I hope you find these recipes helpful. Some of the recipes will be from my blog and many of them from other bloggers that I’ve grown to know and trust. One thing I can guarantee is I’ll be sharing simple, family friendly, recipes that are “mostly” healthy and budget friendly. 

I hope you’ll enjoy my Weekly Meal Ideas #11!

LET’S TALK TURKEY (and all the delicious side dishes)!!

I’m going to leave the actual turkey to the real pros! Mine is always delicious, but I don’t have any kind of recipe, I just roast it like my mom did, and like my grandma did. 

I do however have a few side dishes that are always on our Thanksgiving table. When our girls were young we always went down to Cabo San Lucas for Thanksgiving week and the big turkey dinner was on Christmas. Some years ago, and as the family has grown, and schedules became more complicated, we went back to the tradition of a BIG Thanksgiving dinner at home. 

Wondering what we serve on Christmas? We keep it simple. We order either cioppino or tamales. Easy and delicious!

Are you ready for some delicious Thanksgiving side dishes? I’ve even thrown in a turkey recipe from a blogger friend of mine.

Let’s start with my favorite side dish.

CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Here’s a classic stuffing recipe that is similar to how I make mine.

I always know that you can trust recipes from Yellow Bliss Road.

I’ve also included her MAKE AHEAD MASHED POTATOES

HOMEMADE STUFFING

It absolutely isn’t a turkey dinner without me making my Crab-Raspberry Jello Salad. 

CRAN-RASPBERRY JELLO SALAD

Green beans are a very traditional veggie to serve on Thanksgiving.

The Country Cook doesn’t disappoint with this recipe.

ALMOND GREEN BEANS

Of course you need a delicious turkey and some gravy!! Again, I know these will both be delicious and worthy of of being on your Thanksgiving table. Both recipes are from The Stay at Home Chef. If you do nothing else, you need to head on over to The Stay at Home Chef and check out ALL her Thanksgiving recipes!

JUICIEST TURKEY RECIPE

EASY TURKEY GRAVY

This salad is too pretty (and delicious), not to be served at Thanksgiving or Christmas. I’ve made this salad with both spinach or baby greens. I’ve also made it with or without the goat cheese (or subbed with blue cheese). 

BLACKBERRY SPINACH SALAD

Can’t forget the CRANBERRY SAUCE

And, because I must. Here are two old school traditional veggie side dishes. 

CLASSIC GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE

CREAMED CORN WITH BACON

Are you ready to finalize your menu and do some grocery shopping now?? I know I am!!

I hope you enjoyed my Weekly Meal Ideas #11.

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I hope you find these recipes helpful. Some of the recipes will be from my blog and many of them from other bloggers that I’ve grown to know and trust. One thing I can guarantee is I’ll be sharing simple, family friendly, recipes that are “mostly” healthy and budget friendly. 

I hope you’ll enjoy my Weekly Meal Ideas #10!

I’m mixing it up a bit this week and sharing just CHICKEN recipes!!

Six delicious CHICKEN recipes!

First up is my Quick and Easy Bruschetta Chicken!

I love to serve this over angel hair pasta and my entire family devours it!!

30 Minute Bruschetta Chicken

I do not follow a gluten free diet, so I might change this recipe a bit,

but for those that are gluten free, here’s a recipe that I think you’ll love!!

And check out the sauce she made for dipping!

Air Fryer Gluten Free Chicken Nuggets

This recipe for Old Fashioned Chicken Stew from The Stay at Home Chef, is calling my name!

I can’t wait to make this bowl of deliciousness!

Old Fashioned Chicken Stew

How about some Green Chile Enchilada Casserole for dinner soon? It’s amazingly easy and so good!

Green Chile Enchilada Casserole

Have you heard of Crack Chicken? I hadn’t until recently, and although I’ve yet to make it, you can’t go wrong with recipes from Alyssa at The Recipe Critic. I think Crack Chicken gets it’s name for being addictively good! 

Slow Cooker Crack Chicken

And lastly, these Broiled Chicken Thighs are from one of my favorite food bloggers, Yellow Bliss Road.

How amazingly good do these Garlic Broiled Thighs look?!?

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You simply need to rinse the beans and veggies, slice the onion, and cut the broccoli into florets. Using a paper towel or clean kitchen towel, pat the chickpeas and veggies dry before adding the olive oil and seasonings. The wetter they are, the more they will steam and not roast.

About half way through baking I gave it all a good stir and topped with crumbled feta cheese. Continue roasting until onions are translucent, tomatoes begin to blister and pop, and broccoli is tender and begins to brown. If you prefer you can leave it in another 5-10 minutes for a “crispier” broccoli. 

Once it’s done cooking, give it a BIG squeeze of fresh lemon juice. Serve with additional lemon wedges and red pepper flakes if desired.

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Roasted Chickpeas with Broccoli

Course Main Course, Side Dish

Cook Time 40 minutes minutes

Ingredients

• 1-2 15 ounce cans chickpeas rinse, drain, and pat dry
• 2 bunches broccoli florets (about 4 cups) rinse and pat dry
• 1 medium yellow onion peel and cut into thick slices
• 1 pint cherry tomatoes rinse and pat dry
• 3-4 TBSP olive oil
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1 TBSP italian seasoning
• 8 ounce block feta cheese *crumble into big chunks
• 1 lemon 1/2 for juicing, 1/2 cut into wedges for serving
• crushed red pepper flakes *optional for serving

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Line sheet pan with parchment paper or foil.
• Rinse and drain chickpeas. Pat dry with paper towel or clean kitchen towel.
• Rinse broccoli. Cut into florets. Pat dry.
• Rinse and pat dry cherry tomatoes.
• Peel and cut onion in half, then into thick slices.
• Place chickpeas, broccoli, tomatoes, and onion slices onto parchment lined sheet pan.
• Drizzle olive oil over veggies, toss lightly.
• Season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and italian seasoning.
• Place sheet pan into preheated 400* oven and roast for approximately 20 minutes.
• Stir veggies, and add crumbled feta on top. Continue baking for another 20 minutes or until veggies are roasted to your desired doneness.
• Using half the lemon, squeeze the juice over roasted veggies.
• Serve with lemon wedges and red pepper flakes (for a little kick).
• Enjoy!

You might also want to try:

Loaded Smashed Potatoes

Orzo Salad

Lemon Dill Potato Salad  

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I hope you find these recipes helpful. Some of the recipes will be from my blog and many of them from other bloggers that I’ve grown to know and trust. One thing I can guarantee is I’ll be sharing simple, family friendly, recipes that are “mostly” healthy and budget friendly. 

I hope you’ll enjoy my Weekly Meal Ideas #9! We’re huge fans of Mexican food in my house! While these may not be “authentic”, they sure are good!

Chicken Enchiladas

This easy dinner is a combo of two favorites: pizza and pasta! How can you go wrong?

Easy Pizza Pasta Casserole

Tis the season for chili. Lots and lots of chili! 

Turkey Chili with White Beans

This is the perfect Fall Meal from Well Plated.

Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash

How delicious and perfect does this look for a lazy weekend morning!! There’s not a thing I would change about this recipe. Except to have it sitting on my table of course!

Pumpkin French Toast Casserole from My Baking Addition

There’s still more time to make up a batch of this fun and tasty Halloween Snack Mix!! I’ll be making up one more to include at on our Halloween table.

Halloween Snack Mix

I hope you enjoyed my Weekly Meal Ideas #9.

I’d love if you’d leave me a message and let me know. Have a great week my friends!

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I’ll include the pumpkin whipped cream recipe on the recipe card, but it’s as simple as making homemade whipped cream. I used: heavy cream, powdered sugar, a little pumpkin puree, and some pumpkin pie spice. 

If you don’t have, or don’t want to invest in the “spooky skeleton” pan, you can bake this in any bread loaf pan or cupcake pan. My grandson saw my skull pans packed in my Halloween bin, and I think he asked me everyday when we could cook with them. Maybe next year I’ll get a little more creative with them, but for now we all enjoyed our Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake!

Here’s the link to the SKULL PAN. This recipe made 6 skull cakes with a little batter left over.

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Skull Cake

Course Dessert

Ingredients

• 1 box spice cake mix I used Betty Crocker
• 2 large eggs
• 1 14 ounce can pumpkin puree **save 2-3 TBSPs for the whipped cream *NOT canned pumpkin pie mix
• 1 - 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Pumpkin Whipped Cream

• 1 cup heavy cream
• 2 TBSP powdered sugar *add more for a sweeter whipped cream
• 2-3 TBSP pumpkin puree *reserved from skull cake recipe
• 1/4-1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice *start with 1/4 tsp and add more to taste

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350˚
• Spray loaf pan (or skull pan). I used Pam Baking Spray.
• In large mixing bowl, add cake mix, eggs, pumpkin puree (minus the reserved 2-3 TBSP if making the pumpkin whipped cream), and chocolate chips. Stir until well combined.
• Gently stir in chocolate chips.
• Spoon batter into prepared loaf pan, cupcake pan, or this skull pan. I filled a little over half way.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes (or more, up to 45-50 minutes) depending on the size pan you use. Check in 5 minute intervals until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. This skull pan took approximately 45 minutes.
• Serve with Pumpkin Whipped Cream

Pumpkin Whipped Cream

• Just like making regular homemade whipped cream!
• Add 1 cup heavy cream into deep bowl. Using a mixer on high, whip cream until stiff peaks are just about to form. Beat in pumpkin puree, powdered sugar, and pumpkin pie spice until peaks form. Make sure not to over-beat, cream will then become lumpy and butter-like.

Here’s another fun and festive idea that is fun to mix up with the kids!

Halloween Snack Mix

Here are a few other fun Halloween ideas that you might like!

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I hope you find these recipes helpful. Some of the recipes will be from my blog and many of them from other bloggers that I’ve grown to know and trust. One thing I can guarantee is I’ll be sharing simple, family friendly, recipes that are “mostly” healthy and budget friendly. 

I hope you’ll enjoy my Weekly Meal Ideas #8!

I’ve been making this Chicken Tortilla Soup for years! It’s so easy to make and my family loves it!

My mouth is watering just looking at this Apple Cake from A Family Feast!

Make sure and check out her their site for a lot of amazing recipes!

This Fall Pumpkin Chili is definitely a new family favorite of ours!

My Fall Pumpkin Chili

You can never go wrong with a recipe from The Stay at Home Chef. 

 Easy Stovetop Mac & Cheese

Manicotti is such a delicious and satisfying meal! Check out this recipe from Easy Weeknight Recipes.

Cheese Manicotti

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For my Halloween Snack Mix, I used:

• Small grid pretzels
• Candy corn
• Halloween M&Ms
• Chocolate Teddy Grahams
• Glazed popcorn (I used Orville Redenbacher’s Poppycock blend)

I’ve also seen it made with Rice (or any flavor) Chex Cereal, Reese’s Pieces, Bugles, Chocolate Chips, Crunch ‘n Munch Popcorn, Nuts, Honey Nut Cheerios…… you get the idea.

Make it festive, make it fun, and make it “your own”!!

**I recommend storing it in an airtight container prior to serving. We left our sitting uncovered on the counter and the popcorn and teddy grahams got a little soft. Still good and we devoured every last bite of it.

Here’s a Fall Trail Mix that I mix up a couple years ago. 

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I hope you find these recipes helpful. Some of the recipes will be from my blog and many of them from other bloggers that I’ve grown to know and trust. One thing I can guarantee is I’ll be sharing simple, family friendly, recipes that are “mostly” healthy and budget friendly. 

I hope you’ll enjoy my Weekly Meal Ideas #7!

Let’s start off this week Meal Ideas with a delicious Cheesy Taco Pasta from Dinner then Dessert.

I think this is a guaranteed dinner winner if you have a houseful of hungry kids!

Next is my Creamy Chicken Soup. It can be made in the Instant Pot or easily converted to a slow cooker or stovetop.

It’s delicious, hearty, and comforting, just perfect on a cool Fall evening. 

Creamy Chicken Soup

Savory Thoughts made these Spaghetti Squash Boats and they’re definitely on my “to make” list. I’d probably use ground turkey instead of ground beef and take a shortcut by using a jarred marinara sauce. That’s typically how I cook. I get inspired by recipes that I know I’ll love and make a few adjustments (just because). 

If you haven’t already noticed, I’m on a soup kick right now. I’ve been pulling up my all time favorite soup recipes and making at least one a week.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Hamburger Soup

Living with Landyn recently shared this Pumpkin Dream Cake. Anything pumpkin is a winner in my book.

Except, no pumpkin spice lattes for me! Nope, just can’t get myself to enjoy those. In cake, absolutely!!

Pumpkin Dream Cake

This cake is almost too pretty to eat. Almost!

Lastly, are Pumpkin Spice Overnight Oats. I’m not a big breakfast eater, but I can’t resist pumpkin or overnight oats, so I knew I needed to share these. 

Pumpkin Spice Overnight Oats from Wholefully.

I hope you enjoyed my Weekly Meal Ideas #7.

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Since these Bisquick Pumpkin Pancakes were made using Bisquick Pancake Mix, they were quick to make. The pumpkin puree and some pumpkin pie spice gave them a nice pumpkin flavor, just perfect for this time of year!

All the ingredients are shown below, except for the milk, which I honestly just forgot to put with these ingredients until I starting measuring everything into the bowl. 

I simply measured all the ingredients (including the milk) into a batter bowl and mixed it together with a whisk. Once the batter is ready, preheat your favorite pancake skillet and cook over medium heat until light golden brown on both sides. Once the pancakes were ready to flip, I added a few mini chocolate chips, then flipped and cooked the second side. 

How would you top your pancakes?? 

Chocolate chips inside the pancakes? Or plain, with butter, pecans, and syrup? Or maybe plain with whipped cream and sprinkles? 

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Bisquick Pumpkin Pancakes

Easy to make using a pancake mix, these Bisquick Pumpkin Pancakes are delicious with some chocolate chips or topped with butter, syrup, and pecans.

Ingredients

• 2 cups Bisquick Pancake Mix
• 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
• 1 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 2 TBSP melted butter
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice

Instructions

• In medium bowl, add in all ingredients: Bisquick, eggs, milk, pumpkin puree, melted butter, baking powder, and pumpkin pie spice. Whisk or stir, until well blended.
• Heat your favorite pancake griddle or large skillet over medium heat. Use about 1/3 cup pancake batter. Flip when first side is light golden brown and it begins to bubble. Cook until golden brown.
• **optional - add mini chocolate chips to the pancake before you flip it. I do not add them to the batter so that I have the option of also some without.
• My pancake skillet is non stick and does not require adding butter (or spray). If your pan is not non-stick, melt a little butter on the pan before adding the pancake batter.

Serve pancakes warm with your favorite toppings: butter, syrup, chopped pecans, mini chocolate chips, sliced banana, whipped cream.

Enjoy!!

How cute would it be to fill the batter bowl with a couple of baking mixes (bread, cookies, etc), a whisk, and a dishtowel as a cute hostess or Christmas gift!?!?

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I hope you find these recipes helpful. Some of the recipes will be from my blog and many of them from other bloggers that I’ve grown to know and trust. One thing I can guarantee is I’ll be sharing simple, family friendly, recipes that are “mostly” healthy and budget friendly. 

I hope you’ll enjoy my Weekly Meal Ideas #6!

This salad from Grand Baby Cakes gives me all the Fall feels and flavors! With the warm temperatures we get in the Fall,  I’d add some chicken to the salad and call it dinner! 

Fall Salad

 My Sweet Potato Chili is a hearty vegetarian chili and perfect for cooler Fall evenings. Serve with a side salad and cornbread!

Sweet Potato Chili

I made these M&M Cookies with peanut butter M&Ms, but how about a seasonally colored mix? The cookie recipe would be the same, just mix in your favorite mix of M&Ms. 

M & M Cookies

Are you a fan of sheet pan meals? Don’t let the list of ingredients scare you off (it might look a little long to some), it’s a simple quick recipe! 

Sheet Pan Chili Lime Salmon

This is such a delicious looking recipe from Cafe Delights. Yum! I’d serve this with rice and maybe a salad or broccoli. 

I know a lot of little ones will only eat chicken nuggets, but what if they help you make these Chicken Tenders? Maybe this will help them get past the nugget only stage?

Are your little ones Ketchup (Catsup) or Ranch dippers??

Cracker Crumb Chicken Tenders

Lastly, tis the season to add a pumpkin recipe. And since I like to include some sort of breakfast/sweet/snack I couldn’t resist this Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

from Sally’s Baking Addiction. 

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

I hope you enjoyed my Weekly Meal Ideas #6.

I’d love if you’d leave me a message and let me know. Have a great week my friends!

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