ReCiPes!

I love to cook.  I love to experiment with new dishes.  I love to watch the Food Network, Top Chef and any others cooking/baking show I can. I'm a junkie I know....  My experiments do not always turn out and unforunately for my little brother Matt who lived with me and Ryan who has been with me for almost 2 years their has been some not so great dinners. :)  But overall I don't think I am a bad cook,  in fact sometimes I make a meal and it's really good.   Those are the days I love when I make a meal or a dessert that people really like.  So here is a few recipes I have made that I really like.

Lion House Chicken



Ingredients:

• 10 to 12 8-ounce boneless, skinless chicken breast (I pounded with a mallet a little to make it easier to fold)
• 2 cups ground bread crumbs
• 4 cups favorite stuffing mix (I had a box ot stove top around and it worked just fine)
• 1 cup mushrooms, sliced
• 1 cup butter, melted (I only used 1/2 cup of butter)
• 1/2 cup honey
• 2 cups mayonnaise
• 1/3 cup Dijon mustard

Method:

Lay whole chicken breast flat on baking sheet. Coat with bread crumbs. Prepare your favorite stuffing with mushrooms and butter. Portion stuffing mixture into 10 to 12 equal parts. Put Stuffing on one half of each chicken breast; fold over and secure with toothpicks. Bake 375 degrees for 30 minutes. Makes 10 to 12 servings. To make sause, mix honey, mayonnaise, and mustard together in a small saucepan and heat over medium heat warmed through. Top each cooked chicken breast with sauce before serving.  ( I only poured about 1/4 of the sauce over the chicken and then put the rest in a gravy boat and let people pour more if they wanted)

 

I made the Lion House rolls to go along with it and some green beans. 

 

IT WAS SO GOOD!!!!

 

The next recipe I wish I had a picture of,  I received it from our friend Staci and we made a few batches for Christmas gifts for our primary class, neighbors etc. 

 

PEANUT BUTTER POPCORN

1/2 C. Popcorn unpopped(or 2 bags of microwave popcorn)
1 C. Light corn syrup
1 C. Sugar
1 C. Peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
Pop popcorn. Bring sugar and syrup to a boil, and boil for 2 min. Remove from heat and add peanut butter. Stir until melted. Add vanilla. Pour over popped popcorn and mix.

Kids, adults, pretty much anyone who likes peanut butter or popcorn will love this.  Ryan and I added mini Reeses Peices to the recipe for the kids.  It was a big hit!  One of our kids called and asked for the yummy deliciousness we gave her at church :)

The last recipe for today I got off a website from a woman who decided to use her crockpot for 365 days straight.  I LOVE THE CROCKPOT.  Especially when I had 1:00pm church or when I know I am working late.  No one wants to come home after a long day and spend the next hour making dinner.  Coming home to a meal already made, it doesn't get any better than that.

CROCKPOT "FRIED" CHICKEN

(Its not fried and the ingredients are not bad for you)

--18 thawed drumsticks (I dont thaw them all the way when i am cooking for 8-10 hours.  It makes them still really moist but not fall apart so easily)

--1/4 cup butter

--1/4 cup flour

--2 tsp seasoned salt

--1 TBL  Italian seasoning

--1 TBL onion powder

-- 1 t paprika

--1/2 t black pepper

 

The Directions.

 

--combine all the spices and the flour in a freezer bag or in a shallow dish. Dredge each chicken piece well, and plop into your crockpot. I used the shallow dish method, because we were out of freezer bags.

--when all the chicken is in the crock, pour 1/4 cup of melted butter over it.

--cook on high for 6 hours or on low for 8-10.

 

Something I do sometimes also is take them out of the crockpot 15 minutes before I am ready to eat and pop them in a over heated to 375 on a baking sheet.  Makes the skin a little crispy.

 

I love these,  I have made them at least 10-15 times, for parties for family dinner.   They heat up well if you have extras also!

 

Happy cooking!!



Happy Birthday to my MOMMA!

It's my momma's birthday today! Yeah!  I love that woman to death,  if I could go back to my highschool years when I made her life a living nightmare I would and I would take it all back and realize she was right..shhh dont tell her that :) 

She is an amazing woman,  she always thinks of others and doesn't think about herself far enough. She is stronger than she thinks and through all the adversatity she has had this year,  she just smiles and hangs in there.  She is definitely my role model for how to be the best wife and mom I can be.

I love her so much and can't wait to celebrate her birthday tonight!  We are going to Cheesecake Factory and even though Ryan and I have been trying to watch what we eat I'm getting a peice of cheesecake for sure :)

Happy Birthday Mom!

Its a NEW Year!!

HAPPY 2011 EVERYONE!!!

It is so hard to believe that it is 2011 already,  I'm old enough I still remember Y2K and now that's been 11 years ago and the world is somewhat still here.  :)   I am really hoping for a blessed 2011 for my family and friends.   I do not make New Years Resolutions,  I break them.  Ryan is going back on no soda and that just will not happen for me and I admit it.

  All I want for 2011 is for my dad to complete his Stem Cell Transplant and acheive complete remission and be back to golfing every week! And maybe for me to find my self expecting later in the year, but I'll take my dad this year and me next year if I only get one choice :)  Other than that I am just looking forward to another year having memorable times with our families and our friends.  We are very lucky to be able to spend so much time with our families,  we definitely cherish them and the memories we make.

To wrap up 2010 we went up to St George for the annual Dalton Family after Christmas party.   We had about 30 people there and celebrated a new engagement for my cousin Kristalynn.  She will be getting married in SLC in March and if we are not already up there for dad's SCT we will definitely be going up there for the wedding.  We also celebrated the newest addition to the Dalton side of the family,  my cousin Kim had her 2nd baby girl Jessie Rebekah she was born a little early and her lungs still need to develop so she will be int he NICU for a few weeks.   

And on the Stewart side of the family Ryan's uncle Darren had his 5th child a little boy named Steven who was born almost 10 weeks early weighing in a little over 3 lbs and will be in the NICU for a month probably developing.  Both babies are doing well and we can't wait to meet them!

Here is to a healthy and happy 2011 to all our family and friends!!  We love you all.