Mexican Corn + Cheese Salad for Veggie Taco Night

Taco night. Ahhh, taco night. You make me smile. At our house, we love taco night. Typically, we'll do shredded chicken (from the crock pot) or ground turkey as the main ingredient for the tacos, but every once in awhile we prefer to go meatless and let the beans (black or pinto or refried, we love them all!) steal the show. But that means beans can't be our side dish... so over the weekend we tried this Mexican corn + cheese salad as our side dish and boy, we loved it. Like, taco night just got better.


one can of unsalted yellow corn + one can of unsalted white sweet corn 
(or you could use fresh corn for a much fresher taste! we used what we had in our pantry for this meal)

half of a medium red onion (or less if you prefer)

1/2 to 1 Teaspoon of chili powder (to preference)

1/4 cup of cilantro leaves

1/2 cup of Feta cheese

2 Tablespoons of mayonnaise

olive oil

salt + pepper 


1. Sautee corn in olive oil until parts "char" or blacken. Side note: this turned my non-stick pan into a mess, make sure you add water to it while hot once the pan is emptied!

2. Cool corn in the fridge for 15-20 minutes. 

3. Chop the onions and cilantro into small pieces.

4. Add all remaining ingredients to cooled corn and stir. Add a dash of salt and pepper, to taste.

Enjoy! Ole! I'll share more photos of this fun little Mexican inspired patio shoot I did soon!

Summertime All-White Bedding








Thanks to Macy's and bluebellgray for sharing your pretty pillows!

Farm Trees + Tire Swings

Out at the farm, we have a LOT of trees. We have two cleared pastures (or as HDawg says "pastras") that are 3-4 acres each, but the rest of the 17 acres is wooded. Yes, a ton of trees! David initially started clearing the scrub trees/vines/weeds out with an axe. Like, an old school hatchet. Seriously. Can you imagine how that went? "Honey, I'm headed out to the pastra with ma axe. Ring the dinner bell when it's time for me to come in." HA. But, those days are no longer thanks to my good friends at ACE Hardware. As a house warming gift... er, a farm warming gift?!... they sent us this bad boy.

I never thought I'd be excited about a chainsaw, but when you have so many trees and a HATCHET for crying out loud, a chainsaw is a must. Don't get me wrong, I'm quite the tree hugger and hate cutting trees down, but we have a lot of overgrowth on our property that needs to be tended to. When the "scrub trees" take over the good trees, the good trees will die. So in order to preserve the quality trees, you've got to cut down the junk. Make sense?

My man hard at work, people. With his CHAINSAW CHAPS on. That's a thing. They actually protect your legs from dangerous cuts, so they're kind of important. Way to be, chainsaw chaps.

And the really fun part is that once we cleared some junk out from around and under a group of trees in what will eventually be our "front yard," we had enough room for a tire swing! Read: all of Michelle's life goals are now complete, my kids have a tire swing. I can only imagine the hours of fun and time we'll spend out here under these big sassafrass and dogwood trees, playing on the tire swing.

ACE Hardware is one of my favorite go-to stores when it comes to stuff for our house or yard. I'm so happy to share their brand with you and to give them a big thumbs up, they're a great company. I noticed on their website they're having all kinds of seasonal sales right now, so go check everything out online or at your local store! If you're lucky, you can even pick yourself up a pair of chainsaw chaps and a hatchet ; )
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