Tasty Recipes for the Home Cook

Fried Ice Cream Sundae
Dessert

Fried Ice Cream Sundae

For an unforgettable treat, make Fried Ice Cream Sundae!! It’s ice cream in a crunchy coating and flash-fried. Serve with your choice of toppings for a decadent treat! Ice cream is not something I crave during the cold winter of Massachusetts. But when it’s in the form of a fried ice cream sundae, I make exceptions. Yes, it’s that good!! Fried ice cream allows you …

Easy Skillet Chicken Fajitas
Chicken / Poultry Light and Healthy Main Dish

Easy Skillet Chicken Fajitas

Serve these Easy Skillet Chicken Fajitas on warm tortillas and copious amounts of toppings for an easy weeknight meal. If you don’t make fajitas regularly, this one might change things! This chicken fajita is one of my son’s favorite meals. My picky eater husband enjoys it too…even with the cooked onion and peppers!!! I love it because it’s delicious and easy to prep. While this …

Soft Homemade Flour Tortillas
Bread / Pizza

Soft Homemade Flour Tortillas

Anyone can make chewy and soft homemade flour tortillas. They require only a few inexpensive ingredients. Once you’ve got the hang of making tortillas, you will never go back to store-bought! I’m not an expert on Mexican food, but if I can make delicious homemade tortillas, so can you! There’s nothing like eating freshly made bread. When done right, tortillas are soft and supple. They …

Mexican Horchata
Drinks

Mexican Horchata

Mexican Horchata is a refreshing and slightly sweetened rice milk drink. This version is delicately flavored with almond coconut milk, vanilla, and cinnamon. It is also dairy and gluten free! If bad things happen in sets of three, then I am due to fall into a drainage hole, get pushed into a swimming pool, or something to that effect any day now.  The saga began over a week ago. It was …

Fruit Filled Taquitos
Dessert

Fruit Filled Taquitos

Red, white, and blue themed fruited taquitos using canned blueberry and cherry pie fillings, rolled up in flour tortillas, and baked until golden brown. Served with a dusting of powdered sugar and drizzled with syrup. Great for July 4th celebration! If you are on Pinterest looking at food with any regularity, you must have come across a recipe by Jo from Jo Cooks for Apple Pie Taquitos. …

Monterey Chicken Nachos
Appetizer Chicken / Poultry Snacks

Monterey Chicken Nachos

Shredded chicken tenders, Monterey Jack cheese, avocado, tomato, scallion, and a hint of lime make these nachos hard to resist. Perfect for an appetizer, as game day food, or for movie night. Nachos is a popular snack in my household as it is in many. My husband is the biggest fan of all and often snacks on this salty, cheesy guilty pleasure. However, he prefers it very …