Easy Southwest Tortilla Rollups are made of everything you love in a Southwestern style meal, rolled up into a tortilla. This is a bake-and-go recipe, perfect for busy evenings! Easy Southwest Tortilla Rollups the perfect meal! Easy Southwest Tortilla Rollups is a recipe my friend Tessa gave me back when our kids were young. I… Read More
Mexican Dish
Tacos Al Pastor with Guacamole Taquero
Tacos Al Pastor with Guacamole Taquero is one recipe that will make you feel like you’re in Mexico without leaving your kitchen. The marinade makes this recipe our family favorite and cooking the meat on a Traeger Grill will take your Tacos Al Pastor to the next level! Grilled pineapple makes all the difference in… Read More
Southwest Salad with Cilantro Honey Lime Dressing
Southwest Salad with Cilantro Honey Lime Dressing has been a favorite in our home for years! Loaded with crispy Romaine, beans, corn, creamy avocado, and a bit of Pepper Jack cheese. Southwest Salad comes with a warning, it’s highly addictive. The first time I ate this salad, I took leftovers home from a family party… Read More
Family Favorite Chicken Enchiladas
Enchiladas are a big favorite in our home. Every one of my kids love Family Favorite Enchiladas! Over the years I’ve made many different types of enchiladas, but this one is always, always, always our favorite. What makes a great family-friendly enchilada recipe? For most cooks, the recipe has to be: easy to make and… Read More
Favorite Cafe Rio Copycat Recipes
Over the years, I’ve posted several of my Cafe Rio Copycat recipes, which have been favorites to many of you on ABK. To make it as simple as possible for you (and me) to find and make our favorite Cafe Rio menu items, I’ve compiled all of our family Favorite Cafe Rio Copycat Recipes recipes… Read More
Homemade Cafe Rio Chicken Tortilla Soup
It’s soup time! Soup weather is the best weather, do you agree? Soup is one of my favorite things to cook because it’s easy and filling, and can most of the time be made in just a few minutes. Homemade Cafe Rio Chicken Tortilla Soup is one of our favorites! I love the flavors in… Read More
Mexican Street Corn Salad
Mexican Street Corn Salad is the perfect way to celebrate all the fresh corn from this season. It’s incredibly easy to make and packed with Southwestern flavor. If you love Mexican Street Corn, or just corn itself, you’ll love this recipe! For the Love of Corn It’s September, that means corn and tomatoes are in… Read More
Instant Pot Cafe Rio Sweet Pork
If Cafe Rio Sweet Pork is your family favorite you’re going to love this recipe! Instant Pot Cafe Rio Sweet Pork is an updated version of my original recipe made in the oven or slow cooker, which takes up to 12 hours to cook. This new IP recipe takes about two hours start to finish,… Read More
Instant Pot Salsa Chicken
If the Instant Pot isn’t already your new best friend, it will be after you try this recipe for Instant Pot Salsa Chicken! Here’s why: It’s quick. It’s easy. And EVERYONE in the family is going to love it! This recipe for Instant Pot Salsa Chicken was developed after my slow cookers were relegated to… Read More
Family Style Chicken Tostadas
Looking for a fun way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and avoid spending a small fortune eating out? Gather everyone in the kitchen and get the fiesta started making Family Style Chicken Tostadas! 5 reasons you’re going to love ABK’s recipe for Family Style Chicken Tostadas: 1. Instant Pot Strikes again -The chicken is cooked… Read More
No Soak Instant Pot Black Beans
No Soak Instant Pot Black Beans will change the way you look at cooking beans. No more thinking ahead so you can soak the beans overnight. Just place the beans in the pot and let the magic happen! king of beans without a recipe Our friend Eric is the King of Black Beans. He’s famous… Read More
Instant Pot Fajitas
Instant Pot Fajitas are all the rage. At least, at my house Instant Pot Fajitas are all the rage! This Tex-Mex dish is easy to create in your kitchen and so simple to adapt to your family preferences. Get out your Instant Pot, you’re going to love this recipe! Why I never order fajitas in… Read More
Instant Pot Chile Verde
Instant Pot Chile Verde is everything you dreamed of in classic Chile Verde, in a fraction of the usual cooking time! If you’ve stayed away from making Chile Verde at home because you don’t have 8 hours to tend the slow cooker, this recipe is for you! Tender, fall-apart pork is the center of this… Read More
Weeknight Turkey Enchiladas
Enchiladas on a weeknight may seem like too much of a time commitment for busy cooks. Weeknight Turkey Enchiladas combines ground turkey and ready made enchilada sauce for a quick and delicious dinner everyone will love! Ground turkey enchiladas are officially a thing in our home! We love this quick and easy dinner that tastes… Read More
Strawberry, Jicama and Lime Guacamole
Strawberries are the star of my latest creation: Strawberry, Jicama and Lime Guacamole. This guac combines bright colors, multiple textures and flavors! I’m a huge fan of anything guac, and love this twist on the traditional mix of mashed avocado, garlic, onion and lime juice. When Stephanie, a producer at KSL Studio5 asked me… Read More
South of the Border Taco Platter
It’s Cinco de Mayo, and it’s noon, and you’re thinking- Great. I HAVE to make something that at least seems like a Mexican dish for dinner tonight. Get on your South of the Border, I’ve got just the dish for you. ABK’s Quick and Easy South of the Border Taco Platter. It’s fun, it’s festive,… Read More
Cheesy Chicken Enchilada Dip
How do you feel about enchiladas? They’re our favorite, which you already know if you’re a regular at ABK! This Cheesy Chicken Enchilada Dip combines all of the flavors we love from enchiladas into an appetizer. I have, at last count 10 enchilada recipes on this blog. If you love enchiladas, this dip is going… Read More
Lone Star Taqueria Fish Tacos with Jalapeño Mayo
One of my favorite places to eat in Salt Lake is Lone Star Taqueria. It’s a funky little place on Fort Union Blvd. We’ve been going there for years to eat the best fish tacos around. Jalapeño mayo gives the tacos a perfect dressing that doesn’t overpower the fish. My standard order: Lone Star… Read More
Honey Lime Pork Tacos with Sweet Green Chili Sauce
What are you doing May 5? Instead of heading to your favorite Mexican restaurant to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, why not create a tradition of celebrating in your home? The folks at Snake River Farms sent me a couple of Kurobota Pork Roasts which Iused in this recipe for Honey Lime Pork Tacos with Sweet… Read More
ABK’s Ultimate Chunky Guac
When we traveled to Mexico a few weeks ago I was in heaven. Guac heaven. Guacamole is one of those items I can eat morning, noon and night. By the end of the week, the boys were saying NO MORE GUAC! But the girls, Grant and I were happy to slather it all over our… Read More
Chiles Rellenos Chowder with Fried Tortillas Con Huevos
Just after Christmas, we headed to one of our favorite places on earth, Mexico. Or as my friend Mel calls it “my Mexico”. It was 7 days of post-holiday bliss. Our days went like this: sleep in huevos for breakfast with guac pool beach quesadillas for lunch with guac nap beach pool walk on beach… Read More
Slow-Cooked Beef Enchiladas with Red Chili Sauce
Where did summer go? For us it was one long baseball trip (FL, CA 3 times, AZ, WA) , a pioneer trek to Wyoming and a week in Oregon to top it all off. Along the way we ate the good, the bad and the undeniably ugly. Here are a few photos of meals from… Read More
Southwest Summer Turkey Wraps
Southwest Summer Turkey Wraps are the best kind of summer meal. Simple. Quick. Fresh. Delicious. After a May that went something like this: baseball,school,baseball,school,baseball school, baseball trip… we landed back at home yesterday. Of course, no thought had been given to what we would eat our first day back. I did know one thing. It… Read More
Classic 7 Layer Dip
Football. One more game. The Biggie. If you are a football fan, it’s time to rejoice! If your are not a football fan, it’s time to rejoice! This is the last game of the season! Either way, you can celebrate with food, the universal celebratory element. Classic 7 Layer Dip has been on our party… Read More
Brisket Tacos with Mango Barbecue Relish
People often ask where I get ideas to make all of the recipes I post on ABK? Besides my enormously huge and creative mind (eheheh) some of my ideas come from: 1. My cookbook collection (over 300 at last count) 2. I’m a cooking magazine addict. Have I ever told you how difficult it is… Read More
Everyone’s Favorite Shrimp and Avocado Salsa
Shrimp and Avocado Salsa is probably my favorite appetizer of all time. I love shrimp, and paired with salsa and tortilla chips, is a match made in heaven! I just returned from spending a few days in the Pacific Northwest, one of my favorite places in the world. Bremerton was my childhood home, a ferry… Read More
Southwest Slow Cooker Chicken
Have you heard? We’re on a roll at A Bountiful Kitchen. Super simple. Quick and easy. Last week I postedSlow Cooker Honey Sesame Chicken, andBaked Taco Rollups. This week, Southwest Slow Cooker Chicken. It doesn’t get easier than this. This is a dump-and-cook-in-the-crockpot recipe. You can serve it over rice, on tortilla chips, on a… Read More
Baked Taco Rollups
Monday, after I posted Slow Cooker Sesame Honey Chicken on my Insta, my friend Robilyn commented “I’ll be making this tomorrow! What else can I make this week?”Today, I dropped something off at her home, and guess what? There was a yummy smell coming from her kitchen.The power of Insta! She had the Honey Sesame… Read More
Homemade Green Enchilada Sauce
Here’s the recipe I used for Homemade Green Enchilada Sauce when I made Honey Lime Enchiladas a few weeks back. It takes about 10 minutes to cook up and blend. The comparison to pre-made canned sauce? Let’s see. Kind of like the difference between a pop-out-of-the-can biscuit and homemade.Canned biscuits.Don’t go there. That’s all I’m… Read More
Black Bean and Corn Salsa
It’s the last weekend of summer. I know, summer is not officially over until September 22nd(Melinda reminded me of this on our morning walk), but it feels like it’s over when the kids go back to school.With the end of summer, comes the end of local fruits and veggies. It was a hot summer here,… Read More
Chipotle Shrimp Tacos with Avocado Salsa Verde
To celebrate Cinco De Mayo and Stephen’s 15 month mark on his mission (read about it here), I made these simple and absolutely delicious grilled Chipotle Shrimp Tacos with Avocado Salsa Verde. If you love shrimp and a little spice, you are absolutely going to fall in love with this dish. He looks… Read More
Cook’s Illustrated Beef Tacos
What’s better than a good homemade taco? We love this quick and easy meal adapted from Cook’s Illustrated Beef Tacos recipe. I used their basic recipe as a base to make my own version of this family favorite. One of my favorite dinners as a kid was tacos. How I loved taco night! It’s a… Read More