Yukon Gold Potato Salad Yukon golds, hard boiled eggs, mayonnaise and dill pickles – this recipe will definitely make you feel like Grandma (or Mom) made it! The dressing is a yummy mix of mayonnaise, mustard, dill pickle juice, garlic powder, celery salt, and black pepper, creating a creamy and tangy taste that everyone is going to love! What makes this potato salad so delicious that it uses both dill pickles and pickle juice....

Enjoy this easy dessert recipe for Blueberry Whipped Cream Cheesecake! This delicious cake has a pretty pastel sprinkled natural topping made from blueberries. It’s the perfect way to turn a boring cake into a beautiful birthday cheesecake! I am in love with this cake, it’s one of those dessert creations where you want to take 50,000 photos of before eating because it’s just that pretty. Along with the Smooth and Creamy Sara Lee cheesecake, you have a beautiful blueberry Cool Whip topping that’s just waiting for rainbow sprinkles to be added on top....

Cream Cheese Frosting for Cupcakes When you taste this cream cheese frosting the heavens will open and angels will sing. Just kidding, that won’t happen. But you will be like wow – this is the best cream cheese frosting I ever tasted! Cream cheese frosting is like a smooth-talking, irresistible charmer at a dessert party. It’s the suave Casanova of frostings, spreading its creamy goodness with a mischievous wink and a tangy twirl....

Homemade crispy hash browns Have you ever wondered how diners and breakfast restaurants get their shredded hash browns to turn out so crispy and delicious? Now you can make restaurant-worthy crispy hash browns at home! Using a few simple tips and secrets, you’ll never have to suffer through soggy hash browns or boring frozen potatoes again. Learning How to Make Crispy Hash Browns is easy. Using the right kind of potatoes and a few preparation secrets, you’ll be pan-frying your shredded potatoes to golden brown perfection in no time....

We’re picking tomatoes by the basket (to make roma tomato sauce and instant pot cherry tomato chicken tacos of course), we’re pickling cucumbers (half sours, of course), we’re eating shishitos (my lunch my everyday) and edamame (the girls afternoon snack everyday) and we’re buttering up corn and loving every bite! What I’m trying to say is I LOVE THE GARDEN IN AUGUST! Btw, check out last month’s update so you can see how much everything has grown!...

Creamy Tomato Velveeta Cheese Dip This is one of my favorite dips to make during the Summer with our fresh roma tomatoes from our garden! It’s so creamy and cheesy that you might need to throw a spoon into the crockpot and give it a taste before serving (I won’t tell anyone!). Made with 2 pounds of tomatoes, a couple sweet peppers (they help balance out the tomato acidity), a block of Velveeta cheese and a sprinkle of salt and pepper, it’s SO EASY to make!...

Dinosaur Ballerina Birthday Cake Enceladus turned 4 last week, and keeping with tradition, every year she tells me what kind of cake she wants and I make it happen. This year she requested “a dinosaur ballerina cake”. So let’s get baking. “Girls like Dinosaurs too” First, a quick shout out to Enceladus who was looking at a dinosaur activity book a few days ago on my computer. We were scrolling and it was picture after picture of only boys....

Moist Buttermilk Cornbread We love cornbread in our house, especially in the Winter months to dip into ground beef chili and potato soup. This homemade cornbread is so fluffy and moist because we’re using buttermilk. Buttermilk is going to provide a softness, while adding body that really takes it next level on the delicious scale. When serving your buttermilk cornbread, add a little butter or honey on top. Yum, it’s perfect!...

Pierogies With Cabbage Pierogies are a food that I had very often as a kid, so it comes as no surprise that I’m making them now for my family! We love potato and cheese pierogies served with cabbage, onions and bacon! If you’ve never tried pierogies and cabbage, or you’re already a pierogi connoisseur, I think you’ll like this recipe! How to Make Pierogies with Cabbage Brown the bacon in a large skillet....

Roasted Brussels Sprouts Recipe I absolutely love roasting Brussels sprouts in the oven! A simple toss with olive oil and salt lets their natural flavors shine. By halving the sprouts while pan roasting, they cook up beautifully crisp and golden on the cut sides, making them so delicious! Just like my roasted mushrooms, roasted broccoli and roasted sugar snap peas, this is a quick to make recipe. You can serve them as a side dish on your dinner table, or throw on top of steamed rice of pasta for a really easy weeknight meal....

Why I Love This Cauliflower Soup Recipe I love slow cooker soup recipes. They are so just so easy to make. This slow cooker soup is filled with healthy vegetables and not a whole lot else. The recipe only calls for 1 cup of shredded cheese which is all it needs to become creamy. You don’t even need any heavy cream or milk! This cauliflower soup is sure to become a new favorite during crockpot season....

Fluffy Chocolate Chip Donuts Love soft and fluffy donuts? Love chocolate frosting? Love chocolate chips? Then do I have a donut recipe for you… The recipe makes a dozen donuts that have mini chocolate chips baked in. On top is a rich chocolate frosting, along with a couple more chocolate chips (because why not!). The donuts are moist, soft and taste just like they’re from the bakery! They’re a must make if you are currently have a donut sweet tooth!...

Right now we’re getting hammered with Lettuce and Bok Choy picking in the garden. For a girl who used to dislike lettuce, I am sure eating it by the handful now.. but that’s another post! This one is all about one of my favorite greens, Bok Choy! Last year we grew some over the Winter in the green house and it worked pretty well but this Spring was the first time we grew them normal like our other plants....

Sometimes people ask me what are the easiest vegetables to grow. Usually I tell them to start by growing garlic or kale but now there’s a new one to add to the list… maybe the top easiest one to grow! What is it? POTATOES! Easy To Grow Potatoes Would you guys believe that we planted these potatoes 3 months ago, did NOTHING, and then came back to find dozens of beautiful potatoes waiting for us to dig out from under the soil?...

Crunchy Dill Pickles Recipe If you know me then you know that I absolutely love pickles! Throw them on a cheeseburger, throw them on sandwich, just throw them in my mouth please! With so many cucumbers to pick in the garden, I always make a couple batches of my favorite Half-Sour Pickles, Cucumber Tomato Salad and fresh Cucumber Sandwiches for lunch… and then I make a couple jars of these crunchy hamburger pickles, to add to our burgers and to make dill pickle soup with!...

Buttered Brussels Sprouts and Mushrooms You know what makes brussels sprouts taste better? Butter. Hahaha. No but seriously, I love brussels sprouts any way – but I can admit that turning these into buttery brussels sprouts and mushrooms makes them extra good! After the brussels sprouts are softened, then you add them in a skillet to saute with juicy mushrooms along with butter. In just a few minutes you’re going to have buttery brussels sprouts and you’re going to start seeing hearts in your eyes!...

Homemade Chinese Chicken and Broccoli Chicken and broccoli is a must-have for your weeknight dinner rotation, thanks to how easy it is to make and how the flavor rivals your favorite takeout. And high five, it tastes even better because you made it in your own kitchen! Seriously, you’re going to be shocked by how you can make this at home now! If you’re new to making Chinese stir-fries at home, this recipe is the perfect starting point....

Easy Blueberry Scones I love blueberry scones, especially served in the afternoon with a cup of coffee or tea. I especially love them taken to the next level when served with clotted cream or raspberry jam – delicious!! These scones are the best of both worlds – flaky and juicy! When blueberries are baked into the scone, they release their juices, creating pockets of moistness and bursts of flavor. Each bite gives a burst of sweet, juicy blueberry goodness flavor!...

Fried Onions Recipe What isn’t there to love about crispy onions? The wonderful crunch! The crispy outside, caramelized inside. The smell! These, onion powder, pickled red onions, caramelized red onions and slow cooker caramelized onions are our favorite to make when we’re picking a large quantity of onions in the garden. If you love the canned fried onions, this is copycat french recipe – but even better due to that it’s homemade!...

This year we wanted to upgrade to a larger space for our seedlings to grow. In the past, we had a large shelf with grow lights, but with the garden getting bigger this year, that means we need more space to grow seedlings. (Tip: Check out my post on how to germinate seeds). We began to look at premade grow carts from all the garden suppliers and were shocked by how much their grow carts cost....