Monkey Bread...Yummmmmy!!!!!!!!!!

Monkey Bread is a tradition in our house on Thanksgiving morning. But the kids always beg for it all year long because it is so yummy! I found a new fun way to make it that is quicker and makes individual servings. It is still made the same way, just in muffin tins.

You need the rolls of refrigerated biscuits ( I use the cheap small ones )

cinnamon
sugar

butter or margarine

Grease muffin tins.

Cut each biscuit into quarters.

Roll each piece in cinnamon sugar.

Place pieces in muffin tins ( i put approx. 2 biscuits/8 pieces per tin).

Melt butter and mix in cinnamon sugar.

Pour a couple of spoonfuls of cinnamon sugar butter mixture into each tin.

Bake at 350 degrees for 15-17 mins.

Let them cool about 5 mins. Then turn tin over onto a plate, foil or tray.

Now you have individual servings of super yummy monkey bread!

Keep your mitts off my monkey bread!

It was all gobbled up soooo fast!!!

An Okinawan Specialty

Okinawa has many many Mexican restaurants. I am guessing that is how one of my favorite local dishes came about. When you first hear "taco rice" you may think "Eeewww" what is that....

Let me tell you, it is simply DELICIOUS! A dish not many have heard of, but most who have LOVE it! So I will share my version of the Okinawan treat known as Taco Rice.

Most restaurants here serve it with a ground beef taco seasoned meat, but I don't care for beef all that much so I use chicken.

You will need cooked white (or brown) rice.

Lettuce shredded or chopped up.

1 packet taco seasoning

Cheddar or Mexican cheese.(I prefer the Mexican blend from Sargento)

ground beef or in this case a few chicken breasts.

I have a rice cooker, so I start that 1st. If you don't have one just make plain rice as per the directions on the package.

Then I cut up the chicken breasts and brown it in a pan with salt and pepper.

This next step is optional, but my family prefers it this way, I take either a chopper or a masher and grind up the chicken. It is then almost the consistency or ground meat. Add the taco seasoning and water as directed.

Now all you have to do is dish out rice into each bowl.

Add the taco meat.

Top with cheese.

Add lettuce.

Voila, TACO RICE!!!