Grant and I love lasagna! It is a go to meal and I think this is what Grant wanted at this last birthday as the meal of choice! I should start adding spinach or mushrooms, but this recipe is just so good as it is we never have looked to improve it! This recipe is baked in the oven, but I want to try a crock pot version eventually, I don’t see how it wouldn’t work.
Grant and I like most chinese food. Growing up, I loved the orange chicken at Panda Express a lot. My mom and I would go on dates there randomly. I saw THIS  recipe floating around pinterest, and decided I would give it a try and let you know what I think. The process was very simple, and the result was very similar  to restaurants which I was surprised about! The tastes was VERY orange. I would have preferred a more subtle orange flavor. But I will at least show you the step by step on how to make it. In future, I will just change the actual sauce that we put into the crock pot and do everything else the same.
Here is a really great and easy recipe that is a staple in our family. I prefer Chili with more beans than meat, but Grant isn’t a huge lover of Beans so I have to have a higher meat to bean ratio. 🙂 The things Grant actually cares about crack me up. Before I met Grant, I didn’t realize that people had texture issues with foods. Oh well, him being particular about foods just makes me laugh inside. I love how certain things makes everyone unique.
Here is one of my favorite recipes. There are THOUSANDS of different version of Chicken Salad! There was one that I grew up with that the amazing ladies at my church in Ohio always made, and it had grapes and cashews in it. I have to say that I am partial to a sweeter version of chicken salad. Of the varieties found in restaurants, Panera Bread has the best one hands down in my opinion. Well you can disagree with me and that is fine because little things make a huge difference. My older sister Kira has a great version too. I begged my mother in law, Gail, to ask the amazing ladies at church to give me their recipe. I have to say she did AMAZING!
Grant and I eat pizza at least once a week. Grant loves pizza and would ask for it every night for dinner if I would let him. My Aunt Irene gave me a teflon sheet the last time she visited America for my Cousin’s wedding. The teflon can be used as a liner in the oven to catch drips or to bake on, and I am sure many other uses. This teflon sheet made making a crispy pizza heaven! We use a stone to cook our pizza on because we think it makes it taste better than a cookie sheet. The issue with a stone though is if you put the pizza on it while the stone is cold it takes a long time for it to get hot and the middle of the pizza can still be doughy, but the top could be burning. So you need to heat the stone in the oven, then place your pizza on top. This is hard though, you need a pizza peel, but then you add either a ton of flour or cornmeal, and I don’t like the bottom of the pizzas to have either on them. They still can stick or fold in half. So, this is the method that we came up with!
Creamy Tortellini is a staple recipe in my family even when I was growing up. I have never really met anyone who didn’t like it; I have met a few people who can’t do dairy, and that might make this a problem. This is a very quick and easy dish to make that takes about 20 mins. for prep time.