April 2010

Jamba Juice Strawberry Smoothie

April 29, 2010

If you have read my site for long you know that I love to find make at home versions of foods we love. I love the challenge of coming up with a less expensive and healthier version of our favorite foods. I have done this with my Chipotle style black beans and rice, a Jamba Juice [...]

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Freezer Cooking Plan

April 29, 2010

Every few months I try to put a few meals or parts of meals together to freeze. This saves me so much time on very busy days. I used to do a lot of freezer meals. At one time I would freeze thirty to forty meals at a time. Right now doing that many meals [...]

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Freezing Taco Meat

April 28, 2010

One of my favorite things to freeze is taco meat. It is so easy to make a large batch, place it into Ziploc bags, and freeze. What I love about having taco meat in the freezer is that I can use it for so many things. It works great for tacos, taco salad, and nachos. I [...]

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Fresh Pineapple

April 28, 2010

Fresh pineapple is so good. I did not realize how good fresh pineapple was until I was an adult. Growing up I never remember eating fresh pineapple. We always ate canned pineapple. It was cheap and readily available, so that is what we ate. I am not sure exactly when I had my first fresh pineapple, [...]

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Easy Guacamole

April 27, 2010

My husband has been telling me for a while that I should post this recipe. I kept telling him that it is not really a recipe. I told him that this was so quick and easy that no one would care about how I do this. But every time we ate this he would ask, [...]

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Oven Pancakes

April 26, 2010

Do you remember those Muffin Top Pans that were really popular a couple of years ago? Do you have one buried in the back of you kitchen cupboard? Well, if you do, I have a new use for them today, and if you don’t have one of those pans, you may see why they can [...]

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Cooking Dried Beans In the Crockpot

April 26, 2010

I mentioned earlier this year that I was planning on doing a series on kitchen terms and definitions. Well, I decided to call the series Cooking Basics. This way I can cover basics terms and definitions, but also some basic cooking how to’s. Today I thought I would start with cooking dried beans. Whenever I [...]

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Homemade Baking Mixes

April 23, 2010

One of the things that I like to do to save time and money is to make homemade baking mixes. I am amazed at how many premade mixes are available in grocery stores. I know these mixes are convenient, but most of them are expensive. Not only that they are not very healthy. I think most people [...]