One of my favorite soups is Chicken and wild rice soup.  We love how filling and hearty it is.  I had chicken and rice, so I decided to make some on Monday.  

Wild rice, chicken, carrots, garlic, celery, milk, chicken broth, and butter make this soup so comforting. 

I usually make mine in the instant pot, so I'm adding to my instant pot section for the recipe.  However, you could easily make this in a slow cooker or on the stovetop.  For slow cooker, I would cook on high for about 5-6 hours and for stovetop, cook in a large pot for about 45-50 min.  

 My friend Ashley told me that her favorite chicken dish was Marry Me Chicken, so I thought I would give it a try.  It was so amazing!  It's a creamy chicken pasta dish that has parmesan and sun dried tomatoes.  It had so much flavor!  We loved it and thought it definitely needed to continue to be on rotation.  

You can find the recipe in my Dinners section 

 Yesterday for dinner I made 20 garlic chicken in my slow cooker.  This recipe I received in a cookbook made by David's mom back when we first got married about 15 years ago.  It is an old favorite!  

Garlic chicken only has 7 ingredients, so its super easy.  I love to make it with garlic mashed potatoes and green beans.  My daughter, Jane said "Mom, this chicken is so flavorful!"  

I'll add this recipe to "Dinner Recipes" 

Chicken,Onions, garlic cloves, paprika, salt, pepper, and olive oil!

For the mashed potatoes, I take the roasted garlic from the dish and mash into the potatoes... yum!

 This morning I made breakfast pizza using pizza dough, homemade sausage gravy, Colby jack cheese, and breakfast sausage.  It was yummy!  Recipe has been added to breakfast recipes. 

Yesterday for dinner I made hamburgers in the instant pot.  This is one of my favorite instant pot recipes because I love hamburgers, but sometimes the weather doesn't always cooperate for grilling.  I was able to make hamburgers even during an ice storm.  I feel like this recipe is better than grilling because the patties stay extra juicy.  

I use Worcestershire sauce and hamburger seasoning to season the burgers.  Sometimes I even add in a splash of kitchen bouquet.  I make patties and wrap them in foil and then place into the trivet to cook in the instant pot.  Meanwhile, I cook all of the sides while the burgers cook.  

For the sides I made garlic butter corn on the Cobb, tutor tots, and macaroni salad.   

Recipe in the instant pot section!  

  

 This morning for breakfast, we made bagel bites in the instant pot.  My 5 year old daughter, Jane loves to make these and has gotten really good at making them herself.  We get pizza dough and cut it into about 20 squares.  We also cut about 20 squares of cream cheese.  We wrap the pizza dough around the cream cheese and then roll into the everything bagel seasoning.  I have a silicone egg cup tray for my instant pot that fits each bagel bite perfectly.  Place the bagel bites into the instant pot and then we bake into the oven to toast them.  They taste exactly like a bagel! 

 For dinner tonight, I made Instant pot meatloaf.  I've been trying to use up all of the chicken in my freezer, so we were definitely ready for beef today.  This is one of my favorite recipes, its so delicious and the leftovers are just as good.  I buy a McCormick meat loaf package and use Italian sausage, ground beef, half and half, egg, ketchup, and ritz crackers.  I form into a loaf and place into the instant pot.  If you are only making one loaf, then you can add your diced potatoes in the bottom of the instant pot with 2 cups of water and then add the loaf on top.  I wrap the meat loafs into foil and I usually make two loafs and stack on top of each other in the instant pot.  Turn to custom and cook for 25 min, then top with ketchup and broil.  (Adding to instant pot recipes) 

Form the loaf and then fold in the sides

Wrap loaf completely and place into instant pot with 2 cups of water on top of the trivet. 

If only cooking 1 loaf you can add chopped potatoes on the bottom and then add the trivet on top of the potatoes, then add loaf to cook everything at the same time.  I made two loafs so I did not have room to do that and made my mashed potatoes on the stove. 

Cook on custom and 25 min on high for the meatloaf in the instant pot. 

Once the instant pot has cooked the loafs, mix ketchup and brown sugar and brush on top.  Broil until bubbly.  Enjoy with mashed potatoes and mixed veggies.