Sour Cream Noodle Bake

Mike wanted to make more peach muffins, which require sour cream for some reason.  I told him that we didn't have any sour cream (we rarely have any since he hates it).  As it turns out, we already had a container.  Now I had to find a way to get rid of two containers of sour cream, by hiding them in dishes, since Mike won't even touch a dish if he thinks sour cream may have been near it in the refrigerator!

Since Isaac and Rebekka were packing for their move to Louisiana, I thought it would be nice to make them some food.  I found a recipe on the Pioneer Woman's website for Sour Cream Noodle Bake.

Unfortunately I informed Mike that I wanted to make this dish in order to get rid of the sour cream.  He thought I was trying to be be nice and help Isaac and Rebekka.

Even though the recipe said that it served 8, it looked a little small, so I ended up doubling the recipe, since we figured that we'd be feeding 8 people, including 2 teenage boys who would have been hungry from packing and moving furniture.  As it turns out we had just enough sour cream to make 2 batches of the peach muffins and double this recipe.

I didn't have any egg noodles, so I used small shells instead.  I would've used Farfelle, but I needed a pound of noodles, and Mike had used some for his pesto pasta the day before.

The dish itself was average.  The noodles came out a little soft after the pasta had been baked.  I tasted the meat sauce while it was cooking.  It was pretty tasty!

Not My Favorite Macaroni and Cheese

I think I found this recipe when I was looking for ways to use up cottage cheese.  I only made half the recipe since I didn't want a lot of it in case I didn't like it.  There is more "other stuff/sauce" than actual pasta used in this recipe.

Mike thought the Mac and Cheese was ok.  Apparently he liked it a lot.  I thought it was terrible.  He thought the bread crumbs were a little over the top.  He claims they only put that on "fancy mac and cheese".  That's fine by me, one less step that I would have to do.  I told him that if I made this again, he would have to eat the whole thing since I really have no interest in eating it again.

I found Chuck's Favorite Mac and Cheese recipe on AllRecipes.  I don't think Chuck and I have the same taste in food because this was definitely not my favorite mac and cheese at all!

Stuffed Baked Idaho

One of my favorite meals, has always been the Stuffed Baked Idaho from Claim Jumper. Its a delicious combination of a ginormous baked potato filled with blackened chicken and veggies and is topped with Alfredo sauce. It makes one heck of a combination and meal!

To start off, I made the "Perfect Baked Potato", which essentially involved rubbing the potato with olive oil, poking with a fork, and then rubbing a little sea salt on the surface and finally baking for an hour. Once the potato was done, Kim blanched some broccoli, added in some Costco Rotisserie Chicken and made her famous Creamy Low Fat Alfredo Sauce using the Vitamix blender.

Ingredients:

• Potato - Russet makes for good baked potatos.
• Sea Salt
• Olive Oil
• Broccoli
• Chicken - We used the Costco Rotisserie Chicken (which is delicious and makes a scrumptious meal all by itself).
• Alfredo Sauce

Instructions:

1. Pick out a nice plump potato to use as your victim and rinse the potato in the sink. Rub a light coating of olive oil around the potato to provide it with some moisture. Poke the potato generously with a fork (failure to do this could cause the potato to EXPLODE in your oven!). Rub on a little sea salt to add flavor. Bake the potato at 350 degrees for roughly 1 hour, or until the potato can be easily pierced by a fork. Allow the potato to cool when it is done.
2. When the potato is done, prepare broccoli to your liking (we prefer to blanch our broccoli).
3. After the baked potato has had a few minutes to cool, you will want to cut a wedge into the potato so that you can add in the stuffing. Pull the wedge out (I ate mine) and use a fork to soften the interior of the potato.
4. Add the chicken and broccoli into the potato and top off the whole thing with your Alfredo sauce.