Food, Family & Finds from A Cowboy's Wife
In honor of National Hispanic Month, I decided to make Barbacoa. When I googled some Barbacoa recipes, I noticed that almost of them used butt roast but that isn’t how we make it. We use Cacheta de Res, aka, Beef Cheeks and this is the only way I’ve known how to make it. And in… [Continue Reading]
Oh man, making a car themed cake was more of a task than I thought but I have narrowed my issues down to a couple of things that I’ll get to a little later. Truett turned 5 years old today and all I could think about was when my two oldest were that age…and how… [Continue Reading]
I love to cook and I love to find new recipes, but life doesn’t always give me the time and resources for either. There are simply days when I don’t have the time to find something new to cook up or forget the grocery list on the kitchen table when I’m headed to the grocery… [Continue Reading]
Finding ways to cut costs is essential in today’s economy. Walmart has launched a new app on their facebook page called Nice Save. You’ll be faced with a new challenge every few weeks and everyone will submit their solutions. It’s all in Walmart’s effort to offer low prices and low cost solutions. It’s a great… [Continue Reading]
Puns are fun huh! Eggs are a staple in our home and man do we go through them like water. We do supper and desserts with them but our top uses revolve around breakfast and snacks. My two oldest boys are 18 and 15. They are athletic and know that eggs are a great source… [Continue Reading]
For the first time in 5 years, all of my boys will be in school. Tyler is a Senior, Toby a Sophomore, and Truett a Pre-k’r. It’s a bittersweet moment you know? The youngest is growing up and one will be graduating. It’s surreal to me right now and all I can think about tonight… [Continue Reading]
A while back Walmart flew me to Bentonville (their headquarters) to create some easy meal solutions. They filmed a few of us Walmart Moms buying ingredients and making our recipes and today, I have both the recipe and video for you; Grilled Flank Steak with Lime. Warning: I’m terrible on video. I need a new… [Continue Reading]
GoGo squeeZ is a fruit serving in a pouch. It’s a fun way for kids to eat a healthy snack and we are now part of the GoGo Gang. Healthy, convenient snacks are hard to come by so I was thrilled to learn about this product. Some immediate things for you to know about GoGo… [Continue Reading]
The other day I was in Subway getting a footlong Subway Club for Toby when I look up and see BBQ Pulled Pork!! I knew instantly that this was gonna be something my cowboys would LOVE and was thrilled to try it out. It was FABULOUS and I had it put on flat bread which… [Continue Reading]
I already talked you about Walmart’s Ad Match policy and how I’d be showing you a video on me ad matching with no ad so that’s what this video is about. I simply went to Walmart, found the item I wanted to price match, and checked out. I told her they were 5 for $5… [Continue Reading]
Summer snacks are big deal when you have kids at your house all the time, and finding ones that are friendly on the pocketbook can sometimes be a challenge. I remember the first time I had these Firecrackers-crackers with seasoning, and they were delicious! I thought they’d make the perfect snack for this 4th of… [Continue Reading]
We decided to cookout for Father’s Day but needed to “practice” before the real day. Walmart challenged me to buy food to cook for $30 bucks or less, which was quite a challenge for us since our practice cookout would include about 9 people. Our menu included the following: slab of Spare ribs $13 chunk… [Continue Reading]
Can you imagine cake and ice cream all in one? Well yeah, if you’ve bought an ice cream cake then perhaps you can, but I can’t store those things in my fridge so when I learned that Blue Bunny & Chef Duff Goldman partnered up to create FABULOUS cake ice cream, I knew it was… [Continue Reading]
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