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8-Minute Broiled Salmon

Hi Everyone!!! Today I wanted to share with you all one of my favorite go to recipes for 8-Minute Broiled Salmon. This delicious salmon recipe cooks in literally 8 minutes and I promise you the butteriest, most delicious piece of fish you have ever tasted. Now there are a couple of secrets to making this melt in you mouth salmon and the first one is the dry rub. My Salmon dry rub is the…

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Chopped Italian Salad and Herbaceous Dressing

Hi Y’all! I hope everyone’s 2017 is off to a good start. Things have been great here although I feel like we’ve been on the road since before the new year. Needless to say I’m glad to be home for the next couple of weeks. Just after the Christmas Holiday we had all the in-laws over for my Mother in-laws birthday dinner. One of the biggest hits of the night was my Chopped Italian Salad with a…

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#Easy Healthy Dinners #Healthy #Homemade Italian Dressing #italian #Salad #vegetables

Caramel Pumpkin Pecan Bars

Is it wrong that I REALLY wanted to call these Ginger Bars? I mean come on… Brunettes have Brownies. Blonds have Blondies. But what about the Gingers of the world? As a life long Ginger I understand that we need to be represented in the form of a delicious chewy, gooey, dessert bar too!!! Alas, “Ginger” Bars doesn’t really describe to you the ABSOLUTE perfection you will experience in every…

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Slow Cooker Apple Butter & Apple Butter Pull Apart Bread

Hey Y’all! There is something about this time of year that just makes me crave apple everything. Apple Pie, Apple Cider, Apple Turn-Overs, or a crisp granny smith apple. One thing I’ve always wanted to try making is homemade apple butter. Then a couple of weeks ago a video recipe from the Brown Eyed Baker popped up on my Facebook Page for Slow Cooker Apple Butter. Now you know I RARELY use the…

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#Apple Butter #Apple Butter Pull Apart Bread #Apples #Baking #Food #Holiday Recipes #Pecans #Recipe #Slow Cooker Recipe #Texas

Café Mocha Granola

Hi Y’all!! I hope everyone is doing well :) Things have been quite busy here in Texas. It’s our crazy time of year at work which usually leaves us literally running out the door around 6am while shooting back a shot of espresso just to make it through the day. For those of you who don’t know about my life outside of Meals With Mel, my husband and I run our own school fundraising business called…

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#Big Kahuna Fundraising #Breakfast #Café Mocha Granola #Coffee #Food #Healthy #Homemade Granola #Nuts #Oats #Recipe #Texas

Simple Jalapeño Pinto Beans and Cornbread

I use to always love talking to my grandmother about food. We would talk about all the new recipes we’ve tried and others we wanted to still make. I vividly remember one day telling her about how I had just made Chicken and Rice casserole but with my own homemade condensed soups. She looked at me like I had lost my mind and said, “Melody, WHY would you ever do that? Don’t you ever just make…

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Jalapeño Shrimp Caesar Salad

Hey Y’all!! We’ve been super busy here in Texas lately and with the hottest days of summer upon us light and quick meals are a must. Recently one of my go to meals has been this delicious Jalapeño Shrimp Caesar Salad. Cool crispy romaine lettuces, creamy avocado, warm juicy shrimp, and my secret ingredient….. Jalapeño Caesar Dressing :) Come on y’all knew I had to add some pepper in…

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Creamy Roasted Summer Squash Lasagna Happy National Lasagna Day!! Since its National Lasagna Day I though I would re-share a my Creamy Roasted Summer Squash Lasagna with y'all :) Enjoy!!

Hibiscus Pink Lemonade Pie

Hi Y’all!! My in-laws are coming over for dinner and a few rounds of 42 tonight (42 is the state domino game in case you are wondering) :) Since it’s been so hot here in Texas the last few days I thought this Hibiscus Pink Lemonade Pie would be the perfect summer night dessert. I had a jar of my Hibiscus Lemonade concentrate already made up and in the freezer and was able to whip this pie up…

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#Dessert #Dried Hibiscus Flowers #Easy Summer Desserts #Hibiscus Pink Lemonade Pie #Homemade Lemonade Concentrate #Lemons #Pie #Pink Lemonade Pie #Tasty Desserts #Texas

Vacation In The Baja: Los Cabos, Mexico

Hi y’all!! Doug and I have been enjoying a nice relaxing vacation down across the border in one of our favorite places, Los Cabos, Mexico. We had a wonderful 2-1/2 weeks full of golf, tennis, relaxing on the beach, exploring, reading, and eating so much wonderful food. Here’s a little sample of our time in the beautiful Baja! One of the many things that I love about the Los Cabos area of…

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#Baja Mexico #Beaches #El Farallon #Flying Rays #Food #Fourth of July #Golf #Hilton Los Cabos #Los Cabos #Mexico #Puerto Los Cabos #San Jose Del Cabo #Vacation

Mayme's Peach Cobbler

Mayme’s Peach Cobbler

First off I want to wish everyone out there Happy Fourth of July!!! (For everyone outside of the USA… Happy Monday!!) Of all the recipes in my kitchen arsenal this one for my Mayme’s Peach Cobbler is the MOST special to me. Mayme’s Peach Cobbler was served at almost every family gathering (especially on the Fourth Of July because that’s when the Parker County Texas Peaches were at their peak)…

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#Baking #Cobbler #Dessert #Food #Foodie #Homemade Peach Cobbler #My Grandmothers Recipes #Parker County Peaches #Peaches #Recipes #Summer Recipes #Texas #The 4th of July #The Best Ever Peach Cobbler

Fried Artichoke and Shrimp Pasta

I love coming up with a new recipes but sometimes I struggle to write something “personal” about a dish. It’s not a dish I have a story about, a family recipe, or a dish that was inspired by my travels. More often than not my recipes come from spending hours in the car driving home from work (and there’s a good chance I haven’t eaten all day) and I’m lost in thought about food. Lost in thought…

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#Artichoke Hearts #Food #Fried Artichokes #Lemons #pasta #Pedernales Cellers #Recipe #Recipes #Shrimp #Summer Pasta #Texas #Wine

Fun with Farmgirl

Hi everyone and happy Monday! Things have sure been busy here in Texas recently and when we are not busy we’ve been out of town. Recently we took a lovely trip to Virginia to meet up with a good blogging friend of mine, Tonya, from Fourth Generation Farm Girl. So here’s a little peek at our adventure :) About a year and a half ago I came across the lovely blog Fourth Generation Farm Girl. I…

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#Farming #Monticello #travel #Virginia #Wine

Fresh Blackberry and Basil Sorbet

After two weeks of rain the SUN has finally come out here in Texas and we’ve got blackberries galore!!! Since I’ve got way more berries than even I can eat (and I can eat alot of blackberries!) I decided it would be a good idea to make blackberry jelly. I dug out my canning cookbook and looked up a recipe for fresh berry jelly. As I read through the recipe I was making a mental check list of…

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#basil #Blackberry and Basil Sorbet #Dessert #Food #Fresh Berries #Fresh Blackberries #Recipes #Sorbet #Texas #The BEST ever sorbet

40’s Music and Cooking With Mama Keown: Fluffy Banana Nut Cake

This morning I woke up craving my Grandmother’s Banana Nut Cake. I had everything I needed to make this delicious recipe even the buttermilk. I went straight into the kitchen ( I didn’t even make my coffee first!), followed the recipe, and 15 minutes later I put a batch of these Banana Nut Cake (muffins) in the oven. While the muffins were baking I put everything away…. That’s when I discovered I…

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My Little Texas Garden 2016

I’ve always loved gardening and some of my favorite summer time memories from my childhood were spent in my grandparents garden. Their garden was extensive and full of green beans, turnips, cucumbers, beets, onions, squash, cantaloupe, watermelons, peppers, black-eyed peas, greens, and of course tomatoes. We would spend early mornings canning, pickling, making jellies, salsa, garden vegetable…

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#Balckberries #Blackberry Cobbler #Food #Fresh Herbs #Garden Vegetable Soup #Gardening #Recipes #Strawberries #Texas #Tomaotes

Island In The Sun: Turks and Caicos

Sorry for the radio silence over the past week but I’ve been on vacation :) We took a trip with a bunch of friends down to the beautiful Caribbean Island of Turks and Caicos. We enjoyed sunny days, pristine white sand beaches, and the clearest blue water I’ve ever seen. The days were spent reading on the beach, floating in the ocean, a little tennis, and so much fun! We attended a local fish…

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#Caribbean #Island Life #travel #Turks and Caicos #Vacation #Weezer

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