New Year's Party Shooters

New Years Eve is the perfect occasion to serve cocktail shooters.  You can mix up a batch of a few of your favorites and serve them all night with plastic shot cups or shooter vials.  Both are available at your local party stores.

New Year's Party Appetizers

There is no better food option on New Year's Eve than finger food and appetizers!  We have picked out our favorites to share with you.  These disappear like magic at our parties and I am sure they will be a huge hit at yours too!

Cookie Party 2012 - Week 3

Are you busy baking your favorite Christmas cookies or looking for amazing cookie recipes for your holiday celebrations? Then you need to check out our fabulous cookie party.  It is a 4 week long celebration and it already has over Cookie 250 amazing cookie recipes shared!  Have you shared yours yet???

Candy Cane Shooters

Continuing our Cookies and Cocktails party this week with this fantabulous Candy Cane Shooter, loaded with peppermint flavor, amaretto to wake up your taste buds and the creme de cacao makes this cocktail smooth, creamy and incredible!

Cheesy Bacon Chicken Pierogi Bake in 30 Minutes

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We are taking a little break from cookie baking to help you get through the busy season with delicious meals in half an hour!  Today we bring you a twist on one of my favorite casseroles that is taken to a whole new level with the irresistible flavor of bacon. Smoky bacon infuses a creamy cheese sauce and combines with herbs and spices to create an incredibly decadent cheese sauce that is perfect for this dish...

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Check out these fantastic, quick and easy dishes from our Simple Kitchen: Creating delicious meals in a snap!   Click on the image or the link and it will open each one in a new tab.

Italian Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta Bake in just 30 Minutes

With Christmas quickly approaching, time is a very precious commodity.  Whether you are preparing a meal for your family or a dinner party for friends, you can put a gourmet meal on the table in only 30 minutes.

This Italian Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta Bake has everything your dinner guests could possibly desire, tender tubes of rigatoni are baked in a scrumptious, flavorful Italian cheese sauce. The pasta is tossed with...

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Check out these fantastic, quick and easy dishes from our Simple Kitchen: Creating delicious meals in a snap!   Click on the image or the link and it will open each one in a new tab.

National Blogging Day of Remembrance

Our hearts ache. I have no words, only prayers. ♥ ♥ ♥ We will be back on Tuesday. 

Love you all! 

With love, Donna, Chad and Munchkin

The Genuine Candy Cane Martini

No flavor 'says' Christmas quite like peppermint.  The candy cane is the perfect celebration of this fabulous flavor.  Chad can't seem to get enough candy cane.  We have been enjoying candy canes in ice cream, cookies, cakes, hot cocoa...  Well you had to know a candy cane cocktail was just around the corner.

Green Chile and Cheese Sausage Poppers

Picking party food is tough for any occassion, but when you gather your closest friends and family you really want them to enjoy themselves.  My 'crew' is pretty laid back.  It's all about the company with us.  But, lets say we are never hurting in the food department. 

Finger food is the perfect dinner for our parties. For our Christmas party I decided

Feeling under the Weather and the Magic of Chicken Noodle Soup

Things are sooo busy this time of year and I am sure we have overextended ourselves as usual.  Getting to bed right before the sun comes up sure puts a challenge on having a good day.

Well, I think our bodies are telling us something and we are feel really worn down.  We don't need a doctor to cure this situation. This calls for MAGIC SOUP.

Christmas Sugar Cookies

The days are escaping quickly which is a pretty good indication that Christmas is almost here.  Another sign would be the four batches of sugar cookie dough that are chilling in the fridge waiting to be rolled and cut.  Cookies to ship, cookies to go into Christmas gifts and also ones to fill the gratitude baskets we give out each year (to the people who have touched our lives - mail carrier, bank teller, mechanic, neighbor, cashier at Wal-mart.  Anyone who has been special to us this year). 

Cookie Party Blowout 2012!!! - Week 1

Are you busy baking your favorite Christmas cookies or looking for amazing cookie recipes for your holiday celebrations? Then you need to check out our fabulous cookie party.  It is a 4 week long celebration and it already has over 50 amazing cookie recipes shared!

Grandma's Sugar Cookie Martini

Sugar cookies are the most popular cookie around these parts (in my life).  That is the one cookie that I am known for and it is HIGHLY requested every year.  "What can I bring to Christmas?"  "Your star cookies!!!".  Well, last year I was so busy with commitments that I did not make any for Christmas.  You would have thought I had brought coal for everyone when they realized there were no cookies.  I am pretty sure that if that happens again this year I will be kicked out.

My Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

I know it is hard to believe that in 19 months of blogging you don't know all of my secrets yet. 

Ravioli and Sausage Skillet in 30 minutes!

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Looking for an impressive holiday dinner?  Ravioli and Sausage Skillet is it! 

Candy Cane Crinkle Cookies - Two Post Tuesday and a Cookie Party

Peppermint is absolutely my husbands favorite holiday flavor.  He would probably eat peppermint burgers if they were available.  Peppermint ice cream (coming soon), candies, peppermint covered treats, peppermint cakes and cupcakes...  Well I decided to transform a favorite cookie of ours into a candy cane cookie to surprise him.  I served these at our Christmas party and they were devoured.

Spiced Eggnog Cookies

The holiday baking season wouldn't be quite the same without a few flavors.   Eggnog and peppermint are two of those flavors and when I started planning out my baking this year I decided to begin there.