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Dinners and Sides

Deliciously Spicy Cheesy Breadsticks Made with Puff Pastry

Puff pastry is a delight to work with—so simple and versatile! These puff pastry breadsticks are light, airy, and packed with flavor. I made them as a tasty side for our brocolli and potato soup. If you’re after an easy, fun breadstick recipe, this one is perfect. They work great as a dinner side or […]

Easy and Delicious

Crispy Potato Recipe: Easy and Delicious

Crispy Potatoes are delicious, and very easy to make. They are perfect for someone who is learning to cook. This recipe is also a great addition to your Thanksgiving dinner. So let’s try it now, happy cooking! If you want more recipes that are easy and great for your Thanksgiving dinner, check out our Homemade

Delicious and Easy Homemade Cranberry Sauce Recipe

  We have many from homemade recipes for gatherings during the holiday season. This cranberry sauce recipe has become a cherished tradition in our family, and is easy as well as delicious! The process is straightforward—just simmer the ingredients until the cranberries burst and the mixture thickens. Washing the cranberries is essential, as is picking

Easy Homemade White Flour Tortillas

Easy Homemade White Flour Tortillas

Light and buttery, easily foldable, and big enough to make a lovely stuffed burrito! I thought it would be too much of a task to handmake tortillas every time we wanted them, but it’s quite simple. Easy homemade white flour tortillas can be made with just a few ingredients in a minimal amount of time,

Eggs in a Pressure Cooker

How To Make Hard-Boiled Eggs In A Pressure Cooker

I love making deviled eggs, but getting the hard-boiled eggs perfect keeps me from making them very often. So how can you make perfect hard-boiled eggs? Pressure cook them! Here’s how to use a pressure cooker to make hard-boiled eggs. Why a Pressure Cooker Works Well for Hard-Boiled Eggs “You can find this pressure cooker

Favorite Focaccia Bread

Our Favorite Focaccia Bread

Our Favorite Focaccia Bread Recipe This focaccia bread recipe is our favorite. It can be similar to making pizza but with less oil in the dough. It’s excellent with soup, stews, or just salad! Using a pizza paddle dusted with cornmeal makes a wonderful crust! Preheat a pizza stone for this bread. Using your fingers,

Classic Meatloaf Recipe

Classic Favorite Meatloaf Recipe

Each time we make this meatloaf recipe, I have to roll back a few years to the night we had baby 9 enter the world. I know we were just a crowd of hungry people, but it was the best meatloaf EVER. It’s been Joyous Home’s favorite classic meatloaf recipe since that fine day years

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Best Kitchen Aid Mixer Pizza Dough

Do you need a great pizza dough recipe for your Kitchen Aid? Try our Best Kitchen Aid Mixer Pizza Dough Recipe! This is our favorite Friday night pizza dough recipe. I’m using a Kitchen Aid Professional 600. Best Kitchen Aid Mixer Pizza Dough The sauce for our pizza is included in a mini pizza recipe that can be

The Best Hamburger Soup

Hamburger Soup

Here’s a winter comfort soup that’s easy to make, super delicious, and doesn’t require a lot of special techniques. This hamburger soup is rich and gets tastier when made early in the day to simmer, which is a great plus for our busy family. This recipe is for a large family, but it isn’t hard

Make Better Vegetable Soup From Scratch

Make Better Vegetable Beef Soup From Scratch

Homemade soup is easy, repeat that phrase. I don’t think we’ve used canned soup just to eat as soup for years.  For many years I didn’t know how to make basic soup. Cookbooks helped some, but I still didn’t get the taste I longed for. All the secrets that seasoned soup makers possessed were a

Instant Pot Split Pea Soup in 20 Minutes

Split Pea Soup in 20 Minute Instant Pot Recipe

This is our perfect comfort food! We especially like this when snowy weather blows in, like today. It’s soup season, here already so we’re whipping up our split pea soup in the Instant Pot in 20 minutes. This soup can be made pretty fast. We have a 25lb bucket of peas, we love split pea

Chessy Pesto Bread - Basil Oil

Cheesy Sausage Pesto Pull-Apart Bread

Cheesy Sausage Pesto Pull-Apart Bread Her phone call will start with, “Mother, what do you think you’re doing?” I  love my cooking days with the co-founder of Joyous Home, my beautiful daughter, Jessica. We were looking through recipes and decided to combine ingredients from a few different recipes and make this delicious Chessy Sausage Pesto