Beef Tips and Rice, with sauteed onions and peppers covered in a savory beef gravy, made in a dutch oven or crockpot, make an easy, delicious, and hearty dinner your family will love. For someone who claimed not to like beef, she scarfed these Beef Tips down in no time flat and was asking for more! In…
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Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars
These Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars, inspired by the Mexican dessert called sopapillas, have a sweet, creamy cheesecake filling tucked between 2 crescent roll pastry sheets, and are topped with butter, cinnamon, and sugar and drizzled with honey. Based on the above description and photo, it is no surprise that Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars make a crowd-pleasing dessert that is popular…
10 Easy Chicken Dinner Recipes
10 Easy Chicken Dinners features quick and easy yet outrageously delicious chicken dinners that can be made on a weeknight or for guests! You can’t have too many chicken recipes. Chicken is a staple and we all need a variety of chicken recipes to avoid getting in a rut. How often to we make the same…
Vegetarian Mexican Stuffed Peppers
Vegetarian Mexican Stuffed Peppers are stuffed with a medley of vegetables (and no rice), including riced cauliflower and sweet potato, roasted broccoli, black beans, and corn, with enchilada sauce and Mexican seasonings.
If you are looking for a way to sneak more vegetables into your diet, or to enjoy a meatless meal once a week, or to lower your carbs, then you will love these Vegetarian Mexican Stuffed Peppers! These Stuffed Peppers are overflowing with vegetables, including riced cauliflower and sweet potato.
You say you don’t have a food processor to rice the cauliflower and sweet potatoes, or maybe it is too much of a hassle to drag out the food processor? That is ok because you don’t have to with this recipe.
Spicy Bacon Jalapeno Texas Toast Cheesy Bread
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Tyson Foods, Inc. All opinions are entirely my own. This Spicy Bacon Jalapeno Texas Toast Cheesy Bread is a Texas-inspired recipe with spicy bacon, chopped jalapenos, and Texas Toast, that is perfect for a TexFest celebration. I am a Texas girl through and through,…
Baked Chicken Tenders with Honey Sriracha
Baked Chicken Tenders with Honey Sriracha are covered in a Honey Sriracha Sauce and a crispy panko breadcrumb coating resulting in sweet and spicy crunchy oven-fried chicken that uses only 5 ingredients and is on the dinner table in 30 minutes. These Baked Chicken Tenders with Honey Sriracha are truly crowd pleasers. The sweet and…
Irish Soda Bread Muffins with Cheddar and Jalapenos
I transformed the traditional Irish Soda Bread recipe into smaller muffins and added a Texas twist with cheddar and jalapenos. With St Patrick’s Day around the corner, everyone pulls out their Irish recipes. Yes. I know. These are not traditional Irish Soda Bread. History of Irish Soda Bread The true traditional Irish Soda Bread only has flour,…
Creamy Avocado Dip for Healthy Snacking
This post is sponsored on behalf of PopChips. However, as always, all opinions are 100% my own. Creamy Avocado Dip with PopChips makes a great Game Day snack for the Big Game or for any time. It is that time of year again. Time for the Big Game, and typically unhealthy snacks and junk food often…
Vegan Bacon Lettuce Tomato Sandwich (BLT)
This Vegan Bacon Lettuce Tomato Sandwich (BLT), made with organic, all-natural, nonGMO Sweet Earth Vegan Benevolent Bacon, is easy, delicious and healthy. This post is sponsored by the Sweet Earth. As always, all opinions are 100% my own. It is that time of year again. Time for the beginning of a new year. Time for new year’s…
German Chocolate Pecan Pie
This German Chocolate Pecan Pie combines German Chocolate Cake and Pecan Pie into one fabulous holiday dessert! This German Chocolate Pecan Pie is a holiday favorite dessert at our house! Why not? It combines two of popular desserts into one incredible pie! Pecan Pie is a perennial favorite and the German Chocolate Cake for us is…
Lentil Sloppy Joe Cornbread Casserole
This Lentil Sloppy Joe Cornbread Casserole is a hearty, family-friendly comfort food casserole that combines vegetarian sloppy joes with Southern cornbread!
Our family loves its meat and potatoes. If I tell them that we will have a meatless dinner tomorrow night, I will hear them moan and groan and whine all day and then they will refuse to even taste dinner.
So what do I do? I don’t tell them it’s vegetarian! I just told them I’m making a sloppy joe casserole with a cornbread topping! Then they look forward to it. They will taste it and love it and ask for seconds because who doesn’t love sloppy joes or cornbread!
Reindeer Popcorn Crunch
Reindeer Popcorn Crunch is a sweet, sticky, crunchy popcorn, with red and green candy-covered chocolate, mini pretzels, and mixed nuts. Any reindeer or Santa or elf would love this popcorn creation.
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Roast Turkey with Apple Cider Brine
This Roast Turkey with Apple Cider Brine is our family’s recipe for a moist, juicy, and golden roast turkey for our Thanksgiving or holiday table. The secret to this turkey recipe is the Apple Cider Brine and lots of butter. This post is sponsored by the wonderful people at Honeysuckle White Turkey. As always, all…
Chipotle Sweet Potatoes with Queso Fresco
Chipotle Sweet Potatoes with La Vaquita® Queso Fresco adds an authentic Mexican twist to sweet potato fries with the addition of chipotle chile powder and queso fresco.
Sweet potatoes fries are so delicious with the soft center and crispy exterior. The sweet potato fries are delicious by themselves. However, I have taken them over the top by using waffle fries and seasoning them with chipotle chile powder and topping them with crumbled La Vaquita® Queso Fresco. It adds an authentic Mexican taste without any extra effort.
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Migas (Tex Mex – San Antonio Style)
These Migas make a delicious spicy Tex-Mex style Breakfast made with scrambled eggs, fried corn tortillas, onions, tomatoes, and jalapenos. If you read my blog regularly, you know I love Tex-Mex food, like my Tex-Mex Beef Fajitas or my Lime Chicken Tacos, or my Cheesy Tomatillo Verde Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas, or my Easy Huevos Rancheros! So…
Pepperoncini Gruyere Cocktail Crostini
Pepperoncini Gruyere Cocktail Crostini is an easy yet delicious party appetizer that is perfect for your holiday parties. This Pepperoncini Gruyere Cocktail Crostini post is written by me on behalf of Tyson Foods, Inc. All opinions are entirely my own. This shop has been compensated by Acorn Influence, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are…
Lentil Soup with Mexican Chorizo
Lentil Soup with Mexican Chorizo adds a kick of spicy chorizo, taco seasoning and jalapeños to traditional lentil soup for a hearty, bold and flavorful one pot meal. This Lentil Soup with Mexican Chorizo post is brought to you by Canadian Lentils as part of their #LoveALentil campaign. #sponsored Growing up in South Central Texas, we did not eat…
Pepperoni Pizza Potato Skins
THIS POST FIRST APPEARED OVER AT REAL HOUSEMOMS WHERE I’M A CONTRIBUTOR. These PEPPERONI PIZZA POTATO SKINS taste like pizza on a potato, and make a delicious, fun and kid-friendly appetizer for a party or for tailgating! Who doesn’t love Pepperoni Pizza or Potato Skins? So I decided to combine these two wildly popular foods into…
Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Pancakes dress up traditional pancakes with dried cranberries and white chocolate chips and make a delicious weekend or holiday breakfast or brunch. Click here to receive FREE recipes in your inbox! Love this recipe? Receive FREE recipes in your inbox! I want FREE Recipes! When I was a kid on holidays or…
Cranberry Fluff
This pretty Cranberry Fluff Cranberry Salad, made with fresh cranberries, makes a sweet and delicious cranberry salad, side dish, or dessert for a Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday dinner. I created this Cranberry Fluff recipe as part of a sponsored series with SocialStars and SPLENDA® Brand; all opinions are my own. #SplendaSavvies #SweetSwaps I love the holidays…
Turkey Sliders with Cranberry Sriracha Sauce
These cheesy Turkey Sliders with a Cranberry Sriracha Sauce make an awesome game day or party appetizer by using leftover turkey and cranberry sauce. After a big, delicious Thanksgiving or other holiday meal, what do you like to do? Bake Christmas cookies, go shopping, or watch football? Most of the guys in our family will…
Top 5 Game Day Nachos
Nothing says game day grub better than nachos, and we have the Top 5 Game Day Nachos for watching your favorite gridiron matchups! It is Saturday, Game Day, which means it is time for my hubby, the Gridiron Grub Guru, to give us his college football analysis to go with these awesome Game Day Nachos!…
Pumpkin Pie with a Gingersnap Crust
I created this post as part of a sponsored series with Socialstars and SPLENDA® Brand; all opinions are my own. #GoodbyeSugar30 #SplendaSavvies This Pumpkin Pie with a Gingersnap Crust is a scrumptious, creamy pumpkin pie with a crunchy, crumbly gingersnap crust, Greek yogurt, and much less sugar than a traditional pumpkin pie. It is certain to…
Apple Maple Bacon Stuffed French Toast
This sweet, salty, creamy and crispy Apple Maple Bacon Stuffed Cinnamon Raisin French Toast makes a breakfast extra special. It is perfect for a weekend or holiday brunch. I want to thank Martin’s Famous Potato Rolls and Bread for sponsoring this post. As always, all opinions are 100% my own. Be sure to scroll down to the…