Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Recipe for: Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Ingredients

4 chicken breast--bite size pieces
1 pound bacon cut into thirds
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 Tablespoons chili powder



Recipe instructions

Cut up about 4 chicken breasts into bite size pieces. Wrap one pound of bacon cut into thirds around the chicken and put a toothpick through it to hold it in place. Mix 2/3 cups brown sugar and 2 Tablespoons of chili powder together and dredge the chicken in the brown sugar mixture. Spray a pan with Pam and place on cooking sheet. Bake at 350 for 35 minutes. Make sure to use a pan with a lip on it as there will be grease from the bacon.

Morning Show Cookie Recipes

Margie's Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

1 cup butter or margarine, softened
2/3 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 – ¼ cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 cups chopped peanut butter cups (about six 1.6-ounce packages)

In a mixing bowl, cream butter, peanut butter and sugars. Add eggs, on at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Stir in the chocolate chips and peanut butter cups. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes before removing to wire racks.

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Tim Ezell’s Pumkin Gooey Butter Cake

Cake:
1 -18.5 oz yellow cake mix
1 egg
1 cup of oil
Preheat oven at 350. Grease 9x13 pan
Combine all ingredients with electric mixer and pat into pan

Filling:

1 – 8oz light cream cheese (softened)
1 – 15 oz can pumpkin
3 eggs
1 tps. Vanilla
½ cup melted butter
1 – 16 oz powdered sugar
½ tsp. cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg

Directions

Beat together cheese and pumpkin in a large bowl until smooth. Add eggs, vanilla and melted butter, then beat together. Add powered sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and mix well. Spread pumkin mixture over the cake batter.

Bake 45 – 50 mins. Make sure not to overbake as center should be a little gooey.

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Kevin Steincross' Oero Cookie Balls

1 package Oreos
1 stick Philadelphia cream cheese
1 package chocolate almond bark
1 package white almond bark (optional)

Place Oreos( I do 5 at a time) in the blender; crumb off and on several times until finely crushed. Do this until all the Oreos are crumbs.

Place Oreos in large bowl with softened Phil. cream cheese in it. With a mixer; mix the Oreos and cream cheese together until thoroughly mixed.

Place wax paper on cookie sheet. Take walnut sized pieces of the Oreo-cream cheese mix in hands and roll it into ball. Place on the wax paper/cookie sheet. When done (you should have between 50-60 - depending on the size), stick a toothpick (plastic ones work easier and are reuseable) in each piece.

Freeze for a couple of hours.

Melt chocolate almond bark in microwave for 1 minute; stir; then MW for 1 more minute. Take each oreo/c.cheese ball by the toothpick and roll in the melted chocolate. Then place back on the wax paper. When all are done; place back in freezer for a couple of hours.

Actually, they are ready to eat now. Just take out of freezer and enjoy.

OR

Melt 1/2 of the white almond bark in the microwave for 1 minute; stir; melt for 1 more minute in MW. Stir.

Remove the toothpicks. Take the balls (one at a time) and roll the top in the white almond bark. Then if you want to add a chocolate chip or and M&M or something decorative, do so at this time.

Place back in freezer for couple of hours. When well frozen, put in plastic container. Will last for a couple of months.

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Gov's Gooey Butter Cookies

1 Box Yellow Cake Mix
1 Stick of Butter
1 – 8oz pkg of cream cheese
1 egg
¼ tsp. vanilla
Non-stick spray

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and cream cheese together. Add egg and vanilla. Mix thoroughly.
Slowly add in the cake the cake mix until well blended.
Spray hands with non-stick spray
Roll into balls and place on parchment paper
Bake for 15 minutes
Cover w/ powdered sugar at start, then at 10 minutes, and at finish.

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April Simpson’s White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup butter, softened
¾ cup packed light brown sugar
½ cup white sugar
2 eggs
½ tsp vanilla extract
½ almond extract
2 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup coarsely chopped macadamia nuts
1 cup white chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar and white sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs, on at a time, then stir in the vanilla and almond extracts. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt; gradually stir into the creamed mixture. Mix in the macadamia nuts and white chocolate. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake for 10 minutes in oven, or until golden brown.

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Shawn Lindsey's "Kitchen Sink" Chocolate Chunk Cookies

2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon natural vanilla extract
2 - 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup peanut butter chips
1/2 cup toffee chips
1/2 cup mini-marshmallows
2 cups imported semisweet chocolate chunks

Cream butter in an upright mixer until fluffy. Add dark brown and white sugar and mix until thoroughly blended with butter, scraping sides and bottom of bowl from time to time.
Add eggs, one at a time, and mix until thoroughly blended, scraping sides and bottom bowl from time to time.
Add vanilla extract and mix at low speed to combine well. In a separate bowl, mix flour, salt, and baking soda. Add flour mixture to butter/sugar mixture and mix at low speed, until thoroughly blended, scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl from time to time. Mix briefly at medium speed until completely combined.
Add peanut butter chips and mix on low speed until thoroughly combined.
Add peanut butter chips and mix on low speed until thoroughly combined. Add toffee chips and mix on low. Add mini-marshmallows and mix on low speed until thoroughly combined. Add chocolate chunks and mix on low. Refrigerate batter for a few hours or overnight until cold.
Preheat oven at 350 degrees (300 if using a conventional oven). Line baking sheet with parchment paper and drop heaping teaspoonfuls of batter 2 inches apart.
Bake for approximately 12 to 18 minutes, turning tray once during baking. Cookies are done when they are golden brown around edges and soft (not bubbly) on top. Let cool on wire rack.




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Rest in Peace

This Wednesday my uncle passed away. He was in the hospital a few weeks/months back and got some sort of bacterial infection. Apparently you can only get this from a hospital, and highly contagious. Anyway he fought and fought and could not kick it. He passed away.

This is my mother's sister’s husband. She (my aunt, mom’s sister) is unfortunately not aware of this as she is in a nursing home with full blown Alzheimer’s.

This is actually days a vuu (sp) for me, the family. My grandfather passed away while my grandmother was in nursing home with Alzheimer’s.

This actually breaks my heart the most. I can not imagine not knowing my beloved was gone, because I was gone mentally. I have a hard time with Alzheimer’s. It scares me to death. They say it is not heredity but I my grandmother had it. Now 2 of the 5 girls my grandmother had have Alzheimer’s.

Sorry side tracked.

We will be leaving to go out of town Saturday, and I will be back some time Monday.

Christmas Pictures

I took the kids all to get their pictures taken. It was the biggest PITA. Mine has always been an awesome picture taker. Not these two girls. Ugh! So Here they are and even a bonus of me in there. (FYI ~ I hate my picture taken, and Catcher Dude talked me into it.)

Pecan Rolls ~ New Post of their own.

So continuing from my to-do list from earlier, one of the items on my list was to make Margie's Carmel Pecan Rolls that I recently got the recipe for. So the directions say to mix this all up and place in oven to sit and rise over night, and cook in the a.m. Well I didn't need them in the a.m. So I thought I will mix all up and let set during the day. So I guess I might have stuck in oven by 6:45. Well ... I guess I let them RISE to much. LOL. These were them at 3:30. They stuck in my oven to the rack above. I have to say we had a great laugh about these. Hoping they still come out good after the baking time. I had to mash and smoosh. LOL



So I continued on. Baked 350 for 30 minutes. They actually recovered and cooked up nicely. I was really impressed. Now taste? Not sure on that one. I promised kid I would leave him some to taste before leaving. But they sure as hell look yummy.

To do list

I really want to start getting things done during the day. I seem to waste so much time, and next thing I know it is 12:30, kid on his way home in little over hour, I have to deposit dad dude at his ride, and nothing gets done.

Now back in Jan '06 I had posted goals for the week and would cross off as I went. Well I think I will start with goals for the day. Now my eyes may be bigger than possible, but we will see how it goes.

So goals today 12/11

Make Margie's Carmel Pecan Rolls for the PTSA meeting tonight
2 loads of laundry
dishes
pick up Christmas pictures
pick up new piece for catcher dudes catcher helmet (Actually DH went and did this for me)
go to post office to mail Ornament Swaps
go to bank to deposit money in baseball account

So let's see if I can get these items done. All the while toting infant, toddler, and getting dad dude at his drop off @ 12:30.

Well it is now 3:32 and I did all I can do today. But I really need to hit the post office tomorrow. This is a must do. Now cooking the rolls, and dinner for catcher dude and getting ready for PTSA. I still have to shower and get things together, check time, etc.

Catch up and a long ramble

First who ordered this ice? I sure as double hockey sticks didn't. I really do not know what the flip floppin deal is but we NEVER use to get ice storms. Snow, yes. But flickin ice? Get outta here. As I type this I am once again waiting on a repair person to come rescue my house. The cable wires are pulling out my siding and stuff from the house. Umm .. ah ... hell NO!! I just had this repaired from last years ice storms. They told me Thursday at first, I said sure and I will send the bill of repair when it pulls and breaks the house trim and siding. NOW they all of a sudden had time to come out tonight. Yeah, so says them and there between 2p and 6p. So well will see.

It sure is pretty. But sure causes a lot of damage. I really thought the district might close today. There were quite a few. CD missed the bus and as I slide out of driveway I was really thinking school was not worth the risk of crashing. But alas I did make it fine once on HWY. So all was good, until I of course slipped on sidewalk coming back into house this morning. Dad dude quickly took care of that before I choked him.

I did give in and decorated this house. But CD is fully aware there will be no Christmas presents this year. Just can not swing it. Some how we are still in a sinking hole. It is hard to go from a family of 3 to 5 and still same income. *sigh* But I am working on getting it fixed. But all pennies and accounted for until later in 2008. So if giving up Christmas gets Catcher Dude on the fields of his dreams, then this is what we will do.

Speaking of Catcher Dude, his arm. Ah, yes the wonderful elbow that needed big time repair. He is still going to therapy. But the insurance saw fit to not approve it and is costing me in the millions, err thousands, err well in the grand hundreds that could reach thousand. Thanks! I am so glad dad dude pays out the ass at this job for his insurance only to have to pay BIG outta pocket money. FUCK YOU BCBS!! But the therapy is going well. He is learning plenty of exercises and drills that will pay off in the long run and should HUGELY improve the arm strength and build up the arm so it will not happen again. Still working on the Catcher's Program from the Doctor office. But it is hard to do it every other day with dad dude working nights. Then the weather is not a friend either. It is cold, raining, icy and making impossible to get it all in. This program IMO is not made for winter but summer. But he has to be repaired before then if not missing the season.

Catcher dude also finally made his team picks. He dropped 2. So this is good news. The team (Cyclones) are only going to be a tournament team. So no league play, just tournaments. They are actually going to play in the Cooperstown Dreams Park Tournament and he is so excited he could bust!! This tournament is in New York, and lasts 7 days. He will get to stay in dorms. This apparently is the tournaments of all tournaments, if you ask the boys. Us? The money sucker of all money suckers. There is the fee to pay for the boys (over $600) , but the parents have to find accommodations. Umm I called around over the weekend for prices. Over $200 a night for hotels ($1750). Get the fuck outta here. I had to put a deposit down for a place to stay yesterday. This is insane. He doesn't play there until another 7 months, but everything was booking up now and FAST. PLUS .. do we even know if he will be able to play? Or still playing at that time? *sigh* Taking a BIG risk here.

What else is on the fire? Hmmm ...

I thought I had some other things I was going to ramble on about, but I am at a loss right now. So I will stop. I have rambled enough.

Wordless Wednesday

I came across this picture this morning. Here is wishing for snow soon.

Look-alike Meter

I was visting another blog The Diary of a Nouveau Soccer Mom and came across this meter. So I thought I would give it a whirl. :)



I really was surprised at this. I really believe he looks more like dad than me. Hmmm. Interesting.