Easy Christmas Tree Charcuterie Board

A charcuterie board has never been so fun to make! Everything you get in a traditional charcuterie board shaped into a festive Christmas tree!

It's simple to assemble, it just takes a little bit of chopping and some basic artistic planning.

This is a family friendly charcuterie board and it's adaptable to swapping out some of the things I've shown here for things you may already have. The idea is just to stick to that simple red, green, and white/yellow theme for those classic Christmas colors. Then of course just keep the "Christmas tree" shape as you go.

A delicious holiday project that may just become a new family tradition at each yearly holiday gathering!

It doesn't take much to make a satisfying meal and this simple salad is proof of that. This is a back pocket recipe you'll want to make on repeat!

Easy Homemade Taco Salad Recipe

I've been eating taco salad as long as I can remember. Of course as a kid, in the 90's, my mom made the Dorito version and of course we loved that but now I prefer to make it with more natural chips.

Taco salad is one of the ultimate weeknight recipes. When there's not much time to make something taco salad is a great option, especially this version which uses ground beef (no dicing up chicken or beef), bottled salsa to add lots of flavor without the prep, and pre-shredded cheese.

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Everyone in my family loves this and I love that it's filled with fresh nutritious ingredients. Finally a way to get the kids to eat their greens!

Want to Make it Healthier?

• Use ground turkey in place of ground beef (avoid super lean turkey though like 99%) or even swap half pound of the beef for a can of drained and rinsed black beans.
• Make your own baked tortilla chips. To do so brush corn tortillas with olive oil, season with salt then cut into wedges, bake on greased cookie sheet about 10 - 15 minutes until lightly golden brown, turning once halfway.
• Use light sour cream or omit. Same with the cheese.
• Add more veggies to the salad. Bell pepper, corn, or radishes are great options.

Instant Pot Potato Soup

You can't have too many Instant Pot recipes right? Especially Instant Pot soup recipes. And I instantly fell in love with those one after one spoonful!

It's creamy, it's rich, it's cheesy and how could it not be good? It has bacon! This is one of those recipes I'll use time and time again because my family loves it and I love how simple it is to throw together.

How to Make Instant Pot Potato Soup

• To start you'll melt a few tablespoons butter in the Instant Pot on the saute setting.
• Then add in onions and celery and saute briefly, following that add in some chicken broth, potatoes, carrots and season with salt and pepper and cancel that saute setting.
• Cover and seal then let cook on manual/high pressure for 9 minutes. Then once time is up you'll let pressure come down for 5 minutes and do a quick release - because we're hungry right?
• Then set back pressure cooker to the saute setting once more and next stir in a milk and cornstarch mixture along with some cream cheese (yum!). This will thicken it up and add more flavor.
• It will simmer for a minute then, and now bring on those delicious toppings! Note that it will thicken even more as it cools, soup will be very hot at this point so I like to let it rest for a little while.