The New Healthy Chocolate No Bake Cookie Bars

If you are looking for a healthy, clean eating sweet treat, you are in luck.  Chocolate No Bake Cookie Bars are the bomb!    The New Healthy No Bake Cookie Bar This is an easy healthy version of the beloved Chocolate No Bake Cookie recipe Americans love so much but made with coconut oil. 

Chili Smothered Burritos {Using El Monterey frozen burritos}

Chili Smothered Burritos , frozen burritos coverd with sliced cheese and chili gravy then topped with shreaded cheese.  To make them a little spicy add jalapeno slices.   When my children were school age, Chili Smothered Burritos  were on our monthly menu rotation a couple of times.  

Strawberry Pie Filling Fruit Salad

Strawberry Pie Filling Fruit Salad is the easiest fruit salad you will ever make.  My husband adores this stuff.  Actually, he loves fruit period.  He eats this fruit salad for dessert more times than a salad.  

Creamy Skillet Lasagna

Skillet Lasagna , one skillet meal including all the ingredients of a traditional Lasagna.  But this is a shortcut version cooking the hamburger, sauce, and soft cheese along with the noodles all together.   One fabulous skillet meal! The recipe for Creamy Skillet Lasagna has been floating around Pinterest for a while now, and I thought I would give it a try using ingredients I had on hand and make it for my husband.  

Brown Butter Pumpkin Bread with Vanilla Bean Icing

Brown Butter Pumpkin Bread  will make your fall baking reach a new level.  The smell and depth of flavor are all about fall that means here comes a lot of baking.   Have you ever browned butter?  I have just recently been introduced to brown butter from a friend who is well-versed in it.  She came over for a lesson in pie crust making, and I got a lesson in how to make my first brown butter.

Three Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe

Did you know that September is National Biscuit Month?   A whole month to celebrate this fluffy tender quick bread that is rolled out and cut or dropped from a spoon.   Three Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuits are not so much an easy recipe, as much as they are just pure magic!  

Apple Recipe Round-Up

It's September and that means apple season!  Apples are by far a favorite around our house.  There are so many ways to use them, appetizers to salads, or main dishes to desserts! I have gathered up a list of some of our favorites.  Hope you enjoy going through these.  Go ahead and pin some of them when you hover over the picture with the pop up pinterest button.

Inspirational Thoughts #15

Picture courtesy of thebestyes.com The following is a great post from last week on Facebook from Lysa TerKeurst of Proverbs 31 Ministries , and I wanted to share it with you today!   If you are not  familiar with Proverbs 31 Ministries, I encourage you today to stop by their website, and you will be empowered to do great things for the Lord in whatever stage of life you are in! "My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh, but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world.” - Lysa TerKeurst Lysa is president of Proverbs 31 Mininistries and writes from her sticky farm table in North Carolina where she lives with her husband, Art, 5 kids, three dogs, and a mouse that refuses to leave her kitchen.  ha! ha!

Blackberry Crumb Bars and Labor Day Eats!

Blackberry Crumb Bars are the easiest bar recipe you can make.  They are made with few ingredients that you probably already have on hand. These would be great to make this Labor Day Weekend!  Enjoy!

Curry Chicken Salad {Another Favorite for a Baby Shower!}

Curry Chicken Salad is the perfect salad to serve at a baby shower, brunch, or an afternoon tea.  It is a popular salad for entertaining. My daughter adores this recipe. I am continuing the post from last week on my daughter's favorite food we served at her baby shower.  You may have seen the picture on  Facebook announcing the arrival of my newest grandson. I love being a Grandma! This salad is so versatile to serve.  It can be served cold on a bed of lettuce with crackers…wrapped in a flour tortilla…or serve it on croissants like we did at my daughter's baby shower.   You make the salad with a roasted chicken, water chestnuts, celery, slivered almonds, red grapes, and dressed in a delectable curry dressing that keeps you wanting to come back for another bite.   Curry Chicken Salad is the perfect make ahead salad for any entertaining.  I make it the night before so the flavors marry together, and the curry stands out  better.  Make plenty