Chicken (Turkey) Noodle soup

So for thanksgiving Josh and I made our own little turkey. After we had eaten sandwiches and things for a couple days I decided I would make soup. I found this chicken noodle recipe and just changed out the chicken for turkey and it turned out pretty yummy. It was a crock pot recipe so it was way easy!

Josh rating: 4

What you'll need: 

• 1 1/2lb boneless skinless chicken breast (or left over turkey :) )
• 5 medium carrots, peeled and chopped
• 1 medium yellow onion
• 4 celery stalks
• 3 cloves of garlic, minced
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 6 cups low sodium chicken broth (3- 15 oz cans)
• 1 c water
• 1/2 tsp dried thyme
• 1/2 tsp rosemary
• 1/4 celery seed
• 2 bay leaves
• salt and pepper
• wide egg noodles

What to do:

1. Add chicken (turkey) carrots, onion, celery and garlic. Drizzle olive oil over top then add in broth, water, thyme, rosemary, celery seed, bay leaves and salt and pepper. cover and cook low heat 6-7 hours.
2. Add egg noodles and cook on high for ten minutes or noodles are tender. 

Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie

Super easy to make! I didn't do the hot fudge on mine, and my crust kinda fell apart, and it was a little runnier than this picture. Lets just say I was having problems. But it still turned out pretty delicious! I told Josh I wanted to make a pie for Thanksgiving. But knowing he doesn't really like very many kinds of pie I asked him what I should make, and he said banana cream. I generally don't like traditional banana cream pie so that's why I chose this recipe. 

Josh Rating: 4

What you'll need:

• 1 (3.4 oz) package instant vanilla pudding
• 1 (12 oz) can evaporated milk
• 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1/8 teaspoon almond extract
• bananas 
• chocolate cookies crust
• hot fudge topping
• whipped topping
• optional peanuts 

How to make it:

1. Beat pudding mix, evaporated milk, peanut butter, and almond extract on medium speed with mixer in large bowl until smooth.
2. Place a single layer of bananas on bottom of crust. Pour pudding mixture over bananas. Place another single layer of bananas over pudding mixture.
3. Drizzle fudge topping over bananas. Spread whipped topping over fudge topping. Sprinkle with peanuts. Chill 2 hours.

Red and Green Quiche Bites

These were super easy to make and turned out pretty yummy too.

Josh Rating: 3.5

 What you'll need

• 1 single pie crust
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon sour cream
• 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 tablespoons each red and green pepper-chopped fine
• 1 tablespoon green onion
• pinch salt

How to make them

1. Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F. Grease a mini muffin tin.
2. Roll out dough and cut into 2 inch squares
3. combine egg, sour cream, cheese, peppers, onion and salt. Blend well.
4. Spoon a teaspoon of mixture into each dough-lined muffin cup.
5. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until egg puffs and dough is lightly browned at the edges.

Happy Holidays!

I know we're kind of late but Happy thanksgiving! I found lots of yummy thanksgiving recipes to share, so they will be blogged soon!

Now time to decorate for Christmas! We even got some help from Kona :)

We also finally got our couch! Pictures soon to come.

Crock Pot Stoganoff

I loved this recipe! Easy as always, and you don't need a lot of ingredients.  I would have added chopped mushrooms, but I know Josh doesn't like those, but it was still good without the mushrooms.

Josh Rating: 5 out of 5

INGREDIENTS:
    10.75 oz soup, condensed cream of mushroom
    1/2 cup water (or more as needed)
    1 oz onion soup mix
    1 lb beef stew meat, cubed
    4 oz cream cheese

INSTRUCTIONS:
    1. Whisk together, water, cream of mushroom soup, and dry onion soup mix in a crock pot; stir meat into soup mixture.
    2. cover. cook on high for 1 hour.
    3. Reduce to low and cook until beef is tender, about 2 to 3 more hours.
    4. test after 2 hours to see if its done.
    5. Stir in cream cheese until smooth giving cream cheese time to warm through the beef mixture.
    6. Serve over butter noodles

                  

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bunt Cake

I made this for Halloween. It turned out so yummy! It was also super easy to make! It's two bunt cakes, one on top of the other to make a pumpkin. I didn't get a picture of the inside, because it got eaten pretty quickly. But I promise it looked just like the recipe! My icing didn't turn out as thick, and my bunt cake pan whole was a little too big to put a candy bar stem. But it was delicious, and that's all that matters!

Josh Rating: 3 1/2 (he said he gave it this rating because he's not a big pumpkin fun)

I rate it a 5! I thought it was very yummy!

INGREDIENTS

  *the recipe below is for ONE bunt cake.

For a single layer cake

    1 box yellow cake mix

    1/2 teaspoon baking soda

    2 eggs

    1 3/4 cup pumpkin

    1/2 teaspoon ginger

    1 teaspoon vanilla

    1 teaspoon cinnamon

    1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

    1 cup sugar

For the cream cheese filling

    8 oz cream cheese, softened

    1/2 cup sugar

    1 egg

    1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

    1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Icing

    3 1/2 cups powdered sugar

    5-6 tablespoons milk

    red and yellow food coloring

    optional candy bar stem

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease a round bunt cake pan and set aside.

2.In a large bowl combine cake mix, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and sugar and whisk to mix well. Mix in eggs, pumpkin and vanilla. In another bowl beat cream cheese, sugar, and egg until creamy. Mix in cinnamon and vanilla.

3. Pour half of cake batter into prepared bunt cake pan. Next, spread on cream cheese mixture. top with remaining cake batter. Bake 50-60 minutes or until inserted knife comes out clean.

4. **To make full pumpkin, you will need to make the above cake twice. Do not double the recipe and split between two cake pans. Make the cake two times. Flip one cake upside down, set second cake on top.

5. Make the icing by mixing together powdered sugar and milk in a mircrowave safe bowl. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon yellow food coloring. and red coloring 2-3 drops at a time until desired shade of orange is reached. Warm icing in microwave (20-30 seconds) until pourable consistency is reached. Pour icing over cake. Allow to cool and set. Top with optional pumpkin stem.

This is Halloween & a Happy Birthday

     My birthday was pretty great even though I did have to work. At work I got free birthday lunch, and birthday cake, which I thought was super nice! Josh took me on a birthday date after work. We went to see Bad Grandpa, it was pretty funny for the most part. After the movie we had dinner at GoodWood. It was delicious as always. We then went to Applebees for a blondie. Yes we went to a different restaurant for dessert.

Saturday I got to go to Gardeners Village to see the witches. It was extremely busy but still fun! My grandma and I got free birthday dessert, and it was quite delicious. Speaking of delicious, we each bought a pound and a half of fudge! (We each had a coupon.) I got an awesome birthday present from my grandma. She made me a Halloween quilt! I love it. It's so cute! She is very talented.

I love my Grandma! I'm so glad I get to share my birthday with her!

My birthday didn't end there. My friends took my out to TGI Fridays for dinner! It was so nice to see them again. Steph and I had a very yummy drink. It was called a pink punk cosmo. Our waitress brought out our glasses with pink cotton candy in them. She then poured the drink in and the cotton candy dissolved into sugar. I would for sure order it again! I had a fantastic 22nd birthday!

Besides going to see the witches we also have another Halloween tradition; going to my Uncle Todd and Uncle Brent's for chili and fun Halloween movies! For those of you who have never been to my Uncle's house, let me tell you it is AMAZING at Halloween. These are some pictures from last year.

 This year they had around 200 trick or treaters! They had out king sized candy bars, and plus their house is awesome, so of course everyone wants to come trick or treating there. This year the movie we watched was Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. So funny. It was a good choice. I got to make the dessert this year and it turned out so yummy! Yes I found it on pintrest. I will post the recipe. It was like all the recipes I pin, very easy! I would say we had a great Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Salmon Tacos

This recipe was super easy and pretty fast. It was healthy and yummy too. Which is always a bonus. 

Josh Rating: 4 out of 5

From the picture you can tell it's pretty simple but I'll give the ingredients and directions any way.

INGREDIENTS:
                 Salmon - I used just a bag of frozen salmon
                 Small flour tortillas
                 Tomatoes
                 Avocados
                 Sour Cream
DIRECTIONS
                 I cooked my salmon is a large with Aloha sauce on medium heat until it was flaky.
                 Cut up tomatoes and avocados
                 Spread sour cream on tortilla
                 Then you're done!

Chicken Cordon Bleu Rolls

Because I have a lot of time at work to be on my computer I take home work breaks and find yummy food on pintrest. I recently found a recipe that is now one of my favorites. It's really fast, easy and you don't need a lot of ingredients.

Josh Rating: 4 our of 5 stars

Ingredients

• 1 can Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
• 6 slices Swiss cheese
• 6 slices deli ham
• 2 chicken breasts, cooked, thinly sliced
• 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
• 2 Tbls honey (optional)
• 2 Tbls Dijon mustard (optional)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Remove crescent rolls from can and lay out in a long rectangle. Pinch the seams together well.
3. Sprinkle with Italian seasoning.
4. Layer first Swiss cheese, then ham and finally the chicken breast on the rolls.
5. Roll up like a cinnamon roll and cut into 8-10 rolls.
6. Place in a pie pan or 9-in square baking dish and bake for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown.
7. Mix honey and Dijon mustard and serve with rolls if desired.

New fridge, new paint and a lost bunny

  For those of you who don't know Matt's basement isn't completely finished. The people who owned the house before did things a little differently. The basement kitchen only has room for a mini fridge, has no disposal, dish washer, stove or oven. Eventually we will have to rip out the cabinets to make room for those appliances. But for now we are just living with what we have and cooking upstairs. Since we have been here, I told Matt that the first appliance I would like to have is a fridge. He went looking for one a few days ago, but he didn't measure anything. He got the refrigerator into the garage and it sat there for a couple days. He was pretty sure it wasn't going to fit down the stairs. But we took the doors off and my Dad, Josh and Matt were able to muscle it down the stairs! So we now have a fridge! Yay!

   We have also started painting the walls in the basement. I'm not sure if you can tell from any of the pictures, but they are purple, kind of a pastel lavender. Oh and with the best trim ever, it's blue with leaves carved into it. It's just such a nice combination, so that's why I have to paint over it! We started with the wall the entertainment center gos on. And yes we painted a whole wall that you can only see maybe two feet of. But that's ok, it needed to be done. 

I'm just super awesome at painting and don't need masking tape...

The finished product! 

Thanks to Dad we got the top of the entertainment center up. He had to drill a whole bunch of holes in our brand new wall. It was kind of sad.

I have now started to work on the trim on the other side of the room. Hopefully we can get it all finished before our couch comes.

While I was home today, Kona was acting so weird. She was trying to get into the window. I just thought she wanted to lay there. So I set her up there, and she acted weird for a little while then laid down. She fell asleep after awhile then I heard a weird noise from the window. I pulled up the blinds and I found a bunny! No wonder she was acting all weird. I got up and went out side to the window and the little bunny was so scared that it backed up into a corner. Natalie ( A friend of Matts and my parents, who is living here while she figures out her housing situation.) and I wanted to get it out, but we weren't quite sure how, and Natalie didn't want it to bite us, so we decided to wait for Josh to get home. In the mean time Natalie tried to give it a piece of celery, because we thought it might be hungry. Josh got home around 5:30. I showed him the bunny, and he grabbed some gloves and grabbed it behind its ears and pulled him out. He set him down then he just hopped away.

 

Newly-wed - New-blog

     I have decided to write a blog to keep everyone up with whats going on with the Naylors. We have gone through a lot of big changes recently:

WE MOVED TO DRAPER! Such a big change. Our decision to move to Draper was just an idea we had at dinner, that rapidly turned into reality. My Dad's friend Matt works for FedEx and is hardly ever at his house. He has offered me to stay at his house before, but I told him I couldn't because I was going to Weber State and my jobs weren't down there. But everything just seemed to fall into place. Even though at the time it didn't seem that way. Our house didn't go through right when we were about to close on it. We were going to sign the papers while we were in Hawaii and move into our house when we got home. But we got unapproved because of how Josh got paid. We couldn't stay at the apartment because we had already put in our notice.  So we had to move into Krista basement for a couple weeks, while we figured things out. We talked to Matt about moving and he thought it was a great idea. It turned into a win-win. Josh and I got a place to live and Matt got someone to always be in his house.


Josh and I were both going to transfer our jobs down here, but we both found new jobs instead. I am now working at General RV as a receptionist. It's a lot different than what I'm used it, but I am able to do my homework at work, which is nice. I get to see my Dad a lot because he is finishing the building. Josh is loving his new job. He is now working at the aquarium. They sell fresh and salt water fish, coral and reptiles.
       

http://theaquariumutah.com/

Luckily all of my classes were full at Weber State, so I didn't have to try and transfer in the middle of the semester. I am now in the school I have always wanted to go to, The Art Institute! I am in the interior design program and I am loving it. They were able to transfer 53 of my credits, which was awesome! I will be graduating spring 2015!

We have started a lot of projects so will keep everyone posted!