The Best Mexican Cornbread Ever!

Warning: NOT low-calorie.  But delicious.

Ingredients:
3 cups self rising cornmeal
1 tsp salt
1 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 cup milk
1 can cream corn
3 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
3 eggs
1 bell pepper
1 onion

Saute' bell pepper and onion until soft.  Mix with all other ingredients and bake at 400 for 40-45 minutes.

Seven Can Soup

Forgive all the recipe posts, but I have a tendency to lose where I've written these down.  I'm hoping to record them on my blog and then print them and make a cookbook!

This recipe is EASY and SOOOO delicious!  However, I'm not sure why it's called "Seven Can Soup" when there are clearly eight cans involved.  Oh well...

Seven Can Soup
2 cans Chili (one with beans, one without….You know I use both without!)
2 cans Campbell's Chunky Vegetable Soup
1 can whole kernel corn
1 can Rotel
1 can tomato soup
1 can diced tomatoes

Mix and heat until warmed through.  Serve with my Mexican Cornbread recipe coming soon!

Ham and Cheese Quiche

Easy and Quick Ham and Cheese Quiche

Ingredients:
2 refrigerated pastry shells
4 eggs
2 cups chopped ham
2 cups shredded cheese
2 cups half and half
2 tsp dried minced onion
salt
pepper
***I put some pineapple tidbits in also, and it tastes great!

Place pie shell in pie plate.  Mix other ingredients and pour into pie shell.  Bake at 400 for around 30-35 minutes, or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean.

Christmas Wish List

Disclaimer:  I can skip this part, right?  Surely y'all know me well enough by now to know that I don't feel entitled nor deserving of anything, realize that receiving isn't nearly as great as giving, and I'm just doing this because my mom and sister have both asked me to give them ideas of things I'd like...right?  Ok, good.  :)

1.  Vera Bradley Purse (Glenna)-  I'm sorry, but call me grandma...I just don't care.  I will be the last person carrying one of these purses in the free world, I guess.  But you just can't beat a good Vera purse.  The pockets, the POCKETS (worth repeating) are amazing.  They are sturdy, can be washed and still hold their shape, and I love some of the patterns offered on the website.  This one is Plum Crazy.

                   
2. I'm slightly obsessed with perfume.  I think I get perfume almost every year for Christmas.  Last year I got Lollia from Anthropologie.  This year, I would like to have Ivanka Trump's perfume.  Now, I neither like or dislike the Trumps, so I'm not endorsing this because it's hers.  I just think it smells good.




3.  Old Navy Pajama Pants- THE most comfortable ever!

4.  Bow-Tie Ballet Flats from Old Navy

5.  Gift Card for clothes



I'm So Excited, and I Just Can't Hide It!!!!!!!

Click here.  See #7???  I'm checking that off in March.  He's coming to the Ryman in Nashville and I have tickets!!!! No idea who will go with me, but I definitely plan to be there.  I've wanted to see him for YEARS and he always plays in towns that are too far away.  I.am.so.excited.

Corn Dip (Best Ever!)

This weekend my sister, a friend, and I decided to go all out and make some "football finger foods" since two very big games happened to be on television.  My favorite of everything we made was this corn dip.  I could eat it every day for the rest of my life and not get tired of it.  It's that good!

Corn Dip

2 cans Mexicorn
1 can yellow and white corn
1 cup mayo
1 cup sour cream
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
green onions, finely chopped

Mix all of the above together and serve with tortilla chips or fritos.

That Went Well.....

Yeah, so that diet post just below...that worked out great, didn't it!?  Oh my stars.  I'm still trying friends.  It's an every.single.day. thing.  I have been getting up three days a week at 5:45 in the morning to walk since August 1.  I'm trying to make exercise a priority, even though I'd rather eat dirt than do it.  I'm still struggling, but I will never quit trying.  Keep those prayers coming.

In other news, school has started back.  I've never been so exhausted in my life!  The first two weeks were brutal, but my body is finally getting used to the new schedule and new routine.  I love my job, so it makes it a little easier to get up in the mornings.

Nothing much else going on in my world these days.  I'm going to the American Idol Concert this weekend.  Some friends and I make the trip every year, so it's a tradition.  I'm looking forward to it. But more than that, I'm looking forward to Labor Day...and the absence of any sort of labor I plan to do on that day.  Cue the hallelujah chorus.

Hope you all are well.  :)