DIY: Chocolate Chip Oreo Brownies

Welcome back bloggers! I know it’s been a while since I have given a recipe on dessert but the wait is over! TODAY IS THE DAY Get your milk ready because you’re going to need it for these heavenly chocolate chip Oreo brownies.

This is probably the most easiest desert you’ll ever make. Definitely a great option for a last minuet snack. I can tell that you’re already drooling.

I just would like to add that GIRLS this is an amazing desert for when it’s your special time of the month and you’re craving sweets and chocolate!

I combined the fixings per the guidelines on the back of the Duncan Hines box. I do trust it’s 1/3 C water, 1/3 C Oil and 1 egg for a brownie like batter… we don’t need no cake type bater… YUCK!

When I stirred up the batter I included a touch of Nestle Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips. Presently I have attempted the “less expensive” form and I’ve come to find that they leave a nasty after taste in the mouth. So purchase the the Nestle brand!

I put minimal not as much as a large portion of the batter in the base of a 9×9 preparing dish that I had gently sprayed with BAKING spray. DO NOT USE REGULAR OIL!

Then layer about 16 Oreo’s on top of the brownie batter.

I then poured the rest of the brownie batter over the top of the Oreo’s ensuring that every single cookie was covered. Then place in a 350-degree oven and let it bake away for about 18 minutes.

What comes out of this delicious dessert will have you craving more! You should cut the brownies into 16 perfect pieces so that you can ensure that you have a Oreo in each brownie.

Ingredients

• Duncan Hines Brownie Mix made per instructions on box
• 1 1/2 C Nestle Semi Sweet Morsels
• 16 Oreos

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 325.
2. Whisk the brownie mix together per the ingredients on the box.
3. Next add in the Nestle Morsels.
4. Spray a 9×9 baking dish with baking spray.
5. Spoon in a little less than half of the brownie batter into the dish.
6. Place 16 Oreo’s onto the top of the batter.
7. Spoon and spread the remaining batter over the top of each Oreo.
8. Bake for 15-20 depends until a toothpick comes out clean.
9. Let the brownies cool completely and then cut a piece for each Oreo.
10. Enjoy with a tall glass of milk!

DIY: One Pot Cajun Chicken and Sausage Alfredo Pasta

Welcome back bloggers! Today I am sharing with you a ONE POT formula! This One-Pot Cajun Chicken and Sausage Alfredo is one of my new most loved suppers! It is such a straightforward dinner to make yet expect that implies it is basic in season.

This feast is completely filled with flavor. Delicate chunks of chicken with smoky bits of sausage in a rich and tasty custom made Alfredo sauce. Takes under 30 minutes to make is and AMAZING for leftovers!

What’s more, not to neglect to specify the reward, “one pot” arrangement that makes this dinner a simple and less messy circumstance (whoopee!)

Honestly this recipe does have a little kick of spiciness to it, if you don’t really like spicy foods I suggest you skip over reading this blog entry and find another one of my recipes that best fist you and your taste!

The cajun taste goes great with the italian sausage that is included with the recipe

This portion will make around 10 servings, so it can without much of a stretch be isolated into two dinners. So freeze up, and appreciate making this simple, quick (under 30 minutes), one-pot goodness.

Ingredients:

• 4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
• 1 pound of chicken cut into bite sized pieces (I used chicken tenderloins)
• 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt
• freshly ground black pepper to taste
• 14 oz smoked sausage sliced on the diagonal
• 4 cloves of garlic minced
• 1 quart of low-sodium chicken broth
• 2 1/2 cups of heavy cream
• 1 pound of dried penne pasta
• 1 1/2 tablespoons of Cajun seasoning plus more for topping
• 4 oz of freshly shredded parmesan cheese
• 1 cup of Italian flat leaf parsley minced (NOT NEEDED IF DONT HAVE)

Directions 

1. Empty olive oil into the pot. Add diced chicken breast to the pot, cover with cajun flavoring, and mix until the point when the chicken is equally prepared. At that point, include cut sausage and blend. Cook the meat on medium warmth for 5-10 minutes or until the point that the chicken is cooked through.
2. Once the meat is cooked, add in the garlic, (and any other vegetables you would like to add) and stir.
3. Continue stirring for 3-5 minutes as the veggies cook down.
4. Add the dry pasta to the pot (if utilizing long, thin noodles, break in half), at that point pour in the chicken stock. Mix until the point when everything is all around blended.
5. Cover the pot and heat to the point of boiling. When bubbling, keep secured convey the warmth down to a stew for 10 minutes (stirring every two minutes.) If there still extra chicken broth, you can discard it, cook longer until the liquid evaporates, or add a little cornstarch to thicken the liquid.
6. Finally, include heavy cream and parmesan and mix until the point that your pasta is all around mixed. Topping with more parmesan, a sprinkle of cajun flavoring (if you want more spice), and salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy!

For leftovers, warm over a low flame and include more chicken stock and cream to keep sauce from isolating.

Should Kids be Able to Eat Junk Food at School (Opinion Based Post)

Welcome back bloggers! Today’s topic is an opinion post based on should kids be able to eat junk food at school?

In my opinion… drum roll… YES

I don’t think too much junk food should be given to a child but I think having a child bring his/her own snacks to school will keep kids concentrated and they wouldn’t have to keep thinking very minute that they’re hungry and ready to go to lunch.

Some kids need that full drive to complete their work and they can’t do that when they’re hungry and craving junk food. Sugar sometimes gets a kid energized and going.

Students are going to eat junk food whether its allowed or not in classes. I should know that from sneaking many snacks into class and eating them during class when it was against the class rules.

More than likely if they can’t eat it at school they’re just going to when they get home, or eat it during lunch because lunch at school is just a chill out for everybody and somebody eating junk food won’t really go noticed, because almost everyone would be eating it.

Eating a couple of snacks here and there won’t do much damage because more than likely your kid still might be overweight due to the lack of physical activity and their eating habits outside of school.

Plus school lunch is horrible for most people experiences and my experience that make people not even want to bother eating the lunch so I think bringing a snack to school will help when you skip out on the tuna sale that looks nothing like tuna salad.

I remember as a high school student I used to be solo hungry at school not because the lunch wasn’t bad but also because the portions were so small for an 18-year-olds appetite. I would eat lunch and still would be craving more food.

And as a 120 lb girl I knew someone much bigger than me or someone like high school athlete with a high metabolism probably was way hungrier than me so that’s another reason why kids should be able to bring junk food to school.

Also, schools that have vending machines should let students bring their snacks from home because why not.. I’d rather bring something free from home than spend like $2.50 on a Mountain Dew.

 

 

DIY: One Skillet Chicken with Lemon Garlic Sauce

Ok, I know you guys are tired of the dessert DIY recipes I’ve been giving out and its time for some REAL FOOD.

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This is a delicious recipe will have you head over heels for this easy meal.

Ok! everyone loves chicken whether it’s baked or fired or even made in a skillet to serve to your family.

This recipe obviously only requires just one pan. I’m talking boneless chicken breatss covered in lemon garlic butter sauce that is creamier than anything you’ve had before.

Uike the other recipes I have showed you this recipe requires a lot of ingridents, like lemon juice garlic, butter, red pepper flakes and other items inclugin parsley, but whta really makes this dish is the chikcen broth and the heavy creme. With those items the special creamy consistency!

Establishing shot

Ingredients (gluten free!)

Meat

• 4 Chicken breasts, boneless skinless

Produce

• 1 tbsp Garlic
• 2 tbsp Parsley or basil
• 1/3 cup Shallots

Canned Goods

• 1 cup Chicken broth

Condiments

• 2 tbsp Lemon juice

Baking & Spices

• 1/2 tsp Red pepper flakes
• 1 Salt and pepper

Oils & Vinegars

• 1 tbsp Olive oil

Dairy

• 2 tbsp Butter, salted
• 1/4 cup Heavy cream

Instructions 

1. Sprinkle a pinch of salt and pepper on both sides of the chicken.  Detail Shot
2. Place chicken in skillet with olive oil cook until done
3. In a 2 cup measuring cup or a small bowl, combine the chicken broth, lemon juice, garlic, and red pepper flakes.
4. When the chicken is finished remove chicken and add broth mixture to skillet, cook   on medium low for 10 minutes  Filter Shot (1)
5. After 10 mins add 2 tbsp butter and 1/4 cup heavy creme and stir until butter melts Filter Shot (2)
6. When your sauce has thickened add your chicken to the mixture and top it off with some parsley!

Closing Shot

Craig Pittman

BLOG READERS I know this is a little off topic, but I got an opportunity to listen to Craig Pittman a journalist for Tampa Bay Times talks about how to be a destructive force on Campus.

During the first part of his speech, he goes on to talk about how he started being a journalist which started at Troy University (A university that I am attending). Craig Pittman worked for the Trop in 1978-1981 which is the University’s official newspaper. He explains how his time on working for the Trop was an interesting and quite challenging experience for him as a beginner journalist.

Craig also talked about how worst news story he had ever written was for the Trop and he explained how the news story also had a horrible lead which had to do with the flu epidemic on campus and his lead was “swooping down the campus like a hungry vulture”

He then goes on to say that he does not regret the bad wordy lead he used for his news story and he thinks that you must write a bad story to end up writing better stories. Which I can agree with, I see where he is coming from because once you make a mistake you learn from it and do better and once Pittman did better on his entries he got higher in the journalism level. I believe that to succeed you must fail at something first.

Pittman then explains on his most known subjects that he had to report for the Trop which included: Ethics commission investigation of university president, cut philosophy dept. Redecorate president’s office, the university yacht.

During his years at Troy Pittman said that there was controversy on journalists that people thought that “by printing news, we were destroying things” that basically meant whatever someone decided to report and post to the public could possibly do damage on the other end of the person who the news story was about.

One of the few things Pittman said that I agreed to was “there’s always three victims… the victim, the victim’s family, and the accused family.” To me, that means a lot because most people only think of the victim, but no one ever thinks about the family of the accused like how people can drag the accused family in situations when they clearly have done nothing wrong and just was related to a person that caused a problem.

Another thing I like from Craig was that he said, “Words matter” He goes onto explain about the First Amendment and how that kind of relates to journalists.

During the question and answer, Craig talks about how technology has really changed the way he reports. For example, news stories would be live now instead of prerecorded. I think technology has changed a lot for journalists for example, you could go on Twitter and tweet a politician or anybody for a news story.

In conclusion, the advice Craig talks about could really help anyone in how to be more of a destructive force on campus and he really gave a lot of tips for future journalists like myself.