Baked in a casserole dish, this cozy meal is half spaghetti, half pizza, but one hundred percent awesome. I was so excited when I recently came across my mom’s recipe card for La Spaghetti, a dish she used to make for weeknight suppers. For the record, I don’t know anyone else who calls this dish La Spaghetti, but there are various recipes online for spaghetti pizza or pizza spaghetti bake…
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Continue ReadingClassic carrot bars that get their supremely smooth texture from an unexpected ingredient: baby food! Working on this blog and writing a cookbook about cherished family recipes passed down through the generations, I have come across many cake recipes with “interesting” ingredients: Tomato soup in…
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Continue ReadingAll the flavors of a BLT in a dip! Even though I don’t grow tomatoes (or anything for that matter), I am always excited for this time of year to see all the amazing ways people make use of their bounty of homegrown produce or…
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Continue ReadingSnickers Salad, served as a dessert or a side, features chopped Granny Smith apples and little bites of Snickers bars that are mixed together with cream cheese and Cool Whip. Snickers Salad?! Yes, you read that right. It’s another dessert-like salad that frequently pops up…
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Continue ReadingA vintage coffee cake, Sour Cream Somersault Cake starts with a yellow cake mix and a package of instant vanilla pudding and includes sour cream (thus, the name!) and then layers in a mixture of cinnamon-sugar and nuts that creates swirls of sweetness throughout the…
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Continue ReadingA one-dish version of a Reuben sandwich, Reuben Casserole includes layers of corned beef, saurkraut, Swiss cheese, Thousand Island dressing and rye bread. St. Patrick’s Day has a special place in my heart! While I appreciate any excuse to throw back a pint and eat…