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Gotta Pin it ! Top Pinterest Picks for 1/25/15

We've seen some great Pins this week that we can't WAIT to not just PIN but Make !

In the Breakfast Department
This Cinnamon Swirl Giant Pancake takes the cake from Recipe Girl


Lunch is looking great with this delectable Homemade Ramen Noodle Cup - I'll bet it tastes 1 million types better than the crap in a styrofoam cup !  Original Recipe from Gluten Free on a Shoestring 




This Meatball Bubble Up Casserole looks delicious and Easy! I love a new casserole recipe, especially one that's super quick to whip up like this one.  The original Post comes from Life with the Crust Off 

 Make Sure you are following our New Pins of the Week Board on Pinterest and Enjoy Y'all

Caprese Salad Bowl

Ciao Beautiful Readers!

This simple salad takes the authentic Italian Caprese Salad and makes it easy to serve instead of your regular dinner salad and includes lettuce that the traditional Caprese salad does not, so it's more filling and less expensive since you use less of the expensive cheese.  You can even layer this salad in a mason jar to make it portable for work of school and enjoy the fresh taste wherever you are.  Heres a great instructional on how to layer salads in a mason jar so you don't end up with soggy lettuce.

To make a Caprese Salad bowl you'll need

1 head romaine lettuce washed and pulled into bite size pieces
1/2 cup FRESH mozzarella cheese
Heirloom tomatoes ( we used a cup of cherry heirloom tomatoes , and sliced them in half)
8 large fresh basil leaves sliced into strips
Gremolata Olive oil 1/8 cup ( you can use plain olive oil but the Gremolata gives it a fabulous flavor , we buy ours here)
1/4 cup Aged Balsamic Vinegar
1 tablespoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning


Mix Vinegar, oil and seasonings in a bowl and let sit for 1/2 hour to infuse flavors
Clean and chop basil, lettuce and tomatoes
Slice mozzarella and place in bowl
Pour dressing mixture on top and toss

I like to eat this with a piece of crusty Italian bread , toasted Pita Chips crumbled on top or even pita bread.  You will definitely want something to soak up the delicious dressing after the salad is gone!

Enjoy Y'all!

Asian Cucumber Salad

Asian Cucumber Salad is light and easy salad to throw together whenever you are eating Chinese, Japanese, Korean..pretty much any asian meal.  You can throw it together in under 10 minutes and is ready to serve in an hour .  

My kids really love cucumbers so this is always a hiit in our house.  We love the Furikake seasoning , those "sprinkles" you see on the salad.  It's a Japanese seasoning blend made up of salt, sushi nori (seaweed), sesame seeds, dried tuna flakes, ground shiso leaf, salmon flakes, powdered soy sauce or miso, and dried egg.  It sounds a little weird but try a few sprinkles and you'll be hooked!  If my kids will sprinkle it on their tongues directly from the shaker , which they do, I guarantee you'll find it as "normal" as apple pie. 


Asian Cucumber Salad Recipe

6 Persian Cucumbers or one long English Cucumber very thinly sliced
1/2 cup seasoned white rice wine vinegar
1/4 cup sesame seed oil
1 tablespoon white sugar
Furikake Seasoning

After you've cleaned and sliced up your cucumbers Mix the sugar and vinegar until sugar dissolves.
Add your sesame oil stir and pour over cucumbers
Sprinkle generously with Furikake seasoning
Refrigerate for an hour and sprinkle even more Furikake on top when ready to serve

And then sprinkle that Furikake right on your tongue , 'cause you'll want to - that good , seriously!

Enjoy Y'all !

Salisbury Steak Bake

Do you like Salisbury Steak? We do. Sure it's a little old fashioned and yeah it takes some time to make and just maybe you think your Salisbury Steak is missing something ...No worries we got you covered!

Our Salisbury Steak Bake has all the deliciousness of the original, neatly packaged in a baking pan and made better with a golden gooey crust of cheese. Yes this is the Salisbury steak of your dreams.

 The Recipe for Salisbury Steak Bake is really simple - you'll need
 1 lb cooked ground beef, drained 1 sweet onion cooked with the aforementioned ground beef
 Dozen cleaned sliced and sauteed mini portobello mushrooms also sauteed with ground beef
4 cups mashed potatoes made how you like ( we love Yukon gold potatoes ourselves)
1 pack of french onion soup mix
1 cup water
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/2 cup sour cream
1 cup cheddar cheese
Salt and pepper to taste

 Cook up your ground beef, onion and mushrooms, drain and set aside. Add your french onion soup pack and water in the pan, warm slowly add cornstarch whisking When soup mix has thickened add sour cream and stir. Add back ground beef mixture stir Place into a baking dish (we like a deep 8 x8 square) Place prepared mashed potatoes on top in a crust - press gently Sprinkle cheese on top. Place in an oven at 375 ( 350 toaster oven) Bake for 20-25 minutes Remove and allow to set 10 minutes

Serve with a salad and sauteed green beans

Enjoy Y'all !

UN- Stuffed Peppers

UN Stuffed Peppers are peppers for lazy people, or hungry people because they seem to take a lot less time than the stuffed and baked variety.  Fortunately all the deliciousness of Stuffed Peppers remains so really, unless you are a visual eater ( I think that's skinny people's secret) you wont mind one bit that your rice and  beef isn't neatly packed into your Pepper receptacles.  You also won't mind that it takes at least a half an hour less to make your UN Stuffed peppers  or that this is an easy clean up , one skillet meal  - yeah you won't mind any of it .

UN Stuffed Pepper Recipe 

If you have a favorite stuffed pepper recipe make it , if you need a stuffed pepper recipe than make mine.  Un stuffing your pepper is as easy as it sounds but if you need a little hand holding in the kitchen read on for my super secret way to UN stuff a pepper ..*wink, wink*

Stuffed Pepper Ingredients
1 lb 92/8 ground beef
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
2 tablespoons sea salt
1/4 cup reduced sodium Worcester sauce
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 large yellow onion chopped
2 tablespoons Italian Seasoning
1 cup Cherry tomatoes
2 Yellow Peppers cleaned and sliced 1/8 inch thick
1 cup beef broth
2 heaping tablespoons flour
2 cups uncooked rice  (prepare via package directions)

UN Stuffed Pepper Instructions

• Cook your Rice according to package instructions 
• Over medium -High flame Take your ground beef,  1/2 the salt and the olive oil and cook your meat half way add your Worcester sauce , garlic and onion and continue cooking until meat is done. 
• Next add Peppers, Tomatoes, Italian Seasoning , rest of salt -  mix and simmer covered 5 minutes or until tomatoes and peppers soften.  
• Gently smash the cherry tomatoes a bit while shielding your eyes and any exposed skin from the infernal juices that may be projected at your sensitive ocular area ( been there done that ) stir and recover another few minutes until peppers are good and tender.
• Pour broth into the pan and deglaze it . 
• Sprinkle the flour on top and stir until it is all incorporated and the sauce thickens.
  
  We love cheese in out house so we served it with some Italian Blended cheese on top - totally optional ! 

Serve over Rice

Enjoy Y'all !

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German Potato Salad - For red blooded Americans and our Canadian Neighbors

Are you the "Salad Person" at the 4th of July BBQ or Potluck.  Need a recipe that won't give your friends and family raging food poisoning from your mayonnaise based potato salad sitting on a table for a couple of hours, offering safe have to every food borne bacteria known to man...the answer my friends is German Potato salad.  

Don't be mistaken, German Potato salad is no poor substitute for traditional potato salad.  In addition to the lowered risk of post-picnic illness German potato salad is a lower calorie option to its full fat mayonnaise cousin.  Let's not even talk about how much BETTER German potato salad goes with say , German sausages like Bratwurst , knockwurst, and how it's light tangyness pairs with a thick juicy steak .   No German Potato salad is no red-headed stepchild.  Oh yeah and it has BACON , so it's gonna be delicious

German Potato Salad Recipe for Red Blooded Americans ( and Canadians too) 

5 lbs yellow potatoes, sliced, boiled but firm

Vidallia Onion , fine chop

1 lb maple ( for the Canadians ) bacon , cooked crispy , broken into small pieces

Parsley , chopped fine

1/4 cup salt

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup white vinegar

1/4 cup white sugar

Instructions:
Peel your potatoes and slice about 1/8 inch thick.  Add 1/4 salt to water and boil potatoes until they are cooked but firm.

Allow your potatoes to cool and add oil, sugar, vinegar parsley and bacon.

Mix well and let sit in the fridge to set an hour or 2 before serving (overnight is best) 

Enjoy Y'all