Have you ever wondered how to put together a perfect pasta salad? Have you ever wondered how to mix the ingredients to get EXACTLY the taste you want? If that sounds like you, read on dear friend, the answers are RIGHT HERE! ...
Southern Sweet Potato Biscuits
This ain’t your mamma's biscuit. It ain’t your grandma’s biscuit neither. This is a delicate, lightly sweet, soft southern biscuit that is flavor BINGO! Plus, it is simple and a TERRIFIC use for any leftover baked sweet potatoes! Southern Sweet Potato Biscuits are my new GO-TO biscuit! ...
Weeknight Fast Chicken Alfredo
Hello creamy thick chicken alfredo smothered fettuccini noodles! It’s been a long day, I’m tired and today was rough. This is the perfect comfort food for whatever ails you! Hello Weeknight Fast Chicken Alfredo!! ...
ALL THE SECRETS TO PERFECT CROCKPOT POT ROAST
You might not think that weddings and all the secrets to perfect crockpot pot roast go together, but if so, then you don’t know what you are talking about. If you are looking for flavorful, fall apart on your fork, mouthgasm “Oh My GOSH THAT is the BEST Pot Roast EVER” quickly followed by, “How did you DO THAT?” and “YOU are the QUEEN of the kitchen” - then THIS is the right place for you. ...
Chocolate Blackout Bars
This recipe isn’t for chocolate moderates. You know who you are. People who sit on the fence saying things like “Ooo, I’ll only have a tiny little bite - you know - bathing suit season”. <Laughing>, Chocolate Blackout Bars are DEFINITELY NOT for those people. Chocolate Blackout Bars are for people who want their brains tingling in near blackout condition from all of the chocolate and ...
CHOCOLATE CHESS PIE
Sometimes you make a pie because you have a good reason and sometimes the good reason is that your sweet tooth will soon devour your tongue if you don’t feed it. Who needs an excuse to eat pie, anyway? No one we want to be friends with, right? That is especially true with Chocolate Chess Pie. ...
Orange Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake
Admit it. You haven’t heard about coffee cake since around about 1978, right? But why? It’s so delicious with fluffy cinnamon cake, gooey sticky syrup and a creamy luscious icing? Where did the coffee cake go? I don’t know, but I promise, one taste of Orange Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake and you will be hooked all over again! ...
Summer Cherry Tomato Salad
Every summer, like a real derelict with a humongous tomato problem, I hoard every beautiful homegrown plump red tangy tomato I can find. You too? Great! I need some friends to share in my addictions. This recipe comes in handy for a bumper crop of cherry tomatoes which should be bumpering right about now! Summer Cherry Tomato Salad! ...
Old Fashioned Lemon Chess Pie
When life gives you lemons don’t make lemonade! Be happy and make an old fashioned lemon chess pie! Then just say, “Thanks life!” ...
Old Fashioned Chess Pie
Just trying to remember the last time I had chess pie baked by one of the ladies at church when I was a kid. It had to be in the early 80’s. Is that showing my age? Yeah, probably. Don’t care. My gray hair is screaming anyway! Old Fashioned Chess pie is one of the most delicious and simplest pies on the planet enjoyed by gray hairs, no hairs and baby hairs alike. ...
Southern Mexican Cornbread
How has the recipe for a delicious Southern Mexican Cornbread eluded these pages for so long? I have no idea, you tell me! It wasn’t until my recent conversation with Mona that I realized, Loaves and Dishes has no delicious, soft, buttery, spicy, can’t stuff your mouth with enough Southern Mexican Cornbread. So, thanks again, Mona. ...
Chocolate Nutter Butter Crispy Treats
Some things that you see here are just absolutely sinful, and this is one of them. Sorry. Not Sorry. I mean, come on, I’m the one sitting here with a full pan of these chocolate, peanut butter, marshmallow, crispy treats right in front of me smelling like pure HEAVEN. Chocolate Nutter Butter Crispy Treats are ready in less than 15 minutes! I just texted my husband to please come home from ...
CARAMEL M&M’S KICKING BROWN SUGAR COOKIES
Were you ever glad you took a picture of something because it was so fleeting that it was gone before you knew it? Yeah, me too. It applies RIGHT NOW! Because I am polishing off the rest of these CARAMEL M&M’S KICKING BROWN SUGAR COOKIES as I type this. THEY ARE THAT GOOD! I mean, I SERIOUSLY can’t quit - and I bet you won’t be able to either! ...
Broccoli Cheese Casserole for Two in a Crockpot
Can you really imagine something better than hiding your veggies in cheese pulls and all kinds of wonderfulness? Yeah, I know, we save that for holidays right? Not anymore! Now, Broccoli Cheese Casserole for Two in a Crockpot is not just for a holiday crowd! Besides that it can be prepared in a crockpot, baked or even frozen for later - the details are in here. Don’t believe me? Read on my ...
11 SMART WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON HERBS AND SPICES
You are SICK of paying a FORTUNE for spices, right? Why is one brand of spice $8.00 and another brand $2.50? It makes no sense and HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU SAVE MONEY ON SPICES???? HERE ARE 11 SMART WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON HERBS AND SPICES. ...
Homemade Creamy Mushroom Soup from Scratch
Since the snow hit two weeks ago, I’ve totally been in the mood for winter. Except, of course, the last 3 days where the air feels bitter and biting and I have to actually wear a heavy coat when I go outside. I much prefer the type of winter where snow lingers, the sun is shining and the temperature hovers somewhere around 42. I know that is just a pretend winter, but that’s what I like. We ...
Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs
Bacon? “NO, Thanks”....said no one. Ever. Bacon wrapped hot dogs? Why, yes. You are BRILLIANT, Thank you! ‘Cause Bacon is the right answer, all the time! ...
Blissful Salted Chocolate Bark That Will Make You Smile
My 15 month old grandson is teetering around my home office with a smear of dark chocolate on his chin and a big toothy grin on his face. It’s not appropriate to give chocolate to a baby, so don’t do it. I shouldn’t have admitted this to you. Besides, what if his mother reads this post? ...
This Easy Kentucky Pound Cake Proves that Butter has Never Looked Better
Why does Kentucky get to claim the easiest, tastiest, fluffiest, butteriest, simplest, richest, dog gone BEST pound cake everrrrrr? Isn’t Kentucky known for wildcats, NOT cakes! Might be, but This Easy Kentucky Pound Cake Proves that Butter has Never Looked Better and will have your grandma saying, “Well Smack My Mouth! I have to have your recipe!” ...
Easy Chicken Pie
Amidst the festivities I know it seems a little difficult to know exactly what to do when someone says, “Hey, why don’t ya’ll come over for dinner on Friday?” or “Hey, let’s have a potluck for work - everyone bring something”. As for me, I work from home and my coworker is Pete. Pete never suggests a potluck, instead, he is often in the way, trying to sabotage my Loaves and Dishes work OR ...
