The quick way: Buy a frozen cheese pizza and a pack of pepperonis. Cut the pepperonis into heart shapes with kitchen shears (be careful pepperonis are slippery!) Place on pizza and bake as usual. A quick last minute way to show your love!
Category: Kitchen
Cute Breakfast Egg Ideas
Fried eggs in pepper slices
Just break an egg into a slice of a pepper and fry.
Ham and egg cupcake
Put a slice of ham into a paper cupcake holder in a cupcake tin. Break an egg into the center and bake until the egg is done.
Microwaving a Perfect Potato for Newbies
First, wash the potato under running water (no soap!). You can scrub it with a vegetable brush or just rub it with your hands. Then pat it dry with a paper towel.
Puncture about four holes in the potato, with the tip of a sharp knife or a fork. This is important, as it allows the steam to escape. Otherwise the potato may explode when you cook it. (Seriously! If you don’t puncture it, the potato will go SPLAT all over the inside of you microwave!)
If you are baking potatoes in the oven, you can rub a small amount of oil on them so that the skin gets nice and crispy. It is not necessary to rub oil on potatoes you are cooking in the microwave oven.
Place the potato on a microwave-safe dish. Check the small print on the back of the dish to be sure. Then place it in the microwave oven. (By the way, microwave ovens do not have to be preheated.)
Many microwaves have moisture sensors inside so that all you need to do is press the button that says ‘potato’ and just wait for the microwave to beep at you.
If your microwave doesn’t have a potato button, a general rule is that one 7-to-8 ounce Idaho potato takes about 7 minutes to cook. 2 will take about 11 minutes.
The microwave will often say REST. That means the potato, not you! You need to just let it sit for a couple of minutes, for it to actually finish cooking.
But remember, each microwave oven is different, so you need to stick a knife in the potato to see if it is done. The knife should slide in easily and you should be able to squeeze the potato without too much resistance.
To open a microwave ‘spud’, it needs a bit of a bash first to break the fibers apart.
First, slice the top with a knife.
Then place a folded paper towel over the microwave potato. Using the bottom part of your fist, give it a bash. Be really careful as the potato will be very hot.
Now if you give it a squeeze it should be nice and fluffy.
You can now top it with your favorite topping.
As my Irish grandfather used to say, “I’ve never met a potato I didn’t like!”
Instructions via Start Cooking
Chicken-Bacon-Ranch Bundles
Here’s the deal. My cousin is infatuated with Pinterest. She found the recipe below from there. She decided to switch it up and add chopped bacon and some ranch dressing mix (the powder kind). She omitted the sesame seeds. The final result was AMAZING!! But of course, she didn’t actually measure, just threw them in as she liked. Feel free to try the original recipe, or adjust to make it your own creation. Happy Eating!
Ingredients
- 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
- 1-13 oz. can chicken (or equivalent cooked chicken)
- 1 Tbs. sesame seeds
- 1/4 tsp. parsley
- 2 cans Pillsbury Crescent Rolls – leave in fridge until ready to use!
- 1 Tbs. finely chopped onion or dried minced onion
Directions:
Combine the above ingredients (minus the crescent rolls) and mix well.
Open one 8 count package crescent rolls. DO NOT divide into triangles. Keep every 2 triangles together, forming 4 rectangles.
Pinch the seams closed and pat each one out into a larger square. Note from Brittni… “I forgot to pat them out into larger squares, and so I had to use an extra can of crescent rolls to use up most of the filling, so it might be good to have and extra can handy.” (I changed the ingredient list to 2 cans of crescent rolls just in case!)
Put a spoonful of chicken/cream cheese mixture into the center of each square. Fold the corners up into the center, layering like flower petals so the roll is sealed. (Don’t stress too much on the technique, fold them up press seams together to make a bundle.)
Repeat with all 8 rectangles. You’re going to worry that you’re doing this wrong, but you’re not, just do it, I promise they’ll taste delicious.
Place on a lightly greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees until golden brown, about 15-20 minutes.
Grilled PB & J
- 2 slices of bread
- 2-3 tablespoons of peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon of grape jelly
- 1 tablespoon of butter, softened
Assemble peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Butter the outside of the sandwich. “Grill” the sandwich in a skillet on each side for 2 minutes on medium-high until it has browned.
Enjoy the eewwwy and gooey treat! Recipe via JennySteffens’ Blog
Check out other peanut butter combinations HERE!
