What’s for Dinner?? - One Sweet Appetite

Sweet Pork Salads

April 10, 2013 by Jesseca · 6 Comments

One of my absolute favorite things about Utah is Café Rio.

For those of you that aren’t lucky enough to have one around… Let me just explain. Café Rio is the most amazing fast food restaurant that started in St. George Utah! No matter what time of the day you visit… they are going to be PACKED with people. You walk up to a bar style ordering station and tell the lovely people behind the counter if you want burritos, tacos, or in my case a salad.

They then continue down the line and add a number of delicious additional items like rice, beans, and meat. I’m a big fan of their sweet pork, so when I found the copycat recipe over at Real Mom Kitchen I had to test it out!

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Slow Cooker Steak Fajitas

March 2, 2013 by Jesseca · 3 Comments

Let’s just start this post with me telling you how much I LOVE my slow cooker. Seriously, that thing saves me on days when I just don’t have the time to get cooking. So when I saw the recipe for slow cooker steak fajitas in the new Six Sisters Stuff cookbook I knew that I would need to try them out! With a little Jesseca flair of course!

Slow Cooker Steak Fajitas

Ingredients

Slow Cooker Steak Fajitas
1-1/2 lbs sirloin steak
2T. oil
½ t. chili powder
2 T. lime juice
2 cloves minced garlic
1t. cumin
½ t. salt
¼t. black pepper
1 small can green chilies
½ C. water
1 green pepper, sliced
1 red pepper
1 onion, sliced
Salsa
Sour cream
Guacamole
Shredded cheese

Instructions

Start by heating up a pan with your oil. Brown the steak on both sides, then transfer to your slow cooker (this should take a minute or two per side).
Top it with the chili powder, lime juice, garlic, cumin, salt, pepper, green chilies, and water. Cook on low for 5 hours.
Add your sliced peppers and onion, and continue to cook 1 more hour until your steak is easy to cut.
Serve on warm tortillas with your favorite toppings.

Recipe adapted from the Six Sisters’ Stuff cookbook

This was so easy, and had our house smelling wonderful throughout the day! If you are looking for an easy toss-together-and-forget-about-it meal, then look no further!

You can also put all of the ingredients together, except the onion and peppers, in a Ziploc bag and freeze before cooking. When you are ready to go just put it in your slow cooker and cook as directed.

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Baked Chicken Nuggets

February 21, 2013 by Jesseca · 5 Comments

I have a four year old, so let’s face it. Over half of the things I make do NOT get the stamp of approval.

In fact, if I were to ever just ask the little guy what HE wanted to eat… The answer would ALWAYS be chicken nuggets. I’m sure he would eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if we let him. Luckily his second favorite food is carrots, so I feel like less of a failure as a mom.

But after reading the ingredients on a package of those frozen dino shaped creations, I decided that a homemade version would be a much wiser decision. Especially if he insists on eating them twice a week. (Sometimes more… shhhh… don’t tell!)

So here is what I came up with:

Tomato Stuffed Chicken

February 12, 2013 by Jesseca · 3 Comments

My in-law’s have the most amazing garden during the spring, summer, and fall. They grow a wide variety of vegetables. Everything from carrots and onions to corn and squash. The one thing that I am missing on these cold winter days are the tomatoes!

They have ruined store bought produce for me. If you’ve even been lucky enough to try a fresh from the garden tomato, you probably realized just how much you’ve been missing. It’s like an entirely different vegetable… er…. fruit? Same with peas, carrots, apples…

You better believe that the FIRST thing we will be putting into our house, when we buy one, is a garden and TOMATO plants!

Back to reality for a second. It’s too cold for fresh tomatoes, so I decided to use sun dried to satisfy my craving. This chicken is stuffed with a tomato cream cheese mixture, served on a bed of fresh greens, and topped with a fresh bruschetta. How could you NOT want to make this?