Curried couscous salad is fragrant, sweet and spicy with loads of crunchy fresh veggies, nuts, dried fruit and topped with a zippy curry dressing. This salad is delightfully different, keeps well in the fridge and is so easy to make.  What is couscous? A lot of people think couscous is a grain because it looks so similar to rice or quinoa, but it’s not. Couscous is actually a kind of pasta made from semolina and wheat flour. You can buy…

Lemon Rosemary Cookies, simple fresh flavors of lemons and rosemary meld together in these buttery shortbread cookies to make an unassuming cookie with a dynamic flavor combination. I’ve got a ridiculous confession to make. I love the scent of these lemon rosemary cookies so much that I’ve spent weeks looking for a lemon rosemary candle, just so that I can smell them all the time. I’ve even been dreaming about them, but that might have more to do with the…

Fresh cherries are baked into these cherry revel bars for a decadent and dark fudgy cherry chocolate cookie bar that makes a batch big enough for a crowd!  Fresh cherries are a weakness of mine. My grandmother used to have several cherry trees and I can remember eating them right off the tree. I love to bake with fresh cherries, but they are expensive! I like finding ways to enjoy fresh cherries that don’t call for a ton. These cherry…

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…