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Feels Like Home: Recipes for Beginners

Tara Gerner

If you don’t like cooking or don’t think you can cook, you're in the right place. Feels Like Home Blog features simple and delicious recipes that ANYONE can make! No one will ever question your cooking ability again. We also publish parenting & family fun ideas, Christian inspiration, and advice on how to start a money making blog. There's something here for everyone!

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Get ready for St. Patrick's Day with these food, craft, & activity ideas!

Hello Reader! If you haven't noticed, we have always done big holidays at my house. Valentine's Day with heart-shaped pizzas and cherry pies. St. Patrick's Day with green milk and Minute to Win It games. Easter with Easter basket scavenger hunts. It's all fun to me, and we do it big. So with that in mind, I wanted to email you today and give you a heads up that St. Patrick's Day is this weekend, and there are a lot of super cool things that you can do to celebrate by yourself or with your...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader, A couple days ago, I shared fun food ideas for your kids or your sweetheart. If you missed that email, they were heart-shaped pizza, heart-shaped cherry hand pies, and no churn red velvet ice cream. All very simple to make, and all fun and impressive. However, if you are preparing a romantic meal for your sweetheart or a special meal for just you, I thought you might like some more sophisticated and grown up dishes. Here are a few of my favorites: get the recipe: air fryer prime...

2 months ago • 1 min read

Hey there Reader, I'm a huge fan of Valentine's Day. This year, I'll be celebrating with just my kids, but that doesn't mean I'll be skipping it. I definitely won't be! One of my favorite ways to celebrate Valentine's Day is to make special food. Here's what I'll be feeding my girls: get the instructions: how to make heart shaped pizzas get the instructions: how to make heart-shaped cherry hand pies get the recipe: no churn red velvet ice cream Stay tuned on Monday when I'll send some options...

3 months ago • 1 min read

Reader, For a while this fall, our air fryer was broken. (Actually, it caught on fire and we were waiting for the manufacturer to send us a new one.) We were very sad about our inability to air fry all the things. Fortunately, we've had our replacement for a couple of weeks, and we're back in business. I have a bunch of air fryer recipes on my blog, and I wanted to remind you of a few. Air Fryer Prime Rib Air Fryer Potato Chips Air Fryer Coconut Shrimp Classic Cheddar Cheese Sausage Balls...

4 months ago • 1 min read
coconut shrimp and pina colada dipping sauce

Hey there Reader, It's Friday. New Year's Eve is Sunday. With all the busy-ness of Christmas and Allie's 13th birthday (yesterday), I forgot to get groceries for New Year's Eve. In my family, we have a NYE tradition. We (*I*) make tons of appetizers and set them up on a table in the living room, and we watch The Sound of Music and eat eat eat eat. We've done this since Grace was 3, and The Sound of Music was on tv on NYE. Grace turned 16 this year, so the living room picnic movie fest is a...

4 months ago • 1 min read

Well, it's over. And if you're like me, you've got a fridge full of leftovers. And who wants to eat Christmas dinner over and over and over again. My ex-husband always wanted us to do that, and it drove me crazy, so I came up with some simple recipes to spice it up. Leftover turkey recipes: Turkey & Stuffing Muffins - Mix the chopped turkey with leftover stuffing and a few other things and bake. Super simple and delicious. Turkey Enchilada Casserole - I love this Mexican-inspired layered...

4 months ago • 1 min read

Merry Christmas Reader! I know you are just as busy as I am this week, but I wanted to take a second to help with your Christmas planning, just in case you waited til the last minute to gather up some recipes. Here are my favorites for Christmas dinner: Chocolate cherry cheesecake - This gets rave reviews every time I make it, and it's my favorite cheesecake ever. Layers of rich, creamy almond-flavored cheesecake and sweet cherry pie filling, topped with thick chocolate ganache. This needs to...

4 months ago • 1 min read

I have, for years, wanted to learn how to make cookies. I don't know why because I can cook and bake just about anything else, but I had a hard time with cookies. Fortunately, this year, I've gotten my cookie baking down and finally have some cookie recipes to share with you. Not 1 cookie recipe, mind you, but 5. FIVE! Except not really. I have one really good sugar cookie recipe that makes nice, soft, chewy sugar cookies, and then I have 4 variations of that recipe that also come out really...

4 months ago • 1 min read

Hey there Reader, My kids are teenagers this year, but I still got Advent calendars for them because we've done Advent calendars every year since they were tiny. Advent calendars make waiting for Christmas fun. They give kids (and us!) something to look forward to every morning all through December. I put together a list of the top 50 fun Advent calendars this year. There's everything from Lego to Minecraft to Harry Potter to arts and crafts, and there's even one that's got love notes in it....

5 months ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader, With Independence Day just around the corner, you may be planning a gathering with family or friends. Maybe you're firing up the grill for the main dishes (check out this amazing southwest chicken marinade recipe), but could use some inspiration for crowd-pleasing side dishes. I am here to help! Some of my favorite recipes are summer side dishes, from no crunch macaroni salad to creamy broccoli salad to ramen noodle salad. They're soooo tasty. And also, I have a bunch of red,...

10 months ago • 1 min read
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