Recipe Review: 7 Layer Bars

If you like butterscotch chips, this is definitely a 5-star recipe!  I ate the whole pan myself!  This recipe is from Cookie Madness.  Get it here.

Pumpkin Fruit Pizza

Happy Halloween! Try this at home with sugar cookie dough, frosting, and some fruit!

Winger's Sticky Finger Salad

I wanted to copy the sticky finger salad that I'm always ordering at Wingers, using the Amazing Sauce that we bought from them.  Here's what I did.

Sticky Finger Salad

Green Leaf Lettuce, chopped
Shredded Cheddar Cheese
craisins
Sticky fingers
cherry tomatoes (optional)
Ranch Dressing

Layer on the plate just before serving.  It's as simple as that!  The magic is in the craisins, yum, yum.

 Sticky Fingers


First, I bought a bag of frozen pre-breaded chicken tenders from Costco, which cook for around 20 minutes.  Five minutes before they are done, I take them out and cut them into strips and return them to the oven.  Then I cook them 10 minutes longer (five minutes over time) so they are nice and crunchy.  I pull them out, put them in a bowl, and drizzle the Amazing Sauce over and I have sticky fingers for under $2.50/lb.  I estimate that I am using $1 worth of sticky fingers on each salad (and that is the most expensive part).

Note- Here is an attempt at reproducing Winger's Amazing Sauce.  I use 3 cups brown sugar and boil it with 1 cup Frank's hot sauce.  Tastes just like it!

Angel Food Cake

Hmmmm....a little shabby?  

No recipe. This was from a box.

Ham/Turkey Stuffing Rollups

Ham or Turkey Stuffing Rollups

6 peices of Ham or Turkey.

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 c. sour cream

1 box of stove top stuffing, cooked according to package

leftover swiss, provolone or mozerella slices

Roll the stuffing up in the slices of ham or turkey.  Combine sour cream and cream of chicken soup and pour over rolls.  Top with cheese.  Bake at 350 degrees for half an hour.

Oreo Cookies

This recipe comes with a short story.  I had tried chocolate chip cookies in a pie pan (for a bar cookie...it didn't work) and happened to have it with me while I was studying for my spring term class 5 years ago.  I remember we were doing homework at the whiteboard - a typical engineer's setting - and I shared it with my study buddy.  The next day in class, a bag of these oreo cookies plopped on my desk in return.  I think that's when I figured he must like me.  They were marvelous and amazing.  Later we got married I adopted this recipe as my own.  I understand now why it's a good recipe for a guy: with 3 ingredients and one is a cake mix, you can't go wrong!

Easy Oreo Cookies

1 box milk chocolate cake mix

2 eggs

2/3 c. shortening

Filling

2 1/2 c. powdered sugar

2 TBSP margarine

1 tsp vanilla

Mix cookie dough and form VERY small drop cookies with them.  Cook on a light cookie sheet for exactly 8 minutes at 375 degrees.  Cool on wire rack before frosting.  Keep in an airtight container and the next day the frosting will be harder and the cookies will be softer.  Yum!

Thai Lettuce Wraps

I love this recipe.  I got this recipe from a great cook and friend several years ago.  I hope she doesn't mind that I share it.  It is a real gem because it is so healthy and tasty.  The key to the tasty is the marinading.  I always skip the bean sprouts and the chow mein noodles because I don't keep them on-hand.  This is also one of the few recipes I make with brown rice every time because it actually tastes better.

Thai Lettuce Wraps

¼ cup soy sauce

¼ cup orange juice
1 tbs sugar
1 tbs vegetable oil
2 cloves garlic
2 chicken breasts

Mix all the ingredients (reserving about ½ of it and pour over the chicken in a plastic bag. Marinate for at least one hour, and grill the chicken until cooked through brushing often with marinade. With the rest of the liquid, pour into a pan. Heat up stirring constantly until hot. Thicken with cornstarch.

Romaine lettuce (I use green leaf)
Bean Sprouts (I skip this)
Onions soaked in basalmic vinegar mixed with a dash of oregano and basil
Steamed Rice
Grated Carrots
Crunchy chow mein noodles (I skip this)

Once the chicken is done, slice it into thin pieces. Pull off the lettuce leaves and put them out whole. Stuff a lettuce leaf with chicken, the leftover thickened sauce, rice, onions, bean sprouts and grated carrots and roll up like a burrito.