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Sunday, February 27, 2011

A Recipe for You!

Lately I've been trying to do all parts of a meal from scratch. I found a really easy recipe for bread on Betty Crocker's website. It resembles the Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Here are the ingredients.


Here is the link to the recipe! Superrrrrr easy and YUMMY!


I also wanted to try another recipe I had found for veggie enchiladas. In the comments section a lot of people had added chicken or shrimp, so I marinated the chicken in hot sauce all day and then baked it in the oven covered to keep it very moist. I then shredded it with two forks and prepared the rest of the enchiladas. They turned out wonderful!



YUM!

One easy weeknight meal for us is chicken pot pie. I found the recipe in my Hungry Girl cookbook awhile back and have tweaked it to our liking.

Ingredients:
1 can of reduced fat crescent rolls
1 large can of Veg-all veggies
2 cans white chunk chicken
1 can cream of celery soup

First, count out five squares of crescent rolls and roll out to line the bottom of a pie plate. Poke the bottom with a fork to ensure it doesn't bubble and bake (at temperature on crescent roll can) for about 10 minutes until slightly cooked. (This is so it's not soggy on the bottom once you add the chicken.)


In a large bowl combine soup and desired amounts of chicken and veggies (we normally use all veggies and 1 1/2 cans of chicken. Season to taste (we used garlic salt, pepper maybe some oregano).



Spread in the half baked pie crust. Roll remaining three crescent rolls and top pie. Cut small slits in crust so it does not bubble. Back for another 10-15 minutes until crust is brown.



Viola!

Last recipe is for Coconut-Blueberry Cheesecake Bars. These bars a a little labor intensive but well worth the efforts. I've been wanting to try them for awhile and decided to make them for a Superbowl party. Here is the link to the recipe below.






Yum!!

More recipes to come! :)

Much Love,
WB

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Valentine's Day!

We FINALLY got to put together Chris's grill that he got for his birthday! The weather was so nice and we really enjoyed hanging out and working on it together. The instructions said it would only take 45 minutes to put together. Mind you Chris had already started on it and it still took us 2 more HOURS! But the wait was well worth it, Sunday night we cooked jalapeno cheddar burgers....YUM!


For Valentine's day (since all the reservations where either 5 or 9) Chris decided to cook for me. To my surprise he decided to cook LOBSTER! The man sure is an ambitious chef! He found a youtube video on Lobster 101. Check it out if your interested!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmkeWSnxkzY

We both watched it when I came home and then started our lobster endeavor.



They turned out BEAUTIFUL!


Add a few mini sea scallops and asparagus and viola!


I guess I threw away all my old flower vases when I moved into our new place so Chris improvised with one of our decorative vases.




Chris rented Life As We Know It and we had a wonderful date night! Love you babe!

I have a lot more food pictures and recipes to catch up on but I'll save that for another time! Yay for Saturday's blogging in bed!

Much Love,

Whit