Lazy Tacos

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I don’t know where I originally got this recipe from, but I’ve adapted it from the original and it has been a huge hit at my house ((my two year old even wants MORE MORE MORE!)) It’s called “Lazy Tacos” and is SUPER easy, AND sneaks in all the main components!

Ingredients-

  • 2 lbs ground turkey
  • 2 cans tomato soup
  • 1 cup h20
  • 1/2 cup salsa
  • 1-1.5 cups cheddar cheese (shredded or cubed)
  • 1 green pepper (chopped)
  • 1 red pepper (chopped)
  • 1 small onion (chopped)
  • 3/4 cup sr cream
  • 6 tortillas ((cut up into little pieces))
Directions- In a large pot cook the ground turkey, when it’s almost cooked through, add the veggies ((you can add any veggie you’d like to the meal, and any amounts, I just wrote what I went with last time… you can even omit them if you’d like, up to you, but it’s a nice way to sneak them in and kids will still eat them willingly!)), drain the veggies and meat when veggies become tender and meat is cooked. Add rest of the ingredients, cook for 10 (ish) minutes, or until it starts to thicken.And POOF! You’re done. I don’t write out a lot of recipes for other people, so please excuse me if there’s any confusion, and if something doesn’t make sense let me know! Hopefully I’ll get better after I start writing more here!  But this meal is SUPER SUPER easy, and everyone loves it!

Chocolate Bottom Banana Bars

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The other quick recipe I’m going to throw in the oven today is Chocolate Bottom Banana Bars, courtesy of Money Saving Mom.

Money Saving Mom is one of my FAVORITE blogs to grab recipes from, everything I’ve tried is awesome, and usually super easy as well! She calls these 15 minute Chocolate Bottom Banana Bars, and they really are exactly that, SUPER SUPER easy to make, and they’re amazing! Don’t let the “banana” in the title fool you though, these are not great for you, but they certainly are so tasty!

I make the recipe exactly as is, and they always come out phenomenally. I’ve brought them to different functions, and people always rave about them.  Today I didn’t have any chocolate chips though, so I decided to break up a Crunch bar from my son’s Halloween collection, and used that instead!

SUPER EASY (and tasty!!) Pigs in a Blanket

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I realized that I haven’t posted in a really really long time, and I’d like to start again. So here it goes…

The weather is pretty crappy today, very cold and windy and we’re expecting another storm in the North East, not quite like Sandy…but it’s looking like it’ll cause a little bit of a mess. So it’s time to make some food!!

I’m starting today off with Pigs in a Blanket. I’ve made this once before and everyone LOVED them. They’re really really easy to make, even the dough! They’re from a blog called “The Finer Things in Life” and here’s the recipe… PIGS IN A BLANKET!

I’ve made the recipe exactly as is, but today I’m halving it ((The only pain is that the recipe calls for 1 beaten egg, so to half the recipe you only use a half an egg)) but other than that super easy, and tasty!!!

((Not So))Revolutionary Mac & Cheese

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I found this AMAZING blog yesterday called Macaroniandcheesecake.com … EVERYTHING that I saw on this website I fell in love with. So I decided that today I would try a few of the recipes that caught my eye.

First I tried “Revolutionary Mac & Cheese” … I’m not sure what is so revolutionary about it, because I thought that it was VERY bland. I used Low Fat Milk instead of skim, and added 3 slices of american cheese at the end after the initial taste ((thinking maybe it would add a little extra creamyness or taste, which it did, but certainly not enough)).

So I’ve decided I WILL NOT be making this again, unless my son was SCREAMING for mac and cheese and I needed a quick fix. It says on the blog that it may be a “tricky” recipe to get the desired results, but my batch came out very tasteless, so I won’t be trying to perfect this one.  

Looks like I be sticking to my favorite baked mac & cheese recipe… Chuck’s Favorite Mac & Cheese Recipe ((which I like to add turkey bacon pieces to!!))

Super Easy Homemade Peanut Butter

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For some reason when I first got this idea in my head I decided to buy a HUGE bag of shelled peanuts. Why I thought this would be better I’m unsure, but it took FOREVER to accumulate 15 oz of unshelled peanuts. With the help of my sister though we got it done. 🙂

After unshelling the peanuts I found the post How To Oven Roast Peanuts By Peggy Trowbridge Filippone, 20 minutes later I had freshly roasted peanuts.

I then used Alton Brown’s recipe for Homemade Peanut Butter, super quick, super easy, and tasted very much like Teddy’s All Natural Peanut Butter. *But be advised that if you are looking for a “skippy” like peanut butter flavor this is NOT the peanut butter recipe for you. Either way, it came out great and exactly as I hoped!

Homemade Pizza & Sauce

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I’ve been making homemade pizza for a while and have FINALLY found two quick recipes that I really enjoy.

For the pizza dough I use Money Saving Mom’s Homemade Pizza (in Less Than 30 Minutes) and for the sauce I use Smashed Peas and Carrot’s  Easy Pizza Sauce {A Simple Recipe}

For the most part I never change anything about either recipes ((although depending on what’s on hand I do substitute fresh garlic for dried if that’s all that’s readily available. But other than that, these two recipes, exactly as is work perfectly 🙂