Cooking your tri tip in the oven is quick, easy and delicious! You will end up with a tender roast that has amazing flavor. Why You’ll Love This Recipe! This tri tip recipe will become your go to way to cook tri tip in the oven. Oven-roasting a tri tip gives you a tender, flavorful and juicy roast. It is so easy to make, just apply the rub to the meat, sear it in a pan and then let it finish cooking in the oven. What is a Tri Tip? Tri tip is a triangular cut of meat that comes from the bottom sirloin It has three tips and is often called a triangle roast or a California cut. Tri tip first bec ..read more

Liege Waffles are a sweet, yeast based waffle with crispy edges that is easy to make at home. The whole family will love this delicious treat! Why You’ll Love This Recipe! One of our favorite Portland restaurants is The Waffle Window. It is often the first place we stop after picking up kids from the airport when they come home for a visit.  It is literally a window on the side of a building and they serve the most amazing  Belgian Liege waffles.  I decided it would be fun to make my own version at home and this recipe is the perfect substitute for the real thing. These waffles ..read more

This homemade key lime pie ice cream tastes just like a key lime pie! It’s smooth, sweet and just the right amount of tart. Why You’ll Love This Recipe! It’s so easy! Seriously just throw the ingredients into the ice cream maker and then let it do it’s thing! The flavor! It has all of the flavors of a key lime pie, including the graham cracker crumbs but there is no oven required! Ingredients Needed Whole milk Key lime juice. I use the bottled Nellie & Joe’s brand. Heavy whipping cream Half and half (this is half cream, half milk) Sweetened condensed milk Salt Graham crackers Wha ..read more

A peanut butter skillet cookie is warm and gooey and the perfect way to satisfy that peanut butter cookie craving without making a whole batch of cookies. Why You’ll Love This Recipe! When that peanut butter cookie craving hits, this is an easy and quick way to satisfy it without over indulging in too many cookies. You can put it together in minutes! Ingredients Needed Flour. I use unbleached all purpose flour Baking Soda Salt Peanut Butter. I used creamy peanut butter. I have found that natural peanut butters, especially those where the oil separates don’t work well for this recipe. Butter ..read more

These lemon scones are drizzled with a sweet and lemony glaze. They are light, flaky, tender and full of lemon flavor. Why You’ll Love This Recipe! Lemon scones are not just for tea time! Although they are one of my favorite tea time treats these lemon scones are just too good to only enjoy for tea.  They are the perfect addition to breakfast, brunch or an afternoon treat. These scones are light, tender and flaky. Lemon scones have the perfect amount of lemon flavor. What is a Scone? A scone is a baked pastry made with a slightly sweet dough. They are typically cut into wedges. In Engl ..read more

This delicious french dip sandwich is full of flavor, topped with melted cheese and a homemade au jus for dipping. Why You’ll Love This Recipe! It’s easy! Today’s french dip sandwich is made in the slow cooker and is the perfect week night family meal. Put everything in the crockpot in the morning and dinner is ready when you are! All you have to do is shred the meat, melt some cheese on top and you have a delicious meal. What is a French Dip Sandwich? A french dip sandwich is also known as a beef dip. It is a hot sandwich that consists of thinly sliced or shredded beef served on a French ro ..read more

Spicy Potatoes are thin and crispy around the edges and full of flavor. They are the perfect side dish to just about any meal. Why You’ll Love These Potatoes! They have amazing flavor! But don’t let that word spicy scare you away from these potatoes though. The recipe uses chili pepper so they have a little bit of a kick to them. You can easily reduce the amount of chili pepper and cayenne pepper if you prefer a milder potatoes. At our house, these spicy potatoes are affectionately called Patrice’s Potatoes after one of my good friends who gave me the recipe and are one of our favorite p ..read more

These Raspberry Oatmeal Bars use a combination of fresh raspberries and raspberry jam over a shortbread base and topped with an oatmeal streusel crumb. Why You’ll Love This Recipe! Raspberry oatmeal bars are the perfect way to celebrate berry season but don’t wait for berry season to enjoy them.  They are too good to wait for berry season. They use a combination of fresh berries and jam so they are easy to make and you can even use other berries such as strawberry, blueberry or blackberry. The streusel topping gives the bars good flavor and amazing texture. Ingredients Needed Flour. I ..read more

This is a great gluten free and dairy free cream of chicken soup. It tastes delicious and you’ll find all kinds of ways to use it. Why You’ll Love This Recipe When my daughter Cali was diagnosed with a wheat and dairy intolerance years ago it took some adjusting. One of the biggest challenges was taking some of our family favorite recipes and adapting them so that Cali could eat them.   After a little experimenting I was able to come up with a gluten free and dairy free cream of chicken soup that tasted great and worked perfect.  You can use it in any recipe that calls for crea ..read more

Soft and gooey on the inside and light and crispy on the edges, these small batch Nutella brownies are just the way a brownie should be! Why You’ll Love These Where are my Nutella fans? These Small Batch Nutella Brownies are everything a brownie should be gooey on the inside and crispy on the edges. When you use a loaf pan each piece has a crispy edge! They get all their amazing flavor from Nutella and the recipe only uses a handful of ingredients. This small batch size is perfect when you are craving something chocolatey and sweet but don’t need too much! You can satisfy that craving in jus ..read more