Crescent Chicken

Super simple, super tasty, easily doubled, and the kids love it. What else could you ask for?

 

 

Beef & Cheddar Soft Tacos

 

A super quick, tasty, and easy dinner.

Slow Cooker Creamy Chicken & Broccoli over Rice + Kiddo Lunch

Okay, so if you haven't noticed, we eat a lot of slow cooker meals. And chicken meals. With broccoli. But that's okay! Because each is different and wonderful and tasty. :) I love being able to put different spins on same main ingredients just by changing method of cooking or a few of the accompanying ingredients.

Slow Cooker Seasoned Cheesy Chicken & Broccoli

I will take this opportunity to say, that my family and I are now less than six months away from moving back to Stateside! And by less than six months away, I mean only one week off of six months, ha ha. But I am eager and looking forward to being there. We don't know where we'll be going yet, but I can't wait to find out. Hopefully we get where we're wanting. I am not, however, looking forward to the process of leaving. Getting our things packed, making the house cleaner than it has been the entire time we've lived here, staying in a hotel for a night or two, super-cleaning our car and shipping it...and then the super long plane ride and lugging two kids and a bag of luggage and carry-on per person through the airports...Yikes. Until then, though, I'll just keep gettin' cookin'. ;)

Baked Eggs & Friends

Because "Baked Eggs & Friends" is a shorter, better title than "Baked Eggs with Tomatoes, Spinach, Cheese, Bacon, and Chives". :)

This was a breakfast I made one morning for husband and I. I rather loved it. He was less than enthused about it, but that's okay.

Baked Ham & Cheese Sandwiches

These are delicious, but if you're expecting to need to take a drug test for a job in the next day or so, I'd hold off on eating these! If the test is too sensitive, poppy seeds will give you a false positive! I won't be held responsible for this; you've been warned. :)

Shepherd's Pie

Shepherd's Pie is also known as "Cottage Pie" (as in a cottage for a the poor). The names are used pretty interchangeably, regardless of it the meat inside is beef or lamb. Some people say Shepherd's Pie is only used in regards to lamb, because shepherds keep watch over sheep rather than cattle.

Grilled Cheese Verde

Ooooh, ahhhh.

This is so tasty. And fun! Because how often do you eat a sandwich with cheese that is green? WAIT. Cheese that is SUPPOSED to be green. :) Please don't go eating green cheese unless you've made it green yourself. On purpose. With this recipe. Let's just get on with it.

Spinach & Mozzarella Quesadilla

I have finally finished updating the photos from previous recipe entries, and so now feel comfortable to move forward and publish new recipes, once more. In the process, I accumulated many process pictures for recipes to post, so there shouldn't be a lack to post! :)

I also have a lovely little handful of links located in the Advertising and Affiliates tab. An emerging company, independent consultant and more! If you haven't gone over there and clicked on them yet, you should go see what's up. :)

Texan Ranch Chicken Casserole

Tasty Mini Burger Patties

I am a candle addict.

I like to have several on hand, and unfortunately sometimes I burn them down wayyyy too fast. I don't even really want to think about how much I've spent on them, ha ha. Sometimes I magnetize to the candle section of a store when I walk past it. So I was pretty interested when a new friend told me she sold something called Scentsy. I checked it out, and it is awesome. IT SMELLS SO GOOD. There were so many different scents, and yes. Yes I did smell them all. I also ordered some. If you're curious, and are on facebook, you could 'like' her facebook Scentsy page and/or check out her page on the Scentsy site itself (and buy from her!). Pretty great stuff.

Speaking of great stuff, that's what this recipe is. Great stuff. Yep. Something that is flavorful, easy to make and that the toddler gobbles down is always classified as 'great stuff'.

Speedy Ravioli Bake

I always try to decide what I'm going to cook for dinner the day before. That way, if there is anything I need to put in the fridge to defrost, I can do that and it will be ready by the time it is time to make dinner (larger pieces of meat I may sit out two days before). I already usually have a list of dinner possibilities that I can make, based on different things I recently got at the store, and so all I have left to do is pick one off of my list for the next night. Sometimes...I realize that I am missing some essential ingredients or something else comes up. At that point is when it is good to have things that you usually keep on hand, and things stuffed and saved in the freezer.

I recently had one of those days.

I found some refrigerated raviolis that I had put into the freezer to save. I always have several types of shredded cheese in the fridge and at least one jar of pasta sauce in the cabinet.

Easy Taco Melts

For someone who owns and drives a bright red car, it seems I'm surprisingly often NOT seen while on the road. The other day while out, at least three pedestrians casually strolled out in front of me (NOT on a crosswalk, ahhhh, pet peeve!) and a couple of cars tried to merge into me. Oh well. At least I pay attention, right?

Old-Fashioned Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti

I have updated the "Intro" area here and am working on compiling a little list (that will probably gradually get things added to it) of different food substitutions and things of the like. I figured it would be a handy list, because sometimes I prefer a substitution instead of what is called for, or just don't have what is actually needed.

Now to the recipe. :)

Rotisserie Chicken Broccoli Alfredo

I apologize for not updating sooner! I actually made this for dinner two nights ago, but hadn't gotten around to updating. I've been busy taking advantage of the beautiful sunny (albeit now freezing) days doing several errands and preparation for baby #2. One of these errands was:

 

New fluorescent light!

 I also grabbed some adorable new floor mats that make the kitchen feel more...homey. They also feel much better to stand on than the tile floor!

But enough random gab; time for the food! This is a tasty meal to make, especially when the rotisserie chickens at the store smell particularly delectable. :)

Saucy Chicken Enchiladas

Hi! Welcome to my first post in my blog! I hope that you will enjoy this and the recipes to come, as well as bear with me as I continue to tweak things, since I just started.