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White chicken chili with hominy in soup bowl and topped with shredded Colby Jack cheese, chopped avocado and chopped cilantro with tortilla chips on the upper left.

White Chicken Chili with Hominy

A large metal bowl full of homemade whipped cream with a spoon of whipped cream held above from the left.

Homemade Whipping Cream

A partial picture of lemon chicken pasta in a black skillet.

Lemon Chicken Pasta

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

Easy Cut-Out Sugar Cookie Recipe

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

Carmelitas

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 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

Mushroom casserole in a peacock patterned Polish pottery 9x13 baking dish.

Stuffed Mushroom Casserole

A dark blue soup bowl with polkadots filled with clam chowder. On the left of the bowl is a checkered patterned kitchen towel with a spoon sitting on top.

Classic Clam Chowder

Strawberry Nutella Puff Pastry Dessert with two whole strawberries on opposite diagonal ends, all sitting on an oval dark blue Polish Pottery plate with a white hearts pattern

Strawberry Nutella Puff Pastry Dessert

A peacock patterned Polish pottery dinner plate with a serving of chicken tetrazzini, broccoli, and a roll.

The Best Chicken Tetrazzini Recipe

Easy Salmon Quiche in a glass pie dish.

Easy Salmon Quiche Recipe

Cajun Chicken and Pasta topped on a dark blue patterned Polish pottery plate. On the left is a fork sitting atop a golden dish towel.

Cajun Chicken Pasta

In the background on the left is a yellow cloth napkin with a fork sitting on the left side of a blue plate with chicken tetrazzini on spaghetti noodles all topped with grated Parmesan cheese and some parsley.

Instant Pot Chicken Tetrazzini

Two white dessert plates stacked on each other with a slice of no-bake peanut butter pie on top. On the right of the plate are two fork heads. In the background is a pie serving utensil, another piece of pie on a small white plate, and the pie with a couple of slices cut out.

No-Bake Reese’s Peanut Butter Pie

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