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This Friday 16th September marks Mexican independence day. Which gives us a wonderful excuse to have a fun filled fiesta packed full of fantastic Mexican food!

We love our Mexican food and with the help of Santa Maria are able to make quick and tasty food. Their kits contain everything needed and quick and simple instructions enabling an evening meal to be ready quickly and one the whole family enjoy together.


A family favourite has to be fajitas, the girls love they can choose how much goes into each one. My personal favourite is burrito. This Mexican Independence Day we will be having Taco along with dips. Taco are a great fun food, the girls think they are having big crisps for dinner. We like to give them a variety of options to put in their taco along with the meat. Both girls much prefer this style of eating.


Whatever your favourite Mexican food, Santa Maria have a range which makes Mexican cooking easier. What will you have this Mexican Independence Day?


Santa Maria provided us with Taco and Fajita kits for Mexican independence day
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Sometimes during the week when I have picked the girls up from school I need a quick and simple solution to dinner. I just simply do not have the energy to cook and all I really want to do is sit and cuddle the girls on the sofa. With half term fast approaching I also want something quick and easy for dinner so I can spend as much time with the girls as possible. Lucky for me Santa Maria came to my rescue.


They sent me a rather lovely red box which contained everything I needed to make fajitas. A quick simple and tasty meal. We used the BBQ flavouring which contained just the right amount of spice for the girls, who loved their fajitas. Whilst I was cooking I opened the nachos and onion dip which the girls took great delight in scooping up onion dip into the middle of the nacho crisps. The onion dip wasn't too overpowering with onion and wasn't too sour. The girls and I loved it.

Fajita are really quick and simple to make and with Santa Maria providing everything I needed from wraps, to sauce all I had to do was provide the meat and cook. As dinner was easy to prepare and hadn't taken too much time there was time after dinner to have a cuddle on the sofa and watch the girls favourite film, Frozen.


What a perfect night thanks to Santa Maria. Quick and tasty food giving me time to have a snuggle with the girls before bed.

 I was sent a Santa Maria box and a Frozen DVD for the purpose of review.  All words and opinions are my own.

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Its almost time for the Mexican Cinco de Mayo celebrations and Discovery set us a challenge to help celebrate the taste of Mexico.

goody bag

We dived inside our Mexican goody bag to Discover

The Perfect Fajita Kit 
Cajun Chicken Mix
Soured cream Garlic and Herb

yummy Mexican selection

All very yummy!  So the first thing we did was to cook the perfect Fajita Kit.  We followed the instructions on the box, cooking chicken, pepper and onion and sat down to enjoy our perfect fajitas

fajita

The thing I really enjoy about Mexican food and in particular Fajita is that it gets the family talking, or at least it does at our table.  Its about sharing and passing the food around, helping each other make the fajita and having a good giggle if it all falls out the end.  The seasoning was just right for me it wasn't too hot, and it was also great to finally see a fajita mix that did not clump together in the pan when cooking.  The garlic and herb soured cream was a great way to cool things down.  My youngest really enjoyed it spread onto the fajita bread, as it tasted like the garlic and herb butter dips you often find with dough balls.  

enjoy fajita

I made us a non alcoholic Latin limeade to go with our dinners.  It was incredibly easy to do:

1 cup lime juice - I squeezed 4 and half limes
4 cups crushed ice
4 tbsp dark brown sugar
2 cups cold water

Mix everything together.  We found the limeade was really refreshing and went really well with our dinner.

For another dinner I made Mexican hats.  The girls really loved these they thought they were very funny.

How to make a Mexican hat

1. Follow the directions on the Cajun Chicken cooking sauce from Discovery
2. Heat up wrap from discovery according to instructions.
3. Place a spoonful of chicken into the middle of the wrap

chicken and wrap

4. Cut a wrap in half, use one half to wrap around the chicken creating the centre part of the hat

taking shape

5. Heat up the salsa and mix with a can of chopped tomatoes
6. Place salsa/tomato mix round the base of the hat

red stripe

7.  Add garlic and herb soured cream from discovery onto the salsa to create a red/white stripe 

stripes

8. Add Pepper and any other veg you like to add colour to the hat, I thought about adding grated cheese but I had none in 

FINISHED HAT

















9. Heat in oven at 190c for 5 - 10 mins
10.  Serve and enjoy

enjoying dinneryummy


















We had a lot of fun making our Mexican hats.  The girls got involved making there own hats too before tucking in and enjoying their creation.  The Cajun chicken was a little hotter that I was expecting but it was still very tasty, luckily the soured cream garlic and herb was available to help cool things down.

Enjoy the fabulous Mexican Cinco de Mayo celebrations this weekend!
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