Chicken Pillows

By The Girl Who ate Everything
(Love, Love, this blog)
So my we had these for dinner tonight and EVERYONE LOVED them! I have had a recipe of my sisters for chicken crescent roll ups for ever and they are so very good. However with a couple of change ups and being a bit more...pillow like lol these rocked! I also loved the sourcream in it and the bread crumbs. Tyson thought the gravy was the best and wanted to drink it...it was REAL difficult ;)

Mix together with mixer (or by hand if your cream cheese is soft enough):
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
½ cup sour cream

Stir in:
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
1 ½ Tablespoons dried chives
1 ½ Tablespoons fresh onion minced
3 chicken breasts, cooked and diced (around 3 cups)
2 (8 ounce) cans Pillsbury crescent rolls
1/4 cup melted butter
Italian bread crumbs (around 2 cups)

Gravy:
1 (14.5 ounce) can cream of chicken soup
1 (0.87) package chicken gravy mix

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Using Pillsbury crescent rolls, take 2 triangular rolls and push together at perforated seam to make into a square. Make sure you seal the perforations well so your filling doesn't come out. Put about 3 tablespoons of chicken mixture in the center of each square. Fold the dough corners to the center over the chicken mixture forming a pillow.

Dip each pillow in melted butter on both sides. Roll in bread crumbs on both sides. Shake excess crumbs off. Place chicken pillow on cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

Make gravy by mixing one package of chicken gravy mix, one can of cream of chicken soup and 3/4 can of water in a small pot. Mix together and heat until warm. Serve chicken pillows with gravy poured over top.

A little buttery burst

Sunbeam Rolls

Another! Sweet! Recipe! From a ward cookbook (my sis's actually). These rolls are the bomb.com and really as you can tell i cant say enough good things about these buttery, flaky,delicious rolls. Easy fast and a crowd pleaser!

1 c. milk
1/c c. butter or margarine
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. salt
1/2 c. water
3 eggs... farm fresh ofcourse ;)
4 1/2-5 c. flour (dont add more)
1 1/2-2 tbls. yeast...i use the full 2

Warm milk. Add sugar, salt and butter. Mix in Mixmaster with eggs and water (you can also do all of this without a mixer but it is a bit sticky..and o how i love my kitchen aid). Add 2 cups of flour and the yeast. Mix. Add remaining 2 1/2-3 c. flour. Mix until smooth. Dough will be sticky. Let rise until double in size (an hour). Divide dough in half and roll each half on floured surface into a 12 to 14 inch circle. Spread with butter. Cut each circle into 16 pieces using a pizza cutter. Roll each piece up starting at the wide end and roll to point. Place on lightly greased pan and let rise again until doubled again (another hour) bake @ '375 10-15 minutes.
If you keep the dough sticky and let rise an hour each time these rolls turn out AWESOME!


If you want to freeze them you can on the pans instead of a second rising. Freeze them then when you take them out let them thaw and rise for 3 hours before cooking them.

Taco Soup

Ahhh Taco Soup! I love soup days! When Kev and I got married the first time i told him i was going to make soup the look he gave me was like i told him i was going to feed him fried DOG! I was shocked he wasn't super excited. We grew up on homemade yummy stews and soups so i could not figure out this disappointment. Until he informed me he thought it was from a can...well that explained alot! He hadn't been raised like i had with these hearty soups. I knew it was time to break him in.
Taco soup is just classic and so easy! Spice it up or down and you can please the whole family!

1 lb. hamburger
1 qrt. tomatoes, w/juice (or 2 cans stewed)
1 can corn,with liquid
1 can kidney or red beans, drained and rinsed
taco seasoning to taste, i use 2 tbls. or so...just right!

Brown hamburger and drain grease. Add taco seasoning and mix into hamburger. Add in tomatoes,corn, and beans. Simmer for 30-45 minutes. I am completely content with this soup not being way soupy. If you want it thinner than add a cup of water before you start to simmer. Top with sour cream and cheese. We love this with homemade breadsticks (recipe below), but most people like this with tortilla chips. So good too.

Best breadsticks EVER!

By: Jennifer Jensen

O these are so yumbo! I got this recipe out of my sister Brookes ward cookbook. I thought they looked easy but had no idea how easy and YUMMY they were going to be! 40 min total (if that) from start to finish including baking time. Honestly! I know there are alot of great breadstick recipes out there but seriously for convenience and taste once you try these you will never go back or try to find another one!

1 1/2 c. warm water
1 tbls. yeast
2 tbls. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
3 c. flour (you may need a titch more so dough isn't to sticky)
1/2 stick butter (i wouldn't use margarine)
Lawrys garlic salt

Add first 5 ingredients together in order above. Mix in bowl then dump on counter to knead until you have a nice smooth elastic dough. Let rest 1o minutes (i just cover with a cloth on the counter). When done resting sprinkle some flour on your counter and roll out into a rectangular shape about the size of your jellyroll pan. Now the recipe says to cut into strips with your pizza cutter now and place individually on pan...however i found a WAY easier way. I just fold dough in half place on my cookie sheet then unfold and make it fit the best i can then cut it on the pan. If you cant cut all the way through that's fine just cut with a knife when they get out of the oven.
Put 1-2 tbls. melted butter on pan before dough goes on then put the rest of the butter on the dough then sprinkle with garlic SALT(the yummy stuff) then cut them into strips. Bake @ '350 15-20 min This is also awesome as cinnamon and sugar breadsticks! I swear you need to give this a try you will love them!!

Cake Batter Pancakes

By Good things Utah

makes about 12 pancakes
1½ cups all purpose flour
2/3 cup yellow cake mix
1 Tbsp. sugar
¾ tsp. baking powder
pinch of salt
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1-2 cups milk
assorted sprinkles

Combine flour, cake mix, baking powder, sugar and salt in a bowl and mix. Add 1 cup of milk, egg and vanilla extract and stir until smooth. You want the batter to look like regular pancake batter; not too thin, not too thick. This will vary greatly on the brand of cake mix you use. Start with 1 cup of milk and add more if needed. I suggest a small taste test as well to see if the pancakes are flavored enough.
Preheat a skillet on medium heat (I use an electric grilled and turn it to 250 degrees). Fold desired amount of sprinkles into batter. Pour batter in 1/4 cup measurements onto skillet and let cook until bubbles form on top, about 2-3 minutes. Flip and cook for 1 minute more. Serve with vanilla glaze.

Vanilla Glaze
1 c. powder sugar
1 tbls milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Assorted sprinkles

Smothered Hamburger Patties

This recipe i got from my ward cook book. I LOVE ward cookbooks from any ones ward. I also just love any cookbook period!
This is just a yummy classic dish! If you like meat and potatoes you are sure to love this dish. So super easy and just YUM!

2 lbs. Hamburger
2 tbls. shortening
1/3 c. flour
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 pkg brown gravy mix (when i don't have the gravy mix i use 3 bullion cubes)
1 can of water

Make hamburger into patties. Heat pan and put shortening in. Make your hamburger into patties. Coat in flour then place in pan, brown on both sides. Place in 9x 13 pan.
While patties are browning put cream of mushroom soup,brown gravy and water in a soup pan on stove and mix and warm together. Pour over patties. Cover with tinfoil then bake '350 for 1 hour. Serve with potatoes, rice,noodles or whatever. Now i have to admit i do not always warn the soup mixture together. I will just put ingredients in a bowl, mix then pour over patties. However by heating it, it looks more smooth and well i guess prettier :) either way its a definite go to dinner for my family!

No bake Cookies... a.k.a Gorilla poops

This is for you Jenn :)
I love that not only arethese still to this day one of my favorite cookies but Hadlie can make them too. And besides a little bit of cooking on the stovetop i don't worry about her making them at all.

1 cube butter
1/2 c. milk
6 tbls. baking cocoa (you can do anywhere from 4-6... depends on you)
1 tsp. vanilla
3 c. oats (i swear i always end up using closer to 4 so they set up better but aren't dry)

Bring the first 4 ingredients to a boil in saucepan. Take off heat and add in your vanilla. Add oatmeal 1 cup at a time stirring to incorperate it real good. Drop on wax paper little bigger than a tablespoon size big. Or the size of a Gorillas poop :) Let them set up. You can put them in the fridge to set up faster. I found out my family likes them chilled :)
Variations: Substitute 1 cup of oatmeal for coconut, or add to cocoa mixture 1/2 c. peanut butter after you add in the vanilla. Stir until it melts in then add oats.