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Poblano Chicken Chili: Instant Pot Easy & Delish!

poblano chicken chili with sour cream, shredded cheddar and minced cilantro

Poblano Chick­en Chili is a recipe I dreamed up for the Instant Pot I received this Christ­mas. It’s creamy, spicy, and deli­cious­ly savory com­­fort-food at it’s absolute finest!  Stud­ded with chunks of ten­der chick­en and pops of sweet­ness from the corn, this chick­en chili isn’t quite like any you’ve ever tast­ed. The soup starts with…

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Easy Homemade Gyro Meat Recipe

gyro sandwich with homemade gyro meat

Easy Home­made Gyro Meat is a savory and herba­ceous com­bi­na­tion of ground lamb and ground beef with a dis­tinct­ly Mediterranean/ Mid­dle East­ern fla­vor pro­file. Mine is, of course, an Amer­i­can­ized ver­sion of this deli­cious dish, uti­liz­ing ingre­di­ents read­i­ly avail­able to me. It’s not an easy thing with all that’s going on in the world to just…

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Homemade Tzatziki Sauce

homemade tzatziki sauce in a blue bowl with pita chips

Tzatzi­ki Sauce is cool, creamy, cucum­ber deli­cious­ness with a hint of dill and gar­lic! The creamy ele­ment comes from Greek yogurt, though if you’re dairy-free, I’ll bet coconut yogurt could work.  Tzatzi­ki is a beau­ti­ful dip for pita chips and fresh veg­gies. It can be used as a meat mari­nade, sand­wich spread, as an ingre­di­ent in…

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Yellow Chicken Curry with Potatoes and Peas

Yellow Chicken Curry with Potatoes and Peas over mashed sweet potatoes

Yel­low Chick­en Cur­ry with Pota­toes and Peas is one of my new favorite recipes! It explodes with earthy, savory fla­vors and the heat­ed kick of chilies. Coconut milk/cream cre­ates a lus­cious, silky sauce that helps tem­per the heat from the pep­pers and the sweet pop of peas bal­ances the entire dish. It’s inde­scrib­ably deli­cious! Years…

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Oatmeal Cookies | How to Make the World’s Best

oatmeal cookies and milk

Oat­meal Cook­ies are that base cook­ie recipe that every­one needs in their reper­toire. From that one basic recipe, you can cre­ate a myr­i­ad of deli­cious­ly dif­fer­ent cook­ies. This one is now my go-to oat­meal cook­ie, the begin­ning of all our fam­i­ly favorites. I start­ed play­ing around with and tweak­ing our old recipe and this new…

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Yellow Curry Paste | Simply Homemade Delicious

homemade yellow curry paste

My Home­made Yel­low Cur­ry Paste is thick, savory and lus­cious. It has a slight­ly spicy kick, but it’s not over the top, and there are beau­ti­ful cit­rus notes to com­ple­ment the fla­vor­ful herbs and spices.  Like so many eth­nic recipes that are cooked in the Unit­ed States, I can’t call this cur­ry paste tra­di­tion­al or…

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Homemade Beef Summer Sausage

Homemade Beef Summer Sausage on wooden board with marble jack cheese and whole grain crackers

My Home­made Beef Sum­mer Sausage recipe is a scrump­tious­ly sat­is­fy­ing and savory option for your hol­i­day appe­tiz­ers, meat and cheese trays, char­cu­terie boards or any time you want a deli­cious snack! 

Hon­est­ly, it would be great in hol­i­day gift bas­kets, too. 

It is beefy, salty, smoky good­ness. You can mix the sim­ple ingre­di­ents togeth­er in just min­utes and then just kind of for­get about it until it’s time to bake it up.
Get the easy recipe on the blog, today! And be sure to check the bot­tom of the post for some oth­er great appe­tiz­er recipes!

#beef #home­made #sausage #appe­tiz­ers #glen­daem­breeeats

Best Slow Cooker Ham: 3‑Ingredient Simple

best slow cooker ham

My Best Slow Cook­er Ham is deli­cious­ly ten­der, smoky, savory and just the slight­est touch of sweet. Per­fect, real­ly. lol No, seri­ous­ly, you guys. It’s so good! Serv­ing ham always makes the meal feel a lit­tle bit cel­e­bra­to­ry and yet, cook­ing a ham is very sim­ple. I’m not sure why we don’t do it more often. As…

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Perfect Pulled Pork: 2‑Ingredient Easy

perfect pulled pork sandwich on a white plate

Per­fect Pulled Pork is easy to achieve with your slow cook­er. In 5 min­utes or less, you can get this tasty dish start­ed and get on with your day. It’s one of my favorite meals for hec­tic days, because it requires so lit­tle time and effort. It also yields a fla­vor­ful, scrump­tious sup­per with left­overs to…

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Easy No-Bake Cookies: Quick Chocolate Satisfaction!

easy no-bake cookies cooling on a silpat

Easy No-Bake Cook­ies will sat­is­fy deep-seat­ed choco­late crav­ings with only sev­en every­day pantry ingre­di­ents and about 15 min­utes of prep time! Deli­cious, choco­late and peanut but­ter sat­is­fac­tion! These cook­ies are so easy you’ll nev­er hes­i­tate to whip up a batch, day or night! Mak­ing Easy No-Bake Cook­ies These scrump­tious no-bake cook­ies come togeth­er eas­i­ly. Add but­ter, sugar,…

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Sour Cream Spice Cake: a Scrumptious Nod to Fall

sour cream spice cake on a serving plate

Sour Cream Spice Cake is every­thing you love about fall bak­ing in one delec­tably sim­ple dessert. The warm spices we asso­ciate with autumn and the hol­i­days, (name­ly cin­na­mon, nut­meg, gin­ger and clove), are del­i­cate­ly bal­anced with cit­rus. in this moist and ten­der cake. Dark brown sug­ar brings carame­ly rich­ness and pecans add delight­ful tex­ture. The…

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Quick Pickled Jalapenos (and Quick Pickled Vegetables)

quick pickled jalapenos

I love quick pick­led jalapenos — well any veg­etable, real­ly! They’re that per­fect crunchy, acidic bite to com­ple­ment the rich, cheesy, fat­ty com­fort foods that we all love. Pick­led Jalapenos are per­fect in tacos, sand­wich­es and sal­ads that need a spicy kick. They’re great on meat dish­es and can even be a good addi­tion to…

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Apple Crisp | Autumn Bliss

apple crisp

Apple Crisp is such a clas­sic autumn dessert. When I bake it and see my fam­i­ly’s enthu­si­asm, I feel bad that I haven’t made it in so long. But, it real­ly is a fall clas­sic. Apples are at their crisp, juicy peak and the cool­ing weath­er nat­u­ral­ly inspires more bak­ing. The warm aro­mas of brown…

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Bean Soup | Easy & Delicious

bean soup with sausage and vegetables in a bowl

Bean Soup is a deli­cious and savory com­fort food sup­per that will sat­is­fy your hun­gry fam­i­ly, even on a busy week­night. It’s a fla­vor­ful, fill­ing and fiber-rich. Using canned beans, instead of dry, allows you to get it on the table in around 45 min­utes. There’s no need for spe­cial trips to the gro­cery store. My…

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Biscuits | Quick & Easy Homemade Bread for Any Meal

biscuits on a plate with butter and honey

Bis­cuits are the eas­i­est way to put home­made bread on the table for any meal. They are but­tery and deli­cious — crisp tops and bot­toms — soft, ten­der lay­ers inside. Home­made bis­cuits can be mixed up quick­ly. They only need 12 min­utes in the oven. When­ev­er I make this scrump­tious bread, I kick myself for not…

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Potato Salad | My Secret Ingredient to Make it Perfect

perfect potato salad

Pota­to Sal­ad is one of those dish­es that can become very per­son­al depend­ing on where, geo­graph­i­cal­ly, you grew up. There are just some recipes that we tend to make the way they have always been made through gen­er­a­tions in our fam­i­ly. Two exam­ples of that are coleslaw and pota­to sal­ad. My fam­i­ly is the same. Most…

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Creamy Chicken Enchiladas | Favorite Comfort Food

creamy chicken enchiladas

Creamy Chick­en Enchi­ladas are a fam­i­­ly-favorite com­fort food meal. These scrump­tious­ly creamy and cheesy pil­lows of chick­en delight are hot on the plate in 5‑minutes with my easy-prep method. I have made them for our fam­i­ly and friends for at least two decades. They are as pop­u­lar now, as the first time I served them. …

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Bean Salad | Simple and Delicious

bean salad

Bean Sal­ad is a pow­er­house of fiber, pro­tein and nutri­ents. Plus, you can mix it up in 10 min­utes or less! It’s great for potlucks and even makes a quick and tasty lunch. You can’t go wrong with this sim­ple recipe. Bean Sal­ad sim­ply does­n’t get the respect it deserves. It’s a great source of vitamins…

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Egg Roll Bowls | Dinner in 25 Minutes!

egg roll bowls

Egg Roll Bowls are a scrump­tious­ly sim­ple way to get a bal­anced, col­or­ful and fla­vor­ful meal on the table for the whole fam­i­ly. You can pre­pare it more quick­ly than you can get Chi­nese food deliv­ered! And your fam­i­ly will ask for this easy meal over and over, again. It’s per­fect­ly fluffy rice, cov­ered in my…

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5‑Minute Stir-Fry and Dipping Sauce

5-minute stir-fry and dipping sauce

5‑Minute Stir-Fry and Dip­ping Sauce is liq­uid gold! Savory and sweet with a kick of heat, this deli­cious sauce adds zing and piz­zazz to any­thing you driz­zle it on. Hav­ing a batch pre-made and in the fridge is great when you’re in a time crunch (or if you have the late night munchies). But the…

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Easy Chicken Parmesan

easy chicken parmesan with homemade pasta

Chick­en Parme­san is ten­der, delec­table and fla­vor­ful served over pas­ta with your favorite mari­nara recipe. It’s a fab­u­lous­ly deli­cious meal that your fam­i­ly will love. And, it’s quick enough to be on the table in around 30 min­utes! This dish will get the whole fam­i­ly to the table for a scrump­tious meal! My favorite week­night hack for…

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Homemade Pasta | Easy, Inexpensive Meal-Stretcher

homemade pasta

Home­made pas­ta only requires two sim­ple ingre­di­ents — flour and eggs. Fresh pas­ta is an easy week­end treat you can put togeth­er in about an hour. It’s ten­der, fla­vor­ful and scrump­tious in your favorite recipes and as the per­fect side!

Monterey Chicken | Simple 30-Minute Supper

Monterey Chicken

Mon­terey Chick­en is a fla­vor­ful main dish that takes only min­utes to pre­pare. It’s ten­der, moist and savory. Pic­ture bar­be­cue sauce stud­ded with minced jalapeno and then crowned with bacon and melt­ed Mon­terey jack cheese. Top the whole mas­ter­piece with some diced toma­toes and green onions. What a quick and deli­cious week­night sup­per treat! Yum!! …

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Best Homemade Vegetable Stock Ever!

best homemade vegetable stock

Best Home­made Veg­etable Stock. Hand’s down! With a title like that, you’d think I’d be feel­ing a lit­tle pres­sure about hav­ing to deliv­er. But you guys…this is seri­ous­ly the best veg­etable stock I have ever tast­ed. No com­par­isons. And it will be the base for so many things I cook, from soups and stews, to…

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Gluten-Free Granola, 5‑Minute Simple & Delicious

Gluten-free Granola with dried cherries and blueberries.

Gluten-Free Gra­nola is 5‑minute sim­ple and absolute­ly scrump­tious! It’s a sat­is­fy­ing and fla­vor­ful choice for an easy break­fast. Start your morn­ing with light­ly sweet­ened, toasty good­ness! This sim­ple recipe boasts healthy fats from avo­ca­do and nuts to help keep you feel­ing full until lunch. It con­tains plen­ty of pro­tein from all the nuts and seeds.…

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Favorite Easy Delicious Cheesecake

easy delicious cheesecake

For my fam­i­ly, my Easy Deli­cious Cheese­cake is the stan­dard all oth­er cheese­cakes are mea­sured by. It’s one of our favorite desserts for birth­days, hol­i­days and spe­cial occa­sions.  Cheese­cake is one of those things that peo­ple are very par­tic­u­lar about. There are the purists for whom only a tra­di­tion­al New York cheese­cake will do. And…

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Homemade Chicken Shawarma: Easy, Oven Roasted, Whole30 and Delicious

Home­made Chick­en Shawar­ma is my own twist on roast chick­en breast using the won­der­ful fla­vors of shawar­ma sea­son­ings. Cumin, turmer­ic, cin­na­mon, red pep­per flakes and papri­ka are some of my favorite “warm” spices and are so com­mon in Mid­dle East­ern and Mediter­ranean cook­ing. My Chick­en Shawar­ma uti­lizes all of them and is quick­ly oven roasted,…

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Scrumptious Gluten-Free Tabbouleh Salad

gluten-free tabbouleh salad

This delec­table gluten-free tab­bouleh sal­ad is crisp, light and refresh­ing. A sim­ple cit­rus dress­ing brings all the won­der­ful veg­gie fla­vors togeth­er. It’s grain-free, sug­­ar-free and Whole30 com­pli­ant. My recipe makes enough to have left­overs on the sec­ond day. This beau­ti­ful vari­a­tion on tra­di­tion­al tab­bouleh makes a love­ly side dish or appe­tiz­er, but is equal­ly perfect…

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Homemade Taco Chips

Homemade Taco Chips

Home­made Taco Chips are a deli­cious­ly sim­ple and quick snack that the whole fam­i­ly will enjoy. You con­trol the ingre­di­ents and you make them fresh! The fla­vor is fab­u­lous because it comes from my Home­made Taco Sea­son­ing. These chips have the cumin and pep­per fla­vor of tacos with a lit­tle extra added cheesi­ness. (Nope! There…

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Homemade Taco Seasoning

Homemade Taco Seasoning

Home­made Taco Sea­son­ing is a recipe I start­ed mak­ing sev­er­al years ago. It’s so much more fla­vor­ful than the store-bought pack­ets. Plus, we seem to go through a LOT at our house. With this recipe, I can make a big enough batch to always have plen­ty on hand.  My home­made taco sea­son­ing recipe is pret­ty unique,…

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Homemade Apple Pie: Buttery, Flaky Crust & Delicious Apple Filling

homemade apple pie

My scrump­tious Home­made Apple Pie has crisp, but­tery, flaky crust. It’s burst­ing with three vari­eties of juicy sweet-tart apples and the warm spices of cin­na­mon and nut­meg. My hus­band says it’s the best apple pie he’s ever eat­en. That’s high praise from a man who knows his way around a pie! lol Home­made Apple Pie is…

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Welcome! I'm Glenda, the midwest writer and photographer behind this family recipe blog.

I believe that the kitchen and dinner table are where the best memories (and dishes) are made and shared. I believe cooking from scratch doesn't have to be complicated. I believe that YOU can definitely do it! Let me help you make homemade easy. Read more about me.

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  • Poblano Chicken Chili: Instant Pot Easy & Delish!
  • Easy Homemade Gyro Meat Recipe
  • Homemade Tzatziki Sauce
  • Yellow Chicken Curry with Potatoes and Peas
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  • Yellow Curry Paste | Simply Homemade Delicious
  • Homemade Beef Summer Sausage
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