A chicken salad with bell peppers, corn, and beans in a creamy chipotle lime dressing! Chicken salad is a salad where the main ingredient is chicken that’s served in a dressing, usually mayonnaise based, with other ingredients. This is a Mexican themed chicken salad with beans, bell pepper, corn, celery, and onions in a creamy...

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A light and tasty chili with beans, lentils, and quinoa. Beef and bean chili is one of my favourites and this is a lighter take on it with lentils, beans and quinoa. The recipe is one-pot and super easy. It starts out by cooking onions and peppers before adding seasonings. The sauce is built up...

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Mexican style simmered beans with chorizo sausage and bacon! Frijoles charros, aka charro beans, is a super simple dish where dried beans are slowly simmered with bacon, chorizo sausage, chillies, tomatoes and seasonings. The recipe is as easy as soaking beans overnight, cooking bacon, sausage, onions, chilies, garlic, and cumin, adding the beans, broth, and...

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A creamy chicken and rice soup with chipotle chilies, beans, tomatoes, and corn. This is a simple one pan chicken and rice soup with Mexican style flavours and ingredients! The soup starts out with onions and bell peppers before adding garlic, chipotle chili peppers in adobo sauce, cumin and paprika. Broth, beans, tomatoes, chicken, rice,...

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Tender roast sweet potatoes stuffed with smokey BBQ chicken and melted cheese topped with a Mexican street corn salad! Stuffed sweet potatoes are always fun and these ones with BBQ chicken, melted cheese and a Mexican street corn style salad are the perfect way to enjoy some fresh summer corn! This recipe starts out by...

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All of the flavours of chicken fajitas in a simple and tasty pasta that’s cooked in one pan and topped with plenty of melted cheese! Chicken fajitas are one of my favorite meals and this one-pan pasta version with its cheesy sauce is even better than the original! The recipe starts out with cooking ground...

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Chicken green chili with summer zucchini and corn! Summer is the season of zucchini and this zucchini and corn green chicken chili is a great way to enjoy some! This is a pretty basic chicken chili recipe starting with onions, jalapeno, garlic, cumin, oregano, broth, salsa verde, chicken and beans, before adding summer’s bounty, zucchini...

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Chicken enchilada style filling served reverse nacho style with the tortilla chips on top, covered with melted cheese. This is a fun meal where a chicken enchilada style filling is cooked in a skillet and tortilla chips are inserted into the top, before sprinkling on cheese and melting it. It’s kind of like nachos on...

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Cheesy chili served in sloppy joe style sandwiches! Sloppy joe’s are sandwiches filled with ground beef in a tasty sauce that’s family friendly and fun, if a little messy. It’s so easy to change up the flavours of sloppy joe style sandwiches and this is a simple version with a cheesy beef and bean chili...

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Big fat burritos stuffed with seasoned beef, rice, beans, guac, creamy chipotle sauce and plenty of melted cheese! Takeout burritos seem to be all over the place these days, but it’s so easy to make absolutely amazing burritos at home! These are super simple beef burritos with the main ingredient being either barbacoa ground beef...

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