The 4th Of July is only a little over a month away. If you are planning on hosting a party at your house or maybe even a BBQ with friends and family, here are some great red, white and blue themed recipes that you might want to make to impress your guests.

Featured recipes pictured above:

1. Red, White and Blueberry Mascarpone Parfait
2. Red White and Blue Strawberries
3. Patriotic Ice Cream Sandwiches Cookies
4. Fourth of July Pudding Popsicles
5. Food for July 4th: Red, White and Blue Firecrackers

Other patriotic themed recipes:

1. Stars & Stripes Cake Mix Cookies
2. Patriotic Cake Pops
3. Yogurt Parfaits in Tortilla Cups
4. Patriotic Popcorn Crunch
5. Red, White and Blue Brownie Pops
6. Fourth Of July Fruit Skewers
7. Red,White & Blue Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries
8. Patriotic Preschool Parfait
9. Fourth Of July Pancakes
10. Patriotic Pound Cake
11. Red, White & Blue Quinoa Salad
12. Patriotic Party S’mores
13. American Flag Cheesecake
14. Patriotic Layered Smoothie

When it comes to food, one of my favorites is Mexican food. Every week you will find me making either tacos, burritos or enchiladas for dinner. I love sour cream and guacamole and those two with Mexican food is magical! In celebration of Cinco De Mayo and my love for Mexican food, I thought I would share with you some delicious recipes I am thinking about making on Monday.

When it comes to enchiladas, even though I like both flour and corn, I mostly make them with corn tortillas. How about some enchiladas with chili? Sounds good to me. I definitely want to try these Tex-Mex Cheese Enchiladas.

I often use ground beef but there are days when I enjoy using ground turkey too! For those that prefer to use ground turkey, here is a yummy recipe for Turkey Taco Bites I want to try.

When I am eating out something I like to order is carnitas. It is something I don’t cook often at home but something I like to eat. For those that want to make carnitas just like Chipotle, here is a Chipotle’s Pork Carnitas Copycat Recipe that you can make in your crockpot.

I have only had fish tacos a couple times and really liked them. I even had a lobster taco this year. Anyhow I also recently found that I enjoy fruit based salsa. Here is a recipe I want to try for Fish Tacos With Mango Salsa and Lime Cream.

Another food I enjoy is ribs. I normally like them soaked in BBQ sauce off a grill but these Rosemary & Chimichurri Ribs look amazing!

These are just five recipes that I am thinking of trying. Stay tuned for Part 2 of this Cinco De Mayo Recipe Roundup….

Which of these five yummy dishes would you want to try?

Disclosure: The information and review items have provided by Pillsbury® through Platefull Co-Op (#platefullcoop).

I love to bake sweets and was excited to receive a box full of goodies to make one of the recipes in the Pillsbury Bake-Off 100 Winning Recipes book that was in the box. I chose to make the Peanut Butter Layer Brownies but there are 99 more recipes in this book that look amazing.

For those that know how to bake, you are going to want to enter Pillsbury’s 47th Annual Bake-Off Contest! The grand prize is 1 MILLION DOLLARS! Can you imagine your recipe that you enjoy making earning you a prize that could change your life forever? If you have a recipe you know the crowds will love, be sure to enter before it is to late.  Entries for the Weekend Breakfast Wows and Amazing Doable Dinners categories are due May 8, 2014 by 11:59a.m. Central Time. Here is a list of the prizes:

• 1 Grand Prize: $1,00,000 and $10,000 in GE Appliances
• 3 Recipe Category Prizes: $10,000 and $3,000 in GE Appliances
• Special Awards (valued at $5,000 each), including the GE Imagination at Work Award, Jif® Peanut Butter Award, Crisco is Cooking TM Award, Eagle Brand® Signature Recipe Award, Pillsbury® Gluten Free Award, Pillsbury® Clever Twist Award, WatkinsTM Vanilla Award and Reynolds® Baking Magic Award
• 100 Finalists Prizes, including a trip to the Contest Finals in Nashville

Now back to the brownies. I have a copy of the Pillsbury Bake-off 100 Winning recipes and chose to make the Peanut Butter Layer Brownies. It was so hard to choose one recipe so I actually bought ingredients to make a few of them.

These brownies came out delicious. I even brought some of them over to my grandparents for sweet surprise!  Ready for the recipe?

Here is the original recipe from the Pillsbury Bake-Off 100 Winning Recipes book:

The recipe does call for extra crunchy peanut butter but I used the creamy kind. I also accidentally grabbed hot cocoa with marshmallows but it worked out just perfect!

Now to get in the kitchen to come up with that 1 million dollar recipe!