Valentine's Day Feast Recipe
We are not huge Valentine’s Day fan here in our house. I
think that was one of the things that attracted me to my husband we both had
the same indifferent feelings about the day. After several years together we
had a good laugh when we realized every Valentine’s Day we were having Chinese
food. It wasn’t even consciously done it was just what we did.
Finally instead of Valentine’s Day we started referring to
the day as Chinese food day. This year we gave up meat for Lent so we couldn’t
go to our traditional Chinese food restaurant because everything we like there
has meat in it including the egg rolls.
We decided we would switch our day up completely and instead
of having Chinese food on Chinese Food day we would instead invite our
neighbors over, who also gave up meat for Lent, and have chulupas, Spanish
rice, and pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, and strawberry smoothies for dessert. I know it's a weird combo but it's all the things our families love. Yes we eat together a lot!
Thursday afternoon my husband and I headed to HEB to get
everything we were going to need for our “Mexican Food Day” on Valentine’s Day.
We love HEB because we can get everything we need in their store brand without
breaking the bank feeding our family and our neighbor’s family too.
We
purchased:
- Hill Country Fat Free Refried Beans
- HEB Corn and Whole Heat Tortillas
- HEB boil in a bag brown rice
- HEB cheddar Cheese
- HEB sour cream
- Hill country chili powder
- Lettuce
- Tomato
- Onion
- Bell pepper
- 1 box of Hill Country Yellow Cake
- 1 can of pumpkin
- Hill Country Paper Plates, Napkins and Plastic cups (easy
- clean up)
- Within an hour dinner was done and our neighbors were over
- enjoying our amazingly wonderful meat free dinner. Everyone raved about how
- delicious everything was!
- It was a complete and delicious success. Who knew we could
- enjoy our Chinese food day even without Chinese food?
- Sauté ½ onion (we didn’t use
- any oil) then add the beans and ½ of a cup of water to the pot and mix
- together, then allow the beans to cook on low. While the beans are cooking place
- corn tortillas on a tin foil lined pan in the oven on 350 degrees and cook for
- about 15 minutes or until the tortillas are golden brown and firm.
- Once the tortillas are ready
- spread a tablespoon or two of beans on each tortilla and then top the tortilla
- with cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes, and course sour cream if you like.
- Recipe! *Leave the bacon out to make it Vegetarian
- For the delicious muffin’s it’s
- simple
- 1 box yellow cake
- 1 cup water
- 1 can pumpkin
½ cup chocolate chips.
Mix all the incredible and
divide between 24 lined cupcake tins, bake in the oven on 350 degrees for 15
minutes or until cooked through.
Our dinner ended up being very
special and something we will treasure for a long time. Good friends, good
affordable food, and great memories, on Chinese Food Day, Mexican Food Day, Valentine’s
Day. Happy ______ Day to you and your family!
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