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Chocolate-Caramel Crescent Sopapillas recipe from Pillsbury.com. JALAPENO POPPER DIP. Have you seen the movie Ice Age?

JALAPENO POPPER DIP

Maine has been one solid block of ice and I can relate to the prehistoric squirrel trying to hold on to the acorn. Compound Butter {for Steak,Turkey & More} Recipe. An easy compound butter recipe with garlic and herbs that is perfect for steak, corn, chicken, turkey, or for bread!

Compound Butter {for Steak,Turkey & More} Recipe

This is my secret to making the most delicious recipes that everyone raves about! Do you mind if I let you in on a little secret? I think everyone that enjoys cooking as much as I do has a secret weapon ingredient that they turn to when they want to impress family and friends. My secret weapon? This easy compound butter. Kitchen Tip: How To Preserve Garlic.

With a huge harvest of hard neck garlic and no possible way to use it all before it began sprouting, I decided to figure out a better way to preserve it.

Kitchen Tip: How To Preserve Garlic

Raw, dried garlic can be kept for months in a cool and dark environment. However, here in the very warm southwest, it rarely lasts over a month in my home before it sprouts. My brother visited us last week and was kind enough to spend a couple hours showing me how to can it. As it turns out, it was almost ridiculously simple. I am so excited to have garlic ready to use now in the refrigerator! This garlic tastes FRESH. Grilled Steak Marinade - From Valerie's Kitchen. Grillin’ Bold this Memorial Day?

Grilled Steak Marinade - From Valerie's Kitchen

Bush’s has the beans for it. Come join the cookout with Cookin’ Canuck and Hoosier Homemade sponsored by Bush’s Grillin’ Beans. Since the three day weekend is fast approaching, I thought it was time to revisit one of my earliest posts. Super Bowl Snack Stadium + the Best Guacamole Ever. Super Bowl Snack Stadium + the Best Guacamole Ever This is the perfect Guacamole recipe ever!

Super Bowl Snack Stadium + the Best Guacamole Ever

Easy to follow, simple ingredients and lots of add-in choices to customize it to your liking. Seriously the best ever! My sister-in-law sent us some little boy clothes for Blake the other day. We got some summer clothes, a few warmer pieces…and transformer running shoes that light up. Blake is a boy in love. He refuses to wear anything but these shoes when we go outside….even though they’re a few sizes too big. Of course he laughs and laughs hysterically and does it again. At first I was concerned about the marks it was leaving on the walls, but I quickly got smarter and realized that smudges and dirt are much less important than the time it buys me to make dinner/do dishes/browse pinterest/have both hands available to do WHATEVERIWANT.

Sweet glorious arms. So, thank you, inventor of light up running shoes and Gisela. Brooke isn’t too thrilled, but…..whatevs. The Best Guacamole Ever. Make Your Own Seasoning Salt - Lawry's Copycat Recipe. Sloppy Joes Recipe - only 3 ingredients! - Eating on a Dime.

I’ve got a fun and frugal dinner idea – Sloppy Joes.

Sloppy Joes Recipe - only 3 ingredients! - Eating on a Dime

Now, this isn’t what you are thinking… this was not poured from a can. The Best Mexican White Cheese Dip - Only a few minutes to make. This Mexican white cheese dip is similar to white cheese sauces served in many Delicious Mexican restaurants.

The Best Mexican White Cheese Dip - Only a few minutes to make

It is so delicious and so versatile. If you love this recipe, make sure you try our amazing crockpot chicken tacos recipe with only 3 ingredients. You can adjust the heat by leaving out the cayenne pepper completely or by adding more. You can also give this white Mexican cheese dip a completely different flavor by adding in rotel instead of the green chillis. Samoa Dip. 5 Minute Marinara Sauce. We were absolutely giddy when Vitamix sent us our very own 5200 blender to review 2 months ago!

5 Minute Marinara Sauce

Perfect Turkey Gravy Recipe. Perfect Turkey Gravy Recipe with instructions to make it with or without drippings.

Perfect Turkey Gravy Recipe

All you need is butter, flour, black pepper, chicken or turkey stock and/or drippings! Homemade Taco Seasoning. Yes, You Can Make Brown Sugar (And Here's How) We've all been there: We decide to make cookies; we gather up all of our recipes; we may have even cracked open a few eggs.

Yes, You Can Make Brown Sugar (And Here's How)

Then, we realize that we're fresh out of brown sugar. And since this dark sweetener is responsible for making cookies all soft and chewy, this is not okay. If you're anything like us, you never really thought about what brown sugar is exactly. It just always been there for you, waiting at the grocery store to make its way into your chocolate chip cookies. But, brown sugar is in fact made. To make brown sugar you need one cup of white sugar and one tablespoon of molasses. Olive Garden Copycat Salad Dressing. Olive Garden Salad is so amazing you may eat the salad and skip the meal. Now you can make your own salad dressing copycat recipe at home. A crisp salad with a tart, sweet and cheesy dressing will keep you coming back for more! I could eat at Olive Garden every day. Just keep bringing those big ole' bowls of salad. No bread sticks for me, just that salad. Easy 7-Up Marinade. Family recipes may be my favorite recipes ever!

My grandma passed down this recipe to me. Garlic Beer Marinade for Grilled Chicken. It is barbeque season already and we are in the midst of TSRI's Summer Grilling Celebration! We are bringing you our favorite summer specialties. I have been enjoying learning how to cook on the big gas grill. It made perfect sense. I am the cook. .facebook_-586096426. Homemade Taco Seasoning Recipe - Just 2 Sisters. Classic Herbed Butter Grilled Corn Recipe. Memphis Style Southern Dry Rub Pork Spareribs. In many, if not most households, the husband is the master of the grill. Not in this house. The Cajun cooks nothing, and I mean nothing. So I'm the resident cook and griller, though I am certainly as amateur as it comes.

What you read here, is my learning process and what I'm picking up from cookbooks and from research, and frankly might just be all wrong. I am a gas grill girl for the most part, although on occasion I do also use my Weber kettle grill and I actually do even own a cheap-o smoker and more recently purchased an electric one, though purists will say that is not true smoking. In the past, I have always only owned the cheapest gas grills, which consequently also meant the smallest gas grills, but this spring I stepped up on my grill size to one that is large enough to actually do "zone" cooking - also known as cooking a rack of ribs over indirect heat. I got a little help with these ribs from an old cookbook of mine, The Barbecue! Leftovers? Homemade Taco Seasoning. Make it Yourself! Baking Mix - DIY Bisquick. Make it Yourself! Baking Mix - DIY Bisquick.