I A couple weekends ago I made minestrone tortellini soup!  It was amazing.  I just love the changing of the seasons and trying new soup recipes.  Always makes me want to bake!  😊

October is my favorite month!  I love Halloween and when the weather changes for fall.  Perfect soup weather!  Yesterday I decorated sugar cookies, carved pumpkins, and roasted pumpkin seeds with my friend Raegena.  The cookies tuned out so cute!  I made the sugar cookies from scratch and added coconut extract to the dough and frosting.  They turned out quite tasty!  Raegina made a chocolate cookie with the Hershey kisses.  I think I've started a tradition with the pumpkin seeds... Gena loves them!  I always look forward to spending time with her.  :)

I added coconut extract to the frosting and cookies to add flavor.  Delicious!

For lunch we had tuna melts with roasted cauliflower white cheddar soup!  The soup looks very milky in this picture and for some reason I forgot to take a picture of it in my bowl, but it's a tasty soup.  It reminds me of a potato soup but lighter, and you get some veggies instead!    

Pumpkin seeds! 

Such a fun day!  Recipes soon in the desserts, sandwiches, and soups sections! 

Tonight I made Turkey Tetrazini rice casserole for dinner.  A new Giada De Laurentis recipe that turned out well!  I used white rice instead of linguini noodles but you can use either one you like.  

First I cooked the onions and mushrooms with a tablespoon of butter and a little bit of olive oil until done and added some white wine.  Smells so good! 

Then I made the cream sauce with butter, milk, half and half and some flour with nutmeg. 

All ingredients went into a baking dish: leftover turkey cut into small pieces, cooked white rice, thawed peas, and mixed together.  Then added bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese on the top. Baked until brown.  Delicious!  I'll add the recipe to dinner recipes.  :)

I made a new pork loin in the slow cooker yesterday that turned out amazing!  David and I both went back for seconds and we kept saying how good it was!  This recipe was really easy and full of flavor.  The juices are saved to make gravy.  I kept the loin whole to make sure it didn't dry out and just sliced pieces as we needed them.  I've added the recipe to Dinner Recipes.  

Dinner last night was Avocado Chicken Enchiladas.  These are so good!  They remind me of the Holidays since I usually make them when David brings home a bunch of pheasant!  I posted the recipe a while back (In the Mexican Food section) but I thought you might want pictures of the process.  We like to add Sriracha sauce to our plate to dip it in for more spice.  You could also add more jalapeños or salsa for a kick or leave them out.

First you make the Avocado Enchilada sauce.  You will want to boil until all is creamy.  Takes about 5-10 min. ( butter, flour, chicken broth, sour cream, cumin, garlic powder, and pepper) 

Pour this sauce into blender and add avocados, cilantro, green salsa ( I use Herdez Green Salsa), and lime juice- blend: 

Next cook your diced onions and jalapeños until cooked through: 

Layer the corn tortillas on the bottom of your dish and add avocado sauce: 

Add chicken ( 1 rotisserie shredded) onions and jalapeños, and more avocado sauce- mix: 

Layer more corn tortillas on top and add Monterrey jack cheese: 

Pop in the oven at 350 for about 20 min. If you like your cheese browner put on broil after it cooks the 20 min and watch it until a little brown on top and take out. 

Enjoy!!! 

If you make one of my Thai recipes and have leftovers make some eggrolls!  I get eggroll wrappers at the store, add the meat and some cabbage and fry them up.  Delicious!  

Last night David and I made Philly cheesesteak sandwiches.  Boneless ribeye steak cut into thin slices, jalapeños, onions, butter, and buns.  I'm not a steak person, but this sandwich was delicious!  We thinly sliced the onions and diced the jalapeños and the sauted in butter until brown.  Then added the steak to cook in the onion jalapeño flavoring.  Once browned the pepper jack cheese was added for the cheesesteak.  The meat was removed and we added the buns face down into the butter mixture to add flavor and then toasted in the oven.  Then we added some Pepper jack cheese...yum!

Thinly sliced onions and diced jalapeños 

Onions and jalapeños browning in butter

Thinly sliced ribeye steak

Browning the steak in the butter onion mixture

Stirring and chopping steak in the pan

Added buns to mixture for flavor

Chopped steak even more and added cheese on top