This Chicken and Bacon Alfredo is an easy restaurant-style pasta filled with chicken, bacon, and Parmesan cheese you can make at home! Hello Mandy's Recipe Box readers!! It's Jaren from Diary of a Recipe Collector! I've been in such a pasta mood lately and I'd love to share a simple pasta dish I cooked up the other day. One of the stars of this dish is bacon, and everything is better with bacon! You agree? In fact, it starts the whole dish out, and that wonderful bacon flavor is carried … [Read more...]
Loaded Mac and Cheese
This post is sponsored by Horizon Organic Mac and Cheese. All thoughts are my own. This Loaded Mac and Cheese will solve the tiresome question of "What's for dinner?" Only 30 minutes to putting dinner on the table. The kids will eat it up! My kids are pretty picky eaters. My oldest would not eat potatoes of any kind until she was about 9. Potatoes, you guys. That's just wrong. So when I make something that they all like, it's a total keeper at our house. This Loaded Mac and Cheese is one … [Read more...]
30 Pasta Salad Recipes
Spring is just around the corner (hopefully) as well as Easter which means pasta salads! Have you ever been to a potluck dinner where some sort of pasta salad wasn't served? I have 30 pasta salad recipes from me and some blogging friends to help you out. They are all delicious, so be sure to make each one of them this season! … [Read more...]
Pizza Pasta Bake
This Pizza Pasta Bake is an easy dinner recipe that the whole family will love. All the deliciousness of pizza is a pasta casserole! Hello Mandy's Recipe Box readers!! It's me, Jaren, from Diary of a Recipe Collector. I'm back here this month to share another recipe with you guys. It's the perfect recipe for you all on those busy week nights. I know you are all like me right about now and looking forward to those spring and summer days where the kids can play outside more and the school … [Read more...]
Easy Goulash
This Easy Goulash is one of the meals I make most when I am short on time. It's such a quick and easy recipe. The hardest part is browning the ground beef! Honestly, I make this dish a lot. All you need to do is brown the ground beef in a large skillet and add the rest. It's a great dump recipe as I like to call it. Just dump it all in and let it heat through. My daughter had a report in Geography class on Hungary. So she told everyone her mom would make Goulash. All her classmates asked, … [Read more...]
Sirloin Tips
I made a meal with Campbell’s® Sauces as part of a sponsored post for Socialstars. #CampbellsSauces All thoughts are 100% my own. These Sirloin Tips bring back child hood memories of the dinner table. We grew up eating this dish and it's a simple, yet satisfying meal your whole family will love! Thanksgiving. Christmas. New Year's Eve. Holidays are awesome, but can make for some busy days and nights. I am always up for an easy dinner, but I depend on easy recipes during the end of the … [Read more...]
Spaghetti, Chicken and Bacon Dish
When pasta, bacon and cheese get together it can only be delicious. Throw in some chicken and you have a perfect dish with this Spaghetti, Chicken & Bacon Dish. This dish will be a favorite once you make it. Especially with the kiddos. I mean it has everything they love in once comforting dish. Bacon, people. That right there means you need to make this. School nights are always a busy day. My kids don't come home off the bus until 3:50 and 4:00 pm which doesn't leave a lot of time for … [Read more...]
Philly Cheesesteak Style Cheesy Skillet
This is a sponsored post as part of the VELVEETA Cheesy Skillets Blogger Program. All opinions are my own. This VELVEETA Philly Cheesesteak Style Cheesy Skillets will have the whole family wanting seconds. You should probably make double so that can happen. My kids gobbled this up! Who loves their skillets? Who loves their cast iron skillets? Who wishes they had a cast iron skillet? Well, did you know that on online auctioning websites people are selling their skillets? Like hundreds and … [Read more...]
Broccoli Bacon & Pasta Salad
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Pompeian. All opinions are 100% mine. I just shared a delicious Pasta Salad recipe and now I am back with another one. This Broccoli Bacon & Pasta Salad is made with Pompeian Red Wine Vinegar and all sorts of delicious stuff {hello, bacon!} It's the perfect summer salad. The dressing couldn't be simpler to make. The Pompeian Red Wine Vinegar gives such a great tangy flavor. And did you know it's National Vinegar Month and … [Read more...]
Pasta Salad
This is one of my favorite pasta salads. Ever. It's so dang simple, yet so dang good. This will be a hit at any potluck you take it to. It comes from my mother-in-law and this is her signature salad. Whenever there is a potluck, she is always asked to bring this. It's just a given. She told me how to make it long ago, but I never have made it because it's just better coming from the one who is a pro at it. But last week, we had a family gathering and I decided I needed to make this just so … [Read more...]
