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Here are some of my favorite freezer meals! These recipes are perfect for doubling (or more!) and making ahead to store away. Including dinners for your crockpot, instant pot, stove top, and oven. Chicken, beef, and vegetarian options. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #freezermeals #makeaheaddinners #dinnerrecipes

Favorite Freezer Meals To Stock Up

Here is a collection of pantry meals! These recipes use the pantry, freezer, and long shelf life fresh items to create satisfying dinners for the family. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #pantrymeals #pantrydinners #freezermeals #dinnerideas

Pantry Meals for Staying In

If you are looking for some cold weather dinner ideas featuring beef, chicken, or pork, you'll love this roundup of some of my best comfort food recipes! Whether you are cooking in a crockpot, instant pot, oven, or stove top, there is a delicious meal here for you. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #comfortfood #comfortfoodrecipes #winterrecipes #stew #beefrecipes #porkrecipes #chickenrecipes

6 of My Best Comfort Food Recipes

Here are the 10 top recipes of 2019 which were most visited, bookmarked, and cooked by Just a Little Bit of Bacon readers through the year. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #recipes #reciperoundup #popularrecipes #toprecipes

Fan Favorite Top Recipes of 2019

Looking to up your pie game or maybe you're not sure where to start? Here is a collection of pie tips and tricks to improve your pie baking from organization to finishing touches. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #thanksgiving #thanksgivingpie #thanksgivingdessert #holiday #holidaydessert #pie

Pie Baking Tips and Tricks

Looking for a signature cocktail? Or maybe you just adore romantic cocktails for Valentine's Day? Then you need to try these fun, fruity, easy, and pretty pink cocktails full of love and passion! | justalittlebitofbacon.com #cocktails #drinks #valentinesday #datenight #fruitydrinks #fundrinks

Perfectly Pink Romantic Cocktails

Here are the 10 top recipes of 2018 which were most visited, bookmarked, and cooked by Just a Little Bit of Bacon readers through the year. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #recipes #reciperoundup #popularrecipes #toprecipes

Fan Favorite Top Recipes of 2018

Holidays, parties, and gatherings are all times when you need the best celebration recipes! Here are some favorite appetizers, drinks, mains, and desserts. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #holidayrecipes #christmasrecipes #thanksgivingrecipes #holidays #parties

The 12 Best Celebration Recipes

Looking for traditional holiday pie ideas? Here are 10 of the best must have Thanksgiving pies, from apple to chocolate, pumpkin, pecan, and more! | justalittlebitofbacon.com #thanksgiving #thanksgivingpie #thanksgivingdessert #holiday #holidaydessert #pie

10 Must Have Thanksgiving Pies

When it's too hot to cook inside that's when you need some tried and true grilling recipes! These are six of my favorites, from weeknights to holidays.

6 Favorite Grilling Recipes for Summer

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Hello, I’m Annemarie

Welcome to my kitchen! I’m a Italian-American girl who loves fresh foods, local ingredients, and all sorts of comfort foods. Here you will find Mediterranean flavors and recipes from a New England perspective.

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Winter Recipes

Sweet and Spicy Sugared Pecans - Just 10 minutes and you'll have this addictive sweet and spicy snack on hand. Sugared pecans are great for parties, for gifts, or simply for munching. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Sweet & Spicy Sugared Pecans

Cinnamon infused thick Italian hot chocolate is a not too sweet take on hot cocoa which is rich and decadent and intensely chocolaty. It's like drinkable bittersweet pudding! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Cinnamon Infused Thick Italian Hot Chocolate (Cioccolata Calda)

Looking for a great fall and winter side? My recipe for butternut squash and Swiss chard is quick, healthy, and full of caramelized cubes of winter squash and tender chopped chard. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #butternutsquash #sidedish #wintersquash #swisschard #healthyrecipes

Easy Sauteed Butternut Squash with Swiss Chard

Easy Brussels Sprout and Shallot Gratin - In this brussel sprout gratin, brussel sprouts and shallots are roasted right in the casserole dish and then topped with cheese and breadcrumbs to make for an easy and light gratin. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Easy Brussels Sprout and Shallot Gratin

For easy comfort food in the instant pot, make sweet and spicy pressure cooker short ribs braised in red wine with figs and chipotle. Serve over mashed potatoes or with some crusty bread for the sauce. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #comfortfood #shortribs #beefshortribs #pressurecookerrecipe #instantpotrecipe #winterrecipe

Pressure Cooker Wine Braised Short Ribs

This is the best ever homemade deep dish apple pie! It's twice cooked for twice the apples - perfect for holidays, fall days, and Thanksgiving. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #applepie #thanksgiving #thanksgivingrecipes #dessertrecipe #pierecipe #holidaydessert

Best Ever Homemade Deep Dish Apple Pie

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Slow Cooker Potato Leek Soup - Comforting, creamy, cheesy, and now even easier to make, this potato leek soup delivers all the flavor for only minutes of work. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Cheesy Slow Cooker Potato Leek Soup

This easy flourless chocolate cake is amazingly dense, rich and decadent. Every bite is packed with intense bittersweet chocolate flavor. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Easy Flourless Chocolate Cake

Dinner comes together in a flash with this recipe for kid-pleasing, one-pot ground beef pasta skillet topped with pesto and ricotta. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Ground Beef Skillet Pasta with Pesto and Ricotta

Chocolate Chip Butterscotch Bars - These one bowl bars have all the comfort of an old-fashioned butterscotch bar and the added pleasure of gooey chocolate chips in every bite. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Chocolate Chip Butterscotch Bars

Zucchini cheddar biscuits are soft, tender and full of shredded zucchini and sharp cheddar. Just drop them onto the baking tray and go. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Soft and Tender Zucchini Cheddar Biscuits

Parmesan Truffle Fries - Use frozen, bagged fries to have tasty truffle fries, covered in truffle oil, parmesan, and parsley on the table in less than 15 minutes. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Quick and Easy Parmesan Truffle Fries

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