Chicken Caesar Salad Sandwiches

This is a household favorite!  One of my husbands favorite meals/sandwiches.  It's simple as well, and is a great food storage meal as well.

So lets get started!

First off, split your french bread.  I buy my french bread from Sam's club, and those are longer loaves, so I usually cut it down the middle as well so it fits on my pan.

 Drizzle some Olive Oil.....Yummo!

 See.....yummy!  Now put this pan underneath the broiler with some garlic cloves.  We're going to warm up the garlic & brown the bread.

 In a mixing bowl, combine your chicken

 Cheese

 And dressing.

 Add enough dressing until everything is combined

 Slice up some veggies

 When you take your bread out of the oven, they'll be nice and golden brown like this.  Take your garlic clove and rub it back and forth on the bread.

 Pile on the chicken, tomatoes, and lettuce 

 And wah-la.......Yummy sandwich.

 If you happen to have any left over, wrap it up in some plastic wrap and eat it the next day...it'll still be delicious.

I hope you try it out.

Enjoy!

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Cooking Challenge- PW's Olive Cheese Bread

So, here we come to the last of my Pioneer Woman Cooking Challenge.

Tonight's food choice:  Olive Cheese Bread

The plan was to make up some spaghetti and have this side dish accompany it.  It didn't quite turn out that way.  As I pulled out the already prepared bread, my son asked if we were having pizza.  I said no, but that we could make it into pizza.  So on half the bread we added some pepporoni & extra cheese & left the other half {which I have pictures} the way the recipe called for.

 So, here are my thoughts on the matter.  As I was looking over the recipe online, I noticed that there was a difference in measurements when compared to the cookbook.  The cookbook called for 14 oz of black olives and a whole stick of butter; where as the online version called for 6 oz of black olives and only 3/4 cup of butter.

 Here's my thoughts on the bread......honestly......I didn't like it.  It looked so good in the cookbook, and I thought I could get over the fact that I'm not really a big olive fan, and it looked good when it came out of the oven, but one bite, and I was done.

 I think that I'm not a big fan of warmed mayo....just doesn't float my boat.

However, I may not have liked it, but my kids scarfed theirs done.  Which suprised me.  But hey, I'm glad that somebody enjoyed it; I would have hated to see it all thrown away in the trash.

If you really like olives and want to try out this recipe, go here:

The Pioneer Woman's Olive Cheese Bread

Enjoy!

Cooking Challenge- PW's White Chili

Well, my cooking challenge is almost over.  I've been trying to think of another to do, but haven't thought of anything yet.

Tonight's dinner:

 White Chili.

It was perfect for today because today it was BUTT cold {thank you artic winds}.

I've never made a white chili before.  I can't even recall if I've ever had a white chili before.

As I sat down to eat this delicious-spicy bowl of beans, I wondered what chili meant.  Bean & spices thrown together to create a spicy stew.

Here are my thoughts on making this creation:

• I should have halved the recipe......I now have tons of chili left......leftover night here we come.
• The beans took longer to cook, and they could have been cooked a little bit longer.  The recipe said 2 hrs, but I went 2 1/2 to 2 hr 45 minutes in the end.
• I had to add more masa.....it didn't thicken up as much as I wanted.  I think the 1 cup milk to 2 tbl masa was not enough.  I think it should probably be like 1 cup milk & 1/4 to 1/2 cup masa.
• Adding the cilantro to the chili gave it a whole other taste experience.  I'm not a big fan of cilantro, but it clicked tonight.
• If you want your kids to eat it without complaining....lessen the spices {or half the jalepeno}.

If you would like to make this recipe, go here:

The Pioneer Woman White Chili

Enjoy!

Cooking Challenge- PW's Cobbler

I love Rasberries.

I enjoy cake.

I've discovered I quite enjoy the sinful guilt of streusel.

Combine all three of these together & you get what we had for dessert tonight.

Tonight, I made a Rasberry Cobbler with a streusel topping.  I discovered this cobbler recipe a couple of months ago on the Pioneer Woman's website & have made it a couple of times since {blackberry & blueberry}.  My Dad had a bag of Raspberries at his house that needed to be used, and he wanted cobbler as well, so I was happy to oblige.

When making up the cobbler, my husband asked, "Are you going to put streusel on top??" {he quite enjoyed the crumb cake on saturday}.  I said sure.

 Well, as you can tell from the picture, the streusel kind-of sunk into the cobbler; but no fear.....it was still delicious!!!  The top was still crispy, so I was happy.

Oh delicious cobbler.....you made me run for an hour tonight....but it was well worth it!

If you would like the cobbler recipe, go here:

The Pioneer Woman's Cobbler

And the great thing about it, is that you can add whatever fruit you want.

Enjoy!!!

Cooking Challenge- PW's Carrot & Squash Soup

Yep.  Two cooking challenges today.  I didn't get a lot of sleep the other night, so I was dragging yesterday.  I was going to do a leftover night tonight, but switched that to last night-I was just in no mood to cook.  My comfy couch had most of my attention yesterday.

Anyway, it's interesting that I wanted to try this soup.  I'm not a big fan of squash, but I'm discovering that the little squash are kinda like zucchini which I like when cooked.  I think that the thing that struck out at me the most was the curry.  After making curry chicken, I was interested in making this soup.  Plus, everything is pureed, so you don't really know what's in the soup.

 This was a very easy soup to make.  It tasted so yummy in my tummy.  I liked how I could take a bite, savor, then get the kick of curry at the end.  I didn't really taste the carrots or squash or onions for that matter, but I figured they just provided a healthy base for the curry.

My husband said that he would like to try this with some chicken & egg noodles; I liked it just the way it was.

If you would like to try this recipe, go here:

The Pioneer Women's Carrot & Squash Curry Soup

Enjoy!

Cooking Challenge- PW's Blueberry Crumb Cake

I really like Blueberries & I really like Blueberry muffins.  So it only seemed fit that when I saw this recipe online, that I needed to make it for breakfast.  I usually set aside Saturday mornings as a day that I'll bake breakfast.

The recipe was really simple to make.  Of course, {as I always do with fresh blueberries}I mixed the blueberries a little bit too much & it turned the batter sort of blue.....oh well, my kids enjoyed the color aspect.  I did something a little bit different when it came to the streusel .  I decided to put my kitchen aid mixer to work.  I know you can use a pastry blender {which I do have, just don't use as much} and I usually just use my food processor, but I cleaned out the batter bowl & threw in all the streusel ingredients.  Using the paddle attachment, I mixed the flour, butter, sugar & cinnamon until I had a good consistency.  It worked well-one less dish to wash.

I've made struesel muffins before, but the topping always came off.  This cake was very delicous & everything stayed put.

 It was well worth the 45 minutes I had to wait for it to bake.

I think throughout the day, I had 3-4 servings of this "Blueberry Muffin Cake" {what my kids called it}.  I'm glad that I'll be able to eat some for breakfast tomorrow.

If you would like to try out this recipe, here's the link:

The Pioneer Woman's Blueberry Crumb Cake

Enjoy!

Cooking Challenge- PW's Comfort Meatballs

Mini-balls of meatloaf....That's what we called tonights dinner.

I decided to be brave & make meatballs; I mean, the recipe looked so simple & sounded so good.  I usually just buy a bag of the frozen stuff whenever I want to add it to our pasta dinners, so this was a step for me.

Now, I looked at the cookbook {found here} and followed the instructions {I even weighed my meat}.  I thought that the meat mixture was a little wet & at the time, thought that that was how it was suppose to be.  Then I found the recipe online, and the online version has many more pictures than the book does.  Online, the mixture seemed a little bit dryer, so the next time that I make these, I'll watch out for that.

So, I've decided that I just don't like the smell of frying/browning food.  I know that it's good for the meat, and it gives the food nice color, but I just don't like the smell of it.

 All these meatballs were able to feed my family, plus some for my husband to take to work tonight.

 Now, in the cookbook these meatballs are called "Comfort Meatballs", but online they're called "BBQ Meatballs".  It makes sense since the sauce is basically a homemade BBQ sauce w/ the ketchup & vinegar.

 I rounded out our meal with some smooth mashed potatoes & corn.

 Everything was very delicious; my son even asked for seconds.

If you would like this recipe you can either go here:

and turn to page 172

OR

Find it online here.

Enjoy!