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A plate salted caramel crush squares with the squares stacked on top of each other.

Salted Caramel Crush Bars

A dinner plate with barbecue chips, sliced cucumbers, sliced carrots, and a slow cooker Mississippi pot roast sandwich with melted cheese.

Slow Cooker Mississippi Pot Roast

A plate full of brown butter oatmeal raisin cookies.

Chewy Brown Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

A white and blue polka-dotted bowl filled with ham and lentil soup sitting on a large white polka-dotted blue plate with three bread sticks on the left of the bowl.

Ham Bone Lentil Soup

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

A diagonally placed 9x13 glass baking dish of an Earthquake Cake showing half of the cake.

Earthquake Cake

Slow cooker goulash in a white and dark blue bubble patterned Polish bowl with a cloth napkin and spoon on the left and a hard roll up in the right-hand corner.

The Best Slow Cooker Goulash

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 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 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

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