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Hormel Chili with Beans Dip
My opportunity as a Hormel Extended Family Blogger is inspiring a little Iron Chef for Smarty Pants Mamas this week! Let’s try using an ingredient that is often a pantry staple. It’s used “as-is.” It’s used in appetizers, entrees and more. Think of ways you have or could use it. So, this week I put […]
Smart Food: Lawhorn’s Signature Seasoning
Lawhorn’s Signature Seasoning This family owned and operated business (lawhorns.net) has put together a delicious seasoning blend perfect for chicken, steak, pork, seafood and pretty much anything else that would appreciate a great bold flavor! Believe me, we tried it! I began with 4 chicken legs placed in a 9×13 glass dish. I sprinkled the seasoning liberally over each […]
Chilaquiles Recipe, Guest Post by Karen Boykin of La Cabeza Grande
I welcome Karen Boykin of www.lacabezagrande.com as a guest writer this week! You may remember her delicious sounding suggestion of making Chilaquiles when I asked readers to suggest ways to use leftover taco meat. Her idea is a perfect use of pantry staples, that’s nutritious too! Karen plans on devoting part of her blog to […]
Taco Meat Leftovers, Ideas by Readers!
Using leftovers can be a challenge. Serving them the same way can often be a bore. Earlier this week I made tacos for dinner, feeding my husband, father in law, 4 ½ year old & myself. The 2 pounds of ground beef proved to be much more than we needed. Does that ever happen to […]
How do you use leftover taco meat? Submit your ideas!
In an effort to have enough taco meat to feed 3 adults and 1 hungry child I made 2 lbs of taco meat for last night’s dinner. Lots of tacos were eaten…soft and hard, plus a yummy taco salad filled my plate! After all tummies were full I realized that I overestimated the amount of […]
Smart Food: Weekly Menu, May 23 – 27, Postpartum Healthy Living!
[ad#Google in Content] Well I’m a Smart Mama of 2 now! This week we start our postpartum healthy eating routine! Gone are the days of endless bowls of ice cream, chips and dip and spoonfuls of peanut butter! Tom has been a great pregnant spouse…he put on weight as I did throughout the last 9 […]
The Easiest, Yummiest London Broil Recipe
Finding a London Broil recipe that I could easily make for my family was a must as I first enter the days of being a mommy of two. Tired Mom Finding Recipes I’m exhausted. Yes, as a mommy of a newborn (just 9 days old) and a 4 1/2 year old my energy and time […]
Smart Home: Adjusting to being a mom of 2 – a sports bra and steak at once!
[ad#Google in Content] This Smart Mama household is now plus one more! We’re now officially Smarty Pants Mama & Dada plus 2! Last week we welcomed the latest addition to our family, Baby Cecilia! Cabin fever set in right away, as I found myself going from a few days in the hospital for the birth […]
Smart Food: Weekly Menu, April 11 – 15
It’s been some time! Here’s our yummy menu for the week! Please understand that I’m nearly 35 weeks pregnant so my cravings are in full force! Monday: Pollo Tete I’ve shared this recipe a few years ago. It was given to me by 2 cousins at my bridal shower. They each wrote up the recipe […]
Smart Food: Hormel EZ Cook Making Recipe Finding Easier!
[ad#Google in Content] I love trying new recipes. Most of you have learned that about me. I especially like recipes that are not only yummy, but fairly easy to follow. On a recent trip to Publix, my local supermarket, I used my SmartPhone, to find a recipe for pork that I found on sale. (You […]
Smart Food: Weekly Menu, Feb. 14 – 18
[ad#Google in Content] Week of February 14, 2011 It’s Valentine’s Week! Yes, we are already in the middle of the 2nd month of the year! Wow, time is flying by! Below is the menu I’ll be cooking and serving this week. Yesterday during breakfast we discussed as a family what we were each in the […]
Smart Food: Weekly Menu, Jan. 31 – Feb. 4
[ad#Google in Content] Below is this week’s dinner menu at this Smart Mama home. This week is a little crazy in the here, we’re moving! Not far, just 4 miles away…but honestly the distance isn’t the challenge; it’s the packing, moving and unpacking. Add to the situation that I’m 5 months pregnant making it a […]
Smart Food: Weekly Menu, Jan. 24 – 28
[ad#Google in Content] Below is the dinner menu at this Smart Mama home this week. I typically do this each Sunday night, but last night I was a bit distracted with the football games. I have found pre planning each week’s dinner menu saves me time throughout the week. I hit the grocery on Mondays […]
Vegetarian Chili Recipe
I know you want to stay warm with the cold weather that is approaching across the nation! Here is a delicious YUMMY recipe that is sure to warm up tummies in your home! Ingredients 2 tbsp olive oil 2 cups chopped onion 1 tbsp minced garlic 2 cups chopped red pepper 1 can black beans, […]
Spooky Peanut Butter Eyeballs Recipe for Halloween
Halloween dessert just got spookier! Here’s a great treat that I have made for Halloween! They are such a hit! The look is great, the taste and unbelievable and they truly are fairly easy to make! Spooky Peanut Butter Eyeballs 1 cup smooth peanut butter 2 tbsp. butter, softened 2 cups powdered sugar 1 tsp. […]
Smart Food: Delve into 12 – the Giveaway!
Seafood during pregnancy, it’s considered a must by many OBs. What does your doctor say? What a week it has been! We found ways in this Smarty Pants Mama household to include seafood in 2 dinners, plus a few lunches! My daughter even tried, and enjoyed scallops for the first time! We are told by […]
Smart Food: Tasty Tilapia Tacos
As we each continue to Delve into 12 this week, attempting to consume 12 ounces of seafood, I wanted to share a favorite taco recipe. This recipe, as well as many others, are part of the awesome Delve into 12 gift basket that will offered as a giveaway next week! Be sure to share a […]
Smart Food: Delve into 12, Consuming 12 oz of Seafood a Week!
[ad#Google in Content] Fish Tacos, Ceviche, Tuna Salad, Baked Halibut, Linguine with Clam Sauce, Pasta with Shrimp…all are delicious. Do you make them? Are they ever part of your family’s weekly menu? Do you know that many of these meals take as much time and often less time that the traditional spaghetti and meatballs or […]
Smart Food: Simply Smart Cheddar Chive Mini Muffins
Are you wondering what is Hood Simply Smart Milk? I was. Here’s what I found out: Hood found an innovative, natural technique called ultra filtration to remove some of the water that makes lowfat milk look and taste watery. The result is simply delicious milk rich in nutrition and taste. Simply Smart: All the taste, […]
Smart Home: Double the Math Lesson Making Zucchini Strips!
I wanted to make these delicious sounding zucchini strips I saw on SkinnyTaste.com. It was a rainy Wednesday afternoon. My daughter had been in school all morning and then refused to nap. You know the kind of day I’m talking about. She wanted to “help” me in the kitchen. I figured why not. It was […]
Chocolate Angel Food Cake Recipe
Guest Poster: Gigi from KludgyMom.com This week I welcome Gigi, a stay at home mom who parents, cooks and lives haphazardly! She blogs about it all at http://www.kludgymom.com I love the delicate, spongy, low-fat goodness that is an angel food cake. Why not make a chocolate one? I tried making my first angel food cake this […]
Smart Food: Cashew Chicken, compliments of Kludgy Mom
[ad#Google in Content] Guest Poster: Gigi from KludgyMom.com This week I welcome Gigi, a stay at home mom who parents, cooks and lives haphazardly! She blogs about it all at http://www.kludgymom.com Straight out of Martha Stewart’s Great Food Fast is this recipe for cashew chicken. I am still a stir-fry novice; I’ve made some with flank […]
Salmon with Vanilla Balsamic Marinade using Vanilla Bean Paste
Salmon with Vanilla Balsamic Marinade using Vanilla Bean Paste I have a new secret ingredient! It’s what Thomas Jefferson is credited with introducing to the United States in the late 1700s. Vanilla! I was recently provided with a bottle of Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Bean Paste to try. Are you wondering exactly what is […]
Smart Food: Chicken with Apricots
[ad#Google in Content] Here’s a recipe that’s fairly easy and healthy! I have included nutritional information below. Chicken with Apricots ~ Serves 4 Pecan halves, 2 oz 2 teaspoons of margarine 3 ripe apricots, quartered and pitted 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil 4, 4 oz chicken breast halves Salt & freshly ground pepper […]
Sliced Summer Fruits with Mango Puree
Mango Puree Make this mango puree as an accompaniment for those hot summer months. You can serve it as suggested below atop sliced summer fruits or add it as a topping for ice cream. Either way it is absolutely delicious. Sliced Summer Fruits with Mango Puree 1 mango 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice Pinch of cayenne […]
Smart Food: Buffalo Melt ala Vlasic Pickle Style! (Plus win $1000 for a Pickle idea!)
Ever wonder what’s another way to use the yummy Vlasic Stacker Pickles in your fridge? I’m sure! Well here’s a recipe for a glorified meatloaf sandwich I came across and I couldn’t stop drooling! As the recipe stands, it wins no award for great nutrition, however a few tweaks and it can turn into a […]