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Whether you call these authentic Italian cookies Neapolitan Cookies, Tricolor Cookies or Rainbow Cookies, they are so delicious and are a gorgeous addition to any cookie platter! These are perfect for Christmas or any other holidays and special occasions. The almond paste and chocolate add such fantastic flavors along with the fruitiness of the raspberry and apricot preserves.

Italian Rainbow Cookies

My family makes this Easy Chocolate Cream Pie over and over again. Made with chocolate pudding, pie crust and fresh whipped cream, it's effortless to put together and we always fight for seconds!

Easy Chocolate Cream Pie

If you're looking for a hearty, delicious soup to warm you up on the coldest nights, this Bean and Sausage Soup is a total winner! Made with 3 different types of beans, Italian sausage and fresh escarole in a tomato broth, this is a seriously easy dinner the whole family will love!

Bean and Sausage Soup

This easy Turkey Tetrazzini is a classic family recipe! This is the best way to use leftover Turkey (or chicken!) from Thanksgiving. It's creamy but still light and delicious to eat- it's the ultimate comfort food!

Turkey Tetrazzini

2 Ingredient Applesauce

2 Ingredient Applesauce

Grandma's Baked Artichoke Hearts is one of my favorite holiday side dishes. This is such an easy recipe and can even be made ahead of time. This is made with Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs and garlic powder and is a delicious addition to your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner! 

Grandma’s Baked Artichoke Hearts

This Baked Chicken Cordon Bleu is easy to make and so delicious. Made with chicken, corn flakes, ham and Swiss cheese, it's a weeknight meal that will wow your family!

Baked Chicken Cordon Bleu

This Mexican Bean Salad Recipe is a quick and easy throw-together salad that's full of great flavor! Made with beans, celery, cilantro, tomatoes, onions, peppers, lime and slices, this is a delicious side dish the whole family will love!

Mexican Bean Salad Recipe

Try this Beet Salad Recipe with Feta and Dill: it's an easy side dish recipe and is a great alternative to the usual dinner sides. Served cold with citrus and olive oil as a dressing it is a healthy and fresh option for any season!

Beet Salad Recipe with Feta and Dill

These Chicken Cutlets are SO good, you'll never need another Chicken Cutlet recipe (isn't that always the case with recipes from Grandma?!)! Made with chicken breast, seasoned bread crumbs, cheese and a secret ingredients that sounds unconventional but makes these SO good! This is such an easy weeknight dinner recipe!

Chicken Cutlets

Drunken Stove Top Pork Chops is one of the easiest dinner recipes for busy families. This is low-maintenance cooking at it's finest and seriously delicious with fall-apart-tender thin-cut pork chops. Even your kids will love it (don't worry, the alcohol cooks off)!

Drunken Stove Top Pork Chops

Greens and Beans is a classic Italian recipe that's as delicious and healthy as it is comforting. Made with escarole, cannellini beans, chicken broth, garlic, crushed red pepper flakes and Romano cheese, you'll want to make this easy regional specialty again and again!

Greens and Beans

Hamburger Goulash Recipe

Hamburger Goulash Recipe

Marinated Vegetable Salad is a seriously delicious make-ahead salad option that will have everyone coming back for more! Made with cauliflower, carrots, celery, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers and a seriously easy marinade.

Marinated Vegetable Salad

What to do with that bumper crop of zucchini? Zucchini Pancakes! Made with Bisquick, Romano cheese, shredded zucchini, butter, garlic powder and onion, they are a super easy savory breakfast and are also a great make-ahead appetizer for a party!

Zucchini Pancakes

This Kahlua Toffee Chocolate Trifle Recipe is the ultimate make-ahead dessert. Made with chocolate cake, Coffee Liquor, vanilla pudding, whipped topping and toffee bars, it's so addictive that your family will be fighting for seconds!

Kahlua Toffee Chocolate Trifle Recipe

Rosie's Award Winning Cherry Cheese Pie is a favorite family recipe- it is insanely easy and heavy cream, cream cheese, vanilla, confectioner's sugar and cherries make up the minimal ingredients. It looks gorgeous on any dessert tables, especially for the holidays and could not be more delicious! Get in the kitchen and make this now!

Rosie’s Award Winning Cherry Cheesecake Pie

Black Cherry Lemonade Bourbon Slush is the most easy and delicious boozy recipe to bring to a party. It takes minutes to put together and then you freeze it overnight. Made with Lemonade and Red Stag Black Cherry Bourbon Whiskey, everyone goes crazy over this!

Black Cherry Lemonade Bourbon Slush

This Garlic Shrimp with Lemon, Butter and Dill will knock your socks off. It's full of insanely delicious flavor and extremely quick and easy to make with shrimp, butter, olive oil, dill, lemon, garlic and shallots!

Garlic Shrimp with Lemon, Butter and Dill

Meet Drunken Steak aka The Best Steak Marinade: your new favorite steak marinade for a hot summer night! Made with red wine, fresh herbs olive oil and dijon mustard It's seriously easy to make and tastes fantastic!

Drunken Steak aka The Best Steak Marinade

This classic Tuna Macaroni Salad recipe is the best cold salad to make for your next spring or summer picnic. It's such an easy side dish to throw together with simple ingredients like tuna, pasta, celery and mayonnaise and is full of fresh and delicious flavor!

Tuna Macaroni Salad

This Crunchy Red Cabbage Salad is downright addictive and so easy to make, it'll become your go-to summer salad for sure! Made with purple cabbage, red onion, oil, vinegar, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper, it's super quick and tastes fantastic!

Crunchy Red Cabbage Salad

My kids do not stop begging for these Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Muffins! They're so quick and easy to make and the perfect way to use ripe bananas! I love how they're perfectly moist with mini chocolate chips sprinkled throughout- this recipe is a keeper!

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Muffins

Grandma's Non-Smoky Homemade BBQ Sauce is the crazy easy grilling marinade that you won't be able to stop eating this summer. This is a total crowd-pleaser!

Grandma’s Non-Smoky Homemade BBQ Sauce and Grilled Chicken

Garlic Green Beans are a family favorite side dish recipe. They're super easy to make with a few simple ingredients like fresh green beans, garlic, butter and fresh parsley and are pretty quick to! Easy enough for weeknight dinner but special enough to serve for holiday dinners as well!

Easy Garlic Green Beans

Herb Grilled Pork Chops are my absolute favorite way to enjoy grilled pork chops. Super quick and easy to make and mouthwateringly delicious (especially when dipped in applesauce!).

Herb Grilled Pork Chops Recipe

Need a really quick and comforting dinner to feed the whole family? Make this Pasta with Peas, it's seriously easy and totally satisfying! All you need are pasta, peas, onions, broth and pancetta!

Pasta with Peas Recipe

Very Best Shrimp Macaroni Salad Recipe

Very Best Shrimp Macaroni Salad Recipe

Wanna know my favorite way to get kids to love broccoli? Cheese Sauce for Broccoli! It's creamy, delicious and so easy to make. Your family will be fighting for seconds!

Cheese Sauce for Broccoli Recipe

Mom's Homemade Scalloped Potatoes are the perfect creamy side dish for a family dinner. With thinly sliced potatoes and onions, salt, pepper and milk with the option to add Romano cheese, these will bring everyone back for seconds!

Mom’s Homemade Scalloped Potatoes Recipe

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Grandma’s Baked Eggplant Parmesan Recipe

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Grandma’s Best Banana Cake Recipe

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Savory Sauteed Green Beans with Mushrooms, Shallots and Pancetta

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Spicy Dandelion Greens with Garlic and Capicola

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Classic Hamburger Stew Recipe

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Cheesy Broccoli Rice Casserole Recipe

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Easiest Ever Hot Artichoke Dip

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Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Turtles Recipe

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Parmesan Garlic Roasted Potatoes Recipe

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Sandwich Steak and Onions Recipe

Homemade Cranberry Sauce with Dried Cherries and Shallots Recipe

Homemade Cranberry Sauce with Dried Cherries and Shallots Recipe

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Cabbage and Beans

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

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Tuna Casserole aka Tuna Wiggle

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Grandma Eve’s Classic Swedish Meatballs

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Aunt Jeanne’s Cabbage Soup

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Easy Pizza Sauce

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Vicky’s Easiest Ever Tabouli

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Classic Porcupine Meatballs

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Poppy Seed Cake

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Crunchy Ramen Coleslaw

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German Potato Salad

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Broccoli Rabe and Ricotta Crostini

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Sauteed Broccoli Rabe with Garlic and Crushed Red Pepper

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Spicy Meat Hot Sauce

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Green Bean Salad

Peas with Onions is the most easy side dish! With a few simple ingredients, this recipe is a snap to throw together on a busy week night but delicious enough to serve at a gathering or with a holiday dinner.

Peas with Onions

Here's an easy tutorial for how to make Basic Deviled Eggs. This recipe is the best simple method to make this classic, delicious appetizer. These are a great way to use up extra Easter eggs and are perfect to bring to a picnic or get-together!

Basic Deviled Eggs

Grandma's Easy Chicken Cacciatore recipe is authentic and delicious! This classic dish is simple to make with accessible ingredients like tomato sauce, peppers, garlic and chicken. It's also pretty healthy and goes great with pasta or a big hunk of crusty Italian bread! #ad

Grandma’s Easy Chicken Cacciatore

This is part two of the only Meat Sauce recipe you’ll ever need. It’s an extremely detailed (but still simple and easy) recipe for my Grandma’s homemade, Italian Sunday Sauce and this seriously is the very best sauce you’ll ever taste. This second part is all about adding the meatballs and fall-apart-tender pork for your sauce as well as the secret ingredient and putting it all together!

The Only Meat Sauce Recipe You’ll Ever Need, Part 2: Sunday Sauce

This is part one of the only Meat Sauce recipe you’ll ever need. It’s an extremely detailed (but still simple and easy) recipe for my Grandma’s homemade, Italian meat sauce and this seriously is the very best Sunday sauce you’ll ever taste. This first part is all about making authentic meatballs and fall-apart-tender pork for your sauce as well as the secret ingredient that makes this sauce so delicious!

The Only Meat Sauce Recipe You’ll Ever Need, Part 1: Authentic Meatballs and Fall-Apart-Tender Pork

This Date Night Fish for Two with a Lemon Sherry Pan Sauce is such an easy date night recipe option! It works great with any white fish and is the best way to use a few simple ingredients to create a healthy and delicious treat for dinner with the person you love. This is perfect for Valentine's Day!

Date Night Fish for Two with a Lemon Sherry Pan Sauce

Sauteed Kale with Mushrooms and Tomatoes is the best healthy side dish. This also makes a great vegetarian main dish. I love to cook a big batch to eat with lunch or dinner- it's full of delicious flavor!

Sauteed Kale with Mushrooms and Tomatoes

This (Sort of) Detox Lentil Soup is a very easy recipe. It's healthy while still maintaining great taste and full of delicious lentils, protein and savory ham hocks for a smoky flavor!

(Sort of) Detox Lentil Soup

This Sour Cream Coffee Cake is such an easy cake to make from scratch. This is a family recipe that has been passed down for years and is moist and delicious but also simple to put together. This is the best excuse to eat cake for breakfast and is a great holiday dessert as well (Christmas morning, anyone?!).

Sour Cream Coffee Cake

These homemade German Cream Cheese Brownies are a delicious addition to any holiday cookie platter. This recipe is made from scratch but SO easy! Rich chocolate brownies swirled with sweet cream cheese helps make this a decadent treat your family will love!

German Cream Cheese Brownies

This Peas and Shrimp Salad recipe is a super easy side dish that's perfect for any holiday get together! It's served cold because it's creamy with sweet green peas (I totally used frozen!), shrimp, and cashews and water chestnuts which make it crunchy. Make this if you need a tasty and light Thanksgiving side dish!

Peas and Shrimp Salad

Roast Turkey Thighs for Two is one of my favorite turkey meat recipes. This easy and healthy turkey dish is a great option for tender roasted turkey with crispy skin and minimal dishes for you to wash! This includes simple directions for how to cook this dish- it makes a great alternative for Thanksgiving if you don't want to cook a whole turkey and is also great for other holiday dinners or simple weeknight dinners!

Roast Turkey Thighs for Two

This easy Spanish Rice recipe has been a mainstay in my family for as long as I can remember. It's a really quick recipe which makes it perfect to make on a weeknight and is great for back-to-school. Delicious tomato sauce combines so well with ground beef and rice- the whole family will love this homemade, healthy meal!

Spanish Rice

This 30 Minute Stuffed Peppers Rice Skillet recipe is the perfect dinner for a busy weeknight. This easy dinner comes together in just 30 minutes and you can use Turkey Sausage to make it a healthy option. It's cheesy, delicious and full of flavor- perfect for busy nights when the kids are back-to-school! Click on the photo to get the recipe!

Thirty Minute Stuffed Peppers Rice Skillet

This family recipe for banana bread is so quick and easy to put together and the results are the most delicious, moist banana bread you'll find anywhere! Click on the photo to get the recipe.

Banana Bread

This Tomato Salad is one of my favorite Italian recipes! It's super simple and easy to make. The minimal ingredients to highlight the star of the show: the tomatoes which are basically marinated and specifically their juice. I love this with fresh Italian bread for dipping. Click on the photo to get the recipe!

Tomato Salad

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Blueberry Buckle

This Sour Cream Cookies recipe is one of my favorites! It's not overly sweet and has a delicious cake-like texture. I love baking these, not only at Christmas and the holidays but all year around. Make these treats for your family and friends right away- they will definitely become one of your favorite desserts!

Sour Cream Cookies

This authentic, homemade Marinara Sauce is the best recipe. It's really easy to make and you can use fresh tomatoes or canned (to keep things simple!).

Marinara Sauce

This is my mom's meatloaf recipe- it is seriously the best meatloaf I've ever had- it's super simple and really easy to make. It's the ultimate of comfort foods and one of my favorite dinners!

Mom’s Meatloaf

These Sauteed Mushrooms in a Wine Reduction are super quick and easy to make. They use minimal ingredients but the end result is the most savory, delicious flavor!

Sauteed Mushrooms in a Wine Reduction

This Clams Casino is such a simple recipe to put together- it's actually best made in advance and frozen and it is SO delicious! A great appetizer for a crowd!

Uncle Richard’s Clams Casino

Roasting Chestnuts is not as hard as it seems- it's actually pretty simple. THis tutorial has some simple directions for how to roast Chestnuts!

How to Roast Chestnuts

These Chocolate Peppermint Crinkles are an easy way to add a fun spin to a traditional recipe. These cookies are chewy and fudgy but they also have a delicious mint flavor. They are the best Christmas cookie for kids to make and eat!

Chocolate Crinkles

Hot Pepper Oil is such an easy condiment to make, and boy does it pack some punch! If you like spicy foods you have to make this!!

Hot Pepper Oil

This Apple Pie filling is so simple and delicious- I keep going back to it whenever I need an easy fruit filling for a pie! Click on the photo to read more...

Apple Pie Filling

This Minestrone Soup is a quick and easy recipe. You can take it in whatever direction you want and change up the vegetables to make it your own. Click on the photo to read more...

Minestrone Soup

This peach cobbler is everything that summer is about- It's quick and easy to make, the peaches are bursting with flavor and the dough is light as a feather! Click on the photo to read more...

Peach Cobbler

This Peppers and Eggs recipe is such a simple, delicious dinner or lunch. It combines a few basic ingredients and is very cost-efficient. I like to serve it hot or cold over fresh Italian bread. Click on the photo to learn more...

Peppers and Eggs

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