Stuffed Mushrooms

Due to the fact that I could eat mushrooms everyday, I am shocked that it took me so long to make stuffed mushrooms.  This was my first attempt ever and they were DELICIOUS!  I changed the recipe I found and added one of the other favorite ingredients, bacon.  I had always thought that stuffed mushrooms were really time consuming and hard to make. Boy was I wrong.  It ended up taking about 30 minutes after cutting everything up and pulling out the food processor.  The work was well worth it.  I halved the recipe I found and still had a bunch of filling left over.

Ingredients:
20 mushrooms, about 2 inches in diameter
1/2 onion chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 garlic cloves chopped
2 sliced of crispy bacon, chopped
3 slice white bread
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon parsley
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper


Remove stem from mushrooms and finely chop, set aside.  Put cubed bread slices into food processor and chop into bread crumbs.  Add in olive oil, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.  Place in a baking pan and spread out.  Bake at 350 for about 6 minutes, allowing bread to dry out.  While bread is baking, saute chopped mushroom stems in butter for about 5 minutes.  Add in onion, bacon, garlic, oregano and remainder of salt & pepper.  Cook until onion is translucent and remove from heat.  Let the mixture cool and then add in bread crumbs, cheese and parsley.  

Place the mushroom caps stem side down in another baking dish.  Bake at 350 for around 10 minutes, or until the mushrooms start to loose water.  Remove from the oven and then stuff with mixture.  Bake at 350 for about 10 more minutes.

Mac N Cheese

 This is pretty basic homemade macaroni and cheese and very easy to make.

Ingredients:

1 package of pasta, your choice on noodles.  I use whatever I have, in this case, bow tie

1 cup sour cream (I used low-fat)

2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded

8 strips of bacon (bake in the oven at 375 for about 15 minutes, it will turn out crispy)

1 can of condensed cheddar cheese

1 teaspoon red pepper flakes, optional

Salt & Pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cook pasta as directed.  Lessen the time by a couple minutes to keep firm.  Mix pasta in with the rest of the ingredients.  Pour into a 9 x 13 in pan that you have sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.  Bake until cheese bubbles around the edges, should take about 45 minutes.

*karisa*

Karisa's Quiche

I pulled this recipe together from watching a Food Network Show on Quiche's.  I took a little bit from each one they showed and turned it into my own.  It is excellent!

See Pie Dough Recipe

Quiche Ingredients:
4 eggs
1 cup half and half (I used fat free)
1 cup sour cream (I used fat free)
1 cup ham cut into cubes
1 cup bacon, diced
1/4 green bell pepper diced
1/4 red bell pepper diced
1/2 onion diced
1 cup mushrooms sliced
2 tablespoons minced cilantro
1/2 jalepeno pepper, minced
1 1/2 cups cheddar cheese
1/2 stick butter melted (4 tablespoons)
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Beat together eggs, and half and half. Set aside.

Mix melted butter with mushrooms, onion and peppers.  Bake on cookie sheet for about 10 minutes, until browned.  Remove from oven

In a separate bowl, mix ham, bacon, peppers, onion, mushrooms, jalapeno, cilantro, butter, cheese and sour cream.  Add salt and pepper to taste.  Once mixed, fill pie crust.


Top off with the egg mixture.  Place in the oven until browned, mine took about an hour.  Once you remove, let the quiche stand for 10-15 minutes.  I did not wait the full 15 minutes, and due to all the veggies, it was a little watery.  The pieces that stayed in the pan were perfect!

*karisa*