good seasons italian baked potato

I made these delicious potatoes on Valentine's Day for my honey and I.  Really easy and they look very fancy too wouldn't you agree?  I was inspired by this pin on Pinterest.

Here's my super simple recipe

2 medium sized potatoes
2Tb melted butter
1/2 Tb  Good Seasons Italian Dressing

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.  Thinly slice your potato being careful not to cut all the way through.  Place potatoes in oven safe cookware.  Mix your butter and Good Seasons Italian Dressing.  Drizzle over the sliced potatoes.  Bake at 425 for 40 minutes.

The thing I loved most about these potatoes was some of the edges get kind of crispy!  Loved that!  These turned out great and had just the right amount of flavoring.  Enjoy!

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baked potato soup

There's nothing I like better than a quick and easy recipe.  Having 3 little kids underfoot doesn't leave me much time to be slaving away in the kitchen. I love to make homemade potato soup but I found my one recipe to be really time consuming and so I didn't make it as often as I would have liked. When I saw this recipe for baked potato soup my curiosity was peaked.  Not having to cut up and cook potatoes and then puree them sounded so appealing.  Baking the potatoes made making potato soup so much easier!  This recipe was a real hit!



Baked Potato Soup (adapted from Annie's Eats)
Ingredients:
3 medium russet potatoes
2 tbsp. unsalted butter
1/4 cup all-purpose flour, divided
1 can chicken broth
1 cup milk
1 tsp. salt
¾ cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1/4 cup light sour cream
For topping:
Sour cream
Shredded cheddar cheese
Bacon pieces

Directions:
Prick your potatoes with fork.  Place on baking sheet and bake in preheated 400° F oven for 1 hour.  Let cool and then scoop out the insides of the potatoes into food processor. Pulse until broken up into smaller chunks. 
Melt butter in large pot.  Add about half of your flour and whisk into the butter.  Continuing whisking and cook for approximately 2 minutes.  Whisk in the chicken broth, milk and the remainder of the flour.  Cook until thick and bubbling.  Stir in the potato chunks.  Add the cheddar cheese and stir until melted.  Remove from heat and stir in the sour cream.
Your soup is ready to serve.  Top with sour cream, cheddar cheese, and bacon as desired. Source: adapted from Annie's Eats

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recipe | sweet dinner rolls

We recently bought a new breadmaker.  It was something I wouldn't ordinarily buy but I had a gift card and had been seeing all these wonderful recipes on Pinterest that sparked my interest.  We had already tried one recipe for dinner rolls and I wasn't totally thrilled with how they turned out.  These on the other hand were awesome!  I found this recipe on allrecipes.com.  It had a lot of really good reviews and thought we'd give it a try.  These were super easy to make and like I said were SO good. They really are sweet!  I could have sat and eaten them just by themselves!


Sweet Dinner Rolls

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 1/2 cup warm milk
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup butter, softened
• 1/3 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
• 1/4 cup butter, softened

Directions

1. Place water, milk, egg, 1/3 cup butter, sugar, salt, flour and yeast in the pan of the bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Select Dough/Knead and First Rise Cycle; press Start.
2. When cycle finishes, turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide dough in half. Roll each half into a 12 inch circle, spread 1/4 cup softened butter over entire round. Cut each circle into 8 wedges. Roll wedges starting at wide end; roll gently but tightly. Place point side down on ungreased cookie sheet. Cover with clean kitchen towel and put in a warm place, let rise 1 hour. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
3. Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 15 minutes, until golden.

Original recipe found at allrecipes.com

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