Tasty Corn

I have another recipe...sort of!

I made this tasty butter for our corn tonight to go with our tacos! I found the ingredients from someone in a forum that I no longer know where I found it. :-/ It is very delicious though!

1 stick of butter
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/8 tsp salt
juice of 1 lime
small handful of cilantro

All of these ingredients are going to be put into a food processor. First, I cut up my stick of butter into pieces and threw them in the processor. (It helps if you soften or even melt the butter a little bit before putting it in.) Next, I dropped in my cilantro, chili powder, salt, and juice of my lime. Finally, pulse until the mixture is creamy. And voila! That's it!

I had corn that you cook in the bag in the microwave. So, I cooked my corn, then put it in a bowl and stirred in my butter mixture. It was the best corn I have eaten in such a long time! I bet it would be great to rub on some corn on the cobs too!

Baked Buffalo Chicken Pasta

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Yum Yum Yum!! This Buffalo Baked Chicken Pasta was delicious!!

Baked Buffalo Chicken Pasta
serves 4-6
1 pound pasta (I used whole wheat mini penne)
3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cooked and cut into chunks
2 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoon flour
1 1/2 cups milk
3-4 handfuls of a Mexican Cheese Blend1/6 cup buffalo wing sauce
1/3 cup panko bread crumbs
salt and pepper to taste
for garnish: 3/4 cup chopped green onions, 1/2 cup fresh cilantro, 1/2 cup Mozzarella cheese, additional buffalo wing sauce.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Prepare water for pasta and cook according to directions.
While pasta is cooking, heat a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the butter, and once it’s melted and bubbly add the flour. Whisk together to create a roux and cook for 1-2 minutes until mixture gets a bit golden in color. Add milk, stir and turn down heat to low. Continue stirring until milk thickens. Add in grated cheeses and continue to stir until mixture is smooth. Stir in buffalo wing sauce. Taste and season with salt and pepper if needed.
Spray a baking dish (9 x 13 is fine) with non-stick spray. Add pasta and chicken, then pour cheese sauce over and mix thoroughly until everything is coated. Sprinkle with additional grated cheese and bread crumbs. Bake for 25 minutes or until cheese is golden brown. Remove from oven and immediately top with Mozzarella, green onions and cilantro. Drizzle with buffalo wing sauce.

**I only topped half of the dish with the green onions, cilantro, and extra buffalo sauce, so that Landin would still love it. Since I only put 1/6 cup of buffalo sauce in the cheese sauce the taste was very mild. Landin LOVED it! Trev, of course, had to add extra extra buffalo sauce to make it to his liking. I served the pasta with celery with ranch dip and cheesy mashed potatoes. 

*Recipe adapted from How Sweet it is

Our Life Lately

Spring has finally hit us here in Washington. We had a few days that were just absolutely beautiful. On those days I thought to myself, "This is why people live here. I am so thankful I get to experience this". Really! It was so perfect I had to stop and just enjoy it. I do not like the hot weather and usually stay out of the sun's rays as much as possible. Up here though you can sit in the sun and not get too hot. I just love it!

Other than me enjoying the sun, Landin has gotten to play outside! Hooray! We have been playing inside for the past few months which means endless rounds of tag and hide-and-go-seek. (It's not very fun when you HAVE to hide in the same spot 10 times in a row because Landin says so.) Our outside activities include riding bikes, watering the grass/flowers/weeds, playing fetch with Dotti, and digging in the rocks. It is really fun stuff.

So most of you that read this already know that Landin is a handful. I'm still waiting for the 3-year-old phase to pass. It isn't going quick enough. He can be very extreme in his emotions and actions. One minute he will come up to hug you which will then turn into a full on choke hold that you aren't getting out of even if you ask nicely 3 times. Trev and I just continue to look forward to the future when he no longer thinks it is fun to smack, spit, run, and not listen. It is will happen....it has to!!!

In other news Trev and I just started the Insanity program yesterday. The first day is just a "Fit Test" where you do a certain move as many times as humanly possible in one minute. There are 8 moves that will KICK YOU BUTT at the end of the test. I was huffin' and puffin' like I was a crazy bad wolf or something! (haha one of Landin's favorite book: "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka. Check it out!) So, we are going to kill ourselves over the next 60 days. Wedding body here I come!!!