Mother's Day Brunch Recipes

If you are planning breakfast, lunch or brunch for Mom this weekend be sure to check out the delicious Brunch Recipes from Mr. Food.  You can download the recipes, print them or simply view them! 

These sound good any day to me!

FREE Easter e-Cookbook + Donate to Feeding America!

Mr. Food is offering a FREE download of Easter recipes!  This free eCookbook, sponsored by the American Egg Farmers, also celebrates the true star of the Easter holiday: The egg! The good folks at the American Egg Farmers are donating nearly 12 million eggs to Feeding America in an effort to help those less fortunate across the nation, as part of an annual Easter tradition since 2007. You can do your part to help feed the hungry, too!

For every Mr. Food Easter Celebration cookbook downloaded, America’s egg farmers will donate another egg to Feeding America! Enjoy these quick and easy Easter recipes while also helping America's egg farmers get eggs to families who can't purchase their own for Easter celebrations.

GO HERE to download the cookbook and donate to Feeding America!

Free Easter e-Cookbook

Whether you are planning a large or small Easter dinner, you might like this new Easter e-Cookbook with over 28 pages of recipes.  You save or print the recipes, or just simply view them.  It's FREE!

Easy Meals with Driscoll's Berries

It's berry season and Driscoll's giving 5 Money Saving Madness readers $5 coupons to pick up some delicious Driscoll's berries.  Their finest red ripe strawberries are available at select stores.  GO HERE to enter to win!

Why not take advantage of these great recipes with seasonal berries?  They sound delicious to me!

Strawberry Caprese Pasta Salad

Prep time: 20 minutes

Makes: 4-6 servings

8 ounces Driscoll’s Strawberries

8 ounces shell pasta, cooked, rinsed and cooled

8 ounces fresh mozzarella balls, drained

1/4 cup slivered fresh basil

1/4 cup slivered red onion

1/4 cup prepared balsamic vinaigrette

Rinse, hull and quarter strawberries.

Combine strawberries, pasta, mozzarella, basil and onion in a large bowl. (Can be prepared to this point and refrigerated until ready to serve.)

Drizzle with vinaigrette and mix gently until ingredients are well coated.

Nutrition Per Serving: 322 calories, 12.54g total fat, 5.49g saturated fat, 14.73g protein, 37.32g carbohydrate, 29.86mg cholesterol, 2.75g fiber, 355mg sodium

Strawberry Smoothie Recipe

4 large Driscoll’s strawberries

1 tsp of sugar

1/2 cup of whole milk

1 cup of ice cubes

Blend strawberries with milk on low speed till well smooth, than add ice cubes and blend on high. Add sugar and blend on high speed for about 1 minute. The texture should be slushy and smooth.

Enjoy!

Free "Let's Get Grillin" e-Cookbook

I LOVE cooking on the grill in the Spring, Summer and Fall!  I really like cooking the entire meal on the grill and have perfected potatoes, corn on the cob, zucchini and a variety of other veggies as side dishes.  I am always looking for a new dish to try on the grill!

Mr. Food has a brand new "Let's Get Grillin" e-Cookbook available!  It's FREE to view and download!

Recipe Lion is also offering a FREE Download of Top Restaurant Copycat Recipes!  Find recipes from restaurants like Olive Garden, Melting Pot, and more!

33 Hearty Slow Cooker Recipes FREE e-Book

Recipe Lion has a great new e-Book offer!  Download the Hearty Slow Cooker Recipe e-Book and get 33 easy recipes!  You can browse the e-book, save the e-book to your computer for reference, or print the recipe book.

If you're stuck in a dinner rut, check out the Cherry Pork Chops, Crock Pot Boston Brown Bread, BBQ Brisket with Noodles, Crock Pot Banana Bread and more!

FREE Restaurant Copycat Recipes

Our family loves dining out, but due our limited schedule and our desire to save money, we don't go out that often.  Sometimes I miss the incredibly delicious meals and foods I wish I could have!

Recipe Lion has compiled a HUGE list of Restaurant Copycat Recipes so you and I can made those delicious dishes at home!  One of my favorite meals out is at Red Lobster.  Who can pass up those scrumptious Cheddar Bay biscuits?!  Not me!

You can now make the Cheddar Bay Biscuits and many other favorite restaurant dishes at home!  What's your favorite restaurant food???

Crock Pot Apple Oatmeal

I have been wanting to try Crock Pot oatmeal for some time now and I ran across this recipe.  It is on tap for breakfast Saturday morning.  I'm hoping it will be the perfect "healthy" grab & go breakfast as we head out before sunrise for another Saturday Swim Meet! 

We've got lots of oats on hand from the Giant Eagle sales (FREE!).  We're going to double this for five of us!

Crock Pot Apple Oatmeal
from Flavors of Fall (Gooseberry Patch)

1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 T. butter melted
1/4 t. salt
1/2 t. cinnamon
1 cup quick cooking oats, uncooked
1 cup apple cored, peeled & minced
1/2 raisins *optional
1/2 chopped nuts * optional
2 cups milk

Grease slow cooker, then place all ingredients inside.  Mix well.  Set on low overnight about 8-9 hours.  Serves 4.

Thrifty Inspiration: Chocolate Peppermint Whoopie Pies

Don't these look delicious?  I have never made whoopie pies but remember my mom making them as a child.  Whoopie Pies have made a come-back this year! 

Momma Go Round will show you how to make them HERE.

Your Favorite Christmas Cookies ( & Mine Too)

It wouldn't be Christmas without cookies!  There are a bunch of cookie lovers in my family and we plan to bake up a few dozen cookies sometime between now and Christmas.   One of our top favorites is Peanut Blossoms made with Brach's Stars.  This is a tradition my mom started years ago and she always used chocolate Brach's stars.  It wouldn't be Christmas at my house without those!  Another favorite is Russian Tea Cakes - my mouth is watering just thinking of these cookies!

Need some inspiration to bake?  Christmas-Cookies.com has a list of the top 25 most popular cookies for Christmas!

What is your favorite Christmas cookie?  Which cookie is your family tradition?

Chunky Pecan Pie Bars Recipe

To the busy, overscheduled person who doesn't have her Christmas shopping done (that's me, by the way), baking Christmas cookies seems quite daunting.  Making bars instead of cookies will cut my time in half and get the job done.

An aunt made some Pecan Pie Bars for Thanksgiving that were incredibly good.  Here's a similar recipe from the BrownEyedBaker:

What kinds of goodies are you baking this year?

Delicious No Bake Turtle Pumpkin Pie

While shopping this weekend, my daughter thought it would be fun to pick up the ingredients for a No-Bake Turtle Pumpkin Pie recipe we found on a Jello display.  I have never made a no-bake pumpkin pie, but agreed we could give it a try.

This is a great recipe for kids in the kitchen, and let me tell you, it's super delicious and really quick and easy.

1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp. caramel ice cream topping, divided
1 HONEY MAID Graham Pie Crust (6 oz.)
1/2 cup plus 2 Tbsp. chopped PLANTERS Pecans, divided
2 pkg. (3.4 oz. each) JELL-O Vanilla Flavor Instant Pudding
1 cup cold milk
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed, divided

POUR 1/4 cup caramel topping into crust; sprinkle with 1/2 cup nuts.
BEAT next 5 ingredients in large bowl with whisk until well blended. Stir in 1-1/2 cups COOL WHIP; spoon into crust.
REFRIGERATE 1 hour. Top with remaining COOL WHIP, caramel topping and nuts just before serving.

Recipe courtesy of Kraft Foods.

22 Healthy Halloween Recipes

Need something healthy to offset the candy this weekend?  GO HERE to view 22 healthy Halloween themed recipes!