Chicken Cordon Bleu Bake

Alright, I guess it is time that I post something more on this blog. I had a cousin get a little antsy (by the way, Joe, I had no idea you were even reading this blog cause you never posted a comment), so I figured that I better get posting.

Here is another recipe I got from Marin's Creations which was delicious. And perhaps even better than being delicious it was super easy and fast to put together. So here is the recipe....

Ingredients:
2 pkgs Stuffing Mix (I used Stove Top)
1 can (10 3/4 oz) Cream of Chicken Soup
1 C Milk
1/2 tsp Pepper
3/4 lb sliced Deli Ham, cut into 1" strips (I just used some processed cubed ham)
8 Swiss Cheese Slices, or 1 C shredded ( I don't much like Swiss Cheese, so I used Mozzarella)
2 C Cheddar Cheese, shredded 
2 C Cooked Chicken, ( I used some bottled chicken I got from a friend, thanks Jennifer)

Directions (complete with photos, well of most of the steps)
1. Make the stuffing as directed on the package.
2. Combine the soup and milk in a bowl and set aside.
3. Grease a 9x13 baking dish and put the chicken in and sprinkle with pepper.

You can see the bottle I got my chicken from. Because it was a quart bottle I did not use all of it, so the smaller pan there on the counter is the other half I put away for another day.


Layer ham...


Cheeses...


Soup mixture....


and finally the prepared stuffing. Bake it for 45 minutes at 350 and VIOLA!!!!!






Here is a picture of it all served on a plate. Serve it with a roll and some veggies and it is a complete meal. Seriously, my husband loved this so much that within about two days he was asking when we were going to have it again. Thus we made it again shortly thereafter when we had some guests over. Both of which said guests DEVOURED it!!!!!

Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches

As my first post I dare say this should be interesting, or at least comical. Let me just explain for a moment. If you look to the left you will see that I have 5 kids. They range from ages 11 to 2. My life gets a little crazy sometimes and dinner becomes, all too often, an "Oh, Crap! What are we going to have for dinner." As if having dinner is a rarity and not something that happens every single night. My husband is a helicopter pilot and works six nights a month, which means I have to have dinner ready before he leaves or he does not get much to eat, which as you can imagine is BAD, or he has to plan to buy dinner somewhere along the way which means McDonald's (UGH!). So tonight was one of THOSE nights. I had pulled chicken out of the freezer (I am a buy-in-bulk-while-on-sale-and-freeze-it kind of gal) I just had no idea what I was going to make with it. I had my oldest cook the chicken in our pressure cooker (which I totally love), while I created this blog (priorities, right?) and then came the hard part...... trying to decided what to make for seven hungry people and have it ready in 10 minutes. I raced onto my computer to my "to try" file and found a few recipes that called for chicken. Then I quickly narrowed it down to one that I could tweak and have ready in the least amount of time. The winner was this fabulous meal that I found over at Marin's Creations.

Since the chicken was already cooked I threw the chicken into my Bosch mixer with the wire whisks and shredded it. I then added about a half a cup of Franks Hot Sauce and I put in 3 Tbsp of ranch mix (because my 2-year-old is not ready for the heat... yet). My kids really liked it! They were eating the leftover chicken right out of the bowl. And yes you read that right, we actually had leftovers. I was not sure if three chicken breasts would be enough to feed us, but it was. I think next time I will make it according to the recipe and see how it goes. Definitely a KEEPER!




Ingredients:
2-3 chicken breasts
1 bottle of Frank's Red Hot BUFFALO Wing Sauce
1-2 Tbsp. dry Hidden Valley Ranch mix
2 Tbsp. butter
6 hoagie rolls

Directions:
Place chicken breasts in slow cooker, and pour 3/4 of the wing sauce and the ranch dressing mix over top. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.
Once the chicken has cooked, add the butter, then shred the meat with two forks. Pile the meat onto the hoagie rolls and add a splash of remaining sauce if desired.

I topped ours with lettuce, mozzarella cheese, bell peppers and onion. Also on mine I put ranch dressing on it cause I love it.

Also, as you can tell by the picture we did not have hoagie rolls on hand so we just used sandwich bread instead.