Mocha Ice Cream Cone Cups

I adapted this recipe from Rachael Ray. These were really good, but you want to make sure you don't freeze them too long or they are impossible to eat. If you freeze them longer than an hour, dip the bottom of the muffin pan in wamr water to soften the cups.

Ingredients:
12 sugar ice cream cones
5 tablespoons of melted butter
1/2 cup of espresso
12 scoops of coffee flavored ice cream
1 king size chocolate bar
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 cup of heavy whipping cream
4 tablespoons powdered sugar

1. Add ice cream cones to food processor and grind them into fine crumbs. Add espresso beans to food processor and continue grind. Finally, add melted butter to food processor and pulse until combined. Evenly spoon mixture into 6 jumbo muffin cups and indent the middle to form cups.

2. Add two scoops of ice cream to each cup. Freeze for 30 minutes.

3. Melt chocolate and olive oil in the microwave for 45 seconds, stirring after 15 seconds.

4. Combine cream and powdered sugar and whip until soft peaks form.

5. Remove ice cream cups from muffin cups. Drizzle with melted chocolate and top with whipped cream.

Bacon Cheeseburger Tacos

I adapted this recipe from The Betty Crocker recipe... My family really liked these and next time, I would double the recipe because they were gone!

Recipe:
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1.25 lbs of groundy turkey
3 tbs taco seasoning (mixed with half a cup of water)
1 cup of salsa con queso
12 hard taco shells
2 cups of chopped lettuce
3 chopped roma tomatoes
5-6 slice of cooked and chopped bacon (I like thick cut)

1. Saute onions in a 12" skillet until translucent. Add ground turkey and continue cooking. When mostly cooked, stir in taco seasoning and mix well. Stir in salsa con queso until combined.

2. Heat taco shells in oven or microwave.

3. Add lettuce to taco shells. Top lettuce with turkey mixture. Sprinkle the tacos with tomatoes, followed by bacon. Serve with sour cream. Enjoy!

This is probably just for the summer....

Welcome to my 908th blog (or something close to that). The problem is that I start blogging when I'm not busy, and then I get busy and I forget about the blog. Anyway, it's summer and the kids are home from school and I'm always tempted to get a job so I thought I would start (another) blog. Hopefully this goes well!