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The Best Easy Italian Pasta Salad: Pepperoni, Fresh Mini Mozzarella Balls
Make an easy Italian pasta salad side dish for any picnic or potluck, it is fast and simple to make ahead. A classic summer dish that is perfect for backyard barbecues at all your summer family parties. Make it your own with different kinds of pasta or vegetables. Leave out the meat for a vegetarian…
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How To Prep Mason Jar Salads for Healthy Eating
Mason jar salad recipes have revolutionized the way you can approach meal prep. This is the best way to assemble a week’s worth of healthy eating. All of the crunchy veggie salad ingredients are prepared once and stored inside wide mouth jars. Healthy mason jar salads help you to maintain a healthy diet. Benefits of…
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Spring Menu Planner Worksheet Free Printable
With the start of Spring, we as parents all have a lot of activities to plan for, end of school parties, graduations, summer jobs, playground dates, long walks, bike trips and hikes. Adding all this activity along with keeping the home in order and everyone feed can be a frustrating job. However, taking a little…
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Italian Canned Pickled Hot Peppers Easy Beginner Recipe
These delicious Italian canned pickled hot peppers are fresh from the garden. A simple recipe for beginner home canning with a step-by-step process that is easy to follow. Simple basic steps to have your own canned Italian pickled hot peppers. This is our family’s favorite way to use up all the peppers from the garden…
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Old Fashioned Piccalilli Green Tomato Relish Recipe
Piccalilli relish recipe is one of the best ways to use up the last green tomatoes from your garden before the frost comes. When the growing season winds down, and you are staring at a pile of unripe tomatoes with no idea what to do, this is exactly the recipe you need. This old fashioned…
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OH HI! I’m Susan!
OH HI! I’M SUSAN! I’m so happy you’re here!
I am a wife, mother, grandmother, and believer, and I have been cooking for my family for more years than I can count. Here at Crafting a Family Dinner, I share simple, healthy recipes that bring everyone to the table without wearing you out to get them there.
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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.
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.