North american picnic recipes with 200 or fewer calories costing less than $2.5 per serving

Strawberry Shortcake Trifle

This recipe has become my go to dish when I am asked to bring something for a crowd. It’s easy and everybody likes strawberries, cake, pudding and…

Garlic Herbed Sweet Potatoes

TRY THIS AT EASTER - it is a signature dish! It is sweet and savory with fresh herbs, dairy products and chicken broth. This is a North…

Chocolate Sugar Cookies

Calypso Blondies

I so love blondies! Blondies are basically brownies without the cocoa and contain brown sugar instead of white sugar. Brownies seem so “old hat”…

CAKE BALLS

it is cake and it looks like a lollipop

Open Apple Tarts

Chewy Chocolate Raisin Cookies

melon, papaya, chicken sausage salad

with fruits and chicken sausage this is variety salad

Fabulously Healthy, Edamame, Spinach and Garlic Hummus For Summer Entertaining

We’re loving this skinny dip. It’s loaded with such good-for-you…

Pineapple & Stone Fruit Salad

Similar to an Ambrosia salad, this simple summer salad is made with a variety of stone fruits and pineapple. The addition of coconut oil and…

Lemony Rolled Sugar Cookies

My friend came over a few weeks ago and asked me to help her make gluten free sugar cookies. What we came up with was a soft, chewy cookie with…

New Orleans Butter Pralines

New Orleans pralines -- and that's pronounced PRAH-leens, to set the record straight -- are unique among pralines. They contain butter and milk to…

Giggling Gourmet's Campfire Baked Potatoes

Here's my camp fire baked potato that I make either when we are backpacking or on a good mountain car camp.…

Five ingredient cookies / muffins - pecan fudge pie

These are somewhere between a cookie and a muffin, and they are absolutely delicious.

Broccoli Casse Rolls

Two super delicious recipes combined into one Uber-delicious creation. Broccoli casserole is an indulgent favorite of my family's. Egg rolls are a…