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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

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

Looking for Classic 4th of July Dinner Recipes? We've got you covered! From BBQ ribs and burgers to potato and pasta salad to festive cookies and pies, here we share some of our absolute favorites! The image is a college of our favorite 4th of July menu items with main dishes, sides, and desserts.

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4th of July Dinner Recipes

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Breakfast and Breads

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

These Blueberry Buttermilk muffins are soft, sweet, and bursting with blueberries. The buttermilk in the muffins gives them an extra light and tender texture, and a touch of lemon zest and vanilla adds to the flavor with the blueberries. These muffins are a delicious treat for breakfast or brunch, or they make a favorite afternoon snack. Here the muffins are pictured cooking on a circular cooling rack with blueberries and orange juice in the background

Breakfast and Breads

Blueberry Buttermilk Muffins

This Broccoli and Bacon Quiche is a breakfast favorite. The flaky crust, creamy custard, and bacon, broccoli, and cheddar cheese filling is rich, incredibly flavorful, and one of the best breakfast treats you can have. This is a perfect dish for a holiday brunch or a special weekend breakfast. In the picture, the quiche is pictured in the center with the first piece of the quiche being removed with a pie server and plates and juice in the background.

Breakfast and Breads

Broccoli and Bacon Quiche

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Desserts

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

These Oreo Cookie Spiders are an easy, kid-friendly Halloween treat. Made with Oreo cookies, pretzel sticks for legs, and candy eyes, these cute spiders have their own little personality. Perfect for a Halloween party, a spooky school lunch snack, or a fun activity to do with kids, these Halloween spiders are as fun to make as they are to eat. This is an overhead image with the cookies on a plate in the center of the image, with additional spider cookies, pretzels and candy eyeballs around the plate.

Desserts

Oreo Cookie Spiders

These Mummy Pretzels are a fun and spooky Halloween treat. With just three ingredients, they are an easy, no-bake snack that kids love to help make and eat. Their cute faces and delicious sweet and salty combination make them the perfect treat for a Halloween celebration, class party, movie night, or goodie bag. The overhead shot here shows the pretzels close together on a cooling rack

Desserts

Mummy Pretzels

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Main

This Cottage Pie with Cheese (also known as Shepherd's Pie) has creamy Parmesan crusted mashed potatoes over a rich and flavorful beef and vegetable filling. The buttery mashed potatoes, enhanced with cream and additional Parmesan, are amazing on their own, but combined with the savory beef filling with gravy make the perfect comfort food. Here the shepherd's pie is featured with a serving cut out and a spoon in the center of the image filled with the beef filling.

Main

Cottage Pie with Cheese

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

Looking for Classic 4th of July Dinner Recipes? We've got you covered! From BBQ ribs and burgers to potato and pasta salad to festive cookies and pies, here we share some of our absolute favorites! The image is a college of our favorite 4th of July menu items with main dishes, sides, and desserts.

Appetizers, Desserts, Main, Salads and Sides

4th of July Dinner Recipes

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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

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

Looking for Classic 4th of July Dinner Recipes? We've got you covered! From BBQ ribs and burgers to potato and pasta salad to festive cookies and pies, here we share some of our absolute favorites! The image is a college of our favorite 4th of July menu items with main dishes, sides, and desserts.

Appetizers, Desserts, Main, Salads and Sides

4th of July Dinner Recipes

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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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