0 Roasted Chicken and Goat Cheese Roll Ups

This is such an easy and wonderful weekday dinner! :-) 

Nate loved these roll ups with Monterrey Jack and I loved the goat cheese! :-) 

Hope you are having a lovely Tuesday! :-)

Enjoy!

Roasted Chicken and Goat Cheese Roll Ups
Serves: 6 
1 1/2 tsp olive oil
1 1/2 c vertically sliced red onion
2 c shredded roasted skinless boneless chicken breasts
3/4 c (3 oz) crumbled goat cheese (you can also use queso fresco or Monterrey Jack)
1/2 c canned salsa verde
6 (8 inch) fat-free flour tortillas
Cooking spray
Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion; saute 3 min or until tender. Add chicken; saute 30 sec or until thoroughly heated. Remove from heat; stir in cheese and salsa. Warm tortillas according to package direction. Spoon about 1/2 c chicken mixture down center of each tortilla; roll up.
Wipe pan clean with a paper towel. Heat pan over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Place filled tortillas in pan, seam sides down; cook 4 minutes, turning to brown on all sides.
The Houstonian

1 Old Fashioned Buttermilk Pound Cake

Pound cake is one of those recipes that everyone should know how to make. 

The perfect dessert, breakfast or snack, this versatile and easy "cake" can make an appearance at so many times of the day! 

One thing is for sure. . . you probably won't have leftovers! :-)

Old Fashioned Buttermilk Pound Cake
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
3 cups all purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons lemon extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
Cream butter and shortening; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Dissolve soda in buttermilk. Combine flour and salt; add to creamed mixtrue alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix until well blended after each addition. Stir in flavorings. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 5-10 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10-15 minutes, remove from pan and cool.
King Ranch Cookbook

0 He is Risen

Every Easter, this song is sung at our church. . . 

it truly describes Easter to me and the wonder and awe of seeing the empty tomb.

He is RISEN! :-)

2 Bunny Rabbit Cupcakes

More Easter Bunny Cupcakes! :-)

Stay tuned tomorrow for all of my Easter ideas in one place! :-)

Bunny Rabbit Cupcakes
White Cupcake Box mix and the ingredients on the box.
White icing 
Pink and White Candy Corn 

Brown Mini M&Ms

Pink Regular Sized M&Ms.

 Make the cupcakes according to the box. Ice cupcakes. Put two candy corn where the ears would go and place two M&Ms where the eyes would go. Then put the nose on!!! :-) (Note: Don't ice or put M&M on cupcakes until the day you are serving them. . . and refrigerate them ! :-)

Squidoo

3 Spring Chick Cupcakes

Good morning! :-)

Don't you just love coconut?? 

I know I do! :-) 

Add some food coloring and coconut revolutionizes a cupcake! :-) 

Simply amazing! :-) 

I love coconut so much so that my favorite donuts are iced with coconut on them. . . 

Nate on the other hand thinks that coconut is awful unless COMPLETELY concealed in a cookie! :-) 

Now that you know the history of our love/hate relationship with coconut. . . :-)

I hope you have a lovely day!! :-) 

Spring Chick Cupcakes

White Cupcake Box mix and the ingredients on the box.
White icing  

Shredded Coconut

Yellow Food Coloring

Brown Mini M&Ms 

Orange Starburst

 Make the cupcakes according to the box. Ice cupcakes. Put coconut in a bowl and mix yellow food coloring in with a spoon. Put coconut on top of cupcakes and place two M&Ms where the eyes would go. Cut an edge off of the starburst and place it where the nose would go!! :-) (Note: Don't ice or put M&M on cupcakes until the day you are serving them. . . and refrigerate them to keep the Orange Starburst  from bleeding onto the yellow coconut! :-)

Idea via Our Best Bites
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1 Easter Basket Cupcakes

God is so good! :-) 

He amazes me daily with his faithfulness and his perfect plan for our lives. 

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.”Psalm 32:8

I am so encouraged by God's hand over me, the way things have happened in my life that have no other explanation than HIM, and the constant validation that HIS way is perfect! :-) 

I want nothing more than to walk in HIS will! :-)  

This Easter week, I am reflecting over the many blessings God has bestowed on me! :-)

He is good. . . all the time! :-)

Easter isn't just about bunnies, cupcakes, and brightly colored eggs. . .but it is still sweet to celebrate our risen Savior . . . and make cute desserts! :-)

Easter Basket Cupcakes 

White Cupcake Box mix and the ingredients on the box.
White icing  

Shredded Coconut

Green Food Coloring

"Easter Egg" M&Ms

 Make the cupcakes according to the box. Ice cupcakes. Put coconut in a bowl and mix green food coloring in with a spoon. Put coconut on top of cupcakes and place three M&Ms on top!! :-) 

2 "Carrot" Cupcakes

I hope you have a meaningful and special Palm Sunday! 

"So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”John 12:13

It brings tears to my eyes to imagine if our world rejoiced in Jesus this way every day. . . Thanking HIM for the ultimate sacrifice today. . .

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These "Carrot cupcakes" are so cute and work well as regular sized cupcakes or as mini cupcakes! :-) Quick, easy, and so adorable. . .my kind of cupcake! :-)

"Carrot" Cupcakes

White Cupcake Box mix and the ingredients on the box.
White icing 
Green and Orange Mini M&Ms or Regular M&Ms (depending if you are making mini cupcakes or regular ones)
Make the cupcakes according to the box. Ice cupcakes. Place orange M&Ms in the shape of a carrot with two green M&Ms on top! :-) Enjoy! (Note: Don't ice or put M&M on cupcakes until the day you are serving them. . . and refrigerate them to keep the Orange M&M's from bleeding onto the white icing! :-)
Squidoo