Saturday, September 24, 2011

Parmesan Crusted Chicken

The finished product! (you can see the water around it)
Yummmmy

I'll be honest that the only reason I made this was because 1) chicken was on sale at Target, 2) the Hellman's commercial made it look so damnnn good.



Ingredients:

4 chicken breasts - thawed
1/2 cup mayo (I used Miracle Whip, but I would not advise that.. it was a weird flavor).
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
4 tsp of Italian dry bread crumb seasoning (I used pinches instead, but whatever floats your boat).

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Mix the mayo/cheese into a bowl. Lay the breasts out onto a cookie sheet. Follow this up by putting the mixture onto the chicken in dollops and then spreading. Then pinch as much seasoning as you want onto each chicken. Cook for 20 minutes or until the chicken is no longer pink.


Note: I noticed a lot of water in the pan, which kind of freaked me out so I left it in another ten minutes. Don't do this. It dries the chicken out and the water is from the cheese/mayo. It's done at 20 minutes if you put it on the middle rack of the oven.

Puppy Chow

Chocolate/Peanut butter goodness :]]]
All that you need to make your day a million times better.
Ugh. So good. It was hard not to eat the entire bowl instead of dinner.


So some people may be turned off by the name of this dish, but it has been one of my favorites since forever.



Ingredients:

1/2 cup of peanut butter
5 blocks of semi-sweet baker's squares
1 box of chex (doesn't matter what kind)
Powdered sugar (the recipe calls for a tbsp but I for sure used about 1/2 a cup)

First melt the peanut butter and chocolate in the microwave until well blended.

Next, pour the cereal into a mixing bowl and put the chocolate/peanut butter deliciousness over it.

Allow it to cool. (I didn't do that, which is why the pictures don't show as much powdered sugar).

After it has cooled, pour the powdered sugar over the top and mix it all up.

Enjoy the deliciousness that is Puppy Chow.


Note: The recipe said to pour all the cereal out onto wax paper and make sure that none of them were overlapping. I guess you can do that if you happen to have a 36 hour day in your life, but I just mixed it all together because it's all the same to me. You can also put them in brown paper bags and shake it all up too. Also, the recipe says to use 2 boxes of cereal, and if you have a small army to feed, that's great. This recipe made about six or seven ziploc bags full of it (including the ones that I snuck here and there throughout the process).