Red Velvet Oreo Cupcakes

Red Velvet Oreo Cupcakes:

What you need:

1 box red velvet cake mix

3 eggs

1/2 C. oil

1 C. sour cream

1/2 C. buttermilk or milk

2 tsp. vanilla extract

24 Oreos

Cream cheese frosting

How do do it:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake lines.

2. Sift cake mix into a small bowl and set aside.

3. In a large bowl, combine eggs, oil, sour cream, buttermilk and vanilla extract until smooth.

4. Stir in cake mix.

5. Take your Oreos and place one at the bottom of each cupcake liner. (If you are afraid your oven will get to hot on the bottom you can always chop them up and fold them into the batter!)

6. Scoop batter over each Oreo to fill the liners about 3/4 full.

7. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean.

8. Let cool.

9. Crush about 6 Oroes and mix in with cream cheese frosting.

10. Frost cupcake and enjoy!

Funfetti bundt cake

Funfetti cake

What you need:

• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup sprinkles

What to do:

1. Preheat over to 375. Grease cake pan.
2. In a large bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
3. Once mixed add milk, vanilla, canola oil and an egg. Beat until smooth. About two minutes.
4. Quickly fold sprinkles into batter and pour batter in the pan
5. back for 20-25 minutes

Vanilla Glaze

What you need:

1. 1 cup confectioner's sugar
2.  2 to 8 tablespoon heavy cream
3. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

What to do:

• In a small bowl, combine sugar, 2 tablespoons heavy cream and vanilla.
• Using a spoon, mix to the glaze until all the sugar has been moistened. begin adding additional heavy cream, one tablespoon at a time until the desired consistency of glaze has been achieved. 

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.

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.

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.