Today I’m sharing a great giveaway with you guys!!  For the past few years, I have contributed on the blog Julie’s Eats and Treats.  I have enjoyed it so much!!  Well starting today, my friends, she is giving away one of these most sought after KitchenAid mixers!!  These are on the wish list of just about any home baker.  I use mine ALL THE TIME, and it is probably my favorite kitchen tool ever!!

So please enter for your chance to win below!!  It would make a lovely Christmas gift!!

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Hello my friends!!  I’m popping by really quickly to share a little treat with y’all!!  I miss you all and my little blog terribly, and I am slowly catching up to this new school year routine.  New recipes are coming soon…I pinky swear promise!

And when my friend Samantha from Five Heart Home told me about this awesome giveaway when you preorder her new cookbook, I jumped at the chance to share it with you guys!  I had the chance to get a little glimpse at some of her recipes and even try a few for her.  This cookbook is FULL of great practical meals PERFECT for our busy life right now!!!  It is right on time for me!

Real Food Slow Cooker Suppers will be released on October 11, 2016, but it’s available for pre-order now! The cookbook features:

♥ 80 new DINNER recipes made in the slow cooker, prepped when it’s convenient for you and cooked while you go on with your day
♥ recipes utilizing real, fresh ingredients instead of processed or packaged ingredients
♥ a variety of recipes, from classics to comfort foods to soups & stews to sandwiches & tacos to holiday main courses, and
♥ a full-color photo with every recipe!

To thank those of you who have already pre-ordered or are planning to pre-order, we’re hosting a big giveaway! It’s easy to enter and the prize pack includes a generous Amazon gift card, a fancy new slow cooker, and some additional kitchen accessories that will come in handy when using the cookbook! 🙂

To pre-order Real Food Slow Cooker Suppers, click one of the links below:

Amazon

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or wherever books are sold!

And to enter the giveaway, simply fill out this form and submit!

GOOD LUCK!!!

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Vegetable Pizza via Julie’s Eats & Treats

Tortilla Pinwheels via Julie’s Eats & Treats

Kickin’ Chicken Bites via Julie’s Eats & Treats

Chipotle Pimento Cheese via Celebrating Sweets

Stuffed Sausage Bread via Diary of a Recipe Collector

Assorted Holiday Goat Cheese Balls via Joyful Healthy Eats

BBQ Chicken Jalapeno Popper Cupcakes via The Recipe Rebel

Spicy Chili Nut Crusted Cranberry & Orange Cheeseball via Two in the Kitchen

Baked Corn & Sausage Dip via Dairy of a Recipe Collector

Mini Wonton Quiche via The Recipe Rebel

Orange Sriracha Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce via Two in the Kitchen

Warm Four Cheese Tomato Basil Dip via Celebrating Sweets

Baked Brie with a Roasted Fig Walnut Honey Topping via Joyful Healthy Eats

Potato Salad Bites via The Recipe Rebel

Crescent Pizza Triangles via Two in the Kitchen

Rosemary and Dried Cranberry Biscuits via Celebrating Sweets

Chicken Caprese Bites via Diary of a Recipe Collector

Bacon Wrapped Tenderloin Bites with Creamy Horseradish Sauce via Joyful Healthy Eats

Julie’s Eats & Treats 2015 Contributors!

The Recipe Rebel ~ Celebrating Sweets

Diary of a Recipe Collector ~ Two in the Kitchen

Joyful Healthy Eats

And now for the giveaway brought to you by Julie’s Eats & Treats!!!  Good luck!

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I have a special treat today!  I’ve gotten together with some other fabulous bloggers to give our readers a chance to win this fantastic prize!!  I’d have to say my stand mixer is one of the most used appliances in my kitchen.  I use it to make all my baked goods, bread dough, and pizza dough.  And now you can even make ice cream with it too!!

My favorite thing about my mixer is that it makes all the prep work in the kitchen go so much faster.  Since I’m not having to stand over the bowl and hold the hand mixer, I can easily get started on my next step in a recipe.  Or I can start cleaning up the disaster I just made in the kitchen while it is busy doing all the work!  I love it!

Plus these new colorful ones are so great!  It’s the perfect gift for someone you know who loves to bake!

Good luck to all who enter and look below for some great recipes to make with a stand mixer!!!

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Sandra | A Dash of Sanity
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Jenn | Deliciously Sprinkled
Maggie | The Love Nerds
Sarah | High Heels & Grills
Laura | Petite Allergy Treats
Mariah | Mariah’s Pleasing Plates

Looking for some great recipes to try with a stand mixer?

Chocolate Praline Trifle

Banana Cake with Pineapple Cream Cheese Frosting

Mississippi Mud Brownies

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Doesn’t this little smoothie look like a little paradise in a glass?  How appropriate because I’m currently away on vacation at the beautiful Gulf Shores, Alabama beach!  This time could not have come quick enough!

AND while I’m gone I’ve teamed up with some more bloggers for another giveaway!!!  We are celebrating Samantha at Five Heart Home and her 2nd Blogiversary!

I’ve looked forward to going on this beach trip for months.  We’ve come almost every year since I was a child, and now I get to take my own family.  We didn’t go last year because we went to Disney World, but we sure did miss it.  We stay in a big condo with my parents and other family.  The time I get to spend with them on this trip is priceless.

Now I’m still working on my kids “beaching” skills.  They get all excited to go down there and take out the sand toys, but about 10 minutes later, they usually ask to go back to the pool.  What??  Wait a minute!  We just hauled all this stuff plus 4 kids down the mile trek to the beach chairs, and you’re done already.  Then we spend the next 30 minutes asking them to just play for a while before we hike back up to the pool.

Let’s just say I’m hoping for more “beach kids” this trip now that they are older.  I loved the beach and wanted to stay out there all day when I was little.  Now to be fair, the pools are pretty darn great, and I don’t mind a pool one bit, but I would like to enjoy the sand and waves a little too.  I’ll be posting some pics on Instagram for sure!

So while I’m away I leave you with this little paradise treat!  This smoothie is so fast to whip up!  It’s filled with frozen strawberries, pineapples, bananas, milk, and of course, chocolate syrup!  My kids loved it.  Who wouldn’t?  The chocolate syrup just begs you to take a sip!

Before we get to the recipe, we’d love for you to try your hand at winning the $400 Amazon Gift Card!!

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Banana Split Smoothie

Yield: 2 smoothies

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Ingredients

• 1 banana
• 1 cup sliced frozen strawberries
• 1 cup frozen pineapple chunks
• 3/4 cup milk
• 2 6 oz. containers of strawberry banana yogurt
• Chocolate syrup

Instructions

1. Place banana, strawberries, pineapple, milk, and yogurt in a blender.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. Drizzle chocolate syrup along the insides of a glass. Pour in smoothie mix and serve with a straw.

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 Hello friends!  I have a special treat for you today!  Not only do I want to share this easy and healthy grilling recipe with you, but I want one of my readers to win a $500 Amazon gift card too!  We are celebrating  Taylor at Food Faith Fitness and her 2nd year Blogiversary!  You must check out her blog!  She has very healthy recipes, including desserts!  If you ever need some light and healthy inspiration, you must see the dishes she makes!

So I thought today was the perfect day to share my Spinach and Provolone Chicken Pinwheels.  They are a great grilling supper.  We are all about grilling for dinner lately.  In fact, we’ve been eating pretty light around here.  I’ve really been trying to lose my last few lingering pounds of baby weight.  Little man is 10 months old, and I’ve normally lost all my weight by now.  But simply cutting down my portion sizes, cutting out all the snacking, and grilling a lot of our food has helped.

Plus I keep a huge container of baby spinach in my fridge at all times lately.  I usually have it in some sort of way twice a day whether it be in a salad or stuffed in chicken breasts like this dish.  These chicken pinwheels are really easy to make and do not require a lot of ingredients.  Now this recipe does have a garlic butter drizzle as the final step.  If you are really watching your calories closely, go ahead and skip out on that and they will still be delicious!  My main focus lately has been amping up on my protein and veggies lately, so this meal was a result of that.

Check out the recipe and don’t forget to enter the giveaway below too!

Spinach & Provolone Chicken Pinwheels

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Ingredients

• 6 thin cut chicken breasts
• seasoned salt or salt and pepper
• 9 slices provolone, each slice cut in half
• 1 1/2 cups fresh baby spinach
• 1 stick butter
• 1 shallot, chopped
• 2 to 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 to 2 tbsp fresh chopped parsley
• toothpicks

Instructions

1. Season chicken with seasoned salt or salt and pepper.
2. Lay chicken flat. Place 3 half slices of provolone onto chicken. Top with about 1/4 cup spinach.
3. Roll up chicken while keeping cheese and spinach tucked in and secure with toothpicks.
4. Grill over medium low heat for 20 minutes rotating periodically. Check to make sure chicken is cooked through.
5. Make garlic butter drizzle by melting butter over medium low heat in a small saucepan. Add shallot and garlic. Let simmer for about 5 minutes. Add parsley and remove from heat.
6. Right before removing chicken from grill, baste with garlic butter.
7. Let chicken rest for 5 minutes once removed from heat. You can drizzle with more butter if you'd like.

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Skinny Chicken Fajita Tostadas

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This Easy Weeknight Chicken and Dumplings is one of the first recipes I learned to make after I got married.  It is super easy and perfect for cool nights!  Over the years, I have tweaked this recipe and made it perfect for our family. It’s classic comfort food, in my opinion, right up there with Creamy Tomato Basil Soup and Crockpot Sausage & Potatoes.

What ingredients do I need for this Easy Weeknight Chicken & Dumplins?

• chicken breasts
• creole seasoning
• olive oil
• butter
• diced carrots
• diced celery
• diced onion
• bay leaf
• flour
• chicken broth
• baking mix*
• milk
• parsley
• frozen peas
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What do you do if you don’t have Baking Mix?

You can definitely make your own! Mix 2 cups flour, 3 tsp baking powder, and 1/2 tsp salt. Using a pastry cutter or a fork, cut in 2 tbsp of butter. Add in 1 tsp dried parsley. Add 3/4 cup milk. Stir to combine. If mixture seems dry add a little milk at a time until it resembles a dough.

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Easy Weeknight Chicken & Dumplins

Recipe Type : Main Dish Author: Jaren

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Ingredients

• 3 boneless chicken breasts, cut into 1 inch pieces
• 2 1/2 tsp creole seasoning, divided
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 carrots, diced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 rib celery, diced
• 1 bay leaf
• 3 tbsp flour
• 1 quart chicken broth
• 1 cup frozen peas

For the dumplings:

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• 2 cups bisquick *
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1 tsp dried parsley

Instructions

1. Season chicken with 1 1/2 tsp creole seasoning.
2. In a large pot over medium high heat, melt butter and olive oil.
3. Add onions, carrots, celery, and the bay leaf. Season with 1 tsp of creole seasoning. Stir and cook for about 10 minutes.
4. Add flour and stir for 1 minute.
5. Add chicken broth and stir. Bring to a boil.
6. Add cut up and seasoned chicken. Bring back up to a simmering boil and cook for about 15 minutes stirring occasionally to make sure it doesn't stick.
7. While chicken is cooking, make the dumplings by mixing together the bisquik, milk, and parsley.
8. Add peas to the mixture and stir.
9. Drop heaping tablespoons of dumpling mixture into pot. Do not stir. Place lid on pot. Reduce heat to medium low. Allow it to cook for another 8 to 10 minutes. Soup will thicken.
10. Once finished cooking, turn off heat, gently stir and serve.

Notes

If you don't have bisquik or any all-purpose baking mix, you can make your own:

Mix 2 cups flour, 3 tsp baking powder, and 1/2 tsp salt. Using a pastry cutter or a fork, cut in 2 tbsp of butter. Add in 1 tsp dried parsley. Add 3/4 cup milk. Stir to combine. If mixture seems dry add a little milk at a time until it resembles a dough.

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I love pizza night at home!  You can really get very creative and make a great supper for your family.  Did I mention it’s a whole lot cheaper too?  I made this whole gourmet Garlic Shrimp Alfredo Pizza for a whole lot cheaper than getting pizza delivered.  I love coming up with new ones like this one and this one.  Here are some fun facts about homemade pizza vs. takeout:

Now to help make your at home pizza night a success, Fleischmann’s Yeast is helping me to give away this awesome pizza kit to one of my readers!

So what will you get if you win?

Fleischmann’s Pizza Crust Yeast (The only one I use)

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Garlic Shrimp Alfredo Pizza

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Ingredients

• For Pizza Crust:
• 3 3/4 cups of flour, plus more for dusting
• 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 packet Fleischmann's Pizza Crust Yeast
• 1 1/3 really warm water (120 to 125 degrees)
• 1/3 cup olive oil
• For Pizza Topping:
• 2 tbsp. butter
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1/4 onion, finely chopped
• 1 lb. small shrimp, seasoned with 1 tsp creole seasoning
• 1 tbsp fresh parsley
• juice of 1/2 lemon
• 6 tbsp jar alfredo sauce
• 1 cup shredded Colby Jack cheese
• 5-6 provolone slices
• 3 slices bacon, cooked and chopped

Instructions

1. Pizza Dough:
2. In the bowl of a mixer, combine 2 cups of flour, sugar, salt, and yeast on low speed for about 15 seconds with paddle attachment.
3. Add oil and warm water.
4. Mix for 1 minute.
5. Change to dough hook and add the next 1 cup of flour and mix again. Add the remaining 3/4 cup of flour and mix until mixture begins to form a ball and pull from sides of bowl.
6. Sprinkle with a little more flour and dust hands with flour as well. Remove dough, pat and flatten. If it is too sticky, add more flour. *If using later, place dough in a bowl and brush it with olive oil to coat it. Cover until ready to use. *Note: This makes enough for 2 pizzas. Refrigerate or freeze half of the dough for later use.
7. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
8. Spread dough onto pizza pan flattening and stretching it out to edges. Partially bake crust for 7 minutes before adding topping.
9. Pizza Topping:
10. Melt butter and 1 tbsp. olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and onion and saute for about 5 minutes.
11. Stir in shrimp and cook for about 3-4 more minutes.
12. Turn off heat and stir in lemon juice and parsley.
13. Spread alfredo sauce onto partially baked crust. Top with shrimp mixture. Top with provolone slices, shredded cheese, and bacon.
14. Bake for 7-10 more minutes. Let cool slightly before cutting.

Notes

*If you do not have a stand mixer, you just need to mix ingredients with spoon until well blended. Spoon mixture out onto floured surface and knead for about 4 minutes. Dough should be smooth and elastic.
*Recipe adapted from Fleischmann's Yeast.

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