Key Lime Pie

Today's recipe was sparked by a trip to the snow cone shack, where my husband got a key lime flavored snow cone. Then he decided he needed to make a pie! Yeay!

The whole family loved it, even those who don't like strong flavors like you might expect from key lime.
You can find the recipe he used HERE.

Quick Chicken Pasta

This is the type of meal my husband would throw together, but its the first time I've ever done it. It was one of those days where we're waiting on payday to replenish the fridge and pantry, but I still need a meal that is going to fill up two growing kiddos. I used only one chicken breast, made a basic pasta sauce based off my spaghetti recipe, and mixed it up with an entire package of penne pasta! The best part? It fed my family of four, plus there were left overs for at least another 5 servings! Yeay!!

So, if you want to make it too...
1 chicken breast, thawed, cut into bite size bits, browned in pan with black pepper and salt, set aside.
Boil pasta, drain.
While chicken and pasta are cooking, pour 12 oz tomato sauce in pan, season with oregano, basil, minced garlic, onion powder and thyme.
When pasta is done, mix chicken into sauce, pour over pasta, toss to coat, sprinkle mozzarella cheese all over, dinner is served!

Granola bars!

Last week, with the intent to control the ingredients and save a buck or two, I tried this snack - homemade granola bars!
I edited the recipe to be 1/2 cup pb, 1/2 cup honey and 1/4 cup cocoa powder.  I think her comment about cutting the honey is not actually a good idea. They are pretty dry... my daughter will not eat them and she would live off store granola bars if I let her. My husband said they taste good but need a few glasses of milk. My son and are working our way thru the pan. I think they make a decent breakfast!

They are cut into bars here, one cut down the long center and then every 2 inches or so across.

Summer Idea

Somehow we ended up with two open 2-liter bottles of root beer. Okay, I know how it happened but it was not really a good situation, lol.
The point is we ended up with flat root beer, which is not very tasty. But its been unusually hot around here. So I had an idea!

I poured the flat root beer into our little popsicle molds and THAT is a tasty way to cool off!