Our Top Recipes of 2019 (All are Easy and Family-Friendly!)
by Robin
We’ve got so many family- and budget-friendly recipe ideas to share with you this coming year! Our plan is to share something fabulous every week – we’re really excited. Before we do that though, we thought it would be fun to look back at what our readers enjoyed most in 2019. Are your favourites on the list?
You can also see our top DIY projects of 2019 here.
Our Top Recipe Posts of 2019…
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| We LOVE this one and eat it every couple of weeks. The perfect blend of easy and delicious. (It’s on my list to retake the photos for this post – it’s so much more delicious than it looks! My mistake was trying to reheat the leftovers the next day – which is AMAZING tasting but the gravy soaked into everything and it does not look good at all in photos.) |
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| Looks like lots of folks who aren’t fans of pumpkin got some different festive treats this year! Glad to help. |
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| Next year we’re doing a cookie exchange FOR SURE – the trick will be narrowing it down to just a few cookies. (This year life went off the rails and sadly we didn’t get to do this in 2019.) |
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| Ed makes AMAZING steaks – rivalling the quality of The Keg! He shared his secrets here – and people loved them. |
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| I love having freezer-friendly recipes for big-ticket grocery items. This list is really handy when chicken thighs (our favourite!) go on sale because normally they’re kinda pricey. Stock your freezer with delicious, meals and you’ve won dinner. |
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| We did so much with our Instant Pot in 2019. You too? This list of pork chop pressure cooker recipes was a hit! |
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| This ice cream cake is GENIUS! It looks fabulous, you can make it in just a few minutes, you can customize it to any flavour – AND it costs a fraction of the Dairy Queen version. |
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| Ed is so Instant Pot savvy – and this is another terrific recipe that proves it! |
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| No-bake treats are a great way to make a lot of different desserts without timing bake times – plus when you’re not using the oven it’s easy for kids to help! |
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| Yet another Instant Pot recipe – and it’s no surprise it’s our #1 2019 recipe – it’s ultra-easy and so tasty! |
Our Top Ideas (of any time!):
Here’s a glimpse of the projects and recipes people visited the most in 2019 – regardless of when we published them. Some of our favourite projects are here!
Robin and Ed are a DIY-loving couple with over 25 years of design and build experience. Also, Robin is a Nutritionist and former Registered Dietitian and Ed is an award-winning Business Educator. We share strategies for living a rich life on a DIY budget: creative money-savvy ideas for a stylish home, healthy meals and family fun. Our work has been published in the pages of Do It Yourself, Farmhouse Style and Better Homes & Gardens magazines.
