“Desert Pepper Trading Company was born and raised on the border of Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico. This amazing crux of bright flavors, sunlight, and the desert Southwest inspires us in every way”.Desert Pepper offers a variety of Salsas, Dips and Queso. Today, I am using the Desert Pepper Chile Con Queso in a brand NEW recipe, Cheesy Taco Soup.
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It’s Wellness Wednesday. I’ve been working to come up with NEW, Healthy Recipes for my family. My husband and I are trying to be intentional about eating healthier. Now I have to be honest, I am typically not a salad person. But there are a few salads that I really love to make.
I have recently created a new one that I absolutely love, my Spicy Dumpling Salad. This salad was superb. There are only a few simple ingredients, but it is sooooo good!!
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Fish Friday is something we have very often. Growing up in Louisiana we ate Fish on Friday every week. When we eat fried fish tartar sauce is a must have condiment. We didn’t have any bottled tartar sauce left from the last time we cooked fried fish. So I decided to make my own with the ingredients I had on hand.
I have a few versions of tartar sauce. This is my easiest one.
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Most families are officially back at school. For most families this is a very busy time. Busy season can make meal planning hard for some families. Sometimes finding shortcuts makes for easy meal planning and creating meals that are still homecooked. Blue Runner has been around for years. My husband and I both grew up eating Blue Runner beans.
Blue Runner was known back then more for their delicious beans. Blue Runner is known for much more now with their Meal Bases. Now offering options like Shrimp Creole base, Jambalya Base, Crab & Brie Bisque and Homestyle Chili Starter.
I am using the Homestyle Chili starter in today’s recipe.
The Homestyle Chili Starter is hearty, tasty and easy to prepare. The Homestyle Chili Starter taste like you’ve been cooking this chili all day. Packed with tons of flavor. All you do is add your onions, bell pepeprs and ground beef.
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As a recipe creator, I am always creating new recipes. Recipe creating and cooking can be time consuming. I am always looking for shortcuts when creating recipes. I recently worked with a new company, Cass Caps
“CassCaps™ allow you to measure spices straight from the bottle in 1/4 tsp increments! All you have to do is flip the bottle, twist, and done. Repeat twist as necessary to attain the desired measure. You can also just sprinkle to taste with the built-in sprinkle feature”!
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A new collaboration means a new recipe. Marukan Vinegar is “rice vinegar that plays an important role by adding bright, tangy notes, adding flavor to any dish, enhancing flavors of other ingredients as well as balancing sweet, salty, fatty and acidic components of a recipe”. Oxtails is a dish we grew up eating. It’s still one of the most requested dishes in our house with my family. Oxtails can be fatty, so I decided to marinate the oxtails in the Marukan Vinegar that has no sodium or sugar. As well as marinate veggies to top the dish with.
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Combined two of my favorite breakfast meals chicken mini from Chick-fil-A and the honey butter chicken biscuits from Whataburger into this easy breakfast meal. Just in time for Back to school. I can’t believe that we are about 3 1/2 weeks away from school.
Here is an easy breakfast item that will definitely be in our rotation.
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Air Fryer Teriyaki Chicken with chicken fried rice. Topped with pineapple pico de gallo. I made it a little fancy and I used the pineapple as bowl. This meal was a hit with the family. So yummy.
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I am not much of a sandwich eater, but there is one sandwich that is my favorite and has been for a very long time, Monte Cristo. Bennigan’s Restaurant had the best Monte Cristo. This is the spot that I first enjoyed a Monte Cristo. Many Many years later this is still one of my favorite sandwiches. The Bennigan’s in Louisiana where I used to live closed before we relocated to Texas.
Last week I was craving a Monte Cristo. There isn’t a Bennigan’s here in Houston, so that meant I needed to create my own if I wanted to eat it.
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March Madness is here and it has been MADNESS! Omg! Nail biting games, major upsets and just good games. Whether you are watching NCAA Men or Women’s basketball March Madness has been entertaining for sure!!!
Our team, LSU Women’s basketball team is headed to the sweet 16. So we are stoked. But I have to be honest this is our team, but there are a few other teams we’re rooting for, I’m trying to keep my bracket alive!!
There are several big games today.
Here is another March Madness game day eat, my Spicy Chicjen Bacon Ranch sliders. A hit with my family.
I made my own spicy ranch with the NEW spicy ranch seasoning from hidden valley ranch. So so good!
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March Madness is officially here! 🏀🏀 Did you complete your bracket? I’m done with mine. But I think there will be a lot of upsets especially on the women’s side.
Our house is ready to watch and cheering on our team!
In time for March Madness I have a new wings recipe, my Alfredo Chicken wings! I wanted to keep things light with this one. Instead of chicken Alfredo pasta just my Alfredo wings.
Air Fried wings, topped with Alfredo sauce, Parmesan and mozzarella cheese and fresh parsley. Finger licking good. An easy no carb version.
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Salt and Vinegar Chips is one of my favorite chips. During my last trips to the grocery store, I picked up a bag. Well I had the bright idea to use the salt and vinegar chips like a panko to fry my shrimp. Yeah that’s what I said, Salt and Vinegar Shrimp.
It’s Fry-Day so we decided to Fry up some shrimp. These poboys were delicious. A twist on our classic shrimp poboys which is very popular back home at this time of year, because it’s Lent Season.
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