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Slow Cooker Beef Stew

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Hearty slow cooker meals are perfect for the chilly days ahead. This flavorful Slow Cooker Beef Stew is a household favorite and so easy to make for any weeknight meal!

Hearty slow cooker meals are perfect for the chilly days ahead. This flavorful Slow Cooker Beef Stew is a household favorite and so easy to make for any weeknight meal!

It’s hard to believe that the winter months are almost upon us. (OK, I feel like I should specify here since some of y’all are dealing with some winter-like conditions right now. I live in Texas, and winter arrives around mid-December most of the time… so we’ve yet to experience anything too crazy yet.)

Either way, I don’t know about y’all, but this time of year is when I am in search of something comforting for dinner.

Today, I have the perfect comfort dish for y’all. It can easily be made the morning of, seared off, tossed into the slow cooker to do its thing all day and then it’s ready for you to eat when you get home from work.

It’s a quick dish to pull together, and it’s super cozy for a chilly winter’s night.

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Snickerdoodle Skillet Cookie

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Now that Thanksgiving is over, I feel like I can officially begin my Christmas baking! Cookies are so popular around the holidays, but I’m actually not very good at making cookies. At least the way everyone wants them: firm around the edges and soft in the middle. So I tend to make more cookie bars and skillet cookies, which are just as good, if not better, in my book.

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Creamy Blue Cheese Olive Dip

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Blue Cheese Olive Dip

I love olives. Green, black, stuffed, any, you name them. I love the sour tartness. They are also (obviously) the best part of a dirty martini. The dirtier the better with extra olive juice.

Olives are a fabulous ingredient to have around for the holiday’s. For this Thanksgiving, I was in charge of bringing an appetizer. Just like most of us, I don’t have a lot of extra time on my hands, but I also didn’t want to just buy something to bring. After-all, the hostess will have been in the kitchen of her house for the last two days, I wanted to show my appreciate by bringing a delicious and homemade recipe.

This recipe is so tasty. It reminds me of the pimento cheese I adored in New Orleans earlier this year. Living in AZ, pimento cheese is not such an easy thing to access. I love this recipe better because of the real olives in the dip.

I decided to make an olive cheese dip. This appetizer takes just a short bit of time, and I promise you it will be a hit. Serve it with crackers, chips or vegetables.

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