Decided to break out all the Gator stuff and have a mini party. U of F (Gators) played FSU (bummer we lost). So I decided to dress up dinner and add a few fun things to enjoy the evening since the game started at 7. Made football cupcake wrappers and then cupcake toppers. Added some…
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One of our favorite dishes using left over Thanksgiving Turkey. My kids look forward to this dish every year. In fact we are having this for dinner tonight!! It is easy to make- and goes great with your left over Thanksgiving sides as well!! (This recipe can be used with Chicken if you don’t have…
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This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Carapelli. All opinions are 100% mine. This dinner seems to be quite involved – but in reality it hardly took us much time at all to create and it was DELICIOUS!!! We enjoy cooking with EVOO – (extra virgin olive oil) Have you ever…
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We have never cooked with Bok Choy before. I am not sure why not but we really enjoyed this dish. It was simple and so flavorful!! It’s now added to our list of must make again!! This recipe is not our own completely but we changed a few things to make it more like what…
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I have never made this before or even eaten it. Years ago a friend mentioned making it for a party. It just sounded good. Well as many of us know– it’s HOT OUTSIDE and I just did not want to cook and some odd reason I remember this chicken salad out of the blue. I…
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Lemon Garlic Pepper Chicken Pasta- say that 4 times really fast. HA!! This dish was amazing. The family ate 2nd helpings (including the kidlets) and then the left overs were negotiated for lunch This makes enough for at least 8-10 servings. So you can feed guest on just 3 chicken breasts and they are sooooo…
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We got the recipe from – A Taste of Home Cooking website. We loved it. We will be making this again!! YUM!! Served it with a side of baked beans and had a very easy dinner. Tasted just like a cheesesteak but much easier. Only difference with our version is we threw in a bunch…
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We love to make our meals around the sales we get at Publix. This past few weeks we were able to get great deal on chicken, Chi-Chi Tortillas & Philadelphia cooking cream. Also in our stockpile we had plenty of Rotel and frozen spinach. And was able to use our 1.00 off any cheese coupon…
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We are GUEST BLOGGING over at COUPONERS UNITED today!! You do not want to miss this AMAZINGLY yummy dinner. We did the entire meal with coupons!! We learned all our tricks and tips from COUPONERS UNITED as well. They post daily coupons you can find for many stores to save up to 90% on…
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As much as we love to cook- we are just as excited to come up with something “semi-homemade”. But we call them cheaters. Because we felt like she cheated through this dinner. We made this dinner for Cinco de Mayo. Inspired by Tijuana Flats. Pack of 10 large flour tortillas Started off with our favorite…
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A week ago I posted about stuffed pork loin here. We had extra ingredients and LOVED the mixture so very much, we added to it to make a little bit more and stuffed it inside of burgers. We started with 2 lb of hamburger meat and made 16 evenly sized balls. We seasoned the meat…
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Chad is quit the chef. He has only gotten really into cooking about 2 1/2 years ago and he enjoys it. His palette is so sophisticated. I love that because my children get exposed to all different foods. I can’t think of very many 6 yr olds that know what goat cheese or shallots are….
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Can you imagine the look on my kiddlets faces when we served them cupcakes for dinner?!?! They looked at us all cross eyed. My kiddlets knew we were cooking dinner and dessert at the same time. So they figured April Fool’s we were going to have dessert 1st, dinner second. However- they are still wrong….
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Making sushi at home is quite easy. Its just the preparation that takes up all the time. Also cooking the rice takes a bit of time. But once you have everything ready, putting it together is quite simple. We used a mat just like this. You can find it here – Bamboo Sushi Mat with…
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Another family favorite (I seem to say that alot lately but it is true) We have alot of favorites and Chad does a good job of coming up with them! Ingredients- 1 lb of peeled and de-veined shrimp 3-4 tablespoons of olive oil heaping pinch of coarse black pepper heaping pinch of coarse salt 4…
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