Mac N Cheese Bites

These Mac N Cheese bites are super easy and cheap to make.  I  made these for a football party a week ago and they were a huge hit!!  I adapted the recipe from an old Women's Day magazine I found in the breakroom at work.

Ingredients:

1 cup elbow macaroni noodles
1/2 stick of butter
1 tablespoon flour
1/2 cup cheddar cheese
1/2 cup mozzerlla or montery jack cheese
1 cup of whole milk
1 egg
2 mini muffin tins

Steak Stir Fry

Ingredients:
1 Red onion chopped
Handful of cilantro chopped
2 tbsp olive oil divided
1 tbsp worstershire sauce
1 lb flank steak or sirloin (you can also get steak for fajitas that is already cut into strips) 
1 package prepared rice (any favor) or minute rice prepared
1 green pepper chopped
2 eggs
1 clove of garlic
salt and pepper
1 tbsp soy sauce
Salt and Pepper

What to do:
Preheat 1 tbsp olive oil in large skillet. Cut steak into strips and add to skillet with garlic, wortershire sauce, and salt and pepper. Cook until well done and put in a bowl. Wipe out skillet and add 1 tbsp of olive oil. Add onions, green peppers, salt and pepper and cook for 3-5 minutes. Push onions and green peppers to the side and add both eggs. Let eggs cook about a minute and flip and chop into pieces. Mix veggies and eggs and add steak and rice. Add one tablespoon of soy sauce and mix everything together. Serve with your choice of sauce. I made a spicy mayo with spicy chili sauce and mayo and my husband used Country Bobs.

 Enjoy! :)

Healthy Taco Salad

Because this holiday season has not been so friendly to my waisteline, I am trying to modify my go to recipes in to healthier versions.  To get the crunch and fried taste of a taco shell I used Tostitos basked scoops as the base for my taco salad.  We ate this tonight and it was delicious!

Ingredients:

1lb extra lean ground beef (90/10 or 93/7)

1 cup shredded mexican cheese mix or cheddar (really any shredded cheese will work)

3 roma tomatoes

1 medium onion divided

 Baked Tostitos Scoops (you choose how many chips you want in the taco salad)

sour cream for garnish

small can mexicorn (I didn't use this time but I have before and it adds flavor)

1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro

Mexican Rice (I used the Uncle Bens whole grain microwavable Spaish Rice)

1 tsp garlic powder

1/4 Package reduced sodium taco seasoning

Steps:

1.  Preheat a large pan to medium heat and add hamburger, about 1/4 package of taco seasoning, corn if you choose, garlic powder, and half chopped onion (I used 1/2 of a vadilla onion and 1/2 of a white onion because that is what I had in the fridge).  Cooking the onions with the hamburger gives the meat more flavor and because the meat is so lean, you won't need to drain it.  After meat is browned add cilantro.

 2.  Slice tomatoes, and remaining onion.  Heat Uncle Bens Rice packet or prepare Spanish Rice of your choice.  Lay selected amount of Scoops on  plate.  Pour warm hamburger over chips and add spanish rice.  Sprinkle shredded cheese mixture over rice and hamburger.  Add tomato, onions, and dallop of sour cream. 

3. Eat and Enjoy!! :)

Easy Salsa

A quick and easy recipe to get the taste of restaurant salsa in five minutes:

Ingredients:  5-6 ripe roma tomatoes, handful fresh cilantro, 1 small vidilla onion, 1/2 package salsa seasoning package (available in produce section of your grocery store), bowl

Cut tomatoes into strips and dice into small pieces
Chop cilantro
Dice onion into small pieces
Add all ingredients into salsa bowl; use fork to smash the tomatoes to create more juice
Empty half packet of seasoning and mix well; taste and add more seasoning if necessary