Lawn Mower Cupcakes

For Adam's 26th birthday, I made him lawn mower cupcakes.

Treasures chocolates
M&Ms
String licorice

Easy Crock-Pot Honey Whole-Grain Bread

This recipe is perfect if you are in a hurry and don't want to have to wait around the house to let bread dough rise and re-rise. And it was so delicious! Way easy!

Crock-Pot Honey Whole-Grain Bread

3 cups whole-wheat breat flour, divided
2 cups warm whole milk
3/4 to 1 cup all-purpose flour, divided
1/4 cup honey
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 pkg active dry yeast
3/4 tsp salt

1. Line crock pot with foil and spray with cooking spray.

2. Combine 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour,milk, 1/2 cup all-purpose flour, honey, oil, yeast and salt in large bowl. Beat with electric mixer at medium speed 2 minutes. Add remaining 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour and 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup all-purpose flour until dough is no longer sticky. (You can mix with wooden spoon.) Transfer to prepared crock-pot.

3. Cover; cook on HIGH 3 hours or unti edges are browned.

4. Take out and let cool for 5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.

Watermelon Frosty

We had a bunch of watermelon at our house and needed to use it up before it went bad, so I looked up a recipe for watermelon on pinterest and found this awesome recipe for a watermelon frosty. We've had this a couple days in a row. You can put a small watermelon wedge at the top to make it more pretty.

Watermelon Frosty

2 1/4 cups frozen watermelon cubes
1/2 cup + water
2 tbsp maple syrup
1 large lemon, squeezed (or 2 limes)
1 banana

Throw all the ingredients in a blender and mix up till smooth!
 
 

Bombay House Chicken Tikka Masala

This is the best Tikka Masala recipe that I have been able to find and it is definitely comparable to Bombay House's dish in Provo. I was so excited to find something that satisfies my craving for good Indian food since there doesn't seem to be any good restaurants in Georgia of Tennessee.

Chicken Tikka Masala

MARINADE:

1 cup yogurt

Tbsp lemon juice

2 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

1 tsp freshly ground pepper

1 Tbsp minced fresh ginger

1 tsp salt

3 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces

4 long skewers (I used our griddle)

SAUCE:

1 Tbsp butter

1 clove garlic, minced

2 tsp ground cumin

2 tsp paprika

1 tsp salt

1 8oz. can tomato sauce

1 cup heavy cream

1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro

Instructions

In a large bowl, combine yogurt, lemon juice, 2 tsp cumin, cinnamon, cayenne, pepper, ginger, and 1 tsp salt. Stir in chicken, cover, refrigerate 1 hour. Preheat a grill for high heat. Lightly oil the grill grate. Thread chicken onto skewers and discard marinade. Grill 5 min. on each side. (I just cooked the chicken on a griddle.)

For the sauce: Melt butter in a large skillet. Saute garlic for 1 minute. Season with 2 tsp cumin, paprika and 1 tsp salt. (For a little more spice, you can add some cayenne pepper here too.) Stir in tomato sauce and cream. Simmer on low heat until sauce thickens, about 20 minutes. Add grilled chicken, and simmer for 10 minutes.

Transfer to a serving platter and sprinkle with fresh chopped cilantro. Serve over rice.

We ate it with the Naan Bread recipe.

Memorial Day Truffles

We had a family get together with the Sink's yesterday and Adam and I were in charge of dessert and we thought oreo truffles sounded good. I found a picture on pinterest of a lady who did this American flag with cake balls, so I decided to do it with our oreo truffles instead.

The blue truffles are made with mint oreo, the red withh regular oreos, and the white with golden oreos. Surprisingly the golden and mint oreo truffles were the favorite.

Here's a link to the Oreo Truffles recipe.

Georgia Peach Chicken

My favorite recipes are the easy ones that call for ingredients that I already have on hand. And this one is way yummy and a great dish for summer time. I made this twice last week because it was so good.
Georgia Peach Chicken

½ cup Hidden Valley® Original Ranch® Spicy Ranch Dressing
½ cup light brown sugar
1 can (15-ounce) sliced peaches, drained and cut into chunks
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons prepared Dijon mustard
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
salt and pepper

Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper.

In a large skillet, over medium heat add the olive oil and heat until shimmering. Add the chicken and cook for 5 to 7 minutes on each side or until golden and juices run clear.

Remove the chicken to a plate.

Reduce the heat and add the butter, melt the butter together with the brown sugar, stirring until smooth.

Stir in both the dressing and mustard, stirring until bubbly.

Return the chicken to the pan, add the peaches and cook until heated through.

Serve Immediately

(I cut the chicken up into chunks and served it on white or brown rice.)

Homemade Oreo Cookies

This is one of our family favorites and several people have asked me for the recipe, so here it is!

Oreo Cookies

1  cake mix + 1 T. flour   (any flavor you want. I like cherry chip cake mix or chocolate cake mix)

½  C. oil
2  eggs                          

Mix ingredients together  - drop 1 teaspoon size balls on cookie sheet

Bake 350 for 8 minutes   Cool

Filling

½  C butter

1  8 oz. cream cheese
½ t. vanilla  (I use almond flavoring)
3  C powder sugar

Place filling between 2 cookies

Filling does 2-3 cake mixes

And I like to refrigerate my cookies. I think they are better cold, but Adam likes them fresh, so I guess it's personal prefrence.