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A white plate with a serving of breakfast casserole next to a red napkin and fork.

Savory Christmas Breakfast Casserole

A plate full of green and red Christmas cookies.

Grinch Christmas Cookies with Kisses

Feeling overwhelmed by Christmas? Say no to some of those over the top Christmas Traditions and take your sanity back!

It’s okay to say NO to Christmas Traditions

christmas eve box - an easy family tradition

Christmas Eve Box (a Super Easy Family Tradition)

Healthy Christmas Snacks: Christmas Tree Fruit Platter. The perfect healhty snack for kids. Recipe from aileencooks.com. Healthy Christmas appetizers.

Healthy Christmas Tree Fruit Platter

This creamy fruit salad is the perfect side dish for thanksgiving dinner or a backyard barbecue. It's perfectly sweet and could even pass as a healthy dessert. Recipe from aileencooks.com.

Creamy Fruit Salad Recipe (Thanksgiving Fruit Salad)

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A holiday simmer pot poured into a small glass jar, sitting on top of a wooden board and on a holiday placemat, surrounded by ingredients like cranberries, apples, and cinnamon sticks

Christmas Simmer Pot

A bird’s eye view of a snowman vegetable platter on a wooden tray, sitting on red and green placemats

Snowman Veggie Tray

Homemade Christmas Cookie Dip, a green fluffy dessert, topped with heart-shaped sprinkles, surrounded by cookies, wafers and pretzels

Christmas Cookie Dip

5th Grade Homeschool Plans

A plate of chicken wings in a circle around a small bowl of blue cheese dressing.

Air Fryer Cajun Chicken Wings

A cranberry Moscow mule, on red and green place mats with a marbled background, surrounded by additional Moscow mule ingredients

Christmas Moscow Mule

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If you’re looking for a cookbook filled with delicious recipes for your air fryer or Instant Pot, you’ve come to the right place! Aileen is the author of two air fryer cookbooks and one Instant Pot cookbook. Each cookbook is jam-packed with cooking tips and 175 unique recipes.