Summer Dinner Ideas: Recipes for those summer nights where you come in late, and need something quick and easy to feed your family. Summer is my favorite season. The warm days where I can take my little boys outside to run wild, play in the creek and load up in the farm truck to come home when it gets dark.  But with two little boys, something I usually hear is, What's for dinner mom? Now, don't get me wrong... I love a good "take-out" option on summer nights.  But I'm trying so hard to push past that temptation most nights, so my kids...

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Easy Party Appetizers - A collection of slightly homemade appetizer recipes that are simple to whip up for guests or just for snacking! Easy Party Appetizers Before any of my parties, I find myself thinking Ok, now that I know what the theme is... what in the heck am I going to make? Most of the time, I LOVE to fix appetizers for a party, more than main dishes. It's easier for the guests to pick at all evening, and it leaves a ton of variety instead of trying to pick one or two main dishes, HOPING everyone likes it. I've found that a...

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Chocolate Caramel Gooey Butter Cookies: A spin on the original cookie with a touch of caramel drizzle makes these the best cookies ever. At least in our house. Chocolate Caramel Gooey Butter Cookies At first, I really didn't think it could get much better than the original gooey butter cookie. Then, we made the strawberry shortcake gooey butter cookies. I believe I ate 15 of those bad boys in about 3 minutes that day. I swore it was the best cookie I ever had. But now... although those are still amazingly delicious... I bring you the ultimate gooey butter cookie: Chocolate Caramel Gooey...

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Easy Potato Soup: This Quick Stovetop Recipe using instant potatoes can be made in under 10 minutes! I also added left over chicken too, but it's not mandatory! I hadn't gone grocery shopping in DAYS! Ok... WEEKS! Things were getting pretty slim in the house. I knew I had leftover chicken tenders in the refrigerator, and wanted to utilize them to make something different so I didn't hear: Chicken tenders AGAIN!? from my kids. Easy Potato Soup: Quick Stovetop Recipe Well we all know how I feel about slightly homemade recipes. (Recipes that are made at home, but utilize some store bought ingredients and shortcuts...

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Healthy Side Dishes — Recipes for those meals where you need something quick, easy, and with healthy ingredients. Why are side dishes so hard to come up with? And when you're trying to eat healthier, finding HEALTHY side dishes is even harder! Healthy Side Dishes After scouring our recipe archives, I pulled together the healthiest side dish recipes we have, to store them all in one place. Because let's face it. We need dinner meal plans that are quick, easy, and family approved. So rather than spending hours searching Pinterest or the blog, you can refer to this page to see 7...

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Stuffed Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast: An easy recipe that you can make at home, but tastes like it was made in a pleasant little breakfast joint on vacation! Stuffed Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast So today my recipe post is a bit different. I usually share photos of the entire cooking/baking process (which I'm sure some of you love, and some of you it annoys) in my recipes, but today I'm only sharing photos of the end result. Why? Because this is the stuffed strawberry cream cheese french toast that I made on Facebook LIVE the other morning, and I didn't...

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Apple Pie Nachos with Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Crisps — A recipe that you can whip up with a few store bought ingredients, with an option to make them even easier! Apple Pie Nachos I can't tell you the last time I devoured an entire platter of dessert, practically on my own. Well... until two days ago when my friend Kate came over, and we made apple pie nachos. I had texted her the night before and said: Hey, I'm headed to the store. Do you have any fun dessert ideas that we can whip up really quick for the Slightly Homemade Dinners...

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This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CreateWithOil #CollectiveBias Fried Cake Bites — At Home Carnival Food: A sweet treat that your taste buds will fall in love with, and it will BLOW your mind how easy they are! Fried Cake Bites Oh friends... I couldn't keep this from you any longer, and I may have stumbled upon a guilty pleasure that will engage your taste buds on so many levels. While at the grocery store the other day, walking past the "Oooops, I Baked Too Much" sign, I saw this incredibly delicious...

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Mini Cake Idea + Tutorial: For Birthdays, Favors & Place Settings. Making individual mini cakes is an adorable idea AND so easy for almost anyone to make! Easy Mini Cakes So I have this little donut pan, and it's the cutest little thing.  I use it for multiple recipes, just to add a different shape, for bite-size fun.  The other day while staring at a cake mix in my pantry, I thought it would be incredibly fun to make little cake donuts as a surprise for my kiddos. When the cake "donuts," finished baking, I stared at them for a minute. How...

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