Taco Cups

No card to share. Sadly, I haven't been crafting much. With the warmer weather my attention has turned to the house...spring cleaning and decorating, etc.

But I did want to share these fun little taco cups I made last night. I had my two oldest friends over last night for Mexican food and margaritas and made these as part of our fiesta. I used a biscuit cutter to cut out rounds from tortillas and my Pampered Chef mini-tart shaper, placed a small amount of cooked taco meat in each and baked for 20 minutes or so. I was so pleased with how they turned out. I think this would be a great appy to take to a party on a platter with sides of taco fixings. They were great with a little cheese and salsa....yum!

The next time I make tacos I think I will cook some extra meat to freeze just to have on hand as these would be so easy to whip up when Jake has friends over. I'm sure teenage boys would gobble these up in no time. Us 30-something ladies sure did.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are having a great weekend.

My Guys dig PW!!

I have been trying out recipes from the Pioneer Woman Cooks for a while now and my guys love it. I think it is so funny that a 13 year old boy from Calgary even knows who the Pioneer Woman is. But then his mother does spend way too much time on the Internet!

My husband has always raved over my lasagna recipe and shook his head when I wanted to try PWs. I've never made mine since...hers really is the best lasagna recipe ever. Here's a shot of Doug making it the last time we had it.

When I heard about her cookbook I immediately pre-ordered. When I came home from work this past Wednesday these two lovely boxes awaited me:

The box from Amazon contained the cookbook and the box below is a food processor I had ordered from Airmiles. It felt like Christmas!! And the kitchen Gods must have coordinated these items to arrive together...ha ha.

We have all been drooling over this beautiful cookbook, even Jake. On Saturday morning he made his first PW recipe Patsy's Cobbler. He substituted mixed fruit for blackberries and it was fantastic.

Thank you PW! If I work this right I might get these guys cooking ALL the time. Kidding! I love trying my own hand at these fabulous recipes.

Hey!

Well, it's Monday and that means back to work for me. I didn't do as much cooking and crafting as I had hoped to over the weekend, but did manage to make a few things

including this recipe and the card above.

I picked up the wood grain stamp (by All Night Media) from Michaels over the weekend and this was my first project with it. I hope to find some time during the week to play with it some more as it's very fun. Even my 13 year old son thought it was cool!



Have a great day!