Category: Food

Surprise, surprise….this is another Let's Dish meal.

Here are the bags full of ingredients:

First you get some water boiling for the pasta and some oil heating for the sauce.

After the oil has heated up, add the ham, peas and onion mix to the oil and cook until the onions are softened.

Next, add the pasta to the water and cook.

After the ham mixture has cooked, you add the cream sauce to it.

When the pasta is done cooking, strain it then add it to the sauce mixture.

Stir the pasta together with the sauce.

Then serve with grated cheese sprinkled on top.

This wasn't our favorite meal. Chuck doesn't like ham or peas very much and I am not a huge fan of frozen peas. I picked out the peas and ate most of it. There also wasn't much food in this meal compared to some of the others we have had.

I have one more of these meals left and I think I'll make it sometime when Chuck is gone. Then he doesn't have to eat it. 🙂

This meal is from Let's Dish. I am starting to think that maybe I am becoming quite the spokesperson for them with all the meals I post. 🙂

This meal was really simple to make. First you get the rice cooking. I think the bag of rice had butter, lime zest and onion in it.

While the rice is cooking, add the chicken to the grill. I used a grill pan.

While the chicken is cooking, I heated up the sauce a little bit. It WAS frozen and I didn't want to put cold sauce over my hot chicken.

Then I made a little frozen corn and served it up!

It was a really tasty meal. I was pleasantly surprised. I get a little worried when there are crazy sauces added to chicken. But we even had enough for one of us to take some leftovers to lunch. So I am glad I have a few of these meals left!

I just came across this in the store the other day and I love this stuff!

Why do all the good sodas need to be seasonal? (Mmm…Cranberry Sierra Mist – my all time favorite soda!)

Here's a link to 7Up's website with more information on this tasty drink! Get some while you can for the holidays!

I found this recipe from Kraft Foods. It was a huge hit and SO simple to make!

1. Dump in pineapples.
2. Dump in cherry pie filling.
3. Dump on box of cake mix.
4. Dollop with butter.
5. Bake.
6. Eat.

Seriously! It was that easy. And it was so good.

Here is it out of the oven.

And on the plate.

And with whipped cream.

I will definitely make this again. Maybe even try some different fruits. What a great, simple dessert in no time!

I made green cupcakes. I think I made them for St. Patrick's Day. Yeah, I know…that was MONTHS ago, but here are some pictures anyway (which aren't great since they are from my phone)!

They were tasty. And green! I think I am going to do this again sometime. Maybe make all sorts of colors. I'll have to find a reason to make a billion cupcakes, though.

Anyone need/want cupcakes?

Aren't these adorable!? I saw them online and I haven't stopped thinking about them since I saw them. I want to make them so badly! 🙂

HERE is a link to the recipe to make them. You have to scroll down a little bit to get to the recipe.

Let me know if you try these and how they turn out. If I make them, I will be sure to take copious amounts of pictures of them! 🙂

Chuck sent me this link the other day and all I have been thinking about since then is gummy bears. They are giant gummy bears. And you can even get them on a stick. They are so cute. And look so delicious! I think they would make a great gift!

All I can say is yum!

We were watching tv one night and saw a commercial for Kraft Homestyle Mac & Cheese. Chuck thought it looked fabulous. So I found some and made it one night.

First, boil water and cook the macaroni.

Drain the macaroni and melt some butter in the same pan.

Then mix in the seasoning/flour mix. You are basically making a rue similar to if you were making mac & cheese that doesn't come in a package.

Then add milk and let the sauce thicken up.

Then you add the cheese. This comes in a pouch…it's not powder cheese, it's a creamier cheese. You mix this all together.

Then add the noodles. It's starting to look tasty!

Mix that all together. The directions say you can serve it at this step. If you don't serve it now, add it to a casserole dish.

But why serve it before baking when they give you crumbly topping?

You can add more cheese to it before backing, but I didn't have any. So I just baked it.

Then serve!

Chuck said it was a little bland. I like bland, so it didn't bother me. I also bought the 4 Cheese blend of this meal. We had it a couple days after I made this one. Chuck said it had more flavor and he liked it better. I didn't add any more cheese to that one either.

I thought they were tasty. I don't usually find a macaroni made with processed cheese that I don't like! 🙂

Now I'm hungry again.

I tried this meal and I was pleasantly surprised. The meat was really good and the flavor was better than I expected. I will definitely try this again and other meals that they make. I have already spotted a few other meals that are similar to this that I would like to try!

HERE is a link to the website for this meal.

I found this recipe, or maybe it found me…I can't remember. But I was excited that the only thing I didn't have on hand for it was a green pepper. So when I went to the store I picked one up and I am SO glad that I did.

This was a really simple meal. Think Hamburger Helper, but not out of a box.

First you brown some hamburger.

Then add in the peppers and garlic (I also added some onion powder and I might just throw in some freshly chopped onions next time).

Then you add the sauce and water. The water helps the noodles cook without eating up all the sauce!

Next, you have to break up some lasagna noodles (which proved to be the messiest part since pieces went everywhere). Next time I make this, I will make the pieces a little smaller than I did this time because I ended up cutting them up slightly before I ate them.

Cover and let simmer for a while.

Then add some cheese and devour!

I took a huge helping and ate it all. Chuck went back for seconds and then had the leftovers the next day.

Needless to say, this meal was a hit and I'll definitely make it again.

I am always weary to try new meals, but more times than not, I end up liking them and I am glad I took the plunge to actually read the instructions (in order) and make it turn out right. So I am hoping I can put the billions of cookbooks and cooking magazines to good use. I just have to had a little dedication and plan ahead at the grocery store.

What I really need to do is go back to having a calendar on the fridge with the meals for the week. When we did that, we ate much better and were able to see, on paper, how much we went out to eat.

Moral of this blabbing post…make this meal. Your family will love you.