My cornbread has a moist and tender cake like texture with just the right amount of sweetness from creamed corn to elevate it from bread, but hardly a dessert. This cornbread recipe with cream-style corn is in between those two categories. It is one that is so satisfying when you need a baked treat, but not an overly rich one. You can buy an eight-ounce can of cream-style corn or just a larger 14.75 ounce size and divide it in half. This way you can save a bit of money and have an excuse to make another batch before the leftover corn goes bad. Baking this easy cornbread with cream-style corn ..read more

The other day my new shipment of tangy hot sauce flavor from hot sauce of the month club, Fuego Box arrived for June 2023. Inside, I discovered three more distinctive bottled recipes and exciting hot pepper sauces with different spices, fruits, and herbs that capture freshness and burning great taste in one. **Disclaimer:  This post has been compensated.  Opinions are solely mine. ** If you haven’t heard about Fuego Box yet, then let me clue you in about this hot sauce subscription. For $29.95 a month and free USA shipping, you get three artisan hot sauces delivered. You also get a ..read more

What is it about the delicious warm aroma of ginger, cinnamon and cloves baking that is so inviting as that smell permeates through your home? My ginger cookies recipe is chewy and chalked full of fragrant spices and just enough crystallized ginger to energize the flavor of that zesty ginger even more. This cookie has gingerbread like taste, only so much better for how the spices and ginger come through. The advantages to making this particular recipe for ginger cookies are many. Besides having incredible flavor and the tendency to disappear before your eyes, they are easy to prepare mixing t ..read more

If you’re in the mood for soft, tender cookies that practically melt in your mouth with cooked carrots, a blend of brown and white sugars, vanilla, and raisins, then I have the perfect recipe for you with my carrot cookies. This is an ideal and simple cookie to make, especially when you’re cooking fresh carrots for your family’s dinner or have leftover carrots when you made too many. What else you can do with this cookie recipe is adding a teaspoon of cinnamon and a cream cheese icing for a carrot cake version. However, I usually just make them plain without the icing or the cinnamon and allo ..read more

Photo Courtesy of Pexels – Juan Pablo Serrano Arenas Time is such a precious commodity with how busy our days can be. Therefore, it always helps to have tips and tricks for cooking in 30 minutes or less to get more done and gain extra leisure time. In this post, I will show you the basics for shopping, kitchen organization, preparation, and cooking that can help serve quick and easy meals in record time. You can speed up a recipe in several ways. If money is not important to you as much as saving those extra minutes in time, you can often buy ingredients for your recipe already sliced, grated ..read more

Are you looking for socks that can turn heads while keeping your feet more comfy and sweating less? If so, you may want to do something good for your feet and the planet, then consider playful socks made from sustainable bamboo such as the best ones from Spiffy Socks that can color your world with new foot style possibilities. **Disclaimer: This post contains referral/affiliate links.  If you buy something, Beauty Cooks Kisses may earn a commission.  All opinions expressed are my own honest ones.** The reason this fabric is a great choice is because bamboo is a renewable resource th ..read more

Imagine biting into a rich and fudgy mound of decadent cake-like chocolate right about now with a generous dusting of confectioners’ sugar? As incredibly delicious as my chocolate crinkle cookie recipe is, it also is a beautiful cookie from how the contrast of the chocolate against the white pattern as the cookie puffs and cracks into a lovely design. Now if I have made you hungry, then let me tell you what else that you’ll love about this cookie that will remind you of a brownie. First of all, you hardly have any work preparing my chocolate crinkle cookie recipe. The reason this is the perfe ..read more

If you want to really treat your family and friends to quality, juicy burgers grilling on that barbecue or picnic this Memorial Day, 100% grass-fed ground beef is the way to go. Already I am making myself hungry thinking of those big burgers piled high with fresh lettuce, slices of tomato, onions, and mustard. This is why I am excited to share an awesome Memorial Day weekend healthy meat sale from ButcherBox where first time subscribers can get two pounds of free 100% grass-fed ground beef in every box for the first year for new ButcherBox members plus $20 off your first five boxes, which is ..read more

Photo Courtesy of Pexels – Vanessa Loring Anyone trying to improve their health knows the importance of diet and making the right food choices. Switching over to grass-fed beef, organic chicken and healthier seafood such as wild caught salmon that is void of chemical hormones, preservatives and nauseating additives found in typical packaged meats in supermarkets helps in that equation. But you can also enhance those efforts by adding plant based protein foods to your diet for healthy recipe substitutions. Here are tips and tricks that can gradually ease your transition from regular animal prot ..read more

One of the standby dishes I always make for a Memorial Day barbecue or picnic is potato salad. Though I have several different recipes that I like to rotate with this creamy potato salad that has sour cream and mustard added to the mix along with tender hunks of potato, crunchy celery and onion as well as chopped hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, and chives in a slightly tangy dressing will tantalize your taste buds. Like all potato salads, you will have to spend some time in the kitchen boiling, peeling, chopping and mixing the ingredients followed by extra dishes to wash. Nonetheless, you will ..read more