This is a sponsored post in collaboration with Cacique and Latina Bloggers Connect. All opinions are my own.Cinco de Mayo is next week and I am really excited to actually celebrate this year. There is always a great excuse to create recipes to share with friends especially when it comes to Mexican food. As the month of May quickly approaches I decided to give a twist on a timeless classic: … [Read more...]
Ghirardelli Chocolate and Burnin’ Love Chili —— {Review + Recipe}
I have been baking a lot lately and I know I have had to prepare seeing that the holidays are going to be around the corner. I was excited to be contacted by the folks at Ghirardelli asking me to try some of their new and old products. I was given some recipes to view and check out for me to try but I had to create some recipes of my own, of course!What makes their products new? The Ghirardelli … [Read more...]
Spicy Tomato Alfredo Pasta {Tex-Mex Style}
I do not know if you are a little sugar-ladened with all the sweets being posted as ideas for Valentine's Day but I thought it was time to post a meal idea for those staying home for Valentine's Day.Lindsay over at Cook.Vegan.Lover posted a great contest challenging her readers to come up with a special dish in either the appetizer, entree, or dessert category. Not only were we to come up with an … [Read more...]
The New Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook {Spicy Black Bean Enchiladas}
I hope everyone had a great weekend! Mine went by too quickly AS USUAL! Sometimes I just need one or more days to just make up for a long week. Would it NOT be nice to have the weekend be our work days and the week as our off days? Ha! I live such a dream do I not? MSU vs IllinoisWe enjoyed a gorgeous day watching MSU slaughter the Illini. The first half of the game was pretty slow with … [Read more...]
Huevos a la East Lansing
This year we were not able to go out of town and be with our family for Thanksgiving. Even though we kept them in mind, we decided not to make Turkey dinner for JUST ourselves. Since we had already had our pre-Thanksgiving celebration on Monday, we decided that Thanksgiving was to be a day of rest. I was going to have my hubby at home the whole break so I decided to take adavntage of that. We took … [Read more...]
