Foodie Friday Featuring Cooking on the Front Burner

Welcome back to Foodie Friday.

I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 

If you're new to Foodie Friday, here's the run down

1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below

2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 

3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)

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Recipes with the most clicks from each week during the month are featured in the newsletter, plus any food related posts you may have missed here on Home Maid Simple. 

This weeks Feature

Deb is the blogger behind Cooking on the Front Burner. While reading about her food journey, I was taken back to my mothers kitchen and the well used and loved Joy of Cooking cookbook - the first cookbook Deb purchased when she moved to college. 

I love visiting Cooking on the Front Burner each week as Deb shares some tantalizing recipes with photo's that almost let you taste the food!  Just take a look at these Limoncello Cupcakes, Lemon Chicken Stew, and Minty Shamrock Cheeseball!

Limoncello Cupcakes

Lemon Chicken Stew

Minty Shamrock Cheeseball

Please take a moment and say Hi to Deb! You can find her on these social media outlets

Facebook  *  Pinterest  *  Instagram

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National Crafting Month Giveaway

*This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own*

Did you know March is National Crafting Month?!  I did not know that, but I have been feeling a little surge of craftiness this week.  Be on the lookout next week for some fun home crafts from yours truly.

To celebrate national Crafting month, Kiwi Crate has teamed up with Highlights Magazine and YoYo.com to giveaway a dream craft room for your kids!

To enter the contest click the picture above, and fill out the contest form. 

Contest runs until March 31st

Dream Craftroom Giveaway includes

• Annual subscription to Highlights/High Five magazine
• Annual Subscription to Kiwi Crate
• $200 worth of arts and crafts supplies from Kiwi Crate
• $60 worth of Craft organization supplies from Highlights
• A Kidcraft table & chairset from YoYo.com

For Christmas we bought Princess R a Kiwi Crate subscription. I am in love with these crates we get each month!  It helps her and I get a little more crafty, and gives us a specific activity to do together while sisters are at school and baby brother is napping. 

We had a lot of fun making the window clings in the December crate, and Mark enjoyed helping her put together the xylophone and jingle bells in the January Music crate. 

If a monthly subscription isn't your thing, or you want more than one box a month, Kiwi Crate has partnered up with Target to create some exclusive crates to be sold in Target stores. They are also giving away a $250 Target Giftcard!

What have you been crafting lately?  

A Billion Entrepreneurs the Movie

*This post is sponsored by ABEthemovie through Business 2 Blogger. Opinions are my own*

Have you ever wanted to start your own business? Tired of working for others, or not happy with any career you've had?  Maybe you've been laid off, and haven't been able to get back on your feet.

A Billion Entrepreneurs the movie is all about taking life into your own hands. You define your Freedom, Security, and Success!  

How would I describe these things?

Freedom - the ability to do what I want, when I want, and be happy doing it.

Security - Not worrying if we can afford milk. Knowing that a well balanced meal will always be on the table.

Success - A happy family as well as making those we interact with happy.

Currently this blog has met my definition for Freedom and Success. Although it doesn't provide entire security since it is more a hobby, it has afforded us an extra sense of security.  Home Maid Simple has been my introduction to Entrepreneurship. As I learn the ropes of engaging with you my readers, and develop ways to bring a little extra security to my family, I have found happiness and a sense of self that I was losing in the midst of PPD. 

One thing Mark and I love to do is sit and dream of different businesses we'd love to run. Although we can't do them all, because there's only 2 of us, but one day we will land on exactly what we want to do that will define our freedom, security and success. This year we've decided to work on 2 of them. Together we are developing a product - I'll let you know when it's finished - and I am working on writing a cookbook. 

These are things I personally never thought possible for me. They were dreams for someone else, but surely not ones I could achieve. I've learned though, and that's what I love about the A Billion Entrepreneurs movie, is that it is going to inspire so many people to go out and dream. To define their life the way they want to. 

Will you become an entrepreneur?  Will you encourage someone to follow their dreams?  Check out this clip, and get inspired!

"Taking responsibility for outcomes!"

"An Entrepreneur in ever home!"

So what is your purpose?  Help A Billion Entrepreneurs the movie fund their indiegogo campaign and inspire the world. 

Taco Salad in Home Made Tortilla Bowls

So we're lying in bed one night, and Mark turns to me, and says "Taco Salad".

That's all it took. I had recently gone shopping and filled our vegetable drawer to overflowing, so I had everything on hand for the salad. I just needed to figure out the tortilla bowls.

I thought about going out and purchasing some premade bowls, or seeing if I could just bake the premade flour tortillas into a bowl shape, but why make it easy?  I decided to pull out an old favorite for home made tortillas, but instead of frying them on the stove, to bake them over a bowl in the oven.

Yum!  Besides being extremely simple, the kids loved the tortilla bowls, and I think managed to eat some vegetables with their dinner. I debated putting radishes in, since it's not something you find in a normal taco salad, but I couldn't resist their pretty red color.

Taco Salad in Home Made Tortilla Bowls

Ingredients

1 batch of dough for home made flour tortillas* 

1/2 cup iceberg lettuce, chopped

1/2 cup Romaine Lettuce, chopped

1 tomato, chopped

1 radish, sliced and quartered

1 TBS chopped olives

2 TBS Black Beans

Dressing of your choice

*Will make up to 12 shells.  Salad ingredients are for one salad. 

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 F. Roll out the dough, and drape across an overturned, oven safe, bowl sprayed lightly with PAM. If you're not sure about the bowl, I also used an overturned muffin tin and draped it across 4 muffin wells. Pinch around the edges to make some nice creases in your shell. Bake for 15 minutes.

Prep your vegetable while the bowls are baking. When removing the shells from the bowl, gently slide a knife between the shell and the bowl to loosen, and then carefully flip it off. 

Toss ingredients gently together inside shell. Drizzle with your favorite dressing, and enjoy. In the photo's I was using Poppyseed dressing, but I also enjoy this with Kraft's Sun dried Tomato Dressing. Absolutely delicious no matter your preference. My kids preferred ranch. If you're looking for more of a traditional taco flavor, toss it with a scoop of sour cream, and leave off the dressing. 

Enjoy!

  

Foodie Friday Featuring The Crafting Foodie

Welcome back to another Foodie Friday

I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 

If you're new to Foodie Friday, here's the run down

1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below

2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 

3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)

This week's Feature:

Aida, blogger and recipe creator behind the Crafting Foodie, started blogging as a way to remember her recipes, and share them with all her friends and family who constantly wanted her recipe. She is also a stay at home mom to two little girls. 

I was really excited last week when Aida shared her recipe for Grasshopper Cupcakes. I always get a little nostalgic when I see chocolate topped with a minty frosting. One of my childhood friends mom's liked to make brownies with a mint frosting on top, and they were divine. 

Thanks so much for sharing with us Aida!!  I enjoyed looking through her archives and look forward to seeing more recipes.

Chocolate Mint Grasshopper Cupcakes

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