Shrimp are something that I absolutely love but aren’t in my normal rotation of protein. I just forget about it and I really don’t know why. In fact, the nights I am most apt to remember are those nights when I’ve forgotten to thaw chicken or some other protein. It’s great that you can thaw…
Shrimp Tacos with Cheesy Tortillas and Chipotle Mayo
There is this guy named Todd Wilbur who makes copycat recipes for a living and publishes them in books and on his website. Fast food, chain restaurants, packaged food, nothing is safe from his cloning. I’ve mentioned previously that I bought his book Top Secret Recipes Step by Step (#EarnsCommission) just because it had a…
Chicken Tacos
Chicken tacos are one of my go-to, weeknight, need a quick dinner that I still feel good about and is still tasty meals. We discovered this recipe when we were in college. We’d buy chicken when it was on BOGO sales and freeze individual chicken breasts, which made these also an affordable meal. It’s a…
Slow Cooker Carnitas
Carnitas were never top of my list of things to order at Mexican restaurants until a few years ago, when I was traveling to Charlotte to facilitate new hire training. My co-trainer and I took our new class of associates out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant one night. She had been to this particular…
Carne Asada Style Slow Cooker Goose
We’re smack in the middle of waterfowl season – we just wrapped up early goose earlier in the month and are looking forward to duck season starting. One of my favorite traditions at duck camp is planning one or more meals where we eat what we’re hunting for. For years all we did was roast…
Chipotle Flank Steak Tacos with Pineapple Salsa
My husband isn’t really a fan of pineapple, so when he suggested this recipe for flank steak tacos with a grilled pineapple salsa from Eating Well, I wasn’t going to argue. In fact, I put it on the menu and bought all the ingredients before he could change his mind! We’ve made this a few…
