Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are spicy and chocolaty and cakey, with a little crispiness on the outside. They’re delicious, and whenever I make them, I think of my...
Author: Lisia Childs
Hi! Welcome to my kitchen; it's my happy place! My name is Lisia, and I love food. I love to cook it, eat it, smell it, experiment with it, share it, and photograph it. This is a compilation of some of my family's old (and new) favorites. I hope you find something that makes your day a little better.
Sensational Spiced Pumpkin Triple Layer Dessert
I absolutely love all the different seasons of the year, and as each one approaches, I’m so ready for the changes it brings. That’s probably t...
Simple Slow Cooker Cream Cheese Chicken
This easy recipe came to me from my kids. When they went away to college, they started making it for Sunday dinners. It comes together quickly and c...
Sweet Garlic Chicken Breasts
This chicken is easy to prepare, quick to bake, healthy to eat, and delicious to taste. What more could you ask? Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. &nbs...
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake
This cake takes chocolate to the extreme. The name should actually have CHOCOLATE in it 5 times because it’s made from a chocolate cake mi...
Mexican Lasagna a.k.a. Chicken Enchilada Casserole
This casserole is creamy and cheesy, with all the delicious flavor of chicken enchiladas, in half the time. It’s quick, easy, and tasty. &nbs...
Waffles
Who doesn’t love waffles? These are tender with just a touch of crispiness on the outside, and they taste so good! Preheat your waffle iron.
Golden Butter Cake With Chocolate Ganache Frosting
I got this delicious recipe from Lindsey, and it’s one of our favorites ~ for good reason. The cake is light and buttery with a sweet vanilla flavor...
Tri-Color Pasta Salad
Every summer, the young women (ages 12-18) from our church attend a girl’s camp, and adult women accompany them, as their leaders. For several years...
Golden Oreo Crust
Okay, I don’t have a lot to say about this crust because, let’s face it, it’s made out of Golden Oreos. They sell themselves! Here’...
Cheesy Parmesan Chicken
This savory chicken is one of my family’s favorite dinners. I’m talking about moist, tender white meat, with a crispy, cheesy coatin...
Kentucky Butter Cake
This golden, oh~so~rich and buttery cake is a winner. It’s a pound cake, with a luscious butter glaze that makes it moist and decadent. &n...
Million Dollar Spaghetti
You know how sometimes it seems like everything is going wrong? Today is one of THOSE days. I have a plumber here, He’s replacing a gasket on ...
Classic Double Chocolate Fudge Brownies
I wish I were a genius so that I could invent a special mask that you would wear while reading this post. First of all, it would look amazing, and second,...
White Chocolate Chunk Pecan Cookies
I love chocolate, and if I’m being honest, I probably eat some every day. It’s one of my basic food groups. In fact, one of my favorite ...
Creamy Potato Salad
I’ve always loved potato salad. In fact, I’m pretty sure that when I was little, it was my favorite food. So on a hot and lazy summ...
Key Lime Tarts
This is a fresh and cool summer treat. I’ts a simple basic key lime pie recipe in miniature size, and these petite little ladies are sweet...
Chocolate Key Lime Tarts
You know how sometimes you have a great idea, but the reality of it just doesn’t live up to your imagination? That happens to me more often than I c...
Skillet Chicken Cordon Bleu
Chicken Cordon Bleu is delicious! In fact, it’s one of my family’s favorite meals, but let’s be real. It’s a lot of work! &n...
Chewy Chunky Monster Cookie Bars
These crunchy, chewy, nutty, caramel-y, chocolate-y bars are a fun treat. They appeal to the sweet tooth in kids of all ages. The recipe calls ...
Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Spencer and I recently visited Manhattan. One of the best things about New York is the amazing food. You can find anything (and everything) the...
Chinese Chopped Chicken Salad
It’s summer, and it’s HOT outside! This is the time of year when it’s really hard for me to get motivated to cook, and a salad sounds so...
Fresh Strawberry Hand Pies
I always make these little pies for Christmas, using homemade jams. But in the summer, you can make them with fresh fruit. They come out about the s...
Sparkling Fresh Strawberry Pie
Today strawberries are on sale at the grocery store, and I know just what to do. Sarah is here with me, and we’re going to make a pie. It̵...
Taco Rice Skillet
A few weeks ago, we were visiting our daughter, Sarah, and she gave me the idea for a taco/rice skillet dinner. Then, my husband was watching a documentar...
Chewy Lemon Cookies
Today, my daughter, Sarah, and I made these tangy, sweet, chewy, buttery cookies. They taste like sunshine and summer, and I really like them. Plus ...
Crockpot Mississippi Roast
This Crockpot Mississippi Roast recipe is the darling of the internet. It’s been pinned, posted, copied and shared more than any other, … or so I’ve been ...
Rainbow Pasta Salad
I’m in awe of the colors that are found in nature. Fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, etc are the most varied and gorgeous colors. My eyes lo...
Cooking Broccoli (How to Keep Cooked Broccoli Bright Green)
I really like broccoli, in fact, as a child, it was my FAVORITE vegetable. My son-in-law, Michael, calls it “nature’s candy.” So, ...
How to Cook Cauliflower
I feel the same way about cooked cauliflower as I do about cooked broccoli …. I love to eat it, but don’t do so nearly as often as I’d like for one reason. &nbs...
Apricot Leather
I love dried fruit and fruit leather. They have the flavor of fresh fruit, bumped up a notch, making them richer, sweeter, and more intense. &nb...
Cookie Dough Bar
When I was a kid, I ate chocolate chip cookie dough all the time. It’s that delicious salty sweet flavor that I love. As an adult, I now feel that if I’m going ...
Ryan’s Penne and Chicken in Tomato Cream Sauce
Our son-in-law, Ryan, cooked this for us the other day, and it’s delicious! Our daughter found the recipe at kevinandamanda.com. Whi...
Apricot Crumble
This is a petty and tasty way to use fresh fruit. Be sure that your apricots are ripe. Adding less-than-ripe ones will make your crumble turn out&nbs...
Ranch Chicken
This is a new addition to our family favorites. It’s easy to make, and the chicken comes out moist, tender, and delicious. We ate it just as i...
Apricot Nectar or Slush
My apricot tree is going crazy, this year! It’s producing it’s little heart out, and we’re enjoying the fruits of its labors (literally)...
Slow Cooker Baked Ziti
This is the kind of recipe where you do a little work ahead of time, and it’s ready to go when you want to eat. It’s delicious, easy to prepar...
Chewy Rocky Road Cookies
If you don’t love marshmallows and chocolate, then this probably isn’t the recipe for you. These cookies are BIG on both. BUT … If ...
Beef Stroganoff
When I was a kid, this was one of our family’s favorite “fancy” meals. My dad raised some cattle, and we had lots of roast and stea...
