6 Entrees to Add to Your Menu

black bean mango bowls

Does your menu plan ever feel a bit stale? Or non-existent even?

Here are 6 new recipes to freshen things up! The first & last one I’ve tried and loved. The middle 4 are all on my menu plan for next week. {So I’ll let you know how they measure up!} As always, these recipes – as well

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Freezable Wild Rice Soup

wild rice soup

Well, folks – it’s come to this. This is our last week for our “Fill Up Your Freezer” series. I hope you’ve enjoyed it! Here are the recipes I’ve shared so far:

Freezable Pizza Dough Freezable Burritos Freezable Cookie Balls Freezable Pumpkin Rolls Freezable Muffins

Today’s recipe was not supposed to be soup. But a friend shared this recipe with

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Freezable Burritos

burritos

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a lovely weekend. I got to date my best friend Saturday night {and shared some on instagram}. I love talking with him and getting to know him better. Plus, we used a gift card and a sweet friend offered to watch our kiddos, so…you really can’t beat free!

This is our 3rd

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Fill Up Your Freezer Series :: Freezable Pizza Dough

freezable pizza dough

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There are some days when I know what I’m making for dinner well in advance and I have all the ingredients ready.

And then there are the normal days. Or – at least sometimes it seems that way.

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Buffalo Chicken Calzone

buffalo chicken calzone

Oh hello there, you hunk of awesome-ness:

Cheesy, spicy, chicken-y…nom nom nom.

The other day I mentioned on facebook that I was making a buffalo chicken calzone for dinn-dinn. I got the idea from these buffalo chicken bites I pinned many moons ago. (here’s the original pin, for any of

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Shrimp & Avocado Salad

shrimp avocado salad

How many of you like using your oven in the summer?

Not me! I don’ t like being hot unless there’s a big body of water nearby. That’s one of the reasons I love this salad. It qualifies as a good meal for my hubby because there’s meat on it. But it’s a good meal

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Homemade Taco Seasoning

spices

We love Mexican food at our house! Hot & spicy is our thing. Even my 2 year old likes salsa. Major win.

I used to pick up quite a few taco seasoning packets when I went grocery shopping. Then one day, I was making taco meat for some friends and realized I had no taco seasoning packs. So I

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Ham-Bam

glazed ham

When I was little, I got on this kick where I started rhyming everything.

It wasn’t just “Mom.” It was Mom-bom. And Joshy-squashy. Sarah-warah. Becky-wecky.

(Funny – I think Dad got left out of the rhyming business. Dad-bad doesn’t go over so well. And Dad-wad? I must have known which boundaries not to cross.)

You can only begin to

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