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Nanou's Real-Deal Ratatouille Recipe

Nanou's Real-Deal Ratatouille Recipe

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Crescent Roll Veggie Pizza

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Crunchy Red Cabbage Salad

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Marinated Vegetable Salad

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Tuna Macaroni Salad

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Beet Salad Recipe with Feta and Dill

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Grandma's Easy Chicken Cacciatore

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Garlic Sautéed Asparagus Recipe

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Chicken Cutlets

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Cheese Sauce for Broccoli Recipe

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Crockpot Sausage and Peppers (also for Instant Pot)

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Beans and Greens

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Uncle Richard's Clams Casino

As a little throw back to one of my childhood recipes, I'm sharing how to make hot dogs and fried potatoes. This quick and easy dinner is a simple go-to, especially because it's kid friendly!

How to cook Hot Dogs and Potatoes

This homemade Fresh Strawberry Cake Recipe is the ultimate way to use all those fantastic strawberries that are currently in season. It's very easy to make from scratch and comes out delicious every single time with tons of delicious strawberries and a crumb topping that can't be beat!

Fresh Strawberry Cake Recipe

This Crab Macaroni Salad recipe is the perfect way to make a traditional macaroni salad extra special! A creamy, delicious mac salad with crunchy celery, onions and meaty chunks of crab meat (or imitation crab meat). You'll want to make this family favorite again and again!

Crab Macaroni Salad recipe

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Cream Cheese Strawberry Pie

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 Sauteed Green Beans

This Italian Pizzelle recipe is a classic Christmas cookie flavored with either vanilla or anise that we all know and love. They're super easy to make with a light and slightly crispy texture you won't be able to get enough of this holiday season!

Italian Pizzelle Recipe

Super Quick Cheese Danish

Super Quick Cheese Danish

Italian Stuffed Zucchini Boats are the healthy weeknight meal you'll want to make again and again. This is a seriously easy recipe that's full of delicious flavor without all the guilt!

Italian Stuffed Zucchini Boats

Make this Blueberry Dump Cake Recipe for a seriously easy dessert that is sure to wow your friends and family. Just dump the ingredients and bake- you don't even have to stir!

Blueberry Dump Cake Recipe

Cooked carrots don't have to be sugary sweet! Try these easy Garlic Butter Carrots. They're sautéed with a savory mix of butter and garlic and finished with fresh parsley for a simple side dish that's sure to please!

Garlic Butter Cooked Carrots

Wine Braised Chicken is the most mouthwatering, savory dinner you'll ever try! Slow simmered in red wine, this fall-apart-tender chicken is an easy dinner recipe the whole family will love.

Wine Braised Chicken (Drunken Chicken)

Turkey Meatloaf and Potatoes Dinner offers a lighter meat and potatoes option for a easy weeknight dinner. Just a little over 30 minutes and a few basic ingredients and you've got a weeknight dinner the whole family will love!

Turkey Meatloaf and Potatoes Dinner

Meet your new favorite cookie recipe! This Sour Cream Cookies recipe is a family favorite. With a delicious cake-like texture, you’ve got an addictive cookie that isn’t overly sweet.

Sour Cream Cookies

Scalloped Potatoes and Ham Casserole is an excellent way to use leftover holiday ham. Cheesy, creamy and super easy to make, it's a dinner the whole family will love!

Scalloped Potatoes and Ham Casserole

This is the Chicken Casserole to end all chicken casserole recipes! Creamy and delicious but also so easy to make- this is the perfect way to feed a crowd!

Fernie's Famous Chicken Casserole

My Great Grandma's Lemon Pound Cake Recipe is a serious keeper! Easy to make, subtly sweet with a light and moist crumb that no one can resist.

Great Grandma Hinz's Lemon Pound Cake Recipe

This cucumber tomato salad is perfectly versatile side for everything from casseroles to BBQ. Refreshing and delicious, this zesty (and slightly spicy) tomato salad is a bite of summer all year long.

Cucumber Tomato Salad

Pina Colada Dump Cake is the easiest dessert you’ll make. Made with crushed pineapple, cake mix, coconut and butter, just dump the ingredients into the pan and let the oven do the rest of the work!

Pina Colada Dump Cake

Transport yourself back to your childhood with warm, delicious banana bread, like my Grandma used to make. With just a few simple ingredients, this easy banana bread recipe will become a family staple!

Banana Bread

This zesty marinara sauce may be simple to make, but it is legendary in our family. With a secret ingredient the way from my Grandma, this sauce is perfect on pasta or anything else you have cookin’.

Marinara Sauce

This Pea Salad with Shrimp recipe is a super easy side dish that's perfect for any gathering! 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 Salad with Shrimp

This Un-Stuffed Bell Peppers Skillet is a delicious one pot meal and a great way to use leftover rice. It’s ready in 30 minutes and takes all the work out of traditional stuffed peppers which makes it an easy option for a weeknight dinner!

Un-Stuffed Bell Peppers Skillet

Pasta al Forno (or baked ziti as many call it) is a classic Italian dinner that is perfect for a cozy family gathering! This is also the perfect make-ahead dinner!

Pasta Al Forno (Baked Ziti)

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

Sautéed Kale with Mushrooms and Tomatoes is the best healthy side dish. It whips up super quickly and easily and tastes fantastic! This also makes a satisfying vegetable main dish.

Sautéed Kale with Mushrooms and Tomatoes

This Easy Meatloaf and Potatoes Dinner gives you meat and potatoes all in one delicious shot! And best of all, dinner's on the table in just around 30 minutes!

Easy Meatloaf and Potatoes Dinner

Sautéed Mushrooms in a wine reduction are an easy recipe that comes together really quickly. They’re a great way to use leftover wine!

Sauteed Mushrooms in a Wine Reduction

Not cooking for a crowd this Thanksgiving? No problem, I've got you! These Roast Turkey Thighs for Two are a mouthwatering, tender turkey dinner without the hassle of roasting a whole bird!

Roast Turkey Thighs for Two

Grandma's Shrimp Dip is a huge family favorite passed down through the generations- it's quick and easy to throw together and everyone always begs for the recipe! Perfect for the holidays!

Grandma's Shrimp Dip

This Chocolate Crinkle Cookies recipe is a holiday family favorite- they're deliciously chewy, chocolate cookies that are super easy to make and a definite crowd-pleaser! These cookies are perfect on a Christmas cookie platter and are the best addition to any special occasion dessert table.

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

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

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 Recipe

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

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Turkey Tetrazzini

homemade 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

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

Hamburger Goulash Recipe

Hamburger Goulash Recipe

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

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

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

Shrimp Macaroni Salad

Very Best Shrimp Macaroni Salad 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

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

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 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

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Blueberry Buckle

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

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

Grandma Hinz's Apple Pancakes | The Life Jolie

Grandma Hinz's Apple Pancakes

Zucchini Soup | The Life Jolie

Rosie's Famous Zucchini "Soup"

Grandma Rose's Pecan Tarts | The Life Jolie

Grandma Rose's Pecan Tarts