Something Yummy for in your crockpot....

You are going to love this it is SO easy!

Taco Chicken or Salsa Chicken

Chicken (I use about 2-3 breast)
1 jar of salsa
1 can of Cream of Chicken soup
Put in crock pot cook for 4 hours on High 8 hours on low...

Serve with rice or on a tortilla... or both..

Seriously that easy...Seriously Yummy!

Yummy Salad...

Tomato Bread Salad

My Modified version...It was super yummy! I should have taken a picture sorry, it was really pretty!

Ingredients

• 4 medium roam tomatoes, cut in 1-inch chunks
• 1/2 of a medium red onion, cut in thin wedges (1/2 cup)
• 1 medium yellow sweet pepper, cut in 1-inch pieces
• 1/2 cup Robust Italian Dressing
• 8 oz. ciabatta or focaccia bread, cut in 1-inch pieces
• 1 Tbsp. olive oil
• 1 cup small fresh basil leaves
• White cheddar cheese shavings (optional)

Directions

1. In large serving bowl combine tomatoes, red onion, and yellow sweet pepper. Add 1/2 cup Robust Italian Dressing to tomato mixture and stir to coat. Cover and refrigerate overnight (up to 24 hours).

2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In a shallow baking pan, toss bread cubes with 1 Tbsp. olive oil to coat. Bake about 10 minutes or until toasted, stirring once. Remove and cool on pan. Add bread cubes and basil to tomato mixture; toss to coat. Top with shaved white cheddar cheese. Makes 6 to 8 servings.

More yummys...

Fall makes me want to cook...This is what we had last night...left overs are SO yummy!

Black Bean Lasagna
2 cans (16oz) black beans rinsed and drained
1 cup salsa
2 cups spaghetti sauce
1tsp minced garlic
1tsp ground cumin
1 ctn. ricotta cheese
1/3 cup parmesan
1 egg white
1/4 cup milk
6 lasagna noodles
1 cup Monterrey Jack
1 cup mozzarella

spray a 13 x 9 pan Pre heat oven 350

1 bowl -Stir beans salsa spaghetti sauce, garlic, and cumin.
another bowl - ricotta, parmesan, gegg white & milk

Spread 1 cup of bean mix on bottom
cover with 3 noodles, cover noodles with half of the bean mix and then half of the riccotta mix. Sprinkle with half of the Mozzarella and Monterrey Jack cheeses
3 more noodles, bean mix, cheese mix top with rest of the shredded cheeses.
Cover with tinfoil
bake for 30 min. Uncover and bake for 10 more min.
Let stand 5 min. before serving.

Fall Yummys for your tummy

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

1 can of pumpkin puree
4 eggs
1 cup Veg oil
2/3 cup water
3 cups white sugar
3 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp ginger
1 bag of chocolate chips (or how many every you like, we happen to be chocoholics at our house)

Preheat oven 350 grease and flour 3 loaf pans
in a large bowl mix together pumpkin, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour baking soda salt cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients in to the pumpkin mix until just blended pour into the prepared pans
Bake for about 50 minutes Loaves are don when knife inserted in the center of loaf is clean.

YUMMY, this recipe was shared with me last year by my friend Rachel, it made me Very happy many a morning, it made my house smell like fall and yum, it made me fail my glucose test, it make my kids eat something yummy and learn and want to help me make bread....Thank you yummy bread! No you too can have some...get baking. (unless you are lucky and it isn't already fall where you live then save it for a month or so)

busy day

Well Tuesday night Phoebe had a growth spurt and I was up all night feeding her! OY! So Wednesday I was not going to just sit around I was tired but needed a break from our four walls! So we headed out to Playgroup at Rachel's house, and Of course we were there till Forever! Sorry again Rachel! Allie loves playing there, she is buddies with Lilly and she loves Lilly's brothers, well it is a strange relationship, they fight, and on the way home Allie told me Mom I want to go back to Lilly's and fight with her brothers it is fun, they are fun! OK, then she told me that her daddy taught her how to sword fight on Star Wars! Oh boy! Lilly told Allie You're in love!! Allie said No I am not in love....(she just likes to fight!)
Then we came home and got dinner stuff done, Luke was Crashed out on the couch, Baby Bee ate a ton more, then I went to Recipe group in the evening, Can you believe it!?!? Two outings in One Day!!! That is like a record! Recipe exchange was fun! Lots of talented ladies sharing recipes, can't go wrong... Though I left my recipe there on accident I was going to bring it home and type it up to email Sorry Megan and Crescent if you find it let me know! There were like 4 dips, artichoke, spinach, Vegetable, Which one did Eliza bring cause it was yummy, I am sure they all are though...Megan made Hummus and these fabulous Pita bread chips, YUMMY! So anyway my point is it was fun to talk to big people~ Thanks ladies!

Butternut Squash Recipe... (christmas too..)

Keeping on keeping on with the Fall theme I have going on we are going to the beach today! haha
No we really are, but it is lovely out yesterday and today so why not!
But here it the Fall part I am sharing a Fabulous Butternut Squash Recipe...

1 Butternut Squash (very important!)
2tbsp melted butter
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp pepper
6 tsp brown Sugar

Cut squash in half, discard seeds and brush with butter. Combine spices and sprinkle over squash. 2tsp or so in each half. Cover it well! Put in baking dish sprayed with non stick stuff.
Cover with tinfoil and bake at 350 for about 40 min. uncover and bake 15-25 more, till it is nice and tender!
Then you just scoop it out and YUMMY!! Seriously Eat it while it is HOT cause it taste the best that way!

Butternut Squash with Brown Butter,
this one is faster and in the skillet and sound Yummy!

From: MARTHA!!

The easiest way to peel butternut squash is with a vegetable peeler; the harp-shaped variety works particularly well.

Prep: 8 minutes
Total: 35 minutes

Ingredients

Serves 4

• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 butternut squash (about 1 3/4 pounds), peeled, seeded, and cut into 3/4-inch cubes
• 1/2 cup low-sodium canned chicken broth
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 tablespoon dark brown-sugar

Directions

1. Heat butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat until golden brown. Add squash; saute, stirring occasionally, until golden brown and tender when pierced with a fork, about 16 minutes.
2. Add chicken broth, the water, and brown sugar; cook until liquid has evaporated and squash is nicely caramelized, about 6 minutes. Remove from heat, and season with salt and pepper. Serve. One more thing... Isn't this cool! It is totally on our Christmas list I emailed it to my mom this morning! we have 2 of them (Halloween and Christmas) on VHS but DVD with ALL of them! Just cool! My kids LOVE these shows!
   And if anyone has other great Christmas present ideas please share them with me, since I need to be prepared... Since our big present will be arriving at about that same time!
   

Thankful Sunday

*I am thankful and excited about a new store my friend Eliza told me about, it is an Educational store called Know Place, I got Allie a cool Huge workbook with a computer game, and I got this cute calendar below I am so excited to start teaching her! She is excited too! Thanks Eliza!

* I am thankful for my Moyer the destroyer! Boy he is cute! (this post is full of Luke since Allie went to bed early with no dinner because she Refused to eat what I made and only seemed to want chocolate milk and Cookies...)

*Hey there, Well today I am thankful my Sunbeam kids were good! I am so tired that when they are nuts it is so hard for me! So they were great this week and I had a helper so that was even better!
*I am thankful that they fixed whatever was wrong with the drains around out house and our basement no longer leaks every time it rains! Especially since it has pretty much rained everyday this week!
*I am thankful that Jenn shared her wonderful Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe with us, they were Amazing! YUMMY! Thanks Jenn! Even Luke LOVES Them!

*I am thankful for my family of course! That is a given! Luke has been feeling under the weather I don't know if it his Teeth AGAIN! or what it kinda seems that way since he really hasn't been "sick" just runny nose and crabby! So Adam took him home today from church. Thanks Adam, sorry you didn't get to nap too! Just as a side note Luke has a new trick! It is really funny...in that it is funny but please don't laugh cause he will keep doing it kind of way...




I thought I would share Jenn's Great recipe...
1/2 cup Butter
1/2 cup Shortening
1 cup sugar
1cup Brown sugar
2 eggs
1tsp vanilla
blend that all up.
Then Add...
1.5 cups flour
1tsp baking Powder
2 tsp baking Soda
pinch of salt
3 cups quick oats
and as many chocolate chips as you like (we like lots!)
bake at 350 for about 9-11 minutes till barely brown and keep on pan to cool.
Jenn also said that if you freeze them while they are hot they taste fresh when you thaw them... Yum!

And here is Sofia... Boy she is a dolly! I love her chunky cheeks!