I love tamales and now that I know how to make them I am going to love them more. With having so much left over turkey from Thanksgiving, I decided to follow the recipe for turkey tamales on All Recipes. We had a ton of turkey left so I of course had to adjust the recipe for the amount I was going to make. We ended up with 10 dozen. First thing I did was shred up the turkey into smaller pieces. Then I went and got the seasonings and measured out what I was going to use for the masa and the turkey. I first mixed the turkey with the seasonings. Then I went a head a mixed up the masa. After I had the turkey ready and the masa ready I began the process of putting them together. The end result delicious. Everyone who tried them loved them. The All Recipe for the masa is now my go to for my main tamales. I am still on the search for a good recipe for sweet tamales. … [Read more...]
Learning How To Make Tamales
After going to Texas on vacation in 2020 I have discovered a love for tamales! They make the best tamales in Texas, we had cream cheese and jalapeno ones and we had a sweet cream cheese one, it tasted almost like bread pudding. I have been wanting to learn how to make tamales for awhile now and my sister in law showed me this past week. We ended up making 10 dozen cream cheese and jalapeno ones, they were a huge hit. Super spicy but my daughter loved them. Laying in bed the other night, I knew I wanted to make more tamales, because to be honest making tamales is kind of relaxing. So I started Googling different tamales. Did you know you can make almost anything into a tamale? Pumpkin pie, apple pie, all the dessert ones I found had me drooling. I want to learn how to make the sweet ones I had in Texas, I found a recipe similar I may try at a later date, but later this evening I am going to make tamales with left over turkey from Thanksgiving! I love turkey and I love tamales … [Read more...]
#100FootJourney Pasta Salad with Chickpeas
Below recipe was received from DreamWorks Pictures’ THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY. Make sure to check out DreamWorks Pictures’ THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY in theaters on August 8th. Chickpeas are considered a super food, and they're extremely good for those trying to lose weight. Don't let this fourth of July hinder your weight loss efforts, serve Pasta Salad with Chickpeas! Ingredients 1 can chickpeas - rinsed well 2 cucumbers seeded and diced 3 tomatoes seeded and dices 1 1/2 medium red onion diced pomegranate seeds 1 lb. spiral noodles cooked according to package 1 lime 1/4 cup garlic oil (see below) 2 tsp Chaat Masala salt and pepper to taste bunch of cilantro chopped Garlic Oil 1/4 c. olive oil 1 serrano chile -slit 2 or 3 times 5 cloves of garlic (with skins) cut in half Garlic Oil 1.) Preheat your oven to 300 degrees F. Combine the olive oil, Serrano chili, and garlic in a glass baking dish. Place in the heated oven for at least 45 minutes. Allow to cool … [Read more...]
Chocolate Pudding Recipe
Often times I find myself sitting here with a sweet tooth. Nine times out of ten we don't have much in the house for sweets. With living a healthier lifestyle we don't bring in a bunch of junk. I remember in the day we always had ice cream in the freezer and the pantry was stocked with the latest junk food. Now we have whole wheat products and veggies. Who can go wrong with some yummy veggies, right? However, veggies cannot settle a sweet tooth. For this I like to keep some great baking products on hand. Last night one of those sweet tooth urges came on and in the kitchen I went. Chocolate pudding was on my mind, and in about 15 minutes I had it in the freezer chilling. Have a sweet tooth, but no sweets in the house? Have milk, cocoa, sugar, vanilla extract, and cornstarch? Well fear not your sweet tooth will be happy in a moment. Chocolate Pudding from scratch recipe. What you need: 1/3 cup sugar 1/3 cup cocoa 1/4 cup cornstarch 3 cups of Milk 1 tsp Vanilla … [Read more...]
Pinterest Desserts!
Almost everything I do in the kitchen, comes from Pinterest! I have made it a habit to do a large part of my monthly meal planning based off meals I have seen on pinterest. Each month I will start a new pinterest board, and I will go through and pin things that look ever so yummy, and things I think my family would enjoy. With eating healthier, it has been a challenge for me, to cook meals that are rich in flavor, and low in calories. What makes things even more difficult, is I am a sweets lover. My main downfall is chocolate! So when I see a "healthy" dessert on pinterest, I of course have to check it out. I mean what type of mom and wife would I be if I deprived my family of sweets as well! When I found the Peanut Butter Yogurt Pie on pinterest I knew I was going to be making that for dessert that night! One thing I like about this dessert is I can have a piece and not feel guilty afterwards. Now if I don't stop at one piece then yes I can feel guilty! I also … [Read more...]
Taco Pie Via Pinterest
As I said not long ago, I was going to go ahead, and do some posts about what I have found on pinterest, my experience with making it, and whether or not my family liked it. Last night for dinner we went with the Taco Pie that I first discovered on pinterest. Does that not look so tasty! We were wanting something quick and easy and this looked like it would do the job, and since we all love Mexican foods we had a feeling this was going to be a hit! We made the guacamole sauce fresh instead of purchasing from the store. We then followed the recipe, and within about 30 minutes including cooking the chicken dinner was complete! We did forget to drain the chilis, so we did have a little liquid in the mix, over all though this was so yummy, and so filling we will be having it again! While it didn't look as pretty as the image from pinterest, it was still ever so good. So this was one of those recipes we will be keeping around, and we will be making again in the … [Read more...]
Dark Chocolate Cookie Recipe
As I sat here, I started to get a sweet tooth. I decided I would Google chocolate cookies. I mean I had everything! I came across this recipe for Chocolate Cookies with Hershey Chocolate. After looking at the recipe I decided I would alter it a bit for my own needs. I personally felt there were to much of some ingredients in it, and I only had self-rise flour. Chewy Chocolate Cookies 1 1/2 cups Self-Rise Flour 2 Sticks Unsalted Butter (softened) 3/4 cups Sugar 1/2 Brown Sugar 2 tsp Vanilla Extract 2 Eggs 1/2 cup Hershey Dark Cocoa With a mixer, mix butter, sugar, and brown sugar together. Once everything is mixed add two eggs. Mix well! Slowly mix in your dark cocoa and flour. I mixed cocoa fixed then added the flour. Once everything is mixed well add the vanilla and mix a bit more. Spoon on a cookie tray, and bake in the oven on 350 for about 10 minutes. Let cool, then make the next batch, this recipe makes about 2 dozen. You can add it to a recipe calorie … [Read more...]
Using Pinterest For Meal Planning
Meal planning can be tough especially if you're so use to cooking from a box. When I decided to do a menu I had no idea what I was going to cook. When we turned to eating healthier, we went to mostly all chicken. Normal way to cook our chicken was little seasonings and bake it in the oven. We then would add a side and some veggies. Eating the same thing, the same way over and over again can get a bit boring. So this month I wanted to switch things up on my family. I wanted to bring new meals to the table that were still tasty and a bit more healthier for us. What better way to make a menu by hitting up the one and only Pinterest! As I browsed all the yummy photos to find different meals to cook, by tummy started talking to me, but in the end it was so worth it. I had a menu and I had a shopping list, only thing left was going to the store. I found I spent less when I had more of an idea of what I was going to be making through-out the month. As you can see, you can find so … [Read more...]
Meal Planning
For many years I have went grocery shopping blinded. What I mean by blinded is not really knowing what I was going to cook through-out the week. At one time we would eat nothing but boxed meals, this made shopping easy. Ground beef, tuna fish, hamburger helper, stuffing, mac and cheese, easy to make, cheap to make, we bought it. It wasn't until recently I learned a little trick about shopping. The key to a healthy dinner is planning out the dinners and having a clue. So I grabbed a clue and I sat down and made out an actual menu. I always thought menus were for school and restaurants, I never thought I would have one in my kitchen. You have no clue about menu planning? Yea know worries me either, but I pretended I did when I went and did mine out. Grab a pen and piece of paper, and make a list of at least 20 different meals. Then take your menu and make a shopping list, this way you have more of a clue, and you're not going to shop blinded. It doesn't matter if you eat … [Read more...]
