Bella - Age 8

Bella Age 8

Bella - Age 8

1. What is your favorite color? Blue
2. What is your favorite toy? Stuffed Animals
3. What is your favorite fruit? Apples with peanut butter
4. What is your favorite tv show? Crashletes
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Cheese balls
6. What is your favorite outfit? Unicorn jammies
7. What is your favorite game? FNAF
8. What is your favorite snack? Apples with peanut butter
9. What is your favorite animal? Bunny
10. What is your favorite song? What Does The Fox Say
11. What is your favorite book? Magic Tree House
12. Who is your best friend? Evan
13. What is your favorite cereal? Apple Cinammon Cheerios
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play FNAF
15. What is your favorite drink? Apple Cider
16. What is your favorite holiday?Christmas
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Bun Bun, Cha Cha, Henry, Paws, Allen, Allie, LaLa
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner? Pizza
19. What is your favorite thing to do? FNAF

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Dolphin Trainer

ADULT KIDS...How well do you know your MOM? Copy, paste, and fill in the answer.

1. She is sitting in front of the TV, what is she watching? Last Man Standing

2. What does she eat on her salad? Crab
3. Name a food she hates: Brussel sprouts
4. You go out to eat and have a drink, what would she order? Miller Lite
5. Favorite music to listen to? Taylor Swift
6. What is her nickname for you?  Niblet
7. What is something she could collect? Magnets
8. What would she eat every day if she could? Ramen
9. What is her favorite cereal? Fiber One
10. What would she never wear? Crop tops
11. What is her favorite sports team? Colts

12. What is something that you do that she wishes you wouldn't do? ....
13. You bake her a cake for her birthday, what kind is it? Vanilla
14. Favorite animals? Dog
15. What could she spend all day doing?   Cuddling

Bella's answers about me, Age 8, almost 9.  :D

Chimiquitos

This is basically a taquito with a chimichango type filling.  Regardless, it's delicious.


1 pound ground beef
1/2 can refried beans
1 package spanish rice, prepared
2 tablespoons cream cheese
1/2 cup Mexican cheese
Taco seasoning
Taco sauce
1/2 cup water
Lime juice
1/2 can Mexicorn
1 small can green chiles
Onion powder
Garlic powder
Package of 6 inch flour tortillas
1 tablespoon butter

Brown the meat, keep the grease or drain it.  Up to you.  But these are already unhealthy as fuck, so why not just go whole hog, right?
Spread the browned meat out the sides, leaving a nice little bean hole in your skillet.  Dump your beans there.  Lower the heat to around medium and let the beans warm enough so you can incorporate them into your beef.  Add your water, about a half cup of taco sauce and the taco seasoning.  Homemade or the package kind.  Don't matter to me.
At this point, go ahead and boil your water and get your Spanish rice going.  It'll take like 20 minutes. Get that little yellow package.  It gets nice and mushy and works best for this.
Once your beef mixture has come together, add in your cheese, cream cheese, green chiles and corn.  Drain them first.  Duh.
Taste test it and add more salt, pepper, garlic, onion, unicorn farts, whatever your taste buds are hollering for.  Add cilantro if you like.  I just don't like cilantro.  Tastes like soapy ass to me.
Take the heat down to low and wait for your rice to finish cooking.  Stir it if it starts to look weird. Once your rice is done, gently fold that into your meat mixture.
Heat your oven to 425°.
Put foil on your baking sheet so you don't gotta wash it afterwards.
Take each little tortilla and add like a spoonful and a half of the meat mixture to it.  Roll it into a fat little cigar.  Taquito!  Keep doing that.  And yes, you're gonna have lots of leftover meat.  It's fine. Once you have them all on the baking sheet, melt your butter and brush your chimiquitos with it.
Bake for about 15 minutes, or until you see the ends getting nice and browned up.  Let cool, serve with sour cream, if you want.  Or just eat them.  b/c they are yummy as fuck.

Now, as for all that leftover meat??  Get the bigger tortillas, the ones for burritos.  Wrap them up like littler presents.  Put them in a casserole dish that you've sprayed with Pam.  Brush with melted butter, top with a light layer of taco sauce and some more cheese.  Take your oven down to 400° and bake these guys for about 15 minutes, or until the cheese is all melty.

You may still have leftover meat.  It's cool.  Just save it for another day.  Enjoy!

Chicken Broccoli Ham Casserole

This is like a Chicken Cordon Bleu mishmash.  But it's fucking delicious.

3 chicken boobies
1 can cream of chicken soup
4-6 slices ham (like sandwich meat), diced into small strips
6 slices of swiss cheese (or provolone or mozzarella, any white cheese really)
1 box of Chicken Stove Top Stuffing - prepared as the box states
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon butter
Frozen broccoli (as much as you like, just shake it in there until it makes you happy)
Peppercorns
Poultry seasoning (I used Rachael Ray's blend)
2 chicken bouillion cubes
1 teaspoon minced garlic



Fill a big pot with cold water, place your three chicken boobies in there.  Put the pot over high heat, add bouillion, poultry seasoning, garlic and like a small palm full of peppercorns to the pot.  Cover and bring to a boil.  Once it starts boiling, reduce heat to like medium-ish and simmer for 15 minutes, or until cooked through.  You don't want to kill anyone with raw chicken.

While your chicken is cooking, make the stuffing.  You know, 1 1/4 cup of water, 1/4 cup butter, boil, add dry stuffing, cover and remove from heat.

Once the chicken is no longer lethal, chop it into bite sized pieces.  If you're like me, this will take like an hour.  Put something on tv to watch.  It will take for freaking ever.

Get a 2-3 quart casserole dish.  Butter it.  Dump the can of cream of chicken soup in it.  Add sour cream.  Season with ground pepper.  Whisk it all together.  Add chicken, ham and frozen broccoli, mix until it's all coated with the soup mix.

Top with your prepared stuffing.  Top that with your cheese of choice.  Cover with foil and bake at 375 for 30-40 minutes.  If you want to crisp up the stuffing, remove the foil and broil for a few minutes.

Let sit for a bit so you aren't biting into molten lava, then enjoy!

White Chili

Or should I say Award Winning White Chili!  haha!  Seriously, I totally won a chili cook-off with this recipe.  I kick some chili ass, yo.  Not only did the Batgirl mask Lee and I made totally work out, but the chili was awesome.  I call this Halloween weekend a win.  :)


Ingredients:

1 - 1.5 pounds of chicken boobies.  Cut the gross excess fat off, then dice into small 1/2 inch chunks.

1 white onion diced up super small.  I used a chopper b/c I don't like big onion pieces.  But do what you like.

2 cans navy beans, drained and rinsed of the goo.  Use a fork to mush up about 1/4-1/2 of the beans.

2 cans of chopped green chilies.  (the small 4 ounce cans.  2 of those.)

1 can of chicken broth

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream

1 jalapeno, seeded and diced.


EVOO (or whatever oil you like to use)
Salt
Pepper
Garlic cloves, minced.
Garlic powder
Ground cumin
Ground oregano
Cayenne pepper
Dash of cinnamon


Directions:

In a large pot (like a stock pot, something you'd use to boil noodles in), heat over medium high heat.  Add in about 1-2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil.  While that's heating up, salt and pepper your raw chicken chunks.  Once your pot is hot, dump in the chicken and the onions.  Cook until the chicken is completely cooked through.
Add in the broth, beans, green chilies, and spices.
Now, for the spices, I did about 3 teaspoons of the cumin, oregano and garlic powder.  And because I love garlic, I used an additional 2 cloves of fresh garlic that I squished through the garlic press.  BUT, use maybe a teaspoon each of the cumin, oregano and garlic powder at first, then add more if you think it needs it.  Salt and pepper it as needed.  And I just used 2 small dashes of cayenne and one healthy dash of cinnamon.  The only spice you really wanna worry about is the cinnamon.  Don't use too much, don't add more.  You just want that hint of something extra.  You don't want your chili to taste like Cinnamon Toast Crunch with beans.
Okay, so now just bring it to a boil, then let it simmer around medium low heat for half an hour.
Remove from heat, add in the sour cream and heavy whipping cream.

Sausage and Rice

1 package of andouille sausage, sliced thin
2 cups brown rice
4 cups chicken broth
1 cube chicken bouillion
1 can crushed tomatoes
3 cloves garlic, minced
Onion powder
Paprika
Basil
Oregano
Cayenne
S&P
2 tbsp olive oil

Place brown rice in rice cooker, add chicken broth up to the 3rd line (about 3 cups) plus the bouillion cube and cook until tender.

In a large skillet, heat olive oil over med-high heat, add sliced sausage and brown, about 3 minutes.

Add 1 cup broth, tomatoes, all seasonings.  Reduce heat to medium and let simmer.  Add cooked rice, mix well, reduce heat to low, cover and let the rice absorb the liquids, about 5 more minutes.

One Pot Pasta

So freaking delicious.  Way better than I thought and so super freaking easy!

One Pot Pasta

EVOO
1 package Hillshire Farms Smoked Sausage (I used turkey to pretend that I'm healthy)
2 cloves of garlic
1 14 ounce can chicken broth
1 14 ounce can petite diced tomatoes
1 box penne
Colby/Monterey Jack shredded cheese
Parmesan Cheese
2 big handfuls fresh spinach
2 ounces cream cheese
1/4 cup sour cream
S&P
Cayenne, if you're into that sort of thing
Onion powder


Heat a couple tablespoons of EVOO in a large skillet over medium heat, one that you have a lid for.

Open your chicken broth and tomatoes to have it handy.

While the oil is getting toasty, chop your smoked sausage into bite sized pieces then grate your garlic right on top of that sausage.

Slide that into the hot oil.  Saute briefly (you don't want to burn your garlic, he's too delicious to burn).  Pour in the broth and tomatoes, stir.  Pour in the penne.  Stir some more.  Season with S&P, onion powder and cayenne.  Add the spinach right on top.  Cover and let it go for about 10 minutes.

Remove lid and stir.  Taste your pasta to see how done it is.  I wound up covering it and letting it go another 3 minutes.

Add in the cream cheese and sour cream, cover and let it all get mushy with each other.  About another 2 minutes.

Remove lid (do I really need to say "remove lid?"), stir well, taste test and add more seasonings as you see fit.  Cover with the parm and jack cheeses.  Replace lid and let it all melt.  Stir again and serve warm.

Super Delicious!  Aside from the cutting board, it's really a one pot meal!