my favorite summer entree

Today I am joining Jenn for bon appetite!  We are featuring our favorite summer entrees.

My all time favorite summer entree won't come as a shock to most of you!

I ♥ TOSTADAS

I really like Mexican food.  I could eat it every single day of my life!

Tostadas are so versatile, light and somewhat healthy.  You can add any meat to them including shredded spicy chicken, ground taco beef or ground turkey.  I've even topped tostadas with roasted shrimp or grilled tilapia.  My favorite way to prepare a tostada is plain and simple with flavorful pinto beans and fresh guacamole.

I slather my flat tostada shells with creamy homemade refried beans.  Then I top them with shredded lettuce, diced home grown tomatoes, chopped red onions and shredded sharp cheddar cheese.  A tostada is just a boring ole tostada unless you top it with fresh homemade salsa.

What is your favorite summer entree?  

Be sure to head on over the Jenn's blog to find other great recipes and meal ideas for summer.

Banana (greek yogurt) muffins

A couple of months ago I made a yummy banana bread.  It was so good, it was like cake.  I gave the credit to an accidentally purchased pint of Greek vanilla yogurt.  I liked the bread/cake so much that I still use the recipe.  I made muffins.  Muffins are perfect for summertime, easy to pack in picnic lunches, and my kids love to snack. If they don't eat all the muffins for breakfast they can grab one for a late morning snack.  When I saw that Jenn's weekly Bon Appetite blog carnival was muffins I got so excited to post this!

What you will need:


1/4 cup butter
2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
3 very ripe bananas, mashed {mine were almost brown}
1 {16oz} container of Greek vanilla yogurt
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
2tsp baking soda
2 1/2 cups of flour

What to do:

Cream butter and sugar.
Mix in eggs and mashed bananas.
Add yogurt, vanilla and cinnamon.
Add baking soda and flour.
Stir like crazy.

Pour into muffin tins about 3/4 full with or without liners.
Sometimes I do paper muffin cups and sometimes I don't. 
When I am making muffins for my kids in the morning I skip the
cups, because they devour them so fast.  Hayden even ate the paper once.

Bake @ 300 for 1 hour and 5 minutes






Happy Monday everyone...I hope you all had a great Father's Day!!

bon appetite~yummy dips

Today I am linking up with Jenn again [sorry it is so late]

for the second addition of Bon Appetite!

This week is dips and spreads!!

I love this dip...it is so good, but not low calorie by any means!

That is why I like it so much :)

{insert really yummy picture of fabulous dip, but i don't have one}

Warm Mexican Dip

8oz cream cheese

8 oz sour cream

2 cans Frito's bean dip

4 oz chopped green chilies

10 dashes of Tabasco

1cup cheddar cheese

1cup Monterrey Jack cheese

pinch of salt

Mix all ingredients with half of the cheese in a 9x13 Pyrex.

Sprinkle rest of cheese on top.

Bake @ 350 for 20 minutes.

Serve with chips.

bon appetite~the recipe exchange

Do you remember me sharing my favorite pasta salad with you?

I posted about my super duper fantastic chicken pasta salad recipe about a month ago!

Today I am linking my blog with Jenn's blog~

I am very excited she is starting

The first week {today, right now} we are sharing favorite salads!

Chicken Pasta Salad

{click on link above to see recipe}

Go visit Jenn and post your favorite salad too!

I can't wait to get some fun salad ideas.

We all love & need recipes and new cooking ideas.

Especially since the kids are about to be out of school for the summer!


Happy Monday :)