Pigs In a Blanket

I'm going to apologize early for this post. I don't have a photographer for my food pictures so my pitures always look ghetto especially this picture. Anyway, regardless of the ghetto picture, Pigs in a Blanket is one of my favorite-quick meal time recipes. Caleb likes it too so! Just about everyone's already heard of it, but I'll share the recipe anyway just in case, especially because I make it w/ a couple modifications.

Pigs In a Blanket

6 oscar mayer cheese dogs

Pillsbury Butter Flake Crescent Rolls

Provolone Cheese Slices, each cut into strips

Heat oven to 360°F. Slit hot dogs to within 1/2 inch of ends; insert 3 strips of cheese into each slit.

Separate dough into 6 rectangles. Wrap dough rectangle around each hot dog. Place on ungreased cookie sheet, cheese side up.

Bake at 360°F for 12 minutes or until golden brown.

IHOP French Toast

So I went to Great Harvest Bread Today and bought a loaf of white bread. I NEVER eat bread unless its from Great Harvest. They make bread exactly the way I like it: Thick and chewy. And then tonight I noticed a carton of fresh whipping cream in the fridge. And I started thinking back about the IHOP french toast recipe off of thesisterscafe.com that Iv'e been wanting to try forever, so I knew I had to make it right then, and I'm so glad I did! The results were more than perect. And I'm not sure if it is because this is such an amazing recipe or if its just because great harvest bread makes awesome french toast, but whatever the reason, it really was the BEST french toast EVER. So I'll for sure be making this one on the regular.

IHOP FRENCH TOAST

(original recipe: thesisterscafe.com)

(my modifications are printed in red, and of course they're just optional)

2 eggs (I used 1 whole egg + 2 yolks)

1/2 cup whole milk (i used 1/4 C vanilla almond milk + 1/4 C cream)

1/8 t salt

1 t vanilla

3 or 4 Tablespoons Flour 

4 slices Great Harvest white bread

Whisk ingredients together in med size bowl. Dip bread front and back allowing each side to soak a couple min. Fry bread in butter in nonstick skillet over med heat till lightly golden on each side. Sprinkle w/ powdered sugar. Top with Coconut syrup and whipping cream or whatever other toppings you'd like.

Topping Ideas:

buttermilk syrup, strawberry syrup, marshmallow fluff, peanut butter, butter, whipping cream, bananas

((tonight I got carried away and used all of the above(: except for the bananas))

Oreo Pudding Cookies

These are so good! I don't think I can ever eat regular chocolate chip cookies again after trying these):

Oreo Pudding Cookies

(recipe adapted from thegirlwhoateeverything)

1 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup sugar

1 small package instant Oreo Pudding mix

2 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 1/2 cups Hershey's cookies&creme drops

1 1/2 cups mini m&ms

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine flour and soda in a small bowl and set aside. Cream together butter and sugar. Beat in pudding mix until blended, then eggs and vanilla. Add flour and soda mixture. Stir in cookies n cream drops and m&m's. Using a cookie dough scooper, place dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Let cookies cool for 5 minutes on baking sheet before moving to a cooking rack. Store in air-tight container. Makes two dozen.

The Cocoa Bean Cupcake Cafe

Tonight I also stopped at The Cocoa Bean Cupcake Cafe. Their cupcakes are way better than sweet tooth fairy's cupcakes. Actually ALL of the cupcakes at cocoa Bean are better than sweet tooth fairy cupcakes especially their Ultimate Brownie cupcakes (which they only have on Mon, Wed, and Fri.) The Ultimate Brownie ones are hands down the best, that's why I bought 2 and nothing else. They don't sell cookies and other treats at Cocoa Bean, just cupcakes, so I guess that's their only draw back. But they do sell keychains. The purple one in the picture above is cocoa bean, and the pink one is sweet tooth fairy

Sweet Tooth Fairy

Lately Sweet Tooth Fairy is my favorite bakery. Not because of their cupcakes, but because of their sugar cookies. I LOVE soft sugar cookies, and this bakery definitely has them. Today I bought 2 giant flower sugar cookies, 2 small sugar cookies, a Cranberry Bliss Bar, a Fairy Fetti cake bite, a Fairy Fetti cupcake, a peanut butter cupcake, a smores cupcake, and a cupcake key chain. I'm having to freeze most of it cuz no way could I eat all that in one night. My favorite treat there is for sure the giant flower sugar cookies. Everything else is just OK.

SHRIMP MAC&CHEESE

1 box Kraft sponge bob mac&cheese
1 box Kraft Velveeta shells&cheese
Seapak shrimp poppers
Kraft Shredded Italian 5 cheese blend

Boil sponge bob mac for 11 min. Drain. Return cooked pasta back to pan and stir in velveeta cheese pack (from shells&cheese box.) Save cheese powder mix and dry shells for later use on something else. Bake 24 shrimp accrding to pkg directions. Stir shrimp into mac&cheese mixture. Sprinkle cheese over each individual serving. Makes apx 3-4 servings.

Chicken Enchiladas Creamas Verde

ORIGINAL RECIPE: CLICK HERE


Chicken Enchiladas Creamas Verde

Ingredients:

• vegetable or canola OIL for frying tortillas
  
• 1 lb. cooked chicken (a shredded rotisserie chicken would work well)
• 3 T butter
  
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 1 jar tomatillo salsa divided (my jar was 16 oz.)
• 1 small can diced green chilies
• 8 oz. cream cheese
• 1 doz. flour tortillas
• 1 cup cream
• 3 cups shredded itallian cheese blend
• 1 small can (mild) green or red enchilada sauce
  

Directions: Pour apx 1 cup oil into deep(ish) frying pan. Preheat oil over medium high heat for about 10 minutes. Deep fry each tortilla in oil 10 seconds on each side (or till tortilla bubbles up.) As you go, Stack tortillas w/ a paper towel square between each fried tortilla, and then set tortillas aside. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Coat a 9x9 or 9x13 baking dish with non-stick spray. Heat butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat; Saute onion 5 minutes. Add chicken, 1/2 jar salsa, cream cheese and chilies. Reduce heat to medium; stir, melt cream cheese and blend mixture well. Heat tortillas briefly, then fill each with about 1/3 cup of chicken mixture and a handful of shredded cheese. Roll up tightly and place in baking dish, seam-sides down. Combine remaining tomatillo salsa with cream; pour over enchiladas and top with shredded cheese. Bake 30 minutes or until cheese melts. Microwave enchilada sauce in glass bowl for 60sec. Pour over baked enchiladas.