Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Mandarin Orange Sauce

"Chicken breasts stuffed with prosciutto and mozzarella cheese served in sweet and savory sauce...it's special enough for company, but easy enough for everyday! "

-Campbells

This dish is awesome! We LOVE it! The sauce is sooooo yummy! It's a similar idea as Cordon Bleu, but I think easier and possibly tastier. I love the rubbed sage, I love the mandarin oranges, with the cheese and the ham (that's what I use, just high quality deli meat) over pasta MMMMMMMM Mama! ;) This also freezes well, so I double the sauce when I make it, divide it, freeze half and eat all the rest! I'm pretty sure you'll love it as much as I do! :)

4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves (about 1 pound)

4 thin slices prosciutto

4 slices mozzarella cheese

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 can (10 3/4 ounces) Campbell's® Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup(Regular or 98% Fat Free)

3/4 cup orange juice

1 tablespoon country-style Dijon mustard

1 tablespoon dry white wine

1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage leaves or 1 teaspoon ground dried sage leaves

1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes

1 teaspoon packed brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon onion powder

1/4 teaspoon dried tarragon leaves, crushed

dash Garlic powder

1/2 cup drained Mandarin orange segments

• Cut a lengthwise pocket in each chicken breast. Stuff each breast with1 slice of prosciutto and 1 slice of cheese.
• Heat the oil in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook until it's well browned on both sides.
• Stir the soup, orange juice, mustard, wine, sage, parsley, sugar, onion powder, tarragon and garlic powder in the skillet. Heat to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook for 5 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through.
• Add the Mandarin orange segments to the skillet and heat through.

Mom's Chicken Cacciatore

INGREDIENTS:"Chicken pieces simmer in a tomato sauce. You can serve this with rice or pasta! This is a recipe that I got off of allrecipes.com. So it's really not my moms... I like it a lot though! It also freezes very well! If when it finishes and you find that it may be lacking a little flavor or that "something", my tweaking recommendations: FRESH lemon juice (you know, squeezed. None of this store bought swill!) or a tiny bit of balsamic vinegar. Butter always helps any dish! I have adjusted some of the seasonings to my liking, but always add some finishing touches (salt, pepper, morton's nature seasoning, garlic powder-ONLY at the end IF there's not enough garlic. Use FRESH garlic to begin with! Never forget the possibilities of brown sugar in tomato sauces! Go ahead! Try it! If you never have, you will be pleasantly surprised! It's our family secret. If it doesn't taste good, add brown sugar! :)

2 cups all-purpose flour for coating 1 teaspoon (at least!) salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper I also throw some garlic powder in there! 1 (4 pound) chicken, cut into pieces (I like to use chicken breasts as a healthier option) 2 tablespoons Olive oil 1 onion, chopped 3-4 cloves garlic, minced

1 green bell pepper, chopped 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 cup white wine 2 cups fresh mushrooms, quartered (I never add fungus to my food!) salt and pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS:

1.	Combine the flour, salt and pepper in a plastic bag. Shake the chicken pieces in flour until coated. Heat the oil in a large skillet (one that has a cover/lid). Fry the chicken pieces until they are browned on both sides. Remove from skillet.
2.	Add the onion, garlic and bell pepper to the skillet and saute until the onion is slightly browned. Return the chicken to the skillet and add the tomatoes, oregano and wine. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes over medium low heat.
3.	Add the mushrooms and salt and pepper to taste (like I said, I usually adjust the taste a bit). Simmer for 10 more minutes.

Best Brownies

Compliments of Hershey's Kitchen

Now while these are called "Best Brownies" I didn't name them, but Dang! These ARE good! I didn't think I would find a recipe that would be worth making more than the good fudgy box one, but now that I've been making these, those box ones really aren't that tempting any more (no really! I tried them twice today! ;). These are fudgy with a MUCH better texture and the flavor is wonderful! When I want to make homemade brownies, this is the recipe I use. (I have another fantastic one that I will also post on here :) As a side note, I think the key to having things turn out the way you want them to taste, is to taste them! Taste the batter! If it's not chocolaty enough for ya, then add more chocolate dang it! Until it can curb all those ravenous chocolate cravings in your soul! Not sweet enough? More sugar! Common sense, but KEY! Don't over mix, and enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)
• CREAMY BROWNIE FROSTING (recipe follows)

Directions:

• 1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 9-inch square baking pan.
• 2. Stir together butter, sugar and vanilla in bowl. Add eggs; beat well with spoon. Stir together flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; gradually add to egg mixture, beating until well blended. Stir in nuts, if desired. Spread batter evenly in prepared pan.
• 3. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Prepare CREAMY BROWNIE FROSTING; spread over brownies. Cut into squares. About 16 brownies.
• CREAMY BROWNIE FROSTING
• 3 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
• 3 tablespoons HERSHEY'S Cocoa
• 1 tablespoon light corn syrup or honey
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 to 2 tablespoons milk
• Beat butter, cocoa, corn syrup and vanilla in small bowl until blended. Add powdered sugar and milk;
• beat to spreading consistency. About 1 cup frosting.

Peanut Butter Brownies

These are sooooo easy and can be addicting! For a while there it became a little tradition night after night we would make these while we played games with family! These can be made dessert style(sugar baby!) or can be made a little bit healthier for a snack(honey). If you are looking for a really decadent, awesome PB brownie.... I would say, look somewhere else. I love these for the Simplicity (4 ingredients that I ALWAYS have on hand, takes about 5 min to make) and relatively healthy aspects of them. Just so you're not disappointed! ;)

1 cup Peanut Butter

½ cup Honey or Brown Sugar

1 Egg

½ tsp. Baking Powder

Mix ingredients, put into a smaller baking pan 8x8(I believe it is). Bake @ 350 for 25-30 minutes. You can also add in Banana's, squash, or things of the sort to make these even healthier!

Betty’s Corn Pudding

Corn pudding. Well it was good enough to insist on getting the recipe! It has a good flavor and turns out creamy and delicious! I made this just the other night and my children LOVED it! I hardly even got any!!! Another great thing to love about this is that it is incredibly easy to make and takes almost no time at all except for baking! It would be great for a pot luck!

1 (14oz.) can creamed corn

1 (14oz.) can corn, drained

1 box jiffy corn muffin mix

1 cube butter

1 cup sour cream

2 eggs

½ cup sugar or honey

Melt butter in casserole dish in microwave. Mix rest of ingredients in the casserole dish and bake @ 350 for 1 hour. SOOOOO EASY!!! ;)

Hedgehog's Yellow Cake

This cake isn’t anything AMAZING per se (I just wanted to put it on here so I could throw the dumb paper away! But you will notice, I did think it was worth keeping! ;). It’s a recipe, supposedly from "back in the day" (makes it a little more fun) that my Brenna brought home from school and she MADE me make it!! It’s a very simple, not too sweet yellow cake. Extremely EASY to make and hey! Not bad. Would be good with a glaze on top. Last time I made it for a little treat for the children while we went out, and I put blueberries in it which we enjoyed. Bottom line: probably wouldn’t have this recipe if I didn’t have kids, easy, not too sweet and they like it.

3/4 C. Sugar

1/2 C. Butter

3 Eggs

1&1/4 C. Self-rising Flour

1tsp. Vanilla (or any other flavor you would like this to have :)

Pre-heat: 350

Butter 9 in. round pan. Whip butter and sugar, add eggs one by one and vanilla. Mix in flour, put in pan, bake for a half hour or until done. Serve with a warm glass of milk :)

Cobbler

This Cobbler is one of my favorites! I don’t look online for other Cobbler recipes to see if there’s any better out there because I am thoroughly satisfied with this one! The cobblers that you’ve had with the thin crunchy crust (I’m sure there are some people who prefer their cobbler toppings like that. Not me). This is not one of those! This has a perfectly sweetened, moist, thick biscuit like top, and the filling has never been runny, but nice and syrupy like it’s supposed to be! Very easy to make! Even Better to eat! J I often double this because an 8x8 just doesn’t do!

Pre-Heat Oven to 375

Grease 8x8 pan (9x13 for a doubled recipe). Cover bottom of pan with desired fruit (I use canned peaches AND I mix cinnamon in with them!!).

Mix

3/4C Sugar

1C Flour

1tsp. Baking Powder

1/4tsp. salt

Mix

1/2C Milk

3Tbls. Butter

Stir into Dry mixture. Spread dough over fruit.

Mix

1C Sugar

1Tbl. Cornstarch

Sprinkle over dough and pour 2/3 cups of boiling water over everything. (At this point I always get nervous that that can’t be it, and that it’s not going to come out right, but don’t worry! It’s always worked so far!) Bake until golden on top and a fork comes out clean.

Pumpkin Pancakes

This is a most excellent pumpkin pancake recipe!! The best I've had, I think I can say! The other's I've tried are fluffy like a pancake and have a light flavor of pumpkin. These are heavy and creamy like pumpkin pie, and taste by far closer to it than those fluffy ones! Oh they are lucsious for breakfast with Carmel / Buttermilk Syrup! A party in your mouth! Enjoy!!

Sift:

2 Cups Flour

4 tsp. Baking Powder

1 ½ tsp. Cinnamon

½ tsp. Nutmeg

¼ tsp. Allspice

¾ Cup Sugar

Mix together:

1 ½ Cups pumpkin

3 Eggs

1 Cup Buttermilk

¾ Cup Vegetable Oil

1tsp. Vanilla

4 oz. chopped pecans (if you can get away with nuts in your pancakes I never put them in. Chocolate chips are my favorite substitute! ;)

Sift the dry ingredients together first. Stir together the mixed wet ingredients with the dry. Stir in pecans (or chocolate chips) just before ready to cook. If you like them a little bit more spicy, I add about ¼ tsp more of the spices. These pancakes take a little bit longer to cook so I cook them at a little bit lower temperature

Mocha... No! CHOCOLATE Punch

This picture DOES NOT do it justice!!! Taste of Home mag.

Oh my lusciousness!!! My precious!!! This is drinkably delicious!!!! It's like chocolate milk and a chocolate milkshake combined!! The perfect temperature of cold! I made it for the first time tonight and everyone said, "Oh! Wow! That IS good!" SOOOO EASY! SOOOOO GOOD!! I made it for 9 of us girls, and with a few second helpings, there was just enough ( I wanted to drink the last of it straight out of the punch bowl, but then, that might have been embarrassing). Enjoy! :)

1 1/2 Quarts Water (warm enough to dissolve sugar and hot chocolate mix)
1/2 Cup Instant Cocoa Mix
1/2 Cup Sugar
1/4 Cup Cocoa (I add more to make it extra chocolaty! :)
1/2 Gallon Chocolate and Vanilla Ice Cream

Optional:
Whipped Cream
Chocolate Shavings

Mix sugar, cocoa, and hot chocolate mix in a picture. Pour water in and mix until everything is dissolved. I always do things to taste,(key to making things TASTE good!) Taste it! Make sure it's chocolatey enough. Keep in mind you will be diluting it with ice cream. Refrigerate at least until cold enough to serve (I put it in my freezer for 2 hours, or 4 hours in the fridge) You can even make it ahead of time and leave it in the fridge overnight . Before serving a few minutes before you are ready to serve, pour into a punch bowl and add ice cream by the scoopfuls ( I actually ended up using Breyers triple chocolate ice cream). Stir until partially melted and slushy (make sure and leave a few delicious clumps of ice cream!). Garnish with dollops of whipped cream and chocolate shavings/curls. Get ready to meet your density! I MEAN destiny! ;)