May 2012 ~ Colie's Kitchen

May 31, 2012

Toasted Sesame Seed Salad Dressing

Lately I have been experimenting making my own salad dressings. It’s amazing how much better salad dressing is when you make it fresh. The bottled dressing is great and quick and easy, but you can certainly tell the difference when it’s homemade. I loved this dressing, but then again I like sesame seeds. Yummy! You don’t want to look at the calorie count, but it’s a great...

Meatball Nirvana

I have to say I love the name of these meatballs almost as much as I love these meatballs. They turned out fantastic! I was actually able to get 20 1oz meatballs out of this recipe. Yes, I measured them all on my scale! I am anal about a few things and things like this are when anal Colie takes over! I wasn’t sure what to expect with these meatball but I loved...

Chicken Crescent Roll Casserole

We all really enjoyed this recipe. It’s very easy to make and would be easy to make ahead. The only complaint that I have read on this recipe is that some people said that the crescent rolls were too doughy. If you cook them long enough this will not be a problem. I cooked them for 40 minutes and they were perfect. I suggest watching for the rolls to rise up. When they...

Mushroom Sugar Snap Peas

This recipe is delicious, very flavorful and so easy to make. It certainly makes a nice presentation because of the color! I have been trying and trying to find a good recipe that uses sugar snap peas. I found a recipe (see bottom) that sent my recipe juices flowing. My recipe is similar with a few (ok maybe a lot) changes. We all really enjoyed this and my sugar snap peas...

Tampico Shrimp Quesadillas

Ingredients: 1 cup onion diced 2 garlic cloves minced 1 poblano chili pepper sliced and diced 2 cups of pre-cooked salad shrimp 12 flour tortillas 8 ounces of mozzarellas cheese ½ teaspoon of ground chipotle pepper Salt and pepper to taste Directions: Sautee onion, garlic, and poblano chili once the vegetables are tender add shrimp and cook until the shrimp are...

Coconut Crusted Chicken

My family and I love coconut crusted shrimp so when I found this recipe I knew we were going to love it. Not only is it fantastic it’s earth shaking! I had this horrible feeling that the recipe would be sweet since you use sweetened coconut flakes, but frying it takes away the sweetness of the coconut. You are left with a little sweet, but nothing to be concerned with....

Classic Baked Ziti Using @Mezzetta_Foods

I can’t even begin to tell you just how amazing this is! The key ingredient in this recipe is Napa Valley Bistro - Porcini Mushroom Pasta Sauces! I strongly encourage you to use this pasta sauce because it really does make this dish. I will admit this sauce is a little pricey but it’s well worth it. This is a quick and easy recipe to put together and makes a great freezer...

Bacon Dressing

This recipe is ridiculously fantastic! If you love dressing and you love (naughty) cream dressing you will love this masterpiece! The creamy bacon is just wonderful. Even better than the flavor is the ease of the recipe. It is sooooo super easy. I put everything in the magic bullet and gave it a few whirls and it was ready to go. No doubt you could use...

Easy Cheesesteak Sandwiches

We have this recipe quite a bit in our house. If I can find a roast on sale that is small enough I like to make the cheesesteaks for a week night meal. The whole process goes very quickly. You could probably cut the meat up over the weekend then freeze it until you need it. That would make the entire process go supper fast. We really love these sandwiches...

Shrimp and Mushroom Pad Thai Noodles

A few days ago we had our water off for most of the day because of a broken pipe that was being fixed. I had one dinner planned, but at the last minute I changed it up for something a little easier like frozen egg rolls. I needed to make something that didn’t require the use of water. I had enough bottled water to wash my hands, but not enough to cook with. I didn’t...

Dad's Stuffed Peppers

When I was a kid my Dad would make my Mom stuffed peppers occasionally because she loved them so much. Unfortunately when my Dad passed away his stuffed pepper recipe went with him. I have never found any place he had written it down. After a lot of looking around and my Mom and I putting our heads together we think we have come up with my Dads recipe. Like I said...

Wordless Wednesday -Piggy Hill

Our long hair blue lynx Siamese Piggy Hill named after Peggy Hill from King of the Hill. She is more of a Piggy than a Peggy! Check Out Our Online Recipe Book: www.CafeChatterbox.com...

Soft Pretzels

Ingredients: 3 cups bread flour 3 tablespoons Sugar 3 tablespoons nonfat dry milk powder 1-1/2 teaspoons salt ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS: 1 cup water (70° to 80°) 2 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened 1-1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast Beaten egg white, Kosher Salt, Melted Margarine optional Directions: Combine the first four ingredients. Store...

Nilla Wafer Banana Bread

This is fantastic sweet banana bread. The Nilla Wafers truly made the bread fantastic. This was like eating a bread version of banana pudding. It was a bit labor intensive crushing the Nilla wafers, but a Ziploc bag and a rolling pin did the trick. I love this recipe and can’t wait to make it again. Fantastic doesn’t even being to describe it. You can’t beat it nice...

Country Comfort Potato Casserole

Visually this is not a very appealing recipe, but it’s a fantastic side dish. I made this to go along without Easter dinner and everyone would crazy over it. I received more compliments than I expected too, and a ton of recipe request. This recipe is called comfort casserole for a good reason. Who needs a hug when you can add potatoes? Add a little ham in there and it...

Quick and Easy Fried Rice

I was in a hurry so this was taken with my phone Last night I was running very late getting home and of course keeping with our no eating out had to make dinner. I had purchased some frozen egg rolls from Sam’s Club that I decided I was going to stick in the oven to have for a quick and easy dinner. I really wanted to serve fried rice with dinner, but I figured it would...

One Skillet Beef Stroganoff

This pic was taken in a quick hurry with my cellphone so it doesn't do the recipe justice, but it's worth trying! This was a Kraft recipe that I revamped. The reviews were OK on it, but it was obvious why they were just OK. With a little revamping this recipe is excellent. It’s super simple and actually tastes great. I love the concept of this recipe because it’s a...