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I Am Watching You
The Maid
Hopeless
It Ends with Us
Unmissing
The All New Ball Book Of Canning And Preserving: Over 200 of the Best Canned, Jammed, Pickled, and Preserved Recipes
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
Jurassic World: The Official Cookbook
Halo: The Official Cookbook
Ugly Love
Verity
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Moonlight Child
Becky: The Heartbreaking Story of Becky Watts by Her Father Darren Galsworthy
Freed
Drowning in Stars
Behind Her Eyes
The Girl in the White Van
Regretting You
Defending Jacob


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CopyCat Del Taco Chicken Tacos

Living in Arizona for 13 years of my adolescent life I grew up loving Del Taco. My parents would get take out there often. My sister, Michelle, that was her favorite taco out. If we did take out one night, Michelle always wanted Del Taco over anything else. She loves the chicken tacos. Now that I live in Ohio, Del Taco is not really out here. I have found 1 or 2 but they are some distance away from us. So, I decided to try and make that for my Sunday Family Movie night pick. Tonight, is my pick and I drew Mexican food so why not give it a try.  Marinade: 3 Large Chicken (I used thin chicken breast), diced 1 Lime, juiced 1 tbsp Taco Seasoning  1 tbsp Soy Sauce 1 tsp Garlic Powder 1 tsp Onion Powder 1 tsp Chicken Bouillon Powder 1/4 tsp Paprika Place all ingredients above into a ziplock, shake well and marinade for 30 minutes to an hour. I found the longer the better flavor.  White Sauce: 1 cup Mayo 1 Lime, juiced Whisk together in a bowl until smooth, set aside until ready for assembly.
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CopyCat Taco Bell Sauce

Whenever I was a single mother, working 10 hours a day, going to school and trying to keep up with Kristopher and Kailee (roughly 5 years ago) we would eat taco bell here and there because it was easy to just drive up to a machine speak our order go home eat, throw everything away and be done, no clean up needed... lazy yes! (but we changed). When I would make our Spanish rice recipe we needed taco packets and since we changed the way we ate, I cut those out of our lives. I then had to create Spanish rice without the taco packets and boy that was tricky, but I managed! (Recipe here)

Anyways, I started to crave, horribly, the Spanish rice I grew up on, the one with the taco packets... poor me! I had to figure out what to do! How to make taco bell's taco sauce on my own! And boy did I EVER!!! This stuff tops, 100% any sauce taco bell has! Because this is fresh, organic, unprocessed, amazing sauce without all the additives taco bell throws in the sauce that makes it HORRIBLE for you. The first ingredient and the MAIN ingredient is tomato sauce, and here is the brand I only ever use! (I LOVE Jovial Sauce, buy here, I love buying this sauce in bulk and amazon has amazing prices for them!)Here is what I did...


You Will Need:

16 OZ Organic Crushed Tomatoes (Jovial)
2/3 Cups Water
1/2 tsp Organic Chili Powder
3 tsp Organic Cumin
3 tsp Organic Onions, minced
2 tbsp Organic Vinegar
1 tsp Organic Garlic Powder
1 tsp Organic Garlic Granules
1/2 tsp Organic Paprika
1/2 tsp Organic Sugar
1/2 tsp Cayenne Pepper





Place all the ingredients into a nice sized sauce pan, you do not want to use a small pan because it will splash all over the place, as you see splashes on my rim.

I poured mine into a mason jar, because to be honest we do NOT use plastic. I let it completely cool in the jar before placing it into the fridge. Keeps in the fridge for 1 to 2 weeks... but honestly when you have tacos it will not last take long! Well not in my family! haha



We have two different nachos (mine is on the top, of course I LOVE THEM LOADED! and Daniel is not a big fan of lots of ingredients, but we both LOVE LOVE LOVE this taco sauce! (mine on the top has my chili nacho sauce!)) 


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