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My Top Cinco de Mayo Recipes + Meal Plan Monday Week 18

May 4, 2015 by Steph Powers 1 Comment

Today I'm bringing you my Top Cinco de Mayo Recipes and another edition of Meal Plan Monday. Happy Monday! Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, so I thought I would share some of my most popular Cinco de Mayo recipes. A lot of people think that Cinco de Mayo is Mexican independence day, but it's actually the celebration of the Mexican army's victory over the French army in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, ...

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Filed Under: Drinks, Gluten-Free, Holiday, Meal Plan Monday, Party, Recipes, Sides, TexMex, Vegetarian Tagged With: cinco de mayo, esquites, fajitas, fiesta, history, mexican, mexican martinis, plantains, salsa

Mexican Corn Salad (Esquites)

July 28, 2014 by Steph Powers 25 Comments

Esquites Mexican Corn Salad

A hot, cheesy Mexican Corn Salad adapted from the popular Mexican street corn, elote.  A few weeks ago I got stuck without eggs and made a run to our closest grocery store. I typically avoid this particular because their prices are crazy and they only have what I need half the time. It happened to be a Friday when they were running one of their TGIF specials and corn on the cob was 10 ...

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Filed Under: Gluten-Free, Recipes, Salads, Sides, Simple, TexMex, Vegetarian Tagged With: esquites, glutenfree, mexican corn, salad

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