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Enjoy a slice of moist and delicious banana strawberry cake! This crumb topped coffee cake with fruit filling is perfect for breakfast, snacks, or dessert. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #cakerecipes #dessertrecipes #coffeecake #bananacake #strawberries #bananas

Banana Strawberry Coffee Cake

My homemade peach pie is an old fashioned treat filled with fresh peaches, brown sugar, and bourbon for the best flavor! The juicy filling is topped with a lattice crust for a dessert which is both delicious and beautiful. Perfect for holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas! | justalittlebitofbacon.com #pierecipes #dessertrecipes #thanksgiving #holidays #summerrecipes #peaches

Old Fashioned Peach Pie

My homemade apple raspberry pie is the best! It's packed full of sliced apples and fresh, sweet raspberries then covered with a buttery streusel crumb topping. Perfect for holidays, Christmas, and Thanksgiving. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #christmasrecipes #thanksgivingrecipes #holidayrecipes #dessertrecipes #applepie #raspberrypie #pie

Apple Raspberry Pie with Crumb Topping

Looking for an easy fruit dessert recipe? This spiced rhubarb crisp is a simple, old fashioned dessert full of the flavors of cinnamon, ginger, and cloves and topped with an oatmeal pecan crumble! Best served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #rhubarb #dessertrecipes #spring #fruitcrisp #dessert #crisp

Spiced Rhubarb Crisp with Oatmeal Pecan Crumble

It's easy to make fresh and homemade blueberry sauce! A few minutes of cooking and you'll be spooning this fruit compote over pound cake, cheesecake, pancakes, ice cream, and more. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #blueberries #fruitsauce #berries #cheesecake #pancakes

Blueberry Sauce – Fresh and Homemade

Easy to make, this homemade rhubarb syrup has so many uses! Rhubarb simple syrup can be poured over pancakes, made into cocktails and drinks, served over ice cream, added to pound cake, and more. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #rhubarb #springrecipes #dessertrecipes #syrup #simplesyrup

Homemade Rhubarb Simple Syrup

These homemade chocolate slice and bake cookies are rolled into a log, chilled, and sliced into tender cookies perfect for all sorts of decorations. Easy to make! Great for the holidays! Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, and more. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #cookies #chocolatecookies #chocolate #holidayrecipes #easterrecipes #christmasrecipes #valentinesrecipes

Chocolate Slice and Bake Cookies

This holiday make Italian Easter cookies (taralli dolci)! These are a traditional cookie often flavored with citrus, anise, almond, or vanilla and are made from a simple, soft dough then glazed and topped with sprinkles. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #italianrecipes #italiandesserts #italiancookies #easter #easterrecipes #cookies #christmas #christmasrecipes

Italian Easter Cookies (Taralli Dolci)

Raspberry Orange Streusel Bars - Raspberries pair with an orange cream filling and are topped by an oatmeal streusel in these flavorful and easy bar cookies. And, to make them extra fun and colorful, you can drizzle them with a raspberry glaze! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Orange Raspberry Streusel Bars

Strawberry Vanilla Bean Syrup - This strawberry vanilla syrup is full of intense strawberry flavor that you will love on pancakes, mixed into yogurt, poured on pound cake, made into cocktails, and so many other ways! And it all starts from frozen strawberries. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Strawberry Vanilla Bean Syrup

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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For the best holiday cookies, make my easy Italian lemon ricotta cookies! These traditional cookies are soft and tender and topped with a lemon glaze and colorful sprinkles. Great for Christmas, Easter, and any other holiday or occasion. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #italianrecipes #italiancookies #cookierecipes #christmasrecipes #holidayrecipes #easterrecipes #cookies

Italian Lemon Ricotta Cookies

Love Olive Garden's zuppa toscana and want to make it at home? I've adapted the recipe to create a slow cooker zuppa toscana perfect to make on busy days! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Slow Cooker Zuppa Toscana

Raspberry Mint Prosecco Cocktail - Holiday entertaining is the time to bring out the bubbly and this prosecco sorbet cocktail is just the thing for a celebration. 5 minutes and 4 ingredients is all you need. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Raspberry Mint Prosecco Cocktail

Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder - This slow roasted pork shoulder has meltingly tender meat that pulls apart easily and wonderfully crisp skin. Perfect for a crowd! It's not a beautiful roast, but you can't beat the flavor or the simplicity of it. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder

Looking for a great and easy Thanksgiving or holiday dessert? Butterscotch apple crisp bars are a crisp in the form of a bar cookie. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Apple Crisp Bars with Butterscotch Sauce

My fig and sausage stuffed turkey breast roulade makes an impressive main course which is perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday dinner. And while it rests you can make a white wine gravy from the drippings!

Turkey Breast Roulade with Sausage Fig Stuffing

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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

Pan Fried Spanish Cauliflower Tapas - These breaded fried cauliflower bites are a simple and tasty tapas dish you should make at your next get-together! Just a quick dunking in egg and breadcrumbs and a minute in a skillet and you are all done. Can be made ahead and reheated! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Pan Fried Spanish Cauliflower Tapas

My Favorite Bread and Sausage Stuffing - This classic combination of bread, pork sausage, aromatics, and lots of sage produces a stuffing that says Thanksgiving to me. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

My Favorite Sausage Bread Stuffing

Deep fried Brussels sprouts served with a sweet and tangy sauce are a yummy snack, an addictive appetizer, and a fun Thanksgiving dish. Gluten free and simple to make! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Deep Fried Brussels Sprouts

Pear Quick Bread with Streusel Topping - What to do with those overripe pears sitting on your counter? Make an easy pear quick bread from them! Great for breakfast, for snacks, and it freezes well. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Pear Quick Bread with Streusel Topping

Grilled Butterflied Leg of Lamb - Butterflied lamb is rubbed overnight with a flavorful herb and garlic mixture and then quickly grilled for a perfect dinner. It takes just 15 minutes to bring this roast to a beautifully seared outside and medium rare inside. Great for Easter dinner or for any cookout get-together. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Grilled Butterflied Leg of Lamb with a Herb Rub

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