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15+ Easy, Tasty Taco Recipes

September 30, 2020

15+ Easy, Tasty Taco Recipes that will satisfy all your taco cravings. Enjoy tacos all day filled with chicken, beef, pork, fish, and vegetarian fillings. Tacos 24/7!!!

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Enjoy tacos for breakfast, lunch, or dinner with these easy, tasty taco recipes. You’ll love that you can enjoy tacos all day!

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Filed Under: Fish and Shellfish, Meat, Meatless Main Dishes, Poultry, Recipes, Vegetarian Tagged With: mexican taco recipes, taco, taco recipes, taco tuesday

Oven Baked Za’atar Zucchini Chips

August 5, 2019

Oven Baked Za’atar Zucchini Chips- flavorful, healthy zucchini chips you can easily whip up to enjoy summers zucchini bounty.

Zucchini is a wonderful summer vegetable that you can enjoy in a wide variety of recipes. Incorporate it into you breakfast muffins, in pasta dishes, even in desserts like brownies. Enjoy these Oven Baked Za’atar Zucchini Chips for a snack today. 

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Recipes, Starters, Vegetarian, Zucchini Tagged With: oven baked zucchini chips, za'atar, zucchini, zucchini chips

Summery Tomato Confit

July 16, 2019

Summery Tomato Confit is the flavorful smash hit of the summer. You’ll be adding it to all your dishes. Run, don’t walk to get tons of tomatoes!

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This Summery Tomato Confit is going to be your summer must have.

I’m 110% serious. You’ll be in love with it while it bakes in your oven, as the rich tomato perfumes the air. But once you open up your oven, you’ll be hooked for good. Then when you take a bite, you’ll be a goner. Before you know it, you’ll be 

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Filed Under: Recipes, Salsa, Sauces, Dips and more, Vegetarian, Whole 30 Tagged With: Confit Tomatoes, tomato, tomato confit

Cheddar Broccoli Copy Cat Starbucks Instant Pot Egg Bites

July 13, 2018

Skip the coffee shop for make at home Cheddar Broccoli Copy Cat Starbucks Instant Pot Egg Bites. A quick, healthy, affordable breakfast that you will love.

Did you get a Build-A-Bear for your your kid yesterday?

I heard about the “Pay your Age” sale earlier on in the week, and contemplated going with the kids. But I figured that it would be a SHIT SHOW.

Guess what?!?!

I was so right because it was insane.

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Filed Under: Breakfast and Brunch, Instant Pot, Recipes, Vegetarian Tagged With: copy cat starbucks, instant pot, instant pot breakfast, instant pot egg bites, Instant Pot Eggs, souse vide eggs bites

Lemony Pasta Salad with Artichokes and Chickpeas

June 27, 2018

This vegetarian pasta salad comes together quickly but that speed doesn’t mean it’s lacking flavor. It’s full of flavor from lemony dressing and the vegetables and cheese. You’ll be hooked on this Lemony Pasta Salad with Artichokes and Chickpeas.

I know summer just started, but it has felt like summer has been going on for the past few months because it’s so damn hot here in Florida.

There are days when I feel like I am melting, but I really do love it.

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Filed Under: Recipes, Rice, Pasta, and Grains, Side Dishes, Summer BBQ, Vegetarian Tagged With: artichokes, chick peas, Lemon, pasta, pasta salad, summer recipe

Summer Vegetable Enchiladas 

July 28, 2017

I swear that there is a strange time suck that happens every day.

It’s amazing how the time just flies by and before I know it it’s 2pm. Then it’s quickly 3 and then 4pm. Poof! The day is almost over and before I know it Autumn is home from daycare and then my husband is getting home.

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Filed Under: Meatless Main Dishes, Recipes, Vegetarian, Zucchini Tagged With: Enchiladas, meatless monday, simmer sauce, simply organic

Honey Roasted Carrots

November 23, 2015

post from 11/23/15, pictures updated 11/6/17

Hello, Monday. We meet again…

It’s the 3rd Monday of the Month so it’s time for my monthly Secret Recipe Club post. Yes!

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Filed Under: Recipes, Side Dishes, Thanksgiving, Vegetarian Tagged With: Carrots, honey, honey roasted carrots, side dish, thanksgiving, vegetables

New Potato & Radish Salad in a Creamy Truffle Oil Dressing

April 27, 2015

New Potato & Radish Salad w Truffle Oil Dressing

Holy smokes guys, I bought a new bathing suit!!

I am so freaking ready for summer. It hurts me so much that it’s not yet warm.

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Filed Under: Recipes, Side Dishes, Summer BBQ, Vegetarian, Whole 30 Tagged With: potato salad, potatoes, recipe, Secret Recipe Club, truffle oil

Apple and Mushroom Wild Rice Stuffing- SRC

November 24, 2014

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I have a funny story.

It happened on Saturday, but it all starts with something that happened on Thursday. Kinda. Sorta.

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See, on Thursday our wonderful dog walker emailed me asking for me to call her. She wanted to let me know that Kemper’s left eye was all puffy. Not the eye actually, but all around it. Top and bottom lid. My poor bug eyed dog was even more bug eyed. It looked like he was punched. Well, a trip to the vet later, he was having an allergic reaction to something. Nothing in his diet or in the environment changed. Nothing that we could think of. So, he had to get a benadryl shot and keep taking it 3x a day for 3 days, plus pepcid for his stomach as allergic reactions will often upset their stomach. (The things you learn.)

Fast forward 24 hours to Friday night and my stomach starts itching. No big. It’s the winter. My skin is dry.

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Then it’s Saturday morning and my feet and hands start itching. My hands get splotchy and a bit puffy, enough to take my ring off. So while Kemper is getting Benadryl dose I take a pill too. What the hell is going on!?!? Anyway, Autumn and I then go grocery shopping. Enough of a distraction for me to stop scratching my palms. By the time we got home it was time for Autumn’s nap so I put her down and then got the perishables away. I was crashing so I figured I’d take a 5 minute catnap, or maybe a 15 minute nap. I’m usually great at getting myself up at a certain time, but I didn’t do so well as I woke up at 10.40. And panicked. Why? Because I had to make mac and cheese to bring over to our friend’s house for 1pm. I sprung up and stumbled into the kitchen while freaking out ‘How did you let me sleep so late? I gotta make mac and cheese. We are never gonna get to Mark and Allie’s on time!!!” “Umm, we’re going there tomorrow…” And so there we were. So I took a deep breath, stumbled back to the sofa and fell back asleep.

And that is why you should buy NON-DROWSY Benedryl. Noted.

Now it’s time to discuss this amazing side dish.

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For this month’s Secret Recipe Club post I was given Sarah’s blog Curious Cuisiniere. Sarah shares her adventures; whether it’s in the kitchen, traveling or her recent bakery position.  It all makes for well balanced blog with wonderful recipes including the one I chose for this months SRC.

Sarah shares hundreds of recipes, thankfully all very well organized. I enjoyed browsing through them as she shares a unique range of dishes from all different cultures. As I had been focusing on Thanksgiving recipes I picked her Apple and Mushroom Wild Rice Stuffing as it sounded easy to make – just about 30 minutes- and really flavorful with the layers of flavors from the apples, mushrooms, raisins, and, of course, the wild rice.

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This Apple and Mushroom Wild Rice Stuffing is the perfect side dish for Thanksgiving.  It’s off the beaten path which will make for a tasty alternative to stuffing but goes great with roasted turkey or other fowl.  The earthy texture and filling taste of the dish makes for a hearty side for tummy and palette.  The wild mushrooms mixed with the apples and long grain rice are a wonderful combination.

I changed things up a bit by using fresh mushrooms, as opposed to canned. But the recipe was so great that there was little personalizing needed. I did garnish the stuffing with chopped pecans and dried cranberries but you can leave it plain. Or you might even want to add some pecans into the rice. I love pecans but Autumn doesn’t do too well when nuts are mixed into things. She just spits them out. ha!

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Apple and Mushroom Wild Rice Stuffing

Makes roughly 2 quarts

Ingredients

  • 3 Cups water
  • 1/2 Cup wild rice
  • 1 Cup white rice
  • 2 Tablespoos butter, divided
  • 1 Tablespoon chicken or vegetable broth
  • 8 ounces of baby bella mushrooms, white button mushrooms are okay too
  • 1 medium onion, chopped (approximately 1 Cup)
  • 2 stalks celery, chopped (approximately 1 Cup)
  • 1 medium green apple, cored and chopped (approximately 1 Cup)
  • 4 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1/2 Cup chicken or vegetable broth
  • 1/2 Cup raisins
  • 3 Tablespoons parsley, dry
  • 1 teaspoon thyme, ground dry
  • 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
  • 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper

Process

  1. In a large sauce pan, mix water and wild rice and bring to a boil. Simmer, covered for 5 min. Add white rice, turn the heat down to low, and simmer, covered, for 15-20 minutes, until rice is tender, but not overcooked. Note: You may have some water left over in the pot when the rice is tender, simply transfer the rice to a strainer to eliminate the excess liquid.
  2. Meanwhile, sauté the mushrooms in 1 Tablespoon butter and 1 Tablespoon chicken broth over medium heat. Cook until browned and reduced in size, approximately 4-5 minutes. Remove from the skillet.
  3. Add 1 Tablespoon butter to the skillet. Once melted, add the onion and celery. Sautee for 3-4 minutes. Add 1 Tablespoon chicken broth and cook for another 2-3 minutes. Add the apples, and garlic and sauté an additional 3-4 min. Remove from heat.
  4. Add the onion mixture to rice along with remaining stuffing ingredients.
  5. Stuffing is ready to serve, or be stuffed inside a turkey.

Inspired by Curious Cuisiniere

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Filed Under: Recipes, Side Dishes, Thanksgiving, Vegetarian Tagged With: Apple and Mushroom Wild Rice Stuffing, apples, apples and mushrooms, mushrooms, raisins, Rice, rice stuffing, Secret Recipe Club, thanksgiving, Thanksgiving side dish, wild rice

Vegetarian Wontons with Spicy Soy Dipping Sauce

August 25, 2014

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I know kids are supposed to ‘only eat’ mac and cheese, pizza, plain pasta, and hot dogs… but Autumn is a bit more adventurous than that. And I love it!

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Filed Under: Recipes, Starters, Vegetarian Tagged With: dumplings, Fearless Homemaker, pot stickers, Secret Recipe Club, SRC, vegetables, vegetarian, Vegetarian Pot Stickers, wonton wrappers, wontons

Tomatillo-Avocado Salsa

September 24, 2009

Tomatillo-Avocado Salsa is a wonderfully creamy salsa is combines fresh tomatillos and avocados. It’s Salsa Verde that is taken to the next level.

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I swear that since we are so busy we often make dinner of chips and salsa a thing. Maybe too often? NOPE!!! NEVER!!! Gimme chips and salsa every day of the week please! 

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Filed Under: Recipes, Salsa, Sauces, Dips and more, Vegetarian, Whole 30 Tagged With: avacado, salsa, tacos, tomatillos

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