Today, I’m super excited to share my tropical coconut and pineapple cream cheese pie recipe with you! Here in the southern part of the United States, tropical pies seem to entice me from everywhere during these hot summer months. The variety of flavored tropical pies is surely one of the best things about summer. I’m…
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The Best Refreshing Blue Raspberry Frozen Lemonade
With summer bearing upon us, this blue raspberry frozen lemonade is a no-brainer! Made with ice cream, flavored lemonade, and fresh fruit, this ice cream drink with blue raspberry flavor is so refreshing! I have made this blue raspberry lemonade ice cream drink for years now. It can be made a variety of different ways…
Butter Pecan Praline Poke Cake is the Best Dessert
This butter pecan praline poke cake with butter pecan icing was a surprise creation that begin while visiting my parents in southern Arkansas one summer. This is an elevated butter pecan poke cake from a Betty Crocker butter pecan cake mix base. What can I say? We southerners love butter pecan everything! Since publishing…
Try this Platanos Maduros Recipe – Fried Plantains of Panama
Being part of a bi-cultural family has brought me many interesting experiences. And the twice weekly eatings of these delicious Panamanian fried plantains – platanos maduros – are no exception! On the one hand, there is the Latin flair gleaned from my mom’s upbringing in her native Panama. But, most people who visit my parents’…
Indian Fry Bread Recipe for Indian Tacos – The Gifted Gabber
Do a Google search to try to determine the difference between Indian fry bread, chalupas, gorditas, and tostadas. Just do it. Your head will spin. So What Exactly is Indian Fry Bread? I’m talking about the fluffy, fat pieces of fried dough with taco fixings on top. I always thought of a tostada as a…
You Will Love Chicken Spaghetti with Rotel and Velveeta
Are you as much about ooey gooey cheesy chicken spaghetti as I am? Well, then stick around! We have the best cheesy chicken spaghetti with Rotel around! From an old cookbook I used back in college, this spaghetti with chicken recipe brings all the right elements together – Rotel tomatoes, Velveeta cheese, and black olives!…
The Best Sausage Spinach Tortellini Soup with Cream Cheese
As my husband says, you can’t go wrong with frozen cheese tortellini. This sausage spinach tortellini soup recipe will be your go-to creamy tortellini soup recipe from now on! We are huge Jimmy Dean sausage people in my home. We make tons of recipes with the mild and the hot sausage rolls. All the Jimmy…
How to Make Jarred Spaghetti Sauce Better for This One Pot Spaghetti Recipe
Today, I am sharing with you this one pot spaghetti with doctored jar spaghetti sauce. This spaghetti recipe has become my family’s go-to spaghetti over the last seven or eight years. With this recipe for delicious one pot spaghetti with a doctored jar spaghetti sauce, you will learn how to make jarred spaghetti sauce better!…
How to Make Peanut Brittle in the Microwave
How blessed I felt earlier this summer sitting in the kitchen of my husband’s Nanny (grandmother) while she shared her microwave peanut brittle recipe with me. Since the Hubs was a little boy, Nanny has always had a batch of her homemade peanut brittle or a batch of her delicious peanut butter cookies waiting for…
