Recipes
Part of family life is found in the food! So we need recipes, right?
As we all know, a happy family is a fed family. I love to keep track of food that meets our family “stamp of approval.” Some, like our traditional birthday cake, chicken tikka masala and eggs Benedict, have become main staples for traditions. There are easy-peasy go-tos like apricot chicken, our delicious burrata appetizer, and the quickest flatbread.
So many recipes that make kids’ eyes light up.
And of course, there are plenty recipes for cookies. Because what is a life without cookies? It’s one of my favorite hobbies to collect recipes for those.
You’ll find categories for our favorite breakfasts, sides, salads, entrees, soups and of course, desserts.
Enjoy!
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Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread – You’d Never Know It’s GF
I’ve been making this pumpkin bread on repeat. Because I don’t believe there’s ever a bad time for pumpkin bread, no matter the time…
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Easy Baked Brie with Sweet Pepper Jelly
You guys. My friend made us some baked brie with sweet pepper jelly a month or so ago and I fell deeply in love.…
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Kristi’s Flat Bread with Hot Honey and Ricotta
Ok. I have a very delicious recipe to share. It has been on repeat for us ever since my sister-in-law made it as one…
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My Latest Favorite: Wild Rice & Kale Salad
Let’s talk about wild rice and kale salad. Because I promised to share my latest salad recipe when I talked about salad group a…
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How Make Eggs Benedict – An Eyre Family Tradition
Making eggs Benedict on Christmas morning has become a must in our family. But it’s taken a while. This is an Eyre family tradition…
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“Healthy” Date Bars
Ok so we had this “health night” over at my friend’s house for Relief Society a while back. Since my calling in church these…
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Tonia’s Oatmeal Banana Muffins
I’d like to introduce you to Tonia’s oatmeal banana muffins. Because when you find a good thing you want to make sure you keep…
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The BEST Salted chocolate chip cookies
I know, I keep finding new recipes that are the BEST chocolate chip cookies. The truth is, there are just a lot of good…
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The dodo – How to make the quickest, easiest copycat sandwiches
If you haven’t been to The Dodo restaurant and you live near Salt Lake City, I’m telling you, it’s a must. It’s nostalgic for…
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The best (and easiest) appetizer
I made this on repeat around Thanksgiving-time and I think it’s festive enough that it’s worthy of a Christmas appetizer as well. Plus it…
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The most delicious home-made rolls – wendy’s rolls
When Thanksgiving rolls around we’re all looking for good roll recipes, am I right? So I want to repost a recipe for the most…
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pink sauce sausage rigatoni that will knock your socks off
I love when I find new recipes that our whole family loves. Ok, well, our “whole” family isn’t really around, but Lucy is sometimes…
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the best hot fudge sauce
I’ve been on the hunt for “the best hot fudge sauce” recipe for a LONG time. And I don’t know why when I’m in…
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Super Easy Asian lettuce wraps for a crowd
As promised I’m here to share the recipe for how to make super easy Asian lettuce wraps for a crowd. We made these when…
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how to make chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Here’s a recipe for the best, fudge-like, delicious chocolate crinkle cookies.
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Levain Copycat Chocolate Cookies
If you can’t go to NYC when you have a hankering for good cookies, here’s a fix. Let’s make some incredible Levain copycat chocolate…
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the best fancy sandwich recipe for bridal/baby showers
I’m always on the look-out for good ideas to whip up fancy food. I mean, sometimes you just want to offer something that’s not…
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mini empanadas and a teeny, tiny pie
Lucy has a love/hate relationship with her cooking class at school. She LOVES to learn how to cook. I mean, she wants to be…
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Shelley’s everyday flatbread
I want to share my friend Shelley’s everyday flatbread recipe. I originally posted this recipe in December of 2012, but wanted to update with…
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how to make a spiced chocolate chip cookie
Welp, Dave and I are three days into our “bet,” he has given up soda and I have given up cookies for a little…
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A Japanese curry recipe from two of my big bearded brothers
Ok, so they’re really my little brothers if you want to get technical, but they’re taller than me, and bearded, so there you go.…
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Two of Jonah’s great granola recipes (one keto, one not)
It’s a little bit of tricky business over here food-wise because although we are loving all cooking in the kitchen together, we have some…
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Barbi’s “even better” whole wheat bread recipe that will knock your socks off
Welp, I thought I had the home-made bread dealio down with my original whole wheat bread recipe I love. It is easy and foolproof…
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the best kale salad plus Greek chicken skewers
I tried this salad from Lillie Eats and Tells last week and it was mouthwateringly good (I love all her recipes). We paired it…
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the best brownies in all the land
I can’t share this recipe until I have given a very heartfelt THANK YOU for all the input and great suggestions for our sisters…
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a new favorite banana bread recipe
I have used the same banana bread recipe for years. And the fact I have kept to it must mean it’s pretty good, right?…
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a quick weeknight salad “recipe”
Every now and again my friend and I go to Costco together. Sometimes it is the only time in our days that we can…
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quick weeknight macro-friendly chicken tacos
Easy Chicken Tacos (…and actually, tostadas too, because you can do either one). I don’t do macros any more, but I am still always…
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my new favorite: butter chicken
It is the last day of school here in the desert. I’m trying to sort out my feelings about this one. My baby is…
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baking hurdles and my mom’s pumpkin bread recipe
Let’s talk about my mom’s pumpkin bread recipe. Because it’s Lucy’s new favorite. And also a good thing to share:) You see, a few…
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Julie’s peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
My friend is the best baker in the whole wide world. And when she first brought these cookies over to us we were wigging…
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cowboy caviar
I don’t think I have ever posted this recipe, which is crazy because we make it so much. Claire and I had it on…
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easy-peasy pumpkin cookies
This is the time of year when I am in love with everything pumpkin. So when I came across this recipe on r2sense last…
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lentil tacos
For anyone who has been reading this blog for a while, you know we take food very seriously at our family reunions. My sisters…
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watermelon and feta salad
Let’s talk about one of my favorite new salads: watermelon and feta salad. The timing when we got this new blog format up and…
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Nichol’s vodka pasta sauce
When we lived in China, there was this family, the Nichols, who invited us over to dinner after church one Sunday. For us, invitations…
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Island Pork Tenderloin Salad
Let’s just start by saying this is my new favorite meal. It is SO GOOD. Not sure I can emphasize the “SO GOOD” quite…
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Apricot Chicken…and some good soups
We have one recipe that we make on repeat the vast majority of Sundays. I don’t have any fancy pictures of it, and I’m…
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simple salad
My sister Saydi whipped us up a salad when we were in Utah last and Grace and I fell in love with it. So…
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chicken & vegetable tostadas
Happy Valentine’s Day! As a little Valentine’s gift…for blog readers as well as to my future self who is going to be looking for…
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zoodles and cauliflower cream sauce
My sister-in-law, who is a macro coach extraordinaire (who I’ve talked about before, and you can find her HERE), introduced me to this macro-friendly…
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roasted chicken and veggies
We are trying to bump up our food repertoire over here with some new recipes. I wanted to share this one for roasted chicken…
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parmesan chicken
Sundays are my favorite dinner days because we cook together, my girls and I. Claire is always in charge of the flatbread these days…
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home-made crusty bread
Let’s take a minute amidst the chaos and write about home-made crusty bread. Because bread is salve for the soul, don’t you think? There…
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The Best Wildflower Copycat – Chopped Pesto Salad
If you are looking for a good salad recipe, you’ve come to the right spot:) Here’s a recipe for the best Wildflower copycat chopped…
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avocado cilantro dressing goodness
We are trying to bump up our healthy eating around here. Wait, do I sound like a broken record on that or what? …
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chocolate chip pound cake – our traditional birthday cake
Do you have a favorite family birthday cake? Ours is chocolate chip pound cake, and it is SO good. Cakes are not generally my…
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healthy snack ideas please! (and some name tag drama)
School is in full swing. Job charts are printed out and pasted up, (but the kids still aren’t registering that they are actually there…
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Friday Q & A — healthy eating and some parenting tips from my parents
You and all your family seem to eat so healthy. Have you ever thought of putting together a cookbook with healthy recipes, and ideas…
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quick veggie curry
I’m so grateful for heat. I know we are total wimps coming from the desert, but man alive, this wet kind of cold…
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Ruth’s pumpkin pancakes
Oh man I’m so mad I didn’t snap a picture of these scrumptious things my kids scarfed down before they left for school this…
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white texas sheet cake {or almond cake} and a colorful table
We invited our first house guests over last night. I figured we can now get ourselves around well enough and are somewhat stabilized as…
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butter chicken with naan
My brother is a great cook. He can whip up home-made bread or home-made sausage for that matter. Among my favorites of his specialties…
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roasted corn salad…and bruschetta…and home decor for sale
Ok, I know, corn salad?? But honestly, when I tried this stuff they were making samples of at Trader Joes I fell in love.…
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banana oatmeal {and coconut if you want} pancakes
We’ve somehow ended up with a whole bunch of extra ripe bananas over the last few weeks. I just keep buying them and I…
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coconut granola pancakes
We had these pancakes for Easter brunch, thanks to my sister Charity who whipped them up, and you’d have thought the whole family had…
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Grace’s delicious pizza {another guest post}
This is Grace. One of my jobs for spring break (which we are in the middle of right now) is to write about how…
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pesto chicken pizza
Although I haven’t been able to convince my children of the joys of hummus (back HERE), I have won them over quite whole-heartedly to…
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zucchini muffins
***post-edit note: Oh no! I forgot to put in the baking soda when I first posted this! These yummy things need baking soda! Please…
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Delicious creamy potato soup – a guest post by Grace
Let’s talk about delicious creamy potato soup. My daughter Grace made it and I figured it’s time for her to share. So here we…
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slow cooker coconut chicken curry
There isn’t a recipe on earth that doesn’t make my mouth water when it has the words “coconut” and “curry” in the same line.…
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“home-made” grasshopper pie
Claire requested grasshopper pie for her birthday cake. And she didn’t mean the “home-made” kind of home-made one you can find recipes for flooding…
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2 easy peasy ways to cook veggies
It’s a little late in the day, but here I am to share two ways to cook veggies (inspired by blog readers from my…
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on dinner, new years resolutions and another try to make my kids like hummus 🙂
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to figure out some new recipes to feed my family. Because lately I’m in a rut. We…
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how to seed a pomegranate {a tutorial by David}
Who could have guessed that my children (the ones who are picky as can be with so darn many things) would be head-over-heels in love with…
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chicken tamale bake
My sister Saydi (who is an awesome cook) gave me this recipe when I was in dire straits for some ideas for dinner years…
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quick pizza
I know pizza is not the healthiest food item in the book. I know it’s far from it. But sometimes it is pretty delicious.…
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Lion House banana bread {with chocolate chips}
When Dave and I lived in Virginia some kind friends of his parents invited us to dinner. They served such delicious banana bread for…
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home-made croutons
I’m finally back with my Thursday recipes…which I love to have here so I can look them up any time, anywhere I have internet.…
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baked tilapia on a Monday night
We are not a fish family. Maybe because the only fish I ever tried growing up were fresh-caught trout straight from Bear Lake that…
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grilled pesto chicken
My sister made this chicken at our little MFME a while back and it was so good I figured I’d put it to use…
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The Best chicken mango salsa soup
My mom made this for us when we were up in Utah for Spring Break. I didn’t think anything could beat the chicken corn…
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roasted-vegetable panzanella
My sister Saydi made this for us at Bear Lake a couple years ago and I fell in love with it. I like that…
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warm chocolate cake
Over the years and years since this became my favorite “hosting” dessert (I talked about it back here), my friends and I have tried…
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good recipes galore
My Mom made the best soup when we there for Spring Break. My plan was to post it today but she is unreachable in…
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Jackson Soufflé / Ocean Pancakes / German Pancakes
Whether you call them Jackson Souffle/Ocean Pancakes/German Pancakes, this recipe is a pretty famous one in our family. It’s a pretty big crowd-pleaser too.…
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Ashby’s white bread and thoughts about gluten
We don’t generally have white bread around. When I bake bread I generally go to my “go to” recipe (here) because we love it…
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Wendy’s pumpkin chocolate chip muffins
I have the BEST recipe for pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. And believe me, you want this recipe! This recipe is from the same “Wendy”…
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two yummy soup recipes
These two yummy soup recipes have been family favorites for years and years. My kids eyes sparkle when I tell them we’re having one…
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Natalie’s marinade {that I use for Shish Kabobs}
Why do I feel so healthy when I make shish Kabobs. (And really, how in the world do you spell that word anyway?) Something…
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honey-lime enchiladas
These honey-lime enchiladas have become a staple at our house. They are one of those recipes that makes everyone’s eyes light up when I…
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Christy’s home-made granola (regular or gluten-free)
Dave begged me to get this recipe from my sister-in-law a few months back because he claimed it was the best stuff ever. So…
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two quinoa recipes
I started the gluten-free thing this week. On Monday I thought I just may shrivel up and die. Although this plan has been a…
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Chicken Tikka Masala
This recipe for chicken tikka masala is another recipe from my sister-in-law Julie. Being an Indian food fan, I was head-over-heels in love when…
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easy-peasy grilled pork tenderloin
I’m doing “recipe Thursday” on Wednesday this week cause I’m all messed up on my days. And it’s someone’s birthday tomorrow. Really, who wants…
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The Best chicken corn chowder
My cousin Kara made this chicken corn chowder for us at book club a couple months ago and I’ve been craving it ever since. …
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quick weeknight Asian turkey lettuce wraps
My friend Claudia gave this recipe to me a long time ago and it’s one of those ones marred with smudges and splatters from…
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rainbow hello kitty birthday cake
Lucy planned our her rainbow-hello-kitty birthday cake for months before the big day. I don’t know that this was exactly what she had in…
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spinach manicotti
I got this recipe from one of my best friends in Virginia back when we each had a couple babies to juggle and big…
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strawberry spinach salad and Sunday dinner
There is something so tasty about strawberries and spinach mixed together with a great dressing to add some zest. And man alive, that kind…
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chocolate macaroon bars and conference cinnamon rolls
We sure try to eat healthy around here. Having Lucy and her health issues has made us so aware of what we put into…