Cheesy Chicken & Broccoli Bake

ingredients

1 pkg Stove Top

1 can cream of chicken

1.5 lbs cubed chicken, cooked

1/2 to 1 bag frozen broccoli florets, thawed

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup shredded cheese

instructions

Preheat oven to 400. Prepare Stove Top according to package. Whisk soup, cheese, and milk in a 9x13 baking dish. Add broccoli and chicken. Top with cooked stuffing. Bake for 30 minutes without tinfoil.

Pretzels

what you need:

1 pkg. active dry yeast
1 1\2 cups warm water
1\4 cup brown sugar
4 1\2 cups flour
baking soda
kosher salt

what you do:

Combine yeast, warm water and sugar together. Let it stand for about 5 minutes.

Add flour to your liquid mixture.

Beat with a dough hook or knead on a floured surface for about 7 minutes.

Let stand for 10 minutes.

Fill a saucepan with 3\4 full with water. For every cup of water, add 2 teaspoons baking soda to the pan. Bring to a boil.

Divide dough into 12 pieces and roll each piece into a rope and fold into a pretzel. Drop each pretzel in the boiling water for about 10 seconds.

Remove and place pretzels on a greased baking sheet and sprinkle with kosher salt.

Bake for 8-9 minutes or until golden brown at 450

mizithra cheese pasta

This is one of my favorite meals from The Old Spaghetti Factory, delicious. So I decided I should try and make it myself, and it was crazy easy.

Ingredients:

spaghetti
mizithra cheese (found in the specialty cheese section of your grocery store)
butter
basil
salt and pepper

That's all! You cook the pasta, melt the butter in your frying pan, drain the pasta and put it in the frying pan. Then coat the pasta in the hot butter, put on a plate and put the shredded cheese right on top. Shred the cheese using the finer shredder. Sprinkle basil salt and pepper on top. Easy peasy.

I know I didn't put any measurements on the ingredients because I really just do it to taste. Just make sure you use plenty of butter (what's better than hot butter?), that's the key. Oh and plenty of cheese. Enjoy!

Easy Mexican Casserole

My family loves this dish. It's basically everything Mexican tossed in a dish and baked to perfection. I can even see adding Spanish rice to this dish. MMmmm.

ingredients:
1lb ground beef
2 cups salsa
1 (16 oz) can chili beans, drained
3 cups crushed tortilla chips
2 cups sour cream
1 (2 oz) can sliced black olives, drained
1/2 cup chopped green onion
1/2 cup chopped fresh tomato
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese (or the Mexican Blend)

instructions:
1. preheat oven to 350
2. in a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook ground beef until no longer pink. stir in salsa, reduce heat, and simmer 20 minutes, or until liquid is absorbed. stir beans, and heat through.
3. spray 9x13 baking dish with cooking spray. spread crushed chips in dish, and then spoon beef mixture over chips. spread sour cream over beef, and sprinkle olives, green onions, and tomato over the sour cream. top with cheese.
4. bake in preheated oven or 30min or until hot and bubbly.

easy bean salsa

2 cans black beans drained
2 cans white corn drained
2 avocados diced
2 Roma tomatoes diced (i don't like tomatoes so i don't put them in)
zesty Italian dressing to taste. about a 1/2 bottle.

enjoy with tortillia chips... YUM!!