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Valentine’s Day Empanadas

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These empanadas are so easy to make. They have only four ingredients and are wonderful on cold winter days.

Ingredients:

1 can of biscuits (A ten count can)
1/2 a jar of tomato sauce ( We love Ragu Garden Style!)
1/2 pound of ground turkey
1/2 a package of taco seasoning

Directions:

  • Separate the can of biscuits into individual biscuits.
  • Use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut a heart out of each of the biscuits.
  • In a saucepan brown ground turkey.
  • Add tomato sauce and taco seasoning to the drained meat mixture.
  • Place a spoonful of the mixture on half of the heart shaped biscuits.
  • Place one of the empty biscuits on top of each of the filled ones.
  • Press down the edges using a fork to seal the hearts.
  • Cook according the directions on the biscuit package.

What did I do with the scraps?

I wrapped the scraps from each biscuit into a twist and cooked them with the empanadas. They aren’t pretty, but they tasted great!

 
 

 
 

What else could I fill these with?

Welcome Virtual Valentine’s Day Party Guests!

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I have been so excited about this Virtual Valentine’s Day Party. Can’t believe it is finally starting today. The last few weeks I have been creating crafts with JDaniel and testing out new recipes to share with you. It has been hard to not share them with you as we did them. Many of you have been anxious to share your ideas with other party guests too. I heard from one of you that you were so excited about one of your projects you couldn’t wait until the party to share it.

The Purpose

This Valentine’s Day gathering is a time to share your party ideas, enter giveaways planned just for the party, and to mingle with other guests. I hope you take the time to share your posts and visit other party guests.

Party Idea Link Up

There is a link below for you to post your Valentine’s Day Party related posts. Each family-friendly or child-related post linked up will need to have a Virtual Valentine’s Day Party badge or a link at the bottom of it pointing back to the Virtual Valentine’s Day Party Link Up. One of the people that links up a post that contains a badge or links back will be randomly selected to receive a $10 Visa Gift Card. You may link up to four posts during the party.

Here is the badge:

What party is any fun without guests mingling and getting to know each other?

I am also going to randomly pick a comment stating the two link up posts a commenter has visited to receive a prize too. You will be able to leave as many comments as you like making the above statement. I will check to make sure that you have really visited the two posts you have said you have. The prize is a $15 Visa Gift Card.

 

Reminder:

In order to be eligible for the $15 Visa Gift Card, you have to visit two of the links above, leave comments on the posts you select, and leave me a comment telling me which two you visited. You can enter as many times as you like. You will need to visit two posts for each entry.

Examples:

Entry One: I visited links 1 and 35. Each post has a comment from me.

Entry Two: I am still visiting. This time I visited links 25 and 43. Each post has a comment from me.

Entry Nine: I am having such a great time visiting. This time I visited links 50 and 3. Each post has a comment from me.

Just leaving a comment is wonderful, but doesn’t count as an entry.

 
 
 

My Favorite Valentine’s Crafts and Ideas from Other Sites

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Here are some wonderful Valentine’s Day related blog entries and a cool website I found around the web.

Zillions of Valentine’s Day crafts and cookie projects are on Skip to My Lou. I have pictured my favorite one below.

Out of the Office has an amazing idea for a photo card with lollipop that jumps off of the page.

Activity Mom has Three Quick and Easy Heart Activities. JDaniel and I are going to do the heart hunt.

Make your own message on a graphic candy heart . You could spend hours creating these.

24/7 Moms have 14 Valentines Day Traditions and Celebrations For Families. I love their hot chocolate bar activity.

Our Country Road has a great sensory bucket activity for Valentine’s Day. This idea could be used in for any holiday or unit of study. If you like her idea, you may be able use it for St. Patrick’s Day or Easter.

Have fun checking them out. If you have an activity posted you would like me to take a look at, please leave the link for it in a comment. I will stop by and check it out.

Muffin Tin Monday-Valentine’s Day: Red Tin Part One

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Muffin Tin Monday -Valentine's Day
There isn’t a theme this week for Muffin Tin Monday. Since my blog theme is Valentine’s Day this week, I went ahead and did a red themed tin (next week’s theme on Muffin Tin Monday). I am just calling it ” Red Tin Part One”.

JDaniel had hot dogs, strawberry yogurt, red potatoes, red grapes, strawberry applesauce and a little chili with red beans. I decorated with three cookie cutters I received in a Valentine’s Day exchange with Country Mouse, City Mouse.

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