Cheese Fries

Oh how I love me some cheese fries! These are super easy to make! Plus they have this amazing ranch/sour cream sauce that makes them even better!

Fries:
4 large potatoes
1/4 cup olive oil
salt and pepper (I used seasoned salt)
foil **very important**

Ranch/Sour Cream Sauce: **this makes A LOT**
1 cup ranch
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 cup milk

Toppings:
1 1/2 -2 cups of shredded cheese
1/2 cup real bacon bits

Turn on the oven to 400, line your baking sheet with foil (I did this the first time I made these, and the second time I made these I didn't do this and the potatoes were soft and mushy, the foil made all the difference!). Cut your potatoes and put them on the pan coat them with the olive oil and salt. Place them in the oven for 40 minutes. While that is in the over mix up the ranch/sour cream sauce and put in the fridge. When the potatoes are finished put 1/2 of the sauce on the bottom of a platter (that you can put back in the oven) then your potatoes and top them with the rest of the mixture. Then add your cheese and bacon, place the platter back in the oven for about 5 minutes or until the cheese is melted. Then enjoy!! They are so yummy!

I will tell you that the sauce is A LOT and I didn't put the whole thing on my fries. So I had some left over for the second time I made these and I didn't put it on the plate the second time and just used it to dip the fries into. Both ways are very good, but my very picky husband liked it much better when we could just dip the fries in the sauce.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you like the fries!

Chicken, Crock Pot, Easy

Wow! 3 of my favorite things! Cooking with chicken is usually always easy. The crock pot should be called easy pot, because...well if you don't know you need to go buy a crock pot RIGHT NOW! And I'm always down for easy meals! I love to cook, but I love to spend time with my baby more right now, so anything that takes me less than 10 minutes to put together I'm down for! That's what this is! Plus it was super yummy, and it was an experiment that my husband actually liked!

So here it is.....Sweet Pineapple BBQ Chicken

You'll need:
4-5 Chicken Breasts
1 bottle BBQ sauce
1 can pineapple chunks
Your crock pot!

This is what you do:
Put it all in the crock pot and cook on low for 4 hours, shred the chicken and let cook another 30 minutes to an hour. Then eat! THAT'S IT! SO EASY!

I will say this, it was on the sweet side for chicken, my husband said he wished it had a little spice to it, so next time I am going to add something to give it a little spice. I think sweet and spicy makes it sound even better!! I hope you enjoy!

Cheesy Skillet Pasta

So here is another Pinterest dinner night! I have to warn you that I followed the recipe this time and I liked the first plate alright, but wasn't a fan so much of the second plate and my husband didn't like this at all. If you are a fan of steak sauce then go for it, but if not either take it out or don't make this. Neither of us are fans of steak sauce, but I do want to make this again and just take the A1 out. I mean it looks really GOOD, how could it not with ALL that cheese ontop?!?

So I totally forgot to take a picture until after I had made one plate so...sorry for the not perfect photo! lol But man it looks so yummy and cheesy, and it was perfectly cheesy, but it really just tasted like steak sauce. Here is what I did....

1 lb ground meat
1 cup ketchup
1/4 cup A1 Steak sauce (I will not put this in next time)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 - 2 cups of cheese (I didn't measure I just put on top until it looked good)
10 oz (about..again didn't measure) of pasta noodles

Cook your noodles as the package directs and set aside. Brown your meat then pour in the can of soup, ketchup and steak sauce (again ONLY if you really LOVE steak sauce). Put a lid on the pan and let it simmer, I did this on med-low heat for about 10 min. Then sprinkle your cheese ontop cover again to let the cheese melt on low for about 5 min. Then enjoy!

Let me know if you make it without the steak sauce and liked it! I'll make it again one day without the sauce and update also how it turned out. So this "experiment" didn't turn out so well for us, my husband did NOT like it and ended up eating ramen lol!! Oh well, there is always tomorrow night!

Chicken and Asparagus

Oh how I love me some Pinterest! I mean who doesn't right? Well since I am a stay at home mommy now I thought I would try to get back into my blog and post the food I make and the goodies I make for my little one! This is only fun for me, because David hates when I try new things, he calls the food "experiments" and is never happy about them! haha But I still make them and he still eats it! So I keep going. Last Saturday I went to the Farmer's Market in McKinney, it was great! I got so many good things, right now all I want to do is eat peaches all day long because they were so good! I should have gone to buy more yesterday but I didn't...oh well I'll just have to wait until next week. Anyways I guess I sould get on with the chicken! I bought some asparagus at the market because I remembered this pin I had on Pinterest! Here is the link to the original recipe here. and here is what I did...I changed it a little and what we did was great!

Chicken Asparagus Roll-Up

4 boneless skinless chicken breast
20 asparagus spears
6 slices of provolone cheese
1/2 cup of mayo
1 1/2 tbs honey mustard
1 1/2 tbs spicy mustard
2 tbs lemon juice
1 tbs Italian seasoning
salt
pepper
1 cup bread crumbs (we used the Italian bread crumbs)

**I have to tell you that the only thing I really measured was the mayo, the rest I just eyeballed and added to our tastes**

1. In a bowl mix the mayo, mustard, lemon juice and seasonings together.

2. Heat oven to 475 degress F

3. Cook the asparagus in the microwave for about 1 min.

4. Pound the chicken to make it flat so that it will be easy to stuff and roll.

5. Put a tbs of the mayo/mustard mix on the chicken then add a slice of provolone, 5 asparagus spears and another 1/2 slice of provolone (We like our cheese..you don't have to do the 1/2 slice), and roll the chicken tight cover with the mayo/mustard mix and then roll in your bread crumbs to cover the chicken and place in the pan. Repeat with the rest of the chicken.

6. Place in the oven for 25 min, and then enjoy!

And just so you know this "experiment" dinner was great and the hubby actually loved it!