“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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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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It’s Wellness Wednesday! My Buffalo Chicken Salad. This Salad is made with two of my favorite companies that I work with monthly, Just Meats and Farmhouse Delivery.
Buffalo Chicken salad on a bed of romaine lettuce and mixed greens, sliced buffalo chicken from Just Meats, tomatoes, bacon, shredded cheese, farm fresh eggs, elbow pasta tossed in ranch dressing and fire chili ranch dressing. This salad is one that my entire family loved. Including the picky eater. So good.
This meal was created in under 3o minutes. Busy nights don’t mean eating fast food. So moms who may have kids who are athletes and have late practices or games. This meal can be prepared in a short period of time. I toss in the pasta for carbs for my kids after games or practices.
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The McRib sandwich from MCDonalds was a popular sandwich when I was a teenager. For those who may not remember this sandwich was a bbq rib sandwich with pickles and onions. People would go crazy for this sandwich. It could be because it was only for a Limited Time offer. The sandwich is available each year in November. Every time this sandwich is available people go crazy. I made my own version of the McRib Sandwich. My sandwich is a Twice Pork Rib Sandwich. I used pork Ribs and Bacon in my BBQ Sauce.These Ribs were baked in the oven. I slow-cooked the ribs in the oven.
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Chips and dip is one of my favorite snack and game day eat. Chips and dip will be one of the most eaten items at any Super Bowl party. I’m adding this Spicy Rotel dip to my recipes here. Rotel dip has been around for a long time but I switched things up with these Fiery Spice Garlic Pickles. Spicy and cheesy goodness.
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Holiday drinks are a crowd pleaser when hosting a party. These easy Mistletoe ice cubes are so easy to make. The cubes will put any drink over the top. Only a few ingredients needed.
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Christmas time and It definitely feels like it. Nice and chilly outside and I’m not mad about it. Comfy cozy snuggled up in a heated blanket with a cup of hot chocolate and a Christmas movie with a simmer pot brewing is my fave this time of year on low.
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I purchased this Grizzler pan for the OONI Pizza oven. The Grizzler pan is made of cast iron. The Cast-iron pan with ridged surface is great for grilling meat, vegetables and more. Designed to fit all Ooni oven models. This pan is also ideal for use on all indoor cooktops or outdoor grills. Included is removable handle and beechwood serving board. I decided to change things up with the preparation of the steak, I used a brand new kitchen item. This grizzler pan is awesome.
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Pizza night is something that we do with our kids often. We typically make our own. For some reason it’s just so much better. We had been talking for a long time about purchasing our own Pizza oven. We researched the different options that’s on the market. After much discussion and talk about it, we finally decided to purchase the Ooni Pizza Oven. This Ooni Pizza oven is a multi-fuel cooking oven. Fueled with real wood or charcoal box with the optional gas burner. This pizza oven is portable.
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I do love making my own Pop-tarts. I recently created a new one that I tested on my family. My Lemon Blueberry Pop-tart. Instead of my normal Puff Pastry for the Poptarts, I used the Wick’s World class Pie crust. Wick’s Pie crust are not just for pies, but for pop-tarts.
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