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Easy Beef Tips in Mushroom Sauce

Easy Beef Tips in Mushroom Sauce are easy to prepare for company coming.  Let them hang out in the oven for four hours while preparing side dishes and desserts.   No Peak Beef Tips These incredibly easy beef tips can be made in a slow cooker/crockpot or in the oven.  All you need is stew meat cut into 3/4 inch cubes, cream of mushroom soup, onion soup mix, and the secret ingredient 7-up.  You can serve them with egg noodles, mashed potatoes, or butter rice. Some time back, a friend of mine shared this wonderful recipe for beef tips with me.  She said it comes from a cookbook called "Easy Does It Cookbook" by Carol Burns and Liz Miller.

Asparagus Spears with Sesame

I am so happy it is springtime because it means the arrival of asparagus season. Here is a Chinese recipe featuring asparagus, as a simple vegetable marinade or as an easy six ingredient salad, Asparagus Spears with Sesame. The asparagus is briefly boiled and submerged in ice water to cool completely and then topped with a flavorful dressing made with sesame oil, soy sauce, and sugar.  

Southwestern Mango Fruit Salad, {What Do You Think Makes This Salad Southwestern?}

Southwestern Fruit Salad came about from trying to come up with a fruit salad to go with a Southwestern Cornbread Salad that I was serving at r our church gathering.    I just started with the lusciousness of fresh mangoes and went from there. For the dressing, I mix two parts lime juice with one part agave and added a little cayenne pepper to give it a little kick.

Shortbread Crust

Shortbread Crust is made with your hands, not a rolling pin. Pat the dough around the pie plate into a crust. It tastes just like a shortbread cookie. Perfect for cream pies. EASY SHORTBREAD CRUST The shortbread crust is so easy to make and is a perfect place to start if you are new to or afraid of making pie dough. Are you intimidated when it comes to making a homemade pie crust, or are you just looking for an easy pie crust recipe? I am often told, "I made pie dough one time, and it turned out to be one big mess," so I just keep buying the ready made ones.

Easy Strawberry Pie {In An Easy Homemade Buttery Shortbread Crust}

Diner Style Strawberry Pie , easy to make and made with few ingredients, fresh strawberries, strawberry jello, cook and serve pudding, and don't forget the homemade whipped cream!  The shortbread pie crust is just as easy.   Time to make some Easy Diner Style Strawberry Pie in an Easy Homemade Buttery Shortbread Crust .

Iced Coffee {A Homemade Version to Satisfy Your Coffee Addiction}

When it is hot outside, and you are thinking about stopping by the nearest Starbucks to get one of their cold caffeine pick me ups, remember this delicious recipe for  Iced Coffee. Everything you may be familiar with about brewing coffee, might be the fast brew method which extracts the flavor elements quickly.

Shepherd's Pie with Garlic Mash Potatoes {aka Hamburger Pie in our family}

We love dishes that are easy quick for weeknight dinners. Hamburger Pie with Garlic Mashed Potatoes may come to be one of your favorites for just that!  Hearty, warm and cozy layer of seasoned hamburger topped with fluffy mashed potatoes.  If you are always looking for new recipes that are inexpensive, easy to make, and your family will enjoy, then you are with the rest of us. Children can be picky so finding something that they'll eat can be a challenging task. You usually can't go wrong with hamburger, here is a recipe with a hamburger twist. Hamburger Pie with Garlic Mashed Potatoes  is an old family favorite, so why not give it a try, see if you like it too.  It looks like a Shepherd's Pie and taste like a Cheeseburger!