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This colorful and delicious green beans and cherry tomatoes salad was inspired by Food Network’s Giada De Laurentiis green beans salad recipe. While she also had wax beans (yellow) for an added color, I only used green beans and cherry tomatoes to keep it simple for the kids. The dressing is not hard to make either.

Last Saturday, our neighbor Miss Peggy gave us a bag of frozen pork bbq. It’s basically the southern shredded pork bbq that she stored in the freezer for future consumption and she was so nice to share some with us. All I had to do was thaw ‘em out and season for an added flavor.

After thawing, I seasoned the pork with a little bit of oil, apple cider vinegar, red wine vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, salt, pepper and a little bit of red pepper flakes. Then I made a this Avocado Cucumber & Tomato Salad W/ Cilantro salad to serve on the side.

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The original plan was just the regular tacos but after browning the ground beef then combining it with the refried beans I decided to turn tacos into Mexican Lasagna. I thought I should really create other Mexican dishes to add into the Mexican category here at Feistycook. Thankfully with Mexican dishes, I noticed that take out or add an ingredient or two, you’d still have the same base ingredients yet come up with totally different dishes. I guess it depends on how you cook a dish.

So let’s cook Mexican Lasagna..

First, we ...