Seafood Alfredo Pasta

Cook Time: 30 min
Ingredients: One package of Alfredo sauce (requires butter, milk, and water), angel hair pasta noodles, chopped broccoli, diced bell pepper, chopped onions, sliced cherry tomatoes, chopped mushrooms, faux lobster/crab meat, black peppercorn, garlic, and basil

1. In a pot bring water to boil
2. In a seperate deep pan, melt 2 tbsp of butter
3. Then add 1cup of milk, 1/2 cup of water, and the package of alfredo sauce, stir this until it become a single mixture (all the lumps have been mixed in)
4. At this point the water should be boiling, add the noodles (I used angel hair, about 1/6 of the box -this made plenty if not too much!) and turn the heat down to med
5. Once the sauce mixture starts to bubble, add in about a 1/4 cup of chopped bell pepper (I used orange for color), 1/4 cup of onions, 1/4 cup of chopped broccoli, and about 3 med sized mushroom diced into pieces that are uniform with the other veggies
6. Stir 
7. Add in about 1/4 diced faux seafood, let mixture cook until the bubbles start up again in the sauce
8. then add the spices (garlic, pepper, and basil) to taste - a little goes a long way with these
9. stir these in and turn the heat off, and move to a cold eye
10. drain the noodles, and pour them into serving bowl/ plate
11. the sauce should have started to thicken a little bit at this point, go ahead and pour over the noodles
12. Add the diced tomatoes cold on top of pasta and serve
13. As always Enjoy!!

 

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Pudding Bake

Time to cook: 15 min prep, 1 and 1/2 hours in a crock pot
Ingredients: all-purpose flour, sugar, baking pwdr, milk, vegetable oil, vanilla, peanut butter, cocoa pwder, boiling water, chocolate syrup

Super easy and unbelievably delicious!! 

So today was a potluck at the Athens Vineyard Church today (FANTASTIC FOOD AND PEOPLE!) and I signed up for desert. I mixed the ingredients, stuck them in my crock pot, and plugged it in to cook while I attended service. By the time the lunch was over, I had more compliments than I could count and not even a spoonful to take back with me! 

1. coat crock-pot with non-stick spray or vegetable oil
2. combine 1 cup all purpose flour, 1 cup sugar (I used 24 packets of 0-calorie sugar packets), and 1.5 tsp baking pwdr in a medium bowl
3. Add 2/3 cup milk (I used 2%), 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1 cup peanut butter (I used creamy peanut butter) to the bowl and mix well
                      **This will form a dough basically**
4. Pour batter/dough into crock-pot, use a spatula to make sure you get it all and to spread it out evenly in crock-pot, BUT DO NOT STIR
5. Drizzle Chocolate sauce across long ways and then short ways across dough
6. Cover, and cook on high for 1.5 hours or until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean
                     ** Can still serve if the toothpick doesn't come out clear, it'll be more fudgy that way and less cakey**
7. Serve warm, and for even better treat add more chocolate syrup and serve with crushed peanuts and a scoop of vanilla ice cream!!
8. ENJOY!!

Sweet Chicken Stir Fry

Time to cook: 20 min
Ingredients: Chicken Tenderloins, Bell Pepper, Onions, Carrots, Italian Style Green Beans, Rice, Flour, Vegetable Oil, Italian Dressing, Soy Sauce, and Ginger

Delicious!

1. Place a deep frying pan on med. high so it begins to heat up
2. Make about 1 cup of rice (1 cup of rice in pot with 2 cups water bring to a boil, stir twice, cover with a lid and let cook for about 15 min on med-low or low depending on your stove. -Ta-Da! Rice!)
3. In the already warm deep frying pan add about 1/2 tbsp of vegetable oil and then add about 1 cup of diced chicken
4. As the chicken is cooking add about 4 tbsp of italian dressing, let that cook for about 3 minutes (the chicken should appear mostly white on all sides)
5. Now add 1 whole bell pepper diced into chunks that are the same size as the chicken pieces (I used a yellow pepper to get a wider variety of colors), a 1/2 cup of diced onions, about 1 cup of carrots and about 1/2 cup of italian style green beens
6. Let simmer for about 3 min, then add about 2 tsp of ground ginger, mix well, then add about 1 tbsp of soy sauce (I used Lite Soy Sauce)
7. Let the whole concoction cook on med. high for about 8 min
8. Then add about 1 tbsp of flour to the concoction to thicken the juice a little bit 
9. Add about 1 tsp of black pepper make sure to stir in well and cook for another 2-3 minutes
10. At this point the rice should be done. Place the rice on the serving containers (I used bowls- limits the amount I serve myself), then pour the concoction on top of the rice 
11. Serve warm and as always ENJOY!!