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The Best Chocolate Milkshake Recipe This is our go to “let loose, it’s the weekend” favorite milkshake recipe. It’s chocolaty, it’s creamy, it has a pinch of salt, ooooh it’s just perfect! My family declares it the best chocolate milkshake, so you’ll have to try it for yourself! And did I mention it’s SO easy to make? Throw everything into the blender and boom – milkshake time! 4 Simple Milkshake Ingredients All you need is chocolate ice cream, milk, chocolate syrup (I use Hershey’s) and salt....

“Best”. I know that’s pretty bold, but this applesauce is just that good. Recipes don’t have to be fancy to be good, and this easy applesauce will prove that in 20 minutes. After eating a spoonful I think you’ll agree this is the best too! Ingredients The ingredients are incredibly basic, you probably already have everything! If you want to double or triple this recipe, just adjust the ingredient amounts....

Apple Pineapple Juice Recipe You guys loved my 1-ingredient apple juice (hint: only apples!) so I thought I’d share a new easy juice recipe. Not only is this Apple Pineapple Juice delicious, but it’s SO easy! First of all, you only need two ingredients – pineapple and apple! And then you just throw it all in the blender, and your juice is ready. Here’s a recipe video I made to show you how to make it!...

As the song goes, Christmas time is the most wonderful time of the year! Make it even better with this easy sugar cookie recipe. There are few things more magical than making Christmas cookies with the family during the holidays. Decorating a batch of cookies is so much fun (and eating them is even better)! Kids will love the fun shapes of these cut-out cookies while your friends and family admire your baking skills....

The best juicy turkey recipe with butter This is the best Thanksgiving turkey I’ve ever made! Extra moist and full of flavor, you’re going to fall in love with this Juicy Thanksgiving Turkey on the first bite just like I did. This juicy turkey is surrounded by butter, herbs, chicken stock, and fresh vegetables in the roasting pan. The drippings naturally moisten and tenderize the vegetables while the butter penetrates through the meat....

One Pan Taco Casserole Let’s have a Taco Tuesday in Casserole form! We love Mexican food in our house. From Taco Casserole to Mexican Lasagna to Chicken Tortilla Soup and everything in between! For this Taco Tuesday recipe we’re going to turn it into a quick casserole – using only one pan. The casserole includes lettuces, tomatoes and corn on top and is made with Instant rice making it super quick!...

You can never go wrong with Rocky Road desserts, I find that sweets such as Rocky Road Ice Cream and Rocky Road Cheesecake are always a hit! With the ooey gooey marshmallow, crunchy nuts and chocolate deliciousness, I always get rave reviews when I serve them at parties. Brownies are amazing on their own, but when you add a hefty dose of marshmallow fluff to the mix, you end up with a unique and decadent dessert that people go crazy over!...

Remember when we bought the raw shipping container? Remember when we painted the interior of the shipping container? Remember when we redid the flooring of the shipping container? Well you guys……it’s done (for now!). Here’s our Shipping Container Home Reveal! A quick little note about the project if you’re a new reader. We bought land in Upstate New York to build a eco friendly weekend home. We’ve always been interested in recycling a shipping container to use for a Summer getaway, so that’s what we did....

We’re picking tomatoes like wild people but we’re also picking a ton of other vegetables. Right now there’s tomatillos, peppers (jalapeno and bell), soy beans, green beans, yellow beans, watermelon, cantaloupes, cucumbers, radishes and carrots growing. As soon as the soybeans are picked, broccoli will make it’s way to their bins. Once the carrots and radishes are harvested, a quick seed refresh will be planted to hope we can get them regrown by first frost....

White Chocolate Toffee Have you ever made a recipe that gets eaten so quickly you wonder “How did that happen”? Yup, that’s what happened with me and this White Chocolate Toffee. I had no idea it was going to be such a hit! When I first made them I had no idea Matthew and I were going to be fighting each other for the last one – they’re that good! This easy to make toffee is made with 5 simple ingredients that you most likely already have in your kitchen!...

Asian Marinated Cucumbers If I showed you my refrigerator right now you’d gasp at the amount of mason jars full of pickles. There is alot, it’s kinda frightening at the amount of pickles that are in there. You would think I’m hoarding pickles for the apocalypse. Because I can’t fit any more pickles in my refrigerator and I have run out of mason jars I got to thinking what else I could do with our garden cucumbers....

What I love: cookies, bananas, banana bread. What I don’t love: overripe, brown bananas. With a bunch of bananas in the kitchen ripening quickly, there’s only one thing to do… make Banana Oat Cookies! Do you have a fear of ripe, brown bananas too? It seems, lately, my bananas have been ripening at a much quicker speed than usual. I like to eat bananas when they hit that perfect spot of just turning yellow – but no brown spots on them yet....

My husband won’t stop talking about these Chocolate Chip Cookies! He recently told me they were his favorite cookies that I make, which surprised me. After all, they were kinda a accident….! I was craving cookies so I decided I was going to make my favorite chocolate chip cookies. I got out all the bowls and supplies, except the flour. That’s because I quickly realized we were all out of all purpose flour!...

Cream puffs are a classic French dessert that is soft and will melt in your mouth. While a choux pastry recipe might sound complicated, this cream puff recipe is super easy to make and irresistibly delicious! As the saying goes, “The proof is in the pudding”! I wanted to make a easy filling so I use a box of instant vanilla pudding to make cream puffs just like how I remember as a kid!...

Did you wake up recently and there was snow on the ground? If so, what do you do? Do you grumble because you have to march outside and shovel right away? Do you grab a cup of tea and cat, sit near the window and admire the white wintry beauty? Do you throw on your boots and run out and play in the snow no matter what your age? I fall into the 2 last categories....

Best Pumpkin Pie Recipe Pumpkins are one of my favorite things to grow in the garden (shh, don’t tell the other vegetables!). Not only do I get to decorate our apartment with beautiful pumpkins, but I get to make my favorite pumpkin pie recipe with them too! If you can use fresh pumpkin for this recipe, please do, it really elevates the taste of a homemade pumpkin pie! If you’ve never made fresh pumpkin purée before, here’s how to make homemade pumpkin puree....

Why I love these Chocolate Butter Cake Bars I’m writing this post on Election Day so nerves are high in my home. I’m anxious. I’m nervous. I turn the TV on. I turn the TV off. I open the refrigerator 50 times. I hug my daughters 250 times. Ok, it’s that time. I need comfort food. Bring on these Gooey Chocolate Butter Cake bars! Here’s a quick video I made to show you how simple it is to make....

It’s the beginning of March which means your garden has already crossed your mind. We’ll start planting our seeds indoors (tip: check out my post on how to germinate seeds!) in about a week for our Spring garden, but it’s never too early to start planning for Summer. Whenever I post a black bean recipe I get a few readers that say they want to grow black beans. You know what?...

That’s how I feel about this recipe, it’s absolutely magical. I think most times when we think of tomato sauce it doesn’t have that kick to it, but this Spicy Italian Crushed Tomato Sauce definitely has some spice. It’s not overly spicy, but there’s enough that gives it a extra zip zap taste. Also, can we talk about the aroma that that this sauce has? It’s delicious. If you give this sauce a shot, just watch your kitchen start to fill up with people asking when dinner is ready....