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Persnickety Plates - Easy Family Recipes

What to Make Wednesday 🤔

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader,

One more day of school! We're running on fumes over here and ready to kickoff summer.

If ideas have been sparse at your house as well, hopefully these help...

What to Make Wednesday

  • After taking Rose to Olive Garden for her birthday, she decided she likes my homemade alfredo better (it's really easy!).
  • If you don't make them this week, save this baked beans recipe for the 4th.
  • I'm not much for frosting on brownies but I'm tempted to try my super simple 5-minute frosting on my small batch brownies...
  • These crockpot chicken tacos are the perfect summer meal.
  • Another one to possibly save for the 4th, this hot dog chili is great on a hot dog, baked potato, or just on a bun.
  • I know some people eat these slow cooker "fried" apples as a side dish, but I like mine warm over vanilla ice cream. What do you think?
  • I worked on a crockpot pulled pork recipe yesterday (coming soon!) and it made me crave my bbq chicken.

What I'm Loving 🥰

One of our water bottles didn't make it home from our last Disney so we needed a replacement.

Corkcicle is having a bundle sale so I ordered this cutie for Rosie and this one (a little more manly) for Robert for Father's Day. My Corkcicle collection is growing & quickly becoming our favorites!

I love that they're not overly large (we get the 22oz), the straw cups are leakproof (!), they fit in cup holders, and they keep our ice water cold for 20 hours.

Persnickety Plates - Easy Family Recipes

by Melissa Williams

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