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The corner of a dark blue Polish pottery 9x13 dish filled with Easy Baked Tortellini Casserole.

Easy Baked Tortellini Casserole

A dark blue plate with a swirled pattern with a serving of turkey breast topped with gravy, a serving of mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing.

Instant Pot Turkey Breast

A dark blue, white polka dotted Polish pottery soup bowl of beef barley soup with a spoon inserted in the soup resting on the edge. A pot holder is laying on the right of the bowl.

The Best Beef Barley Soup

6-photo picture collage of carrot cake, chocolate zucchini muffins, Samoa Rice Krispie treats, raspberry cheesecake brownies, tres leches cake, and magnolia bakery blueberry jamboree with the text of the title overlayed on the collage.

2023 Readers’ Favorite Dessert Recipes

7-photo picture collage of cream potato and ham soup, Lion House rolls, chicken sheet pan fajitas, chicken quinoa bowl, chicken tetrazzini, creamy pasta skillet with kielbasa, and asian chicken lettuce wraps.

2023 Readers’ Favorite Dinner Recipes

Birthday Celebration Giveaway Winners

Aqua Sky KitchenAid 5-quart.

Ten Years of Blogging! Everything you never knew about Real Life Dinner {Giveaway}

A picture collage of silicone baking mats, bamboo spoon, citrus juicer, zester, two knives, bundt pan, two cookie sheets, glass batter bowl with lid, and a ground meat chopper.

My Top 10 Favorite Kitchen Tools {Giveaway}

Picture collage of Milka candy bars, Ritter Sport candy bars, Haribo gummies, and Katjes candy.

10 Favorite Desserts to Celebrate 10 Years of Blogging {Giveaway}

A $250 Amazon.com gift card.

Real Life Dinner 10 Year Anniversary! {Giveaway}

6-photo picture collage of a slice of peach dessert, a slice of rice Krispy ice cream dessert, a strawberry rhubarb galette, a slice of brownie Oreo ice cream cake, a fruit pizza, and a slice of magnolia bakery blueberry jamboree with the text of the title centered and overlaying the photos.

Desserts to Sweeten your Summer

5-photo picture collage of sliced zucchini bread, a serving of zucchini skillet on a blue plate, lasagna, lemon zucchini bundt cake, and chocolate zucchini muffins with the text of the title overlaying in the middle.

30+ Zucchini Season Recipes

A Poppy Seed loaf bread placed horizontally on a cooling rack with four slices cut from the left end.

Poppy Seed Loaf

A serving of green salad with slice tomatoes and cucumbers with a scoop of Mexican chili chicken casserole, all on a dinner plate.

Mexican Chili Chicken Casserole

An orange jello sherbet salad in the shape of a bundt cake with the middle filled with sour cream ambrosia salad sitting on a round platter.

Pam’s Amazing Holiday Jello

A lemon bar with shortbread crust on top of four dessert plates with two whole lemons and a powder sugar shaker on the left and a 9x13 glass baking dish faded in the upper background.

Classic Lemon Bars

A cookie sheet full of oven-baked thick slices of bacon.

How to Cook Bacon in the Oven

A plate of S’more Chocolate Chip Cookies with a Hershey bar in the upper left corner and mini marshmallows scattered around the plate.

S’more Chocolate Chip Cookies

Little Carmelitas scattered in a group with caramel bits and chocolate chips.

Carmelitas

Sausage and Spinach Quiche.

Sausage and Spinach Quiche

Kitchen gadgets and small appliance gift guide. Perfect gifts for the home cook.

Christmas Gift Guide 2022: Kitchen