Not Cooking...But maybe something just as fun?

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Personal Pizzas

So tonight I'm going to make personal pizzas. Usually I use English Muffins, but I don't want to this time. I didn't want to buy the can of pizza dough from Pillsbury, so I thought, "Would Biscuit Dough work?" So tonight, I will roll out the biscuit dough, add some marinara/pasta sauce, mozzarella, and a few different toppings like pepperoni, pineapple tidbits, and breakfast ham, otherwise known as Canadian Bacon. We'll see how it turns out. I will definitely post pictures. See you in a few hours. Wish me luck.

Ok so I didn't end up making them last night because I went to hang out with some cool little kids. But! I will definitely be making them tonight! I will take pictures to prove it! Again, wish me luck.

Sweet n Sour Chicken

So, I won't always post 2 recipes a day, but these are two that I got from a friend. This one is sooo good and I have been looking for a Sweet n Sour Chicken recipe.

Chicken:
4 Chicken Breasts cut into pieces or 20 Chicken Tenders
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
2 Large Eggs, beaten
1/4 cup oil

Sauce:
1/4 cup Chicken Broth
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup ketchup
1 Tbsp soy sauce

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 15x10x1 jelly roll pan with foil. In ziploc bag combine flour, garlic salt and cornstarch. Put 4-5 chicken strips in a ziploc bag to coat. Dip each piece in beaten egg. Brown chicken quickly in skillet with heated oil, 2-3 minutes per side. Place strips close together on pan.
Mix sauce ingredients in sauce pan; heat to dissolve. Pour sauce over chicken. Bake for 20 minutes, turn chicken over, bake for 20 more minutes. Let sit for 5 minutes. Then enjoy.

Serve with rice and/or green salad. (Romaine is healthiest salad)

Choco-nut Dainties

So, these are some cookies that are sooo good. They're practically addicting.

Cookies:
2 1/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup butter softened (1 1/2 sticks)
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
16 oz pack semisweet choco chips (12 oz used for coating, 4 oz used to add in cookies)

Chocolate Coating:
12 Oz Chocolate Chips (1 1/2 cup)
Nuts or sprinkles - optional

Preheat oven to 350degrees. Beat (all)butter, sugar, egg and vanilla. Mix well. Blend in flour and salt.

Stir in 4 oz (1/2 cup) chocolate pieces. Shape dough into logs. Place on non-greased sheet.


 Bake for 15 minutes.

Let cookies cool.

Melt 12oz Chocolate Chips and 1 Tbsp Butter in Double Boiler. After logs are cooled, dip ends in Chocolate coating and roll in chopped nuts.



If you don't have a Double Boiler, Use two different sized pots, one slightly bigger than the other. Add water to larger pot, let boil with smaller pot inside. Make sure there is only just enough water so it won't boil over while heating chips. Melt butter in the boiler, then add chips. Heat should be Med to Low. If chips aren't the consistency you would like, add more butter, 1 Tbsp or less at a time.

If using 2 pots to 'double boil' is too confusing, there should be directions for melting the chocolate in the microwave. Make sure you use a microwave safe bowl to do so.

Nothing to do with cooking

Ok. So these following sites have nothing to do with cooking but all of this stuff looks awesome.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/krisocho?ga_search_query=krisocho&ga_search_type=seller_usernames

http://www.etsy.com/shop/forgoodnessgrape

Found this on one of my favorite music artist's blog

Southwest Dip

(double the recipe if it's for more than 4 ppl)

you need:

1-8 oz. pkg. cream cheese softened

1/2 c. sour cream

2/3 c. pepperoni chopped

1-4 0z can diced green chilies(undrained)

1 1/2 T. dried minced onions

2 tsp chopped chives

1/2 c chopped pecans

tortilla chips

Beat cream cheese and sour cream until well blended. Stir in pepperoni, chilies, onion and chives. Spoon into 2-quart baking dish. Sprinkle with pecans. 

Bake 20 minutes at 350 until puffed and edges are bubbly. Serve with chips.

here's a link for the picture: http://blog.katevoegele.com/42172741

Hope it tastes good!

My Birthday Ice Cream Cake

So we're having this cake after My Family Birthday Dinner. I got the recipe off of allrecipes.com. It's called Oreo Ice Cream Cake.
Here is the recipe for it:

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup hot fudge ice cream topping, warmed
• 1 (8 ounce) tub COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed, divided
• 1 pkg. (4 serving size) JELL-O Chocolate Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
• 8 OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, chopped
• 12 vanilla ice cream sandwiches, unwrapped

Directions

1. Pour fudge topping into medium bowl. Add 1 cup of the whipped topping; stir with wire whisk until well blended. Add dry pudding mix; stir 2 min. or until well blended. Gently stir in chopped cookies; set aside.
2. Arrange 4 of the ice cream sandwiches, side-by-side, on 24-inch-long piece of foil; top with half of the whipped topping mixture. Repeat layers. Top with remaining 4 ice cream sandwiches. Frost top and sides of dessert with remaining whipped topping. Bring up foil sides. Double fold top and ends to loosely seal packet.
3. Freeze at least 4 hours before serving. Store leftover dessert in freezer.

Instead of using only Vanilla, I chose both Vanilly and Neopolitan Ice Cream Sandwiches. You can also save oreos for decoration or like I did, use Fudge for decoration and put oreos on the sides of the cake for extra decoration. Here's the cake before we ate it. It was pretty good. I think it could have used more ice cream. But that's only because I LLLLLLOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEE ice cream.