My Favorite Recipe

Wow, this is a hard one to choose, most of the things I love to cook are my favorites! But here is one of my simple quick favorite dishes that I love to make for our family, enjoy!

{Chicken Taco Stew}

Ingredients
1 onion, chopped
1 16-oz can black beans
1 16-oz can kidney beans
1 16-oz can corn (drained)
1 8-oz can tomato sauce
2 14.5-oz cans diced tomatoes w/chilies
1 1.25-oz packet taco seasoning
1-2 boneless skinless chicken breasts (frozen or thawed)


Directions
Mix everything together in a slow cooker except chicken. Lay chicken on top and cover. Cook on low for 6-8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours. 30 minutes before serving, remove chicken and shred. Return chicken to slow cooker and stir in. This is good eaten with cheese, sour cream, or tortilla chips.

Number of Servings: 14

Nutritional Info
* Servings Per Recipe: 14
*Serving Size 1 cup
* Amount Per Serving
* Calories: 115.8

* Total Fat: 0.8 g
* Cholesterol: 7.9 mg
* Sodium: 782.8 mg
* Total Carbs: 17.9 g
* Dietary Fiber: 5.4 g
* Protein: 7.8 g

Dreams, Goats, and Saturdays

What's it like to have a weekend? You know those days where you can sleep in do copious amounts of chores lounge around and enjoy the day, take a drive to see the crazy animals roaming around your husbands job site, cleaning with the windows open and great music on. Sundays going to all three hours of church, it's been awhile, and even though we were released from our callings only to find out that will be staying was a little painful last Sunday but I am excited to go back to Sunday School and Relief Society - but I sure will miss 'Primary Idol' and 'Weeping Mothers' and the wonderful spirits of the children. This weekend there will be laundry to do and floors to clean, I also need to clean the front room, it's beginning to look like a mail center! And spend it playing Sims 3 with the husband.

Speaking of crazy animals, at Douglas' job site they have a ton of weeds and tall grass, well it costs too much to have someone continually come out and mow and by state law during fire season you can't have them above 4" tall, so this was the solution

Can you find the motorcycle? So apparently they lost control of the goats when they moved them from their pen, {side note: they have over 600 on the site} you can't see the collies in these pictures but from what I hear they are mighty fine goat herders, much better than humans :) Douglas thought it was funny that they all escaped until they surrounded his bike, maybe they thought it was just an oddly colored goat?



What a fun time. Cinderella and I made homemade pizza last night, I've never really liked homemade pizza and for that reason have never made it, well let me just say that the pizza we made last night changed that for good, I don't think we will ever be purchasing pizza again, the from scratch crust was unbelievable! We made a pepperoni and a chicken/artichoke with fresh mozzarella so much tastier and so much cheaper! I was amazed. I can't get over how delish the crust was.

For the past 3 days I have been doing so great with eating and exercising, I really do feel like a new person, I feel so great. My skin looks better and I'm not as tired as I usually am. I'm ready to change, finally - it only took me forever to figure it out. So I joined SparkPeople and I LOVE it! It's a great website either for weight loss or just maintaining a healthy lifestyle I recommend it to anyone.

Have a terrific weekend everyone!

Simple Saturday

Today has been a great day. Sleep In. Grocery Store. Motorcycle Ride. Nap. Lunch. Playing with Images. Movies. Very Saturday'y!

However, people look at you funny when you pull into a Costco parking lot on a motorcycle. We just needed gas, but driving through the parking lot just to have people look at us thinking, "I think they left their side car at home."

I will be cooking my first Easter Dinner since being married! I decided on it when I was in Costco (the first time). Ham - Brocolli w/ Hollandaise - Mashed Pototatoes - and Cinderella is going to bring a leg of Lamb to cook, and we'll figure out a "dessert" later.

Off to cook dinner for the Mr. Hubs - he wants Ramen. How did I get so lucky?

Menu Monday

Monday

Salsa Verde Chicken

Tuesday
Soup & Sandwiches

Wednesday
Chicken & Stuffing Skillet

Thursday
Leftovers

Friday
Pork & Stuffing Bake

Saturday
Crock Pot Chicken Cordon Blu

Sunday
Pork Chops and Stewed Tomatoes

Carmel Chocolate Cheesecake

I got this recipe from a blog I read, and thought I would try it, and it is delicious and a lot of fun to make. I'm learning that I really enjoy cooking and baking now that I have a place to do so. So check out our cookbook blog. I only post recipes here that I have made and the family likes.