I had a glorious day at the bakery – 12 hours of fun work! But BOY are my legs exhausted. I really do feel as though I ran double digit miles. I came home and collapsed on the porch couch with my feet as high as possible.
They felt much, much better after a rest…until I had to stand up again! And wheeee, they get to do it again tomorrow : )
Sweet Karen wins Mother-In-Law of the Year for bringing us dinner tonight!
She made the taco salad recipe she made for Matt as a child. It’s very similar to the taco salads we make here except her version has a “fancy” meat sauce instead of just simple browned.
Recipe: Karen browns [grass-fed!] beef in a skillet and then drains it before adding 1/2 a cup of green peppers, 1 drained can of kidney beans, half a cup of any kind of BBQ sauce (the secret ingredient!), a half tsp of cumin, cayenne to taste, and 8 ounces of shredded cheddar cheese. All stirred together and headed until it’s kind of a nacho-cheese chili.
It’s served over iceberg lettuce and blue corn chips with fresh chopped tomatoes, homemade guacamole (avocado, salt, lime juice mash) and greek yogurt!
Water in my wine glass!
Having not slept well last night, I am SO tired. I think a hot shower and my down comforter sound heavenly right about now!
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Oh avocado and Geeek yogurt! Love smothering those on anything that I can.
That was so nice of Karen. And a good thing that you didn’t have to prepare a dinner after your long day. Hope you can rest up and be ready for tomorrow
Btw, my mom told me that she ordered a honey bunny from our local Great Harvest for Easter dinner! I’m so excited!
It’s crazy how long days can completely wipe you out when you’re pregnant. I’m beat just after a trip to the grocery store now haha
MAN does that taco salad looks good! Karen definitely wins MIL of the year award! And I just love how fabulous she’s looking these days – makes my heart swell with happiness
Tacos without cheese?! Blasphemy!
The cheese was in the beef sauce!
Sleep well and sweet bunny dreams to you!
Mmm I made taco salad for lunch today and it was delicious! Love me some guac and salsa!
she’s so kind
enjoy your rest tonight.
Oh wow they look delicious!! Great idea to cook the cheese in with the beef
How sweet and thoughtful of Karen to make you both dinner! It is like she can sense when you need a meal made
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Glad to hear you had a busy bakery day!! Busy = success
You need a pedicure, girl! I had the most amazing one today. You deserve it!
mmm chip dinner, made that all the time back when I was learning to cook and it was one of our fancier meals we always looked forward to making.
LOVE these pictures and the recipe. Yummy, Kath.
Yay for Karen bringing dinner! Looks delicious
That taco salad looks super yum!
Karen has raised the bar for all mother-in-laws!!
That was so thoughtful of Karen to make you all dinner! and it looks pretty good too! I hope you sleep better tonight!
Love this taco salad idea ! I keep meaning to try greek yogurt as sour cream too
The taco salad looks great and those purple/blue corn chips are calling my name!
I think I need a Karen in my life!
I’m 25 weeks pregnant today and work in retail so I really know how you feel about tired feet/legs. For me its not so much the moving around that tires my body out, its the standing still for long periods of time. Hips, lower back, legs, feet, oof! All unhappy after that
Happy feet, I got those happy feet…
wow i am definitely craving a taco salad right about now..
Wow! Yummy!
Taco salad is one of my favorite meals. I love that you can make it pretty healthy but it’s in no way bland health food.
Just an FYI – take a bath or soak your feet using Epsom Salt – it helps soooo much with tired feet or muscles. I recently “rediscovered” it and it truly helps! Using it with a jet stream or whirlpool is even better.
I was dying to but I didn’t have any in the house!! (I used to do public relations for the Epsom Salt Council so I’m a big fan!)
I have been using your excel spreadsheet to get “my life” back in order, which includes a menu grocery shopping list. Guess what!?! I decided I was going to make Nachos this time for something different. I am sitting here making my list, checking for cabinets for ingredients and looking for coupons. Then I said to myself, “What’s Kath doing?” (As if I was going to call you or something). And I come to this post. OMGYUM! Tell Sweet Karen, best mother-in-law award winner that she has forever changed Taco Tuesday to Taco Nacho day! I think the kids will love this and I can sneak in veggies too. Yay me! yay Kath and double Yays to Karen!
You are THEEE FIRST R.D. who has ever made me see eating healthy can be fun and delicious. Thanks so much for making showing me the light.
Thanks so much Jeri!!
Great Mother in Law you have there!
That dinner looks amazing. I love all those flavours and it is so colourful with the purple/blue corn “chips”. One to add to the list of dinners to make.
When I was pregnant and On my feet a lot doing events I wore my compression running socks. They made a world of difference and I looked awesome with my bright colors sneaking out my jeans