First Chili of the Season

Made my first chili of the season today for our Sunday Dinner.

Chili & Grilled Cheese

The secret to this great chili is V8 Juice!  It's my dad's recipe.  I remember growing up and my dad making the best chili.  My dad died very unexpectedly and I never got his chili recipe.  I had to recreate it myself.  The one thing I always knew is that he used V8 juice.  

I also made some homemade grilled cheese sandwiches.  I used sliced sour dough bread bought from the bakery, spread a thin layer of dijon mustard on one side and thin coat of butter on the other.  I used a longhorn colby and muenster cheeses with some tavern ham. Grill with the buttered side down.  So good!

The full recipe can be found here

Breakfast Toast Cups

Breakfast Toast Cups

Our traditional Sunday morning breakfast is cinnamon rolls.  No, not homemade but these. (The only time I make homemade cinnamon rolls is Christmas morning), or when I feel like it. 

Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls

I have made them every Sunday for years.  Today I thought I would try a new recipe.  It's a Martha Stewart recipe, which I am usually not a fan because they tend to be somewhat lengthy and complicated, but this one seemed easy, and one that my kids would actually eat.  So,I thought I would give it a try!  So glad I did, everyone loved them.  

Breakfast Toast Cups

Preheat oven to 375º

Ingredients:

6 slices of bread, cut the crust off

6 slices of bacon

2T melted butter

6 Eggs

Salt & pepper

Directions:

Use a pastry bush and brush melted butter into each cup

Flatten out uncrusted bread with a rolling pin 

Press the bread into each muffin cup

Brush bread with any remaining butter

Fry bacon in a pan until almost done.

Place a strip of bacon down into each cup

Crack an egg on top of each piece of bacon

Top with a sprinkle of salt & pepper

Bake 375º for 20-25 minutes.  

Serve warm!

The original recipe can be found here!

Sunday Night Dinner - New Recipe

Sunday night dinners around here are pretty simple and easy.  I am trying to get everything ready for the week ahead and I like to keep it simple and easy.  This new recipe I tried was just that!

Spaghetti Stuffed Garlic Bread

I found this recipe on Pinterest (of course) and I surprisingly had all the ingredients, so I thought I would give it a try.  Use whatever cheese you have on hand.  The original recipe called for mozzarella cheese cut in cubes, but I had shredded and it worked fine.  While it turned out good, and everyone liked it, which is the most important thing.  There are a couple of changes I will do when I make this again.  

1.  I am going to give the dough a good sprinkling of garlic powder before I put the filling in.

2.  In the last few minutes of baking brush bread with some garlic butter and sprinkle with parmesan cheese.  

Give it a try!  The original recipe can be found here.

New Recipe Review - Easy Chicken Dinner

If you are on Pinterest, you probably have seen this recipe floating around.  It looked so simple and good, I just had to try it.

You can see on the chicken where
 my pats of butter were :)

I thought this recipe would be great to try on a Sunday.  After church we are usually famished.  We normally eat at home and we don't want to wait around to have something prepared.  This recipe  seemed like a good one to prepare before church, put in the oven, and program the oven to bake and when we got home dinner would be ready!  Boy was I right!  When I walked in, my house never smelled so good!  We couldn't wait to try it.

The chicken was very tender and moist. I used two forks to split the breasts apart.  The potatoes were perfectly cooked, as well as the green beans.  

The original recipe can be found here.

But in a nutshell here is the recipe.

Chicken, Green Beans & Potatoes

In a 9x13 dish place green beans on one side, chicken breasts down middle and cut up potatoes on the other side.

Top with pats of butter and a package of dry Italian seasoning.  Cover with foil and bake 1hr on 350.

Before

After

It's so easy!

This will be on the menu in October!