Mango Salsa Chicken Salad

This is one of my favorite salad recipes! It is so easy, so healthy, and so fresh. You can add more of what you like or keep it simple. Ingredients, Mango Salsa Chicken Salad 4 chicken breasts 2-3 c. mango salsa (we love the kind from Costco) 1 head cleaned & chopped romaine lettuce 2 bell...

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Cranberry Almond Bacon Broccoli Salad with Greek Yogurt Dressing

I love broccoli, I love cranberries, I love bacon, and I love almonds. You know what I don’t love about most broccoli salads? The dressing is STRAIGHT UP mayonnaise. All the recipes I look at are basically 95% mayo, 2% sugar, and 3% vinegar. I really just can’t stomach the idea of taking a piece of...

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Lemon Salmon with Creamy Dill Sauce

A couple weeks ago I made this when friends came over for dinner. I always get nervous making a new dish when guests come but yet I ALWAYS seem to be doing it! Oh man I don’t know why I do that to myself. But this was amazing. Like delicious. I tripled the sauce recipe because it was that good. And...

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Chocolate Chip Butterscotch Oatmeal Walnut Cookies

Pretty much all my favorite cookie ingredients rolled into one cookie!! Adapted from my traditional chocolate chip cookie with more butter and more salt (the extra salt is crucial with all the extra sweets going in!). Ingredients, Chocolate Chip Butterscotch Oatmeal Walnut Cookie 1 c. butter (2 sticks)...

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Turkey, Bacon, & Avocado Club with Creamy Dill Sauce

I made this creamy dill sauce a couple weeks ago for a delicious new salmon recipe I tried (recipe coming soon!) and after we had lots of leftover sauce. I couldn’t stop putting it on everything. It’s so delicious and made mostly of greek yogurt so I don’t feel bad eating it. We tried it on some...

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The Complete Cafe Rio Sweet Pork Salad / Cafe Rio Copycat Salad

Okay as promised here is the mammoth all-encompassing, start to finish Cafe Rio Sweet Pork copycat recipe. I have made this dozens of times and experimented with what I like best and don’t like best about other recipes. If you have not had a Cafe Rio sweet pork salad, then add this to your menu for...

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General Conference Printables | April 2014

General Conference isn’t even over yet and already it’s been such a wonderful experience. Two weekends a year our church holds a general conference to address all our members and any visitors or investigators, worldwide. It takes place in Salt Lake City but is broadcast across the world. Every 6 months,...

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Cilantro Lime Ranch / Cafe Rio Copycat Dressing

When we moved to Minnesota I quickly began tinkering with Cafe Rio copycat recipes to avert my strong cravings for their delicious fresh Mex. There is nothing like Cafe Rio here. Even the places that attempt fresh Mex just don’t get it right. Oh it is sad. I miss it. But I have found some amazing recipes...

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