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Easy Oven Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Posted at EST by Leave a Comment 30 Oct

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Halloween Eve is the day we carve pumpkins in our house!  And while the kids are putting their final touches on their masterpieces it’s when I am roasting the seeds for scary movies!

If you’ve never roasted the seeds before you might be used to just scooping those pumpkin guts into the trash- STOP!  If you like salty and crunchy – you will love these. Plus they are basically free to make with a little bit of olive oil and salt!

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Easy Oven Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
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Recipe type: snack
Cuisine: snack
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Ingredients
  • Raw Pumpkin Seeds from pumpkin carving
  • Olive Oil
  • Salt
  • Water
Instructions
  1. Rinse pumpkin seeds to remove all pumpkin.
  2. Place pumpkins in large pan with 3 cups of water and 2 tbsp salt for each cup of seeds.
  3. Bring to a boil and simmer for ten minutes.
  4. Preheat oven to 400F.
  5. Remove from heat and drain well.
  6. Spray baking sheet with olive oil.
  7. Spread the seeds on the sheet and toss to coat with oil.
  8. Spread into a single layer and bake 5-20 minutes depending on seed size.
  9. Remove from pan and allow to cool completely before eating.
 

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Easy Panko-Crusted Oven Fried Chicken Drumsticks

Posted at EST by 7 Comments 29 Oct

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YUM.  I love love love fried chicken but all that grease isn’t the best for us.  Thankfully panko crumbs and olive oil spray give you the crunch and taste of deep fried chicken without all the deep frying.

Drumsticks are often very inexpensive and my kids love them because they are finger eating friendly!  My husband dipped his into a spicy wing sauce and announced that they were delicious so 6 thumbs up from us! The best part about these?  You can make a double batch and freeze them!

Instead of placing them into an oil pan- place on a sheet of wax paper on a baking sheet.  Flash Freeze until solid and then remove and place in a freezer bag.  When you want to cook them- spray the baking pan (I LOVE to bake these in a cast iron skillet) and place them inside.  Refrigerate to thaw and then bake.

 

 

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Easy Panko-Crusted Oven Fried Chicken Drumsticks
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Recipe type: entree
Cuisine: entree
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Serves: 6
 
Ingredients
  • 6 Drumsticks
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 Cup flour
  • 3 cups panko breadcrumbs
  • 1 tbsp parmesan cheese
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp paprika
  • ¼ tsp garlic salt
  • ¼ tsp dried oregano
  • ¼ tsp basil
  • ¼ tsp black pepper
  • Olive Oil Spray
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 425 F.
  2. Spray a large cast iron pan or a large glass oven safe dish with olive oil spray.
  3. In a shallow dish, beat the egg.
  4. In a second shallow dish, mix breadcrumbs, parmesan, salt, paprika, garlic salt, oregano, basil and pepper.
  5. In a large slider bag put the flour.
  6. Add chicken drumsticks and shake well to completely cover.
  7. One at a time, dip the floured chicken into the egg to coat and then cover with panko crumb mixture.
  8. Place into oiled pan.
  9. Spray the top of the chicken lightly with olive oil spray to allow the tops to crisp up too.
  10. Bake chicken for 30 minutes, flip each piece and bake an additional 30 minutes or until done.
 

 

 

 

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Naan French Toast Dippers Recipe

Posted at EST by Leave a Comment 19 Oct

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French Toast dippers

I had some of the Naan bread from a past BOGO sale and I needed to use it up fast – craving something sweet I decided to make french toast dippers with it!  Now I can normally eat naan just how it is- something about that bread is just so good but this took it up a notch and is 100% going on our weekend breakfast rotation!

I tried this with super long strips – and trust me they don’t hold up to dipping!  So cut the naan in half the long way and then into shorter strips.

This uses my favorite secret to french toast: creamer! I used french vanilla but I bet that caramel would be delicious!

 

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Naan French Bread
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Recipe type: breakfast
Cuisine: breakfast
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • 2 Naan Bread
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 cup Coffee Creamer
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • Syrup
Instructions
  1. Beat eggs and creamer together.
  2. Slice Naan into strips.
  3. Heat a griddle over medium heat.
  4. Melt butter on griddle or in pan.
  5. Dip strips into egg and creamer mixture and shake off excess.
  6. Place strips on griddle and fry until golden brown, about 2 minutes per side.
  7. Serve with warmed syrup to dip.
 

 

 

 

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Ravioli Lasagna Recipe

Posted at EST by 2 Comments 17 Oct

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I really wanted lasagna this week but I was too tired to boil the noodles, mix the cheese, layer it all. So I decided to cheat and use the Buitoni Ravioli, Prego Pasta Sauce and some cheese I had from past deals.

It’s SO much easier and while not exactly like lasagna- close enough to fill in when necessary.  We like ours without meat- but if you want to add in ground beef just add browned and drained meat into the sauce before putting it into the casserole.

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Acorn Cookies: Peanut Butter & Chocolate

Posted at EST by 4 Comments 14 Oct

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Acorn Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

These are TOO cute- of course if you have peanut allergies you could use a different flavor of the chips and use icing instead of peanut butter!  What a perfect treat for a fall event (even Thanksgiving!)

Acorn Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

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Ingredients:

12 ounces Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Kisses

72 mini Nilla Wafers

3 tablespoons peanut butter chips

1⁄4 cup peanut butter

Directions:

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1. Scoop peanut butter into a Ziploc bag; seal it; cut a tiny bit of one bottom corner off.

2. Pipe a small dot of peanut butter onto the wafer bottom, top with a chocolate kiss. Pipe peanut butter onto a peanut butter chip and adhere to the other side of the wafer. Repeat with remaining ingredients.

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Easy Pizza Dough Pretzels Recipe

Posted at EST by Leave a Comment 12 Oct

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It was a race this evening- could I get my pictures taken before the family snatched these off the plate.  You can’t tell but they are all standing around begging to eat one of them.

These were SO much easier than I expected them to be and so much better!

I used pre-made dough I got from Harris Teeter but you could use any pizza dough- even a dry mix you make according to the directions.

Easy Pizza Dough Pretzels Recipe

 

You can customize these in so many ways.  Add parmesan cheese or drop the salt and replace with cinnamon and sugar. Even top them with cheddar cheese!

Easy Pizza Dough Pretzels Recipe

Take the dough and cut off a section and roll into a log.  Then roll it into a long rope.  Turn it into a pretzel shape.

Easy Pizza Dough Pretzels Recipe

Then brush with baking soda mixture and allow it to rest.  Then brush with beaten egg and top with salt.

Bake & enjoy!

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Easy Pizza Dough Pretzels Recipe
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Recipe type: snack
Cuisine: snack
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Serves: 6
 
Ingredients
  • Pizza Dough ball
  • 1 tbsp baking soda
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • Coarse Salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. Spray a cooking sheet with baking spray.
  3. Create small ropes of dough by rolling and stretching it.
  4. Create a pretzel shape.
  5. Microwave ½ cup water until very hot.
  6. Add baking soda and stir until dissolved.
  7. Brush pretzels with soda mixture.
  8. Allow to sit for 5 minutes.
  9. Brush pretzel with beaten egg.
  10. Sprinkle with salt to taste.
  11. Transfer to cookie sheet.
  12. Bake 18 minutes or until turns golden brown.
  13. Serve with warm marinara sauce.
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Apple Pie Cookies Recipe

Posted at EST by Leave a Comment 8 Oct

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I found a package of pie crust in my fridge that needed to be used today or tossed and I was far too tired to make an entire pie- although apple pie would hit the spot right now.  It really feels like fall out today- the cool weather…the leaves starting to fall.

Instead of making a full pie- my 3 year old Isabella and I made pie cookies! I know the traditional version of these pie cookies have a lattice top- but my Nana always makes a full crust pie and that’s how we made the cookies!

This “recipe” really doesn’t have measurements because it’s really just putting things together (or wait…isn’t that what all recipes are?).  The trick is to use a peeler to slice off super thin strips of the apple.  Don’t put big chunks of uncooked apple or they won’t be cooked when the pie crust cookies are.

You can make the caramel sauce from scratch but we used some jarred sauce and it was delicious!

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Apple Pie Cookies
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Recipe type: snack
Cuisine: snack
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Serves: 12 cookies
 
Ingredients
  • 1 pkg Pie Crust
  • Caramel Sauce
  • Apple, sliced into thin pieces
  • Cinnamon
  • Sugar
  • egg, beaten
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Roll out the dough and using a mason jar or other round lid cut as many circles as possible.
  3. Cut small slices on the top of half of the pie crust circles.
  4. Place the un-sliced halves on a lined baking sheet.
  5. Spread a thin layer of caramel sauce over the un-sliced half of the circles.
  6. Place a few thin slices on top of the caramel sauce inside the pie crust.
  7. Mix white sugar with some cinnamon.
  8. Sprinkle a small amount of sugar cinnamon mixture over top of the apples.
  9. Place the sliced circles on top of the others.
  10. Brush a small amount of egg mixture on the top.
  11. Sprinkle with a little more cinnamon and sugar mixture.
  12. Bake 20 minutes or until golden brown.
 

 

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Grilled Pineapple Recipe

Posted at EST by Leave a Comment 29 Sep

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We are a grilling family- we’ve been known to grill in our winter jackets and toboggans!  So now that the warm weather seems to be here for a while now- we are grilling up everything we can!

There are lots of recipes that call for adding brown sugar and/or cinnamon but we prefer to let the grill and heat to add a little extra flavor rather than covering it up with lots of excess sugar – but if you want to try a brown sugar recipe check out this one.

It’s so easy to slice a pineapple with this pineapple slicer.
Then you have a long coil of pineapple that you can easily make into rings.

Then it’s literally just putting them on the grill and cooking them a little – they go amazing with almost any dish but I think my favorite is to serve them with BBQ ribs and hushpuppies!

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Grilled Pineapple
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Recipe type: side
Cuisine: side
 
Ingredients
  • 1 Pineapple, sliced into rings
Instructions
  1. Preheat Grill to medium-high heat.
  2. Place pineapple slices on grill and cook until light caramelization begins.
  3. Flip pineapple and cook the other side.
  4. Serve.
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Easy Bisquick Coffee Cake Recipe

Posted at EST by Leave a Comment 26 Sep

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Easy Bisquick Coffee Cake Recipe

Coffee cake is our family’s favorite sweet breakfast and this is super easy and delicious.  My grandfather drizzles his coffee over his but we like it warm with our coffee (or cocoa) on the side.  I like mine really brown sugar-y so I usually top it off with a little extra brown sugar to give it a little crunch and extra yumminess!

 

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Easy Bisquick Coffee Cake Recipe
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Recipe type: breakfast
Cuisine: breakfast
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Serves: 9
 
Ingredients
  • 4 cups Bisquick
  • 1⅓ cup milk
  • 4 tbsp sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 4 tbsp butter
  • ⅓ cup Bisquick mix
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 375°F. Grease a 9x13 pan.
  2. In small bowl, mix 1 cup brown sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, 4 tbsp butter and ⅓ cup Bisquick until crumbly.
  3. In another bowl, mix remaining ingredients until smooth. Spread half of batter in pan.
  4. Top with half of brown sugar mixture.
  5. Spread remaining batter on top and then top again with remaining brown sugar mixture.
  6. Bake 25 minutes or until a pick comes out clean.
 

 

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Canned Biscuit Donuts

Posted at EST by 2 Comments 18 Sep

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canned biscuit donuts

 

Fair warning that these are NOT good for you (but honestly very few of the most delicious recipes are!) but they are so easy!

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Canned Biscuit Donuts
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Recipe type: breakfast
Cuisine: breakfast
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Ingredients
  • 1 can refrigerated biscuits
  • Sugar or powdered sugar
  • oil for frying
Instructions
  1. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat until a small piece of dough dropped in fries and bubbles to the surface.
  2. Lay the biscuits on a cutting board and using a lid to a soda bottle or a small round cookie cutter, cut out a hole in the middle of each biscuit.
  3. Fry in the oil until golden and using tongs or a fork, flip the donut over.
  4. Drain on paper towels and toss in sugar (add cinnamon to the sugar if you wish).
  5. Fry donut holes and toss in sugar as well.
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