Recipes We've Been Making

 I started this fun series during the pandemic when we were trying lots of new recipes... and I kept it going for quite awhile posting a new installment every few months. We love to try new recipes! 

My mom loves lemon desserts so for her birthday  I tried out this Lemon Tiramisu recipe; doubling nearly all of the ingredients so I could make a deep 13x9 pan size dessert big enough for a crowd. Even those of us that aren't real lemon fans enjoyed it.

We made these Easy 30 Minute Dinner Rolls; once for Christmas day and again in February to go with our soup.  They are so light and fluffy and I love that they only take 30 minutes! 

Alec wanted a raspberry Oreo cheesecake and we found this wonderful recipe to try; it was a lot of work but so incredibly amazing. 

I wanted to use up some ham we had in our freezer so I took this ham and cheese slider recipe and made some full sized sandwich rolls using spiral ham-- it was SO good! And I don't even LIKE or usually eat ham. 

I made Jennifer Aniston's salad recipe as Holly shared it here; only tweaking the amount of onions (and honestly I should have omitted them altogether as it was the only part of the salad I didn't like).  I did use just 1/2 of the dressing but found I liked that dressing equally well on other salads!  I do wish I had kept the nuts out and just sprinkled a few in each time I ate it because they lost their crunch by the next day and I really missed that added texture. But it was good. 

We LOVED this classic orange chicken recipe by Homemade on a Weeknight even though I didn't have the sesame seeds, green onion, or red pepper flakes.  It was delicious and made enough for us all to eat plus have 2 servings the next day too (we used 3 large skinless, boneless chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces).  I did keep a 13x9 tray in the oven heated to 350 and kept each batch warm as I cooked up the next.  

We LOVED this Easy Baked Cod Recipe with Lemon and Garlic (though we did use pollock instead of cod).  I've already made it a few times now. 

I tried this recipe for an oil free homemade granola and used 1/2 peanut butter/ 1/2 tahini for the tahini, pecans for the nuts, pumpkin and flaxseeds for the seeds and added in the optional coconut flakes and topped it off with a few chocolate chips in the end. It's delicious! 

Evan made his own vinegar-based bbq sauce following this recipe; we did double it and decided rather than letting all the ingredients sit at room temperature for several hours to bring it all to a boil in a small sauce pan and then cool back to room temperature. It was spicy but all the BBQ fans in this house seemed to like it. 

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