Honey Garlic Chicken

6 chicken pieces
3 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoon minced garlic
½ tablespoon ginger, minced






You can grill or bake this chicken recipe, but I'm going to write it for baking.
Combine the honey, soy sauce, garlic, and ginger in a Ziploc bag. Add the chicken and seal, removing as much air as possible. Refrigerate to marinate for an hour.-This is optional, usually I forget about marinating the chicken so I skip that part.
Preheat oven to 425ºF.
Lay chicken on a greased (or foil lined) baking sheet. Bake for 25-35 minutes, or until the chicken is basically done (you want to bake to be able to bake it for 15 minutes more and not dry out the chicken) Brush all of the remaining glaze on the drumsticks and bake for 10 minutes. Turn on the broiler and boil the chicken for 3-5 minutes, until crispy.

Yummy, yummy, in your tummy!!
With hungry thoughts from the kitchen;
Gabrielle W.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do it all for the glory of God. ~1 Corinthians 10:31

Baked Banana

I love sweets. I have a major sweet tooth, I did a 25 days of Christmas goodies remember! Unfortunately my waist line also loves sweets. So when I can mix good with bad, it takes the guilt off. Like, chocolate covered strawberries,  fruit smoothies, frozen banana covered in chocolate, you get the idea. Well, this dessert is take care of the chocolate craving without add (to much) guilt!

 Phyllo dough (I divided one roll amongst 6 bananas)
6 medium ripe bananas

1 tablespoon chopped walnuts,

Cinnamon

Canola oil spray

Chocolate chips

Vegetable oil

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Spray an 13x9 inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.  

Unroll thawed phyllo dough and place it on your workspace, cut dough in half (cut in half the short way-you want two thick stacks not two thin ones). Divide each stack into three piles (leaving you with 6 stacks), place a peeled banana along one end and sprinkle the rest of the dough with a sixth of the chopped walnuts.  Sprinkle the banana with your desired amount of cinnamon and carefully roll it up in the phyllo dough.  

Place it seam-side down in the baking dish.  Repeat with remaining bananas.  Spray the top of the bananas with canola oil.  Bake for 20-30 minutes or until the tops are golden brown.  

 Melt desired amount of chocolate chips with a little bit of oil mixed in (the oil helps the melted chocolate stay soft like a glaze).  Drizzle the chocolate on top of baked bananas. You can either serve this warm or cooled (I like mine cooled, while my sister likes hers warm), either way, serve with a yummy dollop of cool whip on

top. 

Enjoy!!!

With hungry thoughts from the kitchen;
Gabrielle W.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do it all for the glory of God. ~1 Corinthians 10:31

Crunchwrap Suprreme

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I forgot to get a picture of my crunchwrap supreme, but the above is what my (kind of) looked like. The tortillas we bought were to small, so we used two, we folded it like above (to much filling showing) and then placed another tortilla over it, flipped it and folded it again. Either way, this is really, really good! Everyone in my family loved it!!! And, I know what's in this taco! Don't get me wrong, I love taco bell, but I also like NOT eating a boat load of preservatives! It may look and sound intimidating, but it really is easy, the folding part is kind of hard, but you figure it out quickly.

Large Flour tortillas

1 lb ground beef, cooked (make sure it's hot when you make your wrap)

1 pkg taco seasoning

Sour Cream

Tortilla chips

Warm Queso Style cheese (optional-I preferred it without-it tasted the same without and you save calories)

Shredded Cheddar cheese

Shredded lettuce

Diced Tomatoes

Mix together the beef and taco seasoning. Depending on your tortillas you may need to warm your tortilla a little, take a tortilla, **spread some sour cream in the center, add some beef, then cheddar cheese and then some tortilla chips (you may need to break them up a little), if using-plop on some queso cheese; now add your lettuce and tomatoes. 

On medium-low heat in a skillet put a little butter in the pan. Once the butter is melted, your pan is ready.

Now, fold your wrap, like the picture above (it's OK if a there's a slight opening). Place, folded side down in skillet cook until brown (don't flip early). Brown other side and then enjoy-just be careful it may be hot!

**You could always make it like my mom, fill it like you're going to fold it in half and fold it in half, rather than wrap it. 

Makes 4 wraps. 

With hungry thoughts from the kitchen;
Gabrielle W.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do it all for the glory of God. ~1 Corinthians 10:31

Buffalo Chicken Pizza

This pizza is really good. My mom said she thinks she prefers it to regular pizza. It's so different you could have regular pizza one dinner and the next dinner serve this pizza. 

Uncooked Pizza Crust (I used my homemade recipe found HERE )
1/4-1/2 cup thick (i.e. not light) Ranch Dressing (I just eyed it)
1 cooked chicken breast, thinly sliced into chunks
1 cup buffalo sauce
2 cups mozzarella
Preheat oven to 450.
Spread the ranch dressing onto pizza crust. Mix together the chicken breast and buffalo spread over pizza (you may have extra sauce in the bowl you can either pour it over or discard it). Top with mozzarella cheese, cook for 15 minutes or until done.

With hungry thoughts from the kitchen;
Gabrielle W.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do it all for the glory of God. ~1 Corinthians 10:31

Super Simple Meatball Dinner

1 Jar of Grape Jelly
1 bottle of (your choice) BBQ Sauce
Pack of Frozen Meatballs
In crock pot, mix together the jelly and BBQ sauce, add the meatballs and cook in crock pot on low for 6 hours. Serve over noodles, mashed potatoes or just eat them like an appetizer.

With hungry thoughts from the kitchen;
Gabrielle W.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do it all for the glory of God. ~1 Corinthians 10:31  

Baked Maple Doughnut Bars

These are really, really good! I love them, and they smell fantastic! And they're baked, so they're good for you right?

1-1/2 cups milk
1/3 cup shortening
4 TBS sugar
2 tsp salt
1/4 cup lukewarm water
5 tsp yeast
2 lg eggs
5 cups flour
2 tsp cinnamon
In sauce pan, scald the milk, add the shortening, sugar and salt.  Stir, remove from heat then set aside.
In another bowl, combine the water and yeast, let sit for 5 minutes. Add the eggs then the milk mixture. Mix then add the remaining ingredients. Knead for 5 minutes (I used my standing mixer). Grease another bowl (or pull the dough from the bowl, grease that bowl then place the dough back into the bowl). Let rise 1 hour (we have no heat and I was impatient so I let mine rise 15 minutes-and they were still fantastic!).
Punch the dough down, I rolled mine out on a greased cookie sheet, cut down the center, then cut into 12 bars, let sit 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 425. Bake 7-10 minutes, until lightly brown. As the bars cool a little, make the icing (below).

Icing:
1/3 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup milk
1-1/2 cups powder sugar (you may need more)
2 tsp mapleine (or you can use real maple syrup)
1/8 tsp salt
In sauce pan, bring the butter, brown sugar and milk to a simmer and let simmer 3 minutes. Remove from heat and add the remaining ingredients.

With hungry thoughts from the kitchen;
Gabrielle W.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do it all for the glory of God. ~1 Corinthians 10:31

Chicken Cordon Blue Casserole

2 cups cooked rice
3 cups cooked (shredded/chucked/diced-whatever) chicken
6 slices Swiss cheese
10 slices cut up ham
2 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup sour cream
10 saltine crackers
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp parsley
Preheat oven to 350. In a greased 13x9 pan, layer the rice, chicken, Swiss cheese, then ham. Mix together the cream of chicken, milk and sour cream and spread it over top the ham. Mix the saltines, paprika and parsley together and sprinkle it over top. Bake for 30 minutes then enjoy!!

With hungry thoughts from the kitchen; 
Gabrielle W.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. ~1 Corinthians 10:31