Steak

Tonight was Steak.

No recipe needed.

Now I don't have a grill, so I used my tried and true Foreman Grill.

Let me tell you, delicious.

Decided against potatoes because they had gone bad, or at least one had and the bad smelled SO bad.

Anyway, made some pasta with a little butter, lemon juice and parmesan cheese.

Sorry no pictures today, it was too delicious to wait to take pictures.

I'll always be ready for more steak so making this is a no brainer...

Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Chiles

I suppose, Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Chiles isn't necessarily a meal, but more part of a meal.
In this case it was more of a snack, but frankly that's not important.
This recipe is from a food blog called Oh Bite It.
I may get a few more recipes from here in the future.

It occurred to me, while removing the seeds, that I hadn't ever made anything with peppers before, aside from bell peppers.
It is very important, and I can't stress this enough, that you immediately wash up after handling the peppers and not touch anything, especially your face.
Let me tell you, it doesn't feel good.

That being said, the recipe was very simple to follow.
Although I used smaller peppers, less chicken and Cheddar cheese it still turned out well.

I do think if I make this in the future, I won't put anything on the bacon.
I mean it was easy enough to brush off the excess Chili Powder and Oregano, but it wasn't a flavor that I really liked.

Here are the pics for this one:

Now to get ready to watch the 49ers play the Seahawks in tonight's game.

Kielbasa - yeah, I swapped Saturday and Sunday at the request of my wife...

I'll just say this was another allrecipe one and I should've considered something else, but that's hindsight for you.

All I am going to say is I must have done something wrong.

The cabbage got a little burned and otherwise the whole thing didn't taste that great.

No pics, didn't think it was worth it.

Not doing this again.

White Chicken Chili...soup?

So tonight I tried a new recipe, also from allrecipes, for White Chicken Chili.
Although I would've changed the chili to soup or added soup to the end, but I probably also made it wrong.

Instead of adding corn I added mixed vegetables, because I didn't realize I was out of corn and I like to substitute things.

Also the last part of the recipe was unclear as to whether to two parts needed to be combined, I assumed they should and so I combined them.

Picture below:

I would likely make this again, possibly with some variation on ingredients and if I am pressed for time in the crock pot with whole uncut chicken breasts.

Pork, it's the other white meat and it's what I am having for dinner tonight

Allrecipes.com again for this recipe. What can I say I really like the site.  This was easy to make, I am actually still making them. I searched Google for this mashed potato recipe and they're already done.

I basically wrote this all the previous blog posts talking about this attempt to cook at home while I was waiting for this to finish baking, the only downside of this recipe is waiting 90 minutes to enjoy it. On the plus side I got some dishes cleaned and did some other cleaning around the house while I waited. I bet with slight modification it would be possible to make this in a crock pot as well, I'll have to think about it. Below are some pictures I took while making tonight's dinner. Also this probably isn't healthy cooking, but I don't care. Anyone who has read my blog knows I am fat and loving it.

I didn't get any pictures of the initial preparation. Oh well...
First up we have this picture of the cream of mushroom soup mixed with milk and white wine.

Next up we have the pork chops, after being in the oven for an hour.

 Now we've got the mixture on top of the chops going back in for 30 minutes.

 Meanwhile I've made the mashed potatoes and now I am just waiting for the chops to finish.

Now everything is done and we're all ready to eat!!

 At first I was a little worried because it had a wine like aroma, but you couldn't taste it anymore and after the foil had been off for a few minutes

 My wife Chelsea who is very particular about the "done-ness" of food and she wholeheartedly approved.

 I just took a scoop of mashed potatoes and added it to each plate, covered it in the sauce and chowed down.

Okay so for the record, this was the best thing I've made so far this week. It was AWESOME!!
I've always been a big fan of pork chops.  The sauce made an excellent gravy for the mashed potatoes and there is so much left that it can probably last two lunches, or not...
I am definitely going to save this recipe and make it again some day!

Crock Pot gets used again to make Slow Cooker Chicken Taco Soup

So this was the first time I made anything like this and I loved it, recipe in the link back there. I followed all of the recipe, except the beer, I just put in 1 and 1/2 cup water. It was still very flavorful. Pretty much all the stuff I used was Food Club brand from Super 1 Foods because it was inexpensive and just as good as the name brand. I don't have any prep pictures, but I still have a plastic-ware container full that I am taking to lunch tomorrow.

Now I will say because I didn't get home to take the chicken out and shred it and put it back in, it was still okay, When I tried to take the chicken out it literally fell apart on the fork.  So I just took a fork and knife and cut it up in the crock pot. Turned out just fine.

When I removed it from the crock pot and placed it in the bowl I added sour cream, shredded cheddar cheese and some tortilla chips.  Everyone liked them, even Evie, our two year old daughter.

Below is the leftover I am taking to lunch tomorrow. I can't wait! My wife took some to lunch today and she said it was great.  We just put some chips in a zip lock bag and she took them that way.

I am definitely making this again. This gets 5 stars in my recipe book!

Slow Cooker Pot Roast is so easy

So I made some slow cooker pot roast on Tuesday because the fact is both of us get home later in the afternoon. I got this one at allrecipes.com, here. I like using their site because you can do an ingredients search.  Unfortunately I ate the last of this for lunch today so I don't have any pictures either. I added potatoes to the recipe and let them cook with the beef all day. It was good.

I liked it enough, but I just don't know if I want to make it again.
I think it may have also been because I added a little too much liquid.
Other than that it was certainly enough to eat for dinner and have left overs for lunch later in the week.