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A white plate with a pile of Orange Cranberry Biscotti surrounded by cranberries and orange wedges.

Orange Cranberry Biscotti

A large platter covered in a festive winter salad with candied walnuts, pomegranates, dried cranberries, pears, and goat cheese.

Festive Winter Salad with Candied Walnuts and Pomegranates

An opened poached egg with runny yolk on top of a thanksgiving eggs benedict with a stuffing waffle and turkey.

Leftover Thanksgiving Eggs Benedict

A brown serving bowl filled with bight green beans and topped with red pomegranate seeds and chopped pistachios.

Easy Sautéed Green Beans with Pomegranate and Pistachios

i’m lauren

Welcome to my food blog, The Schmidty Wife. I’m all about making Real Fresh Food for Real Fun Families. Here you can find delicious recipes to bring the family together at the table. My recipes are for any home cook, they focus on real ingredients that people are familiar with. From crockpot meals, to easy chicken recipes, fun pizzas, and drinks everyone will find something to love!

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A white plate with a pile of Orange Cranberry Biscotti surrounded by cranberries and orange wedges.

Orange Cranberry Biscotti

A large platter covered in a festive winter salad with candied walnuts, pomegranates, dried cranberries, pears, and goat cheese.

Festive Winter Salad with Candied Walnuts and Pomegranates

A brown serving bowl filled with bight green beans and topped with red pomegranate seeds and chopped pistachios.

Easy Sautéed Green Beans with Pomegranate and Pistachios

Outside on a table sits a freshly deep fried turkey on a stand with golden skin.

The Best Deep Fried Turkey Recipe

A slice of homemade apple pie on a plate showing of the apple inside and the lattice top.

The Best Homemade Apple Pie Recipe

close up of a white chocolate dipped peppermint Christmas cookie

White Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Cookies

A bunch of chocolate peppermint crinkle cookies spread out over powdered sugar covered parchment paper with bits of crushed candy canes as garnish.

Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Cookies

Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies arranged out on a wire cooling rack with a bowl and brush full of glaze.

Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies

A dutch oven and bowl filled with veggie dumpling soup filled with carrots, celery, potatoes, and peas with fluffy dumplings on top.

Cozy Veggie Dumpling Soup

Yule Log Cake (Bûche de Noël) laid on a platter with a slice cut off showing the rolled up inside, garnished with sugared cranberries and rosemary.

Yule Log Cake (Bûche de Noël)

A white bowl with a spoon filled with crockpot chicken wild rice soup showing off carrots, wild rice, and chicken.

Slow Cooker Chicken Wild Rice Soup

Two stemless wine glasses full of white wine Christmas sangria with pears, limes, and cranberries.

White Christmas Sangria

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boring! Have fun and get the whole family involved!

A bowl filled with cottage cheese ice cream garnished with crushed peanuts and banana slices.

Cottage Cheese Ice Cream

Sheet tray full of red and white parfait popsicles and ice cubes surrounded bu sliced strawberries, bananas, and bits of granola.

Parfait Breakfast Popsicles

Large wooden platter filled with many California rolls next to some chopstick, soy sauce, and pink sushi ginger.

Homemade California Roll

A cooked and cut pizza showing of how to make home pizza on a wooden pizza peel surrounded by ingredients.

How to Make the BEST Homemade Pizza

grilled chicken sandwich board filled with a variety of sauce, garnishes, buns, and grilled chicken

EPIC Grilled Chicken Sandwich Board

healthy best chocolate hummus in a white bowl sprinkled with chocolate shavings and slices of strawberries

Easy & Healthy Chocolate Hummus

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