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    Apple Crisp Stuffed Apples

    Fall is the perfect food season in the Midwest in my opinion. Along with that comes all sort of fun Fall activities, like apple picking! Which we got to go and do this past weekend. The girls had an absolute blast and this mama got all kinds of fresh apples to cook and bake with. Top 3 recipes that you don’t expect to make with apples from apple picking 1. Apple Crisp stuffed apples This is a super simple recipe that makes a great weekend or even week night dessert. The kids loved it and it was not super sweet. You can eat them on their own or with frozen yogurt or ice…

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    White Chocolate Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Blondies

    Well, that is a mouthful to say… BUT the real treat is a mouthful of these incredible blondies. These blondies scream Fall with the pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice and white chocolate chips! OOOOO MMMMM GGGG!!!! To say these are one of my favorite Fall desserts would be an under statement, these may be one of my favorite… Period! Which is saying a lot for me because I do not usually jump on the Pumpkin spice anything bandwagon. What makes these blondies so delicious is that they have everything you could want in a dessert. They are creamy and crunchy and sweet, nut not too sweet and have those warm Fall spices. Not only…

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    Simple and Delicious Sweet Potato Mac and Cheese

    Like most moms, I am always looking for ways to get more veggies into the kiddos. This is an awesome recipe to get some sweet potatoes into them. It uses their absolute favorite food vehicle, Mac and cheese. Which they could live on breakfast, lunch and dinner if I let them. This recipe comes together super quickly and easily and my girls gobbled it up. It was also yummy enough that I would also eat it any day of the week! The kids can make this one with you or for the little bit older ones, they can make this for you. We do the sweet potato in the microwave, so just be…

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    Quick and Simple Apple Topping

    Today it definitely started feeling like Fall weather outside. Fall for sure means Pumpkins, warn spices, and APPLES!! Yep, apples are the best in the Fall. Especially if you go apple picking and get them fresh from the tree. I know that we are all looking for fun and easy ways to use up all of those yummy Fall apples and this recipe is super simple and easy. We put it on top of pancakes, Emoji pancakes to be specific! That is all that I am allowed to make in my house these days! Yet, they are perfect on any pancake, french toast, waffle or even on ice cream. This would be incredible…

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    Blueberry Peach Crumble

    This was the perfect end of Summer dessert. I made this dessert for a Labor Day party that we went to today and it was a huge hit. I have made countless crumbles between work and home. This was definitely a keeper recipe. I did something slightly different than I normally do in the topping. Instead of adding chunks of butter or even just straight melted butter… I used brown butter in this crumble. I also used brown sugar in the topping versus regular sugar. The nutty addition of the brown butter and the slight molasses flavor in the brown sugar both complimented the fruit perfectly. I always say to use recipes as…

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    Homemade Peach Pie

    One of my favorite things about Summer is in season stone fruit. I absolutely love peaches, nectarines and plums. I love to just eat them whole. I also really love them cooked. Whether it be grilled, baked in a pie, in a crumble or just baked on their own and served with vanilla ice cream. So, you can only imagine how excited I was to learn when I started dating my now husband, that his parents grow peaches in the back yard!! What?? Home grown stone fruit for Summer… YAAAASSSS!!!!! It was like I hit the mother load! I always enjoy the peaches that they send home for us, but this year was…

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    3 Ingredient Popsicles

    Summer time is the best time for cold treats!! Who doesn’t love a Popsicle? My daughters looooove them some popsicles! They call them popals!! There are some amazing store bought varieties BUT, I love controlling how much sugar they have. So, making them allows me to do that and to know what is going into them. These are the simplest and tastiest popsicles and you can change them up super easily. You can just swap out the fruit that you use. In these I used peaches, but we have also done this recipe with berries and pineapple! The sky is the limit with whatever fruit you have available. In these I used frozen…

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    Unicorn Cookies

    I am always on the look out for fun new things to use in the kitchen with the girls! A few months back I found Frozen chips and we made cookies with those! Well, I was at our local grocery store and I found Unicorn chips! As a girl mom, I HAD to get them! My oldest daughter, who is almost 3 years old, was especially excited for these! So is all about unicorns and rainbows and anything colorful and girly! My younger daughter, 20 months, was excited because her sister was excited! HAHAHA! https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.kuti.3/videos/10220916279589587/ Cookies, Brownies or Cupcakes I was trying to decide if we should make cookies, brownies or cupcakes with…

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    Tomato Basil Cream Sauce

    We go to a lot of big Italian family parties, (well, pre-Covid we did)! These parties are for baptisms, first birthdays, weddings, baby showers… you know, the BIG events! Being that we are a BIG Italian family we usually have some sort of pasta course at these events. More often than not, it will be vodka sauce, which I love!! My hubs always just wants marinara.. but the girls have grown to really enjoy the vodka sauce,(alcohol cooks out!!)! I normally don’t make other sauces at home because my the hubby doesn’t like the cream sauces. Well, about a month ago we celebrated our wedding anniversary and my mom sent us dinner in…

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    Donut Holes

    I have made a bunch of different recipes/versions of donut hole between work and home. This was by far the simplest and quickest recipe I have ever made. They were also delicious! The girls loved making them with me and loved eating them even more!! Donuts or Donut Holes?? I love me an amazing, like artisan style donut that I can enjoy slowly with a great cup of coffee or hot tea. There are specialty donut shops all over the city of Chicago and suburbs with some incredible artisan donuts!! We are spolied with being able to get a great donut!! I will say though, for the kiddos and for the “everyday” in…