Spicy Shrimp Alfredo!!

HEY EVERYONE!!!! Ready for another recipe!!???

When I was in 7th grade I was in charge of making little snacks for my sisters first homecoming group! SOOOO I decided to make sauteed shrimp! After they began sautéing for a little bit, I began adding spices and it turned out great!! And now I just keep making different concoctions to see what I can come up with!!

And out of all the different ways I've tried this recipe, this has to be my favorite!! HERE WE GO!!!!!!!

INGREDIENTS!!!
1 pkg of angel hair pasta
1 pkg of deveined, peeled, shrimp
1/8 tsp of minced garlic
1 tblsp of red pepper flakes
1 jar of alfredo sauce (or homemade alfredo)

DIRECTIONS!!!
Alright!!!! So lets begin!!! Before you even begin cooking, thaw out the shrimp and remove the tails. After that, start to boil the water for your angel hair pasta! (you can use spaghetti, but angel hair works better with the shrimp and it doesnt take long to cook!)

Once your water is almost up to a boil, put butter in a sautee pan and let it melt. Once the pan is heated up, add the shrimp. Once you have added the shrimp, put your pasta in and let that cook to your liking!

Once your shrimp has cooked for about 5 minutes, add the red pepper flakes (I like to cover the shrimp in the red pepper flakes, it gives it a little bite!!), and add the garlic! Once that has sauteed for about a minute, add the alfredo sauce and cover to let simmer until your pasta is done!

After your pasta is finished, YOU'RE ALL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this recipe and I really hope you guys find this delicious!!! This simple recipe has so much flavor and it's also a very filling meal! SO WHO WOULDN'T LIKE THAT!!!!!!!??????

You can garnish this with parsley, basil, or more red pepper flakes!!! 

HAPPY COOKING!!!! :)

Blackened Tilapia Sandwiches!!!

This is such a yummy fish recipe!!! :) I'm not one to eat talapia a lot but evey now and again I really enjoy it!!! This recipe has made me want it more often! :) Plus it's made with my homemade tartar sauce!!! :D This dinner is low in calories and very satisying!

Ingredients!
Fish!
3 Tilapia Filets
2 eggs
little shot of milk
flour
pepper
blackening seasoning
Cooking oil (for frying)
Lettuce

Tartar Sauce!!
1 cup of mayonnaise 
1 whole dill pickle
1 tablespoon of snipped parsley
1 teaspoon of shredded onion

Directions:
First you need to make the tartar sauce and then put in the fridge!
So FIRST THINGS FIRST! Spoon out about a cup of mayo and put in a bowl you are going to serve the tartar sauce in! Next, take a whole dill pickle and chop it to your liking! If you like big chunks of dill then do a rough chop, but if not, finely chop the pickle :) Next shed your onion with a cheese grater! (if you have a food processor go ahead and do a rough chop of both the pickle and the onion and process it that way!!)  NEXT add the tablespoon of parsley and stir away!!!!

NOW FOR THE FISH!!!!
So first you need to get a bowl and crack the eggs and add the shot of milk, and mix it. After that, get your flour and put it on a plate along with the pepper and blackened seasoning! (Make sure you mix the flour and pepper and seasoning so it gets on all the fish!) First dunk the fish in the egg wash and make sure it's coated well, after that put the flour on the fish! During this time, you should be heating your oil in a pan or on your fryer as well!!

When the fish is almost done frying, toast the bread in the oven and shred your lettuce! That way you are ready to indulge when the fish gets out of the fryer!!! 
YOUR FINISHING PRODUCT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS!!!!! :)

I absolutely love this dinner :) I hope you all enjoy this dish as much as my family has!!! :) 
ENJOY EVERYONE!!!

Yummy Yummy Spicy Rigatoni!! :)

Okay here we go with ANOTHER pasta recipe :)

This one is very easy as well as the last one I posted!!

INGREDIENTS:
1/4 cup oil
1/2 tbs crushed red pepper
1/8 tsp salt
1/8 tsp black pepper
1 tbs chopped (or minced) garlic
6 oz of chicken, sliced
1 jar of marinara sauce
1 jar of alfredo sauce
2 tsp butter (or more, you can never have enough butter!!)
1/4 cup peas
1 pkg of Rigatoni pasta, cooked to your liking!

DIRECTIONS!!! :) 
In a saute pan, heat oil over medium heat. I even went more then a 1/4 cup and I just made sure the bottom of the pan was covered :) Next, add your red pepper flakes, garlic, salt, and pepper. Saute the seasonings until the garlic has a carmalized look to it! add the sliced chicken in the saute pan and mix it all together so the spices get into the chicken! (you will know when to add the chicken when you can hardly stand over the pan anymore because all the spices are letting their flavor go!)

After you let the chicken sit for a little, add the marinara and alfredo sauce! :) Cover the saute pan and let that sit till you are ready to add the peas!

NEXT!! Go ahead and start boiling the water to cook your pasta. Once that is all ready to go, put your pasta in and let it cook!! Once your pasta is all done cooking, drain it and then put it in a large serving bowl. Before you drain the pasta however, turn the stove off under the sauce and add your butter and peas then cover again. (I always like to rinse off my noodles under warm water to get the extra startch off!) Once the butter is melted, pour the sauce right on top of the noodles sitting in that serving bowl! AND ENJOYYY!!! :) 

This was a recipe I've always wanted to try!! :) Now that i did, it's going in my recipe book :) I hope you all enjoy this dish as much as my family and I :)

Spaghetti Carbonara!!!

Okay everyone!! Recipe #3!! My husband absolutely LOVES this recipe! Now lets get started with exactly what you will be needing :)

Ingredients: 

1/2 lb of bacon
4 eggs
1 pkg of spaghetti
Parsley for garnish


I know only 3 ingredients!!! This recipe has been a night saver in our house when we need to go grocery shopping, but we haven't been paid yet!!

Directions: 

First, you want to defrost your bacon (it makes it easier to cut into chunks). Start boiling your water and heating your frying pan at the same time! Once your bacon is all defrosted, take it out of the package and but it into about 1 inch chunks! Once that is all done, put your bacon in your pan over medium heat (we dont want to burn the bacon!!). And at that same time, put your noddles in their pot!!

Cook your spaghetti (or you can even use angel hair pasta) to your liking. Alos, make sure you keep a close eye on your bacon. It will stick to the bottom of the pan if you are not careful!! Now while you are waiting for the pasta and bacon to be done, get out 4 large eggs and mix them in a small bowl. (I usually use a fork to scramble the eggs.) And once that is done put it aside. 

Now it's time for the action!!! Most likely your pasta will be done before the bacon so drain your pasta and put i back into the pan with a generous helping of butter, so the noodles wont stick!! Once your bacon is done, put all the bacon chunks into the spaghetti pan and also add about a tablespoon of the bacon grease! (I know it sooo unhealthy but it's super yummy and also makes the eggs stick better!!) Once you have that in, immediately add the eggs!!! Now once you add the eggs you need to grab tongs and start folding the spaghetti! Make sure you dont handle the pasta too much because you will have scrambled eggs! :) 

AND WA-LA!!!! You have a simple, easy and cheap recipe to make :) And like I said above, use parsley for garnish!! It makes it really pretty!!! :) 

I hope everyone loves this recipe as much as my husband and I do :) HAPPY COOKING!!!!! :D

Homemade Applesauce!

Okay everyone!! Here's my second recipe! Homemade Applesauce! One lady from my church had a huge apple tree growing and she finally got to pick all the apples off and she saved a bag for Bo and I. And I mean this bag is HUGE!!! Sooo many apples! So i started thinking of different things I could do with apples and I decided to try and make my own applesauce!

Ingredients:
4 apples (any kind you want) peeled, cored and chopped
3/4 cup of water
1/4 of white sugar
1/2 tsp of brown sugar
1/2 tsp of cinnamon

DIRECTIONS!!

First, you need to peel, core, and chop the apples. Chop the apple slices into little cubes. Any size you want will be fine. Add the apples in a sautee pan along with water, both sugars, and cinnamon.

Once those ingredients are all in, cover and let sit for 15-20 minutes or until the apples are soft enough to mash. About halfway through, add more water so the apples stay moist.  Make it easier on yourself and cook those apples till they are nice and soft! Next, take the apples out of the sautee pan and put it in a bowl so it's easier to mash! You can use a fork or a potato masher to get the job done! I used a fork and after a horrible 20 minutes of mashing and getting no where fast, I turned to the easy road and went to the blender! And it took 30 seconds to get the job done! And the ending result should look like this!!!

This recipe was so easy and sooo delicious! I put it in the refrigerator so I can eat it nice a cold! :) I hope you guys enjoy!!! 

Hickory Smoked Beef Kabobs

OKAY EVERYONE!!! Here's my first official recipe for my blog!!! WITH PICTURES!!!

Ingedients:

Two Packages of beef sirloin cut into cubes

1 bottle of Hickory Honey Smoked BBQ Sauce

1 Red Pepper

1 Green Pepper

1 Red Onion

4 skewers

Directions: WITH PICTURES!!!

First, cut the beef into 1 inch cubes. Then wash and take the seeds out of the peppers. After you wash them, cut the peppers and onions into squares as well. Make sure the onions and peppers are the same size so they fit on the skewers. Start by skewering a piece of beef then one of each pepper, then the onion. Repeat that process until you run out of skewers and ingredients. Once your done it will look like this! --->

Get your BBQ sauce ready in a bowl with a baste brush. Once the grill is ready for use, place the skewers on and let one side cook for about 5 minutes then turn over to baste the beef and vegetables. Cook each side for about 10 mintues each (or until you feel it's ready). Remember to baste each side of the meat with the BBQ sauce each time you turn the skewers. 

Your ending result will look like this!!! This is such an easy meal and it takes less then an hour to prepare and about an hour to cook (including the time it takes to heat the charcoal grill)! 

Always remember to have a little balance in your meals as well! So make sure you have a fruit and vegetable on the table as well!!

Strawberries and Green beans with cream of mushroom soup was the perfect addition to an amazing meal!!! :) 

Welcome to My Cooking Blog!

Hello Everyone!!

It means so much to me that you are checking out my blog and hopefully I make good enough meals that you are inspired to try them out in your own home!

I am a mother of a wonderful baby boy and a wife to an amazing husband! I'm also a full time college student and I work twice a week! I'm a very busy lady and I love it that way! I hope I can make all the busy as can be mother's and wives out there that cooking can be easy with just a few simple tools to remember!

My goal is to make delicious meals from scratch! From the marinade I use to season my meats, to the fresh bread I put on the table as the side dish! I want my children growing up with the memory of a fresh, made from scratch meal every night for dinner!

But let's be realistic!!! A made from scratch homemade dinner can be anywhere from 2 hours to 2 days preperation! SO! In that case, I will also have some fabulous crockpot recipes and dinners that take less then 2 hours to make! So on those busy nights you can have a meal that will be fresh and yummy!