Mini Tacos

I found the idea for this on Pinterest but changed it for a quick, easy meal. These are really good and really easy, perfect for our busy life and often late dinners.

Mini Taco's

16 Wonton wrappers
1 15oz can Chili-I used Nalley but use whatever you prefer
Salsa Con Queso (2 t. per taco)
Chunky Salsa (2 t. per taco)
1/2 of a jalapeno
Cheddar cheese
Sour cream

Preheat your oven to 375. Lightly grease 8 muffin tins.
Clean out jalapeno membranes and chop into small piece's.

Put one wonton wrapper in each muffin tin

Put a teaspoon of Salsa Con Queso in each wrapper

and spread around. Add about two teaspoons of chili,

a few pieces jalapeno, a teaspoon of salsa and sprinkle 

with cheese.

Top with another wonton wrapper and repeat all 

the toppings

Bake for 10-15 min or until golden brown. Top with

sour cream.

Simple and Delicious!

I made these wonderful little devils last night! They are easy peasy and super yummy! I found the recipe here.

Funeral Sandwiches 

             (strange name considering how amazing these are!)

6 dinner rolls*

1/2-1 lb. good ham deli meat

colby jack cheese, thinly sliced

1/2 c. butter, melted

3 T. worcheshire sauce

2 T. mustard

2 T. brown sugar

dash of onion powder

Cut rolls in half and separate. Put a slice of ham and cheese on each roll bottom and then put tops back on and place rolls on a cookie sheet.

Combine melted butter, worcheshire sauce, mustard, brown sugar and onion powder. Pour over rolls. Cover rolls tightly and place in refrigerator and allow to marinate for anywhere from 4-24 hrs.

Preheat oven to 350. Cook sandwiches uncovered for 10-15 minutes or until cheese melts. 

 

*The original recipe said to use 1 package of King's Hawaiian Rolls but I don't care for those so I just made my own. You can find the recipe for my yummy homemade rolls here.

An Original

I wanted something with garlic, mozzarella, and chicken. It was a must. I couldn't find a recipe that sounded good and was still fairly simple, because I wasn't feeling patient enough for complex. Well when all else fails, I improvise. In this instance I just made something up. This isn't a recipe your going to see featured on the Food Network, but it did turn out really good. And flip, I made it up!
P.S. This is not diet friendly.

Three Cheese Garlic Butter Chicken and Noodles (talk about a name eh?)

2 cloves garlic
4 T butter
1/2 C mozzarella cheese
4 oz cream cheese softened
1 T basil pesto
6 oz spaghetti noodles
1-2 large chicken breasts
Parmesan cheese

Directions:
Chop and then cook chicken.
While chicken is cooking, peel and grate garlic cloves and put in a microwave safe bowl. Add butter to garlic and place in microwave to melt. Once chicken is cooked through, pour garlic/butter over chicken and let it cook into the chicken for about 5min. Add the mozzarella cheese and continue to cook until cheese melts.

In a medium sauce pan, cook noodles. Mix cream cheese and pesto together in a small bowl. Once noodles are done, drain and add cream cheese mixture to the noodles. Now add chicken to noodles and mix well to make sure the noddles and chicken get totally combined. Top with Parmesan.

I made the meal complete by adding garlic cheese bread made from my awesome bread recipe. Once your ready to make the loaves, dived the dough in half then roll each half out. Brush dough with garlic butter and add 1/4 cup mozzarella. Then roll the dough into loaves, making sure to seal the ends good, and bake at 350 for 20 minutes. Brush the baked loaves with garlic butter and BAM! You've got a flippin' amazing dinner!

Dinner Rolls

Whenever my family has a get together we hand out food assignments so no one is stuck making everything. When we needed rolls my sister would always volunteer and then show up with these light and fluffy rolls that would disappear in a matter of minutes. Well this came to a screeching halt when she moved out of state. I knew I couldn't last very long without her rolls so I stole the recipe from her before she could get away.

Dinner Rolls

2 1/2 C. Hot tap water
2 Eggs
1/2 C. Dry milk
1/2 C. Oil
1/3 C. Sugar
2 t. Salt
2 T. Yeast
3 C. Flour

Wisk  everything together. Add an additional 3-4 cups of flour and kneed well. Cover and let rise for 1 hr. Make rolls and let rise for another 20 minutes. Preheat oven to 400. Bake for 10-15 min. Brush with butter when done baking.

A Bread Affair

I come from a large family and hence I have been making bread since I was "knee high to a grasshopper". When I married my significant other, he always raved about his mothers bread. so I called my Mother-in-law to get the recipe for this amazing bread. Come to find out, she didn't even know how to make bread. She just always bought the frozen bread dough and made that. Talk about a blow, hubby like store bread better than my home made! I let it go but I stopped making bread so often. Then last week, a neighbor gave us a small loaf of bread her mom had made. Again hubby ranted and raved about it. This was the piece of straw that broke the camels back and I set out determined to master my bread making skills. So I did my homework and found tips for making great bread and put together my own recipe. Its the first time in my life I have made up my own recipe! It turned out pretty stinkin great! And yes, hubby even gave his stamp of approval!

The New and Improved-White Bread

1 T. Instant Yeast
1 T. Sugar
1 t. Salt
1 Egg, beaten
1 C Milk
2 1/2 C Flour

Start by placing milk in a small sauce pan and setting on burned set to med/high heat to scald. Stir constantly so you don't get a thin film. Milk is done when small bubbles form around the edge of the milk. Remove the milk from burner and allow to cool to warm to the touch-it will cool faster if you pour it into a different dish.

Put your dry ingredients in a medium size bowl. In a separate bowl, beat the egg. Once milk is cooled add it and the egg to the dry ingredients. Stir well with spoon. Add flour a half a cup at a time until dough comes away from the sides of the bowl but is still very sticky. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit for 20 min.

Take plastic wrap off bowl and knead bread for 5 min. Form dough into two loafs and allow to rise for 45min. to 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook bread for 20-25 min. When done, remove bread from oven and place on a cooling rack. Butter top of bread immediately.

Brinner

Who doesn't love breakfast for dinner (aka-brinner)?! When I'm drawin' a blank of what to make for dinner, brinner is what I fall back on. The other day on Pintrest, I saw the pins for mini German Pancakes and bacon wrapped eggs. They were super easy, fun, and delish! I'm sure they will become regulars at the Oakley home.

Mini  German Pancakes

 Original Recipe

1/2 cup milk
3 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
3T. butter, melted

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Beat first 5 ingredients together until smooth.  Be careful to see that any flour clumps get well-blended.
2. Blend in butter a little at a time in order to temper the eggs.
3. Grease muffin tins well and distribute batter evenly between 6 tins.  Bake for 15 minutes, or until puffy and golden on top.
4. Served with your favorite toppings. I sprinkled mine with powder sugar and topped with fresh peach jam.

Bacon Wrapped Eggs

 4 eggs
milk
salt and pepper
6 slices bacon

Wrap 6 slices of bacon in muffin tin. Whip eggs. Add milk until eggs reach desired consistency.Add salt and pepper to egg/milk mixture. Pour eggs into bacon lined tin. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35min.

**Can add cheese to eggs as well.