Recipe: Cheeseburger Rounds

With the decline of my ability to even function properly until a few days ago, my cooking went out the window. I have wanted to try this recipe since the day I seen it on facebook. Its a video that came across my facebook news feed. My only issue was I had to keep pausing it to make sure I had the ingredients right so I am going to break it down for you but you should watch the video too.

Recipe:

1lbs hamburger
1tbs worecestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup onion
Shredded cheese
3 slices of bacon
1 cans of biscuit dough (I used Pillsbury, yes those weird hard like squares are supposed to be in I checked!)
Melt butter
Pickles (sliced from the round end)
Ketchup
Mustard

Directions:

1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2)  Cook bacon

3)  Cook hamburger in bacon grease,
    ---Add onion, salt, pepper, worecestershire sauce

4)  Separate your dough and squish it flat
    ---add a bit of bacon, hamburger mixture, cheese, pickle
    ---add a small amount of mustard and ketchup (too much will make it hard to close up)

5)  Close up bun and kind of roll it to make it round. Brush on butter

6)  Line baking sheet with parchment paper

7) Bake for 20 mins. Flip at 10 mins or they will burn!!!

These were good, next time I am going to do them as bacon, mushroom, swiss.
SO many ideas!!!

This is the video recipe

Spicy Scalloped Potatoes

Not my best photo but they tasted amazing!!!

When Lake Front first opened in Sarnia we had dinner there one night. I was very unhappy with our meals other then these scalloped potatoes they were like heaven in my mouth.

They were made with a local company's hot sauce called Front Street Heat. I decided that I needed to make them at home!

Finally last night I made and they were not 100% the same but they were amazing!

I created my recipe from mixing a few recipes over the years including using parts of our family recipe. I don't make scallops often because Richard isn't a big fan of them, I think that is why they are such a treat to my taste buds when I do make them.

Recipe:

12 Potatoes (I use whatever is on sale that week they were smaller potatoes this time so I used 12)
1 Onion
Mushroom soup
Garlic Powder (or fresh garlic whatever you have on hand)
1 soup can of milk
1/4 flour
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/4 teaspoon Pepper
1/4 teaspoon Spicy Paprika
1 teaspoon Front Street heat
1 bag of shredded nacho cheese


Directions:

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees

Thinly slice the potatoes

Chop the onion

Spray your baking dish with non-stick cooking spray

In a bowl add everything except the potatoes and cheese mix well

In your baking dish layer potato, a bit of sauce and hand full of cheese

Repeat the layers until your dish is full cover with remaining sauce, put a lit on and bake 1 hour

Take out and put cheese on the top let stand for about 10 mins

Enjoy!

Paired with homemade cabbage rolls and corn

Pinterest!!! Jalapeño popper dip!

I have tired this recipe before and loved it, not sure why I didn't blog about it back them.

This is a must try recipe, let is cool a little bit before eating it. It is also super simple for those OMG I need to bring something for the pot luck moments. It takes about 30 minutes start to finish

Full recipe and directions can be found here
Recipe:

1 jar of jalapenos drained and rinsed and chopped.
1 brick of cream cheese soft
1 cup of sour cream
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
3/4 cup of shredded parm cheese (I didn't have this so I used mozzarella just as good!)

Topping:
4 table spoons butter (melted)
1 cup bread crumbs (I used seasoned because that is what I happened to have on hand)
1 cup shredded parm cheese (I didn't have this so I used the stuff in the can you put on pasta)

Simple directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Mix all 5 top ingredients in a bowl until well combined. Spread in a 9*13 casserole dish (I used my round one because it was what I had right there)

Mix the next 3 ingredients in a bowl and until crumbled. Spread over the top of the dip.

Place in oven for 15-20 mins

Let cool

Enjoy!!!

Where are the shapes?

At first I thought it was a fluke, maybe the machine missed this one, nope it was the whole box. No I didn't eat them all in one sitting. Figured it would be a new texture to try out and would be fun, noooo my son hates them so I ate them. Again not in one sitting!!

I haven't had these since I was a kid and got them in our lunches, I know the late 80's early 90's when "Healthy lunches" were if mom sent an apple that you either gave away or traded for something.


Excited to show Blaine the shapes inside I unroll one and get ready to show him the fun. As I unroll it on the table to my shock as we look at this oddly formed square of fake fruit there is nothing, no shapes. Just two colours blending into one another. Blaine looks at me and says "I thought u said there was fun inside" sigh nope and of course he tries it and hates it. So I figure its maybe a fluke and I told him we would try another one next time.

A couple days pass and I had forgot I even had them, I was digging through the snack bin for something for myself and come cross them. Oh right! Lets try this again. I open it and unroll it and BAM nothing, what is going on here, why are there no fun shapes I don't get it. So I show my sons father he thinks I am crazy and that this isn't a big deal and of course he could careless, he apparently never liked them as a kid anyway. Well fine be that way.

I decide to email the company General Mills and see what their answer would be, or even if they would answer me back. I doubted it because it seems of little concern to anyone but myself.  If I wanted to eat a fruit by the foot that is what I would have brought!

SURPRISE they email me back well this should be interesting. I read the email and have a WTF moment. What on earth do shapes have to do with product freshness?

Here is the email:

Dear Ms. Heimbecker,

Thank you for contacting General Mills regarding Betty Crocker Fruit Roll-Ups.We continually experiment with new ways to offer our products to our consumers. A successful package is one that provides greater convenience for the consumer, improves the freshness of the product it protects and/or provides a new way to present the product. Fruit Roll-Ups do not have shapes at this time.

Thank you again for contacting us. We appreciate your interest.

Sincerely,
Francine Grant
Consumer Relations Representative
##:19150877

Well that was anticlimactic I was expecting I don't know, something that made actual sense. 

Have you noticed things that have changed food wise since your childhood?