Soft Pretzel Bites...2 Ways! Stuffed and Sweet!

I am so hooked on this new recipe I just tried!!! I've been wanting to make my own pretzels for years, but I kept putting it off because I thought it would never work out for me! Then a few days ago I saw this recipe a food friend named Bill Wentz posted on Facebook! This recipe was the easiest I've seen for soft pretzels!!! It's just 5 ingredients! You just mix everything together and then knead, shape, dip and bake for 10 minutes! The hardest part for me was shaping the pretzels! Here's a picture of my first attempt at pretzel shaping.......

First attempt!
I know these look bad!!!
But they tasted great!

These are coated with cinnamon and brown sugar!

An Italian Style Grilled Cheese Sandwich!

I love hot lunches! I'll heat up leftovers before I'll eat a cold lunch! But when there aren't any leftovers I'll make myself this tasty hot sandwich! I love this because it's quick and delicious! And it's kind of healthy too! Well, except for the butter and cheese...but it does have some veggies in there!

This grilled cheese sandwich reminds me of one of my favorite appetizers...antipasto! So that's what I named my recipe! I hope you like it as much as I do!



Antipasto Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Lots a Wasa!

I recently received a large amount of Wasa crackers in the mail! I won them in a blog giveaway through a blogger named Becky from

An Improvised Appy...

I needed another appetizer to serve to my guests for Easter! I had mini mozzarella balls, grape tomatoes, pesto, garlic and white bread, so I decided to make these cute little Insalata Caprese Bites! My guests really loved them! I think I'll make them more often!

Insalata Caprese Bites

Update!

I recently found out that I'm a winner in the Chef Boyardee recipe contest! I mentioned that contest in a recent blog post. I almost gave up on that contest, thinking I would never win! Well, I'm so glad I didn't give up because I finally won in week #7 with my SloppyRoni Sliders recipe! I re-entered the recipe that week and won a $500 Amex gift card and $75 worth of free food items from ConAgra foods! At the end of the 10 weeks, all 10 winners will be entered for a chance to win the grand prize...1 years worth of free groceries($100 per week) at the store of your choice! 

                                         

 Now the voting begins for the Chef Boyardee recipe contest!

I'm not going to be asking for votes because I feel like I already won just by making it into the finals! I wanted to show you what a great job the photographer did in recreating my original photo! Here's is the photo that I shot along with their photo.

 

I thought I did a great job until I saw their version...

 My Photo

Photo by Pro Photographer

 

 

They did a much better job, don't you think?

 



And by the way, here is the link to my winning recipe! It was delicious! SloppyRoni Sliders Recipe

Frozen Chocolate Banana Bites!

This was a recipe I found on a blog called Never Homemaker! I tried it and loved it! So easy to make and eat! I used milk chocolate chips instead of vegan chips!  Sorry, but I don't even know what vegan chips are! This is what my banana bites looked like.

Frozen Chocolate Banana Bites

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Fat Free, Microwave, Potato Chips!

A foodie friend of mine named Sherri Logan, showed me a recipe she found on the Internet for microwave potato chips! As soon as I saw it I knew I had to try it! Well, they were VERY good! I made the chips in various flavors such as seasoned salt, onion, and red hot sauce flavors! I liked the onion flavored the best! I just sprinkled the uncooked potato slices with kosher salt( just a scant pinch on each slice) and onion powder before microwaving. My teen daughter loved the red hot sauce flavored. I made those by just adding one drop on each uncooked potato slice, then I smeared it across the entire slice before microwaving! Here are my photos of the process...

You will need a mandoline for this...and a bowl of cold water.

This is how thin to slice the potatoes...1/8 of an inch.

These are the finished chip! Crunchy and fat free!!!

Here's is the link to the recipe...

http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-crispy-potato-chips-in-the-microwave-166718

This is not the kind of chips you'll want to make for a large crowd because it's time consuming! But it's perfect for a family of 4...I used 2 large russet potatoes and it was just enough for the 4 of us!

Get Your Chocolate Fix!

I love cornbread and I love chocolate...so I combined the two and made this absolutely perfect chocolate dessert! I used my favorite cornbread recipe that I got from a foodie friend, and I tweaked it a bit! It worked great!

Chocolate Cornbread

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Unique Kid Friendly Food!



Yes, that's right...spaghetti is coming out of those hot dogs!!!