I try to keep certain ingredients in my house for those times when i need to come up with a meal quickly. One of my easy go-to meals is this Easy Taco Ring. My family requests this often, and it is easily a household favorite I used to make it on a round cooking stone, but it has been misplaced. This works just fine on a cookie sheet.
What you'll need:
2 packages crescent rolls
1 lb. hamburger meat
Taco Seasoning
Grated cheddar cheese
Optional: Sour cream, red onions, lettuce, etc.
DIRECTIONS:
1. Cook hamburger meat with your favorite taco seasoning. Drain.
2. Open packages of crescent rolls and arrange on cookie sheet like this:
3. Press edges together to make a flat surface {this is where you will put your filling}
4. Scoop seasoned hamburger meat onto dough, evenly. Top with cheese:
5. Bring the corners of each piece of dough over the top of the filling and press into dough on the inside. Make sure it is taut.
This is what it should look like when you are finished:
6. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30-40 minutes, or until cheese is melted and dough is lightly browned.
You can be creative of course and add other ingredients inside!
Slice into pieces and add a dollop of sour cream on each piece, and add any other goodies you want.
Domino's Pizza just came out with a fun new promotion. It's called Domino's Taste Bud Bounty Hunters. You've always wanted to be a bounty hunter right? Well, even if you haven't ever had the desire, I believe you will want to participate in this. It sounds like a blast, and there is an amazing grand prize!
The Taste Bud Bounty Hunter who successfully convinces the most pizza holdouts to try out the new recipe will win FREE pizza for a year in the form of $20 gift cards (that is 52 gift cards!). Just think - one night a week you wouldn't have to cook - one night each week for a whole year. Come to mama!
Here is how it works:
Hunters and the hunted will receive incentives via e-mail for participating in the Taste Bud Bounty. You upload your profile photo from Facebook onto the Domino’s Most Wanted Taste Bud Wall or the Top Bounty Hunter Wall. You can then have your progress updated, and be followed by friends.
Start searching by going to Pizza Holdouts. Domino’s will reward each Bounty Hunter’s first submission with a coupon for a FREE order of Chocolate Lava Crunch Cakes with an online delivery order of $10 or more. Each submitted pizza holdout will receive a coupon to buy one pizza and get a second pizza of equal or lesser value FREE {minimum delivery amount applies, only valid online}.
If you successfully “capture” 10 friends by getting them to order Domino’s new pizza, you will receive a coupon for one FREE large 1-topping pizza {with online order only, tax and delivery charge may apply}. Try to capture as many pizza holdouts as you can before June 27.
This sounds fun! I love interactive things like this, and I especially love to be rewarded!
Head on over to the Pizza Holdouts website and get to work (actually it isn't much work, but it's a whole lot of fun).
You also have a chance to win a Domino's gift card here (and another chance at Eighty MPH Mom!)!
THE GIVEAWAY:
One winner will receive a $20 Domino's gift card!
For first (and required entry), tell me what are your favorite pizza toppings!
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My son loves to make stir-fry. He loves to mix it up a bit and try new things. I encourage that, I do. Lately, however, he has been making some really strange stir-fry meals {usually for lunch} that leave me a little queasy.
Some of his recent recipes have been less than desirable {to me, at least}. He made a sardine stir-fry, a "some other fish in a can" stir-fry and most recently, this:
Octopi stir-fry
In case that view isn't close enough {to make you lose your lunch}, I offer you this:
Yeah - that's what I said. He enjoyed it thoroughly! I am not a big fan of calamari at all in general. There is something about the little legs in my mouth that is just plain unappetizing to me.
I just wanted to give you a heads up on a fantastic giveaway going on at Snafood! She is giving away a Starfrit Ceramic Blade Knife! These are really wonderful - I reviewed one on Eighty MPH Mom (which also has a giveaway - only a couple of days left!)
You have two chances to win one of these wonderful knives:
I recently stayed at Shade Hotel in Manhattan Beach for a Bloggers Brunch and it was fabulous! My last night there, I was pretty tired and didn't feel like going out to eat, so I ordered room service. I ordered their Proscuitto Pizza which also had caramelized onions, pine nuts, parmesan cheese and feta cheese. It was absolutely heavenly, and I think I am going to have to try to make this at home.
If you are ever in the Manhattan Beach/L.A. area, I highly recommend the Shade Boutique Hotel. No compensation of any kind was received for this post. I just really loved it!
I have to admit, I have never entered a recipe contest though I have been tempted many times. I have compiled a list of contests for those of you who might wish to try your luck with one or more of your yummy dishes.
Take a look over the right hand side for a list of current recipe contests - let me know if you plan to enter any!
