123 EZ Pizza Casserole

Ingredients:
1 lb. hamburger
1 14oz. jar pizza sauce
1 8oz. pkg shredded mozarella cheese
3/4 C bisquick
2 eggs
1 1/2 C Milk

Prep:
Brown meat

Place in 8x8 baking dish (I sprayed with pam first) and top with pizza sauce.

Place cheese on top of sauce

Mix bisquick, eggs, and milk and beat until smooth.  Pour on top of cheese.

Bake at 400 for 30-35 min (cheese will start to brown)

Note: We served with garlic bread and a caesar salad-yum o!!!

Grilled Tilapia with Pineapple Salsa

Ingredients:
Pineapple Salsa:
1/2 Medium Pineapple
1/3 small red onion
1 Serrano pepper (this makes it very spicy so if you want milder I suggest just using 1/2 a Serrano Pepper!)
2T Fresh Cilantro
1/8t Salt
1 Lime

Tilapia:
1 pkg. taco seasoning
3T EVOO
4 boneless, skinless tilapia fillets

Preperation:
Heat grill.  Peel pineapple half and cut length wise into slices and grill (2-3 min. on each side!)

While pineapple cooks, chop onion.  Cut serrano pepper lengthwise in 1/2 and discard seeds. Chop pepper. Combine onion, pepper, cilantro and salt in bowl. Zest lime to measure 1t and juice lime to 1T- add and stir in bowl.

Whisk taco season. Mix and oil in bowl. Add tilapia and coat. Grill

While cooking, cut pineapple and add to onion mixture; mix well and top fish. 

We served with garlic and EVOO Couscous and additional pineapple! YUM-O!

Taffy Apple Pizza

Ingredients:
1pkg. refrig. sugar cookie dough
1pkg softened 8oz. cream cheese
1/2 C brown sugar
1/4 C creamy peanut butter
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 C caramel Icecream topping
3 large Granny Smith Apples (you'll end up eating some! Trust me :)

Prep:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Flatten cookie dough and bake according to pkg directions (about 15 min)

let cookie cool completely

Combine cream cheese, brown sugar, peanut butter, and vanilla in a bowl and mix well.  Spread evenly over cookie.

Peel, core and slice apples. Arrange on top of mixture.

Melt caramel and drizzle over cookie to serve!

Delic summery tangy desert!

French Toast overnight!

Ingredients:
1 Stick melted butter
1 loaf sliced french bread (I just sliced it myself)
1 1/2 C Milk
3/4 C Brown Sugar
6 eggs
1tsp Vanilla Extract

Prep:
In a 9 x 13 pan, mix butter (melted) with brown sugar.  Place sliced french bread flat over butter/sugar mixture.

Mix eggs, milk and vanilla with a hand mixture.

Pour mixture over bread. Cover and refrigerate over night.

The next morning, bake 40min (covered with foil) then take foil off and cook 15 min. uncovered.

Sprinkle with Cinnamon and powdered sugar and serve! (Note: This makes a great dish if you will have company for breakfast, serves many and can be made prior to company coming to stay the night!)
Don't forget Syrup :)

Grilled Pork Chops w/ Berries and Couscous

Ingredients:
5t EVOO
1 small red onion
1 pint blueberries
2T sugar
1 lemon
salt/pepper
4 bone in pork chops (we used 2 for just the two of us)
1 box couscous
2/3 C parsley

Prep:
Pre-heat Grill.

While the grill is heating, heat 1t EVOO over medium heat; add onion and cook until soft (@ 10 min) stir in blueberries, sugar, lemon juice (from the lemon) and 1/2t pepper.  Simmer until thickened (@15 min)

Here is what the "compote" will look like once it's ready:

Brush the pork chops with 2t EVOO and season with salt and pepper. Grill (take about 25 min. on the grill for a thicker chop cut) and then let stand.

In a saucepan, prepare the couscous according to the package directions (instead of juice I used Water and instead of butter I used olive oil to make it healthier).  Fluff with a fork then add in parsley, lemon zest (from the same lemon) and 2t EVOO. Season with salt/pepper.

Spoon couscous onto plate.  Add the chops and any juices and spoon berry compote on top! :)


This dish was delicious and we LOVED the  blueberry compote- it's so good on chops!  The couscous comes in MANY different flavors and this was actually our first time trying it out so we used the original flavor.  While it was plain it was still delicious and we're anxious to try other flavors of couscous (this is like a mixture of gritz/rice and it's soo good!)

Happy Cooking!!!

Chicken & Portobello Fajitas

Such a yummy, fun summery dish!

Ingredients:
1lb. Skineless/boneless chicken thighs
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 1/2 T Chili powder
1 pkg. flour tortillas
3t EVOO
salt/pepper
2 Large Italian frying peppers
1 Large red onion
portobello mushrooms (pre-sliced, saved time!)

*sour cream for serving

Prep:
In bowl, toss the chicken (cut into strips) with 1/2 garlic and the chili powder.

Wrap tortillas in a sheet of foil, place in oven and turn on 350 (just about 10 min to warm)

Heat skillet, add 1/2t EVOO and the chicken.  Season with salt and pepper and cook until chicken is done and place in a bowl.

Add remaining EVOO and garlic, frying peppers and onion until it begins to char.  Stir in mushrooms and cook until onion is crisp-tender (about 5 min.)

Return chicken to skillet, mix together and serve!  I added sour cream on each...

This is one of our FAVORITES!!! :)