Recipe: Homemade Taquitos

Here’s another recipe that starts with the slow cooker Mexican chicken  that I told you about a few days ago.  If you don’t  have time to make up the chicken in the slow cooker, you can cook 3 chicken breasts (or equivalent amount chicken thighs) on the stove top or use a pre-cooked roasted chicken from your [...]

Mexican Spice Mix Recipe

I love to make  Mexican food. It’s my favorite kind of food. I use a dry spice blend in most of my Mexican cooking. It’s very adaptable. You can use it with chicken broth for an enchilada sauce (add a touch of tomato paste if you like a tomato-y sauce), use it to season taco [...]

Frontera Chipotle Salsa – A Review

Chips and salsa. A classic combination… and one I’m enjoying this evening. Yum.
I picked up a jar of Frontera Gourmet Mexican Salsa in the Chipotle flavor a couple of weeks ago. The salsa was developed by Chef Rick Bayless – he modeled it after a salsa he tasted in Veracruz. It has this wonderful smokiness [...]

Fast Food Salad – Not Bad

My daughter was craving breakfast for lunch today. She talked me into the Jack in the Box drive-thru, since they serve breakfast all day there. I read the menu thinking that there was nothing that I could eat on there. Sure, I love their greasy tacos (True story – they were the ONLY thing I [...]

Understanding Cholesterol & Heart Health

Cholesterol is a bad thing, right? Apparently not always. I read a piece on Everyday Health called “The Truth Behind Six Cholesterol Myths,” and here’s what I learned, in a nutshell….
*The body needs a certain amount of Cholesterol to operate properly.
*Cholesterol becomes a problem when the liver is no longer able to keep up with [...]

Etsy Weekend Shopping: Seed Trays

Gardening and cooking go hand in hand. I live in an apartment, so my gardening space is limited, but I am still able to grow plenty of herbs and tomatoes for my family. I even get a few lemons off my minature lemon tree each year. This year I want to add another minature tree, [...]

A Little Bit About Corned Beef…

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Are you planning a  corned beef dinner? According to Wikipedia, corned beef refers to the process of curing a piece of beef with grains of salt, known as “corns” of salt. If you buy a prepared corn beef kit, it will also contains a little packet of spices. In the US we traditionally [...]

Plates Straight Out of Wonderland

Etsy weekend shopping… Have you ever heard of the Wobbly Plates? They are handmade ceramic plates with a wobbly slant to them. Very unique and sort of odd. Here’s a note from at atelierBB, maker of the Wobbly Plates.
They’re thick as pancakes, vivid and textured, and charmingly Wobbly as though made for Alice in Wonderland’s [...]

Salmon With Pineapple-Apricot Sauce

My oldest daughter is no fan of fish for dinner. The younger girl and I love it, especially Salmon, which I used to call “chicken” when she was really little, so that she would eat it. Salmon is full of healthy fats known as Omega 3, which are beneficial to good health – good for [...]

Pistachios – The Mindful Snack

I found a great deal on Pistachiosat my local Raley’s Supermarket today – a 10 ounce bag for only $3.99. Wow. I’ve noticed that Pistachio prices have been low for awhile now. I wonder if the recalls  from a year ago have affected the sales and the low price is an attempt to lure nut [...]

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