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Easy Homemade French Toast Recipe
Cinnamon and sugar meet custard in this delightfully easy homemade French Toast recipe that is a must for weekend breakfasts with the kids. Is there anything more beautiful than a stack of sweet bread dripping with syrup for Saturday morning breakfast? Whether it is pancakes, our favorite waffles, or this easy French toast, we agree that it is a great start to a weekend day. French Toast Memories As kids, mom always made us big breakfasts on the weekends. We occasionally ate a bowl of cereal, but most mornings, even school mornings, mom could be found in the kitchen. One of my favorites was when she would make French Toast.…
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The Best Deviled Eggs Recipe with a Twist
Deviled eggs are the go to party appetizer, especially around the holidays. There is no simpler dish to make for that last minute get together than a plateful of deviled eggs. We have taken the best deviled eggs recipe and given it a new twist with some delicious toppings your would not have considered before. We love deviled eggs in this house. My daughter and husband can consume a dozen in one sitting. With the holiday season upon us, and parties and gatherings getting into full swing, now is the perfect time to make extras to share. For a homesteader with an abundance of eggs, it is also a great…
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The Best Apple Streusel Bread Recipe
This is the best apple streusel bread recipe you will come across! It is a delicious and relatively healthy dessert that taste like fall. Large chunks of apples stud this lovely quick bread. The cinnamon, oat, and brown sugar streusel topping provides the perfect amount of sweetness and texture to make this apple streusel bread a delightful mouthful. Apples are the quintessential fall fruit. The crisp red skin breaking way to a sweet interior brings about thoughts of bonfires and falling leaves. Every fall we find ourselves in apples somehow. While we usually end up making applesauce with majority of the apple, we always have one or two apple…
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Knock Your Socks Off Jalapeño Poppers
Jalapeño Poppers are a go to appetizer recipes. The combination of salty crispy bacon, creamy cream cheese, and spicy jalapeño makes the perfect bite. We have perfected that bite even more with these Knock Your Socks Off Jalapeño Poppers. Date Night Occasionally my husband and I will get a much needed date night. Mawmaw and Poppie come grab up the kids and then my husband and I try to figure out how to function without kids for a while. The first inevitable question that is asked is always, what are we going to make for dinner. While our kids are great eaters overall and will eat nearly everything, they do…
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How to Make Cowboy Caviar
This recipe for Cowboy Caviar is a bight and flavorful twist on a Taco Tuesday side dish that your family will love. With just a few simple ingredients you will be on your way to a delicious and simple meal. Potlucks always bring a bit of stress for me. What in the world do you bring?! What if no one likes what you bring, or worse they love it, but you didn’t make enough! Then you have to decide do you make a desert, a main dish, a side. The possibilities are endless and quite frankly it is overwhelming to me. So to get over my potluck anxiety I have…
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Easy Southern Biscuit Recipe From Scratch (with Video)
Biscuits are the epitome of classic southern comfort especially slathered with butter. There are very few meals in which this quick bread doesn’t make the table in a Southerners home. All cooks need to have a great biscuit recipe under their belt and this easy southern biscuit recipe from scratch fits the bill. Memories I can remember my momma and grandma making biscuits when I was a little girl. My grandma, or Mawmaw as I always called her would let me take the little scrapes of dough that were left over from the dough on her hands and pieces that she couldn’t form into a real biscuit and would let…
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Easy Cream Cheese Danish
Sometimes you just need a quick and easy dessert or sweet breakfast treat. That is where this easy cream cheese danish comes to the rescue. Simple and delicious and with only five minutes to prepare and twelve minutes to bake, you will be in cream cheese puff pastry heaven in no time. Danishes The name of this flaky and buttery pastry would have you believing that this dessert was of Denmark decent. However, it is from Austrian origins that this lovely dish comes to us. It was first made popular in Denmark however, so the name Danish stuck. The danish was always a special treat when we were growing up.…
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Easy Cornbread Recipe
Cornbread is one of those southern dishes that every true southern mama should know how to make. It is sweet, crumbly, and delicious. Cornbread completes any true southern meal. This recipe is super simple and takes no time to throw together. Just a few simple ingredients and you have a great southern side dish. I love cornbread especially with potato soup or chili or split and slathered with butter, pan fried, and covered with honey. Yum! What is Cornbread? Is it a cake? Is it bread? One thing is for certain, it is delicious. Cornbread has been said to have originated with the Native Americans and was originally an unsweetened…
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The Best Banana Nut Bread Ever!
Quick breads are a really cool mix between a bread and a cake like desert. It is easy to make and is delicious as a snack, breakfast, mid-day coffee break treat, late night dessert, the list goes on and on. One of my all time favorite quick breads is banana bread. This recipe has been with me for years and I have made tweaks here and there. I am not really sure where the original came from, but I have tried a lot of recipes for banana bread and this one is hands down the best banana nut bread recipe ever! Please note that this post contains affiliate links. Should…
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Snack Day Favorites
Snack Day has become a bit of a family tradition at the Young house. It is a BIG deal that generates a lot of excitement from all of us. We take every opportunity we can to create a Snack Day and spend the day nibbling on our favorite snack items, playing board games, and watching movies. I am not sure how this tradition came about, but I am sure glad it did. I have always loved being in the kitchen, and enjoy those days that I can spend the day cooking for my family. Snack Day gives me the opportunity to turn out some of our favorite dishes all day…
