Delicious Recipes to Keep my Family of Four Happy and Full
My son is pretty much obsessed with hot dogs right now. He wants them every.single.night. Of course, that gets a little boring for the rest of us so I’ve started adding in different items when I am cooking his hot dogs. One of our current favorite things {and it turns out E’s too} are grilled sausages. While cooking dinner the other night, I came up with these three ideas for sausage recipes.
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I have the world’s worst black thumb. Until recently, the only plant I have been able to keep alive is a Christmas cactus that I was given as a gift when my grandfather died years ago. That changed recently when I purchased a hydroponic basil plant because they were out of regular basil. On a whim, I decided to plant it and it has been flourishing ever since. The more it grows, the more I realize that I need to find ways to use it and I collected 21 recipes with basil.
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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Southern Breeze Sweet Tea.
Summer is here and it is a hot and steamy one. Yesterday had temperatures near a 100 and it had me searching high and low for summer refreshments. Something super cool is what I needed to help me cool down. In my search, I came across these nine tasty summer drinks that I will be keeping close at hand for all of the hot and steamy days to come.
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I love ceviche but don’t get the chance to eat it very often. I had been dreaming of it ever since we went on the Miami Culinary tour during Blogher Food so I dragged Mathlete to the Mexican place that I usually order it from. They have the most amazing shrimp ceviche. Well, #sadpandaface, they don’t have it anymore! The only ceviche they have has scallops and I really dislike scallops. So, I decided I was going to make it at home and made spicy tilapia ceviche for dinner one evening.
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If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you know I am a wine lover. There are few pleasures that I enjoy more than sitting down to relax with a glass of wine in the evening. On a free weekend, you will most definitely find us at one of the local vineyards with a picnic. 
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So, we had a brief bit of amazing weather over the last weekend where it was actually cool enough for a light sweater in the evenings. I loved every minute of it. Of course, being summer, it didn’t last long and we are right back to super hot temperatures. When the weather gets that way, I crave cool drinks and icy treats for dessert. Milkshakes are one of my favorite sweet treats during summer and I’ve found 11 delicious milkshakes that you have to try!
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Every January, our house gets so excited because it is Girl Scout cookie time. By the end of the month, we are all out of the delicious cookies and it is sad faces all around. While shopping in Walmart the other day, I discovered THE BEST thing in the check out aisle. NESTLÉ® CRUNCH® Girl Scouts® Candy Bars which totally allows us to get our Girl Scouts® cookie fix even though it isn’t cookie season. I totally grabbed all of the Thin Mints® bars they had in the aisle and brought them home. We usually freeze our cookies to get them nice and cold but I decided to make Thin Mints® Ice Cream Pie with the candy bars instead.
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Starting in about mid-May, there is one thing you know you will find on our weekly menu: recipes for the grill. I love getting outside to cook and the taste of grilled food just can’t be beat. Of course, it helps keep the house cool and we end up with a lot less clean up too which is a big plus. To keep me inspired and give you a little inspiration to get out and grill, I rounded up 21 great recipes for the grill.
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Nothing brings the images of summer to life more than lemonade. Picture kids on the corner with their adorable lemonade stands or settling under the beach umbrella with a cool lemonade in your hand. I wanted to capture that feeling in a delicious dessert and came up with these amazing strawberry lemonade cheesecake bars. And by amazing, I mean the best cheesecake bars EVER!
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The weather has warmed up and that means lots of grilling. One of our favorite things to enjoy on the grill are hamburgers. Of course, I get bored easily so our burgers don’t typically just consist of ketchup and mustard. For Memorial Day, we cooked burgers on the grill and I made a jalapeno ranch Colby burger.
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