This is Mama Miche and today in My Magic Kitchen: Kitchen Sink Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing!

The creamy avocado dressing is the star of any salad it tops. I love making it fresh and it’s perfect when you’re doing a fridge purge and need to use the avocados. We started keeping our avocados in water in the fridge and it’s the best hack to keep avocados fresh in the fridge for a month! I was constantly throwing out avocados and let’s face it, food is way too expensive to throw out. We all have some waste but we do our best to use what we buy and not waste food or money.

This is Mama Miche and today in My Magic Kitchen: Taco Salad.
This is the next in our summer salad series, but this is a hit any time of the year.

If you have picky eaters, it can be such a pain in the ass to feed them and I almost became a short-order cook. I realized, right quick, that I was not up to cooking that many meals for a family of four. I wasn’t running a restaurant so I established the same rules I grew up with. My Momster would tell me to try it if you don’t like it, you don’t have to eat it. That worked for me. I was an adventurous eater and developed a desire to try new things.

Do you think it worked on my tiddly peeps? Hell no! They wouldn’t even take a “no, thank you bite”, and I was discouraged. So, I always had 2 things I knew they would eat (carrot sticks, watermelon, rice, or pasta) and I knew they wouldn’t starve. Eventually, I wore them down. Now, they try new things. Our son turns 15 soon and like most boys his age, eats his weight in food. He is proud of the fact that he has helped his picky friends try new foods at our home. Now, one of his friends eats more than chicken nuggets, fries, and pizza. Tacos were one of the foods he tried at our home and liked. That and my butter chicken won him over. I’ll share that recipe soon! It’s a winner, too.