Are you looking for a new recipe to add to your menu plan?  Cheesy and flavorful, this spinach stuffed chicken breast recipe will soon be a new family favorite.  I like to serve it with another veggie and a rice pilaf.

There are a bunch of cheese options to personalize this dish.  Feta, asiago, white cheddar, and pepper jack are tasty options as is an Italian blend or mixture of mozzarella and parmesan.  The options are endless, so use your favorite cheese or whatever you have in the fridge!

You could also substitute frozen spinach, but I prefer the flavor of fresh.

Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe

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For years I’ve been experimenting to come up with the best gazpacho recipe.   Now, determining what is actually the best, is a matter of opinion.  However, after making countless different recipes and tweaking my favorites, I’ve finally come up with it!

A traditional Spanish soup, there are many variations of gazpacho. Chunky to smooth, spicy to mild, it’s the perfect warm weather soup that’s bursting with flavor.  Eat it in a bowl or drink it out of a mug, it will pair perfectly with your next summer meal.

The trick is to get red, ripe tomatoes.   My mom loves to make gazpacho in the summer when her garden is overflowing with tomatoes.  It’s an easy and refreshing soup that ensures she doesn’t waste a single garden fresh vegetable.

Note that I prefer to peel my tomatoes and remove the seeds.  This is not required and takes more work, but I think the change in flavor is worth the effort.  For our most recent batch, we followed the recipe with the exception of not peeling or seeding the tomatoes.  The kids tasted it (without knowing we changed anything) and wanted to know why it tasted different.   The skin and seeds really does change the flavor!

I also like to add a Jalapeño to my gazpacho for added flavor. Removing the seeds helps to ensure it’s not spicy. BUT if you want to add a little kick to your soup, leave in the seeds.  If you don’t like the flavor, you can omit the Jalapeño all together.

Best Gazpacho Recipe:

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Are you looking for Cinco de Mayo appetizers to serve at your fiesta next week?  We’ve rounded up 50 of the BEST Cinco de Mayo appetizers from around the web.  There are several tasty dips including various recipes for salsa, guac, bean dip and more.  Then you’ll find more filling appetizers such as taquitos, nachos, quesadillas, and poppers.  The recipes vary from mild to spicy, vegan to beef.  There should be something to satisfy even the biggest appetites at your get together.

Cinco de Mayo Appetizers:

1. Best Pico de Gallo Recipe by The Coupon Challenge

2. Restaurant-Style Blender Salsa by Cooking with Curls

3. Homemade Cilantro-Lime Salsa by Heidi’s Home Cooking

4. Easy-to-Make Salsa Recipe by Organized 31

5. Tex-Mex Guacamole by Year Round Recipes

6. Homemade Chips and Guacamole Dip by Midwestern Moms

7. World’s Best Guacamole by Family Food and Travel

8. Chunky Restaurant Style Guacamole by Heidi’s Home Cooking

9. Southwestern Black Bean and Corn Salad by Noshtastic

10. Super Easy Guacamole Dip Recipe by The Coupon Challenge

11. Best Ever Guacamole by Trial and Eater

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Looking for a treat to make on a rainy day or to take to your child’s classroom?  Create these kid friendly Unicorn Star Cookies – the meringue cookies recipe easy, delicious & fun will be the hit of the party.   Even better,  these are gluten free cookies, so you don’t have to worry about dietary restrictions.

Ingredients
4 egg whites
1/4 tsp cream of tarter
1/2 C sugar
2/3 C powder sugar
1 TBSP vanilla extract
purple, pink and blue gel coloring

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 225 degrees
2. In a standing mixer, add in the egg whites and cream of tarter.
3. Mix on medium speed until soft peaks form and then increase to the highest speed setting.
4. Add the sugar 1 tablespoon at a time first then add 1 table spoon of powder sugar coating until all is combined.
5. You will want to see stiff peaks form.
6. Add in the vanilla and mix until combined.
7. Split batter into 5 bowls
8. Add blue food coloring into one bowl
9. Add pink food coloring into the second one
10. Add purple food coloring into the third one
11. Using a pastry bag with a star tip, scope some blue meringue into 1/4 of the bag
12. Add the pink meringue to another 1/4 of the bag
13. Add the purple to the bag to the final 1/4 of the bag
14. Pipe on the meringues onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
15. Making them about the size of a silver dollar and leaving about 1 inch in between the cookies
16. Bake for 1 and 30 minutes hour

Like colorful treats?  Try this Mardi Gras Doughnuts Recipe and add a bit of fun into breakfast time!