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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.

Southern Buttermilk Biscuits

We all know and love the fluffy buttermilk biscuits that you can get a Bob Evan's or even the Pillsbury brand. I set out years ago to recreate these amazing biscuits (no they were not amazing because of the quality in the ingredients, just amazing with the taste and fluffy ness). Over the years I have changed the recipe a bunch of times, but this is the best results I have come up with; it is perfect! I love making these, baking all the way and freezing them for later use.

We just moved and do not have all the space we did before, nor a deep freezer so I have to be cautious what I freeze as we won't have the space. So I make these fresh every time because they are that easy and that fast to make up! Give these biscuits a try and you will never go back! These biscuits go amazingly with my homemade sausage gravy!


You Will Need:

2 Cups Organic All Purpose Flour
6 tbsp Organic Butter, cold
1/4 tsp Baking Soda (Bob's Red Mill)
1 tsp Real Salt
1 tbsp Baking Powder (non-gmo and aluminum free)


Add all dry ingredients into a big glass bowl, or food processor; mix together


Cut butter, making sure it is really cold, I put mine in the freezer for a couple minutes


Put butter in flour mixture


Using your hands (as I did) or food processor, work the butter into the flour until fine crumbs (almost resembling corn meal)


Looking like corn meal a bit!


Start adding your buttermilk, I use homemade (here), a little at a time, you may not need it all, and you might, it all depends. Today I needed all the buttermilk. Work until all flour is mixed in, it will be soft but not sticky


So soft!!!


Using your hands, press the dough out, gently, until about 1/2 inch thick; who are we kidding I have no clue how 1/2 thick looks, I just eye ball the size I would want to eat


Using a cup, cut out pieces


Place 1' apart, and bake 450 degrees for 10-12 minutes; I only ever do 10 minutes


YUMMERS! Do they not look just like Bob Evan's! 

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