I love easy recipes like these Easy Homemade Chicken Taco Taquitos!! And I especially love recipes packed with flavor and only a few ingredients! That’s exactly what busy families need!

What ingredients do you need to make these taquitos?

• Cooked chicken – I use Rotisserie chicken because it has so much flavor and relatively cheap. I usually just use the breasts for this recipe.
• sour cream
• cream cheese
• taco seasoning
• shreded colby jack cheese
• corn tortillas

Tips for making these chicken taquitos:

• To get those tortillas easy to bend and roll without cracking, they need to be warm. I usually run a small stack through the microwave for about 30 seconds before filling and rolling. If they start to crack, heat them up again.
• I brush the finished rolled tortillas with a little vegetable oil. You can also spray them with cooking oil spray.
• I use my food processor to really mix the chicken well, but you can use a hand mixer too.

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Easy Homemade Chicken Taco Taquitos

Yield: 12 taquitos

Easy Homemade Chicken Taco Taquitos make a fun snack or lunch idea! They are easy to make ahead and freeze! Perfect for busy school days!

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Ingredients

• 8 oz rotisserie chicken breast
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 2 oz cream cheese
• 2 tbsp taco seasoning
• 3/4 cup shredded Colby Jack cheese
• 12 corn tortillas

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Add chicken, sour cream, cream cheese, and taco seasoning to a food processor. Blend until combined. You can also use a hand mixer for this.
3. Remove from processor and add to a bowl. Stir in shredded cheese.
4. Heat 6 corn tortillas on a plate in the microwave. Add about 3 tsp of chicken mixture to a tortilla and roll up. As you finish these 6 tortillas, microwave the rest and finish rolling those. If tortillas start to crack when rolling, heat them a little more in the microwave.
5. Place tortillas on sheet pan and spray rolled tortillas with cooking oil spray or brush with vegetable oil.
6. Bake tortillas for 20 minutes or until crispy and golden brown.

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Oh this Easter Bunny Bait did not disappoint folks, and it’s so EASY to make too!  That’s a little dangerous.  We may be making this a little more than once this season.  It’s perfect for sharing with friends, family, and coworkers.  They will be happy you did!

And really the possibilities for this kind of snack mix are endless.  I really love the Rice Chex and the Golden Grahams, but you can use other cereals too.  This recipe doesn’t call for nuts, but that would be great too.  I would you a roasted and salted nut for that extra sweet and salty combo.

What do you need to make Easter Bunny Bait?

• Rice Chex cereal
• Golden Grahams cereal
• pretzels
• Easter sprinkles
• Easter M&M’s (I used the Egg-shaped chocolate ones).
• Spring marshmallows
• vanilla candy coating

Ways to Change this Easter Bunny Bait:

• You can add 1 cup of salted almonds. Decrease each cereal by 1/2 cup if you add almonds.

• Omit marshmallows if you aren’t a fan of these.

• You can use different flavors of M&M’s too.

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Here are some other fun Easter recipes:

• Easter Peeps Dirt Pudding Cups
• Easter Everything Bars
• Resurrection Rolls

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This round up has more than 20 great ideas for any travels you may have ahead of you!  Hope you enjoy it!  And safe traveling to you and your family too!

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So let me tell you about my family’s favorite food love…CORN!  We love corn in just about anything!  And this Baked Corn and Sausage Dip right here was no exception.  I brought it over to my sisters house for some afternoon swimming, and we loved it!

There is just something about swimming that makes me crave chips and dip.  I especially crave dips like this one!!  Oh my goodness!  I made a big batch of it and thought it would probably be too much…but not with my family.  We scarfed that thing down in a hurry!  I can so see myself making this again and again in the future.

It’s made from all the good things like breakfast sausage, cream cheese, Rotel… Shall I go on?  Just those ingredients alone make anything good! The first time I made it, I baked it in a large casserole dish to serve everyone at a family gathering.  Since then, I’ve been making a smaller recipe in my cast iron skillet when we want a little snack at home.  No matter what, it hits the spot!

Can I only make half the recipe for Baked Corn and Sausage Dip?

• Yes!  I do that most of the time.  When I do this, I bake it in my cast iron skillet as pictured.  You can shorten the baking time in this case to 10 to 15 minutes.
• If we are going to be with several family members, then I definitely make the full recipe in a 7 x 10 casserole dish.  

Is a cast iron skillet worth it?

• Oh my goodness!  Yes!  Totally!  
• I use it for desserts, pizza, frying bacon, making grilled sandwiches too.  You can find them in stores like Walmart and here.
• Recipes using a cast iron skillet:  Skillet Peach Pecan Cake, Skillet Deep Dish Pizza, Skillet Beer Bread

Baked Corn & Sausage Dip

Cook Time: 35 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Baked Corn & Sausage Dip is an easy and hearty dip filled with breakfast sausage, corn, Rotel, and cream cheese.  It's perfect for snacking no matter the occasion!

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Ingredients

• 1 1b. breakfast sausage
• 1 8 oz. block cream cheese
• 1 10 oz. can Rotel ( I used Mild)
• 2 14 oz. cans corn, drained
• 8 jarred jalapeno slices, chopped
• 1 cup shredded cheese
• Fresh chopped cilantro (optional)
• Fritos Scoops

Instructions

1. Brown sausage. Drain grease.
2. Stir in cream cheese and melt over medium-low heat.
3. Stir in Rotel, corn, and jalapenos.
4. Pour in a large casserole dish and bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.
5. Remove from oven and top with shredded cheese and cilantro.

Notes

*Note-This recipe can be halved and cooked in a 10 inch cast iron skillet. You only need to bake it for about 10 to 15 minutes if you half the recipe.

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Hey guys!  Today I’m bringing you a little different kind of post.  I wanted to share ways I keep it easy around here when it comes to going swimming.  And y’all know, I need to keep it easy with all my little munchkins!  We do not have a pool, but we do go swimming at different family members’ houses and at our local water park.

I have to say one of my personal frustrations as a mom is getting everyone ready to leave and get out of the house.  That right there can sometimes be a huge task.  Once I have everyone in the car, buckled up, and have all the things we need, I take a HUGE breath.  Because remembering eleventy thousand things before I leave ain’t easy!

So I’ve kind of simplified my life when it comes to leaving to go swimming.  I’ve put together several of the tips to share with you.

My biggest suggestion to you is to have everything stored in the bag at all times so it is ready to go when you are!

In an effort to have little items easily accessible, I keep plastic storage bags in my pool bag.  I use them to hold things I do not want to get wet when little dripping hands reach into the bag.  It also makes my keys and my phone easy to find!

Swimming also makes you starving.  I’m lucky because my kids are major fruit eaters.  They get so excited to sit down with a big bowl of fruit.  That makes me happy…
I also like to put a few salty snacks in there too.

I usually put these items in a little cooler I have that is perfect for picnics and lunches by the pool.  The other day I included these fun new Dr Pepper Vanilla Float® drinks.  They are only available for a limited time this summer at select Safeway and Albertson’s locations.

You might remember the other day I made some really good brownies with them!!

Dr. Pepper Vanilla Float Cake Brownies

I keep all those pool bag essentials in the bag ready to go.  When we decide to go swimming, all I have to do is worry about packing up some snacks and drinks!  Oh yeah, don’t forget a good book too!  And the kids!

Hope you have fun with all your swimming festivities and creating wonderful summer memories!

Don’t forget to grab some of the new Dr Pepper Vanilla Float® drinks to complete your perfect trip to the pool!

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When I was a classroom teacher (I taught for 9 years), we always did a “Secret Santa” exchange with a co-worker.  Each day had a different theme like “Favorite Snack” or “Favorite Drink” and even “Stationary Day.”  It was so much fun to try to be super sleuth and secretly deliver your gifts to them each morning.  I would usually try to grab a younger student to do it, so my person would not know it was one of the older grade teachers giving them gifts.  It was so much fun to try to figure out who was delivering your gifts each day.

On the last day, Friday, we would give them something special and reveal who it was that had been giving them goodies all week.  One particular year, I got the best treats all week long!  Chocolate Chip cookies, Diet Coke, cute papers, and finely some homemade pecans on a beautiful Christmas plate.  And I also had such a great, wonderful, inspiring teacher give them to me!  She had been the one secretly delivering all that goodness to me all week!  I was so excited to find out and to thank her.

Those weeks made my career a lot of fun.  Teaching is so stressful, so it was fun to just have a week where a lot of fun and surprises were thrown in there.  My students would try to help me figure out who my person was too.  They really enjoyed it too!

I’ve not ever forgotten those pecans she gave me.  Every time I make seasoned pecans, I think of her.  That’s really what you want a gift to do.  You want it to always remind the person of how much you care about him or her.  That’s why homemade gifts are so great!

These pecans are super easy to make.  You could make them tonight and deliver them tomorrow, and people will just be so excited!

This year, these pecans are for my youngest daughter’s daycare ladies whom I totally ADORE!!!  They’ve kept all of my children, and they truly love each and every one of the kids they keep so much!  My daughter only goes once  a week right now, and she looks forward to going so much!   I can’t wait to surprise them with these Sweet Heat Pecans!

Sweet Heat Pecans

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Ingredients

• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 3/4 tsp kosher salt, divided
• 1/2 tsp red pepper
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 2 tsp brown sugar
• 3 cups pecan halves

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2. In a saucepan, melt butter.
3. Turn off heat and add in 1 1/4 tsp salt, red pepper, chili powder, and brown sugar. Stir.
4. Pour in pecans and stir really well making sure to try to break up any clumps of seasoning.
5. Spread out onto a large sheet pan.
6. Roast in oven for 10 minutes. Stir. Roast another 8 minutes.
7. Remove from oven and sprinkle on the last 1/2 tsp salt. Stir.
8. Let cool before removing to containers to store.

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 You MUST make this Gooey Halloween Popcorn Crunch!  You will probably want to make this more than once if you do!  Make this for friends, co-workers, teachers, and your kids, and they will LOVE you!  Then make a batch on Halloween night to hand out to your favorite trick-or-treaters!

It’s like caramel popcorn seriously kicked up a notch!  I bagged some up and took them to our good friends’ house.  Cute little packages tied up in strings….one of my favorite things!

What do you need to make Gooey Halloween Popcorn Crunch:

• kettle corn
• pretzel sticks
• sliced almonds or pecans
• Honey Nut Cheerios
• candy corn (optional)
• Halloween sprinkles
• butter
• sugar
• light corn syrup
• Make sure you have a big bowl and a candy or electric meat thermometer

How to make this gooey treat:

• It is super easy to whip up.  To make it even easier, use pre-popped popcorn.  You can also buy microwave kettle corn.  It takes about a bag and a half.
• Put everything in a BIG bowl and stir in the sugar coating.  Spread it out on a large sheet pan or 2 11 x 17 pans and try very hard to resist snacking before it is all set up!

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Gooey Halloween Popcorn Crunch

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Ingredients

• 6 cups popcorn (I used pre-popped Kettle corn)
• 4 cups pretzel sticks
• 2 to 3 tbsp sprinkles
• 2 cups Honey Nut Cheerios
• 3/4 cup sliced almonds or pecans
• 1 cup candy corn
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• 1 1/2 sticks butter

Instructions

1. In a LARGE bowl, mix popcorn, pretzels, sprinkles, Cheerios, and almonds.
2. In a saucepan, heat sugar, corn syrup, and butter to 234 degrees while frequently stirring. (Mixture will be boiling and foamy for about 2 minutes while reaching this temperature).
3. Remove from heat.
4. CAREFULLY pour sugar mixture into bowl over popcorn mix.
5. Stir to coat evenly.
6. Mix in candy corn.
7. Spread out onto wax paper lined sheet pan to cool and set up for a few hours.
8. Break up and store in an air tight container or storage bag.

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A cereal bar filled with cinnamon, pecans, almonds, granola clusters, and Protein Cheerios all dunked in white chocolate…  and a giveaway for Back to School!!

Today we decided to tackle getting school supplies, shoes, and finished up buying uniforms.  It was a pretty productive day!  All that’s left is stocking up on school snacks and lunch stuff in a few weeks.

As far as snacks go, I’ve got one great one for you right here.  Have you tried the new Protein Cheerios?  They are delicious, and I immediately knew I wanted to make cereal bars with them.  And then I thought, “Why not dip them in some white chocolate?”  And that was a good decision!

My husband, who is not a huge fan of sweets, kept going back and getting him one of these little treats.  They are quite addicting!  Hope you give them a try and be sure to see the awesome Back to School giveaway below!!

White Chocolate Cereal Snack Bars

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Ingredients

• 3 tbsp butter or margarine
• 4 cups mini marshmallows
• 6 cups Protein Cheerios (Cinnamon Almond)
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups white chocolate chips

Instructions

1. In a large pot, melt butter over medium heat.
2. Stir in marshmallows until melted.
3. Remove from heat and add vanilla.
4. Add cereal and stir until cereal is completely coated.
5. Spray a 9 x 13 pan with vegetable oil spray.
6. Press cereal mixture firmly into pan. It helps to spray hands with cooking spray.
7. Allow to cool completely (about 1-2 hours).
8. Cut into 16 bars. I used a pizza cutter.
9. Pour white chocolate chips into a shallow bowl and melt in microwave stirring ever 30 seconds until melted.
10. Dip the bottom of each cereal bar in chocolate. Place on waxed paper to set up and let chocolate harden completely for about an hour.

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