Recipes - Kid Friendly
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Pecan Pie Dough Cookies with Ice Cream
A trip to a favorite Mexican restaurant inspires Alicia to invent a new cookie. Try it and let us know what you think!
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Orangeade
Orangeade reminds us of childhood and visiting the soda fountain after school. You can whip it up very easily!
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Limeade or Lemonade
Whipping up a soda-fountain quality Limeade or Lemonade takes only 2 minutes when using simple syrup.
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Pasta with Pesto, Tomatoes and Mushrooms
Quick, fresh and healthy -- that's what we love in a pasta dish. This one has it all!
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Pesto Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes
Pesto gives this quick and easy pizza zing. Homemade pesto? Even Better!
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Five-Grain Turkey BLT’s with Heirlooms and Arugula
Here's a healthier BLT with every bit of the flavor you crave! Only 7 grams of fat? It's true!
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Chocolate Cherry Tart
Use a cherry pitter to speed you through the prep process of this glorious tart.
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Magical Strawberry Muffins
Easy and eggless, these muffins are sure to become a family favorite for you, too.
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Barbecued Pork Tenderloin with Seared Vegetables
Father's Day special: This tenderloin offers up the barbecue smokiness Dads crave without the hassles of firing up a grill.
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Stuffed Olive Bread
Just as with pizza, the possibilities are endless with stuffed breads.
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Spinach Manicotti
So simple, so easy, so delicious!
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Old-fashioned Snickerdoodles
Give our Old-fashioned Snickerdoodles a try and let us know how you like them!
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Meatloaf Sliders
In case you haven’t seen them, “sliders” are miniature hamburgers, and they’ve been all the rage at trendy restaurants. These are a take-off on meatloaf.
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California Chicken Burgers
While our California Chicken Burgers are delicious on their own, they’re even better with our Fresh Avocado Salsa.
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Mrs. McDaniel's Southern Potato Salad
When I first tasted this potato salad two decades ago, I thought it was the best on the planet. My husband said: “This elevates potato salad to a whole new dimension.”
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Blueberry Crisp with Oatmeal Crust
A dessert that's so simple, so classic, so delicious!
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Grandma Gayle’s Peanut Butter Cookies
These homemade peanut butter cookes are the real thing -- delicious and authentic.
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So-Sweet Sopapilla Chips
Awesome enough to eat straight from the oven, but drizzled with a little warm honey or chocolate, they are simply heavenly.
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Nutty Muesli
Muesli is wonderful served cold, topped with milk, or soaked overnight in yogurt or milk as the Europeans usually do. It’s similar to oatmeal but decidedly different, with whole grains, nuts and fruit as essential components.
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Turkey Club Sandwich Ring with Avocado Aioli
Heather Halonie stuffed a pretty sandwich with deli favorites drizzled with a zesty sauce to win the Crisco is Cooking Award at the 44th Pillsbury Bake-Off.
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Sausage, Asparagus and Mushroom Risotto
Our readers love risotto in the microwave so much we decided to do another one!
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Herb Chicken Sliders with Raspberry Mustard
Pillsbury Bake-Off finalist: Fresh French bread slices hold chicken patties and a hint of raspberry mustard in mini buger sandwiches.
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Pillsbury Bake-Off's Mini Ice Cream Cookie Cups
Sue Compton of Delanco, N.J., won first for her Mini Ice Cream Cookie Cups in the Sweet Treats Pillsbury Bake-Off category.
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Pillsbury Bake-Off's Zesty Lime-Fish Tacos
Kellie White of St. Louis, Mo., cooked up Zesty Lime-Fish Tacos and got first place in the Dinner Made Easy category of the 44th Pillsbury Bake-Off.
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Sesame Asparagus
My family loves this, says Ra Nae Christensen, a reader from Mona, Utah.
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Sauteed Asparagus with Garlic
Ready in just minutes, this simple asparagus is tops.
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Romesco Sauce
Here’s an easy twist on a classic Spanish sauce that transforms everything it touches.
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Three-Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Thanks to an array of cheeses, these mashed potatoes are loaded with flavor.
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Basic Meatballs
There’s nothing ordinary about homemade meatballs, and they’re the ultimate comfort food. They’re much cheaper to make yourself as well -- $1.56 per pound as opposed to $3.50 per pound frozen in bags from the store.
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Deviled Eggs
Perhaps the deviled egg’s popularity lies in the fact that it is such a simple, comforting food. They’re simple to make ahead and pop into the refrigerator hours before serving.
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Quick and Creamy Tomato-Basil Soup
We love this soup. It’s easy. It’s flexible. It tastes like something from a fancy bistro yet flies together in 10 minutes flat.
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Slow-Simmered and Savory Pot Roast
Here's a whole, satisfying dinner in one pot, just waiting for you at the end of the day!
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Truly Vegetarian Minestrone
For a vegetarian, even vegetable soups aren’t always safe. Minestrone doesn’t usually have any actual meat but is classically made with beef and chicken broth. Our solution provides a delicious alternative.
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Salmon with Pan Sauce
Salmon with Pan Sauce is delicious with wild-caught salmon since the hint of cream in the sauce makes up for any lack of fat in your fillet.
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Two-Cheese Polenta
This Italian side dish is delicious with our Garlic Roasted Salmon or all on its own!
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Mollie Katzen’s Vegetable and Walnut Pizza
A good homemade pizza recipe is invaluable, and we’d go so far as to call Mollie Katzen’s Vegetable and Walnut Pizza truly great.
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Old-Fashioned Confectioner’s Icing
This simple icing can be colored for any type of sugar cookie occasion you need.
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Pear Spoon Bread
Here's a lovely dessert made hassle-free with the help of a slow cooker!
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Nanny Edith’s Sugar Cookies
These easy cookies are a blast to bake with kids. Even young tykes love to decorate them. And they survive quite well being shipped as treats for those special people not at home.
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Cream Cheese Frosting
Oh so rich with a slight bite from the cream cheese, this frosting is delicious with Red Velvet Cupcakes or any cake you like!
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Valentine Red Velvet Cupcakes
Martie Leming of Raleigh, NC., tried dozens of red velvet cakes before inventing this, the perfect easy and delicious recipe. We've turned it into cupcakes for Valentine's.
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One-Bowl Chocolate Fudge
This recipe comes from Kraft Creative Kitchens. It's incredibly flexible and quick to make the perfect home-crafted Valentine!
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“Butterless” Oatmeal, Raisin and Pecan Cookies
At only 79 calories per cookie and less than 2 grams of fat, it’s a perfect, guiltless cookie! Our thanks go to Karen Singer of San Diego for the recipe's inspiration.
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Chantilly Cream
Use Chantilly Cream to top chocolate custard, Apple Betty, chocolate bread pudding or any gooey dessert.
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Chocolate Custard with Chantilly Cream
This rich dessert will remind you of caramel cream custard -- only chocolate. Yum!
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Greek Lemon-Rice Soup with Chicken
Avgolemono, a traditional Greek soup made from chicken broth, lemon juice, eggs and rice, is a simple soup that we’ve somehow neglected to concoct a desperate version of – until now.
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Eat Yer Veg Cupcakes
These delightfully different cupcakes come from Guest Blogger Sylvia Regalado. Gotta try 'em.
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Tea Cakes
Our thanks for this recipe go to The Kitchen Diva, Angela Shelf Medearis. Tea Cakes are from her book The New African-American Kitchen.
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Black-eyed Pea Salad
This salad with black-eye peas and ham is perfect for a New Year's Day lunch -- or any day of the year.
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Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Simple Balsamic Vinaigrette
Here's a slightly new take on sweet potatoes.
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