Chicken Parmesean Bake

5 boneless skinless chicken breast
1 c italian bread crumbs
2 eggs
1/4 c flour
parmesean cheese
couple tablespoons of olive oil
1 jar of your favorite marinara sauce
mozzerella cheese ( I also used some local sundried tomato, garlic herb yogurt cheese from the farmers market)
kosher salt, red pepper flakes and ground pepper


Put the flour in a bowl, beat the eggs and put in a seperate bowl, combine the bread crumbs and parmesean in another bowl
Salt and pepper the chicken
Coat the chicken in the flour, dip in the egg mxture, coat with the bread crumbs and parmesean.
Add olive oil to frying poan and heat on medium, add the chicken to the pan and brown on boths sides for a few minutes.
Pour the marinara in a 9x13 baking dish, add the browned chicken breast, cover with mozzerrella and your favorite cheese.  Bake at 375 for 30 minutes........yumm  Serve with your favorite pasta as a side, garlic bread and salad

Doggie Treats

Jazzy couldn't get enough!  Bella got the big bones.

Peanut Butter and Oat biscuits

1cups water(add more water later if required) 

1 cup oil

2 eggs 

3 tablespoons peanut butter

2 tsp. vanilla 

2 cups flour 

1 cup cornmeal 

1 cup oats

Blend wet ingredients together. Whisk dry ingredients together and mix into wet mixture to form a ball of dough. Roll out and use cookie cutters to make whatever shape you want.  Put onto a non-stick cookie tray or lightly greased one. Cook 20 minutes at 400 F. Turn off oven and allow the biscuits to cool in oven until crisp and hard. 

Making Candy

This one is simple if you are looking to make a sweet treat that goes a long way.  I made these for Christmas this year.

Chocolate covered nuts

1 pkg of vanilla almond bark
1 pkg of chocolte almond bark
1 small bag of giradelli 60% cacao bittersweet chocolate chips
2 lbs of gourmet nuts with sea salt or nuts of your choice

Place the choc chips in bottom of crockpot, cover with nuts and almond bark.  Turn on low for 3 hours and leave the lid on. After 3 hours take the lid off and stir.  Drop by spoonful on parchment paper and cool.

Nutella Turnovers

Nothing sweet all week so I am craving some chocolate. Looked in the pantry and found these ingredients and searched recipes til I found one. Yummy.

1 sheet of puffed pastry thawed & divided into 2 layed on a floured surface and cut into little squares.
1 bag of giradelli choc chips
1 c nutella
1 egg
1 tblsp water
slivered almonds 1 tblsp butter

Preheat oven to 400
stir nutella and 3/4 bag of chips together
Wisk the egg with water and brush the ends of the pastry dough that you are folding together
Place a heaping spoonful of choc mix in each square
Fold over and make triangles and place on parchment lined cookie sheet
Brush rest of egg mixture on top of pastries and sprinkle almonds on top
Bake for 15 minutes
Cool and eat

Favorite Egg Casserole

8 eggs slightly wisked
12 oz container of cottage cheese
1 c bisquick
1 stick of melted butter or 1/2 c melted margerine
1 c milk
2 c of shredded cheddar
bacon cooked crisp and broken up to your liking
salt and pepper - you can add red pepper flakes or parsley


Preheat to 350
Combine all ingredients and pour into a 9 x 13 sprayed baking dish
Bake for 45 to 50 minutes   ENJOY


My son loves this hot or cold

Homemade Bread with Sunflower Seeds

I am so excited about how my bread turned out.  It is delicious... no kneading.  My La Cloche arrived the other day and I am definately going to get my money back with the use of it.  I didn't photograph the process because I was uncertain the first time.  I will post the steps next blog.

Here's the results

BELLA ROMA

We just have all kinds of unusual tomatoes growing this year so we have had fun staging the Roma's while we get down to some serious aroma flowing through the house.

ROASTING ROMA'S AND GARLIC

Slice the roma's in half and place on parchment lined cookie sheets.  Be sure to fill the pan.  If you have fresh garlic, peel some cloves and set in there as well.

Sprinkle kosher salt, fresh basil, oregano or parsley

Drizzle olive oil on top.

Place in a preheated oven at 225 and bake for 4 or 5 hours.

I put mine in a convection setting at 325 because I needed to bake in less time.

These can be put in freezer bags and stored n the freezer for later use on pizza's or pasta.........if they last that long!!!