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A 9-inch glass pie dish of Quiche with a white kitchen towel with blue stripes.

Easy Quiche Recipe

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No-Bake Cherry Cheesecake {9×13 size}

A bowl of pasta fagioli soup on a plate with two slices of Italian French Bread.

Olive Garden Pasta Fagioli Soup

A white 9x13 oval baking dish filled with manicotti topped with red marinara sauce down the middle with mozzarella cheese and parsley on top sitting on a hot pad.

Amazing Manicotti Recipe

A bowl filled with quinoa, diced chicken taco meat, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, black beans and topped with shredded cheese. On the left is a partial photo of chicken taco meat and a grey kitchen towel. On the right are two small glass bowls, one with chopped cucumber and the other with pico de Gallo.

Chicken Quinoa Burrito Bowls

Recipes to Make in October

A serving of ground beef rice casserole and two scoops of pumpkin on a dark blue plate. A fork is inserted into the casserole from the left and a spoon in the upper left corner.

Dinner in a Pumpkin

A large round plate with sliced red and green apples with a dark blue and white polka-dotted patterned small bowl in the middle with caramel dip. Surrounding the plate are apples in the upper left corner, bottom left corner, and bottom right corner.

Caramel Apple Dip

Witches Hats and Broom Sticks

Witches Hats and Broom Sticks

A dark blue and white plate with six pumpkin squares.

The Best Pumpkin Squares with Cream Cheese Frosting

Overnight Oatmeal Pumpkin Pancakes…Healthy and Deliciously filling!

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A wooden spoon with cooked long-grain rice on it held above a pot of cooked white long-grain rice from the right.

How to Make Rice on the Stovetop

A metal mixing bowl of Jen's Pico de Gallo with a spoon with pico de gallo on it held from the left directly above.

Jen’s Pico de Gallo

Seasoned ground beef, sliced cucumbers, sliced green onions, matchstick carrots, pickled red onions, and sliced avocado on rice with a fork held diagonally from the left with rice and ground beef on it directly over the ground beef.

Mongolian Beef Bowls

A closeup photo of a corner of a 9x13 baking dish of sliced frosted brownies with a couple of brownies missing.

The Best Frosted Brownies

BBQ chicken salad with cilantro lime vinaigrette with a sprig of cilantro on top on a dinner plate.

BBQ Chicken Salad with Cilantro Lime Vinaigrette

A small glass jar of cilantro lime vinaigrette with a spoon inserted and a plate of sliced barbecue chicken behind it.

Cilantro Lime Vinaigrette

A slice of chocolate zucchini cake with pecan streusel with a bite taken out on a small dark blue plate with polka dots.

Chocolate Zucchini Cake with Pecan Streusel

A serving of Fresh Peach dessert with a fork inserted diagonally from the upper right on a dark blue plate with white polka dots.

Easy Fresh Peach Dessert

A white bowl with dark blue flowers with several scoops of Oreo ice cream with Oreo cookie pieces sprinkled on top. Several broken Oreo cookies surround the bowl at the top.

Homemade Oreo Ice Cream

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Hi, I’m Maria

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