Mozzarella Stuffed Chicken Breasts

I don't normally put recipes on here, because I am usually a strictly follow the recipe kind of girl. I am not good at throwing things together to make something delicious. But, I had seen a picture of a recipe for mozzarella stuffed chicken on Pinterest & thought it sounded good. Of course, it was one of those pins that led you to only the picture.....no recipe. :0( So, I thought I could kind of make it my own. The first time I made it, everyone (except Lily, who doesn't like anything) loved it! So, when I made it again, I decided to make pictures so I could share it on here.

This is what you need:

Boneless chicken breasts, plain breadcrumbs, basil leaves, garlic powder, mayo, and a block of mozzarella.

The first thing that you do it cut the chicken lengthwise so there is an opening for the cheese:

Sprinkle on the bay leaves & garlic powder, and lay down two slices of cheese:

Roll the chicken up so the cheese is tucked inside & place on a baking sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray. (I use foil because the cheese will leak out. This is easier to clean :) I still spray the foil though.)

Next, spread mayo onto the top & sides of the chicken, about a tablespoon full.

The next thing I did was sprinkle breadcrumbs over the top & pressed them in with my hand:

Cook these at 350* for 20 minutes or until done.
Ooey gooey goodness!

Enjoy!

Ice Cream Sandwiches and a Sleepover

On Monday night we checked off number 14 on our summer list:

Have A Sleepover

It also happens to be the last thing we needed to check off of our list!!

The boys wanted to invite their cousins Tabitha & Alyssa over.

To make the sleepover extra fun, we decided to make ice cream sandwiches.

First we needed cookies.

We had chocolate, chocolate chip, and peanut butter.

The next thing we needed was ice cream!

Then we needed stuff to roll our ice cream cookies in:

They spread ice cream on a cookie, smooshed another cookie down on top, then rolled it in their choice of candy.

This was really messy, but a lot of fun!!

And really yummy!

Here are a few that the kids made:

After they ran around, running off some of that sugar,

We settled down for a movie.

They did stay up pretty late, but they didn't get up until 8:15.

That was just fine with me! ;-)

Thanks Taby & Alyssa for coming over to have a sleepover!

Now all of the things the kids wanted to do are crossed off of our list!

The boys start school next Wednesday and Lily starts on the 24th.

Everyone is super excited!!!

#10: Cooking

So far this summer, the kids have helped me cook chocolate chip cookies and banana/chocolate chip muffins, but I thought this next "cooking" project would be more fun to blog about.

Jello Oceans

We used gummy lifesavers, gummy fish, teddy grahams, and berry-blue jello.
First we made the jello.

Then we poured the jello into glass glasses so we could see the blue "ocean".

We put our glasses in the freezer and let them set up half-way.

Then we added the fish to our oceans.

They floated about halfway down the glass and looked like they were swimming.

While we waited for our jello to set up the rest of the way,

we put our teddy grahams in their life preservers.

When the jello was completely set, we added the teddy bears to the top.

The kids thought they were YUMMY!

These were a big hit with my kids and easy for them to help make!!

Candy Corn Cookies

Or: The cookies I will never, ever, make again.
Really.
Have you ever had an idea and you think, "That's sounds cute and easy."
I had one of those thoughts this morning. I was trying to think of something cute for Riley's Halloween party at school tomorrow. I thought that I could make sugar cookies that look like candy corn. Now I know I could have just cut out triangles and frosted them orange, white, and yellow. But, I must be watching too much Ace of Cakes and Food Network Challenge, because I thought that putting food coloring in the dough and just rolling out the dough to cut out cookies would be a much better idea. Hindsight is always 20/20.

So, here is what we did:
First I had Riley help me make the dough and color it the right colors.


Then he helped me roll out the dough....but not for long....

These were so hard to make! It took me forever to figure out the right width to roll the different colors of dough out. (I had giant cookies at first!) I finally figured it out after about the third try and lots of wasted dough. =(

I really did almost give up and just do (buy) something else. But, Riley really wanted these cookies, especially since he helped make them.

So, here are the finished cookies:

Not quite as cute as I had pictured them in my head though. Oh well. I think I will definitely just use frosting next time....and I don't think I am quite ready for my appearance on Food Network Challenge. =)