Sunday, February 24, 2008

Good Recipes

Jeddy will be the first to tell you I had a hard time learning how to cook. Slowly I have gotten better. I'm not going to say I'm a great cook but I found some rock star recipes. Here are a few that never let me down!

Brushetta Chicken-this one is so good and it looks like you did something fancy!


1/4 cup Sun Dried Tomato Vinaigrette Dressing

4 Chicken breast

1 tomato, finely chopped

1/2 cup Mozzarella cheese

1/4 cup fresh basil


1.Marinade the chicken in the Dressing I do it over night but the recipe says 10 mins so whatever

2. Grill Chicken uncovered for 6 mins.

3. While it cooks combine tomatoes, cheese, basil, and 2 Tbsp of Dressing

4. Turn chicken over. Place tomato mixture over the top, close lid and cook for another 8 mins.

Try it out you'll love it and it's so easy. I made this at the beach house for my family. They were blown away with my skills.


This is another good one I found at Thanksgiving. It's a vegetable but good enough to eat as a dessert.
sweet potatoes-I buy the big bag from Costco they're cut up like french fries
1/4 cup orange juice
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup margarine
1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Place sweet potatoes in a 10x6 inch shallow baking dish and pour orange juice over.
In a small bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt; mix together and cut in margarine. Sprinkle over sweet potatoes.
Bake for 1 hour covered. Remove from oven, sprinkle with marshmallows and broil until browned.

I made this one today to take to my mom's house. It was all gone and I made a huge thing of it!


I loved these Peanut Butter cookies! Sinful!


1 3/4 C flour

1/2 t salt

1 t baking powder

1/2 C butter, softened

1/2 C white sugar

1/2 C peanut butter

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1 egg, beaten

1 t vanilla extract

2 T milk

40 peanut butter cups


1. Preheat 375

2. Flour Mixture

3. Cream together butter, sugar, peanut butter and brown sugar. Beat in the egg, vanilla and milk. Add flour mixture mix well

4. Make 40 balls the recipes says to put it in a mini muffin tin but I do a cookies sheet. Bake for 8 mins.

5. After you remove it form the oven press the peanut butter cup into each cookie.

These are Abby's favorite cookies to make because she unwraps all the peanut butter cups, so we never have enough to put on all the cookies.


This has nothing to do with the recipes, but I have to show you at least one picture of my kids! They are too cute not to.

12 comments:

Lexi said...

Your kids are too cute! And we should try the zoo again this week. Thanks for the recipe, the first one only has a few ingredients, so I will totally try it.

CDR said...

They sound really good. I am always looking for new recipes to try.

William and Marianne said...

cool :) i need more yummy recepies!! when do you want to do lunch this week?

Trina said...

Oh fun. I am not a good cook. Infact I hate to cook. I really want a sheff. I like to make dinners that have fewer than three ingrediants. So maybe I can try the first one. So be excited for dinner if you ever come over. Ha. And I agree, you gotta post a picture of your kids for sure!!

Brianna said...

Woohoo! I love new recipes...Justin will tell you that I need all the help I can get. :) I'm trying that sweet potatoes recipe TODAY! I love them, but I've always been afraid to make them. Thanks for the recipes, Mrs. Cleaver!

April and Cameron said...

i tried the chicken recipe last night. it was sooo good and super easy. i am lacking in the kitchen dept. thanks for the tips!

The Chan Clan said...

All those recipes sound so stinkin' good! I can't wait to try them. Seriously though, you crack me up, going back to high school for your little sis. that is great! We need to do a get together soon!

CHAD & ELISE TYSICK said...

Anna! This is Elise (Welker) Tysick! I just randomly found your blog! Your little Girls are adorable!! I cant believe that you have 2 kiddos! TIme flies. My blog is chadandelise.blogspot.com.

Bert and Benton said...

Anna I'm impressed, but you always turn out to rock at just about everything you do. Thanks for the recipes!
Um, I can't wait till my baby comes and we can have play dates all the time!!

shay said...

Your becoming quiet the Martha Stewart these days. Thanks for the recipes!

Lexi said...

Anna I am eating one of your cookies right now and they are so good! Thanks for the awesome recipe!

Jason, Amanda, Brayden and Dillon said...

Anna,

We just did the chicken recipe and it was AWESOME!! We actually realized we didn't have any basil for the topping so we had to use a bit of Italian seasoning (it's all we had on hand, sad but true), but we loved it!!!! Thanks for the recipes...keep 'em coming!!