Howdy from Texas! I just started my internship and have been crazy busy lately. I’ve also been keeping a close eye on my Celtics in the NBA Finals and hope they can pull off a winning series! I had a phenomenal 21st birthday weekend with my friends, as I’m sure you could assume. After my …
Recipes
This delicious Texas Skillet Cake is a chocolate cake made in a cast iron skillet, and it’s topped with a rich chocolate frosting and pecans. This Texas Skillet Cake is the cast iron skillet version of making a Texas Sheet Cake. The chocolate cake itself is a perfectly moist and wonderful chocolate cake. And in …
I’m 21 years old! My birthday was on the 21st and I got to drink my first (legal) beer 😉 To celebrate this awesome milestone I decided to make one of my favorite summer beverages: Ranch Water. This drink is super popular in Texas, and lately it has started to expand nationwide. You can usually …
Snickerdoodle Cheesecake Cake has 2 layers of snickerdoodle cake with cheesecake in the middle, and it’s covered with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. We sure love our snickerdoodle blondies, so we made a cake out of the snickerdoodle flavor too! Happy Birthday to RecipeBoy Brooks today, and I thought I’d celebrate by making a Snickerdoodle Cheesecake …
These Tex Mex Shredded Beef Sandwiches are a super easy and delicious dinner recipe to make when you’re having a busy week! This slow cooker sandwich recipe has a short list of ingredients and it takes about 5 minutes to get it going in your slow cooker. Easy peasy! You’ll need a boneless beef roast, …
In this Garlic Butter Steak Bites recipe, chunks of buttery seared steak are combined with sautéed bell peppers and garlic. Sometimes you just want some steak, right? And there are some of us who can be a bit intimidated with making a perfectly cooked steak. Garlic Butter Steak Bites to the rescue! This recipe couldn’t …
Brown Sugar Carnitas are cooked slowly in a Dutch oven to turn out tender pork to shred and add to tortillas with favorite fixings. We are big fans of Mexican food at our house. RecipeBoy Brooks made Walking Tacos when he was just a little guy, and his grandmother often made (her version) of chalupas. …
This week I’m sharing one of my favorite recipes for an easy, delicious salad dressing: Mason Jar Raspberry Vinaigrette. I’ve been doing the whole “healthy eating” thing for a while now, but I’ve always struggled to find a reliable salad dressing to add unique flavor (and cause me to enjoy eating leaves). I make my …
This Easy Tortilla Casserole is perfect for making on busy weeknights when you need something quick and delicious that everyone will eat! This is an easy dinner recipe, and we all need some of those, right? We love tacos in our house, and we make them often. But enchiladas are awesome too. I love this …
This super easy, 3-ingredient recipe for Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken will be one you’ll want to make again and again. This recipe couldn’t be any easier to make! It’s one of those, “I need an easy dinner tonight because I have a busy day” kind of recipes. The chicken turns out delicious, and it can …