Crockpot Chicken Tacos

We made it to hump day, only 2 more days left then the weekend again.

Ingredients:
1) 1 pack - Taco Seasoning
2) 6 pieces - Boneless, Skinless chicken breasts
3) 1 - 16 ounce jar salsa
4) Anything else you would like to help season the meat. ( I like green peppers, and onions)

Direction:
1) Put everything into the crock pot and give it a stir to blend the salsa and seasonings.
2) Do not add water!!!!!!!
3) Cook on high for 4-6 hours ( when done the chicken should fall apart)
4) Now all you have to do is serve and enjoy. You can put this into a salad, taco, or even a sandwich. Be creative and enjoy the time you have with the ones you love and want to be with. With amazing food, we all like food.

Coconut Curry Chicken Soup

This is inspired by my roommate yesterday making curry and rice and to say the lest being edible was not a choice.

Ingredients:
1) 3 Tbs. red Thai curry paste
2) 2 (14 oz) cans coconut milk
3) 1 cup chicken stock
4) 1 tsp fish sauce
5) 1 red bell pepper, sliced into 2-inch strips
6) 1 cup snow peas
7) 1 cup frozen peas
8) 2 bundles vermicelli noodles
9) 2 cups cooked shredded chicken
10) 1/2 cup sliced scallions
11) 1 sliced chile, for garnish (optional)
12)  juice of one lime
13) coarse salt

Directions:
1) Bring a large pot to a medium-high heat. Add the curry paste with 1/4 cup coconut milk; whisk until smooth. Add the rest of the coconut milk, chicken stock and fish sauce. Stir until combined.
2)  Add the red bell pepper, snow peas, peas, vermicelli noodles and chicken. Toss in a good pinch of salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer on medium for about 8 minutes, until the noodles have softened.
3)  Add half the lime juice, stir and taste. Need more salt? Add it.
4)  Serve soup garnished with scallions and chile pepper.

Recipe is from bevcooks.com

Grilled Maple Salmon

Hello everybody. Welcome back, hope you all had a wonderful weekend, and your first day back is going good. Today is late for dinner but could be used tomorrow.

Ingredients:
1) 4 - Salmon Fillets
2) 1/3 Cup - Orange juice
3) 1/3 Cup - Maple syrup
4) 1/4 Cup - Soy Sauce
5) 1/2 Tsp - Ground Ginger powder
6) 1/2 tsp - Garlic powder
7) 1/4 tsp - Ground Cayenne Red pepper

Directions:
1) In a bowl whisk the maple syrup, soy sauce, orange juice, ginger, cayenne, and garlic powder. Then pour the marinade into a baking dish, place salmon in the marinade, and refrigerate covered for 20-30 minutes.

2)  Heat a grill pan and brush with olive oil over medium high heat. Season salmon fillets with a pinch of salt (if wanted) and pepper, then grill 4 minutes per side.

3)  Bring leftover marinade to a boil, then turn heat down to low. While salmon is cooking, baste with the leftover marinade.

Kings Hawaiian Baked Ham Swiss Sandwiches

Today to me feels like a very light food day, especially after what I have been putting up everyday this week. I am very happy that I have so many views and that people are starting to tell me that they look forward to seeing what is new everyday. Thank you all so much, without you I would just be looking at food myself and not sharing the wonderful world of recipes. Many of my recipes I get from Pintrest but I add many of my own twists to them.

Ingredients:
1) 1 - 12 pack of King's Hawaiian Original Rolls®
2) 1 lb. - Deli ham, shaved
3) 1 lb. Swiss cheese, thinly sliced
4) 1 1/2 - sticks of butter
5) 3 Tbs. - Dijon mustard
6) 1 1/2 Tsp. - Worcestershire sauce®
7) 3 Tsp - Poppy seeds
8) 1 - Onion, chopped

You may add any other ingredients you may like or take some out. Experimenting with ingredients brings you a lot closer to what type of food you like or what things you don't. Find your taste, its worth the effort.  

Directions:
1) Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2) Melt butter and mix in mustard, Worcestershire sauce®, onion and poppy seed. Simmer for several mins.
3) Cut the entire pack of rolls in half, horizontally (Keep the top and bottom connected)
4) Grease a 9x13 pan, place bottom half of the rolls in the pan and spread 1/3 of the onion mixture over the bottom of the rolls. Followed by the ham and cheese.
5) Replace the tops of the rolls and spread the remaining onion mixture over top.
6) Cover and bake for 15-20 mins.
7) Once finished, let cool then separate for serving.

As for a special treat for you all that are helping make this happen for me, I will reward you with one more recipe for the weekend. Especially that "THE WALKING DEAD" is back on this Sunday!!!!!

Snickerdoodle Bread

Jenny and I made this about 3 days ago. Amazing taste, hard not to savor. If you have ice cream, I would defiantly put this in it bowl with some hot chocolate syrup and vanilla ice cream. YUM!!!!!!!!!!

Ingredients:
1) 2 1/2 - cups flour
2) 2 tsp. - baking powder
3) 1/2 tsp. - salt
4) 5 tsp. - cinnamon
5) 1 cup - butter softened
6) 2 cups - sugar
7) 3 - eggs
8) 1 tsp. - vanilla
9) 3/4 cup - sour cream
10) 1 pkg. - Hershey's cinnamon chips®
11) 3 tbs. - sugar

Directions:
1) Cream butter, sugar, salt and 2 tsp. cinnamon until fluffy.
2) Add eggs and mix well
3) Add vanilla and sour cream and mix well
4) Mix flour and baking powder in a separate bowl
5) Add to wet ingredients and mix until all combined.
6) Add cinnamon chops and stir into batter. Set aside
7) Spoon batter into loaf pan (size varies, we made 2 loafs) until 2/3 full
8) Mix 3 tbs. sugar and 3 tsp. cinnamon in a bowl and sprinkle over the batter in each loaf pan.
9) Bake for 35-38 minutes (ovens very). Let cool before removing from pan.
10) Enjoy "THE WALKING DEAD" while eating delicious food.

Roasted Ranch Potatoes

Today is a very simple recipe compared to yesterdays. Also there isn't very many recipes that I know that use potatoes so I end up just wasting some or making homemade mashed potatoes.

Ingredients:
1) 2 pounds - potatoes (unpeeled, washed and cut into chunks)
2) 1/2 cup - ranch dressing (bottled, not packet)
3) 1/4  cup - shredded cheese, also more for the top but that is all up to you
4) 1/4 cup - cooked bacon
5) Salt and Pepper if wanted (I don't use salt)

Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2) Add (in a large bowl) the ranch dressing, dill, cheese and bacon. Add in the potatoes. Add the salt and pepper if wanted, just a pinch. Toss/mix everything to coat potatoes.
3) Spoon into a greased 9x13 baking dish. cover with foil.
4) bake for 60 mins. Stir gently halfway through to get the bottom potatoes rotated so they don't become burnt. Also to ensure that the middle and top potatoes get a chance to brown.
5) Remove foil. raise oven temp. to 400 degrees. Stir if needed
6) Bake for 15 more mins. then add cheese to top if wanted.
7) Bake for 3-5 more mins. or until the cheese is melted.

After take-in out, you can add what ever else you would like onto your potatoes. Sour cream, scallions, olives,. and more BACON!!!! I kinda like bacon.

Hope you enjoy this recipe, and i'll be seeing you on here tomorrow. 

Roasted Chicken Parmesan Pizza

Hello everybody, this is the first recipe that is made all from me and my wonderful girlfriends head. Not everything was from scratch but close. This was made last night by us. Very tasty! Using the pizza crust instructions from the Jiffy ® box.

Supplies:
Pizza pan (16 in is the size we used and fits perfectly)
Flour
large bowl for mixing
Cooking pan

Ingredient:
1) 2 boxes - Jiffy® Pizza Crust mix 6.5 oz
2) 2 cups- shredded chicken breasts
3) 1/2 jar - 16 ounce jar Ragu®  (roasted garlic Parmesan) sauce ( or more if you like it saucier)
4) 2 - full cloves fresh garlic (minced)
5) 2 cups - Shredded Kale compacted (about 2 - 3 full leaves)
6) 1 can - Olives diced
7) 3 1/2 cups - cheese (till covers top - or more if you love cheese)
8) 2 Tbs - Olive oil


If you like your garlic super strong you don't have to do this step!!!!!

Fresh Garlic:
1) 2 full cloves garlic minced
2) Put the garlic into a cooking pan with the 2 tbs of olive oil
3) Cook garlic on 5-6 temp. until it starts to turn yellow-ish

Cooking Chicken:
1) Place your 3-4 Chicken breasts in cooking pan with stove top on high
2) Cook Chicken until there is no pink on the inside (I like to make sure my chicken is dead so I usually crisp the outside a little)
3) After fully cooked and cooled, shred the chicken with your hands or knife.

Directions Pizza crust: 
Prepare toppings before making crust
1) 2 box - Jiffy ® pizza crust mix pour into large bowl,
2) 1 cup - warm water into large bowl for mixing, Stir until moistened
3) Cover and let stand for 5 min. in a warm place (about 85 degrees) I usually put the oven on WM setting.
4) Knead several times on a floured board, or counter top.

4 ½) This is my own twist. While I am kneading the dough, I also put in Thyme, Basel, Cayenne Pepper, Black Pepper, Paprika, Garlic Power, and Sage. All of this kneaded into the dough.

5)Grease pan, and grease fingers and press the dough on the pan. (greasing the fingers helps the dough not stick to them causing it to rip.)
6) Pre-Bake crust in oven for 2-3 mins before adding toppings. (stay at the WM temp.)
7) Heat oven to 425 degrees after you pull crust from it.

 Directions for Pizza toppings:
1) 1/2 jar of Ragu® sauce into the crust, spread out evenly (To help with the crust drying up you can put a thin layer of the sauce onto the rim of the crust or Olive oil.)
2) Lay 2 cups of  Kale onto the pizza, spread evenly
3) Put the 2 cups of shredded chicken breasts onto the pizza, evenly spread out
4) Spread the 2 full cooked/not cooked cloves of garlic onto the pizza
5) Spread 3 1/2 cups of cheese on pizza (this is up completely up to you on how much I love cheese.)
6) Spread 1 can of diced olives onto the top
7) Place pizza in oven for 18-20 mins. (Check early we only cook for 16 and comes out perfect. All ovens are different)

Now Dig in!!!!!


Sorry this is so late. Running between classes and doing homework makes it hard to get one thing done. But hopefully you will enjoy this another day or even tonight. If you have somebody to  help, Jenny and I got this all made and finished in about 1 - 1 1/2 hours.

Thank you everybody SO MUCH for viewing this. I hope you like the recipes I put up, and if you would like to have any suggestions with left over food you have, or just something new you would like to try. I would love to look it up and give you a recipe that fits what you want.

Day 2: Mexican Dorito Casserole

Today's recipe is a little bit messy but full of flavor. This is not a meal for representation but when it taste's this good who cares.

Serves 4-6

Ingredients:

1) 2 cups - shredded chicken
2) 1 cup - shredded cheese
3) 1 can - cream of chicken soup
4) 1/2 cup - milk
5) 1/2 cup- sour cream
6) 1 can - tomatoes or 1 cup - of diced tomatoes
7) 1/2 packet- taco seasoning (more for seasoning)
8) 1 bag - Doritos 

Directions:

1) Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
2) In a large bowl mix all ingredients but the Doritos
3) In a greased 2 qt. baking dish, put a layer of crushed Doritos (2 cups). Then a layer of the chicken mix. Do this a second time finishing with the chicken mixture on top.
4) Top with more shredded cheese, cover, and bake for 30-35 mins.

Hope you enjoy, and I'll be seeing you on here tomorrow. Have a wonderful day, and dinner.