Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Homemade Oreos!

I don't think I've made these since starting this blog, so I had to add this one!
We needed to make a quick treat to share with some sweet friends, and this is what we picked. It is so easy, and they are sooo tasty!!

I first got the recipe about 11 years ago, and it looked like this:

2 Pkg Devils Food Cake mix
1 1/2 cups Crisco
4 eggs
Mix to combine, roll dough into balls, bake 10 mins at 350*. Use cream cheese frosting between two cookies to make an oreo.

This time I used this recipe found HERE. Except we didn't have two packages of Devils Food Cake, so we used a Dark Chocolate Cake mix and a German Chocolate Cake mix, haha, and we made our own frosting found HERE. Whatever you use - YUM!

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Vegetable Appetizer!

This post got lost in my drafts...not sure why I never shared it, so here it is, just in time for harvest season!

Today for lunch I ate a zucchini. I made THIS recipe for zucchini fries (which I found on Pinterest) and here's how mine looked:
Zucchini Fries
It was messy and time consuming but they were super tasty!! I think its worth making a few times a year, haha. I'm really lousy at the dipping dry-wet-dry process, but that's ok.
I just dipped them in a basic marinara sauce and it was a very tasty (and mostly healthy) lunch!

Monday, July 29, 2013

Food Lately...

Its really, really hot. I don't want to eat food, much less cook it. So mostly we're eating our favorite stand-bys, or grilling burgers/hot dogs, or yes, even eating out. One night the kids got pbjs and my husband and I ate about 3 hours later after we'd cooled off!
But, we have tried a few new recipes in recent weeks, that I thought I'd link up here and let you know what we thought about them. You're welcome! (most of them come from one of my husband's fav food blog)

Crock Pot Nachos: This was a hit with me and the kids. I took the leftovers with me to my parents and they enjoyed it too! Not hard to make at all, but you have to accept that nachos are dinner, haha.

Black Beans & Rice: My kids didn't love this, but they ate it. My husband and I enjoyed it, but I was definitely done with it when I finished my plate. So, its great, in one serving portions.

Creamy Fettucini with Ham and Peas: The pasta was just fine, a lot like the Swedish meatballs and alfredo my husband makes. The kids were happy to eat it tho.

Asian Lettuce Wraps: I'm the first to admit I don't like Asian food. My husband knows this, but sometimes we all take turns picking our favorite, right? And that's ok! He didn't love this one tho, and I didn't like it even a little bit. Our kids sure did though!! At first they thought it was weird that we were rolling lettuce around food "like a crepe!" but they gobbled them up! Parts of the meat and rice fell out, like when you eat a taco, so they just got more lettuce, tore it up, and ate it all like a salad! Of course they like a meal I did not! haha... Also, we substituted in ground turkey for the ground chicken.

"Chicken Cordon Bleu - The easy way." This one was very tasty! We all enjoyed it and it really was so easy to make- hooray for that! I'm sure this will live on in our "regulars".