Baked Honey Mustard Ham Steak Sheet Pan Dinner

 

Baked Honey Mustard Ham Steak Sheet Pan Dinner

This was really good! I made it as written except I just put the green beans and potatoes on the sheet pan and cooked it all at once instead of precooking them. I made sure to cut the potatoes smaller so they'd cook at the same time. I also seasoned them a little bit more then the recipe called for. 

It was super quick and delicious! It was a bit too salty though, everything was so that was definitely my fault and not the recipe.

Click here for the Baked Ham Steaks Sheet Pan Dinner by Eat Well 101

Easy Bread Machine White Bread

 

Easy Bread Machine White Bread

I FINALLY figured out how to make fluffy white bread! All the recipes always call for the water to be 110 degrees. I actually read the label on the yeast I've been using, and it said to heat the water to 120-130! That seemed to make all the difference, I guess the yeast wasn't getting as activated as it should have before because my bread is usually pretty dense. The only other difference I made is that I used 2 1/4 tsp yeast instead of a packet. I used the 3 hour bread setting for 1.5 loaf.

Next time I'll try adding some garlic, my sons loves to make garlic toast.

Click here for the Best Bread Machine Recipe from AllRecipes

Burgers & Garlic Parm Fries

 

Burgers & Garlic Parm Fries

My husband picked up these comically large burgers from Kroger for dinner, that I just cooked on the skillet. They were already seasoned, and I didn't realize that 2 of them had bleu cheese folded in. I'm not a picky eater in the slightest, there's only a few things that I've tried that I really don't like. Bleu cheese is one of them, blech. The fries were good though. I just cut potatoes into wedges, and tossed them with oil, salt, pepper, garlic, and a smidge of cayenne. I baked them at 400 for 15 minutes, stirred then cooked them for 15 minutes more. After they cooked I sprayed some fake butter on and tossed them in parm. 

Cumin Lime Black Bean Lentil Salad

 

Cumin Lime Black Bean Lentil Salad

Terrible picture, I just wanted to save the recipe before I forgot. It's loosely based on the recipe linked below. I chopped up 4 little cucumbers, 2 bell peppers, 3 jalapenos, 1 pint cherry tomatoes, and 1/4 red onion. I also added 1 can black beans and 1 can of lentils. I forgot I wanted to add some corn, so I'll do that tomorrow. I also forgot to order cilantro so I added some squeeze tube cilantro to the dressing mix. 

For the dressing mix I did 1 tsp oregano, 2 tsp cumin, 1 tsp salt, pepper, a giant glob of jarlic, about a tbs of tube cilantro, 1 lime, 1 tbs dijon and some avocado oil to help it go a little farther. I might add a scoop of greek yogurt when I have a bowl of it tomorrow too just for extra protein.

The flavor is so good! I love the dijon and the extra seasoning. I find sometimes that veggie salads like this can be bland so this is the first time I doubled the seasonings, and I'll be doing that again. 

Click here for the Black Bean Lentil Salad with Cumin-Lime Dressing recipe by The Garden Grazer

Another pregnant bell pepper!

For snack I had some with a side of cottage cheese, really good and filling!

Salmon + Clean Out The Fridge

Salmon + Clean Out The Fridge

My husband got a new smoker, so he smoked up some amazing salmon. I don't know the exact recipe but I know he marinates it in butter, garlic, ginger, lemon, orange....and maybe that's it. It's amazing and it's one of my fav meals. We had a bag of steamable refrigerated green beans we had to use up, and some breadsticks (plus the marinara dipping sauce) left over from the night before. My 16 year old also got an Annie's Mac & Cheese cup because he's always hungry. 

For the green beans I just steamed according to the package directions, then tossed in a little bit of butter, garlic, salt, pepper and parm.

 

Easy Weeknight Spaghetti

 

Easy Weeknight Spaghetti

Sometimes I don't want to spend the extra money getting a mixture of pork & ground beef, or spend the time making my homemade sauce. Right now I'm 20 weeks pregnant and I work full time so I'm tired lol. So my quick spaghetti "recipe" if you'd even call it that is a pound of ground beef with 1 jar Prego, garlic knots and a caesar salad kit. 

After I brown the ground beef with a chopped onions and a little Italian seasoning, I drain it then put it back on the skillet with jarlic, and with the jar of sauce + about 1 cup water that I shake in the jar. Then I add extra Italian seasoning, pepper, red pepper and a little garlic powder. If I make it early enough and plan to simmer it, I'll add a bay leaf. If not I just serve right away over noodles and topped with parm & red pepper.

Sheet Pan Pesto Salmon with Potatoes & Broccoli

 

Sheet Pan Pesto Salmon with Potatoes & Broccoli

This was kinda planned and kind of a mish mash of what we had. I knew I wanted to make pesto salmon & potatoes, and I had planned to use up a bag of green beans I had. But I remembered I had like half a bag of broccoli to use, so I used that up instead of the green beans before it went bad. Everything is really good, it's a super quick meal and some variation of it is always part of our rotation. My sons plate also had garlic bread because he's a bottomless pit!  Pesto always reminds me of my grandma since she'd make homemade pesto all the time. Her version was waaaay less oily though, it was so much better!

I basically used this recipe for the salmon and potatoes. For the broccoli I just quickly tossed it with EVOO, salt/pepper/garlic since it was last minute.

Click here for the salmon & potato recipe from How Sweet Eats

Snickerdoodle Banana Bread

 

Snickerdoodle Banana Bread

We have a bunch of bananas to use so I'm making banana bread again. This recipe is MUCH better. The last one I did I make a streusel topping, but I think that's such an annoying process that it's not worth it to me. This was just topped with cinnamon sugar, which is much easier. I made it almost exactly as written but I did add extra cinnamon, a bit of Truvia brown sugar in with the flour mixture (my husband likes it really sweet), and I did add probably half a cup greek yogurt to make it extra moist. Oh I did add vanilla too, so I guess I did change it a bunch lol. This is definitely the recipe I'll be using from now on!

Click here for the Snickerdoodle Banana Bread recipe by Mmmrecipes

Edit: I'm making this recipe again and I'm looking at the recipe website, and I think it might be an AI website? There are so many recipes AI sites out there, it's super annoying. But the recipe worked out anyway. I wish they had to say if it's an AI site

Banana Bread with Streusel Topping

 

Banana Bread with Streusel Topping

Terrible picture because people got into it before I could take a picture lol. It's pretty good, a little dry though. I made the recipe exactly as it said except my eggs were cold and I microwaved the butter for 30 seconds to make it room tempature-ish. I figured it would be fine and it did work out so yay. The only thing I would do differently is I feel like it could use a bit of vanilla.

Click here for the Banana Bread with Streusel Topping recipe by Cake Babe

Smoked Pulled Pork Sliders with Mac & Cheese

 

Smoked Pulled Pork Sliders with Mac & Cheese

Craig smoked pulled pork on his smoker and we put it on Hawaiian rolls with horseradish and coleslaw. They are SO GOOD! The mac and cheese I made with the doubled recipe version. The recipe version only listed 1 cup of milk when I doubled it, but you need 2. I also should of put a bit less garlic. Still delicious though and I'd make it again. Oh yeah I used 1 cup of freshly grated mild cheddar, and 1 cup of Velveeta shreds.

Click here for the macaroni and cheese recipe by Joy Food Sunshine

Cinnamon Sugar Biscuit Waffles

 

Cinnamon Sugar Biscuit Waffles

I just took a can of biscuits, and sprayed down my mini dash waffle maker with butter spray. Once they were cooked I rolled it in a cinnamon/sugar mixture. We just ate them as is, and I thought they were just ok, a little dense, but the boys loved them. I loved how easy and quick it was! 

Instant Pot Beef Gyros

 

Instant Pot Beef Gyros

I liked how easy this was but it was a bit bland, even though I added extra seasoning. As I put the leftovers away I added even MORE seasoning lol. The tzatziki I also added shredded cucumber and pretty much tripled the spices. I still would make it again because I love gyros.

Click here for the Instant Pot Beef Gyros recipe by Tastes Better From Scratch

Roasted Veggies with Chicken Sausage & Rice

 

Roasted Veggies with Chicken Sausage & Rice

I just chopped up broccoli, 2 bell peppers, a bag of small red potatoes, and a package of jalapeno monterey chicken sausages and tossed it in EVOO with salt, pepper, garlic, and a hatch chili seasoning. I roasted the potatoes at 400 for 30 minutes, and the veggies & sausage for like 20 minutes. I served it over brown rice with pepperoncini hot sauce. 

Cafe Rio Smothered Burritos

 

Cafe Rio Smothered Burritos

This was excellent and I even got high praises from my husband. I followed the Cafe Rio Instant Pot recipe exactly. Then I filled the burritos with the pork, microwaveable cilantro lime rice, Bush's southwest beans, and shredded Mexican cheese. I baked uncovered at 350 for 20 minutes. I then topped it with some of the leftover sauce, monterey jack cheese, cilantro, hot sauce, onion and avocado. Super good!

Click here for the copycat Cafe Rio Pork recipe from Mel's Kitchen Cafe