BAKED HADDOCK AU'GRATIN *day 10*

BAKED HADDOCK AU'GRATIN, W/RICE

recipe:
you will need 1-2 lbs of fish (haddock or fish of choice)
bread crumbs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup sharp cheddar cheese
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons lemon juice

in a sauce pan, melt your butter and mix in flour & salt until blended. add your milk and bring to a boil.
once boiling, remove from heat and mix in your cheese & lemon juice.
in a baking dish, coat with baking spray, and lay your fish along the bottom.
cover your fish with your cheese sauce, and top with breadcrumbs.
bake on 350 for 30 minutes or until fish flakes.

HOMEMADE POTPIE

This is a favorite in my home. I usually go all out with fresh veggies but this time im going with canned.
You will need
*1-2lbs of boneless chicken breast, cubed and cooked. Its easiest to cook on stove top with about a table spoon of water.
*tube of rolls or bisquit mix
*canned carrots, peas, potatoes
*chicken broth
*1/3 cup flower
*1cup milk
In a 13x9 pan place your chicken, a drained can of sliced carrots, and cubed or sliced potatoes, and a small can of pees if desired.
Add chicken broth, about two cans, or one square carton, enough to fill the pan just over halfway. Add a cup of milk & a
1/3 of flour and mix.
Add bisquits or bisquit mix all over the top of the pan.(you can use package rolls or make your own mix)
Cook on 425 about a half hour til hot and rolls are cooked.

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**lazy variation: you may also use 3-4cans canned chicken soup such as progresso in place of all ingredients. still adding flour, milk & bisquits. I find the noodles makeit more filling. **A friend of mine just informed me she tried this and it came out great, however she used half broth & half cream of chicken soup, so there's another variation for ya -thanks for sharing Jacey!

LASAGNA

(This is for 2 9x13 aluminum pans)
*3 boxes of lasagna (you really only need 2,but i make three incase of broken pieces etc. Its always better to have more then run out.
*2 containers ricotta cheese
*2 eggs
*1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese-shredded
*1 cup cheddar cheese shredded
*1/8 cup parmasian cheese
*italian seasonings
*hamburg-optional
*5 cans hunt sauce or one pot homemade sauce.

Brown your hamburg, you may add diced onion & seasons to taste.
While your meat is browning, begin boiling your water for th noodles.
Add a small ammount of sauce to your cooked meat, after you rain it of grease.
In a large bowl, combine riccotta, eggs, cheddar and 1cup mozarella. Saving 1/2 cup for the top. (Or more if desired)
One noodles have cooked thoroughly, drain and rinse with cool water.
Line your pan with sauce to prevent the noodles from sticking to the bottom.
Begin to layer noodles, then cheese mix with little sprinkles of sauce, then more noodles, then hamburg & sauce. Continue to layer until you reach the top of your pan, apply last layer of noodles nd cover with sauce.
Cover with aluminum foil & bake on 425 30-45 minutes until bubbling. Remove foil, sprinkle cheese on top and heat another 5 minutes to melt cheese.

Goes great with garlic bread!

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Riendeer Cupcakes

For the holiday season, i decided to make riendeer cupcakes for the kindergarten class"s holiday party. It was 11pm when i was baking and decorating, so i left out a few details like a mouth & pupils in the eyes, but i think they still came out pretty cute.
They were vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
A vanilla wafer was used for the mouth area.(you could make a smile with rosting)
And a sixlett chocolate candy was stuck on with frosting for the nose.
The eyes were mini marshmellows. (You can complete them with a drop of frosting or mini m&m for a pupil)
The ears were raisins, and the antlers were regular pretzelz broken in half.

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BAKED MAC & CHEESE

RECIPE: Recipe is for one lasagna size throw away tin pan.
2 cups milk
4 cups shredded chedder cheese
1 box of elbows or shells
Breadcrumbs
Salt & pepper,or peprika to taste.
Boil your pasta, drain and pour into your tin.
On medium/low heat your milk and add 3/4s of your cheese. You can use a few different cheeses such as mozzerella, parmisian, american etc. But i like to use half white and half yellow cheddar.
Once melted pour on top of your pasta nd mix. Sprinkle remaining shredded cheese on top with breadcrumbs and salt/pepper. Bake on 350 for about a half hour or until it bubbles and top is golden brown.

For a more filling meal you can add dices of chicken, ham, steak etc or veggies like brocolli or spinach, mixed into the dish..

lined elbow pasta, with ham steak cubes and brocolli, with a crescent roll

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Happy New Year Everyone!
My new years resolution is to post something on this blog everyday! Lets see if i can make it happen!

(Im also planning to cut out all fast food an junk food & possibly start working out again)

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silohette ornaments

This was a fun & easy craft for the kids, great for this time of year, and a great memorium for years to come.
You simply choose a base, I used a cardstock circle, about 4inches accross. I punched a hole in the top of the circle to hold a ribbon. If you would like something a little more sturdy you could use cardboard, wood, or foam.
I had the children decorate both sides completely. The silohettes would be glued to the front, and there name & the year written on the back center. We used crayons, but you could use markers or paint as well. However if your doing the paper version, the markers will leak to the other side.
TO MAKE THE SILOHETTES
To make the silohettes of the children, i hung up a solid blue poster board on the wall, and had marked a x on the floor linned up with the center. I then had each child stand sideways on the X while I took there pictures.
THERE ARE TWO METHODS
*The method I used, I loaded the digital prints into a paint program & filled in the entire head/shoulders of each child with black. This could be done with a paintbrush, a fill tool, or a colorchanger. Leaving the background blue, you would print them all on 4x6 and you would have your physical black sillohette to cut out and glue.
*The second method would be to print the pictures as is without editing them, and then when they print, you would cut out th head/shoulders and trace it directly onto your circle & clor it in black, or trace & cut it out of black contruction paper for glueing.

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