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One mini cheesecake with huckleberry topping on piece of white parchment paper.

Cheesecake
White bowl with salad tongs and mixed salad of baby greens, chopped apples, feta cheese, cooked bacon, craisins, and pumpkin seeds.

Salad
Spoonful of overnight chia oats.

Breakfast
Top-down view of a white bowl with flatbread, white rice, and diced chicken in an orange Indian-style sauce, topped with fresh cilantro.

Chicken

Tried-and-True Recipes From My Kitchen to Yours

Three halves of crispy chicken wraps stacked on wooden board with cherry tomatoes.

Main Dish
Half of a biscuit with butter and jam.

Sourdough
Half of chocolate cookie stacked on another cookie on white parchment paper.

Chocolate
Saucy Mexican beef enchiladas on white plate with sour cream and salsa.

Instant Pot
Half of a turkey avocado veggie wrap stacked on two other wraps on white plate.

Healthy
crunchy baked french toast sticks on white plate with powdered sugar and syrup

Breakfast
Salad greens, mandarin oranges, pomegranate arils, candied nuts and feta cheese on white plate.

Salad
square of peaches and cream dessert on metal spatula

No-Bake

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Easter

Two mini quiche from the mini quiche recipe on white napkin

Mini Ham and Cheese Quiches
Baked soft and fluffy dinner roll on white plate.

Perfect Soft and Fluffy Dinner Rolls
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Sweet Baked Ham
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The Best Carrot Cake with Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting
Easter
Mel in pasture with two miniature donkeys

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I’m Mel! I live in Idaho with my husband, 5 kids, and selection of weird farm animals. Mostly, I love dark chocolate and joggers (not jogging).

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Stack of homemade breadsticks on wooden tray.

Divine 1-Hour Homemade Breadsticks
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Closeup of honey lime fruit salad.

Honey Lime Fruit Salad
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Fork flaking filet of baked salmon with roasted potatoes and asparagus on sheet pan.

Sheet Pan Lemon Garlic Salmon with Potatoes and Asparagus
Two triangle-shaped baked lemon blueberry scones on white plate.

Amazing Lemon Blueberry Scones
Skillet with chicken, zucchini, parmesan and wooden spoon.

Skillet Lemon Parmesan Chicken and Zucchini
Three and a half stacked lemon sugar cookies on parchment paper.

Easy Soft and Chewy Lemon Sugar Cookies {No Rolling or Cutting Out}
Lemon
two layer slice of lemon blueberry cake with lemon frosting

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Lemon Blueberry Cake with Whipped Lemon Cream Frosting

This lemon blueberry cake is a show stopper! Soft, fluffy and perfectly lemony, the cake is perfection, and the whipped lemon frosting is divine.

Lemon Blueberry Cake with Whipped Lemon Cream Frosting

The Best Drinks

Tall glass filled with frosted lemonade with striped straws and lemon slice for garnish.

Whipped Frosted Lemonade
Top down view of red punch in glass pitcher with sliced oranges and strawberries.

The Best Party Punch
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Ginger Ale Mint Limeade
Frozen hot chocolate in clear glass with whipped cream and straw.

Easy 3-Ingredient Frozen Hot Chocolate

what to eat this week
Weekly Meal Plan

Gray plate with rice and saucy chicken tenders.

Sweet Spicy Sticky Chicken
BBQ pork sandwich on bun on white plate

The Best BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches {Instant Pot or Slow Cooker}
Lifting unstuffed chicken cordon bleu with spatula.

Sheet Pan Unstuffed Chicken Cordon Bleu with Roasted Broccoli
three crispy shrimp tacos in flour tortillas with lettuce on white tray

Baked Crispy Shrimp Tacos
Baked pepperoni pizza with golden crust on parchment paper.

Quick and Easy Foolproof Pizza Dough
lemon chicken pasta with Parmesan in white dish

Beach Street Lemon Chicken Pasta
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