Chicken Cordon Bake + Beer Bread

Ok... so super crazy hiatus is over. I AM BACK AND COOKIN' FOLKS!!! But be forewarned, the following recipes are highly addictive and will roommates fighting for servings, or maybe stabbing at their roommate with their fork to get a serving first...that may or may not be based off a true occurrence from 10 minutes ago. 

Chicken Bake
Time prep: 10 minutes + oven preheat time
Time to cook: 50minutes (TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!!)
Servings: 2-3 (depending on how you dish out your serving)

Ingredients

• 2 medium to large chicken breasts
• 1/2 bag frozen cut leaf spinach
• 1 bag of deli sliced turkey
• 4 slices of packaged cheese
• 1 can of cream of mushroom
• seasoned salt
• garlic powder
• black peppercorn
• red peppercorn
• Italian breadcrumbs

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350*
2. line a 9" pie pan with the spinach
3. sprinkle seasoned salt over the spinach
4. cut the chicken into long strips of chicken (1/4-1/2 inch think, length of breast)
5. cover the spinach with the chicken strips 
6. pour the cream of mushroom over the chicken, make sure its evenly spread over the contents of the pan
7. lay a 1-2 layer think of deli turkey slices 
8. bake for 25 min
9. take out of oven layer the cheese over the turkey
10. sprinkle red peppercorn and breadcrumbs over the cheese
11. bake for the remaining 25 minutes
12. ENJOY!!!!!

Beer Bread (THIS IS THE LINK I USED: http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/6717/beer-bread-i)

**SIDE NOTE: This was the FIRST time I have attempted to bake bread from SCRATCH!** 

-pictures aren't the best I assume it's one of those things that gets better with time-

Ingredients

• 1 beer ( I used Killian's Irish Stout)
• 3 cups self rising flour
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp butter
• garlic powder

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350* (if you cook these two together- they cook for the same time)
2. mix the flour and sugar together 
3. add the beer, using a wooden spoon -will become a stick ball of dough
4. add the dough to a baking dish (I used a 10x4 pyrex dish)
5. bake for 50 min
6. take out and spread the butter over the top 
7. sprinkle garlic over the butter
8. place bread bake in the oven for 5 minutes (While you serve the chicken bake)
9. take out of the oven, and out of bake dish
10. cut and serve
11. ENJOY!!!!