Easy Fettucine Alfredo

8 oz fettucine noodles
1/2 cup whipping cream
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 tsp. salt
dash of pepper
2 tsp. parsley

 1. Cook noodles according to package. Drain and keep warm.
 2. In a medium-sized saucepan, heat butter and whipping cream over low heat, just until melted. Stir    
to blend.
 3. Stir in cheese, salt and pepper.
 4. Pour sauce over hot noodles. Sprinkle with parsley. Serve!

I LOVE LOVE this recipe!!! It's super delicious and super easy! Its one of my new favorites! I recommend storing the sauce and noodles separately. 

Ranch Roasted Potatoes

2 pounds red potatoes, washed and quartered
1/4 cup vegetable or olive oil
1 (1-ounce) packet dry Ranch dressing mix

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Cover a baking sheet with foil and set aside. Place potatoes in a resealable plastic bag and add oil. Toss to coat completely and add dry salad dressing mix to the bag. Toss once again to coat potatoes in dressing mix. Bake on prepared baking sheet 35 minutes, or until potatoes are brown and crisp.
Makes 6 servings!

We also liked this recipe a lot. It was crazy easy. We thought they almost tasted like potato wedges. Next time I think I would add just a little season salt to add a little more flavor!

Baked Buffalo Wings

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp salt
20 chicken wings
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup hot pepper sauce (for example, Franks RedHot sauce)
Ranch dressing or blue cheese dressing, for dipping.

Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and lightly grease with cooking spray. Place flour, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, and salt into a resealable plastic bag and shake to mix. Make sure chicken wings are completely dry and add them to the bag. Seal bag and toss until wings are well coated with flour mixture.

Place wings onto prepared baking sheet and place in refrigerator. Chill at least 1 hour to prevent wings from getting soggy. (For faster preparation, place wings in the freezer about 20 min)

Whisk together melted butter and hot sauce in a small bowl. Dip wings into butter mixture, and place back on baking sheet. Bake about 45 minutes, until chicken is no longer pink in the center and is crispy on the outside. The internal temperature should reach 165 degrees F. Rotate wings halfway through cooking time so they cook evenly.

Serve with your favorite dips or eat plain-they are delicious either way!
Makes 20 wings.

We really liked this recipe but they weren't really very hot. So if you like the flavor of buffalo wings without the heat these were made for you! We ate them with carrots and ranch! I have a picture of my cute husband enjoying these but I've been forbidden to post it…men. ;)

Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes

1 pound ground beef
1 onion, diced
3 ribs celery, diced (I skipped)
1 Green pepper
1 (10.75 oz) can condensed tomato soup
 1/2 cup ketchup
2 tbsp mustard
1 tbsp light brown sugar
Salt and Pepper to taste
6-8 hamburger buns, toasted

In a large skillet, add ground meat, onion, celery and green pepper and cook over medium-high heat until meat is no longer pink. Place in slow cooker coated with cooking spray.

Add tomato soup, ketchup, mustard, and brown sugar to ingredients in slow cooker and stir together.

Cook on low 4 hours; keep warm until serving. Serve on hamburger buns.

Makes 6-8 servings

I got this recipe out of my "Six Sisters Stuff" recipe book and I LOVE THIS RECIPE!!!! Dallen actually made it and we think it turned out great! We served them on our homemade hamburger buns! I even think you could alter this recipe to make a chili out of it! Mmm it is delicious!

Banana Pumpkin Bread

I had bananas…I had pumpkin.. they needed used so I looked up a banana pumpkin recipe. I wasn't a huge fan of this bread but I should have known when you mix two nasty things together it won't turn out delicious. It needs chocolate….or something. But if you are a banana/pumpkin fan you might actually enjoy this. Recipe here.

Chunky Potato Soup

Here's for everyone that went to Clint and Athena's luncheon in Monticello.

4 or 5 med. potatoes
1 small onion Tbsp butter
3 Tbsp flour
3 cups milk
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 cup cubed cooked ham

Peel potatoes and cut into small cubes. Boil in water until tender, drain reserving liquid but set aside 1 cup of the cooking liquid. Set aside potatoes. Peel and finely chop onion. Melt butter n saucepan over med. heat. Add onion, cook stirring frequently until onion is clear and tender but not brown. Add flour to saucepan; season with pepper flakes and pepper to taste, cook 3-4 min. Gradually add potatoes, reserved cooking liquid, milk and onion. Stir well. Add cheese and ham. Simmer over low heat 30 min. stir frequently.

Rosemary Roast Chicken

The third little pig has arrived! So a Personal Progress experience I had to do was to cook meals for my family for two weeks, and of course the last two weeks that I had to accomplish this experience was the last two weeks of play practice/performances so I only had about an hour and a half to make dinner so, here is a really super simple chicken recipe that turned out to be way better than I thought it would.

Lemon 1, Juiced
Olive Oil 1/4 cup
Dijon Mustard 3 tablespoons
6 Chicken Pieces
FRESH Rosemary 2 tablespoons
Salt 1/4 teaspoon
Pepper 1 pinch


Put the chicken into a baking pan (closer together for juicier meat) mix lemon juice, oil, mustard, and pour over chicken, then sprinkle the salt, pepper, and fresh rosemary on top. You can let the chicken marinade for and hour or so in the fridge if desired (but it's still good either way) Cook at 400 for 45-50 minutes.

I also mixed just whatever I felt like into the marinade, some different spices and BBQ sauce.

WARNING: Don't use dried Rosemary!! They will have no flavor and it will be like trying to eat little twigs on your chicken. You don't even have to have rosemary honestly.

Hamburger Buns

I am seriously the worst at taking pictures so what you see here isn't the finished product but pretty much what they looked like right before they went into the oven. Ive never made hamburger buns before but Dallen and I thought they turned out really well! They were so soft but not so soft they stick to the roof of your mouth, they really were perfect! I will be using this recipe again. Next time I think I'll add a little wheat flour to it! Recipe here!

Banana Muffins

I work at a hotel and with it being the slower season sometimes the food goes bad and they can't put bananas out that have spots on them (whatever…) So I took some home and made some banana muffins. You can find the recipe here. 

They turned out pretty good, I'm not a huge banana fan but they taste like banana muffins lol! You can be expecting more banana recipes from me :)