January 2016 ~ Nighttime Reading Center

January 14, 2016

Recipe: Ore-Ida Tater Tot Tacos

I created this recipe on my own. I have to thank Influencer for free coupon and #OreIdaTotchos
Disclaimer: I received the Ore-Ida Tater Tot coupon in my JingleVoxBox. Give this recipe a try.

Tater Tot Tacos

Recipe by Lindsay

5 Stars stars

Prep time: 5 -10 mins
Cook time: 15 mins
Total time: 20-25 mins
Yield: 2-4
Ingredients

1 bag Tortilla Chips
1 pound Ground Meat
1 pound Ore-Ida Tater Tots
4 oz Cheese
1 packet Taco seasoning

Cooking Directions

Brown meat until it cooked. Line dish with Tortilla chips. Shred your own cheese or you can use already shredded cheese. Fry or bake Ore-Ida Tater Tots. Drain ground meat and then add Taco seasoning as directed as on packet. Stir often until seasoning is thick. If you are frying Ore-Ida tater tots, must drain on paper towel. Put taco meat on tortilla chips. Add Ore-Ida tater tots to top of the meat. Finish with cheese. You can add any additional toppings.

January 4, 2016

1:26 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

The Berenstain Bears' Harvest Festival

Children learn aout teamwork and about the the Harvest Festival

Book Title: The Berenstain Bears' Harvest Festival
Author: Mike Berenstain
Publisher: Zondervan
Publish date: 2015-08-04 (24 pages, paperback)
Series: The Berenstain Bears, Living Lights
Disclaimer: I received this book free from Book Look Blogger for an honesty review
Description:
A new addition to the bestselling Berenstain Bears' Living Lights series that teaches simple Christian truths to children.
In this newest addition to the Berenstain Bears Living Lights series, The Berenstain Bears Harvest Festival, it’s autumn in Bear Country and the Chapel in the Woods is celebrating its first ever Harvest Festival.
Young readers will delight in joining the Bear family and all their friends as they gather at Farmer Ben’s farm for this new tradition filled with the fun of apple-picking, pumpkin patch wandering, hayrides, and more.

This is another loving book for young reader. The Bear family go on an adventure and explore what the Harvest festival. This is their first one and new tradition. You can see their community. You enjoy the adventure.

The pictures can tell the story and goes along with it. Your children learn along the way with it. It great for beginner readers. The pictures are quite nicely down and you can enjoy the pictures and so can young children.

The book does teach about the festival and teamwork and community. It is a sweet book and you do see Brother and Sister's little sister Honey.

12:32 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Submarines, Secrets and a Daring Rescue

Book Title: Submarines, Secrets and a Daring Rescue

Author: Robert J. Skead with Robert A. Skead
Publisher: Zondervan
Published Date: 2015-08-04 (208 Pages, Hardback)
Series: American Revolutionary War Adventure #2
Description: A Revolutionary War action-thriller filled with spies and heroes, targeted to boys and girls 8-12. In this second book in the American Revolutionary War Adventure series, twins Ambrose and John Clark find themselves volunteering for another mission to help the newly forming United States of America. Inspired by their success in delivering a secret message to General George Washington himself, the boys step up to help transport much-needed gunpowder to the patriots and end up in an even more dangerous situation, manning one of the first submarines and then, later, attempting a prison break to rescue their older brother, Berty
Written by Robert Skead with the help of his father, the main character is based on their ancestor who fought in the American Revolution as part of the Connecticut militia. Though historical fiction, the events that occurred with George Washington in New Jersey regarding the war effort are true.

This wonderful adventure book. Are you looking a book that helps with educational help with you children. Well that draws your boys and girls. It has talks about the history of America during the Revolutionary War.

This is the second book of the series. It got the twin doing a mission for their father. It goes on from there. There seem to be a spy that following them and giving enemy the information. Who could it possibly be.

Ambrose and John seem to be thrown into a mission to make sure gunpowder get where it need to be. In the process they also need to drive the first submarine. They got to make a prison break to save their older brother.

The authors do great job with the story and also having you and all his readers guessing though out the book. Will they save their older brother? You giving the American information to enemy?

The pictures are done well and you can see what the author is talking about. The image are caping to see and look at. The author does a wonderful job with it.