• Grandma’s Pineapple Dessert

    An old-fashioned, no-bake dessert featuring pineapple fluff and crushed Nilla wafer crumbs. I originally shared this recipe for my Grandma Hilma’s pineapple dessert during the pandemic when I was feeling especially nostalgic for my family. It’s an old-fashioned, tried-and-true, no-bake recipe that includes a luscious…

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  • La Spaghetti

    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…

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  • Carrot Bars

    Classic 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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  • Snickers Salad

    Snickers 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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  • Sour Cream Somersault Cake

    A 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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  • Reuben Casserole

    A 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…

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