Easy Chicken Casserole

Easy Chicken Casserole

Here’s a favorite family recipe your household will love. This easy, creamy, cheesy chicken casserole is the ultimate dinner dish at Kathey Jo’s Kitchen. It’s loaded with chopped hardboiled eggs, macaroni, chopped chicken, mushroom soup cream, and chicken soup cream. This chicken casserole is such an easy recipe that’ll definitely be a new favorite among your family.

Whenever a beginner asks me about a meal you cannot mess up, I direct them to this casserole recipe. For one, you’ll impress whoever you are serving the meal to. They are basic ingredients that everyone will like. The simple ingredients project such a brimming flavor every time. It could seem time consuming but it’s not! In fact, it’s such a fast and easy recipe requiring very little prepping...

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Brownie Bits

Brownie Bits

I’m here in Kathey Jo’s Kitchen to tell you and yours about an exciting new treat you can enjoy when your friends and family crave more options for sweet treats. Who doesn’t love the delicious taste of chocolate brownies? I’ve got an idea here my husband Rob absolutely loves, and chances are when you give it a shot in your household, it’ll be an instant winner. And you won’t need many more ingredients than you would for standard brownie preparation.

All it takes to make this delicious dessert a reality is brownie mix, an egg, water, and powdered sugar. Before long you’ll be rolling out these delicious brownie balls, offering something sweet to your family and friends...

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Blueberry Coffee Cake

Blueberry Coffee Cake

How do you typically drink your coffee? With a cookie on the side perhaps? Or maybe with a side of fresh fruit? My husband Rob loves his coffee accompanied with a blueberry coffee cake, especially during blueberry season. Once you combine this cake with your morning coffee, you’ll want to have them together every morning! It our favorite, and we have it every morning until there is none left. This cake is wonderfully moist, packed with fresh blueberries, and topped with a cinnamon crumb topping and glaze. It’s an irresistible combination you’ll definitely enjoy!

Considering that I can’t resist a blueberry muffin, this blueberry coffee cake is on another level! The blueberries are definitely the showstoppers, but the crumb topping, and glaze also add so much to t...

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Chocolate Shortbread Cookies 

Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

Chocolate shortbread cookies are a staple for Valentine’s Day. These homemade cookies bring a delicious twist to the already delicious shortbread cookies. They are crisp, buttery, and now sprinkled with semisweet chocolate chips throughout the cookie. Dunk them in your coffee, eat them as a snack, or share them with your significant other during those special days.

One of my favorite cookies have always been shortbread cookies. Rather than completely changing the recipe I know and love, I decided to enhance it. The chocolate chips circulating the tasty cookie make a “melt in your mouth” moment. Not to mention they are easy to make! The ingredients are simple and easily available. In fact, it’s likely you’ll have them in your kitchen already.

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Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bakes

Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bakes

With this recipe you will find a delicious way to make no bake cookies. When it’s time to give the oven a break but still whip up a sweet snack, these are your answer. Or perhaps your oven is already being used? This is a quick and easy way to get your sweet tooth satisfied. The best part is that most, if not all of the ingredients are likely to already be in your pantry. Yes, very simple ingredients yet they come together for this banger of a cookie.

Although there are 6 steps in this recipe, two of them are pretty major. In my experience making these no bakes (many, many times), heating the chocolate chips and other ingredients together and refrigerating the done cookies are two pivotal steps...

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Anise Biscotti

Anise Biscotti

At Kathey Jo’s Kitchen, we love anise biscotti because they are not only very enjoyable, but perfect for dunking due to their light flavor. Anise flavored biscotti is a very popular “cookie” in my household— my husband Rob loves them! They are lean but crunchy, which in my book is the perfect combination to drink a coffee.

Making these are a lot easier that you would think. It’s an eight-ingredient recipe that calls for items you are likely to already have in your kitchen. The only item that you may need to purchase are the anise seeds. The licorice smelling anise seeds are an essential part of the recipe. This ingredient specifically, is what gives that mature taste to the biscotti.

To get the perfect slices, make sure to closely follow the directions...

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Banana-Nut Bars

Banana-Nut Bars

Is your fruit supply filled with ripped bananas that no one will eat? In that case, I’ve got a delicious recipe you have to try! These banana nut bars are a great snack to make for your family. Why ripe bananas you may ask? At this stage, they have a boosted flavor, not to mention the sweetness level goes up. You’ll know a banana is ripe when it has an increased number of brown spots and is very soft. This ultimately means that they are ready to bake a delicious snack, at least in Kathey Jo’s Kitchen it does.

These bars are not your usual chewy bar, they are fluffy and moist. The banana nut bars are super flavorful, with the perfect crunch of chopped nuts...

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Bacon Avocado and Cheese Omelets with Tomato Salsa

Bacon Avocado and Cheese Omelets with Tomato Salsa

With breakfast always being referred to as the most important meal of the day, it’s important to eat something not only nutritious, but also delicious. You’re cutting the overnight fast after all, so why not enjoy this restaurant worthy omelet? With avocados as a great source of potassium, and eggs as a delicious source of choline, this recipe has a benefiting taste. Avocados are one of my favorites because they complement so many different ingredients. It’s such a popular recipe in Kathey Jo’s Kitchen, especially on Sunday mornings where breakfast is a staple and a major part of our morning.

This omelet recipe calls for a deliciously made tomato salsa to go with the omelet...

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Bittersweet Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies

Bittersweet Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies

Are you a cookie and cheesecake lover? This is a recipe you must try! Here at Kathey Jo’s Kitchen, we’ve developed the perfect ingredient recipe measured for perfection. You’ll end up with a soft center, and a perfectly chewy exterior—I call that the perfect cookie!

Chocolate is such a popular flavor. What happens when you add cream cheese to the recipe? You get a match made in heaven! Seriously though, chocolate, and cream cheese is the perfect combination, with a texture you will not resist. You may be considering this cookie to be “too sweet.” The recipe calls for semisweet chocolate, so you’ll have a balanced cookie.

What’s so great about this dough is that you can shape it into different forms to compliment the holiday or party yo...

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Grilled Meatballs

Grilled Meatballs

One of my all-time favorite appetizers I order at restaurants are grilled meatballs.  Whether you intend to make this recipe for your family’s spaghetti night, or serve it as an appetizer at your party, this is restraint worthy, so expect an explosion of delicious flavors in your mouth! If you’ve never grilled meatballs, this will be a game changer and you’ll be doing this over and over again.

The recipe calls for a pretty straightforward base: ground beef, dry breadcrumbs, and eggs. The seasonings are what brings this recipe a deliciously unique taste; some in which include garlic salt, parsley, and pepper for an extra kick. Here at Kathey Jo’s Kitchen, we love adding zucchini as the meatballs cook...

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