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We are Bruce and Dina. We make dinner every night, and love sharing our recipes with you. You will find healthy, and indulgent recipes, plus cocktails! Stop by and sign up for our e mail list!
Cast Iron Cornbread
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With 10 ingredients and about 30 minutes, you can have this totally drool worthy cast iron cornbread! We make this to go with our turkey chili, and it makes the perfect side dish.
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Ground Turkey Chili
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Make a big batch of this slow cooker ground turkey chili for your next get together! We love adding cheese, avocado and limes to add to the bowl! Serve for your next football party!
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Cinnamon Apple Rolls
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Cinnamon apple rolls are a huge hit over at our house. Tart apples are the best for this recipe, to compliment the brown sugar and cinnamon.
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Butter Pecan Layer Cake
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In this recipe, you will find that toasting the pecans in butter, really brings out the nutty flavor. Allowing the nuts to cool & mixing them into the butter cream frosting makes it next level!
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Halloween Sweet & Salty Snack Mix
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Halloween snack mix is a must for every Halloween party. What everyone seems to be surprised at is even if they hate candy corn they love this mix! Tastes like a Pay Day candy bar!
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Sweet & Savory Baked Brie
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This recipe makes 1 big set of sweet and savory baked brie bites. Or, you can use the 2nd sheet of puff pastry to make a super easy baked brie galette! Mix and match, and have fun with this!
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Pumpkin Spice Waffles with Roasted Pecans
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First, pumpkin spice waffles just got better. Obviously, you must be thinking, “no way”. Way. Besides the pumpkin spice, we topped them with sweet and spicy pecans!
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Cheesy No Boil Lasagna with Italian Sausage and Spinach Featured
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No boil lasagna is such an easy, and cheesy dish to make. This recipe will make one large lasagna, or 2 small lasagnas. We like making 2, one for now, one for later!
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Green Apple Martini
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This green apple martini is made with fresh Granny Smith apples! Make it with vodka or gin for a crisp tasty cocktail!
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Pink Peppercorn Apple Simple Syrup
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This pink peppercorn apple simple syrup is perfect for Autumn Cocktails. It has the taste of apples, a bite from the peppercorns, and the rosy color from hibiscus or passion fruit tea!
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Pink Apple Martini
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A pink apple martini is a recent addition to my cocktail collection. The pink is from pink peppercorns and hibiscus tea. And the taste is amazing!
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Sweet and Spicy Roasted Pecan Waffles
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These pecan waffles have a spicy kick to them. We love sweet maple syrup, but sometimes we just want a little savory to balance out that sweetness! Enter Sweet and Spicy Pecan Waffles!
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Roasted Tomato Risotto
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The great thing about this roasted tomato risotto, is that it takes just a few ingredients, and can be made year round.
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Sweet Potato Barley Vegetable Soup
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At this time we are all looking for easy meals, like vegetable soup. Fortunately, you should have most of the ingredients in your pantry or freezer! This makes a big batch! Perfect for lunch!
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Sourdough Pizza Dough
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Sourdough pizza dough is easy to make ahead so pizza night is a snap! Basically, you already have the sourdough starter, for your bread baking, so you may as well use it for pizza dough, right?
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Tomato Tart
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This tomato tart is super easy to make with just a few ingredients. It is great served for breakfast, lunch or dinner!
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Party Food and Drink Pairings
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Every season is party season, as far as we are concerned! And we brought you just a few party food and drink pairings to consider for your next get together! Lake food! Tailgating! We got you covered!
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