For Erin...

It's been awhile!  Since my last post, I hosted my first Thanksgiving which lead to total planning/shopping/cooking/baking burnout.  It was a few weeks before I picked up a grocery ad or planned any sort of decent meal, let alone take pictures of one.  I still have yet to take pictures of anything I've done lately.  My friend Erin has been asking for some new recipes to here they are.  I have tried a few in the last few months, so here they are minus my not as pretty pictures...

Tortilla soup from barefootandbaking.blogspot.com

I have pinned so many tortilla soup recipes on Pinterest and finally tried one tonight.  The only thing I did different was I cut the recipe in half (it still made a ton!) and I used black beans instead of pinto, because that is what I had on hand.  It was really good.  Really filling actually.  If you like a good tortilla soup, you will like this one.  

The second is Crispy Cheddar Chicken from jamiecooksitup.blogspot.com .  

It is really good and really easy.  Be careful not to overcook the chicken though so it doesn't dry out.  It reminds me of the classic poppyseed chicken recipe that is a staple in our house and has most of the same ingredients which I love, because I always have them on hand, yet it is a new twist to it.  

Then there was the Amish Bread...

OMG.  Delish.  I was out of bread and had zero desire to go to the store to buy some.  So I broke out my little used breadmaker and made this.  It's from allrecipes.com.  I think I made it four times in one week, because we would finish a whole loaf in one day when I would make it.  It is really that good.  Probably not healthy for you, but really good.  

Sugar Cookies

I actually made these yesterday for my husband to take to work.  I was about a quarter of a cup short of the shortening, and I should have adjusted the flour accordingly.  They turned out more like a shortbread.  A really good shortbread.  I will definitely try them again.  the recipe is from orangeandbiscuits.blogspot.com.

I also made these chocolate peanut butter brownies yesterday...

They are cheap, easy and really good.  I didn't have peanut butter chips on hand, so I just omitted them.  The recipe is from bakedperfection.com.

For my husband's coworkers for Christmas I made a foursome of cupcakes.  Their favorite was these Oreo cupcakes from keepingupwiththekunzs.blogspot.com.  

I totally cheated on this one, however.  I used a white cake mix instead of making the cupcake from scratch.  It turned out really good and the frosting is amazing too.  

The second cupcake I made was a chocolate peppermint cupcake which of course I can't find the recipe too now, and the third and fourth were the pumpkin cake recipe and lemon cake recipe that I previously posted.  

The last thing I can remember making in the last few months was this asian garlic scallion noodles.  

Yum and yum.  It's from weekofmenus.blogspot.com.  I added chicken to it, to make it more of a meal.  I have plans to cook more!  Hopefully I'll be posting more soon!