Since we moved into our new house, it’s become family holiday central. We have family travel in for Thanksgiving and Christmas each year for the big family meal. Some family members stay for the holiday weekend while others just come for the day. When everyone is present, we have 20+ adults and children in the…
Easter
Creamy Macaroni and Cheese
Andy has been asking for homemade macaroni and cheese for days. Not the stuff in the box! I like it the way my great grandmother made it and taught me to make it. Creamy and warm macaroni and cheese is a holiday staple in my family. But Andy asked, this week, why we have it…
Play With Your Food: Peeps Dioramas
Hi All! It is close enough to spring to play with some Peeps. I love how you can use props and make them do anything. Here are a few for your enjoyment.
Fresh Green Bean Casserole
Are you ready for the holidays? Boy Howdy — here we go! This recipe is for Fresh Green Bean Casserole instead of the kind you make with canned green beans. That one get a bit mushy, don’t you think? It is pretty straight forward and I think you will love it — you can, like…
Easy Coke Ham
Hi Everyone! Top Girl, here, with a super simple way to prepare your ham for the holidays. Ham is my favorite meat for pretty much any holiday. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter…I would always pick ham. Oh, and this is my first official post as part of Kelli’s Kitchen. I picked up an Appleton Farms Smoked Shank…
Mac and Cheese with Crab and a Giveaway
This Mac and Cheese with Crab recipe is one of the most decadent dishes I have ever made and I want you to have it so you may also make it this week for a potluck or the holiday. I’ve never put anything in my macaroni and cheese besides cheese so this was a big…
Green Pea Salad
This recipe is another from the files of my Nana – she took it to potlucks, especially at church and you could almost always count on making this along with a peach cobbler and some of her macaroni and cheese if someone passed away that we knew. As you know, I have been eating smarter…
Steakhouse Strawberry Lemonade
Last Saturday Top Girl and I went shopping where at some point we decided to get a bite to eat. We drove to our favorite sit-down place to eat on Saturday only to be told the wait would be almost an hour! We left, walking across the parking lot to one of the chain steak…
Cinnamon Rolls with Maple Glaze
First, let me say these Cinnamon Rolls with Maple Glaze are ridiculously luscious, moist, and tender. I’ve been searching for something new to make mom for her birthday. The last few years I’ve been making her that pineapple cake with coconut pecan icing so this year I wanted something different. Mom loves a good cinnamon…
Orange Sponge Cake
This Orange Sponge Cake is perfect to make after you’ve made meringue cookies, meringue for a pie or an angel food cake because it uses up all the egg yolks you didn’t use in the other! I am sorry we haven’t been together for a few weeks but here’s what happened: two days after…