Cinco de Mayo Recipe Ideas

Here's a little collection of recipes to get you started on planning a Cinco de Mayo menu!
Beverages
Horchatta

Cherry Limeade

Appetizers
Queso Fundido con Chorizo

Tamale Cups

Main Dishes
Spicy Pop Pulled Pork Sandwiches w/ Jalapeno-Cilantro Slaw

Bacon Guacamole Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Taco Skillet

Authentic Tamales (with your crockpot's help)

Queso Bacon Burgers with Avocado Salsa

Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas

Simple Chicken Burritos

Authentic Steak Tacos

Chiles Rellenos

Side Dishes
Deviled Avocado

Avocado Onion Salad

Desserts
Homemade Creamsicles

Old Fashioned Coconut Custard Pie

I hope that these recipes have given you a little bit of inspiration!  




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Cherry Limeade

The warmer weather is upon us - but if you live in an area like I do, the cold weather never came this year.
We have already set up our back porch with our picnic table & patio umbrella. The kids outdoor toys are all being used again, and it's getting close to that time where we will need to be getting our pool ready for swimming.  It's also the beginning of the backyard barbecue season, and you need a refreshing beverage to go hand in hand with it.  
It doesn't get much more refreshing than Cherry Limeade!

But, don't wait til the next time you have a barbecue to make it.  Make it sooner than that.  Like right now.
You only need 3 ingredients - lemon lime soda, a jar of cherries, & lime juice. Then, it's done & in your glass, ready to sip.  This stuff is in my fridge more times than not in the warmer months......and this year that seems to be all year long!  I absolutely love the sweetness & the tartness together.  

So, what are you waiting for?  You can't drink my pictures.  Go make some!!

Cherry Limeade

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Ingredients:

• 2-liter bottle of lemon lime soda
• 3/4 cup fresh squeezed lime juice
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 (10oz) jar maraschino cherries, with juice
• thin lime slices 

Instructions:

Chill all ingredients before mixing.
When cold, combine all ingredients in a large pitcher.  Stir well.
Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before serving for flavors to marry.
*Serve with a ladle if you want pieces of lime & cherry in each glass.





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A Rainbow Party - Perfect for a Kid's Birthday Party!

Yesterday, my friend Tammy and I had another little get together for some of the homeschool kids and moms in our community.  This time, we did a rainbow/tyedye theme. I wanted to share this because I know how we are all looking for cute, but easy, birthday party themes - and I thought it would be adorable for one!   
We made Rainbow Cupcakes, and the kids got to choose what colors went into their cupcake.  I put a piece of tinfoil on the end of each muffin tin so I could tell one end from the other, and made a diagram of whose cupcake was whose once they came out of the oven.  
Once the cupcakes were done and cooled, I wrote the kids names on each plate, and placed a cupcake on each one.  

Tammy added food coloring to some store-bought icing and placed them on the counter alongside some sprinkles to top the cupcakes with.  

The blue was the most popular...Tammy's son, Jacob, really seemed to like it a lot.

We served them alongside some 'Magic Potion' which is just Kool-Aid ice cubes of different colors with lemon-lime soda poured on top.  

We didn't do this, but how fun would making tye-dyed t-shirts be at a party like this?

All the kids had an awesome time!  How fun would it be to incorporate a little color into your next kid's birthday party?

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