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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 raspberry cheesecake brownie on a small white plate with a metal fork inserted downward into a corner of the brownie. In the upper left is a fork head a part of another small plate.

Raspberry Cheesecake Brownies

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 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

Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake with Lemon Glaze on a round serving platter with three cranberries and a leaf on opposite ends. Whole cranberries are scattered around the plate.

Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake with Lemon Glaze

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

Banana chocolate bread sliced and sitting on a plate with chocolate chips scattered around the bread.

The Best Chocolate Banana Bread

A plate of blueberry muffin cookies with a half of lemon and a whole lemon in opposite corners and blueberries scattered around the plate.

Blueberry Muffin Cookies with Streusel and Lemon Glaze

A peacock patterned Polish pottery bowl filled with cilantro lime rice, rotisserie chicken, diced cucumbers, avocado, red onion, and tomatoes with a dollop of chipotle sour cream. On the right of the bowl is a spoon.

Honey Lime Chicken Bowls with Rotisserie Chicken

A mini cherry cheesecake on top of three small plates with two forks on the left of the plate. Faded in the upper background are more little cheesecakes on a large plate.

Mini Cherry Cheesecakes

A blue plate with two chicken fingers, orange slices and a serving of broccoli. A fork is on the right of the plate sitting on a white and blue striped kitchen towel.

Easy Baked Chicken Fingers

A blue plate holding a serving of Easy Chicken Pot Pie

Easy Chicken Pot Pie

A hand holding a sliced carrot with dip on it is above a 7-compartment vegetable tray filled with carrots, bell peppers, cucumbers, olives and Fiesta Ranch Dip. In the dip is a small wooden spoon sticking out of the dip.

Homemade Fiesta Ranch Dip

A slice of cookie cream pie sitting on three white plates with part of a white plate on the left and two fork heads partially stacked on the right. In the top background, there are two small glass bowls, one with chocolate sauce and a spoon and one with caramel sauce and a spoon.

Samoa Cookie Cream Pie

A corner of a glass dish holding Seven Layer Dip

Ultimate Seven Layer Bean Dip

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