Chicken bake

4-6 chicken breasts
Red potatoes
Green beans or broccoli
1 packet ranch dressing
1 stick of butter

Cut potatoes place along side of 13x9 inch pan
Open green beans can drain and lay on other side of pan
Place chicken in the middle. I choose to cut mine cause its not 100% defrosted
Sprinkle Italian dressing all over
Pour butter on top
Cover with foil
Cook for 1 hour at 350

Dinner tonight

Made some good ranch cheddar burgers you can find the recipe at onceamonthmom.com/ranch-cheddar-burgers also made Cheesy Bacon Oven Chips with Chipotle Ranch Sauce . I am addicted to the chips an the sauce we add 1 tablespoon extra of ranch and no salt in sauce.
 
 Cheesy Bacon Oven Chips

• 1 large, uniformly-shaped russet potato, scrubbed well and sliced into 1/8" rounds*
• cooking spray
• 3/4 C. shredded colby jack or cheddar cheese
• salt & pepper to taste
• 2 T. crumbled bacon (about 2 slices) - I used real bacon bits
• chopped parsley or chives, for garnish (optional)

 Chipotle Ranch Dipping Sauce

• 1 T. ranch dressing
• 3 T. sour cream
• 1/4 t. chipotle chili powder
• 1/8 t. cayenne (adjust more or less depending on how spicy you want).
• 1/8 t. salt
• 1/8 t. garlic powder

 

Found the recipe original recipe at http://vittlesandbits.blogspot.com/2012/02/cheesy-bacon-oven-chips-with-chipotle.html?m=1

What a week

I have not posted this much because man what a week it has been. Both kiddos up in the middle of the night. We will be working on that this weekend. I am up with our 2 year old sitting at the end of her bed cause she woke to go potty and now won't go back to sleep. Mommy can go back to sleep.
We have eaten a lot of leftovers and throw together food this week. Tonight Ellie and I made Mickey pizzas.
Ellie's almost a sleep, she's such a fighter. Looks like I may be able to head back to bed. Night all

What a week

Wish I would have had time to cook more and blog this week. We could quick food, ate left overs and made recipes we have in the past. Ellie has been fighting sleep every night this week. As I type in my phone I'm at her door waiting for her to crash since she keeps getting out of her bed. Gavin decided he wasn't going to sleep through the night anymore and Ellie wake up in the middle of the night to go potty or cause she has to go. No, sleeping children leads to sleepy mommy, add chores, appts, and school put a fork in me I'm done. We just switched Gavin from his bassinet to porta crib tonight hope he does well. Ellie has been wearing panties since last Saturday and only had 2 accidents during the day. I'm very proud of her. Now, if she would just go to bed. Guess I need to start timing her nap time and wake her up and get her on schedule. Off I go to get lost in Pinterest while I wait impatiently for my lil brat I mean angel to crash I mean fall peacefully a sleep.
Hope all have a great weekend

Crockpot beef Stroganoff

Crock pot beef stroganoff

This is my first time making in the crock pot. I am trying to use up what we have up in the house. It's cooking now so ill have to tell you tonight how it tastes. But here is the recipe.

1-2 pounds cubes beef
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 packet of onion soup mix
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 garlic glove or teaspoon of garlic paste
1/2 cup of water
1/2 bouillon cube
Pepper to taste

Egg noodles
4 oz cream cheese
1 tablespoon of sour cream

Mix all ingredients but noodles, beef, cream cheese and sour cream
Add beef and cook on low for 5-6 hours
Cook egg noodles
Before serving add sour cream, cream cheese and serve over noodles

Update wasn't bad at all. And I don't like mushrooms or onions.

Potty training

I want to say that potty training has to be one of the biggest, most frustrating obstacles. We have tried pull ups alone, we tried just panties, we tried going to potty every so often. Well in the end letting her run naked has seen to work. She has had 2 days in just panties except when we left house or sleeping time with no accidents. She has had weeks with going number two in the potty. Sorry, had to brag proud momma. Hope Gavin is somewhat easy too.

Shredded chicken

I needed some shredded chicken for tonight's chicken pot pie. So, I decided to make extra shredded chicken so I can have for the week for lunches and dinner recipes. Also, I have leftover stuff from Mediterranean pizza just no chicken so I can season it when I want to eat it.

Shredded Chicken
6 frozen chicken breasts
1 bay leaf
4 cups of chicken broth (I used better then bouillon paste you can use bouillon cubes too)
Salt
Pepper
Garlic powder

I use a crock pot liner. Then place frozen chicken in crock pot. Season with salt pepper and garlic powder. You can adjust and add seasonings as you like. Pour 4 cups/ 1 qt of broth on top. Cook on low for 6-8 hours. You can cook on high for 4-6. Shred with fork when done or should fall apart.

I am going to store what I don't need tonight in a Rubbermaid to use through the week. I am sure if you wanted you can use stock for stuff later.

Optional would be celery/ carrots for flavor and to eat and use in soup