Homemade Ranch Dressing

I’ve made this ranch dressing for buffalo cauliflower sandwiches and bites, buffalo chickpea salad, and lots of other salads that I haven’t shared on the blog. It’s the bomb-digity. Do people still say that or am I dating myself? Anyway, I needed to give this dressing a spotlight of its own because I know I’ll refer to it often from other posts and I figure you might want to have an easy place to go when you just want to make it by itself. Now I know that you may be thinking that making a salad dressing or condiment is …

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Top Recipes for Two

Every year, around this time, I ask my husband if he’ll be my valentine until he agrees.  I like to plan. 😉 Usually he says no until the day of and usually I ask him multiple times to see if he’ll agree ahead of time.  This is obviously a running joke between the two of us because we both know we’re our forever valentines.  Anyway, with Valentine’s Day coming up, I thought you might be looking for some recipes to make for a romantic night for two.  I’ve got you covered with some appetizer, dinner and dessert ideas.  I’ve included all …

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Top 10 Soups

My husband and I made taco soup this past weekend for the umpteenth time. Gosh, it’s delicious and so easy and quick to make. It got me thinking of my other favorite soups. If you’re in cold weather like me (or you just love soup any time of the year) then I thought you might like to see what soups we’re cooking up. Here are my top 10 favorite soups. Taco Soup Split Pea Soup Butternut Squash Soup Moroccan Style Chickpea Soup Chicken Rice Soup Broccoli Cheddar Soup Pasta Fagioli Soup Mulligan Stew Slow Cooker Black Bean Soup Ham and …

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Top 20 Salads for Winter

Salads are my jam. Mmm, jam sandwich cookies. Sorry, I miss my holiday cookie diet. 😉 Anyway, I digress. I enjoy salads for lunch all year long, but I thought you may be looking for ideas with it being the new year. The salads below are great anytime of the year but especially when fresh vegetables are hard to come by or are expensive because it’s winter and they are out of season. Some of these salads are healthy and some not as much. Some of them don’t look like like a typical salad (in other words they don’t have …

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Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is the last cookie recipe of the holiday season and the last post of 2022. I always have to include some kind of chocolate cookie in the holiday cookie box. I’m a chocoholic so of course I’d say that. Most everyone loves a good chocolate treat too, especially after a heavy holiday meal. This year I’m making chocolate chocolate chip cookies. I first made these cookies back in 2015. They were phenomenal. The rating I gave them confirmed my memory. Remember when I did that? I used to rate recipes with a 5 rating chef hat system. I stopped …

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