Recipe: Picante Chicken Tacos

Recipe: Picante Chicken Tacos

I got this recipe from my sister (yes, the same brilliant one who introduced me to the wonder of sweet potato casserole). It might be the easiest thing I've made with my slow cooker yet. This taco filling is TASTY and will make your house/kitchen smell amazing for the...

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Recipe Guest Post: Puff Balls

Recipe Guest Post: Puff Balls

Today's tasty post comes to you from one of my fabulous sponsors, Amber! She blogs over at My Three Bittles, and you can also find her on Twitter. Be sure to go say hi after checking out her post below!   Today I'm gonna share with you a favorite of ours, PUFF...

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Sunday Social

Sunday Social

Linking up with Neely for Sunday Social. This week's theme is food. If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? Curry, or some sort of pasta. What's your guilty pleasure/comfort food? Chips. Sometimes with salsa, sometimes just...

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Recipe: Brown Chicken Curry

Recipe: Brown Chicken Curry

This is one of my absolute, all-time favorite meals. I always clean my plate (and am sometimes tempted to lick it clean), and leftovers disappear in a hurry over the next day or so. I used to have to go to an Asian market to find this curry sauce mix, but then my...

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June Foodie Pen Pal Box

June Foodie Pen Pal Box

This past month I participated in a new-to-me gift swap called Foodie Pen Pals, run by the fabulous Lindsay. It works the same way as a normal gift swap, except that the items being swapped are all edible - fun foodie things, local food items or even homemade treats....

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Recipe: Crème Brûlée Cupcakes

Recipe: Crème Brûlée Cupcakes

Today's post is brought to you by Keely, a fellow Better Bloggers Network member and baker extraordinaire. I can't wait to try these! Hello, lovely Dragonflight Dreams readers! Thanks for having me here. I usually blog over at Hairbows and Butter. I'm a baker, a lover...

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Food Ordering Habits

Food Ordering Habits

  It could be said that I'm a picky eater (and I can imagine my mom just crowed in laughter at that understatement). I am a LOT better than I used to be as a kid, for sure, but I still tend to find something I like and just stick to that. I don't mind trying...

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Recipe: Beef Picadillo Tacos

Recipe: Beef Picadillo Tacos

I tried to get a picture of the taco all folded up nice, but then you couldn't see anything/it just kept flopping open. So open-face taco picture for you all! We had this for dinner last night (and I had for lunch today - woo leftovers!). If you're wanting to jazz up...

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Recipe: Round Steak Sauerbraten

Recipe: Round Steak Sauerbraten

This originally appeared as a guest post over at This Enchanted Pixie. Slow cookers are one of the easiest ways to make a tasty meal, and are especially handy for those days when you know you're going to have a jam-packed evening with no time to cook dinner. This...

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Recipe: Dark Ale & Dill Burgers

Recipe: Dark Ale & Dill Burgers

Ok. Truth? Sometimes I am just too hungry to bother taking a crap-ton of photos of whatever we're cooking. And/or checking to make sure what few photos I take are actually decent. But sometimes the food results are just so yummy I have to share despite that. This is...

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Hi, I’m Amanda!

I’m a self-employed graphic designer by day, and a crafty hungry bookworm by night. Dragonflight Dreams is where I write about books, recipes, internet goodies, life things, crafty projects, Austin happenings, and more.

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2023 Reading Challenge

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2023 Reading Challenge
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