Friday, July 6, 2012

Pinterest, my new obsession

It always seems like I'm the last to know about new sites. I found out about pinterest about a year ago, but didn't really understand what it was. People started saying, oh look what I made, I found the idea on pinterest. So guess what, I joined too. lol I get so tired of cooking the same old boring things all the time, so I'm really glad I browsed the site earlier this week. So far, I've made 2 things I found on the site. Last night was lasagna rolls. I took the idea from pinterest, not the ingredients. I'm going to share photo's along with ingredients and directions.

This is about 1/2 of a container of grape tomatoes, 1 whole small yellow onion roughly chopped, 2 cloves of fresh garlic, 2 table spoons of butter and  5 table spoons of red wine vinegar. I cooked this while I boiled 8 lasagna noodles and browned ground beef.

We mixed about 1/2 of a large container of ricotta cheese with some parmigian and mozzarella cheeses in a bowl.  


Then we made a hole in the center to add in the ground beef.



We realized we needed a bigger bowl.

And added some sauce and milk because it was dry.


Time to roll them up. (I forgot to take a picture of the tomato and onion mixture after I smashed it with a potato masher.) That's what is on top of the beef and cheeses.

Added some spiced up canned tomato sauce with salt and pepper and shredded mozzarella cheese on top. 


I realized we needed to spread out the filling a little more.


All ready to bake. 350 degrees for 15 minutes.Or until cheese is melted and filling is warm.I added a little pepper on top of the ones with the tomato/onion mixture because the kids didn't want that in theirs.        


Served with green beans! The kids and hubby LOVED it!!



Tonight I had bone-in and skin-on chicken breasts. The kids don't care for that to much, so I decided to take the smallest breast and de-bone it and take off the skin. 
I cut it into bite size pieces.


This is an egg wash, flour, unseasoned bread crumbs ( I added garlic powder, lemon pepper and thyme)
Next time I'll leave out the lemon pepper. The kids didn't care for it.



 All breaded and ready to go in the oven. 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Flip over after 15 minutes.

The remaining pieces of chicken for us adults! Seasoned with lemon pepper and garlic powder.


The kids chicken is done.
Our daughter wasn't crazy about the breading because like everyone else knows, McDonald's makes the best chicken nuggets and she refuses to try anyone elses'. I on the other hand, thought they were good.


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