Steak Tacos of Yumminess

We have a grill ya’ll.  A bonafide gas grill with three burners.   One of the many priveledges of being a homeowner!  So far we have made hamburgers and steak tacos.  I foresee much more steak in our future now that we have a fabulous way to cook it!  Tyler picked this recipe out and [...]

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A taste of the garden

Now that our garden is starting to yield wonderful herbs for us such as basil, parsley, and cilantro, we have been planning our meals around what we can pick in our own backyard!  I had some leftover tomatoes from a meal earlier in the week (store bought, too early for home grown tomatoes!), so I [...]

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Farmers Market Fresh

I made my first trip of the summer to the local farmers market this weekend and despite the disappointment of no dogs allowed (poor Toby had to wait outside the market) it was a great little trip.  I didn’t find the produce that much cheaper than what I could get at the grocery store, but [...]

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Easy Mexican

I’ve been craving Mexican a lot recently, in fact I have a date with a friend to go out for Mexican food tomorrow night, free espinaca dip, mmmmm! Love those coupons Clearly my cravings were acting up when I made our meal plan for the last week. Chicken enchiladas (I’ll [...]

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Tasty Tostizzas

We live across the street from a Half Price Books. It’s a dangerous place to live. I feel drawn to the store, pulled in by the cookbook section, where I can peruse hundreds of cookbooks at discounted prices. A few months ago I purchased a copy of Pillsbury Best of the Bakeoff cookbook. I brought [...]

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It doesn’t get much easier…

Tacos. Why do we never make tacos? Why am I always trying to make complicated meals?! On the way home from church today I realized I was craving tacos, and since we spent the last of our October dining out budget at chick-fil-a the other night (mmmm I love you forever chick-fil-a) it [...]

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Celebrate Chili Season!

Tyler was nice enough to whip up this batch of white chicken chili while I made the beef and bean chili tonight. Honestly I’m not sure where I got the original recipe and it’s driving me nuts. If you know please jog my memory! I just have a copy of it [...]

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I’m still here!

Sorry for the post-less week, I haven’t really been cooking much. Mostly because I was eating out or making some of my favorite guilty pleasures before I started back on Weight Watchers this week Real smart, huh? We had sushi, cheese dip, potstickers, Chipotle, chick-fil-a….ahh such food debauchery. Now [...]

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Versatile black bean dip

So unemployment does not sit well with me, I have basically been glued to the couch all week (for the 4th week in a row now), occasionally getting up for a Dr. Pepper or to go to a job interview. Hopefully I will be hired soon and out of my funk! Funk=no [...]

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The green stuff

We definitely love Mexican food around here and probably have it at least once a week. I’ve been working on perfecting my guacamole recently, but I still like to cut corners a bit and use a package of Produce Partners Great Guacamole seasoning. Lawry’s also makes a good guacamole seasoning (the McCormick stuff [...]

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