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Recipe: Balsamic Fish Tacos

Kristen — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:38:51 +0000

Fish tacos are my absolute favorite, and this recipe is the best!

A recipe you will definitley want on your menu, the Dine & Dish Menu Plan for the week.

I am obsessed, with a capital “O”, with fish tacos lately. I just can’t get enough of them… so much that they’ve made a weekly appearance on our table for the past several weeks. I’ve made fish tacos before, but those tacos contained fried fish. Now, my favorite form of fish tacos is with thick cuts of white fish, cheese, cabbage and tomatoes, all with a douse of Marzetti Simply Dressed Balsamic Dressing. Oh dear me… these fish tacos are my new “I need dinner on the table in 15 minutes” meal. So fresh and so good…if you haven’t made fish tacos at home, I beg of you to give these a chance. Once you enjoy fish tacos for the first time, I think Taco Tuesday might start having a whole new meaning at your house!

Our menu for this week is full of classic winter dishes. We had over a foot of snow dumped on us this past week and we’re supposed to get at least that much again tomorrow. We’re hunkering down, staying warm, and filling our bellies with comfort foods. …

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Simplify Mealtime {Recipe: Oven Roast Turkey Breast}

Kristen — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:00:51 +0000

This week started right on track, and I love it. I was able to sit down on Sunday afternoon and create a simple menu plan for our family meals. I made a list and went shopping and have truly appreciated how much time and money has been saved simply because I planned. I know that to keep my focus word for 2013 forefront, planning is going to be essential. Hopefully I can hold on to this feeling of “having my stuff together” so I can stay motivated to continue on the right track.

Over the weekend I read Amy Allen Clark’s new book “The Good Life for Less: Giving Your Family Great Meals, Good Times, and a Happy Home on a Budget“. Amy is one of those people I have always truly admired and I’m happy to call her a friend. Her book has some serious “ah-ha” moments for me… like the feature recipe for this post. Amy suggested buying a turkey breast and roasting it for lunch meat and meals instead of buying packaged lunch meat. It usually tastes better and it’s oh so easy! Why didn’t I think of this before?…

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Project 365 2012 – Finishing Up the Year Part 2

Kristen — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:59:50 +0000

Taking a picture a day in 2012 hasn’t been hard for me. In fact, I take so many pictures each day sometimes the hardest part is choosing which picture gets to be the picture of the day. Getting them uploaded to my blog in a timely manner has also been difficult, but so worth it. In my 2012 Project 365 wrap up post next, I’ll reflect some on what finishing this Project 365 has meant to me. Until then, here is my second to last Project 365 2012 post.

November 1st: I find it interesting that one thing that hasn’t evolved much is the halloween candy bucket. This is the same type of cheap bucket I used to trick-or-treat with!

November 2nd: A baking day = a happy day!

November 3rd: Kelly’s last day of being 8!

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Power of Suggestion {Recipe: Fried Cheese Curds}

Kristen — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:19:24 +0000

Marketers love me. They really do.

I’m their target for commercials because it takes very, very little for me to get an idea stuck in my head and then I need that idea to come to fruition right that very minute. I’m the perfect case study for the power of suggestion.

My husband knows better than to even mention possibly picking up Chipotle for dinner because I can’t hear that word without needing to run there right then for my favorite burrito bowl. (See…guess what I’m going to have to have for lunch today, now?)

So it’s no surprise that when a few food blogger friends and I were chatting the other day and the topic of fried cheese curds came up, I had to investigate right away. Little, bite size cheese curds, lightly breaded, then fried to perfection? What’s not to love?…

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Project 365 2012 – July through Now

Kristen — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:24:13 +0000

July 1st: Crabby girl

I know I know… I’m horrible at keeping up with Project 365. Normally it’s this time of year that I stop uploading and sharing and give up. I never quit taking photos every day but if you’ll look at my past few years attempts, this is the time when I usually get so behind at uploading that I just quit The pictures stay on my computer and no one ever sees them.

Not this year. Nope… This year I’m going to bore you all to tears while I get caught up on my photos from July and most of August. Then, I have no vacations or out of town trips planned that should throw me off from uploading for awhile! Thanks for hanging in there! Here we go……

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Windows Phone Guide to the 2012 Olympic Games {Recipe: Zesty Peach Glazed Chicken Wings}

Kristen — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:01:57 +0000

As many of you are aware, the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games airs tonight. We are a big Olympic family and always look forward to gathering around the TV each day to watch our favorite Olympians compete for the gold.

The issue with the 2012 Olympics is it falls right, smack dab in the middle of our summer family vacation. We’ll be either on the road or in the mountains without television access most of the time. We’ve all been wondering how we were going to keep up with the Olympics without television coverage?

Luckily, I did some exploring on my new Nokia Lumina 900 Windows Phone and quickly found several apps that will keep us up to date, even without TV coverage. And thanks to the genius design of the Windows Phone I was able to pin my favorite 2012 Olympic apps right to the front for easy access….

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About Your Hostess

bennrobin — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:00:00 +0000

Kristen Doyle

Freelance Writer, Food & Lifestyle Photographer, Mom

Kristen Doyle is the creator of the award winning website, Dine & Dish. Since early 2006, Kristen has been sharing her favorite recipes, photographs and life stories with an ever growing audience of engaged readers.

Kristen has expanded her reach to include working with major brands (Bush’s Beans, Green Mountain Coffee, Hallmark, Zatarain’s…just to name a few) as well as providing editorial content and direction for nationwide print publications and websites. Her freelance writing career spans working with magazines on a local and national level as well as creating valuable web content for a variety of sites across the web.

Kristen is a busy mom of 4 young kids, loves to entertain, has a passion for photography, and believes in keeping things simple. An avid reader, a kind of runner, a horrible gardener, and the wife of an outstanding man, Kristen’s ultimate life goal is to connect and create meaningful relationships with others.

Kristen is available for editorial and photography projects, speaking engagements and ambassador partnerships with your brand. If you are local to Kansas City, give me a ring & let’s meet for coffee! I hope we get the chance to connect!

You can connect with Kristen Doyle by email at kristen dineanddish.net or through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

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Summer of Fun Bucket List for Kids 2012

Kristen — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:24:45 +0000

I alluded to my Summer Bucket List in my last post. My Summer Bucket List is the list of things I hope to accomplish with the kids by the time school resumes in August. 99.9% of the time, I don’t accomplish most that’s on the list and then I feel really bad about it when they go back to school. (Well we do try to cram as much as possible into that week before school starts to ease a bit of my guilt :).)

This year, I decided to take things a bit more seriously and follow the lead of amazing blogger and mama, Amy Clark. Amy created a “100 Days of Summer” Pinterest board last year and I watched, enviously, as she checked the items off, one by one. She’s doing it again this year and I can’t wait to see all the fun she has with her kids.

I decided to make my own Summer of 2012 Pinterest board, thinking something more concrete might be exactly what we need to make the most of our time this year. My list is fairly large, and I can guarantee we won’t get everything done on the list, but I’m hoping we can cross a lot of the things off! So, without further ado, here is our Summer of Fun Bucket List for 2012.

Go on a Nature Scavenger Hunt
Go on a Family Moon Walk
Make homemade Waffle Cones for Ice Cream
Have a water balloon fight
Watch the 4th of July Fireworks
Make inexpensive chalkboard message boards for each kids room
Have a neighborhood squirt bottle water fight
Paint Rocks
Teach the kids how to play tennis
Go to a Kansas City T-Bones Game

Make homemade pretzels
Have a watermelon eating contest
Have at least one date night with each kid individually
Build an awesome indoor fort and live in it for the day
Make artwork placemats
Find a good book to read a chapter out loud of every day
Make homemade Coke Icees
Have an overnight staycation in our town
Make homemade bagels using the bread machine

Make funnel cakes
Teach the kids to follow the FlyLady Daily Kids Challenges
Decorate water bottles and drink lots of water all summer long
Watch the sunset, preferably near the water
Make and eat sno cones
Make treats and take to the fire station
Have an outdoor movie night
Go to a production at Theater in the Park
Make a PVC pipe sprinkler car wash
Plan and do several Acts of Kindness for others

Have a pajama day (at least one!)
Take the kids to the Independence, KS park and zoo
Make homemade musical instruments
Play flashlight tag
Go on a road trip / day trip with no destination in mind
Go to a small town festival in Kansas
Visit the Omaha Zoo
Go to the Tonganoxie Rodeo
Go on a picnic in the park

Go fishing in Iowa with the cousins
Have a Shrimp Boil
Go to Happy Valley Farm to pick berries
Take the kids on an ABC Photo Walk
Make a Cookie Cutter Bird Feeder
Participate in the Great American Backyard Campout
Play miniature golf in Parkville
Make Flubber
Make Glow Stick Lanterns

Make Old Fashioned Egg Cream Floats
Go to the Missouri State Fair
Send handwritten notes to friends and loved ones
Have the kids write in journals each day
Create a summer music playlist and listen to songs from it each day
Go hiking at Shawnee Mission Park
Fly a kite
Sharpie Dye T-Shirts

Make and eat homemade ice cream for breakfast
Ride in a canoe or pedal boat
Make a jar and catch lightening bugs (then release)
Have a summer solstice party
Take a family vacation to Rocky Mountain National Park / Estes Park
Visit my niece and Aunt and Uncle in Branson, MO… go to Silver Dollar City
Have an old fashioned, outdoor play party – play Red Rover, Red Light Green Light
Go on a photo scavenger hunt

Make homemade, glazed yeast doughnuts
Jump in puddles
Make regular trips to the library and load up on great books for summer reading
Play back yard frisbee golf
Make word cloud about me portraits
Find pictures in the clouds
Paint with water
Make Sidewalk Chalk Paint

Make homemade popsicles
Make Summer Sponge Bombs & play splash tag
Do giant canvas finger painting
Play hide and seek with glow sticks outside at night
Go swimming at the pool as much as possible
Go see a double feature at the Drive-In movie theater

and one final thing…

Make an Instagram Photo Album at the end of the summer that captures all the fun we had, no matter what we end up doing!

Alright – that’s about it! There are some fun new ideas I’m excited to try and some tried and true fun summer favorites that we do each year. I hope you’ll stop by Pinterest and create a summer fun board of your own! Let me know what your plans are for the summer. Whatever you do, I hope it is a safe, happy and fun one!

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