Marvelous Mondays Link Party #64

Good evening everyone!  We are so happy to have you all here for another edition of Marvelous Mondays!   Each week you impress us all with your culinary creations, your craftiness, and your clever DIY projects.  Seriously.  You all rock! :)

Please feel free to spread the word about the party to your blogging buddies- the more, the merrier in my book!

After checking out this week's featured posts below, be sure you stop on over to My Marvelous Mondays Faves Pinterest board!  Just because your post wasn't featured this week doesn't mean that it didn't catch my eye. ;) 

Just a few things I was up to on the blog this past week...

I rounded up 25 Buffalo Sauced Recipes for you all just in time for football season, game day parties, and tailgating!  Think outside the wings and chicken, folks! 

Apple season has arrived, & I have been anxious to start pairing Biscoff (aka, cookie butter) with some of my favorite fall flavors!  My ABC {Apple Biscoff Crumb} Pie is a fall must-try! 

How would you like to win a Hamilton Beach panini maker, single serving drink maker, & a food processor?  Be sure to get entered in the Pin It To Win It Hamilton Beach Giveaway!

Now, let's move on to the party...

Your Hosts 
Julie from This Gal Cooks 
 Carrie from Frugal Foodie Mama 
Paula from Call Me PMc
And introducing our new addition to the MM Team...
Deb from Cooking on the Front Burner

Last week's most viewed link:

Chocolate Crumb Cake from Tina's Chic Corner

A few of my favorites...

Slow Cooker Rosemary Pull Apart Rolls from Who Needs A Cape?

Vanilla Cream French Toast Cups with Apple Filling from Little Miss Celebration

Candy Bar Apple Dip from Crumbs and Chaos

Be sure to stop by This Gal Cooks, Call Me PMc, and Cooking on the Front Burner to check out their favorites from Marvelous Mondays #63! :)

Party Rules

• Please follow your hosts and co-hosts via Twitter, Bloglovin, Facebook or RSS Feed. Please leave a comment stating how you followed so your host can follow you back. Your host and co-host links can be found at the top of the party post.
• Please visit at least 2 other links. I suggest leaving a comment to let them know that you stopped by.
• Grab a button. It’s not mandatory but it helps get the word out about the party.
• Link up your recipes, crafts or DIY projects. Please link something that you made. No giveaways or shops, please.
• Please only link up posts that you have not linked up to Marvelous Mondays before!  Repeat posts will not be featured.
• Please note that by linking up your posts and projects you are giving This Gal Cooks, Frugal Foodie Mama, Call Me PMC, & Cooking on the Front Burner permission to use your photos in the featured posts and possibly on our social media outlets. All photos will be linked back to your sites and your posts.

Marvelous Mondays Link Party #63

Good evening everyone!  We are so happy to have you all here for another edition of Marvelous Mondays!   Each week you impress us all with your culinary creations, your craftiness, and your clever DIY projects.  Seriously.  You all rock! :)

Please feel free to spread the word about the party to your blogging buddies- the more, the merrier in my book!

After checking out this week's featured posts below, be sure you stop on over to My Marvelous Mondays Faves Pinterest board!  Just because your post wasn't featured this week doesn't mean that it didn't catch my eye. ;) 

It is that time again, folks!  The Spiked! Recipe Challenge Sign-Ups are open and this month's libation of choice is fall beers- harvest ales, pumpkin beers, if it is a seasonal fall beer it works! ;) CLICK HERE to throw your chef hat in the ring. 

Just a few things I was up to on the blog this past week...

Find out how a misspelling in a tweet served as the inspiration for my Peanut Butter Chai Cookies... 

I gave one of my most popular slow cooker recipes a photo makeover just in time for the fall season.  You will not believe how incredibly easy it is to make this Homemade Crock Pot Apple Butter...

Now, let's move on to the party...

Your Hosts 
Julie from This Gal Cooks 
 Carrie from Frugal Foodie Mama 
Paula from Call Me PMc
And introducing our new addition to the MM Team...
Deb from Cooking on the Front Burner

Last week's most viewed link:

Apple Fritter Bread from Flour Me With Love

A few of my favorites...

Candy Corn Oreo Cheesecake from Lemons for Lulu

Upside Down Apple Dumpling Pie from Tastes of Lizzy T

Braised Pork Belly with Polenta from White Lights on Wednesday

Be sure to stop by This Gal Cooks and Call Me PMc to check out their favorites from Marvelous Mondays #62! :)

Party Rules

• Please follow your hosts and co-hosts via Twitter, Bloglovin, Facebook or RSS Feed. Please leave a comment stating how you followed so your host can follow you back. Your host and co-host links can be found at the top of the party post.
• Please visit at least 2 other links. I suggest leaving a comment to let them know that you stopped by.
• Grab a button. It’s not mandatory but it helps get the word out about the party.
• Link up your recipes, crafts or DIY projects. Please link something that you made. No giveaways or shops, please.
• Please only link up posts that you have not linked up to Marvelous Mondays before!  Repeat posts will not be featured.
• Please note that by linking up your posts and projects you are giving This Gal Cooks, Frugal Foodie Mama, and Call Me PMC permission to use your photos in the featured posts and possibly on our social media outlets. All photos will be linked back to your sites and your posts.

Spaghetti with Roasted Tomatoes {A Guest Recipe from Cooking on the Front Burner}

We have another fabulous pasta dish on the blog from Deb at Cooking on the Front Burner for my Birthday Week! And this is the last guest recipe for the week too, folks.  
But no sad faces!  Stay tuned for a fun and fabulous giveaway starting at midnight tonight to wrap up my Birthday Week! :) 

Hi, I'm Deb from Cooking on the Front Burner and happy to be guest posting today for Carrie as she celebrates her birthday week!!  (oh yea, birthdays should be celebrated all week in my opinion!)

I started blogging about 2 1/2 years ago as a way to keep and share recipes with family and friends.  I think I can be called a recipe-o-holic.  I love reading cookbooks as novels, subscribing to food magazines and searching other blogs for new recipes to try.  If you are a dinner guest at my place, most likely I am making something new for you to experience.  And when I'm not in the kitchen, I am probably (re)decorating my house, reading a good book or most recently spoiling our new granddaughter!

Carrie and I have been friends for awhile now and when she mentioned she loves Italian food - and since I'm Italian, I had the perfect recipe for her.  This is one my favorite ways to use fresh summer tomatoes and herbs.  We have a small garden where we only grow tomatoes, peppers and a few herbs for either Italian dishes or making salsa.

I invite you to stop on over to get the recipe and take a look around.  And another birthday wish to Carrie -thanks for having me!!  It was great spending time at your place.  Mangia!

Co-hosting Grow Your Blog Networking Party

Good morning and welcome to the Grow Your Blog Networking Party.

Are you ready to network? We have a new feature this week. We are going to feature one blogger per week. Which means if you link with us this week, you could be featured next week! .

We asked you last week what your opinion is on Blog Hops/Networking Link ups. The feedback I received was positive, however, the actual links and click-thrus are declining. Hopefully, those that are linking are meeting new blog friends and obtaining new followers. We plan to study the trends and link ups a few more weeks. Do you have suggestions how we can market GYP better to reach new bloggers?

The GYB Networking Party

Grow Your Blog Joining me in hosting GYB is Deb from Cooking on the Front Burner, Tanya from Lemons for Lulu, and Julie from This Gal Cooks. We love hosting this networking opportunity each week. We also have four co-hosts joining in the fun. What is the Grow Your Blog Networking Party all about? NETWORKING. Meeting new bloggers, finding new content to follow, building your readership. Why is blog networking great for you? Simply put, it increases readership and traffic to your blog. How do you network? Visit. Comment. Invite. Communicate. These are key to growing your blog.

Let’s meet your hosts and co-hosts. Please stop by, introduce and leave a meaningful, engaging comment with each host and co-host. I can guarantee that the hosts will reply to your comment and try to get to your blog to engage in conversation with you!

YOUR HOSTS

Julie from This Gal Cooks (Host) Paula from Call Me PMc (Host) Deb from Cooking on the Front Burner (Host) Tanya from Lemons for Lulu (Host) Carrie from Frugal Foodie Mama Jen from Endlessly Inspired Cindy from Little Miss Celebration Jenn from Boys Will Be Boys

WHEN YOU LINK UP TO THIS PARTY:

• Follow and/or visit your hosts and co-hosts. Leave a comment on their blog letting them know you stopped by!
• Link up the main page of your blog, not an individual post. You may link up your individual posts to Marvelous Mondays.
• Visit and follow other bloggers
• Leave engaging comments on the blogs that you visit.
• Invite them to visit your blog. Leave the name of your blog in a comment. Please do not leave a link – Google is going to start viewing links as Spam and they will decrease page ranking of sites that are viewed to have a lot of Spam.
• Communicate with them about what you like on their blog. Let them know you are interested in their blog.USE THEIR NAME! A simple “I’m so and so stopping by. I followed you please follow me.” just isn’t going to interest someone into visiting your blog. Sure, you can request a visit to your blog or a follow along but engage in some type of conversation first.
• Place our party graphic on your page. It’s not required but it would be a pretty rad thing to do. You can get the graphic by copying and pasting the GYB graphic located in the beginning of this post.

LINK UP YOUR BLOG

Vanilla Ice Cream with Sprinkles {A Guest Recipe from Cooking On the Front Burner}

>Recipe Link *Here*

Hi, I'm Deb from Cooking On the Front Burner and am excited today to be guest posting at Carrie's blog as part of her Virtual Ice Cream Social Week!  I've known Carrie for awhile now and her blog is a great place to come for some wonderful recipes, Marvelous Monday and of course, my favorite, the Spiked! Recipe Challenge.  In fact, I can't wait to see what the ingredient will be for July.... (and I was thrilled when my Strawberry Margarita Shortcake was selected as a top pick last month).

Now that summer is officially here, one of our favorite things to do is go out for a scoop or two.  I'm not picky - I like Dairy Queen, Culvers, Cold Stone, Flapdoodles (local) or even an occasional cone from Mickey D's!

But now..... I own this!

Yep, I decided to take the plunge.  I've seen so many good ice cream recipes from Pinterest that I know I want to try so I thought, why not!  Last Saturday I drove to Kohl's (with my coupon), picked this up, came home and tried to sneak it in the house.  No luck, I was met at the garage door by the DIY Guy.  He took one look and said "I suppose that is for something you are blogging about?" and I said "Yes" then he said "Well, I get to eat the goods so I don't mind"....  whew!  It all worked out

Since this was the first time I was using it, I decided on plain vanilla to play it safe!  I was very pleased with the results and now thinking of other flavors to try next.  I do love sprinkles so I think that jazzed it up a bit... do you?

What's your favorite flavor? 

Thanks so much Carrie for having me!!  Hope you all have a great summer! 


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This recipe post is part of Virtual Ice Cream Social Week on the blog! :)

Be sure to check out my Tips & Tricks for Making Homemade Ice Cream, my recipe for Put the Key Lime in the Coconut Ice Cream, and get entered below to win a Nostalgic Electrics Ice Cream Maker (the very same one I own!) and a copy of The Perfect Scoop!!

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Be sure to stop back here every day this week for a new homemade ice cream recipe! :)

Marvelous Mondays Link Party #50

 

 Good evening and welcome to Marvelous Mondays Link Party! We hope you had a great weekend and we are so happy that you have come by to party with us again! What recipes and projects did you work on this week? We’d love for you to share them with us! Do you have an older recipe or project that you haven’t shared in a while? Bring it to the party! Can you believe that in two weeks the Marvelous Mondays party will turn one?! I can't believe it's been an entire year since the party began! I also just celebrated my one year blogiversary on June 6th. I sure have learned so much and have come such a long way since I started blogging last year. Let’s take a moment to meet the gal’s who bring this party to you each week.

Did you all know that I have a My Marvelous Mondays Faves Pinterest Board?  Even if your post didn't get picked as a feature for the week, it may have ended up pinned as one of my favorites to my board. Click on over and check it out and give it a follow if you so feel inclined. ;)

Be paying attention to the blog starting tomorrow!  I have declared the week of June 10th as Cookie Butter Week on my blog!  There will be lots of new recipes using Cookie Butter or Biscoff spread, plus a couple of fun round-up posts with some of my favorite recipes using cookie butter from some of the best food bloggers on the web.  If you love cookie butter, have heard of it and have always wanted to try it, or stumped as to what to do with your cookie butter besides eat it straight out of the jar (not a thing wrong with that, by the way ;) ), then be sure to check back at Frugal Foodie Mama every day next week.  You won't want to miss it!

Your Hosts

Julie from This Gal Cooks

Carrie from Frugal Foodie Mama

Paula from Call Me PMc

Deb from Cooking On The Front Burner (This week's CO-HOST)

Creating Relaxed and Welcoming Ambience in Our Homes from Natasha in Oz

DIY Beach Bucket Cake from Rook No. 17

Chicken Cordon Bleu Mac N Cheese from It Bakes Me Happy

Slow Cooker Pork Ribs with Blackberry Balsamic Sauce from Hot Eats and Cool Reads

• Please follow your hosts and co-hosts via Twitter, Blog Lovin, Facebook, or email (at the right sidebar top). Please leave a comment stating how you followed so your host can follow you back. Your host and co-host links can be found at the top of the party post.
• Please visit at least 2 other links. I suggest leaving a comment to let them know that you stopped by.
• Grab a button. It’s not mandatory but it helps get the word out about the party.
• Link up your recipes, crafts or DIY projects. Please link something that you made. No giveaways or shops, please.
• Please note that by linking up your posts and projects you are giving This Gal Cooks, Frugal Foodie Mama, and Call Me PMC permission to use your photos in the featured posts and possibly on our social media outlets. All photos will be linked back to your sites and your posts.
• **Paula, Carrie, and I please ask that you ONLY link up posts that you have not linked up before to Marvelous Mondays. We have been noticing some repeat posts being linked up recently. To be fair to all party-goers, please only link up NEW posts or posts that you have never linked up to our party before. We will not be “policing” post link-ups, but please note that repeat offenders’ posts will not be featured on Marvelous Mondays. Thank you.