Smothered Baked Chicken Burritos

Burritos got that much better smothered in a cheesy green chile sauce and loaded with toppings.

Occasionally, I like to make something that is maybe a little more involved and this recipe is that. The shredded chicken for the burritos, I'm sure, could be made ahead before the day you make the actual burritos. But they are also fine for the day of. The chicken is in the crockpot - so set it and forget it. Then you assemble the burritos for baking and prepare the cheese sauce while they bake. It's a lot of ingredients, but not as much work as much as prep.

Easy Taco Salad with Homemade Cilantro Lime Dressing

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Beef, Bean, & Cheese Burritos

Classic beef and bean burritos with all the fixings - perfect quick weeknight meal!

I love a good easy recipe like this one! I also have to mention that the blog I got it from is one of my favorites. I went to plan the recipes I was sharing this week and realized all three came from the same blog - so this must have been when I had first found it and saved a ton of their recipes. So if you want to find a ton of great recipes, check out Carlsbad Cravings!

Hot Bean & Cheese Dip

Reminiscent of 7-Layer Dip, this dip is so quick to throw together and is perfect for a get-together!

This is a recipe I made for New Year's Eve 2019. I typically try to make at least one dip of some sort. This recipe immediately reminded me of 7 Layer Dip and I really wanted it for NYE. The thing that sets this apart a little bit is that there is no sour cream which is something my husband would not eat if he could see. It's really quick to put together and doesn't bake for too long. It's like eating a taco but in dip form and it's so fantastic!

Grilled Salsa Verde Chicken

A simple dinner that is perfect for a Taco Tuesday with fresh avocado and tomato, plus corn and rice with a tortilla for serving.

Nick became obsessed with salsa verde when he started traveling to San Diego for work in 2019. He wants salsa verde alllll the time. He also is kind of obsessed with this style of serving up food where the fixings are all on the side and you build your own dinner on a tortilla. I personally love taking a bite of each topping and a bite of tortilla. This is a really simple recipe but is really fantastic despite being so simple. You can definitely switch it up a little - like add different seasonings to the chicken or roasting the corn or tomatoes. Even charring the tortilla on the grill!

Cranberry Jalapeno Dip

Sweet, spicy, and tart - this dip has it all and it's the absolute best!

You'll have to excuse these pictures, but they were taken in Christmas 2019 when my family was in Florida in a small airbnb (which we thought was supposed to sleep 11 - which was a stretch - it was so small. We thought the kitchen would have all the tools we would need, but it was really sparse (also a stretch in the description). I wanted to use a food processor and have a chunky salsa, but ended up having to puree it in a blender. Regardless of the method and how I had to adapt, this salsa was absolutely the best. I loved it so much. The family did too. You get sweet and tart from the cranberries, heat from the jalapenos, and cream cheese to offset the heat just a little and add a bit of savory to the whole thing. We used pretzel crisps because they are our favorite dippers!

Sheet Pan Salsa Verde Chicken Fajitas

Slice, toss, and bake - these chicken fajitas are so easy to make!

I have made quite a few sheet pan recipes lately and I really enjoy the simpleness of them. I know doing fajitas in a skillet isn't that hard or take too long, but sometimes I don't want to stand in front of the stove and babysit a meal. I like having the option of throwing everything onto a baking sheet and putting it into the oven and having 20 to 30 minutes at least to do something else I need to do around the house. I also really love that this fajita recipe has poblanos in it. I feel like poblanos aren't used enough and they are so tasty!

Breakfast Burritos

Homemade hashbrowns, sausage, and egg burritos with loads of toppings are a great way to start the day!

I'm unsure how Nick stumbled upon it, but he got us all hooked on Parry Gripp songs. One of our favorites is Breakfast Burrito. It's absolutely ridiculous but it's the anthem when we make our breakfast burritos. I'm not reinventing the wheel here by posting this recipe, but I do really enjoy it. It has homemade hashbrowns and not pictured is the avocado I put on my burrito. I love that these breakfast burritos have a more Mexican feel to it with salsa, cilantro, and avocado in it.

Fresh Homemade Salsa

It's so easy to make salsa at home and you have the freedom of changing up the ingredients to fit your personal tastes!

I don't make homemade salsa very often and every time I do, I wonder why I'm not making it all the time. We love salsa and it definitely does not go to waste. The recipe itself takes very little prep or effort and wah-la! Fresh, homemade salsa. What I think is fantastic with homemade salsa is that you can control the heat and the other flavors you like and don't like. We love lots of garlic and cilantro, but I could totally see someone omitting them if that's not their thing. We usually do a full 3 jalapenos because more spice, please! If you don't like spice, do 1 jalapeno - or even no jalapeno. It's up to you!

Taco Burgers

Burgers with green chillies cooked into the beef patties and topped with a creamy taco sauce and avocado!

We've had a lot of burgers with taco toppings lately and have been eating a lot of queso burgers when we go out to eat too. Chili's and Applebee's have good queso burgers. This Taco Burger is fairly simple but has a lot of wonderful flavors that work together so well. The ground beef is mixed with green chillies, taco seasoning, and onions.  There is taco sauce that goes on top and don't forget the avocado!!

Mexi Ranch Chicken Salad

I love this salad with chicken, corn, beans, tomatoes, tortilla chips, and an awesome salsa ranch dressing on top!

I have been all about fitting salads into my meal plan lately. Maybe it's because of the warm weather or maybe it's because I just love love love salads! This one is slightly different than most of the recipes I've been serving up on Taco Tuesdays. It has red beans instead of black beans and there are tortillas chips for some added crunch. I also loved the mix of salsa and ranch dressing too. I'm not sure if that is how Southwest Ranch is made, but it definitely tastes a lot like it.

30-Minute Cheesy Taco Soup

When you want soup but you're also craving tacos, make this one pot cheesy taco soup!

Looking at the ingredients list can be overwhelming, but with a little prep work, this soup is very easy to throw together and have on the dinner table in 30 minutes. I like to print recipes out and take it with me to my spices and take them all out at once and line the up in order. This recipe is also made in one pot, which is my favorite. Less dirty dishes is always a good thing. There's an array of garnishes to pick from too. You can top it with a few or all of them. You can top it with those listed or any you would like. We did Fritos, sour cream, dried cilantro, diced tomatoes, and hot sauce on ours. It's one of my favorite soups because it's just a taco in soup form...and there is NOTHING wrong with that :)

Creamy Salsa Verde Enchiladas

These unauthentic enchiladas are amazing with cream cheese, salsa verde, and a little kick of Rotel!

What is it about enchiladas that make them oh so delicious but also really ugly to photograph? Probably the cheese. I really enjoy enchiladas that feature a green sauce and chicken. I honestly don't know why I don't care for beef or red sauce enchiladas, but that's life *shrugs*. I appreciated this recipe so much because it had elements from my go-to enchilada recipe but new elements as well. I loved having cream cheese because it's much more substantial than doing sour cream. The cilantro (not pictured) was also a must for this recipe. It was icing on the cake...but in real life, cilantro on the enchiladas. I think that saying has the potential to take off, right? Anyways, this recipe is great and relatively simple to throw together. You could easily use rotisserie seasoning, if desired, to cut down on prep time.

Tex Mex Chicken Skillet #SundaySupper

This rice dish can be ready in under 30 minutes for your Taco Tuesday dinner!

Today's Sunday Supper event is SIMPLE RICE RECIPES FOR DINNER and I'm ready to find some new dinner recipes containing rice. I knew immediately that I wanted to share this Tex Mex Chicken Skillet. The ingredients list isn't too long. Honestly if you wanted to cut it down a bit, you could sub in taco seasoning mix for the spices. But all-in-all, it brings together some pretty simple ingredients to make a fantastic dinner.

I struggle with finding good chicken recipes for Taco Tuesday nights. A couple of Sunday Supper chats ago, we discussed meal planning a little and I shared how I do themed nights in order to meal plan my weeks. I meal plan a month in advance and I stick to this format for the most part: Pasta Mondays, Taco Tuesdays, Soup Night Wednesdays, Throwback Thursdays (make an old favorite), All-American Fridays (either pizza or burgers, I alternate Fridays), and then I make a more time-consuming dinner on either Saturday or Sunday. I alternate meats each day, so it's beef/sausage one day, and chicken, pork, or turkey the next. Sometimes, we'll eat tuna or have a meatless night, but it's more rare. A lot of people ask about if there is a dish that pops up that I'm not feeling like eating and I can say that I haven't run into that problem yet. I plan a lot of new-to-us recipes and there is always a variety, so it's rare that I don't want to eat a food that I'm making for dinner. I don't always stick strictly to my meal plan. Sometimes I fail to thaw meat out or something happens and I have to do a quick meal rather than a longer, more time-consuming meal and that is where I might switch up my recipes during the week. I utilize my blog archive, my Pinterest boards, and my recipe binder with magazine snipped recipes to pick recipes. I have used this method for quite a few years and it is what works best for me! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them!

Anyways, back on topic here, I struggle to find chicken recipes for Taco Tuesday because beef recipes are my favorite. I really enjoyed this chicken recipe and can see it being a regular on the meal plan.

Beef Burrito Skillet

One skillet, under 30 minutes meal to the rescue when you want tacos, but not tacos!

Dear Americanized Mexican food,
Stop being so hard to photograph.
Sincerely,
Sarah

But in all seriousness despite this style of food being uncooperative for photographing, it's a great way to mix up Taco Tuesday and make something other than tacos. It has most of the elements of a regular taco, but it's made in one skillet. I have made a few recipes here and there that include some type of beans in the taco meat, but never kidney beans. I was pretty stoked and very excited to see how it would turn out. I thought the kidney beans worked perfectly well in this dish and loved how quick and easy it was to throw it all together.

Breakfast Quesadillas

These quesadillas are packed with all the best breakfast foods and a bit of a kick with some jalapeno -- the perfect way to start the day!

When I was little, egg burritos were one of my favorite things my mom would make for brinner. I knew I would love these breakfast quesadillas the second I looked at the recipe. Inside the quesadillas, you will find bacon, scrambled eggs, bell pepper, jalapeno, and cheese. But I find that paired with salsa and sour cream really made the whole recipe complete. I don't make quesadillas using 2 tortillas anymore because I have never been able to flip a full quesadilla ever. So this recipe makes 6 quesadillas and can feed 6 people.

5-Ingredient Mexi Quinoa Stuffed Peppers

You only need five ingredients for this delicious stuffed pepper recipe!

I had every intention of making these quinoa stuffed peppers exactly how the original recipe stated, however, I had the worst time trying to find black bean crumbles, so I subbed in some chorizo. It still turned out fabulously and I love the easy of just having to use five ingredients to make dinner. It's just fantastic. Seriously.

Grands! Taco Melts

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Tex Mex Pork Chops

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Chicken Fiesta Salad

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