Appetizers & Snacks

Easy Copycat Chili’s Salsa

Easy Copycat Chili’s Salsa

This Easy Chili's Copycat Salsa recipe that's pretty dang close to Chili's!  It's a perfect recipe for Cinco de Mayo! There's a reason I don't go to Chili's as often anymore.  I can't stop eating their chips and salsa!  The combination of their thin,...

Fresh Homemade Salsa

Fresh Homemade Salsa

Fresh Homemade Salsa is a perfect way to celebrate National Salsa Month. Could you have guessed that? Because, you know, Cinco de Mayo.  That is next Tuesday people, so here is a super easy, muy rico--and sometimes muy picosa--salsa recipe to add to your...

Book Bites: Cucumber Tea Sandwiches

Book Bites: Cucumber Tea Sandwiches

This recipe for Cucumber Tea Sandwiches did not come from this book--I had found it in Better Homes & Gardens Magazine last year and wanted to try it.  However, there is a Tea Shop in Mitford... Shepherds Abiding by Jan Karon "This Mitford story presented...

Caprese Bruschetta

Caprese Bruschetta

This Caprese Bruschetta is actually  from a recipe that I shared on our old blog.  I realized when I wanted to share this recipe  with you this week, that the name didn't really match the way I had made this dish.  I had substituted sourdough for...

Southern BBQ Shooters

Southern BBQ Shooters

A few years ago, we were invited to a catered event downtown where we enjoyed a mix of sweet and savory foods served appetizer style.  Those are always fun and you usually end up really eating as much as if you had eaten a full course meal.  Am I right? My...

Queso Blanco Dip

Queso Blanco Dip

This easy Queso Blanco Dip will have you coming back to the dip bowl over, and over, and over again! Sometimes you just need some oozing, melty cheese.  Now, to get this one right and achieve oozing, melty nirvana you really do have to use White American...

Easy Camping Granola Bars

Easy Camping Granola Bars

These easy-to-make and also easy-to-customize granola bars have become a family camping tradition! But we have them other times as well. It didn't take long for this recipe to become an annual camping trip favorite.  Once I made it once, it was requested...

Jezebel Sauce

Jezebel Sauce

This was a very popular post from our Mormon Mavens blog, especially during the holiday season and into the New Year.  Anna served it as part of her Christmas Eve meal appetizer offering this year.  Just can't tell you how good this is so you will have to...

Nacho Mama’s Taco Salad Nachos

Nacho Mama’s Taco Salad Nachos

Taco Salad has been a mainstay in my family of origin for as long as I can remember (nachos ain't too shabby either!).   It also became a fixture at family beach house get-togethers.  And I love it.  But leftovers don't keep well.  Like, at....