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Golden brown and caramelized, a sprial ham ready to be enjoyed.

Ham in a Roaster Oven

A tomato based sauce over a beef bottom round roast in a pot from the oven.

Bottom Round Roast Recipe {Italian Style}

Air Fryer Pizza Bread Sticks on a white plate.

Air Fryer Pizza Breadsticks

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Easy Family Recipes, Tips, & Kitchen Hacks

Hi, I’m Alli. I’ve taught home cooks easy family recipes, tips, and kitchen hacks for over 30 years. This site is a simple road map to help you make delicious meals or share with loved ones. In developing these 500+ recipes, I’ve learned one thing: my readers need tested recipes that are tried and true. They count on me to provide easy step-by-step instructions, basic ingredients, and big flavors. 


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Instant pot with vegetables inside.

Instant Pot

Chuck roast in an air fryer with potatoes and carrots.

Air Fryer

Foil-wrapped potatoes and naked potatoes in a roaster oven.

Roaster

Appetizers

Fully cooked tender roast beef on a platter.

Roasts

Chicken orzo soup in a blue bowl.

Soups

Smoked Gouda Pasta Salad with chicken.

Salads

12 Kitchen Organization Tips that will Improve Your Life!

Kitchen Tips



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Roasts

A sliced medium-rare eye of round roast on a white platter.

Instant Pot Beef Eye of Round Roast

Cinnamon Rolls

A bite of caramel pecan rolls made from pillsbury cinnamon rolls.

Caramel Pecan Cinnamon Rolls

A pumpkin cinnamon roll on a white plate with a bite on a fork.

Easy Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls



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