Oregano Chicken

We made this the other night, kinda just whipped it up as I went along, but it turned out yummy so I wanted to share.



Ingredients:

1 TBSP Canola Oil
1 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp Oregan
3 chicken Breast cut into small pieces
1 Carrot
1 Celery stick
3-4 Brocoli Pieces
3-4 Cauliflower Pieces

Brush the oil in skillet, sprinkle garlic and oregano on bottom, then add chicken. Cook thoroughly. Finely chop all veggies and add to chicken until cooked. That's it! EAt!

Kinda like a stirfry, but the tiny veggies were super yummy, I cooked mine till they were a bit crispy, but having it smaller seemed to make them easier for my kids to eat. We had Salad that more fresh veggies with Ranch dip with it, but you could even add this over some pasta tossed with a little oil and more garlic and oregano. Very healthy and VERY tasty.

Pig Cake

I just had my sons 2nd birthday and we had a farm birthday party. I made a pig cake and again, I'm not posting an actual recipe but more just some ideas of what I did.

1. Chocolate Cake with STrawberry Icing. Totally yummy flavors together! NEver did it before, loved it and would probably make really yummy cake balls! Also I didn't put any oil in the mix, added a Sugar Free Choco pudding mix to it. Came out of the pan great, tasted great....thus you DO NOT need oil! Yay for less fat and calories
2. For the nose I was out of cake batter and wanted something wide and remember seeing often on CAke boss them use rice crispy treat. I didn't have rice crispies but I did have Chex, so I mixed some marshmallows, butter and crushed chex, and it was perfect!
3. I used pre-made fondant for the ears and just cut out the shapes by hand, no cutters. Although the stuff tastes awful it worked good. It's even a year old and I just had to put it in a little baggie with a few drops of water, warmed up in the micro for 15 seconds and it was really easy to work with.
4. Smoothing the frosting. Someone once mentioned using a blow dryer...didn't work as well. Tried it on the cupcakes, but went back to my old method for the cake. After the cake with frosting sitting in the freezer for about 15 minutes you use a tiny bit of water on your fingers to smooth out. I use warm water, but I don't know that it matters. Then you could use the dryer after to help make it shiny again, but I forgot to do that before I put the dryer away.

Other things....I used chocolate chips for the eyes, black sugar sprinkles for the nostrils and more fondant for the border. On the cupcakes I just made animal picks from my cricut. If I had some black licorice string I would have done a little smile at the bottom.

A plethera or things! Or at least 3

OKay, so I have a few things to add on here, but since I just posted them on my blog I'll just attach a link here that you can follow to there!

Christmas Cookies



Cookie Cutter Sandwhiches



Cake Balls

Restaurant taste, in your own kitchen!

Okay, so I haven't tried this yet, but it just looks so dang yummy! But I thought I would share it!
Here is the blog where I found it!

Cake Pops

So I'm not going to post this recipe, but I'm going to give you the link, because why should I re-type it when all you have to do is click! But I'm attaching two links, one to my blog so you can see our fun pictures of making these cake pops, but then to the original bakerella website where you can find the recipe just waiting to be used! Honestly these are so fun, easy and yummy you will have to some time in your life try them!

Here's a picture of my final cake pops for my music class



and a much better picture of the ones she made on bakerella!

Roasted Carrots

I have made these a few times recently and LOVE LOVE LOVE them! The kids love them too and that's the best part.

Of course depending on how many people you are feeding adjust accordingly, but I'm going to do for 1 lb carrots which will feed a good size group.

1 lb peeled and cut carrots
2 tbsp canola or olive oil
1 tbsp Garlic Salt
1/2 tbsp corriander (or oregan0....I have done both)

Just dump all ingredients into a gallon zip lock, mix well coating all carrots. Dump on a foil lined pan and cook at 400 degrees for 20-30 minutes depending on how small you cut the carrots.

You really can use whatever seasonings you perfer. EAch time I make them I try something new!

Beef Stroganoff

So I know all my recipes are kinda shady lately. That's how I cook, just throw in some of this, some of that and then when it turns out good I want to share it! This is the same stroganoff I make all the time except usually I use ground beef, but because of my beef excursion lately we had the REAL stuff!

Ingredients:

1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup
3/4 cup Sour Cream
1/2 onion
1/2 cup mushrooms (canned or fresh)
Beef (any variety really)
5 cups cooked Rice or Pasta

Slice thinly your beef and then cook in a large pan. Saute onions with your meat and then add the mushrooms. Once meat is thoroughly cooked add the cream of mushroom. Bring to boil (it's thick at this point) then add the sour cream. Cook at medium until heated through then keep warm until ready to serve.

Cook rice or pasta accordingly. Any pasta will do, but we prefer egg noodles.

I use the fat free soups, low fat sour cream and usually a very low fat ground hamburger or turkey. I also use wheat pasta or I think it's smart something? Anyway lower cal, higher fiber so any WW enthusiasts, it's only 3 points per cup instead of four! Anyway with these modifications you can enjoy your stroganoff for a reasonable amount of calories! Not to mention such an easy meal. We love some kind of bread and this week served it with our roasted carrots again...yummy!!