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Pumpkin Potato Corn Chowder

A bowl of this Pumpkin Potato Corn Chowder is a delicious and comforting soup to serve this fall. You can have this hearty soup on your dinner table in under 30 minutes.

I have been wanting to recreate this pumpkin soup for years. Years ago my husband and I went on a mission trip to Haiti with a group from our church.

You can read about the posts on Mission: Haiti and Lessons from Haiti if you want to know more about what we did and saw. It was such an incredible and eye-opening experience for me. It is one thing to see poverty from pictures and TV, but experiencing it firsthand breaks your heart.

It was a perfect reminder to be even more thankful for the things and people that God has put in my life. I also realized how much I can really do without and how much we waste on a daily basis.

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Best Pumpkin S'mores Bars

The Best Pumpkin S'mores Bars are topped with melted chocolate and gooey marshmallows. They are a great dessert to enjoy summer flavors in fall.

Happy first day of fall from the sunshine state. It's still hot here, but at least the humidity has kind of gone away. Or I've just totally gotten used to it after living here for a few years.

Either way, it's officially fall, and I'm getting the itch to start baking all the pumpkin things. So, I'm not about to let some heat stop me from my favorite baking time of year.

It's time to bake more of this Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread and make a few more jars of Homemade Pumpkin Butter.

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Peanut Butter Apple Cookie Pizza

This Peanut Butter Apple Cookie Pizza is a delicious fall dessert that is loaded with all the toppings. The cookie crust with a creamy topping, crunchy apples, and peanut butter cups will have everyone asking for another slice.

Peanut Butter Apple Pizza - this easy cookie pizza is loaded with a creamy peanut butter topping, apples, and peanut butter cups. Try this easy recipe for fall parties! #peanutbutter #apple #cookiepizza #fall #cookie #peanutbuttercups

Now that we are officially into the fall season, I want cool weather all the time. Bright colored leaves, chilly mornings, sweatshirts, jeans, bonfires, apple orchards...I want it all.

But life in Florida does not accommodate those wants, so I have my air conditioner cranked down low and a sweatshirt on pretending that it is fall here while I sip on a White Chocolate Pumpkin Latte. Yes, I know I'm all kinds of strange. It's ok.

Then I made the mistake of doing some housework. Every six months or so, I have to deep clean the kids bathroom because teenagers just do not clean as thoroughly as adults. Bye, bye being chilly. But at least the bathroom looks better.

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Frosted Cinnamon Apple Bars

These Frosted Cinnamon Apple Bars are full of fresh apples and cinnamon chips and are topped with a creamy cinnamon frosting. Homemade oatmeal bars are a delicious treat to enjoy this fall.

Sometimes you just need to stop and take a look around you. There are so many things in our lives to be thankful for, but we tend to get busy and not notice many of these things.

I am so guilty of doing this in so many areas of my life. But when I get discourage or down about things going on, I try to open up my eyes and find the happy things in life to give me a better perspective on my life.

I have a loving husband who fully supports all this crazy baking that I do from our home. As I get busier with projects and deadlines, he has been stepping in and helping me out by doing social media and by making dinners some nights.

We have three kids who are getting bigger and helping out more without us always asking them. Oh, don't get me wrong, they still try to get away with things and forget to do their chores each week, but they are also at such a fun stage in life.

They say and do the most hilarious things now to make us laugh. God has definitely blessed us with easy going kids who get along.

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Sugar Free Pumpkin Spice Latte

Enjoy a mug of this homemade Sugar Free Pumpkin Spice Latte in a matter of minutes in your own kitchen. This easy coffee drink will save money and time and satisfy your sweet tooth.

If you love pumpkin as much as I do, enjoy your pumpkin latte with a few of these chocolate chip pumpkin donuts or a slice of this pumpkin spice latte bread.

*Best Food Facts and the United Soybean Board sponsored this post and my trip to Maryland.

A clear mug filled with a sugar free pumpkin spice latte topped with whipped cream and pumpkin spice.

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Now that pumpkin spice season is here, I have enjoyed a few too many drinks at our local coffee shop. I'm all for supporting businesses, but I need to conserve my time and money when buying a cup of Joe every few days. Is anyone else with me?

Enter in my homemade pumpkin spice latte. With just a few ingredients, you can be sipping your own healthy latte in minutes. The best part is that you can stay in your pajamas or workout clothes, and no one will ever know.

Since fall weather will not be coming soon here in Florida, I have been keeping my house at a chilly temperature in the morning to sip my pumpkin latte. As long as it is cool in the house and I look at the pumpkin decorations, I can trick myself into believing fall has arrived.

But then I go outside and realize the heat and humidity are still very much here. Until then, the thermostat is set low, the slippers and flannel pajamas are on, and the pumpkin spice lattes are still happening.

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Apple Praline Cake

The best Apple Praline Cake is loaded with fresh apples and topped with a sweet praline frosting and pecans. It is an amazing apple cake recipe to enjoy this fall.

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I am sitting here waiting impatiently for fall weather to come to Florida. I realize that I will probably be waiting for some time because it is still 90 degrees here!

Seriously, bring on the cooler days so I can wear sweatshirts and leggings and can sit outside without bugs dive bombing my body every second! Fall is definitely my favorite season of all.

I've decided that all the sweets I "test" in my kitchen must make my blood sweeter than my husband's. We were standing outside yesterday, and I had four bites in a matter of seconds.

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Mexican Chicken Tater Tot Casserole

This Easy Mexican Chicken Tater Tot Casserole is loaded with chicken, tomatoes, cheese, and tater tots. It is a cheesy comfort food meal that will have your family licking their plates clean.

I'm pretty sure our kids would live on tacos if we let them. Seriously. They ask for tacos every time we ask them what they want for dinner. Oh, and pizza. That's always on their list too.

They also always ask for chips, Easy Homemade Salsa and Guacamole when we have tacos. I guess I shouldn't complain because it sure makes it easy to plan dinner for them.

As much as I love tacos, I can get bored eating the same thing all the time. I do try to change it up and make chicken or fish tacos from time to time. Although, this gets dirty looks from our youngest. He thinks tacos should only be ground beef.

Last week I decided to change up taco night by giving one of our favorite family dinners a spicy twist.

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Peach Blackberry Coffee Cake

Layers of fresh fruit, buttery streusel, and a sweet glaze make this Peach Blackberry Coffee Cake a delicious choice for breakfast or brunch. Make sure to enjoy a big slice of this delicious homemade coffee cake with a hot cup of coffee.

I know that once pumpkin spice drinks hit the coffee shops, fall is technically in everyone's mind. And by technically, that just means that it is okay to share and eat pumpkin and apple recipes.

Usually, by this time of year, I have started baking things like this homemade pumpkin cake. But not this year!!! I'm still enjoying the warm weather, so I am still into berry coffee cakes with peaches!

Bonus: If you love peach desserts, then you won't want to miss out on this peach bundt cake or peach crisp!

Sunshine, beach days, cookouts, fresh produce, and berry picking are all things I do not want to come to an end.

Well, I say berry picking very loosely. When our kids were little, I would take them to all the different fruit farms each month, and we would pick whatever fruit was in season.

Nowadays, berry picking means picking up a box of fresh fruit from the grocery store and turning it all around because no one wants to find rotten berries hiding inside. LOL!

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Fudgy Dark Chocolate Zucchini Brownies

These Fudgy Dark Chocolate Zucchini Brownies are so rich, delicious, and full of chocolate goodness. You will never know there is a green veggie hiding inside this homemade brownie recipe.

I really do love all things zucchini. We eat it all the time in different dinners. Everyone in our family loved these Bacon Cheeseburger Stuffed Zucchini, even our youngest who is quite picky.

Although, I think he mostly ate the filling...so, we might need to make more until I can convince him that he really does love zucchini.

Even though, we use zucchini 90% of the time in healthy dinner recipe, my absolute favorite way to enjoy zucchini is covered in chocolate. [Read more...]

Banoffee Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Banoffee Chocolate Chip Cookies are a delicious way to use up extra bananas this week. Toffee bits, bananas, and chocolate chips - all the flavors of a banoffee pie baked into a sweet cookie recipe.

These banana toffee chocolate chip cookies are to blame for my lack of self control with sweets last week. I honestly couldn't stop eating them. Thanks a lot yummy chocolate chip cookies, now my jeans hate me.

Hhhhmmm, I should probably just blame myself and my apparent lack of self control when it comes to sweets. Naaaa...I will let the cookies take the fall. It's easier that way.

I had to freeze the rest of these banana chocolate chip cookies, just so I would stop eating them. For some odd reason, I won't pull frozen cookies out of the freezer and munch on them. So into the freezer they went until our son had friends over to swim.

Now if only I could get myself to freeze them or give them away as soon as I was done baking. That might be something I should work on this week...

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