Zucchini Meals!

Pinterest has been a great source for coming up with new and exciting recipes that have been great additions to the family cookbook. A few of these additions are....

Stuffed Zucchini
recipe found here...
http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/stuffed-zucchini
Although it is good with out meat, it is especially good with ground beef or bacon in it. However, eating the uncooked leftover stuffing is not as good. Not terrible but not as good.

Then there is Zucchini Pizza. I based my recipe off of this recipe...
http://prouditaliancook.blogspot.com/2010/05/tiny-tomatoes-big-taste.html
However, my Zucchini Pizzas are far less healthy. I spread a mixture of minced garlic, olive oil, salt, and pepper inside the hollowed out zucchini. Then I created a mixture of mini pepperoni slices, shredded mozzarella cheese, and pizza seasonings. Then I stuffed the zucchini boats with the mixture places them in a buttered dish. The zucchini pizzas were bake at 350 for 30 minutes sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and thoroughly enjoyed.

*Note: One zucchini feeds one person, unless using them as a side dish.

Not a five star meal.

So I have been trying out new recipes recently. Some have been great additions to our family cookbook while other were not good enough. Like...

The Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole was not only frustratingly long to prep, but did not taste as good the next day. Additionally, I think that my dislike for ham did not help in me wanting to make this dish ever again. Also I found out that Joe is not a fan of swiss cheese. So all around, the meal was not really a hit.

The next recipe was Broccoli Quiche and it proved to be extremely yummy. However, I didn't really have a pie pan to bake it in and my pie crust barely stretched enough to fit my Pampered Chef pizza stone. Although this was good I don't think that I will make it very often. Especially if I had to make the crust out of scratch. However, here is the link to the website where I found the recipe....  http://allrecipes.com/recipe/easy-broccoli-quiche/

Stressed bake some Desserts!

I have recently become obsessed with cake decorating. I was always into making desserts because let's face it they are super yummy and eating the leftover batter is the best part. But with the help of Melissa we have become pretty good at decorating, as long as we are working together. So here is a few of our creations.

Melissa's is on the left and mine is on the right.
I have trouble with frosting so that will have to be fixed.

Then, the season finale of The Walking Dead

came and a party was to be had.  So I aspired to make cupcakes with zombies popping out of them as if they were coming out of the ground. Then, that idea became too ambitious so I was going to draw a zombie face on the top of a cake. Well, I did not quite know how to make a good zombie face so I made a chocolate cake from scratch covered it with crushed Oreo's and wrote the TV show name on top. Super creative right? Haha! It was really yummy though. :) 

Side view of the Walking Dead cake.

Melissa's and my next successful adventure in cake decoration was the invention of R2D2

and the Death Star from the movie Star Wars. Melissa was trying out this decoration for

a friend's birthday coming up in the next couple of month. It took forever, but the end result

was amazing! What a fun day!! :)

The most recent adventure in baking has been the favored Death by Chocolate. Look how delicious this is! 

How to make: brownies, chocolate pudding, whipped cream English toffee pieces or crushed up Heath Bars, repeat. Topped with tons of crushed up heath bars and you have a wonderful layered dessert!!! Whooo!! Yay for yummy. :)

*Note: I used this brownie recipe for my Death by Chocolate dessert.
 http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipe-details.aspx?id=5008&name=Best-Brownies