Chocolate Valentine Cake
Valentine’s Day and Chocolate go hand in hand. If it is chocolate you crave for your sweetheart on this special day of love, look no further. We love Valentine’s Day here at the Hartlines – with a last name like that, it really is the perfect holiday. I love making it special for my family…
Banana Bread
There a million banana bread recipes out there and I have only ever made this one. So to say that this is the best one, I don’t really know. However, I have tasted many banana breads in my years, and I know that this is the best one I have tasted – which is why…
Apple Muffins
Have you ever contributed to a cookbook for a fundraiser? They are some of my favorite cookbooks because you usually know the people and trust that they are submitting good recipes. I mean, I would only submit my very best, tried and true recipes to a cookbook and I imagine others have the same idea.…
Guacamole
Avocados are hands down one of my favorite fruits. They are so versatile and have such a mild flavor that you can eat them with so many things. Of course one of my favorite ways to eat them is to make guacamole. I will be honest, I don’t usually measure any of the ingredients I…
Pineapple Glazed Meatballs
I will admit, years ago I tried making meatballs and failed miserably. Whatever I did, it was all wrong because they ended up in the trash. It was actually Gabi who found a recipe and made them with some pasta that changed my meatball game. This recipe is simple and tasty and easy to cook.…
Cheesy Taco Dip
Have you been watching football? Will you have a Superbowl Party? Well, we will be certainly having a Superbowl Party at our house but I can’t say I will be watching much of the game. I am really not the one in this house that follows football. That would be Andy. But I am all…
Creamy Sun-dried Tomato Pasta
I am not exactly sure when pasta became such a bad thing to eat but here in our house, it is still on the menu. I think if you have kids, you really can’t avoid it. And you shouldn’t have to! There is nothing wrong with eating some pasta, it is a good carb! Everything…
Carrot Ginger Cake
My very favorite kind of cake is carrot. If I am going to eat a piece of cake, it needs to have some good substance. Plain old vanilla or chocolate just won’t cut it for me. I love carrot cake so much that we chose carrot cake as our wedding cake. As a culture, we…
Easy Oven Ready Lasagna
Lasagna has always been a favorite meal in our house. When Luke was in fourth grade he had to do a presentation in his writing class about how to make something. He chose lasagna and not this simple recipe. He chose a fairly difficult recipe but man was it good with sauce made from scratch.…
Loaded Fries
When we lived in Pennsylvania, one of our favorite restaurants was Jesse’s Barbecue. If you are ever in Souderton, PA – you should go. It is so good that our resident meat-eater, Emma, wanted to go for her birthday dinner. She was sorely disappointed because it happens to be closed on Mondays, which we didn’t…
Breakfast Burritos
Breakfast. Some people say it is the most important meal of the day. I am not a nutritionist or anything close so I can’t claim that breakfast is important for scientific reasons. I am human, though, and know that I need fuel for the day. So breakfast, it’s an important meal. It is also important…
Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Rolls
Fall is officially here and I am fully embracing all things pumpkin spice. I love that when the seasons change our food changes too! Isn’t that what we love about the holidays? Food?!? As we transition from flip flops to boots, shorts to jeans, and tank tops to sweaters, our food transitions from burgers to…
Crumb Coffee Cake
It is not too often that I eat cake for breakfast but when I do – I want a crumb coffee cake. My blueberry coffee cake is amazing as well as my cinnamon sour cream coffee cake. However, nostalgia always takes over and this one brings back all the memories. My sister and I were…