Chicken Marsala

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I have been so good this past week you guys!  Last weekend I searched for recipes I wanted to try, made a huge grocery list, went to the store and got everything on my list.  Then I proceeded to cook a new recipe every night for the last week with the exception of one night.  It rarely goes that smooth in our house.  

Something always comes up and I don't have time to make a big dinner.... or if I do make dinner then my photo's don't turn out great... or I'm too hungry to take photos and I dig right in.  

That's why I was happy that I had time to make this dinner, and that my photo's turned out good, and that I wasn't too hungry (well I was, but I restrained myself long enough to take pictures, lol!)  

So I've really been looking forward to trying this Chicken Marsala recipe from Pass The Sushi this week! I did tweak it just a little bit and it turned out to be so tasty!  Definitely making this one again for dinner :)

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Make your own Homemade Refried Beans!

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I can't tell you how many times I've waited too long to make dinner and have had to resort to using canned refried beans.  I know... I should be super mom and totally prepared with awesome meals everyday but someday's I run out of time (and energy) and just need something quick and easy to make that still tastes like I slaved over it all day.

That's why I love this easy refried beans recipe that I found over at Money Saving Mom.  She gives you the instructions on how to prepare this recipe if you are using dry beans.... but then she also let's you off the hook and says you can use canned whole pinto beans!  That's my kind of girl right there.  She understands that I needed my refried beans to be quick and easy.  And the best part is that canned whole pinto beans don't have lard in them so it is a healthier alternative to using canned refried beans.  

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50 Fabulous Chicken Dishes

I love hosting The Weekend re-Treat Link Party each weekend (Fri-Sun)!  I see so many talented bloggers submitting their awesome recipe creations.  I always come away with so many food ideas for the week that my head spins :)  

I've put together a "50 Fabulous Chicken Dishes Recipe Round Up" from links that have been submitted to The Weekend re-Treat over the past couple of weeks, along with some of my favorite chicken dishes here on The Best Blog Recipes! 

Hope you enjoy all of my blogger friends wonderful Chicken Dishes! 

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Mongolian Chicken

So I've been on a bit of a Chinese food kick for the past couple of days.  Friday we made Chinese Beef Brisket in the slow cooker and it was amazing!  Then Mexican Saturday night at our favorite restaurant and Chinese Mongolian Chicken for Sunday Dinner.  

And let me just read your mind really quick and answer the question that you're probably thinking to yourself... NO I'm not pregnant.   

Phew, now that you're not thinking about that anymore let's talk about how delicious this Mongolian Chicken  was :) 

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The Best Sweet Pork Burrito

If you live in Utah and you're reading this post then you are probably familiar with Cafe Rio's Sweet Pork Burritos.  Oh, just thinking about them makes me hungry.   

If you don't live in Utah or have never tried Cafe Rio's Sweet Pork goodness then I'm sorry for you because you are really missing out.

It's sweet... It's got a little kick to it... and it's so darn good. 

I'll admit I've tried more than a few copy cat Cafe Rio recipes out there and have been disappointed by most of them.   Then I finally came across a recipe for The Best Sweet Pork Taco's from The Recipe Critic.

Oh my goodness... this meal is SO EASY to make and it's so good.  It shouldn't be legal.  Seriously!

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Chicken Cordon Blue Ranch Wraps

I came across a recipe recently for an awesome looking Chicken Cordon Blue Casserole from Tasty Kitchen that I keep wanting to make.  But without fail the couple of times I've planned on making it something came up and we had to change our dinner plans that day for whatever reason.

I don't know about you guys but sometimes the day gets away from me and it's too late to make a big dinner for everyone.  Or I'm too tired.  Or I just don't want to dirty the kitchen because that means that I have to clean it up later.

So that's why I decided to make these Chicken Cordon Blue Ranch Wraps instead.  I didn't have enough time to cook a casserole and everyone was ready for dinner, hungry and waiting on me.

Easy-peasy and not a lot of clean up!  Just the way I like it :)

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Spicy Tomato & Mushroom Tilapia

Oh my goodness... my lunch yesterday was so delicious!

I knew I wanted to have Tilapia but I didn't know how to season it.  I had a ton of fresh mushrooms & cherry tomatoes and I just stood there looking at my ingredients until it finally hit me.

Does that happen to any of you?  You're hungry, you know what you want to use but you don't know the exact way you want to put it together?  My husband is always coming in the kitchen to ask me what I'm doing and usually I'm just standing there in deep thought, lol!

Well, my friends it paid off.  I really loved how easy and quick this Tilapia dish was to make and the flavor turned out really great! 

And it's a perfect dish if you're trying to eat healthy and lose weight!

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Slow Cooker Beef Stew

So today I'm guest posting over at The Shaffer Sisters which I am really excited about!  They are having a comfort food themed link party that is going on right now and they asked me to make something yummy and delicious to share with their readers :)

After some thought I decided to make a super easy Slow Cooker Beef Stew to share with them.  It actually worked out perfect because the day that I ended up making it we didn't get home until after 7 pm and it was all ready to eat and the house smelled delicious when we walked in!

I've posted the recipe and directions on their site so CLICK HERE to check out the ingredients I used in my slow cooker and how everything came together!

I've also linked up a couple of my favorite comfort food recipes at their LINK PARTY that is going on through tonight (Thurs 3/7) and I'd love to see what a few of your favorites are too :)

 

Creamy Bacon Spaghetti Pasta Carbonara

 

I only had one question after I made this dish for the first time this week... Why the heck did I wait so long to make Creamy Bacon Spaghetti Pasta Carbonara at home?

This dish tasted great just the way it was but I think next time the only thing I will do different is add a couple of seasoned grilled chicken breasts to the sauce.  Oh yeah, that would be good!

Now, with that being said... the cooking process did freak me out when I first read so I decided to do it just a little differently from the original recipe that I found over at Just Get Off Your Butt And Bake.

I added a few ingredients, cooked the sauce longer than suggested and we were very happy with how it turned out :)

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Chicken Shepherds Pie

Sometimes I have to get a little creative when it comes to cooking for my family.

They have their favorites and it can be kind of hard to get them to try new stuff.  

That's what happened to me when I stumbled across a recipe from Simply Recipes for their Easy Shepherds Pie.  To say it was amazing is an understatement.  It is an out of this world Shepherds Pie.  Of course I tweaked it a little bit but really, it is to die for. 

But... I can only eat so much hamburger if you know what I mean?  Without fail if I ask my family what they would like for dinner one of them will respond with Shepherds Pie!  Welcome to my world. 

So I had to change it up a bit.  I kept the same basic ingredients but I just tweaked Simply Recipes Easy Shepherds Pie and turned it into a Chicken Shepherds Pie that is absolutely amazing. 

Don't take my word for it though.  This one you'll definitely want to try for yourself :)

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Green Bean & Tator Tot Hamburger Casserole

I know the title says Green Bean & Tator Tot Hamburger Casserole but trust me when I say that it is SO MUCH MORE than just any ordinary casserole.

I found this blog Linda's Low Carb Menu & Recipes a few years ago and our family has become huge fans.  We've tried quite a few different recipes from her blog and we still to this day keep a few of them in our monthly rotation.

So when I was planning out this dinner I decided I'd take one of her yummy recipes that we normally make {Cheesy Chicken & Green Bean Casserole} and change it up just a bit. I wanted to use up some hamburger that I had thawed and the remainder of the tator tots that I opened over the weekend.   

How did it turn out?  It was to die for!  So good... cheesy and delicious.  And the best part?  My family ate a bunch of green beans and didn't even complain about it.  How could they?  Everything was smothered in this yummy garlic, cheesy-creamy sauce.  Yum!

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{Mini} Chicken Pot Pies

I love easy.  I love quick.  I love food that tastes goood!

And that's why I LOVE these little {Mini} Chicken Pot Pies.

I was out cruising the blog scene last week when I came across a site called  Quick Dish by Tablespoon.  It's one of those sites that has a bunch of different bloggers pictures and recipes, and I  happened to stumble across one of it's submitted pictures while searching Google.

I found an amazing picture and recipe for {Mini} Chicken Pot Pies and of course I had to check out the food blog Bev Cooks that had submitted the post.  I really liked what I saw, so I thought I'd give these cute little Homemade {Mini} Chicken Pot Pies a go.

So glad I did!  They were FANTASTIC!  Such a good flavor and SO EASY to make.  Yeah, my family was impressed by them.

After a bad recipe fail this morning I needed a little ego booster and these worked like a charm :)  My family went on and on about them and how they'd love for me to make them again.   

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West African Chicken Peanut Stew

I am so excited to give you a little preview of one of my new blog friends that will be Guest Posting one of her fanstastic recipes in the next few weeks!  

Her name is Bintu, and she blogs over at Recipes From A Pantry  

Check out this amazing West African Chicken Peanut Stew preview that she sent me.  Doesn't it look delicious!?!  I hadn't thought to cook chicken in a stew with peppers, onions, spices, and peanut butter before but now it's all I can think about.  

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Creamy Tomato Tortellini Skillet

I didn't know that making homemade pasta sauce was so darn easy.

Why didn't I know this?  I have been stuck in a spaghetti sauce rut for my entire life and nobody even told me.  Darn grocery stores with their bottled sauces.

When I came across this recipe over at Semi Homemade Mom over the weekend I didn't know if my family would go for a homemade creamy tomato sauce with spinach in it.  We're a Pizzetti kind of family and I was pretty sure that if I told them what I was planning on making they would protest.  

So what did I do?  I printed the recipe and decided that we were going to try it no matter how much protesting happened.  It's was cracking me up how they kept asking me what I was making for dinner and I just kept telling them that it was Tortellini Surprise!  Score one for the sneaky mom... protest avoided :)

I'm glad I made the decision to make this recipe because we finished every last bit of it and it was really good.  Everyone decided that it was a keeper and we would definitely make this for dinner again sometime soon!

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Doritos Cool Ranch Tuna Noodle Casserole

Doritos Cool Ranch Tuna Noodle Casserole is one of the best casseroles ever, well in my opinion at least!

I don't know what it is but I love this dish.  I love it so much I always make a huge casserole so I have lots of leftovers. 

Maybe it's the Doritos, maybe it's the cheese?  I don't know but everything comes together to create a perfect blend of flavors.

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Chicken Tetrazzini

You guys, I was so excited this Sunday to try a few new recipes (yes, I said a few).  I figured I'd make something special for breakfast, I'd make a Valentines treat in the afternoon and a yummy and delicious supper.

Don't you love how you can plan till your blue in the face and nothing goes right and everything just starts falling apart, ugh.

I did make breakfast but we'll save that story for another time.  Let's just say the recipe didn't turn out that great and I'm gonna do some major tweaking this Saturday morning. 

I did end up making treats and almost burned the kitchen down in the process.  I was totally "in the zone" and focused on what I was doing.  I accidentally left our glass stove top burner on low and forgot about it.  I didn't notice that my hubby put the Chicken Tetrazzini with a hot pad on the burner till the hot pad was smoking and practically on fire.

That's about how my Sunday went.

How about you?  Any fun stories you can share?  It will make me feel better, like I'm less of a mess in my kitchen :)

Now let me tell you guys how good this casserole was.  It was definitely a 5 star recipe and that is hard to come by in this house.  We don't often give out a 5 star rating but this dish deserved it.  I have to thank Plain Chicken for posting this delicious goodness on her site.  I found it, pinned it, thought about it, tweaked it, made it, and loved it! 

It has minimal ingredients and came together pretty easily.  I wasn't thrilled about the cook time but it was worth the wait.  This is a must try you guys.  It was goooood!
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Tempura Battered Fish

Ok, I admit it... sometimes I cheat.

Not in a bad way, like on a test or anything... I just cheat in the kitchen.


I have those days where I don't feel like cooking a big elaborate meal and I just want to be in and out with minimal dish clean up.  Who's with me?

So that's why I love to make Tempura Battered Fish.  Quick.  Easy.  And super yummy!

I feel kind of bad even posting this as a recipe.  I didn't really do anything special and that's why I'm a big-recipe-cheater-pants today.

You'll forgive me, right? 
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Easy Beef Stroganoff w/ Rice & Cheese

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We have a major dilemma in our house.  Both my daughter and I love stroganoff and my cute hubby doesn't like it at all.  Without fail every time I even mention making stroganoff he cringes and askes if I can make something different.  

Granted... he does have a point.  

When I was younger I thought good stroganoff came out of a box.  Don't laugh. 

So what did I do?  I decided to make stroganoff from scratch and make it super yummy.  

While this might not be a "traditional" stroganoff recipe it sure is tasty and good.  I wouldn't have it any other way and my husband actually likes it, yay!

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Chicken Mexican Casserole

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What's better than a mexican casserole for dinner?  Nothing!  

You know what's even more exciting for me than a yummy mexican casserole? It's the fact that this is a family recipe that my mom sent to me.  I knew she had been making it for years but just hadn't gotten around to trying it since we live thousands of miles apart.  

Ok, I'm a dork.  

In the middle of my post I had to Google it and our cities are actually 833 miles apart.  It really does seem like thousands since I don't get to see her as often as I would like.  

Thank you mom, and thank you family for making this dish!  It is a definite keeper and will be oun our mexican food rotation for sure!

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Slow Cooker Asian Pulled Pork

You can imagine my excitement when I came across this recipe.  I couldn't believe it... Asian Pulled Pork made in my crock pot?  Don't mind if I do :)

I've really had to start getting creative when it comes to different types of foods. Why you ask?  Well, my daughter has a really terrible peanut/tree nut allergy so we have to be super careful where we eat when we dine out.  So that pretty much crosses off Pei Wei, PF Changs, Panda Express and every other place that is super yummy and delicious.  

Mommy has to go without....

And mommy doesn't like it (sometimes)!

Some days I just wanna get my Pei Wei on if you know what I mean?

That's why I've started cooking more of my favorite Asian Dishes at home.   And the best part is my family has been really enjoying them as much as I have been too!  That always makes me happy :)

Yes, we loved this new Asian Pulled Pork Recipe.  I kind of figured we would after I took a peek at the ingredients and saw how easy it was to make.

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