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Fajita Seasoning

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Fajita Seasoning
This fajita seasoning is pretty cool. It’s great for seasoning chicken or ground beef or even shredded pork. I’ve used this to make chicken fajitas and shredded pork tacos. Max bought some precooked and pre shredded pork from Costco to take on a weekend camping trip but never ended up using it. We had to come up with some clever ways of using all of it. The first night we had a lot of hamburger buns so we made pulled pork sandwiches with barbecue sauce. Super delicious! Then the next day for lunch we made pork tacos with the fajita seasoning and our favorite hot sauce. Oh my goodness these tacos were gooood! This recipe is great for seasoning any of your favorite Mexican dishes

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Ground Beef and Black Bean Chili

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Max and I recently went on vacation in California with his family at their time share. It was a much needed vacation. My favorite part was not working! We kept pretty busy doing lots of fun stuff like going to the beach, swimming, going to the farmers market, playing tennis and just spending lots of time with family. Before we even left on vacation I volunteered to make dinner for everyone one night. I wanted to make something that I thought everyone would enjoy. I decided to make chili! It turned out really great and luckily everyone enjoyed it. It’s delicious served with cheese on top and a corn muffin on the side. It was a pretty large crowd so I made a triple batch. Apparently I don’t know how to estimate that kind of stuff because we had a good amount of leftovers. We found some really cool ways to use them the next two days. For lunch the next day we made chilidogs. Delicious! And then the next day we made quesadillas with the chili. Also delicious! Some people even made a taco salad with chips crumbled on top. This chili is my new favorite thing.

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Stuffed Bell Peppers

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Stuffed Bell Pepper

BELL pepper. bell PEPPER. I’ve discovered that I say bell pepper in a unique way. Max teases me about how I say bell pepper. I guess I put an emphasis on ‘pepper’, instead of on ‘bell’ like most people do… Whatever it’s normal to me! He redeems himself by saying it’s cute. So I’ve tried a couple of different stuffed bell pepper recipes.  I didn’t really like either of them very much, which is weird because I’m usually a sucker for these guys. They were both vegetarian. Don’t get me wrong, I love my vegetarian and vegan meals, but for this particular dish I prefer the ground turkey.

I decided to whip up my own recipe and it turned out great! We liked them better than those other recipes 😛  I discovered I like to cut the bell pepper in half vertically from the top of the stem down. Not only does it look good, but I feel like you can get more stuffing in your pepper than if you just cut the top off and stuffed it that way. You can really pile the filling on when you cut the bell pepper in half 🙂 I hope you enjoy these stuffed bell peppers as much as I do. Plus they are healthy without sacrificing any of the yummy-ness. It couldn’t get any better then that!
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