its my birthday!!! day #5 Italian Wedding Soup

Today is one of my favorite days of the year, second to Halloween.  Since I have been in the mood for Italian my Fiance thought that it would be nice to make me the best dinner ever and part of that dinner includes Italian wedding soup, the best!

ITALIAN WEDDING SOUP

1 yellow bell pepper diced

1 red bell pepper diced

1 red onion diced

1 tsp EVOO

10 ½ cups water

3 Knorr’s chicken stock

1 bag of frozen Italian meatballs (each package should have about 30 meatballs)

1 cup Classico Cabrinet marinara sauce (any kind will do)

1 16 oz box of tri-colored penne pasta

1 cup fresh baby spinach chopped

1 tbsp Italian seasoning

Salt & pepper to taste

Instructions:

1.      Heat EVOO in large sauce pan.  Once it comes to a heat add bell peppers and onion, sautee.  Add water & chicken stock.  Warm until chicken stock has dissolved.

2.      Add marinara sauce and tri colored penne, bring to boil.

3.      Add spinach Italian seasoning and salt and pepper.

4.      Allow to simmer for about 20 minutes, or until pasta is cooked.

ENJOY!

Day #4 Chicken with rice soup

CHICKEN WITH RICE SOUP

1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast

2 tbsp olive oil

2 ½ quarts water

3 cubes of Knorr’s Chicken stock

1 carrot peeled and diced

1 celery stick chopped

¼ white onion diced

½ cup white rice or wild rice

1 tsp garlic salt

Salt & pepper to taste

Directions:

1.     Bring water to a boil.  Add cubes of chicken stock,  celery, carrot, and onion.

2.     While water is boiling and vegetables are softening-add garlic salt, fry chicken in a skillet with a little bit of olive oil until chicken is cooked.

3.     One chicken is cooked all the way though add rice to the water vegetable mix and allow to cook for about 10 minutes.

4.     Shred chicken or chop it up and put in the soup, cook for another 5 minutes.  Salt pepper to taste.

ENJOY!

Day #3 Tuna Casserole

So tonight it was just me and my baby, shes 9 months old, so I decided to make something simple.  Tuna casserole is one of my favorite dishes and its something that I remember my mom making growing up.  Since there were 3 of us and only 1 of her she came up with the simplest recipe ever.

EASY TUNA CASSEROLE

2- 5 OZ CANS OF TUNA

1-Box of Macaroni and cheese

1-Cup of cheddar cheese shredded

Steps:

1.       Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Prepare macaroni and cheese according to the box.

2.       Once macaroni and cheese is prepared, add both cans of tuna to the macaroni and cheese.

3.       Put in a baking pan, glass Pyrex works best, spread shredded cheese over the top and bake for about 10 minutes or until cheese is melted & bubbly.

ENJOY!

Day #2 Grilled Cheese & Bacon

Today has been a milestone day here in my family, my son started preschool!  With him going to school in the morning I think its important that he comes home and eats a good healthy lunch, well this is on our menu today with a side of yogurt!  Hope you like it, its simple and basic but it is oh so delicious!!

Grilled Cheese & Bacon

4 slices of cheddar cheese

3 slices of cooked bacon

2 slice of whole wheat or white bread

1 tsp butter

1 tbsp mayonnaise

DIRECTIONS:

1.     Cook bacon until crispy.  Once bacon is nice and crispy set on a plate with a paper towel to drain any excess grease.

2.     Prepare bread with butter on the side that will come in contact with the cheese and spread mayonnaise on the side that will touch the frying pan.

3.     Warm up frying pan to medium heat, not too high though because you will burn your bread before your cheese melts.

4.     Lay one piece of bread 3 slices of cheese and 3 slices of bacon and then top the bacon with the last slice of cheese and then top with last piece of bread.

5.     Cover the sandwich with a pan lid, one that is smaller than the frying pan to help trap all of the heat to make the cheese melt faster than the bread cooks.

6.     Once cheese is partial melted flip your sandwich and do the same until the cheese is nice gooey and melted, once it is completely melted you can remove it from the pan.

ENJOY!

Day #1 -Bacon & Tomato Pasta

If you know me, then you have to know my love for pasta.  Pasta is one of my favorite things to eat!  Here is one of my favorite recipes, I learned how to make it when I was 13 and have been making it ever since.  Hope you like it!

BACON & TOMATO PASTA

1-16 OZ BACON DICED

1-14.5 OZ DICED TOMATOES (ITALIAN STYLE IF AVAILABLE)

1-BOX PENNE PASTA

1 CUP CHICKEN BROTH (I USE KNORR'S CHICKEN STOCK THAT YOU ADD 1 CUP OF WATER TO)

2-ROMA TOMATOES DICED

1-LARGE WHITE ONION DICED

2- TSP ITALIAN SEASONING

Steps:

1.       Cook bacon in pan until crispy.  While bacon is cooking start water boiling for the penne pasta.  Once bacon is done put on plate lined with a paper towel to soak up any grease.  Dispose of 2/3 of the bacon grease.

2.       Lower heat on burner to a medium/low heat and add onion to bacon grease.  Sautee onion until transparent.  Add 2 tsp of Italian seasoning to the sauteed onion.  Once water starts boiling add pasta to boiling water.  Once onion is transparent add fresh Roma tomatoes to pan.

3.       After tomatoes are soft and onion is transparent add can of diced tomatoes.  Once everything is the same temperature add 1 cup of chicken broth and add bacon.

4.       When pasta is done strain and add to pan with bacon, onions and tomatoes.  Salt & pepper to taste.

Enjoy!

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Hello!  Thanks for visiting my brand new blog!  I am a busy mother of two and trying to juggle work and both kids is a lot for me that is why I have changed my path when it comes to this whole blogging thing.  My blog is named 3-six-5 recipes because I will have recipes for days.. Hopefully I can reach my goal of a recipe every single day!  Please stay tuned for this weeks recipes.  I will begin posting tomorrow and post a new one every day.  Enjoy (: