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Happy Pumpkin Season!

Chocolate Chip Croissant Bread Pudding

Chocolate Chip Croissant Bread Pudding – the most decadent breakfast (or dessert)! Sliced croissants in sweet custard with chocolate chips sprinkled in!

Chocolate Chip Croissant Bread Pudding - the most decadent breakfast (or dessert)! Sliced croissants in sweet custard with chocolate chips sprinkled in!

Happy almost Friday!

How’s your week been? I feel like I needed to tell you guys about something that happened earlier in the week buuuuuut I can’t remember what it was. I guess it wasn’t super important.

Anyway.

It’s been gross and rainy here in Texas and I’m so over it. I had fully switched over to my spring wardrobe and now I’m back in jackets. Not okay.

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Ranch Pizza Rolls

Ranch Pizza Rolls – easy snack or quick dinner idea! Ranch dressing, pepperoni, and cheese is rolled up in refrigerated pizza dough and baked until golden brown and delicious!

Ranch Pizza Rolls - easy snack or quick dinner idea! Ranch dressing, pepperoni, and cheese is rolled up in refrigerated pizza dough and baked until golden brown and delicious!

Heeeey guys, happy Monday!

You guys. I was sick all weekend.

All. Weekend.

How does this happen to me? I don’t know anyone that’s sick. I have no idea where I got it. But it was horrible and I’m happy to be feeling mostly better today.

The cold did, however, give me plenty of time to binge watch season 2 of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. I’ve never been more excited to get a notification on my phone than when Netflix told me that it was available. I was obsessed with the first season and then I kind of stopped watching TV a few months ago and forgot about it. But it’s still amazing and I highly recommend it if you’re into weird musical/romantic comedy-type things.

I’m usually not but I love that show.

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Weekly Family Menu Plan, Week 75

Weekly Family Menu Plan - 5 weeknight dinners, a weekend breakfast, and a yummy dessert!

Hey guys, happy weekend!

This week’s menu plan is ready to go! I think the weather’s got us all in the mood for spring and summer foods so there’s a fun mixture of salads and comfort food and even some great Valentine’s Day ideas!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

This meal plan brought to you by:

Fake Ginger | Diary of a Recipe Collector | Cooking and Beer | Melanie Makes | The Grant Life 

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Blood Orange 75

Happy Monday!

How’d your team do? What’d you cook? Should we start a petition to make the day after the Super Bowl a national holiday?

Anyway, let’s ease into the week with a cocktail, eh?

I’m obsessed with blood oranges as I am every year around this time.

Even my kids are hooked on them. I bought a bag of regular oranges last week and my littlest looked at me and said, “Where are the bloody ones?”

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Enchilada Stuffed Spaghetti Squash

This post sponsored by Jennie-O. All opinions are my own. 

Enchilada Stuffed Spaghetti Squash – all the flavors of enchiladas in a spaghetti squash! Healthy, low carb, and so delicious!

Enchilada Stuffed Spaghetti Squash - all the flavors of enchiladas in a spaghetti squash! Healthy, low carb, and so delicious!

Hey guys, happy almost Friday! I hope your week has been fab!

My kids have a half day at school today. Isn’t it weird to have a half day on a Thursday? I will never understand it.

Like, the beauty of a half day is that it’s supposed to kick off the weekend. Right? But nope, they have to get up on Friday and go to school.

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Muffuletta Dip

Muffuletta Dip – all the flavors of a delicious muffuletta sandwich in a dip! Olives, roasted red bell pepper, pepperoncini, salami, ham, and provolone cheese all tossed together. Serve on crackers or toasted sliced French bread. Perfect for your Mardi Gras party!

Muffuletta Dip - all the flavors of a delicious muffuletta sandwich in a dip! Olives, roasted red bell pepper, pepperoncini, salami, ham, and provolone cheese all tossed together. Serve on crackers or toasted sliced French bread. Perfect for your Mardi Gras party!

I’ve never had a green olive in my life before I made this dip.

On the first day of drama in 10th grade, we had to do that horrifying thing where you stand up and tell everyone your name and then say something interesting about yourself.

So one girl (who I later played a Christmas stocking with in our holiday play) stood up, introduced herself, and said her favorite food was green olives and the entire class said, “Ewwww!”

I’ve avoided green olives ever since.

I love kalamata olives. I can even get into those weird metallic tasting black olives sometimes. Who knows why I let a bunch of 15 year olds keep me from green olives for so long.

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Cauliflower Tots Shepherd’s Pie

This post sponsored by Green Giant. All opinions are my own.

Cauliflower Tots Shepherd’s Pie – a healthier twist on shepherd’s pie! Ground turkey and veggies in gravy with cauliflower tots on top!

Cauliflower Tots Shepherd's Pie - a healthier twist on shepherd's pie! Ground turkey and veggies in gravy with cauliflower tots on top!

I feel like every year around this time, my house gets super busy. It’s like, January hits and all of the sudden all my kids have a million activities and it’s made worse this year because I have a forever long list of things I want to do here before we move. So we are never home anymore.

I mean, it’s great and fun and all but it means we’re rushing to eat dinner, do baths, finish homework all in, like, an hour before bedtime. It’s not always easy to cook something healthy in that time so I wanted to share a delicious and healthy shortcut I’ve discovered.

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White Chocolate Orange Cookies

White Chocolate Orange Cookies – chewy white chocolate chip cookies with fresh orange zest mixed in! 

White Chocolate Orange Cookies - chewy white chocolate chip cookies with fresh orange zest mixed in!

Hey guys, happy almost Friday! Hooray for a short week, right?

The boys and I are headed to San Antonio this weekend and this is probably our last San Antonio trip before we move, so send me all the must eats! All I care about is the food.

I mean, obviously we’ll see The Alamo again and we have other plans but really, I’m just going for the food. I already have a list of, like, 15 places and I plan on teaching the boys the fine art of eating like a food blogger.

Not much else going on around here right now. I finally stopped breaking all my resolutions on the 11th so that’s been good.

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Weekly Family Menu Plan, Week 71

Weekly Family Menu Plan - 5 dinners, a weekend breakfast, and a yummy dessert!

Hey guys, happy long weekend! Big plans?

It’s cold again here and has been raining for days so I think I’m canceling all my plans and watching documentaries all weekend. I’m obsessed with documentaries (and podcasts!) about cults right now. That’s normal, right?

Anyway, this week’s menu plan is ready to go and looking extra delicious!

Don’t forget to print out your grocery list before you head to the store!

This meal plan brought to you by:

Fake Ginger | Diary of a Recipe Collector | Cooking and Beer | Melanie Makes | The Grant Life 

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Dirty Cauliflower Rice

Dirty Cauliflower Rice is a healthy way to do the classic cajun dish! Spicy cauliflower rice with onions, peppers, and turkey sausage. Use ground turkey to make it paleo! 

Dirty Cauliflower Rice is a healthy way to do the classic cajun dish! Spicy cauliflower rice with onions, peppers, and turkey sausage. Use ground turkey to make it paleo!

Heeey guys, happy almost Friday! How’s the week?

I’ve had a crazy busy week but besides one total meltdown that included sending crying snaps to multiple people (about shoes, y’all! SHOES!) it’s been a really good week.

Highlight of my week so far has been street tacos and nobody should be surprised by that. I’m kind of half-heartedly working on a post about the best restaurants in the area (without going to Austin) so if you’ve got any non-chain suggestions, send ’em my way!

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Black Bean Soup

 

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Black Bean Soup – perfect for meatless Monday and all ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry! 

Black Bean Soup - perfect for meatless Monday and all ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry!

Hey guys!

How are the resolutions going?

Mine are going really well. You guys know that one of my goals is to significantly cut back on the animal products that my household consumes. It’s easier than anticipated – I don’t even think my kids have noticed!

This meatless, dairy-free Black Bean Soup has become a favorite among all of us!

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Weekly Family Menu Plan, Week 70

Weekly Family Menu Plan - 5 dinners, a weekend breakfast, and a yummy dessert!

Heeeey guys! It’s our first menu plan of 2017!

We’ve bulked it up a little for the new year. So we’ve got 5 dinner recipes, a soup (because omg it’s been stupid cold this week!), a side dish, a breakfast, and a couple sweet treats. Lots and lots of recipes!

I hope you have a fabulous week!

Don’t forget to print out your grocery list before you head to the store!

This meal plan brought to you by:

Fake Ginger | Diary of a Recipe Collector | Cooking and Beer | Melanie Makes | The Grant Life 

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