{recipe} Easy Chocolate Silk Pie

This is one of the easiest pies you can make for the holiday season!

Ingredients:

1 package Instant Chocolate Pudding

1 container Cool Whip

1 premade Pie Crust

1 1/2 C Cold Milk

Chocolate bar or Cocoa powder (optional)

Directions:

Whisk pudding mix with milk for 2 minutes. Spoon half into pie crust.

Mix 1 C Cool Whip into remaining pudding mix. Spoon into pie crust.

Top with remaining Cool Whip. Shave Chocoalte on top or dust with cocoa.

Refrigerate for at least 3 hours to set.

{recipe} Chicken, Rice and Veggies

As a student, I try to stretch out the dollar to the max and have come up with a solid meal with just a few ingredients.

Ingredients:
4 frozen chicken tenders, defrosted and cubed
1 cup frozen veggies (any combo)
1 box Rice a Roni (I used low sodium chicken flavor)
4 cups chicken broth or stock
1 can cream of chicken
any kind of poultry seasoning (I used one called roasted chicken)
pepper
hot sauce (I love Tapatio)

Directions:
Boil 1 cup of chicken broth in large skillet. Throw in veggies (frozen is fine). Cook for 3 minutes. Then throw in cubed chicken. Sprinkle with seasoning and pepper. Reduce heat to Medium.

In a smaller pot, follow directions for rice but instead of water, use chicken broth. Simmer for 15 minutes and then pour rice into larger skiller with chicken and veggies.

Pour in cream of chicken and stir everything together. At this time, I added hot sauce. Let it simmer for another 5 minutes and then serve.

It's the easiest, cheapest meal and it's very flavorful! When you need to feed 2-3 people for under $10, this is the best option! Enjoy!

{recipe} Yellow Curry Chicken & Veggies

I found myself craving Thai food but my expenses aren't willing to cooperate lately so I searched around the house and came up with a pretty tasty version of my own.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb frozen chicken, defrosted and cubed
• 1 pack frozen veggies, defrosted (I used peas, carr, greenbeans, broccoli)
• 1 cup frozen potatoes, defrosted (I used potatoes o'brien)
• 1/4 cup chicken stock or broth
• 1 large onion, diced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 Tbsp ginger (I used powdered ginger)
• 2-3 Tbsp cayenne pepper
• 1 Tbsp garlic salt
• 1 lime (I used the kind in the container)
• 1 can coconut milk
• 3-4 Tbsp yellow curry powder
• vegetable or canola oil

Directions:

Heat oil in a large skillet on Medium. Saute onions and garlic until translucent. Throw in potatoes to brown them. Sprinkle with garlic salt and cayenne pepper. Put in veggies and place a lid on top. Cook for 5 minutes. Then pour in chicken stock/broth and bring to a boil. Put lid back on and cook another 5 minutes. Pour in coconut milk, yellow curry, ginger, and squeeze in lime. Put lid back on, lower the heat to Low and simmer for 10-15 minutes.

Serve over jasmine rice.

{recipe} Cheesy Turkey Meatloaf

Happy Wednesday!

I have a great recipe that I would love to share with you... It's evolved into something beautiful!

Ingredients:

1 pound ground turkey, defrosted

1/2C milk

1 piece of bread (any kind will do)

1 egg

1/2 sweet onion, finely diced

3 cloves garlic, chopped

3-4 slices of Monterrey Jack cheese

3-4 dashes of Worcestershire sauce

1/2C ketchup

2 Tbsp brown sugar

Salt and Pepper to taste

butter or oil, for sauteing

Garlic powder

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Saute onions in a tsp of butter or oil. Sprinkle with pepper and garlic powder. Let cool.
• In a bowl, mix turkey, garlic, onions, worcestershire, salt, pepper, 1 squirt of ketchup.
• In a small bowl, mix egg, milk and tear up bread and soak it in the milk/egg mixture.
• Pour into turkey mixture and mix together with hands.
• Fold in the monterrey jack cheese. I tear each slice into 4 pieces.
• Transfer into loaf dish.
• Sprinkle top with garlic powder, salt and pepper.
• In a small bowl, mix ketchup and brown sugar. Pour on the top of meatloaf.
• Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour.
• Cook for 1 hour. Let sit for 10 minutes to let the juices redistribute.

Serve with mashed potatoes and corn. Leftovers are even better! Use mashed potatoes as your spread on the toasted bread and heat up one slice of meatloaf... it's delicious!

Mmm Mmm Good

I love our cafeteria here at work! They serve 2 different types of soup every day for only $0.97/bowl. It's amazing! Today I had the Bombay Clam Chowder! It was made with yellow curry, saffron, onions, new potatoes and of course clams. I'm going to try my hand at replicating this at home! I searched online for a recipe but no such luck!

That's all for now : )

Pumpkin Pie with a Twist

I've never been much of a baker but this Thanksgiving I'm going to give it a try.
I found this recipe for a Pumpkin-Ginger Pie with a Golden Marshmallow Topping. Sounds so yummy!

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I've also been knitting up a storm between scarfs, little scarfins and the one I'm most proud of, a slouchy beret. They seem to be popping up everywhere!

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Today in History
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Requested to offer a few remarks, Lincoln memorialized the Union dead and highlighted the redemptive power of their sacrifice. Placing the common soldier at the center of the struggle for equality, Lincoln reminded his listeners of the higher purpose for which blood was shed.