7.24.2015

Baked Corn Dogs & Purple Potato Salad



The kids love it when I make Homemade Corn Dogs!

With my youngest, we whipped up the batter, rolled out the dough, wrapped up the hot dogs, and stuck 'em in the oven.

Then before you know it their sitting on a stick ready to eat. 
Yum!

Baked Corn Dogs
By Meagan "The Baker Mama"
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Gold Medal® white whole wheat flour
  • 1 cup yellow cornmeal
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground mustard
  • 6 tablespoons butter
  • ½ cup non-fat milk
  • ¼ cup honey
  • 7 lean beef hot dog franks, cut in half
  • 14 wooden sticks
  • mustard & ketchup, for serving
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt and ground mustard. Cut in the butter with a pastry blender or two forks until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in the milk and honey with a wooden spoon or your hands until well combined.
  3. Place dough on a lightly floured piece of parchment paper. Sprinkle some more flour over the dough and top with another piece of parchment paper. Roll dough to ¼-inch thickness.
  4. Push a wooden stick up the center of the cut end of each hot dog half. Place the dog on the dough and cut a square that is big enough to wrap around it. Form dough around each dog sealing both ends and any open areas. Place corn dogs on the prepared baking sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes or until they start to brown. Serve with mustard and ketchup for dipping.

*I use Applegate's Organic Uncured Grass-fed Beef Hot Dogs which I prefer, or National Hebrew: Kosher Beef Frank Hot Dogs


I also whipped up some Purple Potato Salad and had it sitting in the fridge from the day before ready to go.
Because you know Potato Salad is always better the next day!
:)

7.05.2015

Navajo Breakfast Burritos


My Shimasani (Grandma) came for a visit and she made some Naaniskadi, Navajo Tortillas, for breakfast burritos!


All the kids gathered around her, just like I did with my other cousins when we were little, and she let them help her make the Naaniskadi.

I cooked the potatoes, eggs, and of course spam!


Top it off with some salsa because my kids like it with salsa and I had to get a picture fast before they were all gone!


Grandma's Naaniskadi is the best. I definitely can't get mine anywhere near hers yet!

7.01.2015

The Party Plate: "Corn Chip Pie!"


Today's lunch plate was a leftover leftover party!!!

In lieu, of the awesome chili recipes, we put all our leftovers from the last few days on this plate, thus the party plate!!...

Frito Corn Chips on the bottom, leftover homemade veggie chili, mixed w/ our leftover Annie's Organic Mac&Cheese and black bean soup, and green beans. Then topped with sharp cheddar cheese and our salad!

Oh yeah, who doesn't like a party plate and lifesaving leftovers all in one!

My kids sure enjoyed the party :)



Cornbread Chili Casserole


While searching for Chili recipes the other day I came across Wolf Brand Chili Classic Recipes Ideas and whoa, they've got some awesome Chili Creations!! Since I had some homemade veggie chili in the freezer I had to use it and try this one...


INGREDIENTS

1 pkg (8.5 oz each) corn muffin mix
2 eggs
1 can (11 oz each) whole kernel corn with red and green peppers, drained
1/2 cup reduced fat sour cream (or plain yogurt)
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 can (15 oz each) Wolf® Brand Chili Lean Beef With Beans
1 cup shredded reduced fat Cheddar & Monterey Jack cheese

Makes: 8 servings (about 1 cup each)

DIRECTIONS
  • 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Spray 8x8-inch glass baking dish with cooking spray; set aside. Stir together corn muffin mix, eggs, corn with peppers, sour cream and sugar in large bowl.
  • 2. Spread batter in bottom of prepared dish. Spoon chili evenly over top of batter, up to 1/2 inch of sides of dish. Sprinkle with cheese.
  • 3. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until bubbly and edges are browned.


And the best part about it is that its super easy to put together and the kids did most of the work. 
They also helped me steam some green beans and make a fresh salad. 

The Fish Fam definitely loved this meal! 

Chili Taquito Casserole



So this was a totally random look in the pantry and fridge to see what foods we have meal!

We've been traveling and haven't gone grocery shopping so come Sunday I looked around and came up with this meal. 
Interesting, but the Fish Fam loved it. 

I had lots of canned Chili in the pantry that my husband bought on sale last summer to take camping and we still have lots left. 
So, then to help my creative juices get flowing I looked up some canned chili meal ideas and walla...


I had some frozen organic hash browns, which I fried up, then put at the bottom of a casserole dish. Topped the potatoes with the heated up canned chili and then bake at 375deg in the oven for 15mins while the taquitos also baked. At the same time those were in the oven I steamed some frozen corn and green beans.

When the time was up I pushed some of the chili to one side of the dish and then added all the taquitos and then pushed the chili back over them. Then topped it with the corn and green beans, with some fresh tomatoes and green onions.

Yum! Well at least they said it was yum!