Foodie Friday

I made three NEW recipes last night.  I don't usually do that!!  My kids don't necessarily enjoy me trying new things.  They get set in their ways and like the recipes that rotate on a regular basis and THAT'S IT!  I'm going to share with you today those recipes.  They were all found on other blogs/recipe sites.

First of all, for dinner, we had Ranch Breaded Pork Chops, Brown Sugar Glazed Carrots and Mexican Corn. 

The Pork Chops were copied from a wonderful blog I follow called Mommy Hates Cooking.  You can find her recipe here. (her pork chops look better than mine...warning!)

Here's how mine looked:

I realized (after it was too late) that I didn't have bread crumbs so I crushed up corn flakes and mixed them with the ranch seasoning.  Turned out great!!

Next is the carrots.  I'm not a huge fan of cooked carrots but I stumbled on this great recipe at about.com and my entire family just couldn't get enough of them!!  Check out the recipe here.

These are truly yummy!!

The corn was just from a can!  No creativity there!!! 

Last but soooo not least!  I had gotten a recipe from Amanda at another blog I follow (kevinandamanda.com).  She always has the greatest ideas, recipes and pictures to show on her blog!!  When I saw cookies made with Oreos, I knew I had to try them!! 

Check this out!!!:

The Dough! (edible by itself)

The cookies just out of the oven on the best cooking stone in the world!!! - Pampered Chef!

Cooling down on the cooling rack....oh I can't wait to eat these!!!

Aren't they gorgeous??

Ya'll they taste soooo gooood!!!!  I am not the photographer that Amanda is so I urge you to go to her website and look at the pics she took of her cookies. 

Now that I've made you all hungry, let's continue on the excitement!  I will be doing the drawing tonight for the Pillsbury Prize Pack that I blogged about several days ago.  I am HOPING I will make time tomorrow to post that information on here so, check back!  Along with that, I owe a drawing to a few of you for a $10 Target card.  That will be posted at the same time!! 

Good luck and go get your eat on!!



Dessert Auction

Sunday was a wonderful day!  First to start it off was a great day at Sunday School and church.  We had a great service!!  We hurriedly rushed out of service to go grab a bite of lunch at McAlisters (can you say divine sweet tea??) with several of my friends.  After scarffing our food down like ravenous animals, we rushed home so I could start my final baking for the Dessert Auction.

Can you believe we got out of church, went to eat lunch and made it home by 1:15 so I could start baking???  We did!!  I accomplished it, too!  Not to the perfect standard that I wanted but I did it, nonetheless!  I went to change and immediately started baking.  Here's a preview of what I did:

My FAMOUS Peanut Butter Cup Brownie Bites - YUMM-OHHHHHH!

Don't they just look divine??  They even taste divine!!  Heaven is a little closer when you have these!

I mentioned up in the top of this post that I didn't make some things to that perfect standard that I wanted.  These are what I am speaking of.  No Bake Cookies are soooo tempermental at times!  First of all, I knew it was going to be a bad batch when I ran out of Hershey's Cocoa and had to use Nestle's Cocoa.  These cocoas are definitely NOT THE SAME!!!  I am a Hershey's girl all the way!!!  I guess in my flusteredness (a word??) I let the mixture cook a tad too long on the stove.  Not the usual dark, shiny gobble up goodness I usually produce!  I did tell the lucky auction winner that I was going to make them another batch.

Can you tell what my favorite dessert is???

Oh YES!  Had to have a few for taste testing!  Plus a few came out of the pan a little mangled!  BUMMER!

All in all, our Dessert Auction was a HUGE success!!  The most we have raised EVER!  We had over $8,000.00 raised by auctioning off several desserts.  It was sooo much fun!  I must say that these lovely brownies of mine went for $200.00!!!  WOAH!  Can you believe?  We even had a dessert go for $500.00.  Somebody wanted a certain dessert REALLY BAD!!  What a great time was had by all!  If you would like to know more about where our funds go, you can read about Speed The Light here.

God bless all out there!  Have a great last week of October!!