Recently I have rediscovered my love for cooking, especially
trying new recipes. This has been pushed
recently by seeing amazing foods on Pinterest.
Last weekend I made a cinnamon roll cupcake with a cream
cheese frosting. Simply put they were
gone at Derek’s work by 10:30 on Monday.
AMAZING.
This weekend I made a chocolate cupcake with a vanilla
butter cream frosting. While the cupcake
was dense and the frosting was, as always, amazing it wasn’t our favorite
chocolate cupcake. I am however glad we
tried it.
The other night for dinner we made another Pinterest find of a
Chicken Bacon Casserole. They call it “Crazy Good Casserole” that just isn’t
descriptive enough for me. I did not take any pictures of this but I will add
the link so anyone is free to check it out.
Since it’s the new year and for a couple months now Derek and I have
been trying to “watch” our food intake we halved this recipe. Even while halving
it there was plenty for the two of us for dinner plus 2 leftovers for lunches.
Ingredients:
- 2 bonelss, skinless chicken breast
- 4 strips of bacon (we used Kroger Turkey Bacon)
- 1 can cream of chicken soup (we used the 98% fat free)
- 1 cup cheese (we used Cheddar, and you’re going to split this)
- 8oz of spiral pasta
- ½ tablespoon garlic powder (we used A LOT more because as Derek said “have you ever tasted anything with too much garlic?”)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Cook bacon in pan and then set aside. In the same pan cook up cubed chicken. Add the garlic powder and salt and pepper to
taste.
While the chicken is cooking boil noodles and get a 9x9 pan
ready by spraying with non-stick spray.
Preheat oven to 400˚F.
Once pasta is complete mix together cream of chicken soup,
chicken, half of the cheese and pasta.
Add to the 9x9 baking dish. On
the top put the remaining amount of cheese and bacon. Cook until cheese is melted, around 10-15
minutes.
This meal was amazing.
While we only made half the calories were a little on the high side at
2,240 for our whole meal, but as I said it makes a lot. We ended up with two
820 calorie dinner servings and two 300 calorie lunch servings.
We decided that we will be making this again; especially
since it is better for us than our normal comfort food of Cheesy Chicken and
Rice Bake.
Next weekend I am going to try a new cookie recipe, so I
will post how that is. For anyone
interested in possibly making the Chicken Bacon Casserole Recipe above, please
click the following link Chicken Casserole.
Cookies are coming next weekend so...
Here's To The Next Pinterest Recipe!!
