Authentic New England Clam Chowder is one of those recipes that has you dreaming of watching the ocean waves crash upon the rocks with the salty breeze blowing back your hair. Fresh clams, potatoes, cream, and a little butter add up to one of the most famous soups in the world. I love chowders, add…
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How to Dry Orange Slices
How to Dry Orange Slices will get you started on making beautiful natural decor to add to your packages, make garland, create Christmas ornaments, or simply as seasonal accents for your home. “If you wait until you have enough money to decorate and make your home your own, it will never happen. If you wait…
31 Hygge New Year’s Resolution Ideas
31 Hygge New Year’s Resolution Ideas will help you come up with some thoughts of how to turn 2021 into an amazing year that transforms your life. “Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”…
Creative Inexpensive Christmas Decorations
Creative Inexpensive Christmas Decorations will show you some tips and tricks to infuse your home with the Christmas spirit, even if you don’t have a big budget. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: The presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow You don’t have to…
Smoked Salmon Chowder
This creamy Smoked Salmon Chowder Recipe is full of flavor that your entire family will love. Make sure you serve some crusty bread along side it, so you can soak up every bite! “Every year, tens of millions of salmon return to the pristine shores of Bristol Bay in Alaska. They linger in the bay’s…
Cheesy Baked Vidalia Onion Dip
This Cheesy Baked Vidalia Onion Dip will have your taste buds singing and make you the favorite chef of any potluck party. Who doesn’t love a yummy, gooey, cheesy dip? “We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food…
Homemade Cocktail Sauce Recipe
Homemade Cocktail Sauce Recipe is the perfect recipe to make your seafood taste divine. Why buy jarred sauce when you can easily make your own that tastes even better? “When some people look at a shrimp they think, “Hmm. Delicious.” When I look at a shrimp I think, “You’re a miracle, absolutely incredible. Your ancestors have…
Best Turkey Brine Recipe
Best Turkey Brine Recipe is the recipe you’ve been looking for to make your turkey taste amazing. You’ll never go back to your regular recipe after tasting this one. “You should brine your turkey. Don’t even think about not brining your turkey. Ever.” – Kimbal Musk This turkey brine recipe is about as foolproof as you…
Kosher Salt-Encrusted Prime Rib Recipe
Kosher Salt-Encrusted Prime Rib Recipe is the restaurant-quality recipe you’ve been searching for to make your prime rib taste amazing! “I believe a good book should be like a prime rib steak – good and thick.” – E.A. Bucchianeri I’ve been hunting for the perfect prime rib recipe and I finally found the perfect one. This…
9 Enchanting First Snow Day Traditions
9 Enchanting First Snow Day Traditions will let you pick the perfect idea for your family to celebrate the start of a magical season. “The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different,…
Most Amazing Nautical Christmas Tree
The Most Amazing Nautical Christmas Tree is a fun way to bring seaside elements indoors. Why stick to the tradition of a green and red themed tree when you can do something a little bit different? “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none…
Slow Cooker Raspberry Balsamic Glazed Meatballs
Slow Cooker Raspberry Balsamic Glazed Meatballs is the perfect appetizer for any gathering and it couldn’t be simpler to make. “Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.” –…
Low Carb Blue Cheese Dressing
Low Carb Blue Cheese Dressing is the recipe you’ve been looking for to make your salad taste amazing. It’s also the perfect recipe for a dip. “Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.” – Helen Hayes I’ve tried lots of different recipes for Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing. Most were okay. Nothing great….
Rustic Candied Sweet Potatoes and Apples
Rustic Candied Sweet Potatoes and Apples paired together makes an amazing tasting side dish. Add a topping of brown sugar combined with butter and you’ve got heaven on your plate. “My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.” – Lenny Kravitz Not only…
Easy Homemade Cranberry Sauce
Easy Homemade Cranberry Sauce goes hand-in-hand with turkey. I can’t imagine thanksgiving without cranberry sauce – it’s that vital. “Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not a coincidence.” – Erma Bombeck This simple homemade cranberry sauce recipe has four ingredients and only…
55 Old Fashioned Christmas Ideas
55 Old Fashioned Christmas Ideas will help fill your holiday with magic and you may find some of the enchantment you experienced when you were young. “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith Getting everything done can make your holiday season feel…
How to Make Chocolate Pudding from Scratch
How to Make Chocolate Pudding from Scratch is that old-fashioned, creamy goodness recipe you’ve been looking for like grandma used to make. “When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.” – Regina Brett I found this recipe on allrecipes.com and it had the most positive feedback, so of course I had to try it. A…
Grandma’s Hot Cranberry Tea
Grandma’s Hot Cranberry Tea is the perfect tea to make for your holiday gatherings. Not only does it taste great, but it’s beautiful to look at through a clear glass mug. “The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It’s in…
Homemade Fajita Seasoning
Homemade Fajita Seasoning is easy to make and so much better than store-bought seasoning. Why go out and spend money at a Mexican restaurant when you can recreate the flavors at home? “I wish they made fajita cologne, because that stuff smells good. What’s that you’re wearing? That’s sizzlin’!” – Mitch Hedberg There’s something so…
Minimalist Lifestyle: Why Others Got Started
Minimalist Lifestyle: Why Others Got Started will give you a little peek inside the window of souls that craved a simpler life. “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” – William Morris Let me start this post by saying I’m not a…
Easy Greek Quinoa Salad Recipe
Greek Quinoa Salad is an amazing healthy salad that your entire family will love. This salad is bursting with flavor and easy to make. “All the money in the world can’t buy you back good health.” – Reba McEntire I was looking for a yummy way to use quinoa (I’m a little late to the…
31 Simple Ways to Add Flavor to Mashed Potatoes
31 Simple Ways to Add Flavor to Mashed Potatoes will give you some ideas on jazzing up your mashed potato recipe with some fun add-ins. “Nothing like mashed potatoes when you’re feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold…
Creative Ways to Save Money
Creative Ways to Save Money will give you the advice you need to to put you on the path of frugality from people who’ve been in your shoes. A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone. – Jason Chaffetz In a frugal living group, a question that was asked was, “What’s the one…
Quick Pickled Red Onions
Quick Pickled Red Onions is a recipe you’ll use again and again to add flavor to your salads, grain dishes, sandwiches, tacos and avocado toast. “Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom’s homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of…