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Chicken Marsala

Made a super yummy dinner last night, and since I am slacking on my recipe posting I thought I better jump on real quick while O is napping. Man, this chick has some attitude lately!!

Chicken Marsala

Ingredients:

1 cup long grain rice, uncooked

2 cups cooked, diced chicken (or you could use rotisserie if you have it on hand)

2 cups sliced white mushrooms

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons flour

1/2 cup heavy cream

1/2 cup marsala wine (or you could use cooking wine, found on the aisle where vinegar and sherry is)

2 cups water

2 tablespoons parmesean cheese

2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley

S&P to taste

Directions:

1. Spray 9×13 dish with non-stick cooking spray. Sprinkle uncooked rice evenly on bottom of dish. Place cooked chicken on top of dry rice, set aside. Pre-heat oven to 350.

2. Melt butter in saute pan, add sliced mushrooms and cook until softened. Constantly stir while sprinkling in flour, and adding heavy cream and wine. Add salt and pepper to your liking. Saute until sauce thickened a bit. Add 2 cups of water and mix to combine.

3. Pour mushroom mixture into casserole dish. Cover with foil. Bake for 35 minutes.

4. Remove casserole from oven, uncover and sprinkle parmesean cheese and parsley over top, put back in oven and bake for 5 minutes.

We really liked this dish, I love chicken marsala and usually make it with pasta but it came out really nice with the rice. I served with a side of brocoli and it was a perfect and super easy dinner!

Chicken-Marsala

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Southwest Corn Dip

I have been on a blogging strike with my family being in town, but now that they are back home, :( , I can return to the regular blogging schedule :)

I made a super yummy dip this weekend and wanted to share it with you

Southwest Corn Dip

Courtesy of Tasty Kitchen

  • 4 cans Corn (15 Oz.), Drained
  • 1 can Chopped Green Chilies (4 Oz), Drained
  • 1 can Chopped Jalapenos (4 Oz), Drained
  • 1 can Black Beans, Drained And Rinsed
  • 1 whole Red Bell Pepper (Chopped)
  • 1 bunch(es) Scallions, Chopped
  • 1 cup Sour Cream
  • 1 bag Finely Grated Mexican Cheese (8 Oz)
  • ½ bunch(es) Fresh Cilantro, Coarsely Chopped (or To Taste)
  • Directions:

    Drain corn, chilies and jalapenos. Put in a large bowl with the beans and tilt the bowl on its side while you chop the other veggies. Add the rest of the veggies and drain – there will be liquid accumulated in the bowl. Stir in the sour cream and grated cheese. Add the cilantro last.

    Refrigerate before serving if you have time and the self-control to keep from eating it.

    You must eat this dip with Fritos Scoops or lime Tostitos. It’s like the law or something.

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    Or…you can make something really yummy and put some inside of a quesadilla!

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    This would be really great (and easy) for partys or potlucks, its seriously GOOD!

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    Pumpkin Bread

    So what if I am still wearing my flip flops here in AZ, this time of year just screams fall, and I have already pulled out my fall decorations, lit my pumpkin and spice candles, and baked 2 batches of my favorite pumpkin bread. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, my favorite is to heat it up and enjoy it with a big slab o' butter :)

    Maine Pumpkin Bread

    Recipe courtesy of allrecipes.com

    INGREDIENTS

    • 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
    • 4 eggs
    • 1 cup vegetable oil
    • 2/3 cup water
    • 3 cups white sugar
    • 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
    • 2 teaspoons baking soda
    • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
    • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
    • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
    • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

    DIRECTIONS

    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7×3 inch loaf pans.
    2. In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.
    3. Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

    I usually double the spices but you can taste the batter and see how you like it

    Enjoy!

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    Ghetto Toffee Goodness

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    Stop whatever your doing, write this recipe down (or print it, whichever you prefer) and make it. Immediately. It is seriously SO good! I made some the other day because hubby and I were craving it, and had to take it to work because if not, I would not have been able to button my pants the next day.

    This makes a great, easy, and affordable recipe to make as gifts for the holidays, because lets be honest, we would all rather have something loaded with butter and sugar than some stinky body wash we plan to re-gift the following year ;)

    Ghetto Toffee

    1 cup butter

    1 cup brown sugar (I use light)

    1 sleeve saltine crackers (with salt, the sweet/salty combo makes it so much better!)

    12 ounces chocolate chips (you can use milk chocolate or semi-sweet, or a mix of both, whichever you prefer)

    6 ounces of heath toffee bits (that's half the bag for the not-math-savvy)

    Line cookie sheet with foil. Spray foil with non-stick cooking spray. Place entire sleeve of saltines, salty side down, in a single layer. They may not fit perfectly, but its ok because they will separate after baking anyway so don't worry about it looking perfect. Unless your like me and do it anyway, even though you knowit will separate when it bakes.

    Pre-heat oven to 350. In a medium sauce pan, over medium heat, melt butter, add brown sugar once melted and stir to combine (it will never really look combined until after it boils, but its what the recipe says so just pretend it does and stir away). Once mixture begins to boil (and not a second sooner), stop stirring, and let boil for 3 minutes. By boil I don't mean bubbling over the top of the pot, but to where you can see bubbles forming and popping out of the mixture, if that makes any sense. It will begin to "puff up" and that's ok, don't turn the heat up or down, just let it do its thang for 3 minutes.

    Remove butter/sugar mixture from heat. Pour immediately over crackers. You will need to use a rubber spatula most likely to ensure this yummy buttery goodness covers every inch of your crackers. Once they are covered, turn off the burner the pan was on, because you don't want to do what I did and place it back on the stove top, with butter/sugar running down the side, and burn it onto your glass surface so badly that you are still scrubbing it off ;)

    Place cookie sheet in oven and bake for 6-10 minutes, if your oven tends to run hot you may take it out after 6, you just don't want the sugar to get too browned.

    Right after removing from oven, sprinkle chocolate chips evenly over tops, let them set for 5 minutes, then take rubber spatula and spread evenly over crackers. If you don't let it stand 5 minutes, the chips wont melt properly and you will have clumpy looking toffee stuff. Sprinkle toffee bits over chocolate. Place in fridge for 1-2 hours to set.

    To break apart, I just use my hands, but have read others using a pizza cutter. It may be a wise idea to brush your teeth, chew gum, pull out your old headgear, anything to keep your mouth busy while cutting because seriously, every crumb will make its way into your mouth.

    Enjoy!

    Note: You could mix this recipe up however you wanted. White chocolate, dark chocolate, dark brown sugar instead of light, you could use nuts in place of toffee bits, candy cane pieces, the possibilities are endless!

    Next up: Green Chili Burritos!

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