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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…

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…

Creamy, cheesy, and a little bit spicy, this Cajun Sausage Alfredo covers all the bases.   Cajun Sausage Alfredo is a cheap weeknight dinner. It’s quick and easy to make. It only takes about 15 minutes, doesn’t take a ton of fancy ingredients, and it tastes amazing!   Finding that combination of cheap, easy, and delicious is hard to do. But this easy pasta dish hits all 3 criteria and that’s why it’s is in the regular rotation at my…

Calico beans. Cowboy beans. Baked beans with beef and bacon. These deliciously easy beans go by many names, but they’re all basically the same thing, a variety of colorful beans slow simmered in a sweet and tangy sauce with ground beef and bacon.   As a food blogger, a lot of people ask me questions about food in real life. Things like, what side dishes go well with this main dish? What’s something good to make for a crowd? What’s…

Italian sloppy joes make a hearty, quick, and easy weeknight dinner. Ground beef, italian sausage, and veggies are combined with pizza sauce and topped with provolone cheese for an easy twist on the classic sloppy joe sandwich. Even though it’s freezing outside still, Spring sports practices are starting up. For many of us, that means that life is going from crazy busy to warp speed as we hustle from one activity to another. I don’t know about you, but I…

This cheesy and comforting crockpot chicken spaghetti will become your favorite “I just don’t feel like cooking tonight” dinner! Dump your chicken breasts, cream of chicken soup, Velveeta, broth, and Rotel in a crockpot to cook. Shred the chicken. Add hot cooked spaghetti for an easy weeknight dinner you’ll come back to again and again. Sprinkle some chopped cilantro over the top to feel fancy or sliced jalapenos if you like it spicy! There you have it, this crockpot chicken…

Classic creamy turkey and noodles are comfort food at it’s best, but take less than 30 minutes to cook in the instant pot. I love the look on people’s faces when they ask me about what I made for Thanksgiving. Even though I have this website and I obviously love to bake and cook, I don’t get asked to make much for this particular holiday! The grandmas rule supreme.  I have 2 signature dishes that I make for Thanksgiving dinner:…

Cheese Tater Tot casserole is an easy make ahead weeknight meal. A hearty beef and bean chili base is topped with gooey melted cheddar cheese and finished with crispy tater tots.  You wanna know what’s funny? Not ha-ha funny, but this doesn’t make any sense funny.  We get a quarter of a cow every year, enough beef to last our family of 6 an entire year, but yet I don’t really have any beef recipes on AHB. That doesn’t even…

My Cuban ham salad has the flavors of a Cuban sandwich, ham, mayo, spicy brown deli mustard, dill pickles, and swiss cheese. It’s a simple combo, but it goes together so great. It constantly surprises me the foods my kids fall in love with, like ham salad sandwiches. This Cuban ham salad was one of those, oh geez I need dinner on the table in 10 minutes what can I throw together real quick kind of things. They absolutely loved…