S'more bites

For dessert tonight I whipped up these. Graham cracker crust, a cut up Milky Way that I had in my work bag, and mini marshmallows. Broiled them(I toasted the graham cracker crust by themselves). Topped with toasted coconut and a drizzle of chocolate. Super fast and easy.

Cinnamon bun fake out

I was just so proud of myself so had to share. In trying to use things we had in the cupboard, we have to Carmel monkey bread mixes. I'm not a big fan of the Carmel monkey bread and rolling out all the balls is just too much for me. So I got the idea to try to make cinnamon buns with the mix. After consulting with my personally baking expert, I proceed to make the sweet yeast bread, let it rise, roll it out, top with some butter, the sugar mixture the mix comes with and some walnuts. Roll it up, cut it up, top with a little more sugar mixture and walnuts. I put mine in the fridge over night, got up at 6 and put it in the counter to rise some more. After about an hour and half, Drizzle a little honey on them,popped them in a 350 oven for 30 mins and wala!! Yum!!

Baked wrapped Brie

-package of phyllo dough or crescent dough
-caramelized onions
-wheel or wedge of Brie
-honey
-s&p

Place wedge of Brie on an appropriate sized piece of dough. Top with caramelized onions and a drizzle of honey.
Fold dough up and around the Brie, enclosing everything. I flipped it over at this point but I think next time I would leave the seams up in hopes that no Brie would leak out and if it did it would just baste the dough.
Top with a drizzle if honey and salt and pepper.
Bake at 350 for 10 mins. Serve with crackers, veggies, or crust bread!! Yum!!

Buffalo Chicken Tacos

I was telling Brynn I was making these for dinner. Very good. I bought chicken thighs with skin on and roasted the chicken. Took them out of the oven, peeled off the skin and put the skin back in the oven to crisp more. Tore up chicken and tossed with buffalo sauce. Fry up taco shells(key!) shredded chicken, slaw of shredded carrots and celery, blue cheese sauce, and top with crispy chicken skin(fat kid in me!)
So good!

Huli Huli Chicken

Marinade 2 Split chicken halves in:
Sautee 3 minced garlic cloves in TBSP veg oil add 1/2 TBSP fresh ginger for about 30 seconds. Stir in
1 qt water and 1 cup soy sauce. Pour over chicken and refrigerate for an hour or up to 8 hrs.
To make glaze:
Combine 3 ounces pineapple juice, 1/8 cup brown sugar, 1/8 cup soy sauce, 1/8 cup ketchup, 1/8 cup of rice wine vinegar, 2 cloves of minced garlic, 1 TBSP fresh ginger, 1 tsp asian chili-garlic sauce.
Either grill chicken basting with the glaze or do in oven basting with glaze until it becomes a sticky gooey yummy mess. Around 45 minutes. in 400 degree oven!

Sweet Potato Salad

This was soooo good. Full of flavor. I had planned to save some out for mom and Erin but I ate it all. That's how good it was. My additions were I roasted the sweet potato (that is key i think) add a little curry and some blue cheese crumbles! Enjoy!

Sweet Potato Salad

serves 4

2.5 cups peeled, cubed sweet potatoes
1/4 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup chopped red onion
1.5 tablespoons finely diced home-canned bread and butter pickles
1/2 cup or less mayonnaise, preferably homemade
.5 tsp prepared yellow mustard
salt and pepper to taste

Place the cubed, peeled sweet potatoes in a large pot of cool water; bring to a boil and cook for 3 – 5 minutes, or just until fork tender. Drain in a colander and rinse with cold water until they have cooled enough to handle. At this point, I drain them well and refrigerate for a couple of hours.

In a large bowl, combine the remaining ingredients except the salt and pepper and mix well. Gently stir in the potatoes, then add salt and pepper to taste.

Serve immediately (can be refrigerated before serving if desired).