Made with ground turkey, salsa, onions, green bell peppers, lettuce, cheddar cheese, sour cream, and taco seasoning served in corn taco shells.
So, if you have nothing else to do today, make it a taco night.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Sometimes all you want to make are simply some tacos and call it a day.
Made with sliced smoked turkey sausage, chicken stock, red beans, canola oil, chopped onion, celery, green bell pepper, minced garlic cloves, dried thyme, dry rub (made of sugar, paprika, onion powder, salt & pepper), bay leaves, and salt & pepper; served over long grain brown rice.
I’ve never loved beans and rice so much in my life!!! This was SO good. I think the sausage is what really set it off.
So, if you have nothing else to do today, keep yourself occupied with a fabulous dish of red beans and rice.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Smoked sausage can do wonders for red beans and rice and make it a lovely hearty dish.
Made with new red potatoes, Vidalia onion, red bell pepper, smoked paprika, olive oil, salt & pepper, fresh parsley, and homemade BBQ seasoning (made from paprika, sugar, and onion powder).
I’m not even going to begin to tell you how many servings I think this will feed because you’ll think I’m a pig (not that you already don’t from previous posts).
Recipe for—BBQ Home-Fried Potatoes
Made with russet potatoes, Vidalia onion, fresh chives, turkey bacon, salt & pepper, and butter.
If the skillet weren’t so hot at the end of the cooking process, you could just put it in your lap and have at it.
So, if you have nothing else to do today, immerse yourself into some homemade fried potatoes. Smell, live, breathe, and eat fried potatoes all day today.
Take-Away Life Lesson: McDonald’s fries can’t even compare to homemade potatoes ANY day of the year.
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Ahhh, my spices. I’m so ready for cooking, eating, and anything else that involves food this year. Now we’re talking. I love having so many seasonings to choose from. I can’t wait to get started. See how anal I am about having all my labels facing the front? Oh, and they’re all alphabetized. I’m so Colin Cowie. Yeah, that’s right. Talk about me all you want, but I can find the spice I’m looking for at the snap of a finger. And they just look so pretty this way.
It’s the little things in life that make me happy—like salt & pepper bowls. I get to dip my fingers inside these bowls just like the chefs do on TV and then I get carried away—sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle into the food, water, etc., that I’m preparing. The salt & pepper feels so good in between your fingers, too. I had so much fun the first time I tried this that I think I over-salted and over-peppered whatever it was I was cooking at the time. I just couldn’t stop dipping my fingers into the bowls and sprinkling, dumping, and tossing all over the place. Told you—it doesn’t take much to get me excited and make me smile.
I’m also loving my new Ninja Kitchen System 1200 Blender/Food Processor. It’s so scary. The blades are killer sharp! If you need anything puréed, blended, chopped, sliced, diced, creamed, or whirred—I’m your girl. I’m having so much fun pushing buttons, I’m blending things I probably shouldn’t be blending.
So, if you have nothing else to do today, sprinkle some salt & pepper with your fingers all over the place and buy yourself some fun kitchen objects to make cooking easier for you. And don’t forget to organize your spice rack alphabetically—you’ll find things so much easier.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Stop using the blender to try and shred paper and rocks just because you’re fascinated by how sharp the blades are.
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