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EASY ENCHILADAS

Prep and Cook Time:30 min.

Ingredients:

12 Corn tortillas

1 package enchilada sauce mix

1 lb. ground beef

2 tbl. instant minced onion or 1/2 cup chopped fresh onion

2 cups shredded Cheddar or Monterey Jack Cheese

1/4 cup chopped or sliced black olives

Directions:

In a medium, saucepan prepare enchilada sauce mix as directed on the package. In a large fry pan, brown the ground beef and onion. Drain excess fat. Stir 1/2 cup enchilada sauce into the meat mixture.

To assemble, dip each tortilla into the sauce. Spoon about 2 tbl. Meat mixture and 1 tablespoon cheese down the center of each tortilla. Roll into thirds and place seam side down in a 9 by 13 inch baking dish. When all the tortillas are assembled, pour the remaining sauce over the top. Sprinkle with olives and extra cheese.

Cover with foil; bake for 20 minutes until heated through and the cheese is melted.

Rating 5 of 5 Stars  So easy I have enchilada's all the time now. The kids love this and make it themselves now.

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If you are like my family, we eat chicken several times a week and so I thought your family might too. I ran across Audrey's recipes and thought I would share them with you all.

More Easy Chicken Breast Recipes

Posted By Audrey Okaneko On September 20, 2008 @ 9:01 pm In Recipes | No Comments

We eat chicken several times per week, so we always experiment with new flavors and new recipes. If time is limited, I always suggest buying a bottle of either already made marinade or salad dressing and marinating the chicken while you’re at work. The flavor seeps into the chicken and when you get home from work, just bake for an hour and you’ll have a delicious flavored chicken.

In this article I’d like to share 2 fruit flavored chicken recipes and one herb flavored recipe. They are Italian Flavored Chicken, Pineapple Flavored Chicken and Apricot Flavored Chicken.

Pineapple Flavored Chicken

3-4 chicken breasts
4 cloves of garlic, minced
½ inch slice of ginger, minced
1 medium sized onion, chopped
1 can evaporated milk
1 can crushed pineapple
½ cup soy sauce
butter for sautéing

Mix together, pineapple, ginger and soy sauce. Marinate chicken in pineapple mixture for 2-3 hours. Saute garlic and onion for a couple of minutes. Add chicken breasts and cover. Cook about 15 minutes. Add marinade to pan and bring to a boil. Cook until done. Once the chicken is done, add the milk, mix and cook a few minutes more.

Italian Flavored Chicken

4 chicken breasts
1/3 cup Italian salad dressing
1 cup parmesan cheese
1 cup Italian bread crumbs
3 large eggs, beaten

Marinate chicken for one hour in Italian dressing. Mix together cheese and bread crumbs. Dip chicken into eggs. Roll chicken in cheese and bread crumb mixture. Pour Italian dressing over chicken and bake for about 45 minutes at 350 degrees.

Apricot Chicken

6 chicken breasts
1 package dry onion soup mix
flour to lightly dust the chicken pieces
1 can apricot nectar
1 can apricot halves
1 small onion, chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Lightly dust the chicken in flour. Place chicken in baking dish. Salt and pepper to taste. Place the chopped onions and soup mix on the chicken breasts. Pour the apricots and nectar over the chicken and bake about an hour at 350 degrees.

Note: I have used apricot preserves and it comes out wonderfully.
Bon Appetite!!

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Audrey’s mom always entertained when she was growing up. Audrey learned to prepare for large groups and has often entertained 15-30 people in her home at a time. You can find more great recipes at www.recipe-barn.com

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Blogging is becoming an increasingly popular way for entrepreneurs to earn a living online while doing something they really enjoy. In many cases bloggers can profit with very little effort.

There may be quite a bit of work involved in the beginning with designing a method of gaining revenue and promoting the website but once this is established simply maintaining the blog with regular postings may be enough to keep the revenue rolling in.

Two of the most popular methods for generating a profit from blogging include advertising methods. This includes advertising with AdSense and securing independent advertisers. This article will discuss these two methods of advertising on a blog.

Using AdSense to Generate Revenue

Using AdSense is one of the most popular ways for bloggers to generate revenue from their blog. This method is so popular because it is also very simple. AdSense is a program offered by Google where bloggers agree to have advertisements on their website and are compensated when users click on these advertisements. Bloggers simply have to create a blog and submit the website address of the blog as well as some other information to apply for participation in AdSense. Once a blog is approved the owner is given code they can simply copy and paste to have advertisements displayed on their blog. Google then serves appropriate advertisements each time the blog is accessed.

Whenever possible, the advertisements served on the blog are closely related to the content of the blog because Google crawls the website ahead of time to determine which advertisements are relevant to the content. Blog owners do have some ability to place restrictions on the types of advertisements which may appear on the blog. For example the blog owner can specify adult advertisements are not to appear on the blog and Google will filter these out.

How Advertisements on a Blog Generate Revenue

Many bloggers use advertisements on their blogs to generate a profit. This method of advertising is more difficult than using AdSense but it can be significantly more financially beneficial to the blogger. This method of advertising is similar to the type of targeted advertising often seen in magazines. For example magazines for parents often feature advertisements which will appeal to parents such as advertisements for toys, children’s clothing or foods popular with children.

Likewise a magazine for runners may feature advertisements for shoes, athletic clothing, races or training equipment. In these cases the advertisers pay for advertising space in the magazine in the hopes that the magazine’s audience will be enticed to purchase products or services after seeing these advertisements.

Blog owners can use this type of advertising but it can be hard to find willing advertisers. However, there are some factors which may make an advertiser more willing to have an advertisement appear on a blog. One of the most important factors for advertisers is the amount of traffic the blog receives. This is important because advertisers who are paying for ad space are more likely to invest in a blog with high traffic than one with very little traffic.

Another important factor for advertisers is the focus of the blog. Advertisers are more likely to purchase advertising space from a blog with a specific focus of interest to the advertiser’s target audience. Like the examples listed previously of magazines for parents and runners, advertisers want to advertise on a blog which is already reaching the same target audience.

Bloggers who utilize advertising on their website may be compensated in a number of different ways. Some advertisers may pay a set fee for the advertisement to run on the website for either a set amount of time or for a set number of page views. This means the advertiser may purchase space for a set number of days, weeks or months or may purchase space for a set number of times the advertisement is served to website visitors.

Alternately the advertiser may choose to compensate the blogger according to the number of times specific actions occur. This may include users clicking through the advertisement or users making a purchase after clicking through the advertisement. The type of compensation offered will have to be worked out between the blogger and advertiser beforehand to determine a fair method of payment.

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Home Party Plan Businesses.

They are easy to start, and a fun way to get out and meet people, perfect for the work at home mom (WAHM), but, make no mistake about it, they are a business.  If you do not treat it like a business you will fail.  The lure of most Home Party Plan Businesses, is simple; they are cheap to start and most people are already using the products and love them, so, they figure why not sell them and make some extra money. 

If it is such an easy business to start and inexpensive, why is that most people do not stay in these businesses very long?  That will be the focus of this blog.  Is it really that hard to make it in the multi level marketing business, or is there an easier way to grow your home party plan business?

95% of MLMer’s will give up on their dreams in the first year of starting their business!

Many will quit in just three months. Why?

Most new independent home party consultants are excited and terrified when they sign their initial contract. Three months later, the excitement is gone, replaced by the knowledge that the product does not actually sell itself, as they have been told. Within their first year, they give up altogether.

Many reasons are given to explain why a person gives up on themselves and their dreams so quickly. The reason I have heard most often for why people give up on their dreams so quickly, is “I couldn’t make money fast enough, or, I thought it was going to be easier.”

They thought they were going to get into this and it was going to be so easy.  Someone told them, you don’t have to sell, just share with people our opportunity and they will want it. Unfortunately many believe this line and it is simply not true.

They are told about million dollar yearly commission made by some independent consultants. While this is true, those making that commission did’t sit on their butts waiting for the product to sell itself. I will explore many different options here to help you achieve success in your own Home Party Plan Business or Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM) business. 

First lesson:  Don’t rely totally on your upline for information to make your business grow.  Your upline will tell you, “Why reinvent the wheel,” or “It has worked for 50 years now, stick with what works.” Honey, it’s not working!!  That is why the failure rate of most multi level marketing businesses is so high.  Hopefully others will post here telling of their successes and well as failures so we can all learn from them.

One of my favorite home party plan websites is  www.pinkrenegade.com they have lots of information on how to start a Home Party Plan Business.  Sandy's focus is on Mary Kay, Arbonne, Avon, but you can see how much of what she talks about will work for any home party plan business.  You will get lots of tips to help you get started without having to bug all your friends and family to host parties for you.  Go to visit my friend at www.pinkrenegade.com now!

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Seems like a simple enough thing right?  Need a picture of something, go to google images and download anything you want!

Not so fast there.  Do you know that using someone else's images can be illegal?  Like anything thing else in this world, someone probably owns the rights to that picture and you could get into trouble for using it without permission.

You say, "But everybody does it!"  Everybody used to share music files online too, until they cracked down on that.  Recently a woman was ordered to pay $80,000 per 24 songs that she downloaded illegally!!! Yikes!

There are enough site where you can actually get free or inexpensive photos, that you really don't need to set yourself up for a lawsuit.

Some of the websites that I use frequently are Bigfoto.com, Freedigitalphotos.net, Publicdomainpictures.net, and Microsoft.com (Microsoft is not as nice about where and when you can use their photos but still a good source.

If I can not find what I want I always go to Bigstockphoto.com they have this HUGE selection of pictures and you can get any picture there for as little as $1.  This is big folks... someplace charge you $25 to $50 for one photo!!!  That is crazy.

Bigstockphoto.com has everything you could ever ask for, from backgrounds, to people, food, abstracts, you name it they've got it.

Here you buy credits to buy your photos and depending on how large a photo you want is how many credits you pay for it.  Now, if you are using this for your website or blog you do not need anything over a medium size photo which is 2 credits worth.

Credits worth depends on how many credits you buy but if you buy 30 credits which can get you 30 wonderful pictures that you can use anywhere and any time you want with out fear of a lawsuit or having to pull a picture off you site.  30 credits will cost you a meer $45 in this instance!!!  Come on.. that is $1.50 a credit for a photo that is yours to use any way you see fit.  It is a beautiful thing!

I have spent way to much money at Bigstockphoto because I love their photos!  They have something for everything I have ever thought of and somethings I plan to write just because I found a photo and now have to put words to it!!!

Don't get into trouble with the photos you use on your website or blog, it is not worth the trouble.  Get your photos for free (just be sure to give them credit) or buy yours for a minimal charge at Bigstockphoto.com.

You won't be sorry, spend a couple dollars and stay out of jail or avoid a lawsuit that could cost you thousands!

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