Saturday, February 27, 2016

Baked Garlic Parmesan Chicken

Swiped this recipe from cakescottage.com because her mobile website doesn't look so great on my phone. It's the best!

INGREDIENTS:
½ cup Mayonnaise
½ cup shredded Parmesan cheese
4 boneless skinless chicken breast cutlets.
4-5 teaspoons Italian seasoned dry bread crumbs
½ teaspoon garlic powder
pinch of salt
½ teaspoon lemon pepper

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

In a small bowl combine mayo, garlic powder, and parmesan cheese.

Moisten chicken breasts with water and lay on baking sheet (I line my baking sheet with parchment paper to make clean up easy)

Divide the mayonnaise mixture evenly among the chicken, just spreading it across the top of each piece, and sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, remove from oven and sprinkle bread crumbs on each piece of chicken.

Return to oven and bake for additional 20 minutes or until chicken is cooked thoroughly and juices run clear.

Tops will be browned and chicken will be incredibly juicy.

You can also finish them off under the broiler for a minute or two to get them extra browned on top.

Again, this image is stolen

Monday, February 8, 2016

Soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

We love this recipe so much! I stole it from A Family Feast. Their website doesn't look good on my phone (very hard to read) so I am adding it to my blog because I definitely don't want to lose this recipe!

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup pumpkin puree
1 cup granulated sugar
½ cup oil (canola or vegetable)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 large egg
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon milk
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional but highly recommended)

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper sheets (or lightly grease the cookie sheet if you don’t have parchment paper).

In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine pumpkin, sugar, oil, vanilla and egg. Mix until well combined.

In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. In a small bowl, dissolve the baking soda with the milk. Add both the dry flour mixture and the wet baking soda mixture to the pumpkin mixture.

Mix well.

Add in the chocolate chips and nuts and stir until evenly combined.

Using a medium cookie scoop(medium scoop is equal to 1½ tablespoons), drop mounds of the cookie dough on the prepared cookie sheets.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool for slightly before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Makes about 3 dozen :)