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A horizontally placed oval dish of Apple Crisp.

Apple Crisp

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

Roasted Parmesan Brussel Sprouts on a sheet pan.

Roasted Parmesan Brussels Sprouts

Easy no-bake banana cream pie with a grey kitchen towel to the left, a banana on the upper left, and a peeled and partial slice banana and a few forks on the right.

Easy No-bake Banana Cream Pie

A glass 9x13 baking dish of Loaded Pepper Jack Mac and Cheese sitting partially on a white and blue flannel patterned kitchen towel.

Loaded Pepper Jack Mac and Cheese

A bowl lined with a striped kitchen towel filled with The Best Dinner Rolls.

The Best Dinner Rolls

A slice of pumpkin slab pie with a dollop of whipping cream on a dessert plate with a fork on top of the plate. Faded in the background is a cloth tea towel and another piece of pie with whipping cream.

Easy Pumpkin Slab Pie

Wheat berry salad with pineapple in a large white and blue bubble patterned Polish potter bowl with a silver serving spoon with a scoop of salad held above the bowl. On the left is a crumpled striped kitchen towel.

Aunt Jan’s Wheat Salad

A piece of apple dessert topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream with forks on both sides of the plate. Faded in the background is a 9x13 dish of Brown Butter Apple Dessert.

Brown Butter Apple Dessert

white baking dish full of fabulous squash casserole

Fabulous Squash Casserole

A graham cracker pie crust with an opened package of graham crackers and a stick of butter to the left of it.

Graham Cracker Crust Recipe

Mashed potatoes with a small scoop of butter in the middle with parsley sprinkled on top all in a white Polish potter bowl with scallops, blue trim at the top, and dark blue polkadots throughout the bowl. On the left side of the bowl is a cloth yellow napkin scrunched up.

Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes

The corner of a 9x13 glass pan of green bean casserole. A black serving spoon is sticking out of the casserole in the corner.

Classic Green Bean Casserole

Pecan Pie Bars on a white dish

Pecan Pie Bars

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