Casseroles like this Beef Enchilada Casserole make dinner easy! This recipe combines all of your favorite taco and enchilada flavors in a single baked dish that everyone will definitely love. Enchilada casserole with ground beef is cheesy, meaty, savory, and delicious! It only takes about 20 minutes to throw together, and while your casserole is baking in the oven, you can focus on more important things, like spending quality time with your family or whipping up a sweet treat like my Carmelitas Bars....

Want another great stuffed pepper recipe? Make my Taco Stuffed Peppers. One of my very small points of pride as a mom is the fact that for the most part my kids will eat their vegetables. I grew up in a veggie eating household, and now I actually love vegetables and integrating them into my diet. It feels great knowing that my kids are headed down the same road after making them vegetables over and over....

Growing up, my Mom always made ginger, lemon and honey tea for days when I had a cold or a sore throat, but a few years ago I started a new habit of brewing the same tea but with the addition of turmeric root in the mornings. I make this at least a couple of times a week to enjoy instead of my morning coffee, or whenever I need a little anti-inflammatory boost, or to settle an upset stomach, and it works wonders....

So here we are guys, halfway through December, how are we holding up?? Have you lost your ever loving mind yet? Has your to-do list grown actual arms, the better to strangle you with?? I was just telling my best friend Sarah the other day how ironic it is that everybody and their mom gets Christmas day off from work, but not actual Moms. Christmas is not even close to a day off for mom’s, are you kidding me?...

Seasoning Homemade Croutons Croutons are very easy to make and take just a few ingredients. Because they are so simple, they are very easy to customize and make any flavor you like! Here are a few great seasoning choices, though you could also just use my Italian Seasoning. I would consider starting with just 1 or 2 teaspoons and going from there. Since we are roasting croutons at a high temperature, I would stick with dried herbs over fresh herbs....

If you need a simple and delicious hot appetizer dip recipe, you’ve found it right here! Cream cheese bean dip is one of my favorite dips to make! Made with refried beans and cream cheese, it’s wonderfully creamy and perfectly seasoned with a bit of taco seasoning. Then this dip is topped with lots of melty Mexican cheese and baked to bubby hot perfection! If you’re looking for a few more easy hot dip recipes for your party, you will love my cheesy spinach artichoke dip and baked cheeseburger dip!...

The name literally translates to Hyderabadi Sour Dal.It’s one of those “learn it once and make it everyday kind of recipe”. Although the dal is simple to make, it has very BOLD flavours.It has heat from the various chillies, sweetness from the palm sugar or jaggery and sourness from the tamarind.The Curry leaves and coriander leaves lend a gorgeous freshness to the dish. How to make Hyderabadi Khatti Dal? Boil the Toor Dal along with Onions, Tomatoes, Chillies and Garlic....

This British retro cake from the 1950’s was made famous by a retailer that sold only frozen food. They have recently resurrected it, along with other ice cream treats, that are now popular once again. Popularly known in the U.S as an Ice Cream Cake Roll, you can see the ice cream is the main star of the show with the sponge cake providing a cozy, sponge blanket around the ice cream....

I feel like we cramped the whole of summer into the past weekend. We took advantage of the pleasantly warm weather and had a picnic at the park, walked by the lake, slept in and gorged on a lavish homemade brunch, read a book over endless cups of coffee in the backyard, and took pleasant afternoon naps. And as Monday sprung, bringing along with it a cold burst of strong winds, I got out my trusty Instant Pot and made my Achari Gosht for dinner....

Grab some of my homemade taco seasoning, (and while you are at it, one of my margaritas) and let’s do this! For the longest time, this Slow Cooker Taco Chicken has been a fan favorite on Simple Joy. And for good reason. It’s super easy to make and perfect for in tacos, on salads, or stuffed into a burrito with some cilantro lime rice. When friends ask me for easy dinner ideas, I always point them towards that post....

This recipe is one of the most popular recipes on the blog for a reason! The chicken turns out so tender and juicy that it literally melts in your mouth, and the parmesan cream sauce is so comforting and delicious! You will love the addition of sundried tomatoes and the spinach, along with the garlicky parmesan cream sauce, it’s a match made in heaven! If you’re a fan of creamy chicken dinners, then make sure to also check out my Instant Pot creamy chicken with mushrooms, and this Instant Pot creamy mustard chicken....

One of the things I miss most of all right now, is date nights. There is something about leaving the house with my great husband and forgetting about our responsibilities for a few hours that seems . . . necessary. When we go out on dates, one of my favorite places to go is this great taco place that makes a good margarita. But! When they put fresh jalapeños in it, it magically becomes a great margarita....

Our family just got home from vacation and we are immediately jumping back into life, kid activities, and getting everyone ready for back to school. But the thing at the forefront of my mind? Family dinners. When our family’s life gets crazy beyond belief, I feel like family dinners are the thing that bring us back to center and help us reconnect and check in with each other. To make family dinners happen, we need a thick binder full of easy dinner recipes that we can whip together in a snap and that everyone loves....

I have been putting off starting this for a long time now because it’s so much easier to DO the chores than to persuade a 5 year old to do it. (Can I get an amen.) Plus I keep thinking back to when I was a teenager and EVERY TIME it was my turn to clean the toilet I would convince my mom that I “didn’t know how to do it right,” and I needed her to show me....

Sometimes Eric and I like to pretend we don’t have kids, and lock ourselves in the bedroom for a moment of peace. Sometimes it’s to eat stolen cookie dough from the freezer without witnesses, sometimes it’s because we have actual work deadlines and need to get stuff done. We can always tell how much time we have left by the decibel level. It gets louder and louder until inevitably we hear some BOOM....

These are my final days of being 29 you guys! A few months ago I was telling my brother Nathan about my new exercise routine (that I’ve totally stuck with, thankyouverymuch. It’s shocking.) and he was like “Oh, you’re feeling that 30 coming along, aren’t ya?” And I was just like no, it’s because I’m feeling those post-3rd-kid love handles. No, really, they’re right here, I’m not talking abstract....

Don’t you just love those days when you have every intention of getting dressed and looking like an actual human being, but instead you go on a cleaning rampage and after hours of work, including scrubbing the baseboards behind the couch (why? why??), you catch sight of yourself in the mirror and pray to all that is holy that no one knocks on the door? Yeah. Sorry Jehovah’s Witnesses, I really would have loved to have heard your message about ending suffering, but I was afraid the grease in my hair would actually contaminate your pamphlets....

VEGETABLE MOLAGOOTAL One of the easiest VEGAN Meal to cook is Molagootal { still sumptuous }, and you will leave your family finger licking. Molagootal is often served with a lot of side dishes like Puli Inji , Thenga Podi { spiced coconut powder }, Lemon Pickle, Chips Vendakkai Thaiyr Pachadi ( Okra Pachadi ) Together they make lunch times really special and sumptuous. This mixed vegetable curry is authentic and really simple to make but you just need to be careful with the choice of vegetables that goes in it....

So Eric lost the remote. I’m pretty sure it was him who lost it because a few years ago the same thing happened, and after searching for hours do you know where he found it? On top of the bookshelf. (Not on the top shelf. On top of. Completely out of sight.) Eric does this thing where he picks things up and puts them in random places when he’s talking to someone, and has ZERO memory of it....

How was your 4th of July weekend guys?? Ours was super fun, full of sunshine and watermelon and slip and slides. Can’t beat that. I think my kids partied a little too hard though. Truman woke up sick in the middle of the night. No incidents since, but that hasn’t stopped me from lining every square inch of our house with towels and sheets. Needless to say, today has been kind of slow....