Beef Stroganoff

Meatball Subs

Tonight for dinner I decided to make Meatball Subs. I love a meatball sub every once in a while but sometimes they can be loaded with sauce. I don't like a lot of sauce b/c it makes them soggy. I also wanted to put as many meatballs on the sub that I wanted. I couldn't wait to make my own my way. :)

To make you will need:

Hoagie Rolls

Meatballs (you can use premade ones or make your own)

Spaghetti Sauce

Provolone Cheese

French Fries

First off I cut the Hoagie rolls and put them on the baking sheet and then stuck them in the oven for a few minutes to get them toasty. I then put the fries (with a little salt) in the oven to bake.

Fries are a good side item for the meatball subs or you can put them on the sub. :)

I cooked up the meatballs on the stove top. I just added some W sauce, pepper and water. (Water I used to keep them from burning)

I placed 2 slices of Provolone cheese on the bottom part of the toasted Hoagie Roll. I added a little Spaghetti sauce on top of the cheese and then added the meatballs. I then drizzled a little more sauce on top of the meatballs and then of course another slice of Provolone Cheese.

Then add the tops of the Hoagie Rolls and stick in the oven for a few minutes. (until cheese is melted and everything is hot)

The finished plate! Mmmmm they were very good! :)

Things I need....

Will you believe that I've never been to a Pampered chef party?? Yeah, that's right. I have Pampered chef products but have never actually gone or hosted a party. I want to have one this summer. I love Pampered chef!! I have come across some items I need in my Kitchen!!

The first item being Coating trays & tool and the second item being a Springform Pan. Ahh....I will get these items one day! :)

Whole Grain Blueberry Streusel Muffins

I love Blueberry muffins!! I really enjoy Duncan Hines Blueberry Streusel Muffins. For me time is everything and sometimes I just don't have time to make everything from scratch. So, this box mix is very simple and not time consuming to make. I like taking the simple way and that makes me happy. As I was mixing everything together I noticed a little difference in the color of the mix. It was darker than usual. Then I looked at the box and saw that's it's 100% whole grain. Who knew?? I was so excited. Now eating 3 of these in one sitting won't make me feel bad at all since it's 100% whole grain! AWESOME!!

Drain your blueberries and rinse with cold water....

Once you've mixed the mix with eggs, water and oil, fold in the drained blueberries....

Put mix in the muffin tins and then add the Streusel topping.

Yum!!
The 100% whole wheat doesn't change the taste to it at all. It tastes just as good if not better. And the house will smell like delicious blueberry muffins for the rest of the day. :)

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Brownies

My brother came home on leave today. He wanted something sweet to eat. He wanted Monkey Bread and I laughed at him. I showed him Cookin' Canuck's Reese's Peanut Butter & chocolate Cheesecake Bars recipe. He drooled a little. ahahaha :) I told him I want to make those one day but I don't have time today since I have to go to work in a little bit, plus I don't have all the ingredients. So, Kirk told me that he had a package of Reese's cups in his car. He mentioned maybe PB brownies. I told him I could make brownies and we could add the Reese's to the mix. He agreed. So, he went to his car and got the candy. He opened all of them up, stuck them in a large ziploc bag. I mixed up the brownies and then I chopped the Reese's, added them to the brownie mix and baked them. They turned out pretty good. I think next time it would be better to use the Reese's PB baking chips. Then it would be more peanut buttery. :)

Chili

For dinner tonight I made Chili. I was craving it and since it's really cold out it's a good comfort food. When I got home from work after midnight this morning I put it all together so it would cook all day in the crock pot. :)

2lbs Ground Turkey

W sauce

Pepper

Celery

2 Onions

3 can of Tomato Sauce

1 can of light red Kidney Beans

2 pkgs of McCormick Chili Seasoning

I plugged in the crock pot, sprayed some PAM and put it on low. I then cooked the meat with a little W sauce and pepper. Then I drained the meat and added it to the crock pot. Then I cut up the 2 onions and added them to the pot. I then washed and cut up the celery stalk and added that to the crock. I drained the can of kidney beans, added to crock pot and then mixed it all together. Then I added the tomato sauce, mixed and then added the Chili Seasoning. Mix well and let it cook/simmer. Later in the morning when Nate got up for work I had him turn the crock pot down to warm. The only bad thing about making this is at 4am.....we both woke up smelling the chili and our stomachs were growling for it. :)

Happy 30th to Melissa....

Last night, the hubbies played some poker and the women (Kristen, Melissa, Crystal and I) went to dinner and a movie. We had dinner at Logan's and Evan was our waiter. Worst waiter ever!! He really needs to get a clue and find another job. Some people just aren't cut out for waiting on people. We saw 'Dear John'. Not my favorite movie but it had some very sad and very good parts.

Today, Kristen and I threw Melissa a little '30th birthday brunch'. She thought she was coming over for a Subeta day. (a virtual game that we play together) Little did she know that wasn't the plan. She was surprised! :)

The menu:

Chicken Salad

Crossiants

Punch

Fruit

Chocolate

Chips

Creme' Puffs

Green Stuff (like a watergate salad)

Carrot Cake cupcakes (sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good)

The Punch (I don't remember who I got the recipe from) is always a huge hit at every party we've had it at so we knew we wanted to make it for the brunch. It's very easy and only needs 3 ingredients.

To make the punch:

Bottle of Gingerale

Oranges (sliced)

Sherbert ice cream

Put the Sherbert ice cream (you can use whatever flavor sherbert you want) in the punch bowl, slice up some oranges we used a regular orange and a blood orange (for color). Then add a bottle of gingerale. You will love it, I promise! :) Welcome to the 30's Melissa!! :)

Kitty High...

Dave brought over some catnip for the cats last night. We let them play with it today. Harley and Lizzy both enjoyed it very much. Harley fell asleep after rolling on and playing with it for a bit. Next time, Dave needs to bring another one so they won't have to share them. Harley was getting a little jealous that Lizzy wanted to play with it. Dave please bring another one. :)