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Last night I enlisted 10 year old Jace to help make dinner with me. He loves cooking and wants to make his own cooking YouTube channel. I'm considering doing that. Anyways, he helped me with this Chili Cheese Nachos recipe which was SO good! Jace and I both had seconds! Here is the full recipe and it's super easy too: Ingredients: 2 cans Hormel chili with beans 1 tbsp onion powder 1 tbsp cumin 1 tbsp chili powder salt and pepper to taste ------------- A bag of tortilla chips 1 cup cheddar cheese 1 cup mozzarella cheese ------------- For the topping you can add lettuce, taco sauce, nacho cheese sauce or whatever you would like! Directions: Cook and stir all ingredients in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil, reduce to low and simmer about 5-10 minutes.  Place aluminum foil over a baking sheet and spray with PAM or cooking spray. Lay out the tortilla chips, as many as you would like, across the baking sheet.  Set oven to 350 degrees. Once the chili is done, lay the

Chicken and Gravy has been such a comfort food for my family. Not only is it so delicious, but it's so easy to make! In fact, this is my 4th Chicken and Gravy blog post - all different versions! The original recipe for this one can be found HERE and our version is below. Again, I didn't take very many photos and don't let my bad photos fool you. It was amazing with rice! Here are the other three Chicken and Gravy recipes if you want to try something different than this one: Creamy Chicken in the Crockpot Crockpot Creamy Chicken and Rice Recipe Creamy Crockpot Chicken and Rice Ingredients: 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts 1 dry chicken gravy mix packet 2 cans of cream of chicken soup 1 1/2 cups water black pepper Directions: Place chicken in the bottom of a slow cooker. Add all of the other ingredients. Cook on high for four hours. Shred chicken with two forks in crockpot. Cook for 30 minutes more. Serve over rice. Easy, right?

OK you guys, I'm a little more prepared in this blog and came up with more than just one photo. I haven't had Chicken Parmesan in so long and we ended up using this recipe  HERE . These are fried AND baked these and they turned out SO good! The full directions are below, enjoy!  Ingredients for the Chicken: 2 chicken breasts, cut horizontally, so 4 total pieces 1 cup buttermilk 1 tsp salt 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper 1/4 tsp garlic powder 1/4 tsp paprika Ingredients for the breaded topping: 1 1/2 cups flour 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 3/4 tsp pepper 3/4 tsp garlic powder 3/4 tsp paprika 3 tbsp buttermilk Ingredients for cooking: 3-4 cups vegetable oil Ingredients to top: Mozzarella cheese Spaghetti sauce Oregano Directions: In a bowl, place all of the ingredients for the chicken together and whisk. Add chicken and marinate for 2 hours (or longer if you can). I just left it in the bowl, not covered, in the refrigerator.  In the meantime, start putting together the ingredients f

Hi guys. It's been awhile since I've written a food blog and I have a good explanation. Everything that I have made lately has either been a blog post already or it's something like breakfast, BBQ, or pizza. I wasn't actually going to write a blog about this chuck roast that I made last night except it ended up being really good and then I realized that I haven't shared this recipe before. Forgive me as I only took ONE photo of my entire meal because I didn't plan on sharing. I didn't even get a photo of the food on my plate because by the time I thought about it, my plate was cleared! So, you have one photo but I am telling you this was so delicious! I have made so many pot roast recipes, click the link below if you are looking to try out some new and different ones: Easy Slow Cooker Pot Roast with Vegetables Crockpot Beef Pot Roast Easy Pot Roast with Carrots Tri-Tip Chuck Roast with Potatoes and Carrots Pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots Anyways, on to t

Yesterday, again with it being Cinco de "Mario", I had to make some Mexican food, right? So I made Slow Cooker Steak Fajitas with Sirloin Steak. The original recipe can be found from Taste of Home HERE and we made this our own below.  Ingredients: 1.25 pound Top Sirloin Steak 1 medium red pepper, cut into strips 2 tbsp onion powder .87oz packet of fajita seasoning mix 1/2 cup beef broth 8 tortillas 6 tbsp pico de gallo Directions: Place the steak, red pepper, onion powder, and fajita seasoning mix in the slow cooker.  Pour the beef broth on top and cook, covered, on low about 6-6.5 hours. Remote from slow cooker and let sit about five minutes. Cut into slices, against the grain. Serve in tortillas with pico de gallo, sour cream and cheese if you would like. The meat will be tender so you can also shred it if you would like but I just cut in slices and put in tortillas. Enjoy! 

Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo, or Cinco de "Mario" as we like to call it. May 5th is my Dad's birthday but he unfortunately passed away in 2003. This holiday is usually a celebration of his life combined with any excuse to have Mexican food. 😛 I'm definitely no bartender and only drink maybe once every 3-4 months so this was in no way, shape or form fancy. In fact, I just used regular cups and a blender. This recipe was super easy to make and delicious. We ran out of lime juice so we used the peaches with syrup in it and it was so good you guys. Anyways, I did an Instagram Reel HERE so you can see the video. And yes, I also used a medicine cup for measurements and a coffee cup for my margarita. The original recipe is from Taste of Home HERE .  Ingredients: Sugar for rim 1.5 oz Blanco Tequila 1 oz Blue Curacao 1/2 oz lime juice Directions: Moisten rim of cup with lime juice. Sprinkle sugar on a plate and dip rim in sugar.  In a blender, combine tequila, curacao and lim

So two days ago, Kevin told me about this BEC Smashburger and I asked him what a BEC was - Bacon, Egg and Cheese. If you can only imagine how amazing and delicious this would be. So I thought I would try it. I didn't plan on writing a blog about it because I already have a Smashburger blog HERE and HERE and didn't think it would be too different. Uh, I was wrong. This burger is MIND. BLOWING. It was literally the BEST Smashburger I have made before. So, since I didn't plan on making a blog post, I didn't take pictures until AFTER the Smashburger was done but it was super easy so here we go! All you need really is Ground Beef (I bought one pound of ground beef and made 5 smashburgers with it), bacon, a few eggs, brioche hamburger buns, cheese slices, ketchup if you would like, and that's pretty much all it needs!  What is a Smashburger you ask? Well all it is is a flattened patty. So what I do is divide up my ground beef, flatten the burger and then use the side of