#5 Sausage Pinwheels

I'm 2 for 2 today!!! Crescent rolls are my new favorite thing. I literally bought six rolls of them the other day to use for different things.

Today I made sausage pinwheels. Although they weren't much of pinwheels. There were several different pins for them on pinterest, so I may have kind of possibly combined some things.

Ingredients:

1 can of Pillsbury crescent rolls, I buy the reduced fat because I think they taste the same, and then I don't feel so guilty when I eat more than one. Who's with me ladies? I know I'm not the only one who does this...

1 roll of Jimmy Dean sausage

1 small container of cream cheese

Cook sausage, in a bowl, mix sausage and cream cheese, fill crescent rolls, bake!

Couple of things, I hate it when my crescent roll dough falls apart as I'm trying to work with it. Also, the cream cheese needs to be soft or I'll try spreading it on the dough first. I used just enough cream cheese to coat the sausage, but you can use as much or as little as you like.

These were delicious, they'd make a great snack!

#4 Pinapple Lemonade Punch

This punch is the best! My boys are tearing it up! And, it's so easy, go figure. (Starting to think that's my middle name.) Just toss in the stuff, mix, and go! It's really sweet, so I don't know that I'd make it on a daily basis. It'd be great for company or parties.

The original pin went to a You Are My Sunshine baby shower theme.So cute!

Ingredients:

1 cup Countrytime Lemonade mix {or the likes}

2 cups cold water

1 can of chilled pineapple juice {46 oz}

2 cans chilled Sprite {or the likes}

Tip: when you have it in a pitcher or punch bowl, add some sliced lemons to make it look pretty!

I know I need to work on my presentation, but I've never had a need for a punch bowl before. Guess now I do.

 

#3 Best Pizza (& Spaghetti) Sauce in the World - Part 2!

Tonight's spaghetti was awesome! I took the left over sauce from yesterday's pizza sauce added a few things, and viola! A delicious spaghetti sauce that I whipped together in no time!

Pizza/Spaghetti sauce plus the following:

1 small can of tomato paste, to thicken

1 can diced tomatoes

1 can mushrooms, pieces and stems

Meatballs!

Super easy meatballs, 1 lb of hamburger meat, 1 egg white, season with garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste, mix and roll, boil til they float.

Pile all that on top of your favorite noodles. Throw some crescent rolls in the over, and enjoy!

Tip: place a half stick of mozzarella string cheese inside the crescent roll to bake, then when they come out rub a stick of butter along the tops, and sprinkle some garlic salt...mmmmm.

#3 Best Pizza Sauce in the World

Oh my word...I can not rave about this one enough! The sauce was so easy and absolutely divine! The pin had the directions to make, and the picture didn't lead me to any site so here it is...

Ingredients: 

1(15oz) can tomato sauce

1/4 c water

1 tsp sugar

1/4 tsp dried oregano

1/4 tsp dried basil leaves

1/4 tsp dried thyme

1/4 tsp garlic powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/8 tsp black pepper

1 whole bay leaf

1/2 tsp lemon juice. 

Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan, cook over med. heat...simple as that! 

 I am very proud of myself on this one. I even squeezed a lemon, and I have never done that for fresh juice in my life.

So, the pinner titled it as a pizza sauce. The pizza tasted way better than it looks, promise. I did leave the one corner without pepperoni on purpose. I wanted to try it without to see how much of a kick the sauce had alone. It does have some, but it's not overwhelming.

1 can of refrigerated pizza dough

Roll out dough, cover with sauce, cheese and toppings of your choice, bake!

Tip: Run a stick of butter along the outside crust and sprinkle with garlic salt while it is still warm.

  I had plenty of sauce leftover/ Our family loves spaghetti, so I put it away in the fridge. 

Spaghetti variation, add the following:

1 can of diced tomatoes

1 can of mushrooms, pieces and stems

1 small can of tomato paste

1 lb ground beef

It was great! I think next time I'll saute some fresh garlic instead of using the powder. In fact, I'm thinking that's what we'll have for dinner tomorrow!

I heart pinterest!

#2 Apple Cinnamon Detox Water

How can you go wrong with cinnamon? I went with this one for a few reasons:

1. I LOVE cinnamon!

2. I wanted something to drink other than the soda and milk I had in the fridge.

3. It was simple.

So, I took the advice of the blogger who pinned it in the first place and used 2 apples and cinnamon sticks. I used gala apples. The way I figured it was that granny smith are too sour, red delicious are to bland, so gala worked great for me.

You really do need to let it steep overnight. Otherwise, you drink half the pitcher trying to taste it. It does get stronger over a few days. I personally wouldn't reuse the apples. They were starting to turn brown after 4 days, and I'm just weird like that.

As for a detox drink, I couldn't say. Obviously it did me some good because I actually drank water! My grandmother will swear by the benefits of cinnamon though. She takes a cinnamon vitamin supplement daily. (Been trying to get me to for ages.)

Taste wise, if you love cinnamon it's great! Throw it together with the kids. They'll get a kick out of putting it all in the water and watching it float around when you pour it.

Detox Apple Cinnamon Water pinner

You can find this and other delicious creations here ----> My Pinterest Edible Creations Board!

(Sorry I was slacking on the picture again. I'll get it next time. Promise!)

#1 Double Crunch Honey Garlic Chicken Breasts

I am constantly looking for new things to try. This dish was as delicious as it looked. I am not a fan of Asian food, but the soy sauce/honey mixture coupled with spice of the chicken seasoning was a definite hit.

I by no means consider myself a cook. I need very simplistic directions. When I look at a recipe and see ingredients that I can't pronounce I'm quick to move on. This recipe called for literally all of the spices in my cabinet, all 6 of them.

I would have posted a picture, but with the state of my kitchen...

First, it was a very easy recipe. I think the longest was measuring out the spices into the flour. I probably checked the recipe about 15 times. Have you ever put too much nutmeg in a dish? It's not pleasant.

It's been a while since I've pan fried chicken, so there were a couple of things I could have done differently, like upped the heat and downed the time a little to make it more crunchy.

I used my rice cooker and did microwave steamable green beans as the sides. (My spell check went off, so if steamable isn't a word, it is now.) I needed to keep them as simple as possible in case I came against an unexpected complication with the main dish. Plus, the sides were able to stay warm that way.

This is one recipe that will go in my cookbook of favorites.

You can find this wonderful dish here: Crunchy Honey Garlic Chicken Breasts

One pin down, a million to go...

To try or not to try, there is no question...

For those of you who can spend hours upon hours on pinterest, repinning pins upon pins, thinking to yourselves, "I love that! I want to make that, find that, hang that, eat that...", you're not alone. I constantly find things and go, "I'll pin this, and maybe I'll use it someday!" So far I've done about 4 recipes, which have all turned out fan-freaking-tabulous by the way, but nothing else. 

On my recent trip to Europe I was without my cell phone for 10 days. I survived. It made me realize I wanted to do something a little more productive with my time. I want to be able to see the fruits of my labors, or have labors for that matter. Both of my boys will be in school in less than a month, then I will have all day to myself! I'll need something to do. 

I've decided to start a blog, and try all those things I constantly repin that I never get around to doing. I want to make a wine bottle candle, decorative cupcakes and picture wall decor. I would still like to try my hand at quilting. But I'll start small. Besides this way it'll always be something new! Variety is the spice of life, as they say. 

I'm setting a goal of something new every week. I'd like to do it more often, but I figure once a week is an obtainable goal. You know how it goes, there's those weeks that fly by with appointments, softball games and school event nights. So, wish me luck as I try out something new. Who knows, maybe I'll find my niche, and never go back. At least I know I'll have fun trying. 

-Sarah