Broccoli Sausage Alfredo w/ Goat Cheese

Broccoli Sausage Alfredo w/ Goat Cheese

 What You Need:

1 head of Broccoli4 Spinach & White Cheddar Chicken Sausage links1 jar of Light Alfredo Sauce1 box of your favorite pastacrumbled goat cheese

What You Do:
Cook pasta according to directions on package. While pasta is cooking cut the broccoli into florets and steam them. Cut the sausage links into pieces and add them to the sauce in a pan to warm the sauce once the pasta  is done drain and return to pan. Add the steamed broccoli and warmed sauce to pasta and mix. Once it's all mixed put on plates and top with goat cheese. 
Enjoy!!!

Fried Green Tomatoes

 Fried Green Tomatoes 

What You Need:
4 Large Firm Green Tomatoes
2 eggs
1/2 cup Buttermilk
1 cup flour
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup plain breadcrumbs
2 tsp coarse kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
vegetable oil for frying


What You Do:
Slice the tomatoes into 1/4 in thick slices and discard the ends.

Whisk the eggs and buttermilk together in a medium sized bowl. Place the flour onto a plate. Mix the cornmeal, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper on another plate. Dip the tomato slices into the flour to coat. Then dip them into the egg and milk mixture. Dredge in the breadcrumbs to completely coat.

In a large skillet pour the vegetable oil ( you'll need enough so that there is 1/2 inch of oil in the pan) and heat over medium heat. Place the tomatoes into the frying pan in batches of 4 to 5, depending on the size of your skillet. You do not want to crowd the tomatoes they should not touch each other. When the tomatoes are browned, flip them over and fry on the other side. Drain on a paper towel.

ENJOY!!!

Meatloaf Parmesan

 Meatloaf Parmesan 

What you need to gather up:
Spaghetti
Spaghetti Sauce

Mozzarella Cheese

Left Over Meatloaf

 

What you do:

Preheat oven to 350*. Grease a 9x13 baking dish and set aside. Take your leftover meatloaf and cut it into slices. Place the slices of meatloaf in your greased baking dish cover them with your spaghetti sauce and put in oven for 20 minutes. After the meatloaf has cooked for 20 minutes top with mozzerella cheese and cook for 10 more minutes. While the meatloaf is in the oven prepare your spaghetti as directed on the box.

 

When everything is done you can either serve your meatloaf on the side with the spaghetti or on top. Everyone in our house loved this recipe and it was a great use of leftovers too!! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did...

 

 

Candy Cane Punch

 Candy Cane Punch

Ingredients:

2 jars (10 ounces each) strawberry jelly
2 liters lemon-lime soda, divided
2 quarts peppermint stick ice cream
Miniature candy canes, optional

Directions:In a large saucepan, melt jelly with 2 cups soda. Chill the jelly mixture and remaining soda. Just before serving, place 6 cups ice cream in a punch bowl. Gently stir in jelly mixture. Add remaining soda. Add remaining ice cream by scoopfuls. Garnish with candy canes if desired.
Yield: 3-1/2 quarts.

This punch is very yummy and is sure to impress your guests!! I hope you enjoy it I know I sure did...
 

Easy Beer Bread

 Easy Beer Bread

 I have had Beer Bread in the past but only from Tastefully Simple I had never tried to make it from scratch. So I was super excited to try out this recipe and see how it compared to what I've had in the past... Ingredients you'll need:3 cups of flour (self-rising or all purpose)
1/2 cup sugar
12 ounces of beer2 Tablespoons butter 

Directions:Preheat Oven to 375*.Butter loaf pan and set aside.Combine flour, sugar and beer mix well. The mixture should be sticky.
Melt butter. Pour batter into loaf pan, then pour melted butter on top of batter.Bake for 55 minutes. 

All Done and the final verdict is...It looks, smells and taste Delicious!!! 

If you wanted you could use fruit in this bread but I would recommend using a fruit based beer if you do to give it a little more of the fruity flavor.

Buffalo Chicken Dip

 Buffalo Chicken Dip

Ingredients:

2 (10 oz) cans of chunk chicken, drained

2 (8 oz) packages of cream cheese softened

1 C. Ranch dressing

3/4 C. pepper sauce, such as Franks Red Hot (I used a cup of Franks Red Hot b/c my family likes Hot Stuff)

1 1/2 C. shredded cheddar cheese

Directions:

Heat the chicken and hot sauce in a skillet over medium heat until heated through.  Stir in cream cheese and ranch dressing.  Cook and stir until well blended and warm.  Mix in half of the shredded cheese and transfer to a slow cooker.  Sprinkle remaining cheese over the top, cover, and cook on low setting until hot and bubbly.   Serve with celery sticks, crackers, tortilla chips or bread.

Pizza Lasagna

 Pizza Lasagna

What You Need:

1 jar of pizza sauce

1 large can of crushed tomatoes

1 large container of cottage cheese or ricotta

1 package (4 cups) mozzarella cheese

2 eggs

2 packages of pepperoni about 45 pepperonis

2 tablespoon Mama Mia Marinara Sauce Mix

1 box of lasagna noodles (can be oven ready)
Anything you like on your pizza can be added to this recipe just add in with the pepperoni layers

What You Do:

Preheat your oven to 375* degrees. While the oven is preheating if you are using noodles that need cooked cook them now. Spray a 9x13 baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.

In a large bowl mix the pizza sauce, crushed tomatoes and 1 tablespoon of the Mama Mia Marinara Sauce Mix together. In another medium sized bowl combine the cottage cheese, 2 cups mozzarella, 2 eggs and 1 tablespoon Mama Mia Marinara Sauce Mix. 

Spread some of your pizza sauce mixture in the bottom of your 9x13 baking dish then add a layer of noodles. On top of your noodles add a layer of the cheese mixture, a layer of pepperoni, top with sauce and then continue your layers. You should get about 2-3 layers after you do the final layer of noodles add sauce on top of noodles then the remaining 2 cups of mozzarella cheese and another layer of pepperoni's. 

Bake for 25 minutes covered and then uncover and bake for an additional 5 minutes or until cheese is starting to brown. Serve with garlic bread and a tossed salad.  

ENJOY!!!