Mango Burritos!

Don't be deceived by the title of this recipe. This is a delicious blend of sweet & spicy and is also surprisingly pretty healthy! I made up this Recipe and I hope you all enjoy it as much as me & my family did!

Ingredients

• 1 lb Ground Turkey
• 2 cups White Rice
• 1 1/2 - 2 cups Santa Barbara Mango, Peach Salsa
• 1 can Re-fried Beans
• 1 cup Frozen Corn (Frozen corn tastes the best but if you do not have it then add 1 can Corn)
• 1/4 cup Sour Cream
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1/2 teaspoon seasoning salt
• dash of pepper
• 6 Large Whole Wheat Tortillas
• 1 cup Mexican blend cheese
• 1/2 cup crushed tortilla chips (optional)

Directions

Preheat Oven to 350. Place rice in rice cooker. Cook. While rice is cooking place ground turkey in frying pan. While cooking add ground cumin, chili powder, seasoning salt & pepper. Brown turkey. Drain. Add Mango Salsa, re-fried beans, corn & sour cream to cooked turkey. Cook on med-low heat until rice is done. When rice & turkey/mango mixture is done place even amount of rice and turkey mix on whole wheat tortilla. Repeat until baking dish is full (about 6 tortillas fit in a 9 by 13 baking dish) when baking dish is full with burritos there will be extra turkey mixture and a little rice. add remaining rice to turkey mixture. spread over the top of the burritos. Add cheese on top and then top with tortilla chips. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. Enjoy!

Footnotes

I used holiday tortilla chips that were green & red!! It makes it look more festive! :)

Merry Christmas!

This year for Christmas Eve we went to Danes parents house and had the traditional Christmas Eve Clam Chowder and Shrimp Cocktail!! It was absolutely delicious! After dinner we got our presents & pajamas and watched all the little nieces and nephews act out the Christmas story while Grandpa Weibell read it! It was so much fun and we love seeing the little kids act out the story! That night when Dane, Adilyn and I got home we opened our Christmas Eve pajamas and then we went to bed. Christmas morning/afternoon we spent together as a family and opened all of our wonderful presents/stockings. We got so many wonderful gifts from each other and our families!! Thank you everyone for all the gifts! For Christmas dinner/evening we went over to my Dads house and ate a delicious Turkey, a family recipe potato dish and green beans. Then we opened our presents from each other and once again we got so awesome gifts!! Thank you to both Weibell family and Bennett Family for all the amazing gifts. We love all of them!! We love you all so much. I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and soon to be a Happy New Year! Here are some pictures we took!

 

When we were done opening presents and cleaning up we noticed our house was more quiet than normal so we went back to Adilyn's bedroom and she wasn't in there and then we walked into our room and she crawled up onto our bed under our covers and passed out! lol It was so adorable. She was exhausted from all the present opening! :)

Adilyn is TWO!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Adilyn!!! You have grown into such a big and beautiful little girl! You are so stubborn and independent! You are just like mommy in that department! You still look a lot like daddy but are looking more and more like mommy! You LOVE Dora the explorer and hair! Your favorite things to eat are cheese and pb & j sandwiches! You love your grandparents more than anything!! You love to draw on everything, Literally!! You still have very little hair and are still a little skinny girl! She weighs a little over 24 pounds and is 33 inches tall! We love you so much baby girl! Happy Birthday Sweetie!!!

Family Pictures December 2011

Baking!

I have been loving all the cooking i have been doing lately! I love cooking and especially love baking! I love making treats for people and for my hubby Dane. Yesterday for fun I made some Chocolate Chip Cookies but made them more Christmasy :) What i did was make regular chocolate chip cookies and then once they were cooled Adilyn and I put some frosting on one cookie and then put another cookie on top to make a sandwich. Then we put let drops of frosting on top to :) it was so much fun and Dane LOVED them! He thought they were Delish! :) Once he had dinner, Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup with Dumplings and then the cookies for dessert he laughed and said "Your family cracks jokes about how you use to not be able to cook but that is definitely not the case now!!"  lol I took a picture of them and wanted to share them with you! :)