DIPS AND APPETIZERS

This gooey, cheesy, hot pizza dip goes out to all the pizza lovers out there!  You can make it like we do in any cast iron pan, or a shallow baking dish works great too. Imagine your favorite pizza and the ingredients you use, and Read More

This creamy beef dip is one of our family’s favorites, especially when it’s right out of the oven in a cast iron skillet. If you wanted, you could make it in a crock pot, but we never have tried. This is our favorite way to Read More

When I was a kid back in the 1980’s a spoonful of peanut butter on the front porch after school was my treat. Now, I can have the best of both worlds if I add the banana to these bananas roll ups. Ingredients for Banana Read More

This is a recipe that I made on repeat while I was on paternity leave with our second child. Snacks were about the only thing that we had time to eat, and I wanted something that was easy to make and something that we could Read More

This cowboy spread recipe is very similar to what you might have seen as Cattleman’s Spread. However, because we are not huge fans of hot dips, other than Bean and Bacon Queso or queso in general this is the one we make in our home. Read More

This Spicy Spinach Bacon Dip is a really quick dip idea that we came up with on a whim one Sunday afternoon. It has a few simple ingredients with lots of flavor, especially if you are wanting something more on the spicy end. We are big Read More

This is a real easy way to add another layer of flavor to your fruit. It can easily be drizzled over your choice of fruit, or it would be a great addition to a fruit pizza. This fruit glaze would go great right in the Read More

This spinach queso is a really easy crockpot recipe for just about every occasion. It doesn’t really need to cook all that long so you can also resort to cast iron skillet if you want. If our garden tomatoes are in season, it also great Read More

Bean and bacon queso is another great crockpot dip that’s great for any weekend during the summer. Truth be told, in our house sometimes, queso passes for an entire meal. It’s easy to snack on all day Saturday, and then pop it back in the Read More

This Tex-Mex Relish is something that we came up with to add a little flavor to our burgers.  If you have a garden this is a great option to use some fresh veggies.  It works great on a burger (with pepperjack cheese), over a steak, Read More