Food & Words

Around my 26th birthday (Oct 23) I made a list of 27 things I wanted to accomplish by my 27th birthday.  Not quite 3 months in I am kickin ass & takin names.  I have already completed 2 goals & am well on my way to having a few more accomplished as well.  

#12. Make 12 new recipes
(I really should've aimed higher as I usually do at least 1 every week...I've already surpassed 12 but I'll share 12 of them with you.)

1. Oven Fajitas

This was really good.  I liked doing it this way because you could just walk away from it...and make a larger quantity than if you used a pan on the stove top.

2. Wisconsin Beer Cheese Soup

This was bomb.  Like I've been thinking about making more, especially because it's cold.  I'm a sucker for soup, bacon, beer, & cheese so this obviously did not disappoint.

3. Crockpot Sausage Tortellini

This was also super good.  There were a couple of times when I didn't heat it up while at work & it's just as good cold as it is warm.

4. Forgotten Chicken

I'm not 100% sure I'd make it again.  It wasn't bad.  I mixed the onion soup in rather than put it on top & maybe that changed it?  The rice was good but the chicken had zero flavor.

5. Beer & Bacon Dip

I made this for a Christmas party.  It was a huge hit.  Again with the bacon, beer, & cheese...I'm from the Midwest what can I say?

6. Baked Egg in Avocado

These. Were. Gross.  Perhaps they would've been good straight out of the oven but I made them to eat for breakfasts all week.  I couldn't do it.  I ate part of one & threw the rest away.

7. Mac & Cheese Stuffed Peppers

These were also gross.  It was all the mac & cheese's fault.  If that had been better it wouldn't be bad but it was a terrible mac & cheese recipe.

8. Grasshopper Cookies

These were so good.  I'm both happy & sad they're all gone. 

9. Salty Caramel Turtles

See above.  I could eat these all day long.  Super easy too.

10. Biscuits & Gravy Casserole

I screwed this one up.  I didn't realize you needed a smaller dish (which I don't have) so the gravy is too thin & the biscuits are too done.  I'm just going to make more gravy to put on top of what I already have.

11. Chicken Parmesan Casserole

This wasn't terrible.  I much prefer just regular chicken parmesan though.  I probably won't make it again.

12. Easy Chicken Fried Rice

It was good.  I was bored with it after day one, but it was good.  I used shrimp instead of chicken though.  I also made this Yum Yum Sauce to go with it because I fell in love with that sauce when I had hibachi while I was in MN.

#18. Turn Pinterest quotes board into a book

I should mention that I also failed one.  #6. Monthly girls' night w/Kickass Cousin.  Quite frankly I don't know why I made this one when I did.  I think I was just so focused on moving home this coming summer that I got excited.  We saw each other on Thanksgiving & Christmas but we won't even be in the same state again until June which makes Jan-May pretty impossible.

Another 2 are about half done as well.