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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 dinner plate of ground beef broccoli with shredded carrots served over white rice.

Easy Beef Broccoli with Ground Beef

A serving bowl full of super crispy roasted potato chunks tossed with Parmesan cheese and parsley flakes.

Extra Crispy Roasted Potatoes

5-vertical-picture collage of a chocolate dessert topped with whipped cream and berry sauce. Strawberry Delight Sheet Cake with a piece cut out, three mini cherry cheesecakes, decorated heart shaped cookies, and a chocolate flourless cake topped with whipped cream, sliced strawberries and drizzled with chocolate sauce.

Valentine’s Day Recipe Roundup

A cooling rack with soft and fluffy sugar cookies.

Soft and Fluffy Sugar Cookies

A round loaf of crusty bread with a couple slices of bread on brown parchment paper.

Easy Crusty Bread

A dark blue Polish Pottery plate with white polka dots filled with cranberry orange oatmeal cookies and dried cranberries scattered around the plate. A half of an orange is in the upper right corner and bottom left corner.

The Best Cranberry Orange Oatmeal Cookies

A dinner bowl plate with three baby potatoes, chopped chicken and green beans with bacon bits.

Slow Cooker Country Chicken and Veggies

The corner of a baking sheet with parchment paper with a filet of sweet and smoky brown sugar salmon and a fork inserted into the salmon from the left.

Sweet and Smoky Brown Sugar Salmon

A dark blue white polka dotted soup bowl of loaded baked potato soup topped with sliced green onions, shredded cheddar cheese, and bacon crumbles. In the upper right corner is a partial picture of a bowl of shredded cheese, and in the bottom left corner is a partial picture of a bowl of bacon pieces and a bowl of sliced green onions.

Loaded Baked Potato Soup

A plate with small swirling dark blue pattern filled with Classic Peanut Butter Cookies.

Classic Peanut Butter Cookies

A stack of three white chocolate peppermint pretzel cookie bars surrounded by twist pretzels and small candy canes.

White Chocolate Peppermint Pretzel Cookie Bars

A dark blue white polka dotted Polish pottery plate of peppermint bark crunch popcorn.

Peppermint Bark Crunch Popcorn

8 pieces of peanut butter fudge on a small plate. Faded in the background are more pieces of fudge and the leftover slab of fudge.

Easy Peanut Butter Fudge

A serving of ground beef and peppers over rice on a dinner plate.

Beef and Peppers Skillet over Rice

A crockpot of shredded honey garlic chicken with two forks inserted into the chicken on the left.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken

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