Vegetarian Taco Cups

by Brittney on May 24, 2013 · 2 comments

in Featured, Food

Vegetarian Taco Cups

I am officially obsessed!

Who knew that wonton wrappers would be my third love? After Ryan and Murphy, of course.

Seriously, like I cannot get enough. While Ryan and I were taking our daily walk with Murphy a few days ago (when the sun was actually shining…) we kept listing everything we could make with wonton wrappers.

“Buffalo chicken cups!”

“Homemade crab rangoon!”

“What about BBQ chicken?”

“Ooooh, I know, spinach and artichoke!!!”

“Do you think we could make breakfast ones?”

“PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!”

…and so on. We seriously spent our 45 minute walk shouting off random recipes.

These are so easy to make and (obviously) customizeable. I’m not going to lie, you will probably see a lot of the ideas listed above later on the blog because I can’t get these off of my mind!

These are also great to bring/make for your next party.Just in time for Memorial Day!

Vegetarian Taco Cups

Vegetarian Taco Cups

recipe inspired by Plain Chicken

Ingredients:

  • 1 can kidney beans, drained
  • 1 can black beans, drained
  • 1 cup corn
  • 1 packet taco seasoning (I used my own homemade mixture)
  • 1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
  • Chopped green onions
  • 1/2 cup chopped onion, sauteed
  • 36 wonton wrappers
  • Your favorite taco toppings – salsa, plain greek yogurt, avocado, etc

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375.

2. Heat a large skillet with olive oil and saute the onions. Add the drained kidney beans and black beans, corn and taco seasoning to the skillet and stir until combined.

3. In a large mixing bowl, add the bean mixture along with the green onions and cheddar cheese.

4. Spray 18 regular muffin pan cups with cooking spray.  Place one wonton wrapper in each muffin cup.  Divide half of the bean mixture between muffin cups.   Repeat layers – wonton, bean mixture.  Bake at 375 for 20 -25 minutes.  Top with your favorite taco toppings.

Question: Have you ever used wonton wrappers before? What did you make?

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List Lovin’ Thursday

by Brittney on May 23, 2013 · 4 comments

in Featured, List Lovin' Thursday

1. Since having my iPod stolen out of my car, I’ve been relying heavily on Pandora and Spotify to get my daily tunes. I randomly thought of an old band I used to love during college, Mae, and I fell back in love. Love when I find old bands again!

weather pup app

2. If you aren’t using the Weather Pup app yet on your smart phone you are missing out. A picture of a pup…to show you the weather?! A friend of mine asked me if this was Murphy and I had to laugh. It isn’t but doesn’t it look eerily similar to him?

murphy

3. Speaking of Murphy…look at this fool. Sometimes he’ll just lay like this. For long periods of time. And licks Ryan. The cutest.

4. I’m considering doing the New Rules of Lifting for Women program. Has anyone else done this and if so, did you like it? I’m needing to amp up my workouts (I’m getting bored) and thought this might be a good way to change it up and get some muscle.

5. We are going out to dinner tomorrow night. Like, we don’t go out during the week. Ever. Things are getting wild in Wisconsin!

6. Our first wedding of the year is this weekend and is here locally (yay no travel). A couple of friends from college are coming and staying at our place and I’m so pumped to see them. Should be a fantastic weekend, especially since we have Monday off!

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7. Still lovin’ obsessed with yogurt bowls for breakfast.

Have a happy Thursday, friends!

Question: What are you doing for Memorial Day weekend?

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I had totally planned on posting yesterday and then…we took a long walk with Murph and I melted into the couch and declared I wasn’t blogging last night. Hey, it happens.

But I’m back today with my Tuesday eats. Let’s get to it!

Breakfast 8am

breakfast

I decided to change things up this morning. I hardly ever have hard boiled eggs for breakfast, it’s just not something I usually think to have, but I’ve been trying to amp up my protein intake because I feel my best when I’m eating protein rich meals.

This meal kept me full until 12:30 with no snack! Holy protein.

Lunch 12:30pm

lunch

Lots going on here. From left to right: vegetarian taco cups (new recipes and omg I’m obsessed) salad, cottage cheese (yes, with pepper).

grapes

I tried to save the grapes for later but I had to have something sweet to end the meal.

Snack 3:00pm

larabar

I was so happy to find this little guy in one of my many bags I bring to work every day. Love this flavor!

I also had a handful of pretzels once I got home before our Murphy walk. Sorry, no picture!

Dinner 7:00pm

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We had salads on the menu for tonight but I wanted a little more than salad. Since we’ve mastered baking bacon, we decided on BLTs. Hit. The. Spot.

dark chocolate

And then a bit of dark chocolate with sunflower seed butter. If you haven’t tried sunflower seed butter before, you totally should! I love the Trader Joe’s brand, but you can also get it at some regular grocery stores.

Question: What is the best thing you have eaten lately? I would have to say the vegetarian taco cups!

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