Buffalo Chicken Crescent Ring

 This is what I had for dinner tonight!

 Buffalo Chicken Crescent Ring! Mmmm mm!

Ranch isn't shown. It was being shy and didn't want its
picture taken. (Okay, I forgot to get it out of the fridge.)

Buffalo Chicken Crescent Ring

8 oz package cream cheese, softened

½ cup ranch dressing

½ cup Frank's RedHot Original Sauce

½ cup shredded mozzarella cheese

2 cans crescent rolls (I didn't use the kind I took a picture of.)

2 (12.5 oz) cans chicken breast, shredded

Preheat the oven to 375F. Combine all the ingredient, minus the crescent rolls, in a big bowl. Make sure to mix well and that everything is incorporated nicely!

Open the tubes of crescent rolls and separate each into four rectangles. Lay them on a non-stick cookie sheet to form a large circle.

Spoon the chicken mixture onto the crescent rolls near the center of the dough ring.

Fold the top of each crescent rectangle over the chicken filling. Press the dough together to make a seal so the filling doesn't leak out.

 

Bake in the preheated 375F oven for about 20-22 minutes, or until golden brown and the dough is cooked all the way. (The middle bottom was the last to get done for me... I had to keep it in a little longer for that to finish cooking.) Allow to cool slightly before serving. (I was hungry... I couldn't wait. =P)

Oh yeah... I had a bunch of extra filling. I probably could have stuffed the ring more but instead I just threw it in a casserole dish and heated it up in the oven.

The extra filling.

Enjoy!

Homemade Seasoned Salt

When I went to make the Baked Parmesan Chicken I realized I didn't have seasoned salt! So, of course, I just made my own!

Seasoned Salt

2 tbsp salt

2 tsp sugar
½ tsp paprika
¼ tsp curry
¼ tsp onion powder
¼ tsp garlic powder
¼ tsp cornstarch

Mix all together in a small bowl. =)

Baked Parmesan Chicken

I've seen this recipe floating around both Pinterest and Facebook for awhile now so I thought I would finally give it a shot. It doesn't have many ingredients and is very easy to make. I did make it harder for myself since I don't have seasoned salt so I made that myself. (I'll post the recipe!)

It was amazing! It tasted a lot of Alfredo sauce but so much easier to make! I'm thinking of just making the sauce some time and pouring it over noodles... Yummm!

Baked Parmesan Chicken

½ cup Parmesan cheese

1 cup plain Greek yogurt

1 tsp garlic powder

1½ tsp seasoned salt

½ pepper

chicken breasts

Mix all the ingredients except the chicken together. Coat the chicken in the mixture and then bake at 375F for 45 minutes.

That's it! Can't get much easier than that!

Here's the link to make your own seasoned salt! Homemade Seasoned Salt

Peanut Butter Dog Cookies

Wellllll... I had planned on posting a recipe for a four ingredient peanut butter cookie but I tried it and it didn't turn out as good as I thought they would. They were having a hard time sticking together when I rolled them into balls and they felt very oily. They aren't BAD, but they aren't that good, either. So! Instead I will post a recipe for peanut butter dog cookies.

I made these for my dog, Meaty, on his one year anniversary of being with us. He LOVED them! You can make them like a cookie or you can take the time and roll the dough out thinly and cut them into shapes so they are more like biscuits. I opted for the easy cookie way... He's a dog. He won't care if they are just round blobs instead of in the shape of bones or whatever. (Although I did make a single ninja-cookie.)

Peanut Butter Dog Cookies

2 cups whole wheat flour (Or another type of flour if your dog is sensitive to wheat.)

1 cup rolled oats

1/3 cup peanut butter (You can use chunky or creamy... I used creamy.)

1¼ cups hot water

additional flour for rolling (If making biscuits)

Preheat the oven to 350F. Mix the dry ingredients together. Mix in the peanut butter and hot water. You may need to add more flour if the dough is too sticky. Knead the dough well.

Here's where we split for cookies and biscuits. To make cookies, roll into whatever sized balls you want and place on a lightly greased (or non-stick) cookie sheet. Press down on them to flatten them, or you can do what you do for human peanut butter cookies and use a fork to make crosshatch marks on them.

If making biscuits, roll the dough out until its about 1/4 inch thick and cut with cookie cutters. Place on cookie sheet.

Bake for about 40 minutes. The cookies/biscuits will get kind of hard, but that's the way they like em! (Well, I assume that's how they like them. I never really was able to talk to a dog to find out.) The longer they sit out, the harder they get. The recipe I followed suggested letting them cool overnight before eating, but ain't nobody got time for that! I just let the cookies cool completely before serving to Meaty.

Parmesan Pork Roast

Okay. Ready for my favorite recipe? One that has been requested, and gladly made, numerous times just in the past year? I'm telling you, you'll never want another kind of pork roast again. (Okay, maybe you will. But I doubt it... ;))

Parmesan Pork Roast

1 boneless pork roast (2 pounds)
2/3 cup Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup corn syrup
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons dried basil
2 tablespoons minced garlic
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt

Place roast in crock pot. In a small bowl, combine the cheese, corn syrup, soy sauce, basil, garlic, oil and salt. Pour over pork. Cover and cook on low for about 6 hours, or until thermometer reads 160°. I normally slice the roast and place it back in the crock pot for another 15 minutes to soak up the sauce.

You could thicken the sauce up before you serve it but I only did it that way once and we didn't like it as much. It seemed to take a lot of the flavoring away. In case you want to try it, here's how:


2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 cup cold water

Remove roast from crock pot and keep warm. Skim the fat from the cooking juices and then pour into a small saucepan. Bring to a boil. Combine cornstarch and water until smooth. Gradually stir into pan. Bring to a boil and cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened.