Delicious Recipes to Keep my Family of Four Happy and Full
I love tamales! When we go to Mexican restaurants, it is usually one of the first things I order if they are available. What I don’t love is the work that goes into making them at home. So, I went searching for an easier way and came up with chicken tamale casserole. It is so easy to make and has all the flavor of a traditional tamale.
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Remember my goal to eat at home six out of the seven days of the week? Well, we are rocking it! One reason we are doing so well is thanks to some super easy meals that I can prepare and freeze or use shortcut ingredients to throw together fast. This easy chicken and rice casserole, using Tyson Grilled and Ready chicken breasts, is one of those dishes that I know I can always get to the table even when I am short on time.
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I love to cook! In fact, if I had my way, I would totally spend all of my free time cooking in the kitchen. I hesitate to call myself a chef though because what I do in the kitchen is definitely more playing than anything of actual skill.
Of course, with playing around in the kitchen, comes a bunch of big messes. I’ve been known to knock over full boxes of quinoa onto the floor or have little pieces of pasta fall onto the floor when I break the spaghetti in smaller pieces for my kids to eat. There is a little corner in my kitchen that gets all the little extras that fall and don’t get noticed because I am focused on the food and not the clean up. Then, when I run the little mini vacuum around the kitchen to do our nightly cheerio pick up, that food just gets bypassed because it is too far in the corner for the little vacuum to reach.
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My family loves pasta. Like, seriously loves pasta! I love the convenience of many pasta dishes too…especially lasagna because it can be assembled ahead of time and cooked later. Plus, lasagna is one of those dishes that gets a little better the day after too. The problem: I am not really a traditional lasagna lover so I tend to skip it when making my weekly menu plan. The other day, I was looking at how crazy busy our week is going to be and decided lasagna would be the perfect thing to fill one of our empty days. I stopped on the way home from getting my haircut and grabbed the ingredients I needed to make No Boil Barbecue Chicken Alfredo Lasagna.
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School starts for us next week and we are so excited {well, mostly excited and maybe a little stressed over how hectic our schedules are about to become}. Even though school hasn’t even officially started, we’ve already been getting emails about different fundraising events happening to raise money for our school. Sadly, school budgets are just as tight as ever and schools are trying to do what they can to still provide a quality education for our kids. I want my kids and all of the others at her school to get the best quality education, with access to state of the art technology and fun outdoor things like a track {the school’s current project}, so I try to help in any way I possible can.
I recently stumbled upon a way I can help just by doing something I normally do…a lot: eating chicken. Yep, through the Tyson’s Back to School Project A+ program, I can earn money for our school simply by cooking dinner. Each label is worth $.24 which is awesome and higher than a lot of other programs schools typically participate in!
To help you think of new ways to eat more chicken {and get more money for your school}, I’m sharing a quick, kid-friendly recipe for chicken and black bean quesadillas. You can also check out ideas on Tyson’s Pinterest boards.
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Football tailgating always means one thing: buffalo chicken! Of course, you’ll find buffalo chicken and wings but these buffalo chicken cups are the perfect little one bite appetizer to offer at your next tailgate of Superbowl party!
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I’ve been spending more time in the kitchen (YAY!) thanks to some events {like our parents’ day out}. One of my recent recipes was for chicken sandwiches with balsamic glaze.
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Both Mathlete and I work full time and commute a pretty far distance to our offices. On nights when we run even the slightest bit late or have an errand to run, it can totally wreck dinner. It is those times that I really appreciate my small arsenal of really quick to the table meals.
Last week, we had a very hectic week and I pulled out one of Mathlete’s favorite recipes that I knew I could get done fast: Mustard Chicken (adapted from this recipe).
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