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!