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Cheesy Po-Tot-Chos Recipe

September 12, 2011 by Momstart 15 Comments

You won´t have to ask twice to get everyone in front of this pile of potatoey tots, topped with cheese, salsa and fresh veggies like tomatoes and avocado. This twist on classic nachos is so good – it may be a fight to snatch the last tot! Get the recipe at bettycrocker.com/fanfare. I liked this recipe so much I had to share it with you guys!

Cheesy Po-Tot-Chos Recipe

Cheesy Po-Tot-Chos Recipe

 

Ingredients:

1 bag (32 oz) frozen potato nuggets
1 can (15 oz) Progresso® black beans, drained, rinsed
1 can (4.5 oz) Old El Paso® chopped green chiles, drained
1/2 cup Old El Paso® Thick ‘n Chunky salsa
1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar or Colby-Monterey Jack cheese (6 oz)
1 medium tomato, chopped
1 medium avocado, pitted, peeled and cut into chunks
1/2 cup sour cream

Directions:

Heat the Oven to 450 degrees.

Arrange the frozen potato nuggets in a single layer on a cookie sheet. Cook for 24 – 26 minutes

Line another cookie sheet with parchment paper or foil

In a medium bowl, mix beans, chilies and salsa. Spread half of the potato nuggets on the lined cookie sheet, spoon half of the mixture over the potatoes, cover with half of the cheese. Repeat the step using the remaining ingredients

Top with Tomato and avocado and serve with sour cream.

Add Additional toppings, as desired (thinly sliced green onion, chopped fresh cilantro, seeded and chopped fresh jalapeño pepper, sliced ripe olives, guacamole, additional salsa)

 

 

I received the details for this recipe from Betty Crocker through MyBlogSpark.

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Strawberry Cheesecake Pancakes Recipe

September 9, 2011 by Momstart 29 Comments

My husband can cook and I love it when he cooks. He makes terrific desserts and breakfast meals. So we like to have breakfast for dinner often. At least I do because it means he’s cooking. Pancakes and Waffles have always been a favorite of mine and this recipe he made, the Strawberry Cheesecake Pancakes are outstanding.

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He found the recipe on Betty Crocker, it’s their Bisquick Cheesecake Pancakes recipe.

Strawberry Cheesecake Pancakes Recipe:

Ingredients:

1 8oz package of cream cheese
2 cups Original Bisquick mix
1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup milk
2 eggs

Directions:

Slice cream cheese lengthwise into four pieces. Wrap each strip in plastic wrap and freeze 8 hours or overnight.

Brush griddle or skillet with cooking spray, heat griddle to 375 degrees F or heat skillet over medium heat

Cut cream cheese into bite size pieces.

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In a large bowl, stir bisquick mix, graham cracker crumbs, sugar, milk and eggs with a whisk until blended, then stir in cream cheese

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For each pancake, pour slightly less than 1/3 a cup batter onto a hot griddle. Cook until the edges are dry.

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Flip and cook the other side.

 

IMG_4492Strawberry Syrup Recipe:

Ingredients:

1 cup fresh stawberry slices
1/2 cup strawberry syrup for pancakes

In a small bowl, mix strawberries and syrup.

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Then Top the pancakes with the syrup

 

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Tasty Treat Thursday Betty Crocker Yellow Cake Mix Cookie Recipe

March 31, 2011 by Momstart 15 Comments

Summer is MIA this week with a cold and I was in the mood to make cookies. I’m terrible at baking a simple chocolate chip cookie recipe. I have major issues with using butter and making the perfect batch of cookies. They are either too flat, took cake like or too crispy, never perfect. Earlier this week, I really wanted to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies but didn’t want to throw all of the ingredients together just to be disappointed again with how my cookies turned out. So, I looked on-line for a Cake Mix Cookie recipe. I found quite a few variations and decided to try a Yellow Cake Mix Cookie Recipe.

 

Yellow Cake Mix Cookies

Ingredients:

1 box of Betty Crocker Yellow Cake Mix (because she makes the best cake mix)
2 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil (applesauce of you want to use something healthier)
2 cups chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

Mix the cake mix, eggs, and oil, then gradually add the chocolate chips

Spoon onto cookie tray and cook in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes.

Cool on wire rack. Eat quickly because I was told they dry out quickly, wouldn’t know for sure because ours didn’t last more than a few hours.

These cookies are delicious. My husband and I have quite an addiction to the flavor of yellow cake mix. I was supposed to pick up more yellow cake mix at the grocery store because we’re out of cookies already. I guess I’ll be getting more cake mix next week. This recipe can be changed with any flavor of cake mix.

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Birthday Boy’s Rainbow Ribbon Layer Cake Recipe

March 27, 2011 by Momstart 6 Comments

Each year it has become a tradition for dad to make the birthday cake with the child celebrating their birthday. As you may know, last week was Miles’ birthday. My little boy is now no longer a little boy (if you ask him, he’s a big boy now). I went and picked out a recipe for them to use, but since my husband was making the cake and didn’t feel like he was up to the challenge of making a lemon chiffon cake, he chose a simpler recipe from Crisco.com. He chose the Ribbon Layer Cake.

Blue Ribbon Cake

Ingredients:

imageButter Spray
1 box (don’t tell Crisco but we used Betty Crocker) Lemon Cake Mix
1 cup water
1/3 cup canola oil (I think we used vegetable because that’s what we had)
3 large eggs
LOTS OF FOOD COLORING
Smucker’s Strawberry Jelly (OOPS, we forgot to use this ingredient)

Frosting Ingredients:

3/4 cup butter Crisco
2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 or 3 tablespoons milk
LOTS OF FOOD COLORING

How we put it all together (Directions)

imageHeat the oven to 350 degrees and Spray 3 circle pans with cooking spray.

Prepare the cake mix according to the box directions, then divide the batter into thirds. Dye each set of batter the color you want your cake to be. Miles chose, green, yellow and red (pink because red is so hard to make). Pour batter into pre-sprayed pans.

Bake 20 to 25 minutes (watch carefully, we overcooked ours just a tad) or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes on wire rack. Remove from pans.

Now this is where we messed up. We decided that we aren’t that good at stacking, so our cake was only three layers high. Before you stack the layers you are supposed to spread the jelly across each layer, which holds each one in place. OOPS!

Beat the shortening, powdered sugar, vanilla and milk until creamy. Blend in food coloring, we chose blue, and LOTS of it. Frost the cake, refrigerate until serving and after serving.

Filed Under: recipe Tagged With: Betty Crocker, cake recipe, crisco, recipe, Ribbon Layer Cake

How to Make Mashed Potato Bowls

April 18, 2010 by Momstart 12 Comments

My husband and I ate out a lot before we had kids. One of the places we liked to eat at was Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC. My husband’s favorite dish was their Mashed Potato Bowls. Since having kids we’ve cut back in quite a few different places to save money and that limits the amount of times we can go out to eat. So, we decided to make our own Mashed potato bowls.

Ingredients:

Grilled Chicken

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Mashed Potatoes

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Frozen Corn

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Gravy

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Directions:

I used Betty Crocker Potato Buds and followed the directions on the package to make them in the microwave. Then I cooked the gravy on the stove according to the directions on the package. I’ve never made home made gravy, I always use the McCormick mix. After that, I heated up the frozen Birds Eye SteamFresh corn in the microwave and I also cooked the Tyson Grilled Ready to use frozen chicken in the microwave. After each item is prepared then you put it all together to your personal preference.

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Cooking with Kids, making Betty Crocker Mashed Potatoes

January 11, 2010 by Momstart 17 Comments

You may be thinking, boxed potatoes are you serious?

Yes, I am serious. Growing up I found box potatoes to be the most disgusting thing in the world. The smell of them reminded me of day care. Yuck, I hated them, well, my husband loves them so I’ve been reintroduced to them and they aren’t that bad. In fact they are

Easy

Cheap

and For the Entire Family:

She really loves to help in the kitchen and this was something she could do almost completely by herself. We helped her measure out the potato buds. Then she added the butter and I added a little salt. I measured out the milk and she poured it in and then she stirred.

potatoAnd Stirred.

potato2 And wanted to add more milk.

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But all we had to do was heat them up and they were ready to stir.

Filed Under: Cooking Tagged With: Betty Crocker, boxed potatoes, cooking with kids, Potato Buds

Cooking with Kids – Bread Machine Pizza

January 2, 2010 by Momstart 10 Comments

Every time I work with a professional chef on my blog they tell me that including children in the shopping and cooking process will get them excited about eating different foods. Allowing them to help cook will make them excited about eating. I’ve been pretty lucky so far with their eating habits anyways but it’s a lot of fun for them to be included in the kitchen. It keeps them from whining and pulling on my legs the whole time I’m cooking.

Dad’s the best at letting the kids help. The other day he made homemade pizza. He made the dough in the bread machine and let the kids put the ingredients in.

Betty Crocker Pizza Dough

Ingredients:

1 c. warm water
1 pkg. dry yeast
1 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. oil
2 1/2 c. flour

To make it in the bread machine you put all the liquid ingredients in first. Then you put in the flour, salt and sugar and in the top make an indention and place the yeast inside the indention. Then turn on the bread machine setting to dough.

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She helped put in all the ingredients into the bread machine. Her and Daddy work very well together. Then after the bread machine was done, we rolled the dough out into a glass pan. Cooked the pizza dough for 5 minutes on 425. (would have been better if we had cooked it at a lower temperature for longer. The dough was a little tough)

Used a 12 ounce can of pizza sauce and spread it across the dough.
Covered it in Cheddar Cheese (we were out of Mozzarella)
Then placed pepperoni on it. 

Finished cooking the pizza at 425 because we were in a hurry, very bad decision but it still looked and tasted great.

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It’s so easy! I love using my bread machine to make all kinds of bread dough, it just saves my hands all the kneading. 

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