Cheesy Bread

This bread is AWESOME!! I found it while perusing Pinterest and made this for a girls weekend in Wisconsin and it's not only easy but very, very good and cheesy!

Cheesy Bread

Ingredients

• 8 oz shredded Mozzarella cheese
• 1 lb shredded sharp cheddar cheese
• 1/2 to 1 cup chopped green onion (to taste)
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 2 Tbsp sour cream (optional)
• 3-4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 stick unsalted butter (1/2 cup, 4 ounces), softened to the point of being slightly melted
• 1 to 2 loaves of French or Italian bread (I used Ciabatta), depending on the size of the loaves

Method

1 In a large bowl, mix together the cheeses and the green onion. Stir in the mayonnaise and sour cream. In a separate small bowl blend the butter and garlic until smooth. Add the butter mixture to the cheese mixture.
2 Preheat broiler. Slice loaf of bread in half horizontally, lay crust side down. Spread cheese mixture over the bread. Place under the broiler until nicely browned, about 3 to 5 minutes.
3 Remove from broiler and let sit for 5 minutes until cool enough to handle. Slice the bread with a bread knife. Serve.
Yield: Makes 30 to 40 slices.

Red Lobster Cheesy Bread

I made this just to see if it would compare to the real Red Lobster biscuits but there isn't any comparrison, Red Lobster's biscuits are way better but this bread was actually really good and it would be really good with chili! The next time I make this I will add about 3-4 minced garlic cloves as I think that it would be a great addition and add some needed flavor.

Red Lobster Cheesy Bread

• 3 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
• 4 ounces cheddar cheese, cut into 1/4 inch cubes
• 1 1/4 cups milk
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 3 tablespoons of butter, melted
• 1 egg, lightly beaten

Heat oven to 350°F and grease a 9×5 loaf pan.

In a bowl, whisk together the first 5 ingredients. Carefully stir in cheese cubes until covered in flour mixture. This will help prevent your cheese sinking to the bottom of your loaf of bread.

In a different bowl, whisk together the remaining ingredients. Fold the wet mixture into the flour and cheese mixture. Stir until just combined. Do not over stir.  Batter will be thick and sticky. Spread the mixture into the loaf pan. Bake for 45-50 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes and then remove from pan. Allow to cool for one hour before slicing and serving.

Taco Soup

Here's another GREAT Pinterest recipe that I found, made and took to work and everyone loved it!! The best part about this recipe is that you can drain, dump and heat or you can put it in the crock pot and heat it that way!

I made this recipe twice, the first time I couldn't find any green enchilada sauce at the store so I just used the regular sauce and it tasted the same but the color was more red.

Taco Soup

• 1 (15 oz.) can black beans, drained and rinsed
• 1 (15 oz.) can pinto beans, drained and rinsed
• 1 (14.5 oz.) can petite diced tomatoes, drained
• 1 (15.25 oz.) can sweet corn, drained
• 1 (12.5 oz.) can white chicken breast, drained
• 1 (10.75 oz.) can cream of chicken soup
• 1 (10 oz.) can green enchilada sauce
• 1 (14 oz.) can chicken broth
• 1 packet taco seasoning

1. Mix all ingredients together in a large pot.
2. Heat until warm, stirring occasionally.
3. Serve with tortilla chips or Freetos

Corn Chip Peanut Butter Candy

This is a Pinterest recipe that I tried since I had everything on hand and boy it sure was easy and of course I took it to work for the guinea pigs and they loved it too!!

Corn Chip Peanut Butter Candy

1 package (9.75 to 10.5 ounces) corn chips
1 cup light corn syrup
1 cup sugar
1 cup creamy peanut butter

Spread corn ships in a greased 15 in x 10 in by 1 in baking pan.
In a saucepan over medium heat, bring corn syrup and sugar to a boil, stirring frequently to help dissolve the sugar.  Boil 1 minute. Remove from heat; stir in peanut butter until smooth. Pour over corn chips.
I thought a drizzle of melted semi-sweet chocolate chips would be a nice touch. However, it really wasn’t necessary.

Fiesta Dip

This is a recipe that one of my friends brought to an scrapbooking weekend and it is fantastic! She served this warm in a small crock pot with tortilla chips and we couldn't stop eating it is so very addicting!

Fiesta Dip

8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
16 oz. container sour cream
11 oz. can sweet yellow and white corn, drained
15 oz. can black beans, drained and rinsed
10 oz. can diced tomatoes with green chiles, drained
1 1/2 Tbsp. salsa seasoning mix (I used taco seasoning)
2 c. shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
tortilla chips


In a large bowl, mix all ingredients.  Cover; chill at least 24 hours before serving.  Serve with tortilla chips.  Serves 10-12.

Pinterest Party Crock Pot Chicken Tacos

Check this table out! Isn't that the cutest thing you have ever seen? In the last post I told you about the scrapbooking weekend I went to where we all had to bring a new recipe found off of Pinterest well my friend Tammy found this idea for the table legs off of there and ran with it!

She went to Walmart and found some very cute striped tights and cut them in half, she put each leg on her table leg and attached it with binder clips at the top of the underside of the table. She had some boots  and put the table legs into the boots so it looks like witches legs! She had a black table cloth and draped that over the table. I brought the cheese balls and she had bought the hat for a table decoration and we just stuck it on top of the conatiner! Isn't that cute??? I thought so!!

Ok now for the recipe. My friend Shelly brought Chicken Tacos as her Pinterest recipe and boy oh boy they are good and VERY easy! I did make these and took them to the guinnea pigs at work to try and everyone loved them!

Crock Pot Chicken Tacos

1 bag of frozen chicken breasts (6 breasts)
1 16 oz jar of salsa
1 packet taco seasoning

Put the chicken breasts into your crock pot, add packet of taco
seasoning and then pour the salsa over and cook on low for
7 hours. Shred chicken return to crock pot and serve with
tortilla and all the taco fixings! These are also great eaten as
nachos!!!

Garlic Parmesan Pull Apart Bread

I recently went to a scrapbooking weekend where we each had to bring a brand new recipe that we found off of Pinterest so I brought and made Garlic Parmesan Pull Apart Bread. OMG was it easy and oh so good!

Garlic Parmesan Pull Apart Bread

1 tube of grands biscuits
4 tbsp butter
3 cloves minced garlic
1/2 c grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp Italian seasoning

Heat your oven to 350 degrees and place butter into bundt a sprayed
pan and put in oven while heating to melt. In a large Ziploc baggie add
garlic, Parmesan cheese and seasoning and mix well. Cut biscuits
into quarters and add to bag, toss to coat. Remove pan from oven
add biscuit quarters, sprinkling all remaining cheese, garlic and seasoning
mixture over biscuits. Bake for 20-25 mins or until golden brown.
Turn over onto serving plate and serve hot!