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This Fall Themed Charcuterie Board is the ultimate autumn centerpiece. Filled with sweet and savory fall desserts and snacks, it's perfect for Friendsgiving, Thanksgiving, or just a fun night at home. The recipes for the pecan tassies, pumpkin cream cheese cookies, apple caramel cake, caramel sauce, and cherry pecan brie are in the blog post, as well as lots of tips for how to create a charcuterie board. This board is easy to customize using your favorite fall eats and treats. Here you see an overhead view of the round board filled with the baked goods mentioned as well as feta cheese stuffed olives, pretzels, sliced baguette, cranberry hazelnut crisps, trail mix, sliced dried oranges, sliced salami, cubed cheddar cheese, grapes, sliced apples and autumn leaf candies.

Appetizers, Desserts

Fall Themed Charcuterie Board

These Homemade Pretzel Bites are crispy on the outside and pillowy soft on the inside. Made with a few pantry ingredients, these bakery-quality pretzels are the best comfort snack and perfect for dipping and sharing. We love their crisp, salty crust and fluffy middle; they are impossible to stop eating and make a perfect after school, game day, fun day snack. Here the pretzel bites are shown served on a platter with honey mustard sauce, with other sauces and kosher salt around the platter in an overhead shot.

Appetizers, Breakfast and Breads

Homemade Pretzel Bites

This Halloween Themed Charcuterie Board is as much fun to see as it is to eat. This kid-friendly snack board is filled with sweet and savory Halloween treats, and has a playful mix of spooky, silly, and sweet. The recipes for the cookies, mummy pretzels, and spider web dip are in the blog post as well as lots of tips for how to create a charcuterie board. This board is easy to customize and is a favorite at any Halloween table, party, or gathering. This overhead shot of the board shows Pumpkin Patch Cookies, Chocolate Frosted Cookies, Mummy Pretzels, and a Spider Web dip in each corner of the board. The board is filled with Oreo Spider Cookies, a pimento cheese dip, grapes, cheddar popcorn, dried oranges, Halloween chips, pretzels, pita chips, gummy worms, marshmallow ghosts, candy pumpkins, and candy eyeballs.

Appetizers, Desserts

Halloween Themed Charcuterie Board

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Breakfast and Breads

These Big Soft Fluffy Dinner Rolls are a favorite at our dinner table. Irresistibly soft on the inside with a buttery golden crust, this recipe makes a big batch of 35 rolls at once, making it a perfect side for holiday and family dinners. Here the rolls are on the baking sheet hot out of the oven. One roll has been taken off and the shot shows the fluffiness of the rolls in the pan.

Breakfast and Breads

Big Soft Fluffy Dinner Rolls

These Homemade Pretzel Bites are crispy on the outside and pillowy soft on the inside. Made with a few pantry ingredients, these bakery-quality pretzels are the best comfort snack and perfect for dipping and sharing. We love their crisp, salty crust and fluffy middle; they are impossible to stop eating and make a perfect after school, game day, fun day snack. Here the pretzel bites are shown served on a platter with honey mustard sauce, with other sauces and kosher salt around the platter in an overhead shot.

Appetizers, Breakfast and Breads

Homemade Pretzel Bites

This Easy Bacon Breakfast Casserole has a creamy, cheesy custard base and a topping filled with crisp, smoky bacon, mushrooms, and onion. Easy to assemble, it can be prepared just before serving or made ahead the night before. This casserole is a favorite for weekend brunches, breakfast for dinner, or holiday breakfasts. Here the casserole is shown with a slice on a wooden spatula in the center of the image above the casserole.

Breakfast and Breads

Easy Bacon Breakfast Casserole

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Desserts

Here are our favorite Christmas cookie and candy recipes from 2025. With toffee, bark, cookies, and Christmas desserts, we have lots of ideas to share for your Christmas baking and gifting this year. In this overhead image, the cookies and candy are arranged in a 6 container wooden box.

Desserts

Christmas Cookies Box Ideas

Desserts

Peppermint Bark Pretzels

he chocolate and toffee need to set for at least 2 hours or up to overnight. You can speed up this process by placing the toffee in the fridge if desired. Place a spatula or bench scraper under the toffee and place it on a cutting board (it’s okay if it breaks a little with this process). Cut with a sharp knife to break into pieces and serve or store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to two weeks. In this image, the toffee is placed in a tin in the center of the image, surrounded by Christmas greenery, ribbon and ornaments.

Desserts

Chocolate Butter Toffee with Pecans

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Main

This Brined Boneless Turkey Breast with Maple Glaze is incredibly tender and flavorful. The overnight brine, seasoning, and maple butter glaze when roasting, gives this boneless turkey breast an incredible depth of flavor and just the right balance of slightly sweet and savory. This is an easy, elegant dish for dinner or for a small group for Thanksgiving if you don't want to make a large turkey. This is an overhead shot of the boneless turkey breast placed on a serving platter with sage, thyme, and cranberries. The breast has several slices cut so you can see the interior of the turkey as well.

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Brined Boneless Turkey Breast with Maple Glaze

Just last night, I won first place in a chili contest with this Chili Recipe with Corn. We love this chili. It is the perfect one-pot meal. It makes a great cozy dinner on a busy weeknight, or easily feeds a crowd for game nights, Halloween, or other fall and winter gatherings. Made with ground beef, chili beans, pinto beans, green chiles, broth, tomatoes, tomato sauce, seasonings, and corn, we love how the slight sweetness of the corn balances with the flavorful seasoned chili. This image shows an overhead of the chili served in a bowl with toppings including corn, avocao, green onions and grated cheese. Cornbread is shown above the bowl of chili.

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Chili Recipe with Corn

This Pretzel Dog Recipe is the ultimate mash-up of two comfort foods. The pillowy soft, salty dough wrapped around the savory, juicy hot dogs makes a kid-friendly, nostalgic treat. Perfect for fun family meals or game day snacks, both kids and adults love them. In this image, there are three hot dogs placed on a small platter, ready to serve with a few other pretzel dogs in the background as well as various mustards.

Main

Pretzel Dog Recipe

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Pasta

This Creamy Fettuccine Alfredo with Shrimp is a classic recipe with cream, Parmesan, butter, garlic, and shrimp. Here the Creamy Fettuccine Alfredo with Shrimp is served in a large bowl with tongs in the middle ready to serve the pasta.

Main, Pasta

Creamy Fettuccine Alfredo with Shrimp

This easy Italian Sausage and Broccoli Pasta is a delicious weeknight meal on the table in 30 minutes. The sausage and broccoli cook in a flavorful light sauce seasoned with garlic, oregano, olive oil, chicken broth and cream. The pasta comes together with the addition of Parmesan cheese. Here the pasta is presented in a large serving bowl surrounded by ingredients used to make the dish including garlic, broccoli, salt and pepper, and Parmesan cheese accompanied with some fresh bread.

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Italian Sausage and Broccoli Pasta

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Salads

This Barbecue Ranch Chicken Salad with juicy barbecue chicken, smoky bacon, seasoned black beans, corn, tomatoes, creamy avocado, and onions is a delicious, filling main dish salad. Topped with homemade ranch dressing and a drizzle of barbecue sauce, it is a family favorite that kids and adults enjoy. Here the salad is arranged in a large bowl surrounded by additional ingredients from the salad, and ranch and barbecue dressing.

Main, Salads

Barbecue Ranch Chicken Salad

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Salads and Sides

These Baked Mashed Potatoes with Cream Cheese are the ultimate comfort food and make the perfect side dish for holiday baking. These make-ahead potatoes can be made 1-2 days in advance and then baked just before serving. Made with cream cheese, butter in the potatoes and on top, and cream, they are ultimately creamy and buttery, with a light golden top. Here a spoon is scooping the potatoes out of the pan in the center of the image

Salads and Sides

Baked Mashed Potatoes with Cream Cheese

This Cowboy Caviar (aka Texas Caviar or Mississippi Caviar) is a classic summer side dish. Easy to prepare and full of flavor, it's a favorite choice for potlucks, barbecues, and get-togethers. Filled with black beans, black-eyed peas, tomatoes, corn, sweet peppers, avocado, green onion, and cilantro, and tossed with a lime and red wine vinegar dressing, we love serving this with tortilla chips or as a side with grilled chicken. Here the Cowboy Caviar is shown in a large bowl being scooped up with a wooden spoon in the center of the bowl.

Appetizers, Salads and Sides

Cowboy Caviar with Avocado

This Chicken and Broccoli salad is the perfect summer salad; no cooking is required, it is easy to prepare, and ready to eat in minutes. We love the balance of flavors and textures with the chicken, broccoli, grapes, celery, greens, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, and red onion, all brought together with a sweet poppy seed dressing. Here the image is pictured overhead with the salad arranged on a large oval platter, and the dressing drizzled over the top.

Main, Salads and Sides

Chicken and Broccoli Salad with Grapes

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Soups

This Homemade Chicken and Dumpling soup is a flavorful, comforting soup, perfect for a rainy day or when sickness hits at home. The dumplings are like drop biscuits, they are easy to make and come together in a few minutes before cooking in the soup. My favorite thing about this soup is the delicious, thickened broth that results from the dumplings cooking in the soup. This has been a family favorite for years. Here the soup is pictured served in two soup bowls with a linen, spoons, and a spring of rosemary.

Main, Soups

Homemade Chicken and Dumpling Soup

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