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Bubbly and browned scalloped potatoes in a 9x13 baking dish.

Classic Scalloped Potatoes

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

Mini marshmallows, mandarin oranges, pineapple and coconut mixed together in sour cream in a peacock-patterned bowl.

Sour Cream Ambrosia Salad

A dark blue patterned Polish pottery plate with tortilla chips, Spanish rice, and Mar's burrito with a bite taken out of it.

Mar’s Burritos

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 dark blue plate filled with French Breakfast Puffs with a kitchen towel on the left.

French Breakfast Puffs

A large Polish pottery bowl of Jyls Creamy Italian Pasta Salad with a black serving spoon held above with pasta salad on it.

Jyl’s Creamy Italian Pasta Salad

Two stacked small plates with five cowboy cookies on top and old-fashioned oats and chocolate chips scattered around the plates.

Cowboy Cookies

An egg, ham and potato burrito with a bite taken out on a blue dinner plate with sliced strawberries and orange slices.

Ham, Potato and Egg Breakfast Burritos

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

How to Cook Bacon in the Oven

A chocolate peanut butter bar with a bite taken out of a corner held above a small plate with a couple of peanut butter bars and the corner of a sheet pan with a peanut butter bar and the handle of a serving spatula.

Lunch Lady Peanut Butter Bars

A stack of three marshmallow brownies sitting on three small white plates. Faded in the background is a glass 9x13 baking dish of brownies.

Crazy Good Marshmallow Boxed Brownies

A peacock patterned polish potter bowl of sun dried tomato hummus with chopped sun-dried tomatoes and a basil leaf in the middle drizzled with olive oil. Around the polish pottery bowl are sliced cucumbers, pretzels, sliced carrots, pita chips and sliced red bell pepper.

Sun Dried Tomato Hummus

A slow cooker with Little Smokies and barbecue sauce.

Slow Cooker Little Smokies

Heart-shaped sugar cookies frosted and decorated sitting on a black wire cooling rack.

Easy Cut-Out Sugar Cookie 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

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