Beer Can Chicken
This will be the most fantastically moist chicken you have ever had. It’s amazing what a Coors Light or Miller Lite can do to chicken. Serve this with some roasted asparagus, sweet potato fries or a fresh corn salad for summer. You will need a beer can chicken roaster for this. Most grocery stores even carry them these days.
Hubby’s note: He, he, he. She said “moist”.
Southeast Asian Salad
There is seriously no reason other than my own love for Southeast Asia that this salad has its name. For our honeymoon, we went to Bali, Bangkok, and Koh Samui. Before I met my husband I spent a month with my dad in Vietnam and Singapore. I am completely in love with that part of the world. Two things I have on my bucket list are to go to Australia and back to Bali. The culture, the kindness of the people and the pure calm and peacefulness is enthralling. So this salad reminds me of Asia and it is so ridiculously good, you will eat the whole bowl. So make sure you’re under adult supervision and share so that others can enjoy it with you. A HUGE shout out to my Molly for turning me onto this salad during our recent Mommies & Babies gone wild trip to Catalina. I know, we’re a wild bunch people! 3 moms, 1 auntie, 1 grandma and EIGHT KIDS for a week in Catalina. Every year. đ
Hubby’s note: The idea for this recipe was not the only thing we brought back from Southeast Asia. A prescription helped the second thing go away though.
Green Chile Breakfast Casserole
This fabulous breakfast casserole is great for brunch, Easter or a lazy Sunday morning. You can prepare it the night before and then throw it in the oven the next morning which is quite fantastic when in the morning all you want to do is drink a cup of coffee and zone out to Chuggington with the kids.
Hubby’s note: Did you really just say zone out to Chuggington? Skip the Chuggington and bring me the coffee. Or a Mimosa.
Beef and Spinach Lasagna
I have always shied away from making lasagna. It just seems like a time consuming, awful mess. That was until my brilliant mother in law parted the clouds and showed me the way…to the noodles you don’t have to boil and lay on foil and get frustrated with because they stick or rip. Thus I give you, easy as pie lasagna.
Hubby’s note: Just remember, that brilliance runs in the family.
French Kiss in a Peanut Butter Hot Tub (Peanut Butter with Chocolate Kisses)
Peanut butter and chocolate. Whoever came up with Reeseâs recipe is a genius because those two flavors really are the perfect pair. Just be sure your dough isnât too soft when you bake these cookies. Otherwise they come out flat and once you push the chocolate kiss into it…Itâs doesnât really look like, um, a cookie anymore.
Hubby’s note: I’ve got nothing. Nothing tops Peanut Butter and Chocolate.
My Secret
So…..I have a secret. Well, if you know me, itâs not soo secret. But the recipe? Iâll be buried with it. Some of my friends affectionately call them âcrack cookiesâ. I think the name speaks for itself.
Crockpot Tortilla Soup
The past two winters in California have been less than fun. Us Californians are used to having short winters with a month or two TOPS of rain. However with all of this global warming hullabaloo we had no summer last year and two very long, rainy, windy and cold winters. Our poor agriculture took a massive hit. So, that left us stuck in doors quite a bit. With the fireplace going almost every night, soup just sounds GOOD. This crockpot tortilla soup is a fabulously easy meal to throw in first thing in the morning and then forget about so you can tackle bigger things like “where in the world can we go play indoors today with the kids where they won’t catch some germs and get sick…again!”
On Your Naughty List
This past holiday season I was hired by a production company to make 10 baskets of holidays cookies. Each basket had 50 cookies inside….Letâs do the math…Yep, 500 cookies. Here is the list of some of the recipes I made for the 2010 Holiday Season. You can find the recipes in the archive.