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WWA: Bacon & Chicken wraps

Published January 18, 2013 What We Ate 2 Comments
Tags: cooking, DIY, easy bacon recipes, easy chicken recipes, food, pinterest recipes, sweet and spicy bacon chicken wrap, the tragic whale, what we ate

I found this recipe on Pinterest and knew I had to try it because it combines (basically) the only meats I eat: chicken and bacon!

Ingredients:
- 4 chicken breasts, cut into thirds (we bought the trimmed and cut pieces which come with about 12 pieces in the package, because I’m lazy and didn’t want to cut it up, aha)
- 1 package of bacon
- garlic powder
- chili powder
- paprika
- brown sugar
- salt and pepper
- cooking spray

Prep&Cook:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and lightly spray an oven-safe dish with the cooking spray. Set aside.

We started by rinsing and tenderizing the meat.

While Ryan worked the chicken, I made two bowls of spice mixes. They both had garlic powder, salt, and pepper, but one had chili powder and the other had paprika (because I’m not a huge fan of spicy things). I didn’t measure, I just sort of kept adding stuff until it looked like there would be enough to cover the chicken.

We covered both sides of the chicken in seasonings:

Folded the pieces in half and wrapped them in bacon:

Rolled them in brown sugar and placed them in a the oven-safe dish.

We cooked them for about 35 minutes. I was afraid the chicken would dry out but I also wanted the bacon to get crispy. During cooking, we periodically removed some of the bacon grease, and we turned the chicken wraps about half way through.

And here we go!

Ryan is all about presentation (see above), while I just threw a few on a plate and picked them apart (not pictured) aha.

The chicken did get a little drier than we would have liked, but it was still delicious! Next time we’re going to use thicker pieces of meat.

Diary of a Recipe Addict has a ton of other great recipes, so if you’re looking for something new to try you should definitely check it out!

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Published January 10, 2013 Comics Leave a Comment
Tags: comics, cooking, family, food, humor, stick figures

What we ate: blue cupcakes!

Published June 10, 2012 What We Ate Leave a Comment
Tags: baby shower, cooking, cupcakes, dessert, food

We had a baby shower at work on Friday and I brought blue cupcakes! I made them the same way I made the rainbow layered cupcakes, except instead of dividing the batter into different bowls I just added more food coloring after each layer.

I was going for a gradient effect, which I got, but I would have liked it better if I made the layers thinner. There would have been room for them to go from super light to really, really dark!

But they were still a big hit at the party! Every one got eaten!

Have you made any fun snacks lately?

What we ate: grilled cheese!

Published May 10, 2012 What We Ate Leave a Comment
Tags: cheese, cooking, food, grilled cheese, how to make the best grilled cheese, humor, panera, panera sour dough bread

I love grilled cheese almost as much as I love mac&cheese and pizza (aka a lot). I’ll make one and it will be so delicious that I’ll have another right after. Then repeat the next day. Repeat, repeat, repeat, run out of bread, pick a new food.

This is how I make THE BEST grilled cheese!

Ingredients:

2 slices Panera sour dough bread
2 slices Velveeta cheese (or, you know, you could use real cheese)
Bacon bits, optional

Prep&Cook:

Pre-heat your favorite grilled cheese pan.

Butter bread.

Add cheese.

Sprinkle with bacon!

More cheese!

Cook.

Obviously you didn’t need me to walk you through making a grilled cheese, ahaha.

We also put pepperoni in some, and used different cheeses. A lot of people think grilled cheese is boring but just like everything else in life: it’s what you make of it :)

In/out of focus

Published May 7, 2012 Kerry 2 Comments
Tags: cooking, crafts, food, grilled cheese, hello giggles, laundry, library, mindy kaling, panorama, sewing

Things I recently did instead of blogging:

Read pages and pages into the archives of Hello Giggles.

Found out Mindy Kaling has a blog. Skimmed through it, then went back for some more serious reading.

Did so much sewing!

Ate grilled cheese every night for a week :)

Cleaned a bunch of clothes then piled them on my bed.

Made a panoramic of my library (aka my friend made a panoramic of my library while I ducked)

What we ate: quail eggs

Published March 10, 2012 What We Ate 5 Comments
Tags: cooking, food, humor, omelet, pheasant, quail eggs, recipes, strange foods

As I mentioned yesterday, my friend bought a pheasant and some quail eggs off Amazon. Being a SUPER picky eater, it took me a while to digest (hahaha) that I would have to help consume these strange foods. Luckily, it was more fun / tasty than I thought!

This is the story of the quail eggs.

We made quail omelets! Well, more specifically, we made a single-egg quailmelet (just as cute as it sounds) and tried to make a giant quailmelet but it turned into scrambled eggs. Which are boring.

Ingredients:

1 quail egg

1/4 slice cheese
1 tbs milk

Prep&Cook

Preheat skillet to medium heat.

Crack that egg into a bowl,

add milk,

and beat.

Pour into buttered skillet.

Top with cheese while it cooks. Be quick! It’s so small it’ll be done in 2 minutes!

Fold into an omelet shape (mine always come out a little blobbish).

Serve and enjoy :)

Quail eggs are delicious! And get very fluffy when they cook. When we tried to make the giant quailmelet (which was already too big for the pan we were using) it fluffed up so much.

Here’s the scrambled eggs (again) with the pheasant I shared yesterday:

What we ate: pheasant

Published March 9, 2012 What We Ate Leave a Comment
Tags: Bird, cooking, food, food network, humor, pheasant, quail eggs, recipes, smoked pheasant, what we ate

When my friend said he ordered a pheasant and some quail eggs off Amazon, I thought he was kidding. When we had to look up some pheasant recipes, I still didn’t think it was a big thing. Oh, but then he brought a smoked pheasant and 2 dozen quail eggs to my house so… I guess he was serious.

This is the story of the pheasant.

We found this pheasant recipe on the Food Network’s website. I think you should be able to guess by now that we tweaked the recipe.

Ingredients:

1 small pheasant (we used a smoked one)

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 onion, diced
4 sage leaves
2 bay leaves3 cloves garlic, chopped
2 rosemary branches
1 14-oz can peeled tomatoes and their juices
1 can chicken broth
8 slices pancetta
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley

Prep&Cook

Quarter the bird (or tear it up. Which ever is easier) and put it in a skillet with the oil.

Sear it on all sides (or just cook it for a while, turning occasionally, because you aren’t sure what sear means.) Remove from skillet and set aside.

Add onions, sage, bay leaves, rosemary, garlic, and parsley and mix it around until the onions start to brown.

Add the broth and tomatoes, bring to a boil.

Wrap your pheasant pieces in the pancetta and set them back in the pan.

Simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes.

We cooked off all the liquids and ran out of chicken broth. So I popped open a can of chicken soup and used the broth from that. Sometimes, you have to get creative.

Remove bird pieces to a platter, and if there’s any liquid left in the pan it can be used for a sauce. We didn’t have a sauce.

(Featured here with scrambled quail eggs!)

Eat!

I would suggest NOT using a smoked pheasant. Or, if you have a smoked pheasant, find a recipe to accommodate it.

What we ate: bbq chicken braid

Published February 27, 2012 What We Ate 2 Comments
Tags: bbq chicken, bbq chicken braid, chicken!, cooking, easy chicken recipes, food, humor, recipes

While I favor food on the blander side (total, plain bread, cheese pizza), my friend really likes his food to kick him in the mouth. And it’s sometimes hard to find something that’s tasty enough for him and safe enough for me.

I regularly complain that food has too much flavor. Seriously, who does that?

Anyway, when I found this recipe for a bbq chicken braid on Mangio da sola, I said to myself, “Kerry, this might be a perfectly balanced recipe!”

Man, was I wrong.

Just kidding! It was so good I want to try making more with different fillings!

Due to time restraints, we altered the recipe. Aka we didn’t make our own dough.

Ingredients:

- 1 ball of dough from the grocery store
- 1 package pre-cooked/pre-cut chicken (we used Purdue)
- 1/2 medium onion
- 1 and 1/2 c bbq sauce
- shredded mozzarella cheese
- shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 egg white

Pre&Cook

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

- Cut the chicken into tiny little pieces.

- Cut up the onion.

- Mix chicken, onion, and bbq sauce in a bowl, set aside.

- Roll out the dough on parchment paper, aiming for an 11 x 17 rectangle. The parchment paper will make it easy to move the braid onto the pan, and easier clean up when you’re done cooking :)

- Cut 1 inch wide segments down each side of the dough sheet, going about a third of the way in.

- Spread the chicken mixture down the middle of the dough, covering the uncut area. Top with cheese.

- Fold the dough segments over the filling, alternating sides, to give it a braided look.

- Brush tip with egg white.

- Cook about 20 minutes, or until light brown.

Eat! We let it cool for, maybe, 10 minutes so we wouldn’t burn our mouths.

What we ate: bacon baskets (close enough)

Published February 23, 2012 What We Ate 5 Comments
Tags: bacon, bacon basket, cooking, food, humor

I’ve wanted to make bacon baskets for quite some time, but figured my Mom wouldn’t want me making them for a couple of reasons.

1) What if the bacon grease catches fire in the oven?

2) What if you mess up and waste all that bacon? Bacon is expensive!

3) It looks messy.

Solution? Wait until my parents go away! (Or, as my brother would say, “Just move out! Then you can do whatever you want! What’s the matter with you?!)

Ingredients:

- Bacon. And a lot of it!

- Whatever you want to put in the baskets. Like salad. Or mac&cheese.

Prep&Cook:

- Preheat oven to 400 degree.

- Wrap aluminum foil around the cups of a muffin pan.

- Weave the strips of bacon around the muffin cups like you’re making a basket. Because you are!

- Place muffin pan in or on another pan, to catch the grease.

- Cook until done. Now this is where I ran into the problem because after an hour, I just wanted the bacon be to done. And it definitely LOOKED done. But it wasn’t done.

In retrospect, I should have looked up a cook time. Then I would have known that it takes about 3 hours. Not 1 hour.

When I turned them over… Just, yuck.

It looks like it just came off the pig! Needless to say, these did not get filled with food. And they were TINY! Who wants to eat in tiny little portions? Not an American, that’s for damn sure!

Next time I’m going to try wrapping the bacon around a medium-sized bowl. And fully cooking it.

What we ate: maple bacon pancake

Published February 20, 2012 What We Ate 2 Comments
Tags: bacon, cooking, easy bacon recipe, food, great breakfast ideas, humor, maple bacon pancake, recipes, what we ate

I love bacon.

Last Thursday we made a maple bacon pancake, which we found at allrecipes. At first I was like, “Uhm, that sounds too weird. Plus pancakes make me VERY thirsty. Maybe we can find a different recipe?”

Good thing we didn’t because this was delicious!

Ingredients:

- 4 ounces bacon (we used a whole package)

- 1 cup pancake mix (we used Aunt Jemima, much to the distress of my mom. She’s a confirmed Bisquick user.)
- 1 1/4 cups shredded Cheddar cheese, divided
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 2 eggs
- cooking spray!

Prep&Cook:

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees

- Cook the bacon! Then make it into bacon crumbles.

- Spray a 9 inch glass pie plate (or, you know, whatever you have) with cooking spray.

- Combine pancake mix, 3/4c cheese, milk, maple syrup, sugar, and eggs. Pour into the pie plate.

- Bake 10 to 15 minutes, or until you can jab it with a tooth pick and the pick comes out clean.

- Top with remaining cheese and all the bacon that you haven’t eaten yet, and bake another 5ish minutes (until the cheese is melted).

-Eat!

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Posts Tagged 'cooking'

WWA: Bacon & Chicken wraps

The alfredo incident.

What we ate: blue cupcakes!

What we ate: grilled cheese!

In/out of focus

What we ate: quail eggs

What we ate: pheasant

What we ate: bbq chicken braid

What we ate: bacon baskets (close enough)

What we ate: maple bacon pancake

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