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Oreo Cheesecake Cookies

Oreo Cheesecake Cookies

These cookies are now being referred to in our house as “Rich’s New Favorite Cookie” You know that they are good if they have replaced Chocolate Chip Cookies as top on his list. These cookies have a bit of the best of everything… Chocolate Chips 

COOKIES for Christmas *and beyond

COOKIES for Christmas *and beyond

Tomorrow is a Big Day – tomorrow I’ll be sharing my 2013 Food Blog Cookie Exchange Cookie with you! These cookies are what Rich likes to call his “New Favorite Cookie”. I am not going to give you any more details (besides this photo) about 

Sausage Brats and Beer with Mustard over Egg Noodles

Sausage Brats and Beer with Mustard over Egg Noodles

Quick, Delicious, Flavorful, Filling – this simple noodle dish can be thrown together on a busy work-night, is perfect reheated as leftovers, but has enough flavor flair that you can serve to guests!

 Beer Sausage Brats with Onion EggNoodles

This Noodle Dinner is filled with some of your favorite flavors: beer, brats, noodles, & mustard. If you are a fan of those flavors then I know you will love this dish. Quickly adding this to your dinner rotation will bring a smile to all – this is not a stuffy dinner, this is just solid down-home cooking.

 Brats n Beer Noodles

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Dog Bones and a GIVEAWAY

Dog Bones and a GIVEAWAY

If there is something I love more than cooking, it has got to be my dogs! I love teaching, and I love my family – but the Mr. and I both agree that if we didn’t like dogs our relationship would have never gotten off 

Eggnog Cookies

Eggnog Cookies

Welcome to December… the Season of Giving & Eating & Lights & Cookies & Shopping & Baking & Friends & Food & Family & Entertaining! During this busy season, many Cookies get baked and eaten. Another holiday Classic (which I just recently discovered many people 

Pumpkin Pecan Rugelach

Pumpkin Pecan Rugelach


This year is the first year in any of our lifetimes that Hanukkah and Thanksgiving have overlapped. These two family-food-fantastic Holidays will not overlap again any time soon!

 Thanks-u-kuh rugelach

Thanksgiving and Hanukkah are a match made in heaven! Seriously, both Holidays are centered around food (lets be totally honest here though, most Jewish Holidays are centered around food)! In addition to being centered around food, both holidays have a focus on family & togetherness. While eating food during a Thanksgiving or Hanukkah Celebration people are focused on spending time at home with the ones that you love.

Pecan Pumpkin rugelach

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