Unemployment has obviously left me with alot of free time on my hands. Since I don't have much going on right now I've decided to kick up my housewifefiancee duties and work on my cooking skills a bit. It is common knowledge in my household as well as blogland that cooking is not really my strong point but I started simple with a basic pasta dish.
Penne Pasta
I'm new to this whole cooking (if you could call this that) thing so there was no measurements or anything to this recipe. I have made this with Big Man a couple times before but I haven't made it since we've been in Pennsylvania yet.
You'll need:
- Penne pasta
- Ground Turkey
- Shredded Mozzarella
- Old Bay Seasoning
-Garlic Salt
- Prego Sauce
How To Prepare:
- Boil Penne Pasta till noodles are a little soft
- Drain pasta
- Prepare meat, include seasoning as meat is browning
- Once fully cooked and browned drain some of the grease/fat out
- Mix meat, pasta, and sauce
- Put mixture into baking dish and cover with shredded cheese
- Bake at 400 degrees for about 5 minutes or until cheese is melted
-Enjoy!!!
Before my mom and I went to Wally World to get the ingredients for my meal, I also decided that besides dinner I wanted to surprise Big Man with a dessert. I usually stick to the regular cookie, brownies, cupcakes route but I wanted to try something different so I browsed the Internets and found a yummy recipe for...
S'More Bars
This turned out delicious and was actually pretty easy to make!
What You'll Need:
- 10 Graham Crackers
- Fudge Brownie Mix
- Mini Marshmallows
- Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
How To Prepare:
- Lay out about 8 1/2 crackers at the base of your pan. I used a 13 x 9.
- Prepare brownie mix as instructed on the box and then spread evenly over the graham crackers....now my mom wanted you to know, that she indeed did mix the brownie mix and she says that it was made with love : )
- Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for about 25-30 minutes...I'm pretty sure this is universal but we stick a toothpick in and see if it comes out clean to see if the middle is baked enough, but to each their own.
- Take out of oven and cover with mini marshmallows. Now like I said before I really didn't do any measuring, I pretty much just grabbed in the bag by the handful and kept going till the whole pan was covered.
- Again just reach in the bag and grab the semi-sweet chocolate chips by the handful and cover till you have a good mix over the marshmallows.
NOM! NOM! NOM!
- After you have covered with the chocolate chips, place back in the oven at 300 for about 5 minutes till the marshmallows are fluffed and the chocolate chips are semi (haha) melted.
- I used about 8 1/2 graham crackers for the base and with the remaining I crushed them up and sprinkled them on top
Now I must admit, I must not greased the pan enough because the bottom graham crackers did burn a bit but besides that everything went smoothly.
I didn't let it cool completely because it smelled so good but here's a better look of it out of the pan after Big Man took a forkful out.
Big Man tested and approved!!! : )
16 comments:
Looks good! Cooking is just like anything else, the more your practice the better it gets!
I keep meaning to ask, what part of P.A. are you in?
yum! another variation of the smore recipe is to bake brownies in a graham cracker pie crust and then put marshmellows on top. sooo delish!
I make a version of the pasta dish but use spicy turkey sausage & cook that & then use peppers & onions too.
Yum! I'm all sorts of hungry now!
Never had smores but I'll eat anything with brownie in it yummm I'm gonna have the hubs bake that for me :) watchout America little woman could be the next food network star :)
Look at you, Betty Crocker! I'm impressed!!
I LOVE COOKING IVY! Thanks for sharing :)
Oh yum, those S'more brownies look so awesome!
Those smores bars look delicious! I've been trying out some new recipes since I'll be cooking a lot more after graduation! :) I'll have to give those a try!
Smore Bars? I have died and gone to Heaven!!! XOXO
OMG that looks delicious...
OH YUM! THe smores thing i'm SO going to make! Looks DELISH!
Both recipes sound great, I am dying to try that Smores bar recipe!
OK girl, you have officially made me starve. I was hungry before and then I read your post. Both dishes look delicious!
OKAY -- THAT LOOKS BEYOND YUMMY!!! The penne pasta especially. Nice work lady, for reals!
I am officially starving
And saving these recipes for one yummy dinner and dessert some night very soon!
Way to make the already-stuffing-her-face pregnant lady more hungry. Awesome.
;) Looks delish!
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