Recipes

32 Fantastic Fudge Recipes Round Up (Holiday’s and More)

11/14/2016 By Jenn 3 Comments

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Fudge recipes are the simplest desserts to whip up. Plus they are so versatile to suit everyone’s taste buds. My mom used to make so much fudge for the holidays, so I always look for new additions to add into my normal traditional fudge recipes each year. Of course you can make these all year round I just carry over her tradition since she is no longer with us.

I checked out a few of my favorite blogs and came up with 32 fantastic fudge recipes to check out. Some have a holiday twist or a fun flavor combo the I would have never thought to turn into fudge recipes! I especially like the adult ones, that is a addition I know would be a hit for Christmas Eve dessert at my house. Some of these would even be great on Thanksgiving too.

32 Fantastic Fudge Recipes Round Up

So there you have it 32 fantastic fudge recipes Round Up!

What are your favorite fudge recipes? Do you always make fudge for the holidays or is an all year round dessert you enjoy making? Let me know in comments below.

15 Mashed Potato Recipes For Thanksgiving Round Up

10/26/2016 By Jenn 5 Comments

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Lets talk potatoes today. Not just any potatoes but mashed potatoes. A few weeks ago I shared with you guys my list of 10 Savory Sweet Potato Recipes to try at Thanksgiving this year so of course I had to do one for mashed potatoes as well. They are a favorite in my house all year but for Thanksgiving this year I am on the hunt for something a little different.

So again I checked out a few of my favorite blogs and came up with a list of 15 Mashed Potato Recipes to test out before Thanksgiving. You’ll find a nice jazzed up recipes on your old fashioned mashed potato recipes plus even one to use the leftovers the next few days after Thanksgiving is over. Tell me I am not the only one that likes to leftovers better than the actual Thanksgiving meal? Maybe because it’s already made but there is something about those leftovers that my family loves.

15 Mashed Potato Recipes For Thanksgiving

Slow Cooker Creamy Mashed Potatoes – Who Needs A Cape?
Aunt Ruthie Mashed Potatoes – Melanie Makes
Creamy Mashed Potatoes – Simply Being Mommy
Rosemary Mashed Potatoes – Hezzi – D’s Books and Cooks
Southern Mashed Potatoes – All She Cooks
Mashed Potatoes with Wilted Spinach – Who Needs A Cape?
Cheesy Chive and Bacon mashed Potatoes – the wicked noodle
Slow Cooker Garlic Herb Mashed Potatoes – Thrifty Jinxy
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes – Thrifty Jinxy
Roasted Garlic and Chive mashed Potatoes – Mooshu Jenne
Mashed Potato Croquettes – An Italian In My Kitchen
Pressure Cooker Mashed Potatoes – Pressure Cook Recipes
Zippy Pimento Cheese Mashed Potatoes – Kudos Kitchen by Renee
Slow Cooker Creamy Red Potato and Cauliflower Mash – peas & crayons
Loaded Baked Mashed Potatoes – Home Cooking Memories

So there you have it 15 Mashed Potato Recipes For Thanksgiving Round Up! Hopefully you can find one if not more to serve this year for Thanksgiving or just a nice change up from your run of the mill mashed potato recipe this fall.

What are your favorite mashed potato recipes that you serve on Thanksgiving? Do you make the same thing every year or do you like to switch it up? Leave me a comment below I’d love to hear what your traditions are!

10 Savory Sweet Potato Recipes For Thanksgiving Round Up

10/12/2016 By Jenn 6 Comments

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Every year on Thanksgiving I always make the traditional sweet potato dish that my grandma made. You know the one with the little marshmallows baked in the oven, they are so sweet and delicious but this year I wanted to try a little something different. It seemed like my kids were getting sick of that recipe since I have made it almost every year since they were born, so I did a little research.

I checked out a few of my favorite blogs and came up with a list of 10 sweet potato recipes to use that look so delicious, worth giving a try this Thanksgiving. I love sweet potatoes so some of these I am sure I will make starting now. I have to try just a few to see which is the winner for my table this year (hehe). AKA, I just want to make all of them!

10 Savory Sweet Potato Recipes For Thanksgiving

Creamy Pressure Cooker Mashed Sweet Potatoes – Pressure Cook Recipes
Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Leeks and Sausage – Sidewalk Shoes
Cauliflower Sweet Potato Mashers – Kudos Kitchen by Renee
Spicy Sweet Potato Casserole – Passion For Savings
Apple Cider Roasted Sweet Potato – This Mama Loves
Sweet Potato Gratin with Goat Cheese, Parmesan, and Thyme – Kalyn’s Kitchen
Spicy Crockpot Sweet Potatoes – Kalyn’s Kitchen
Greek Sweet Potato Salad – My Life Cookbook
Make Ahead Sweet Potato Casserole – Melanie Makes
Brussels Sprouts Sweet Potato Hash – leelelicious

So there you have it 10 Savory Sweet Potato Recipes For Thanksgiving Round Up! I ope you can find one if not more to serve this year for Thanksgiving or just for fall.

What are your favorite sweet potato recipes that you serve on Thanksgiving? Do you make the same thing every year or do you like to switch it up? Leave me a comment below I’d love to hear what your traditions are!

Be sure to check out my stuffing round up too!

Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats Recipe For Fall and Halloween

09/26/2016 By Jenn 11 Comments

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Fall is here and there is nothing better than pumpkin everything, at least in my mind I love all things pumpkin! These adorable Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats are perfect for the fall and Halloween. A great spin on traditional Rice Krispie Treats your kids are sure to love eating and helping to make!

I usually make a huge batch of these Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats for my kids and they are great for Halloween party goodie bags!

Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats Recipe

Ingredients:

*6 tbs. butter

*10 oz package of mini marshmallows

*6 C. Rice Krispies Cereal

*Orange gel food coloring

*Wilton green gel icing

*1 package of Tootsie Roll Midgies

*Pumpkin shape cookie cutter

Pumpkin Rice Krispie Directions :

Line a 9×13 baking dish with foil and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
In a large saucepan or dutch oven heat the 6 tablespoons of butter and 10 oz of mini marshmallows on low/medium heat.
Once the marshmallows have melted about 1/2 way, add in several drops of the orange gel food coloring, stirring to make the marshmallow mixture bright orange. Add more food coloring if needed (see photo).
Once the mixture is about 3/4 melted, add the 6 cups of Rice Krispies cereal, gently folding the cereal into the marshmallow mixture (see photo).
Carefully pour the mixture into the foil-lined 9×13 baking dish and gently flatten with the back of the spoon.
Let set.
Once the treats have set, use the Pumpkin cookie cutter to cut out each pumpkin Rice Krispie treat; you should have enough room to cut out 6-8 pumpkins from the 9×13 baking pan. and set them aside.
To reduce the waste of the treats I rolled the leftover treats into little 2-3″ pumpkins and placed cut a small piece of Tootsie Roll for each ‘stem’ and placed it on top.
Once you have made your mini pumpkins with the leftover treats, cut a small piece of Tootsie roll and gently use your fingers to shape it and lay it on top of the where the stem would go, on the treat (see photo). Repeat with the other pumpkins.
Lastly, use the Wilton green gel icing to make ‘vines’ on your pumpkins.
Have fun with it!

*Makes approximately 6-8 pumpkin treats and multiple mini pumpkins.

Have you made Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats Recipe For Fall and Halloween before?

Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats Recipe

Fall is here and there is nothing better than pumpkin everything, at least in my mind I love all things pumpkin! These adorable Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats are perfect for the fall and Halloween.

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Ingredients

*6 tbs. butter
*10 oz package of mini marshmallows
*6 C. Rice Krispies Cereal
*Orange gel food coloring
*Wilton green gel icing
*1 package of Tootsie Roll Midgies
*Pumpkin shape cookie cutter

Instructions

Line a 9×13 baking dish with foil and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
In a large sauce pan or dutch oven heat the 6 tablespoons of butter and 10 oz of mini marshmallows on low/medium heat.
Once the marshmallows have melted about 1/2 way, add in several drops of the orange gel food coloring, stirring to make the marshmallow mixture bright orange. Add more food coloring if needed (see photo).
Once the mixture is about 3/4 melted, add in the 6 cups of Rice Krispies cereal, gently folding the cereal into the marshmallow mixture (see photo).
Carefully pour the mixture into the foil lined 9×13 baking dish and gently flatten with the back of the spoon.
Let set.
Once the treats have set, use the Pumpkin cookie cutter to cut out each pumpkin Rice Krispie treat; you should have enough room to cut out 6-8 pumpkins from the 9×13 baking pan. and set them aside.
To reduce the waste of the treats I rolled the leftover treats into little 2-3″ pumpkins and placed cut a small piece of Tootsie Roll for each ‘stem’ and placed it on top.
Once you have made your mini pumpkins with the leftover treats, cut a small piece of Tootsie roll and gently use your fingers to shape it and lay it on top of the where the stem would go, on the treat (see photo). Repeat with the other pumpkins.
Lastly, use the Wilton green gel icing to make ‘vines’ on your pumpkins.
Have fun with it!

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Mouthwatering Babyback Ribs BBQ Grilled Cheese

09/19/2016 By Jenn 10 Comments

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Mouthwatering Babyback Ribs BBQ Grilled Cheese

This BBQ Grilled Cheese is a perfect way to use up those left over babyback ribs for lunches the next day or make a dinner using them. I love cooking larger batches of meats just for this reason. It makes my weeks go so much smoother when I basically just revamp a meal we had the night before.

The BBQ Grilled Cheese is a great twist on a classic grilled cheese that my whole family enjoys. Think pulled pork sandwich but even better with melted colby jack cheese (or any you like that is my fave) on buttery toasted bread! YUM!

Babyback Ribs BBQ Grilled Cheese Recipe

Ingredients

1 rack of babyback ribs (recipe to follow, the grilled cheese recipe uses leftovers for the next day or two)
bread of your choice
colby jack or cheddar cheese slices
butter
BBQ sauce of your choice
blackening seasoning
sat & pepper

Directions for making the babyback ribs

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
Flip the ribs over and remove the membrane skin from the entire length of the ribs. This is a clear membrane but once you begin to peel it up it should remove easily. Once the membrane is removed, flip the ribs back over and season with salt and pepper and blackening.
Fill a 9×13 baking dish with 2″ of water. You may need to cut the ribs in half to get them to fit in the pan.
Cover the ribs with foil and bake for 2 1/2 – 3 hours. Remove from the oven.
Now, this next step is optional but we finish ours on the grill. The ribs are already cooked so my husband heats the grill, throws the ribs on for a few minutes and slathers them with BBQ sauce.
If you would prefer to not turn the grill on, simply move your oven rack to the 2nd or 3rd notch and turn the broiler on medium/high.
Remove the ribs from the baking dish and place on a baking sheet. Slather with BBQ sauce and place under the broiler for 5-10 minutes to allow the BBQ sauce to crystalize. Remove from the oven a serve.
If there are leftovers (we usually have leftovers because we make 2-3 racks at a time), simply remove the excess meat from the bones, place in an airtight container and store in the fridge for several days.

BBQ Grilled Cheese Directions

Butter 2 outside pieces of bread. Lay one slice of bread butter side down in a frying pan.
Add a heaping scoop of the leftover BBQ pork.
Next, add a layer of cheese and then top with the second slice of bread, butter side up.
Heat on the frying pan 5-10 minutes on medium/high heat until the bottom bread has browned.
Flip and allow the other side to brown.
Remove from the heat and serve with chips and your favorite BBQ sauce for dunking.
ENJOY!

Mouthwatering Babyback Ribs BBQ Grilled Cheese

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Ingredients

1 rack of babyback ribs recipe to follow, the grilled cheese recipe uses leftovers for the next day or two
bread of your choice
colby jack or cheddar cheese slices
butter
BBQ sauce of your choice
blackening seasoning
sat & pepper

Instructions

Directions for making the babyback ribs
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
Flip the ribs over and remove the membrane skin from the entire length of the ribs. This is a clear membrane but once you begin to peel it up it should remove easily. Once the membrane is removed, flip the ribs back over and season with salt and pepper and blackening.
Fill a 9×13 baking dish with 2″ of water. You may need to cut the ribs in half to get them to fit in the pan.
Cover the ribs with foil and bake for 2 1/2 – 3 hours. Remove from the oven.
Now, this next step is optional but we finish ours on the grill. The ribs are already cooked so my husband heats the grill, throws the ribs on for a few minutes and slathers them with BBQ sauce.
If you would prefer to not turn the grill on, simply move your oven rack to the 2nd or 3rd notch and turn the broiler on medium/high.
Remove the ribs from the baking dish and place on a baking sheet. Slather with BBQ sauce and place under the broiler for 5-10 minutes to allow the BBQ sauce to crystalize. Remove from the oven a serve.
If there are leftovers (we usually have leftovers because we make 2-3 racks at a time), simply remove the excess meat from the bones, place in an airtight container and store in the fridge for several days.
BBQ Grilled Cheese Directions
Butter 2 outside pieces of bread. Lay one slice of bread butter side down in a frying pan.
Add a heaping scoop of the leftover BBQ pork.
Next, add a layer of cheese and then top with the second slice of bread, butter side up.
Heat on the frying pan 5-10 minutes on medium/high heat until the bottom bread has browned.
Flip and allow the other side to brown.
Remove from the heat and serve with chips and your favorite BBQ sauce for dunking.
ENJOY!

Roasted Garlic Turkey Spinach Pasta Casserole Dish

09/08/2016 By Jenn 16 Comments

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With school back in full swing I love making simple and delicious pasta dishes. This week I came up with this amazing Turkey Spinach Pasta Casserole. It is so easy to throw together on busy school nights and is “SO yummy” according to JJ my 5 year old. All my kids asked for second helpings last night when we had it for dinner.

This Turkey Spinach Pasta Casserole is packed with roasted garlic flavor since I used my go to Ragu Homestyle pasta sauce. Combined with the fresh spinach and ground turkey this casserole will become a regular dinner option in our house from now on.

The Ragu Homestyle pasta sauce is their thickest sauce! It soaks into the pasta making for the perfect bite every time. I really love that they don’t use artificial flavors, artificial colors or high fructose corn syrup in any of their Ragu pasta sauces. The sauce tastes like you have been slaving in the kitchen all day for an amazing homemade taste.

Turkey Spinach Pasta Casserole

Ingredients:

16oz box of Rotini Pasta
1 lb. Ground Turkey
16 oz bag of fresh baby spinach
1 Tbsp Fresh Parsley
2 cups of Italian Style 5 Cheese Blend (divided)
1 jar Homestyle Thick and Hearty Roasted Garlic Sauce Pasta Sauce
Salted for pasta water

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350
Bring your salted water up to a boil and drop your pasta
Cook your pasta until al dente (about 9-11 mins)
While the pasta is cooking brown the ground turkey and drain (set aside)
Wilt the baby spinach in the same pan as you cooked the turkey
Combine the cooked pasta, turkey, spinach
Add 1 jar of the Homestyle Thick and Hearty Roasted Garlic Sauce Ragu Pasta Sauce
Add 1 1/2 cups of the Italian cheese blend and mix well
Put the combined mixture into a 9 x 13 baking dish lightly sprayed with cooking spray
Sprinkle the remaining Italian cheese on top
Bake at 350 for 15 -1 20 mins or until golden bubbly
Finely chop your parsley to sprinkle on top when you are ready to serve
ENJOY!

Be sure to check out all the new Homestyle Thick and Hearty Traditional Sauces Ragu has to offer! And for more delicious recipes from Ragu Traditions Pasta Sauce.

Roasted Garlic Turkey Spinach Pasta Casserole

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Prep Time 20 mins

Ingredients

16 oz box of Rotini Pasta
1 lb. Ground Turkey
16 oz bag of fresh baby spinach
1 Tbsp Fresh Parsley
2 cups of Italian Style 5 Cheese Blend divided
1 jar Homestyle Thick and Hearty Roasted Garlic Sauce Pasta Sauce
Salted for pasta water

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350
Bring your salted water up to a boil and drop your pasta
Cook your pasta until al dente (about 9-11 mins)
While the pasta is cooking brown the ground turkey and drain (set aside)
Wilt the baby spinach in the same pan as you cooked the turkey
Combine the cooked pasta, turkey, spinach
Add 1 jar of the Homestyle Thick and Hearty Roasted Garlic Sauce Ragu Pasta Sauce
Add 1 1/2 cups of the Italian cheese blend and mix well
Put the combined mixture into a 9 x 13 baking dish lightly sprayed with cooking spray
Sprinkle the remaining Italian cheese on top
Bake at 350 for 15 -1 20 mins or until golden bubbly
Finely chop your parsley to sprinkle on top when you are ready to serve
ENJOY!

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