Sweet Potato and Red Pepper Pasta

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Ingredients:

- 8 oz. whole wheat pasta (angel-hair, spaghetti, or linguine)

- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

- 4 cloves garlic, minced

- 3 cups peeled & shredded sweet potato (about 1 medium)

- 1 large red bell pepper, thinly sliced

- 1 cup diced plum tomatoes

- 1/2 cup water

- 2 tablespoons chopped Italian flat leaf parsley

- 1 tablespoon lemon juice

- 3/4 teaspoon salt

- 1/2 cup goat cheese

Tonight, Carson and I made sweet potato and red pepper pasta...delicious! The different flavors mixed together are amazing and it is super healthy which makes it even better. Alissa from 33 Shades of Green gives very detailed instructions, go here to see how to make it.

It was a ton of fun having help in the kitchen. Carson and I had not cooked together previously and we both really enjoyed it. We will definitely do it again in the future!

Peanut Butter Milkshake

I LOVE peanut butter, especially peanut butter milkshakes! They are hard to find so I decided to try creating one on my own. It was easy and turned out tasting pretty good!

All you need is:

Reese's Peanut Butter Ice cream

Milk

Peanut Butter

Add to blender and liquefy. Taste to decide if right amount of each ingredient was added.

ENJOY!

What's For Dinner??

Every night I get home from work and think, what am I going to make for dinner tonight? I actually enjoy cooking but get so tired of planning the meal. A while back I searched online how to plan your weekly dinners and found this site, This Week For Dinner.

I found this site very helpful and really enjoyed cooking for the couple weeks I used some of the ideas and planned out our meals ahead of time. I would definitely recommend trying it out. I am going to get back to it as soon as I return from Palm Springs.

xo Kristi

Yummy and Super Easy Zucchini Casserole

Today I had the day off work but wasn't feeling real well for most of the day so I wanted dinner to be easy, quick, somewhat healthy and most of all YUMMY!

We had lots of zucchini and squash in the fridge from our garden so I was hoping I could make something using at least these two ingredients. I went online searching for recipes and found one that looked really good. I switched it up a bit and LOVED IT!! Thought I would share.

Prep time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 pounds sliced zucchini and squash
• 1 chopped onion
• 1 can of corn
• 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 stick unsalted butter, melted
• 1 (6 ounce) package chicken-flavored dry bread stuffing mix
• Olive oil
• Garlic powder
• Salt
• Pepper

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Saute the zucchini, squash, corn and onion in olive oil (add salt, pepper and garlic powder as you like), drain well. In a medium bowl, combine the soup and sour cream. Stir in the zucchini, squash, corn and onion and mix well.
3. In a separate medium bowl, combine the butter and stuffing mix. Spread half of this mixture into the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish. Spoon the zucchini mixture over the stuffing, then top off with the other half of the stuffing.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes, or until stuffing is golden brown.

ENJOY!!!

Cooking with Kikkoman

A friend of mine gave me this recipe and we really liked it! You should give it a try. It is yummy and easy, my two favorites about cooking!!

Here are the ingredients you need:

Chicken breast (however many you desire)

Kikkoman soy sauce

One egg

Panko bread crumbs (found in Asian food isle)

Parmesan cheese

Black pepper

Half a stick of butter

Directions:

• Preheat your oven to 350
• Choose the pan you are going to use and add the butter. Place the pan in the oven and wait about ten minutes or until it is melted
• In a bowl beat egg and add 2 tablespoons of Kikkoman soy sauce
• In a separate bowl mix Panko bread crumbs, grated parmesan cheese and black pepper
• Take chicken breast and dip it into egg mixture and then coat it in the Panko mixture, place in pan (make sure they are coated well)

Cook on 350 for 20 minutes and then flip chicken over and cook for another 2o minutes.

*I made pasta and asparagus as our sides. For a great tutorial on how to roast asparagus, go HERE

ENJOY!!