This recipe can be used with any in-season vegetables, such as broccoli, zucchini, cauliflower squash, and carrots.

This spinach salad has herb and garlic or Italian dressing, chopped onion, bacon, and hard-boiled eggs.

I used this frosting for the first time in 2024. Previously I mostly winged frosting, and this really wasn’t much different than what I usually did. One difference was the almond extract – which I liked, but certain family members complained about.

This recipe is similar to the fiery hamburger soup.

This is a layered concoction with lettuce, green peppers, water chestnuts, peas, chicken, mayonnaise, cheddar cheese, and bacon.

We really liked this version of chili. Unfortunately I have several children who only want our “family favorite” chili with spaghetti in it.

We always have this at Thanksgiving. It is one of Bethany’s favorites, so we started calling it Bethany’s salad. It calls for apricot Jell-O, but that is hard to find. If you can’t find apricot, use orange. It also has cream cheese, grated carrots, pineapple, and pecans. This photo is not the best…will try to get a better one later on.

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