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The Best Easy Homemade Refrigerator Dill Pickle Recipe
It is so easy to make the best refrigerator dill pickles right in your fridge. Super simple ready in 3 days. If you have cucumbers in our garden or a peck from the local farmers market you can serve these pickles as a side dish for dinner or just a snack. Pickles, what can you…

The Best Easy Homemade Refrigerator Dill Pickle Recipe
It is so easy to make the best refrigerator dill pickles right in your fridge. Super simple ready in 3 days. If you have cucumbers in our garden or a peck from the local farmers market you can serve these pickles as a side dish for dinner or just a snack. Pickles, what can you…

Cheese Zucchini Bake Casserole Recipe
When the garden is booming with zucchini this zucchini cheese casserole is a great way to have a quick & easy dinner. It is like a lasagna without the beef and egg. You can add as much cheese or a little as your family likes. I wanted to have the richness of a good baked…

How to Make Strawberry Buttercream without Freeze Dried Strawberries
Make the best strawberry buttercream frosting with just the strawberries you have. No freeze dried strawberries are needed. Easy homemade fresh strawberry buttercream frosting is perfect in June when you have baskets of strawberries from the local Y-pick farm. So delicious you don’t even need the vanilla cupcake. I am not suggesting that you just…

Easy S’mores Cupcakes
Summer is a time for playing outside, campfires & S’mores. But depending on the weather sometimes S’mores can be cupcakes. I am a S’mores fanatic, I love all things that are S’mores flavor, but where we live you can not always have a campfire. I have been looking for a cupcake recipe but all the…
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Welcome to my kitchen. I love to cook & feed my family. However, I do not like to spend so much time in the kitchen that it takes away quality time with my husband and kids.
I want to help you feed your family healthy homemade dinners, desserts, and snacks that help them grow without you spending hours standing over the stove.
At Crafting A Family Dinner you will find all your favorite traditional recipes and a lot of new ones with healthy ingredients and methods that cut cooking time using modern appliances.