Enjoying life with family & friends through food
What to create a wonderful festive meal for your family and friends? Take a look at these topics and find something that would work for your celebration!
Valentine’s day is around the corner. If you want to skip the busy restaurants and overpriced meal and make a romantic dinner for your loved one at home then these crab cakes are wonderful and can be used as an appetizer or as the main…
Every year around the holidays I make decorated cookies. I love art/creating and love cooking/eating so it’s the perfect pastime for me to get both in one! I usually make a basic vanilla type sugar cookies for the base of my decorating but this year…
These cookies are so pretty and real festive looking on your table during the holidays. Their pure white color, from the powdered sugar, make it look like snow has fallen onto them. These are also very pretty, and popular to have at weddings since the…
Everyone loves a good cheeseball, don’t you? It makes it even more fun and festive when it is shaped as a pumpkin, or any other holiday themed shape. This cheeseball is easy to make and tasty for you and your guests, and comes together in…
This is an easy recipe that you can just throw all together in a slow cooker and 3 or so hours later it is done. You can serve each chicken piece whole with a side of rice, or make it into a sandwich. I shredded…
If you like pork then you will love this recipe. This roasted pork butt can be used just as it is when you take it out of the oven or it can be shredded/pulled to make BBQ pulled pork, or crisp it up in the…
This carrot sheet cake is delicious! Whenever I make it I wonder why I don’t make it more often, since it’s so easy! Both the cake and frosting have the perfect balance of sweetness and great to make for a party since you can get…
This post has been a long time coming. Around the 4th of July this year I had a wonderful opportunity to experience making authentic tamales with my sisters friend and co-worker, Monica. My sister was telling me of her weekend plans of friends getting together…
Fourth of July is around the corner. If you are having a gathering, or just cooking for your family, these recipes are easy and fun to make so you can have time to enjoy the festivities yourself. Most of them can be done, or mostly…
These treats are so fun to make, look impressive, AND taste good. They purposely have the red, white, and blue color theme since they were made for the Fourth of July, US Independence Day! You can definitely change up the colors depending on the holiday/theme.…
