibu muffins and I think you’ll change your mind. These fun muffins are loaded with pineapple, coconut, maraschino cherries, and hints of rum, just like a Malibu Sunset cocktail, hence the name Malibu…