Most Delicious Life
Food * Family * Fun
A mother and daughter sharing our best food, and our secrets to living the happy life with the goal of helping us all create a stronger family unit.
Blossom Cookies
It's always nice to have something fun to bake come springtime. These cookies are delightful! Especially for Easter. They are light, buttery and delicious. They are great to make with kids...it's fun pressing the petals into the cookie dough! Any fruit spread will...
Black Bean and Turkey Tostadas
This meal has been a family favorite for more than a decade. I started making it when my house was full of little kids. These are basically open-faced tacos, and we LOVE tacos! My little cutie, who is now 22 years old, eating a black bean tostada way back in 2011....
Easy Raspberry Tart
I believe that raspberries can help a bad day become better. They are the best of the berries in my opinion. We can still be friends even if you disagree. Strawberries seem to hold the top spot with most people, but for me it's raspberries. When I was a little girl...
Cabbage and Rice Casserole
If you are not a cabbage lover (like me) then you will be so amazed at how good this is! It is rich and hearty and so tasty! Every time I make it (per my husband's request) I am surprised by how good it is. **This is delicious as a vegetarian dish...just leave out the...
Easy Sheet Pan Chicken Shawarma
Chicken Shawarma is an immensely popular street food in Middle Eastern countries. My daughter-in-law Saanya says that getting it from a street vendor is the absolute best way to enjoy and appreciate it. But, this is the next best option... Saanya with my son Jackson...
Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies
I started making these cookies about 15 years ago. I cannot remember where I got the recipe from. BUT we LOVE them! Especially my son Max, who is now 19. He's been away from home for almost 2 years straight. At Christmas time I asked him what cookies he wanted shipped...
Santa Fe Chicken Hot Dish
This is my GO-TO dish that I take to friends and family when they are sick or are in need in some way. It's easy to double and make a dish of it for my family at the same time. I LOVE meals like this that have everything a balanced plate needs in one dish. No side...
Grandma Altha’s Butter Cookies
Altha Dial was an amaziing woman and she was my grandma. She was married to my grandpa, Clessie Napoleon, and they made quite a couple. They had 3 girls and 3 boys and my mom, Colleen was the youngest daughter and self-appointed leader of the pack of boys. That's my...
Chicken Cashew
When I was 7 years old my dad gave my mom a Chinese food cookbook and a shiny new wok for Christmas. Some wives might not love that kind of gift, but my mom LOVED it! She immediately started using it. That year for New Years Eve she made chicken egg rolls, pork fried...
Sausage & Tortellini Soup
About 15 years ago I helped put together a cookbook for the women's organization at my church. I have to plug "church cookbooks." If you see them ever at a garage sale, or at a secondhand shop or estate sale, BUY THEM. They are the BEST kind of potluck. That being...