Hi Everyone! Today we are making our side dish, a dinner salad with a homemade herbed vinaigrette. Here is your recipe: Herb Vinaigrette 3/4 cup salad oil 1/4 cup white wine vinegar 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 2 tablespoon chopped parsley 1/2 teaspoon dried tarragon salt & pepper Salad Mix 1 head Romaine Lettuce 2 Roma … Read more

I hope you found lots of great recipes this week during #CranberryWeek, but I have one more for you that you will love. Cranberry Pecan Biscotti! Easy to make, this dipping cookie is the perfect treat to give as gifts for the holidays! Full of dried cranberries and chopped pecan pieces, this cookie is then … Read more

This post is sponsored in conjunction with #BBQWeek. The sponsors Rainier Foods and Intensity Academy generously provided samples to participants to aid in the creation of the #BBQWeek recipes and prize packages to give away to the readers.  However, all opinions are mine alone. Today, for #BBQWEEK I have a fun and tasty side dish … Read more

Recently, I was given the opportunity to review a new recipe book, Jubilee, written by Toni Tipton-Martin.  Let me tell you how much I love this cookbook! The photos~gorgeous. The lighting, the colors, the styling, all make the photos stand out and had me studying the pictures for technique ideas. The stories~written with respect for … Read more

Dessert Day! My favorite part of every meal! This weeks dessert is fun, easy, delicious, and kind of messy! But worth it!! Chocolate Quesadillas Makes 4 (adapted from the Hershey Kitchens) 4 Flour Tortillas 1/4 cup Peanut Butter 1/4 cup Marshmallow Creme 2 small Bananas (not too ripe) 1/2 cup Milk Chocolate Chips Confectioners Sugar … Read more

Thank you for stopping by at Celebrate It! How have you been celebrating this week? Are you crafting, cooking, and baking? Are you making Valentine’s Day plans? I hope you will link up and share with us!  Do you have any new stories to tell? Any menu plans you put together? Are you planning any … Read more

I think  know you are going to love these special Midnight Whoopie Pies! They are chocolatey rich and incredibly tasty. The thing I love the most about whoopie pies is that they are very versatile. They can be made to fit almost any celebration. I made these Midnight Whoopie Pies for the Blooming Bloggers Color … Read more

The Freshman Cook is having a giveaway!!! I have linked up to the Random Acts of Kindness Giveaway Hop The giveaway starts today(Friday) and ends on Tuesday 2/21 at midnight.! That’s only 5 days to enter to win!! There are 150 different blogs participating in this giveaway. Check them out at the bottom of this post. … Read more

The dessert for this week is named after the song by Kenny Chesney,  “The Boys of Fall”. I thought it would be fitting to end the week of Football Feasts with a  cupcake about football.  Chocolate Cupcakes (adapted from Southern Living) 5 eggs, separated 1/2 cup Butter, soft 1/2 cup Shortening 2 cups Sugar 2 … Read more