Flashback Friday: Mom's Taco Salad w/ Fritos and Catalina Dressing

Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone!  I hope you have something fun planned for the weekend.

We have a family get together planned on Sunday at my sister-in-laws house and have been asked to bring a dish.  I decided my Mom's Taco Salad recipe will be perfect.  It is such a yummy salad, it always gets polished off whenever I take it to a potluck.

With the holiday weekend coming up, I figured I'm not the only one trying to come up with a dish to bring to a potluck, so I thought my taco salad recipe would be a perfect post to re-share as a flashback Friday Post.

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There is something about Fritos, Catalina dressing and taco flavors that go together just perfectly. My picky 6 year old even asked for seconds. (Yes, on a salad!)

This salad is a long-time family tradition as our go-to meal for potluck dinners. It is traditionally made with ground beef, but I sometimes substitute turkey or even shredded chicken.

Mom's Taco Salad with Catalina Dressing and Fritos 

Ingredients:

• 8 to 10 cups of romaine or iceberg lettuce, chopped.  (I have never measured, just whatever looks like enough...)
• 3/4lb to 1lb of lean ground beef (or turkey)
• package of taco seasoning
• 1 can of black or pinto beans, drained
• 1 cup of corn
• 2 tomatoes, chopped
• 1.5 cups of shredded cheese
• 2 cups of Fritos
• Catalina Dressing  (use your judgement on the amount.)
• (optional:  chopped green onions or black olives)

Directions:

1. Brown the ground meat, adding the taco seasoning in towards the end.  Remove from heat and drain if needed.  Add your beans and corn to the meat, mix well.
2. In a large bowl, mix everything together, adding the the Fritos and dressing last.  Combine well, making sure everything is coated with the dressing.

Hard to get a good picture of a salad in a bowl...

Enjoy!

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Easy Family Meal Ideas w/ Tyson Chicken Nuggets #MealsTogether

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With Spring upon us and the end of the school year drawing near, we have been extra busy with baseball practice, games, gymnastics, school activities and parties.  With all this going on, I still try to fit in fun stuff for the entire family.

The kids are very excited to see Epic The Movie, coming out on 5/24.  (It is from the creators of ICE AGE and RIO.)  Epic is an environmental story of good vs. evil. (You can see the trailer here.) I have made plans to surprise them and to go see the movie on Friday night.  

With such a busy schedule, I often rely on food from the freezer to help me put together quick and easy meals that everyone will enjoy.  (A kid can only eat so many bean and cheese quesadillas...)  While on my last trip to Sam's Club, they were having a demo for Tyson Chicken Nuggets and Del Monte green beans.  We had a quick sample, (gotta love Sam's club and all the demos and free samples they have on the weekends) and I added both to my basket.

Earlier this week, I put together these quick Barbecue Chicken Sliders made with the Tyson Chicken Nuggets and added the green beans as our veggie.  We all loved it!  (Luckily green beans is one of the few veggies my kids will eat without any complaints.)

Since we will be in a hurry to get out the door on Friday, I've decided to nix the meal I had planned for Friday and will be serving this again...

These Barbecue Chicken Sliders are so easy. All you need is:

• Rolls (even quartered hamburger buns would do)
• Tyson Chicken Nuggets 
• Barbecue sauce, 
• Cheese 
• Del Monte Green Beans 
• Fruit

Cook the nuggets as directed.  Split the rolls and layer the barbecue sauce, nuggets, and cheese.  Serve with green beans and fruit for a quick and healthy meal.

I am sure your little guys will love it too!

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Chevron Quilt (the easy way...)

I am sure you have all been waiting on pins and needles to find out who the winner of this quilt was!!  The winner was Leanna O.  She has claimed her prize and hopefully is having picnics on it already...  Congratulations Leanna!

I have had a few people ask about the pattern I used.  Chevrons are surprisingly easy, you don't need a pattern!  (Though if you want to make a quilt to a specific size you will have to do a bit of math.)

Since this was my first chevron quilt, so I figured it would be easiest to use precut fabrics.  I used 2/3 of a layer cake form Moda called Hello Luscious and 1/2 a layer cake of solid white from Moda's Bella Solids line.  Using precuts can make a project expensive, so on my last trip to the fabric store I picked up a 10.5 inch square ruler to use with my next project.

I wanted to demonstrate how easy to is to piece together a chevron quilt....

Free Art Printable... My Wish

I've been working on some low cost "artwork" to help finish up the decor in my kids rooms.  I used Photoshop Elements to put together this little printable for my daughters room.  It's so pretty and the quote comes from one of my favorite country songs.  (How many of you know this one too?)

I actually made a scrapbook page several years ago using this lyric, you can see it here.  (I haven't done any scrapbooking in at least 5 years, but I did pick up a Project Life set a month or so ago when it was the daily special on hsn.  Working on the project life scrapbook is one of my goals for the summer.)

If you would like a copy of this printable, I have uploaded a pdf version to google docs here.  If you just want the rainbow background so you can add your own quote, the background is here. (It is cropped to 8x10.)

Enjoy

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