Chicken Pot Pie Cupcakes

For my husbands 30th birthday, I wanted to cook him a dinner that he would really enjoy. He really likes chicken pot pie, so I looked up how to make one. It looked really complicated! Then I found this recipe for chicken pot pie cupcakes. These reminded me of my very successful meatloaf cupcakes, so I decided to give them a try.

Ingredients

• 2 cups of cooked chicken breasts diced (I poached mine)
• 1 can cream of chicken soup
• 1 cup frozen mixed veggies
• 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 tablespoon of  dried italian seasonings
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic salt
• 2 (10 oz) cans Pillsbury Grands Junior biscuits

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 400.
2. In a large bowl, combine the cooked chicken, cream of chicken soup, frozen veggies, cheese, herbs and spices.
3. Lightly grease a 12-cup muffin tin and place the Pillsbury biscuits into each cup, pressing into the bottom and up the sides.
4. Evenly spoon the pot pie mixture into each biscuit cup. Slide into the oven and bake for about 15 minutes. Check at the 12 minute mark.
5. Let rest for about 3 minutes and dig in!

These were seriously SO good. I was planning to eat two (to save points for dessert) but ended up eating 5!

My husband also really loves baked apple type desserts, so I decided to try these apple maple turnovers. I thought they were pretty good, and I hope he did too! It was my first time using puff pastry- and I can't wait to try more things with it.

Month 1 (2013) Pulled Pork

In te beginning of 2011, I made a new year's resolution to try a new food each month. Since then, I have become much less of a picky eater, however there are still many new foods I need to try. And, although I promised to try new foods in 2012 according to my blog post last year, I ended up getting pregnant in early 2012 and decided not to do it. If you have ever been pregnant, you know that you don't want someone else picking what you eat!

So, now I am ready to try it again!

For month one, my husband chose pulled pork. I don't really like BBQ sauce, so I was worried about that, but my mom said she had a crock pot recipe that didn't taste too much like BBQ. We made some minor adjustments (smaller roast and added garlic) but here it is:

So I tried one sandwich, and I actually kinda liked it. Then, I had another one the next day and a half of one the day after (we had a lot of leftovers!)

I would eat this again every once in awhile!

New Foods in Seattle!



Crispy Roll



I am currently in Seattle for work. So far it has been a lot of work and a lot of fun.The food in Seattle is just about the same as in Chicago. I am sure that the seafood tastes better, but I haven't had the opportunity to eat fresh fish yet. I did discover a local beer called Mac & Jack. It is a darker beer, a little sweet, very tasty! I hope Binnys has it when I get home!

I have also had the opportunity to try some new foods while I have been here.

Our second night here, a coworker and I went to the Mexican Cantina. We started with an appetizer consisting of guacamole, mango salsa, ceviche and grilled provolone atop eggplant. The provolone eggplant was one of the best things I have eaten. It had amazing flavors that mixed in your mouth such as garlic and cilantro. Everything else was also very delicious including the chicken tacos we shared for an entree and the churros I had for desert!

Yesterday, I went out with some coworkers, including my bosses bosses boss! He took us to a Japanese restaurant (Izakaya Wann) and ordered a few happy hour appetizers for everyone to share. I knew this would be a good time for me to try new things.

The waitress brought us a sample of the crispy roll. I have no idea what was in it, and I have never been a fan of sushi, but I actually really liked it. I had the opportunity to try a California roll also, which I didn't really like. I do not like the seaweed that is wrapped up in the roll. The texture of it bothers me, but it wasn't horrible. The only roll I didn't try was the spicy tuna roll, I am not ready for that!