Taco Salad

What do you do when you don't have anything to eat and no intentions of going to the store?!?! Well I decided to make my own taco seasoning in order to make a taco salad. Now I don't have a lot of spices stashed away so I combined already mixed spices that had the ingredients I needed.

Taco Seasoning:

1 tablespoon Salt Grass steak seasoning
1 1/2 tablespoons Joe's BBQ Cajun rub
1 tsp red pepper flakes
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder

After mixing all the seasonings together, I put about 3 1/2 spoonfuls over my browned hamburger meat along with half a cup of water. Then continued making it like regular taco meat.

Taco Salad:

Contains shredded spinach leaves, taco meat, shredded cheese and crushed tortilla chips. I don't know how much of each thing I used, but it came out to be the perfect portions.

This was probably the spiciest taco meat I've ever had. My suggestion to someone who doesn't like really spicy things would be to leave out the red pepper flakes. I still have some seasoning left and can't wait to make tacos with it again!!

Have you ever made your own spice mix?  

Laundry Wreath

I've seen a bunch of different crafts and wreaths made with clothes pins and I knew I wanted one to go above the washer and dryer. I finally got around to making one and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

I used a 12 inch box wreath form and alternated putting the clothes pins on the last row and the second to last row. I made the laundry flags with just regular craft paper and stamps and strung them over kitchen string. Honestly, this was probably the easiest wreath I've made! I like that it adds a little bit of color to an otherwise boring room :)

The Avengers

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This was an exciting movie! I had seen all the movies leading up to this one, but I have to say out of all of them I forgot more out of Thor than any of them. The certain memory lapse had me confused at the beginning, but I quickly remembered.

I was able to see this movie in XD 3-D. I really don't know what the XD made better, but this was a pretty good 3-D movie. I've said before that I don't care to see movies in 3-D because of the glasses and that they have never really impressed me (except maybe Avatar). The only complaint I have for this 3-D experience was that my glasses had a sharp piece on the nose bridge that bugged me the whole movie.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I even stayed through the credits after hearing on several different accounts that there was something after. Truth be told, I stay through all the credits now just in case. Unless it's a chick flick, there usually aren't extras after the credits in those. Now the extra scene in this movie, I have no idea what it means...if someone has seen it please let me know :) Thanks!!

May Meal - Melt In Your Mouth Chicken

Last Friday night there were huge storms coming through so all I wanted was a simple meal, but something different at the same time. I scrolled through my starred recipes and came across this recipe from Grateful Belly and I knew this was the one to try (mainly because I knew I had all the ingredients). I only defrosted 2 chicken breasts so I halved the recipe.

Melt In Your Mouth Chicken
Adapted from Grateful Belly

2 chicken breasts
1/2 c light mayo
1/4 c parmesan cheese
2 T garlic powder
1 tsp pepper
2 tsp Tony Chachere

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F. Mix all sauce ingredients together. Place chicken in glass baking dish (I used a Pyrex pie dish since I only made 2 chicken breasts). Spoon sauce mixture over chicken. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.

Tips: I made the layer of sauce kind of thick and I think it would have crisped up a little more if the layer was thinner. Also, I would do this on convection bake instead of regular bake.

Overall taste: I liked it. It was a little tangy which was a nice change for my regular chicken routine. I wouldn't consider it melt in your mouth though.

{Grand}mother's Day Card 2012

This card is made with light yellow card stock, the same hello spring paper (where the happy came from) as yesterday, a yellow bow and my handwriting again. I'm trying out new ways of writing on cards and I have to say that I like this one the best. This was another card where I didn't use my Cricut, buuuutttt I did get a new cartridge that I can't wait to try out!

Mother's Day Card 2012

I made this card using light pink cardstock, a flower sticker and I cut out the word 'beautiful' from the Hello Spring paper at Archivers. The handwriting is all mine...ha ha.

The Raven



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Interesting movie. I read some reviews before I actually saw it (even though I really wanted to see it anyways) which probably made me doubt the movie a little and spoiled some stuff for me, but overall I enjoyed this movie. It wasn't scary like I was hoping it would be, but it was defintiely suspenseful. I thought the end of the movie was done really well and John Cusack played the part of Edgar Allen Poe really well (not that I know a lot about the poet but still).