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Pink Lemonade Pie Recipe

August 30, 2013 By Tiffany 2 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

I have posted this super easy Pink Lemonade Pie recipe before. In fact, I posted it just a few weeks ago because it was shark week on the Discovery channel and for some reason it is tradition for us to have this Pink Lemonade Pie when we watch sharks… I am REALLY not sure why! We are weird that way!

However, it is super easy, and anything made with sweetened condensed milk is already a winner in my book. But it just really hit the spot on these hot end of summer days and I wanted to share the recipe with you!

Pink Lemonade Pie:

1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 (6 ounce) can frozen pink lemonade concentrate, thawed
1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
1 Graham cracker pie crust

DIRECTIONS

In a large bowl, mix together sweetened condensed milk and lemonade concentrate. Fold in whipped topping. Pour into pie crusts. Freeze until completely chilled.

* Just a few tips – I am thinking you could use any frozen drink mix, pina colada, margarita, or even juice. Nice summer pie to use any flavor you want!

Quick School Breakfast Ideas

August 29, 2013 By Tiffany 2 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

Yesterday ABC13 aired a segment I did with Patricia Lopez on Quick School Breakfast Ideas, you can watch the video above! I love Patricia and we had a lot of fun re-creatintg some of the breakfast items you find in the store that can be pricy.

Here are the breakfast items we made:

Mini Quiche Bites

At Home – 12 for $2
Store – 12 for $5

Instant Oatmeal Cups

At Home – $.40
Store – $1.75

Pre Made Smoothies

At Home – $.50
Store – $4

Fruit Parfaits

At Home – $.40
Store – $1.50

Quick Breakfast Quiches

In the store they can be expensive and filled with who knows what! We made ours from things I already had in my fridge.

Eggs
Cheese
Bacon Bits
Pre made pie crust

I often clean out my fridge with whatever veggie and protein items I have leftover from the night before:

Ground beef
Sausage
Pepperoni (my kids favorite)
Tomatoes, Onion, Green Peppers etc.

This is George, you might recognize him from a few other posts, my favorite camera guy EVER! 🙂

Patricia made some darling instant oatmeal in a mason jar or tupperware container. The pre-made ones are about $1.75. She made hers for only $.40! Plus, I can’t tell you how good they looked! Patricia added instant oatmeal, nuts, and fruit to a jar, add hot water and microwave, let cool for a minute and you have breakfast to go!! So much better then a packet of oatmeal!

Next we made fruit smoothies. The Dole ones are really popular right now but can be as much as $4 each. We made ours by packaging the protein powder, veggies (I use spinach ) and fruit in a ziploc bag for only $.50 each. All I do is then pull them out of the fridge, pop them in the blender and add milk, water or fruit juice.

Finally, the greek yogurt, my favorite. The Greek yogurt parfaits in the store are as much as $1.50 each! They are TINY little cups with barely any good stuff.

But you can make them quick at home and stick them in the fridge to pull out on the go!

The key here is TO PLAN AHEAD! Just like everything else that saves you money PLAN AHEAD. Make 16 fruit parfaits, now you have breakfast for a few mornings. Make a bunch of quiches, freeze some and pull out and microwave and some to eat right then. My kids love them even cold in their lunch. Make muffins and freeze, pull them out the night before or microwave the next morning.

There are so many ideas, and ways to have a good, cheap and healthy breakfast! I want to know what you do?!

Reese’s Puffs Cereal Bars Recipe

August 20, 2013 By Tiffany 3 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

I have wanted to make these Reese’s Puffs Cereal Bars for a long time but never had a reason.

Who else has a TON of boxes of Reese’s Puff Cereal?? This girl does, that is who!! Thanks to the recent Kroger Mega Event, I have enough boxes to last through even my Reese’s addiction!

This is a super simple recipe that even the kids can make!

When chopping all the Reeses cups, try not to eat them all! 🙂

I added corn syrup to my marshmallows. This always makes it just a little bit better to stick together and have a better consistency.

When you add the hot marshmallow to the Reeses they are obviously going to melt a little. So make sure that you quickly mix and fold the cereal, not over mixing and mashing all the Reeses. Does that make sense?

If you are good with a spoon, you can try and spoon lines of the melted peanut butter on. Wasn’t working for me. My sister grabbed a bag and snipped off the corner and we zig zagged the peanut butter on that way and it worked really well!

Reese’s Puffs Cereal Bars Recipe

4 cups Reese’s Puffs Cereal
2 Cups Rice Krispies
16 Reeses Peanut Butter Cups chopped
5 Tbs butter
3 Tbs light karo syrup
2 (10 ounce) package miniature marshmallows

Topping:
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Chop Reeses cups and add them to a bowl with the cereal. Get your pans ready and spray a 9 x 13 in. pan with cooking spray. Now you will basically be making Rice Krispie treats. Melt butter over low heat, adding karo syrup and marshmallows. Stir like crazy until it is all melted.

When melted, pour over your cereal and Reeses mix, and fold marshmallow in. Press mixture into your sprayed 9 x 13 pan. Add peanut butter to a small bowl and microwave for 30 seconds until it is soft. Let it cool a little and put it in a ziploc bag, clip the tip and make a zip zag pattern across the 9×13 pan. Do the same with the 1/3 cup chocolate chips. Melt and zig zag across the top. It just makes it look cool! You could totally omit this part….

I popped the pan in the fridge to help it set up quicker and we ate them 5 minutes later!

Recipe for Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich Texas Style!

August 13, 2013 By Tiffany 4 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

Here is my take on a recipe for Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich Texas Style!! We have these often in our house, it is my husband’s all time favorite sandwich and I have to admit probably mine also!

Start with super easy ingredients:

Roast Beef – Thin Sliced
Velveeta White Cheese
Onion
Bell Peppers
Rolls

Slice and saute’ your bell peppers and onions. Add just a little olive oil to the pan and cook until they are soft and the onions are clear.

Next add your sliced roast beef to a pan. I use a metal spatula and break up the slices a bit.

As it cooks and heats up it beaks up into the familiar Philly steak consistency. You want to just heat up the meat.

Slice your rolls in half and brush with butter. I stick mine under the broiler for a few seconds to just toast lightly. Now you assemble them open face on a cookie sheet.

Meat first, then cooked veggies followed by some Velveeta Queso Blanco.

Stick back under the broiler for just a few more minutes and take out when the cheese is melted. Top with the other half of the roll and you have one of the BEST sandwiches you will ever eat!

This entire process takes me under 30 minutes and is SOOOOO worth it! Serve with chips and fruit!

We had this for dinner last night and just typing up the recipe and seeing the pictures my mouth is drooling!

Easy Homemade Authentic Enchiladas Recipe

August 8, 2013 By Tiffany 16 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

:: Update – Mother in Law is here again and this is what we are having for dinner! YAY me!!! ::

My Mother in law was here for 2 weeks watching the kids for a few days while we were at a conference. The kids and husband pretty much wanted her to cook the entire time. When we were first married my husband asked me to make enchiladas, and so I did. He looked at them sand asked what they were? I said, “Enchiladas” he said, “Not like my Moms” so I said, “well then you make them” and so 16 years later he still does. 🙂

Really, they are the best ever!

With the sale this week at Kroger on the Old ElPaso items, I thought this was a perfect time to post this recipe as you need the Old El Paso enchilada sauce. We use mild.

You will need a few things to get started:

Oil
Green Onions
Olives
Cheese
Corn Tortillas
Ole El Paso enchilada sauce (mild)
Plus optional filling items like, cooked chicken, pork or beef, green chilies, etc.

The first thing to do is decide what type you want. We normally do plain old cheese and black olive. This night we had taco chicken leftover so we are adding chicken. We also didn’t use Old El Paso because the store we were at didn’t have it, weird, but this wasn’t as good of a brand 🙁

Clear your workspace. Get out your pans and add the ingredients to bowls before you start. This is an assembly line!

We have everything ready to go! Heat some oil in a pan, about 1/4 inch deep. You don’t want it to be so hot it splatters but hot enough to start cooking the corn tortillas.

Add some enchilada sauce to a pie plate size pan. Add a little bit to the bottom os a 9×13 to LIGHTLY cover the bottom. When the oil has heated up add a tortilla to the oil and when it starts to float to the top and soften, using tongs move it out of the oil and to the pie pan. Cover it in enchilada sauce, doing a few at a time. Then take the tortilla and place it in the 9×13 and add your filling. We used cheese, olive and chicken. I think as well as a few green onions. Don’t over fill, more is not better. These were almost a little too full this time.

Once you have the pan full add some cheese and a little enchilada sauce to the tops. We garnish with some green onions and a few olives. We usually make a few trays at a time. You can make these ahead of time and keep in the fridge or freeze for another time.

Now add to a 350 degree oven for about 40 minutes or until the edges are getting brown and crispy. You can cover for the first 20 minutes if you want.

Serve with Spanish Rice, Avocado and Sour Cream.

How To Make Homemade Alfredo Sauce

August 5, 2013 By Tiffany 1 Comment By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

Have you wanted to know how to make homemade alfredo sauce? Did you know that it is really very easy and a great way to have a kid friendly dinner?

Wanting to copy the Olive Garden alfredo sauce recipe, and getting in some veggies for the kids, we have been perfecting this recipe for quite a while.

We pair this with my Caesar Salad Recipe for an AWESOME and EASY dinner!

First, get your water boiling for the broccoli.

Then melt ½ a stick of butter in a large pan over medium-low heat. Add about 1 Tbsp of garlic. Stir it around for about 30 seconds. Make sure not to overcook your garlic in the butter. It gives it a bitter flavor that is best to avoid when you burn it. If that ever happens, I would just start over.

Add in a half-pint of heavy whipping cream.

Then add a half-pint of half & half.

* I never said you were going to loose any weight with this recipe 🙂

Add to your pot of boiling water as much broccoli as your family will eat. Then pull it out after about 2 minutes when it is tender but not floppy. You want to leave it some life! It should be a pretty green color.

Take your favorite Parmigiano Reggiano out and grate it. This is the time to call in kids to help you.

Add in some salt to taste. Use caution when salting pre-cheesing, the cheese adds a lot of salty goodness to the sauce!

Let the sauce cook, stirring frequently, over medium-low heat until it starts bubbling lightly. DO NOT BOIL! Boiling is NOT your friend, especially when you are cooking with half-n-half. Did you know that half-n-half curdles more easily than heavy cream because it has less fat and more casein? Heat + casein = broken sauce. Not good. So go easy on the heat here you want to just really warm it all up.

Add in the cheese slowly, about 2-3 cups, stirring frequently until it is all melted and creamy!

The keys to a good white sauce are low heat, slow cooking, lots of stirring, and GOOD cheese. After the sauce, still over medium-low heat, starts to bubble and thicken after the addition of the cheese, take a piece of the cooked broccoli, and then dunk it in the sauce.

When the sauce clings to the broccoli, its done! If its not quite there yet, keep it on a low low LOW simmer, and cook it down a bit. There’s always the option to add more cheese too! You can’t go too wrong with Reggiano. If you have to use the green can of parmesan, it will work. It will be good. Better cheese = better sauce though, so take that into consideration! We buy our Reggiano at Costco or Sam’s. A huge chunk of it costs about $20 and lasts us for months on end. I love having that around the house for topping spaghetti, putting on my homemade garlic bread, and in caesar salads.

Fettuccine Alfredo Sauce

Ingredients

1/2 stick Butter
1 TBSP Garlic
1/2 pint Heavy Cream
1/2 pint Half and Half
2-3 cups Parmigiano Reggiano
1 TBSP Salt
Broccoli (optional)
Protein like shrimp, crab, or chicken (optional)

Instructions

Melt butter over medium-low heat. Add garlic and cook for about 30 seconds, or until fragrant. Add salt, cream and half and half. Keep heat on medium-low, stirring frequently, until lightly bubbling.
Slowly add cheese while stirring. Turn heat down a bit and continue to cook until desired thickness is reached.
Serve over hot pasta with broccoli and chicken, or toss some lump crab meat in for a special treat!

Details

Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 30 mins
Yield: 8 servings

Pink Lemonade Pie Recipe

August 4, 2013 By Tiffany 2 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

I am going to post a few of my favorite summertime recipes the today and tomorrow as I am going to be making a few of these this week myself! I need something cool and that wont heat up the kitchen. Plus something that is fast to make! Give it a try this week and the kids can help with this one!

One of our family favorites is Pink Lemonade Pie. I made this first a few years ago when my friend Millie gave me the recipe. The first night I made it was an interesting one in my house…

While the family is watching Sunday night National Geographic, and my husband is shooting me dirty looks having to explain to the children what ‘mating’ and ‘sperm bullets’ are, an actual phrase describing lemon sharks reproductive habits. I thought I would sneak away and post a dessert recipe that I tried this week:

Pink Lemonade Pie:

1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 (6 ounce) can frozen pink lemonade concentrate, thawed
1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
1 Graham cracker pie crust

DIRECTIONS

In a large bowl, mix together sweetened condensed milk and lemonade concentrate. Fold in whipped topping. Pour into pie crusts. Freeze until completely chilled.

Now my pie looks a little lumpy because at the last minute I added some cream cheese to the mixture because I thought it would be too thin, no matter how much I beat the sweet milk and cream cheese I couldn’t get all the lumps out…

Oh well, still tasted great! A little tart you wouldn’t want a huge slice but really nice and refreshing and for the easy factor, I would defiantly make again!

I am thinking you could use any frozen drink mix, pina colada, margarita, or even juice. Nice summer pie!

** If you printed that Bacardi coupon, from coupons.com that would be a good one to use in this!

Rainbow Cupcakes + Recipe

July 28, 2013 By tiffany 9 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

For Easter I thought it would be fun to make a special treat just for the kids….

I stalk, I mean follow another blog called The Girl Who Ate Everything, and saw her make these darling rainbow cupcakes. I thought they would be perfect for Easter. Of course I made another dessert for the parents, but I think we all wanted a piece of these!

I was so careful filling the cupcakes so they were perfect and the recipe made just enough. I baked them and was letting them cool so I could frost them, when I heard a chair sliding across the kitchen floor.

“Rush, put the chair back!” I yelled. Then I thought I heard the chair slide back to the table.

I was wrong.

I happened to walk by a few minutes later. This is what I found…

In true Seinfeld fashion (see the muffin top episode) he had eaten the tops off 3 of my cupcakes! I only had just enough as it was! Oh Well, the boys got a different treatThis is what they looked like when they were done and displayed.

Rainbow Cupcakes

by OurBestBites and The Girl Who Ate Everything

1 white cake mix
2 eggs
1 C sour cream
1/2 C milk
1/3 C vegetable oilCombine all ingredients until incorporated (about 30 seconds). Scrape sides of bowl and then beat on med-high speed for 3 minutes.
Divide batter according to how many colors you are using. I used 5 colors and it worked out to a little over 1 cup for each color.

Use food coloring to color batter to desired intensity. Wilton brand gel colors have the brightest colors and wont thin your batter. They can be found at Walmart or Michaels.
To get a layered stripe like I used, you’ll want to put a spoonful of each color in the cupcake one at a time. The batter is thick, so it won’t spread on it’s own. A great tip is to set out a little bowl of water where you’re working. Dip your finger in the water and then gently spread the batter out. The water will make it so the batter doesn’t stick to your fingers.

Another tip is to use a measuring spoon and some water to measure out how many teaspoons/tablespoons are going to fit in your cupcake. Then divide that by how many colors you have so you know how much of each color to use for each cupcake. For my 5 colors, it worked out perfectly with 2 t of each color in each cupcake. So I put in 2 t of blue in the bottom of each cupcake and spread it out with my finger. Then I put in 2 t of green on top of that, then yellow, etc.

Bake them according to the package directions, until a toothpick comes out dry.
Frost with your favorite frosting. If you had to use store bought like me, fancy it up by putting the frosting in a ziplock bag. Cut of the corner of the side of the bag and you have an instant frosting decorating bag.

Malted Chocolate Ovaltine Cookie Recipe

July 27, 2013 By Tiffany 47 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

I personally LOVE malt flavor. I was also seriously craving cookies. A while back Neslte had sent me some coupons for Ovaltine and I picked up a can of the malted flavor. We drank it all, then picked up another one, then another one….

It felt like fall out and so it seemed appropriate for some reason to me to make cookies and experiment a little with the Ovaltine. I actually came up with this recipe on my own!

Malted Chocolate Ovaltine Cookies
By: Mylitter

1 cup butter-flavored shortening
1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup Ovaltine malted milk flavor
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chunks or chips

In a large bowl beat shortening and brown sugar. Add Ovaltine, vanilla and egg. In separate bowl mix flour, baking soda and salt. Gradually add to wet mixture, stir in chocolate chips. Drop cookies onto cookie sheet, bake at 375 for about 12 minutes. Let cool on sheet and remove.

The flavor is really good I think because of the shortening, they are crisp on the edges and soft in the middle! The Ovaltine provides just the right amount of chocolate and malt flavor, plus adds the extra nutrients.

I would love to give 4 readers a coupon for a free can of Ovaltine from Nestle for you to make your own cookies! Leave me a comment telling us if you have tried Ovaltine before and the kids will pick 4 winners on Tuesday after school.

The fine print: Nestle provided me with Ovaltine to try and with coupons to give to my readers. These opinions are my own and if I hated the stuff I would tell you!

Have you ever made Stuff?!

July 26, 2013 By Tiffany 12 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.

This is one of our children’s favorite meal. Well, kinda a meal, but hey it counts right? What gets added always depends on what is left over in the fridge as far as protein goes…. maybe bacon, leftover steak, sautéed sausage, chorizo, or even scrambled eggs.

This is the base of the dish. Potatoes. They are good for growing kids and my growing waist line.

Slice them real thin, I like to use a mandolin. I have even used left over baked potatoes from the night before. Nice, because they take less time to cook that way.

While you are slicing, melt an entire stick of butter in a very large pan, cast iron is the best. Then add an entire sliced onion. If you cook the onions down until they are clear the kids will eat them.

Then, add the potatoes and any protein you like. Or leave out the protein and just eat it like this for a side dish. I have added eggs at the end, cooked them in and eaten this in a tortilla. AWESOME!

Keep the heat rather high and add more oil or butter if you need to so that the potatoes brown really nice.

Oh my gosh! They get amazing and really crispy! The potatoes break down a little and get all crispy and wonderful! Season it a bit with seasoning salt and pepper. Keep it simple, sometimes I add a little garlic salt, but just a little.

Like I said you can eat it just like this as a side dish with some ketchup, or add some meat to it and make it a meal or even eat it in a tortilla as you are running out the door to baseball practice. Not that we do that almost every day…

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