Tropical Blue Jello Island Dessert

A perfect Island cool dessert that the kids will love to make and eat! During a visit with my nephew Vinny, who is from Upstate New York, (my home town) visiting me here in Florida, we decided to make something tropical, fun and easy. Utica, New York reported having three major snow storms while he had been here on vacation in sunny Florida.

Tropical Beach Spa Cake

The best family project is creating something together and making this Tropical beach cake with my niece and nephew will be one of the best memories from their visit here in Florida.

There are times in our lives when we just have to find something special to cook up to make a lasting memory, this was it!

This Tropical Beach Spa Cake was creative and a memory to last a lifetime when thinking of their vacation here!

I have made many memories with my mom and grandmother with cooking projects; the learning experience is one of the best rewards in the kitchen.

My family from N.Y. was visiting with their children in Florida and what better way to celebrate the state than with this beach/spa cake! They loved it and it was so much fun besides being delicious!

The Tropical Spa cake is printable at the bottom so just hit print and all the ads will disappear and you can scroll past all the fun photos if you like!

Heart Shaped Cake Pops

These are the easiest cake pops ever, store-bought or homemade you can do these quickly with our instructions or make a whole day project out of them.

Last year I made them all from scratch for a baby shower using my own homemade poundcake recipe and homemade frosting from the half-moon cookie recipe, this time I decided to take the easy way out and used store-bought products.

These were fast easy and I didn't have to take all day to clean up loads of dishes so it's now the only way I will make cake pops.

Although you can roll these into balls, use silicone cake pops molds or just improvise like I did and use the dollar store molds they work fine.

The only other tools you will really need are some parchment paper and lollipop sticks plus some dipping white candy melts, food coloring is optional but sanding sugars are the nice finishing touch of color especially for a baby reveal party.

For the complete recipe scroll to our printable recipe card at the bottom of this page.

Veal Lemon Stew

A light Veal Lemon delicious stew simmered with white wine and tomato sauce that makes this meat fork tender.

Perfect served over mashed potatoes or polenta

With just a hint of lemon and fragrant herbs, this finishes off this dish perfectly.

Easy enough to serve any weeknight or to guests when hosting a dinner party.

Southwest Tex Mex Ground Beef Sauce

I have a quick and easy dinner recipe for you. This is a Southwest Tex-Mex sauce with ground beef that is the perfect start to creating many meals!

This dish is perfect for a busy lifestyle because it's done in less than 30 minutes.

It will also feed a large family economically along with deliciously.

Choose your favorite vegetable to pour this over, filling for a taco or burrito and just perfect over a bowl of fluffy white rice.

See below for the suggestions. My favorite is really over rice.