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  • Foodie Friday – Chili Chicken Tortilla Soup

    Foodie Friday – Chili Chicken Tortilla Soup

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    Wow! What a response we got last week! I have loved looking at all your recipes, and hope you all continue to share your kitchen goodness with us!
    Miz Helen shared with us her families recipe for Cherry Pie.  Although I’m still looking for a good recipe that uses lard in the crust, I’m excited to try out Miz Helen’s pie recipe. The twisted crusts on top are just beautiful!
    As part of our freezer meals I put up last week, I made a Chicken Tortilla Soup. I used Oven Love’s recipe as my follow recipe, but made some changes to fit a more mild taste bud.  Mind you one of the changes was actually pretty huge, because my pregnant brain read and interpreted the ingredient completely wrong, lol. So instead of a Chicken Tortilla Soup I give you my very own concotion of
    Chili Chicken Tortilla Soup
    Ingredients
    olive oil
    1 yellow onion, chopped
    2 clove garlic (I used a jar of minced garlic)
    2 tsp chopped fresh cilantro
    1 can tomato with onion and roasted garlic
    1 can mild chili*
    1 tsp ground cumin
    4 cups chicken stock
    1 boneless skinless chicken breast (1/2 lb), cooked and cut into bite size pieces
    salt and pepper to taste
    *Oven Love’s recipe called for a can of chili in adobo sauce. Big difference between that and a can of chili soup, lol. Got to love mindless cooking!

    Directions

    Heat 1 tbs olive oil in frying pan over medium. Add onion, garlic and 2 tsp cilantro. Saute until golden, about 10 minutes. Combine onion mixture, tomatoes and chili in a food blender until smooth.
    In the same frying pan, heat another tablespoon oil. Add the tomato mixture and cumin. Cook until thickened and darkened, 5-6 minutes.
    Transfer the mixture to a large pot over medium heat and add chicken stock. Cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, until soup is slightly thickened, about 15-20 minutes. Add the cooked chicken and stir until warmed through, about 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

    To freeze, place your pot directly in the freezer to let it cool down a bit. 10-20 minutes. Then you can either pour it into a large freezer bag, or smaller container with an air tight lid.
    To reheat, remove from freezer, dump it back into a pot, and heat through. I used a crock pot, but it kept the soup from really thickening up, so I would suggest using the stove top if you want a thicker soup.

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  • Foodie Friday – Grandma’s Recipes and a winner

    Foodie Friday – Grandma’s Recipes and a winner

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    If you’ve been following along this last week, you’ll know that my Grandma passed away last Thursday. She went peacefully in her sleep.  I’ve been thinking about her all week, and all the memories I have her. Although the one thing most people remember about my Grandma are her Quilts, I have some memories of her food as well.
    One of Grandma’s best recipes was for pie! No one could make a pie like my Grandma could. To avoid the War, my Grandpa took a job at a ranch, and my Grandma became cook for the ranchers. She made a fresh pie every day to serve with dinner, and as a result had a very tasty pie recipe.
    I’m extremely sad to say I can’t share her recipe with you. Turns out, she did it all by look and feel, and no one has a recipe. I can tell you however that one of the main ingredients in her crust was Lard. 
    So if anyone out there has a pie crust recipe with Lard in it, please do share with me!
    Then I started thinking about other foods she would make or eat regularly. Potatoes! Growing up her dad would eat potatoes every morning for breakfast. She loved some fried potatoes, baked potatoes, and potato casseroles. Specifically scalloped potatoes. Again, I have no recipe.
    Finally I remembered the perfect food memory with a recipe to share with you.
    A Tomato!
    I kid you not, my Grandma liked to eat a slice of tomato with just a little salt. As a child I thought this was the weirdest way to eat a tomato. Don’t get me wrong, I liked tomatoes, but they belong in a salad- with lettuce, and carrots and cucumbers. Not all alone on a plate.  Turns out she had a good thing going, tomatoes are pretty good all alone.
    I’m going to take todays recipe one step further for you though. When I married Mark I became aware of another very odd way of eating tomatoes. A tomato sandwich. No bacon or lettuce with it. Just tomato. Turns out Mark knew that tomatoes were good without anything extra.
    Tomato Sandwich
    Ingredients
    -small Roma Tomato, sliced
    -2 slices bread
    – miracle whip or mayo
    – salt and pepper
    Directions
    Choose your bread. Any bread works. My personal favorite though is an Onion Bagel.  Spread some Miracle Whip on one side of each bread slice.  Add tomato slices to your hearts desire. Season with a little salt and pepper. Sit back and enjoy a very refreshing sandwich.
     Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
    If you linked up a recipe last week you were entered into a giveaway for a $25 Walmart Gift Card. Unfortunately I can only give it to a US resident (so sorry!).  Thanks to Random.org our winner is
    Amanda from At the Red Table
    with her recipe for Pasta e Fagioli
    Thanks for linking up Amanda!!
    Now it’s your turn!  Please join Diane and I in sharing some of your favorite recipes on the linky below. Feel free to link up as many recipes as you like, as long as you haven’t linked them with us before. Also if you’d like to grab our button and post it on your site, we’d love you forever! (OH and it will be smaller when you paste it, I just like mine big).
    Happy Recipe Hunting

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  • Pillsbury Bake-Off: 100’s of recipes

    Every year Pillsbury has a Bake-Off contest. Well, did you know that if you visit Bakeoff.com you can get the recipes from 100’s of finalists?  I’ve spent the last week just browsing the site, letting my mouthwater, lol.  I ended up picking 3 different recipes I really wanted to try out soon! 
    Soon came sooner than expected, lol. I went to Walmart yesterday to grab some ingredients.  On the way home, I heard a pop! I thought maybe something just rolled out of the bag, but when I got home I found my Pillsbury breadsticks had popped open (thank sudden heat wave!).  With 20 minutes before I needed to pick up Princess V I whipped up a batch of these Open Sesame Pick-Up Sticks.
    Oh my goodness they were so delicious!!  The kids didn’t seem to care for the sesame seeds on them, but Mark and I sure enjoyed them!  I’ll definitely be making these again!
    Also on my list to try out soon are these
    White Chocolate Strawberry Yogurt Parfaits
    White Chocolate-Strawberry Yogurt Parfaits
    and this
    Peanut Butter Cookie Granola
    Peanut Butter Cookie Granola

    Check out BakeOff.com for many many more yummy recipes. Then before you head to the store, check Walmart’s Everyday Saver for coupons on some of the main ingredients in many of these recipes.

    To get you baking some of these yummy recipes, you can enter to win a $25 Walmart Gift card Here

    *The gift card, information, and giveaway have been provided by Walmart and General Mills, through MyBlogSpark.  I was compensated with a gift card to try out the products. All opinions are my own!
  • Menu Plan Monday 3/12

    Menu Plan Monday 3/12

    Last week we tried a Pork with Strawberry Balsamic Sauce. I LOVED it. I thought the strawberries would be a great addition for the kids. Turns out my kids prefer Pork over cooked strawberries. I don’t mind really, because it means they got some meat in their diets. I also know if the strawberries hadn’t been cooked, they would’ve been preferred over the pork. I love watching my kids enjoy good healthy food!

    Monday – Home Made Pizza. No Bake Cookies
    Tuesday – Mac and Cheese. I’ll be at the doctors, so trying to make it easy for Mark!
    Wednesday – Plum Pork
    Thursday – Soup in bread bowls
    Friday – Egg stuffed Potatoes
    Saturday – Sugar crusted Vanilla French toast for breakfast.  Leftovers for dinner
    Sunday – Slow cooker Chili
    Saturday my sister in law is throwing me a baby shower. Since it’s also St Patty’s day, I’m going to be baking up some fun treats for it with the kids. Things like –

    Sweet Pineapple Steawberry Spa Water
    Orange Sorbet for pots of gold
    Green thin mint cookie truffles

    and a nice Rainbow Fruit Platter

    What’s on your menu this week?

  • Foodie Friday – Pork and Potatoes (w/linky)

    Foodie Friday – Pork and Potatoes (w/linky)

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    It’s funny, last night as I was thinking what recipe to share I started talking food with Mark. His first thought was a Plum Pork I had made years ago. We loved it so much, we had it probably monthly for awhile. Then I must have misplace the recipe when we moved, and had forgotten all about it. Well, it happens it was the exact recipe I  had started thinking about this week too!
    So without further ado, I give you
    Plum Pork
    Ingredients
    – Pork chops
    – Plum sauce (usually found in the asian aisle at your grocery store)
    – 1 Tbs worcestire sauce
    Directions
    Place the pork in a non-stick frying pan, over medium-low heat. Brown on one side, and then flip. Mix the plum sauce with the worcestire sauce. Spread the plum sauce on the cooked side of pork, while the other side cooks. Cook until middle is no longer pink. It really doesn’t take too long.
    What I love about this is you can adapt it to different cuts of pork. I’m adding it to next weeks menu on some pork ribs. Instead of browning on the stove top, I’ll put it under the broiler.
    Last week – Fun, Easy Recipes for Kids linked up
    Red Potatoes
    These are so easy, and should be fun to let my kids help out in the kitchen. Although we’re not having Plum Pork tonight, we are having Pork with Strawberry Balsamic Sauce and these potatoes on the side! My mouth is already watering!
    We’d love to see what’s cooking in your kitchen!

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  • Foodie Friday – Hashbrown Stackers

    Foodie Friday – Hashbrown Stackers

    For Princess C’s birthday in february we took her out to IHOP.  Mark debated what to get, and despite choosing something differnet, we were inpsired by the Hashbrown stacks. I personally figured there wouldn’t be anything amazing to eggs, ham and hashbrowns all stacked on top of each other.
    Boy was I WRONG!  We made our own Hashbrown stackers for dinner this week, and I think it was some of the best food I’ve eaten in a long time!!

    IHOP inspired Hashbrown Stackers

    4 eggs
    1 bag of frozen shredded hashbrowns
    2 pieces thick sliced ham or turkey (I accidently bought turkey instead of ham)
    Hollandaise Sauce
    1 cup Shredded cheddar cheese
    On a griddle fry up the eggs, hasbrowns, and ham. If making your own Hollandaise sauce, get this prepared. I used Knorr Hollandaise Sauce Mix.  On 2 plates begin stacking – hashbrowns, ham, 2 eggs, Hollandaise sauce and shredded cheese.
    Serves 2.
    Foodie Friday
    Foodie Friday is a weekly link party hosted here at Home Maid Simple and at Simple Living with Diane Balch.  We invite you to link up your recipes below and hop around to find some more amazing foods!
    Last week Around My Family Table shared with us her list of favorite soups! I pinned most of them, because I want to make them! Oh they look so delicious!  If you’re looking for a good soup recipe check out her list!
    Around My Family Table
    We ask that if you link up you link directly to your recipe’s URL, not your homepage. Also, we’d love it if you’d grab one of our buttons located in our sidebars to add to your post. Thanks so much!
    ~Happy Cooking~

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  • Foodie Friday – Hot Chocolate

    Welcome to Foodie Friday! Hosted by Home Maid Simple and Simple Living With Diane Balch.
    Each week we will be bringing you tried and true recipes from our home to yours.   We’d love for you to join in the Foodie fun and link up your recipes below.

    I love hot chocolate. I always have. Something about it just warms me up – and not just the fact that it’s hot. It can take a hard day and turn it around for me.  But I am picky. I’m not one for those flavored hot chocolates.  We were at IHOP last week for Princess C’s birthday dinner, and I ordered one of their new caramel hot chocolates. I thought, caramel and hot chocolate would be perfect together, but I didn’t much care for it. Mark thoroughly enjoyed it though. I’ve decided it’s really just a taste preference. I prefer my hot chocolate to be thick and creamy.

    Well, I’ve been stumbling across a bunch of hot chocolates on pinterest lately.  Even though our winter has been more like spring this year, I still wanted some good old hot cocoa to chase away the dreary undecided weather (seriously, it needs to make up it’s mind!).  So today I hit up the local grocery store for some chocolate chips and made this fabulous Crock Pot Hot Chocolate from Real Mom Kitchen.

    Crock Pot Hot Chocolate
    1 1/2 cups heavy cream
    1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed cream
    2 cups milk chocolate chips
    6 cups milk  – I used both whole and 2%
    1 tsp vanilla extract
    Directions
    Put all the ingredients in a crock pot. Turn on low for 2 hours. Whisk every 30 minutes (or whenever you remember).  Enjoy! 
    Although this does make an excellent hot chocolate, and my kids loved it, I’m going to suggest using a bit less chocolate chips, or possibly try semi-sweet instead of milk chocolate. It was very thick and very chocolatey. Almost on the verge of feeling like I was drinking straight melted chocolate, but not quite. I’ll definitely be trying this again with my suggested alterations.
    This week I am also featuring Mrs Mordecai’s Meatless Nachos! Thanks for linking up last week! If you’re looking for a meatless meal, this is it! We had it for dinner this week, and we all ate it up. Just make sure you double the cheese sauce recipe. We could’ve used a bit more cheese for all the lentils we had, but I plan on using the lentils in some meatless burritos for another meal!
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  • Foodie Friday

    Foodie Friday

    Foodie Friday

    This week I’m featuring a recipe from {Trulie Scrumptious}. These blogging sisters are so much fun, and pretty creative too. When I saw their Chicken Alfredo lasagna rolls I knew we were going to have to make them.

    Chicken Alfredo Lasagna Rolls

    3 chicken breasts
    Dash of garlic salt
    1 bottle Alfredo sauce
    Lasagna noodles

    Directions
    Cook and shred the chicken. Add a dash of garlic salt, set aside. Cook lasagna noodles so they’re soft, but not too soft (I always struggle with overlooking my noodles). Drain the noodles, and rinse under cold water. Pat dry with some paper towels. Spread some Alfredo sauce on each noodle, add some chicken, and roll up. Place them in a 9×13 baking dish. Cover with any remaining Alfredo sauce. Cook at 350 F for 30 minutes.

    Mark absolutely loves lasagna dishes, and these were no exception. A pan or two will be making it to our freezer prior to baby prince’s arrival. Thank you {Trulie-scrumptious} for linking up last week, and providing us a truly scrumptious meal!

    We’d love to see what’s cooking in your kitchen! Maybe you’ll be featured next week!

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  • Menu Monday

    Menu Monday


    It’s going to be a fun week of baking over here! We started yesterday making some no-bakes, Mark’s favorite.  Mark even joined in the fun, and they were probably the best no-bake’s we’ve made in a long time.
    What are you cooking up this week?

    Monday – Spaghetti and Garlic Bread
    Tuesday – Hamburger Helper. Cocoa Creme Brulee for an “after kids are in bed” treat.
    Wednesday – Chicken Alfredo Lasagna Rolls
    Thursday – Princess C’s birthday. She has planned her menu for the day as follows
                Breakfast – pancakes
                Lunch – Mini Corn Dogs
                Dinner – Pizza
                And of course we’ll be having some cupcakes as well!
    Friday – Crock Pot Fried Rice
    Saturday – Leftovers
    Sunday – Broccoli Cheddar Soup in bread bowls

    For Princess C’s birthday we’re having a morning play date. I’ve got a couple cupcake ideas, I just haven’t decided which to make yet.

  • Menu Plan Monday 1/30

    Menu Plan Monday 1/30

    With our brand new pantry, I’ve been surprised to find a lot of ingredients I didn’t know I had! It’s so nice to be able to see all my food. So this week, I’m cleaning out the ingredients, and keeping our grocery budget on the low!

    Monday – Chicken Bacon Guacamole Quesadilla’s

    Tuesday – White Bean Soup with Garlic
    Wednesday –  Santa Fe Chicken Salad
    Thursday – Family Dinner at my parents
    Friday – Dinner out. We’re going on vacation!
    Saturday – Up in the air. It’s either dinner out, or stopping by my parents on our way home.
    Sunday – Pasta

    What are you dining on this week?  Please come back Friday for our new Foodie Friday link up to add any recipes you’ve tried!