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Chicken Parmesan Recipe with Zucchini and Mushrooms with Homemade Garlic Bread / Italian Surprise Party Feast

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Post Sponsored by Lunchbox. All opinions are 100% my own. Our Chicken Parmesan Recipe with Zucchini and Mushrooms recipe is a delicious dinner you can have ready in less than 30 minutes for your family! I love to cook and I especailly love to cook for those I love! Recently Bertolli and Ahold stores gave […]

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Homemade Tater Tots

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Our homemade tater tots are easy to make! We use leftover mashed potatoes to turn them into mashed potato tater tots!

air fryer tater tots

Homemade Mashed Potato Tater Tots can be baked, fried or even air fried in our case.  Nothing beats a homemade fresh tater tot!  I boiled up one red potato for my daughter and turned it into a bite size fun toddler lunch for her.  She thinks it’s the ultimate toddler snack and I think it’s a great mommy snack too!  Toddlers can easily pick these up and make no messed – they’re fun and delicious.

Kay has really taken a liking to potato lately.  She’s pretty obsessed with baked potatoes right now too.  She loves when I make Air Fryer Baked Potato with dinner!  They’re the best baked potatoes in our opinion.  It has a salty, garlicky seasoned crust and the inside is perfection.   Nowwww on tot the tater tots!  I hate buying something I can make at home and if I can make it at home for a fraction of the cost, even better!  Long gone are the days picking up already made items in the freezer section.  I remember living off half that stuff growing up.. WHAT were my parents thinking?  

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Homemade Italian Balsamic Vinaigrette with Heirloom Tomato Salad #SpiceUpYourLife

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Homemade Italian Balsamic Vinaigrette! This is a great salad dressing and easy to whip up. I  was given a gift card to order spices as compensation for this post, however as always all thoughts and opinions are my own.

homemade italian balsamic vinaigrette

Have you ever wondered where you could get quality spices for all of your cooking and baking needs?

Look no further than The Spice House!  The Spice House opened its doors back in 1957, and today has both a robust online business as well as 5 locations throughout Chicago & Milwaukee.  They carry over 600 products from at least 50 different countries, including pure spices and herbs, spice blends, salts, and extracts and have caught the admiration of many home cooks across the country as well as some heavy hitters in the food world, including Alton Brown & Julia Child!

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