REESES PIECES DONUTS RECIPE

 I tried making donuts once before but it was in a silicone pan and they didn't turn out too well. I don't know if it was because of the pan or I just filled them up too much. After that I went out and bought donut pans as I knew that I wanted to give them another try. 

These ones looked amazing and I was super excited to give them a try! 

The donuts were super easy to make and I was very happy with how they came together in the pans.

I didn't have any candy melts so for the first layer I just melted chocolate chips. This gave the donuts a much thicker crust and I see the importance of using something lighter like the candy melts. The next layer was also thick and I think I would have maybe added some whipping cream or something else to thin it out a little. 

My son had a blast crushing the Reese candy's and dipping them in! 

These are so good and I will definitely be giving them another try!!

You can find the recipe here: https://divinelifestyle.com/reeses-pieces-donuts-recipe/

BBQ Ground Beef Biscuit Cups and Funeral Potatoes (Cheesy Potato Casserole)

I was looking for some comfort food and something a little bit different one night and decided to make the Beef Cups and Potatoe Casserole. Both of these looked awesome and relatively easy to make. 

So let's start off with the Beef Cups.

This is such a great recipe with so many endless possibilities! You could decorate each cup up to suit your own favorite burger possibilities and try out something new as well!

This recipe is super easy to follow and tasted super good! I love the ground beef and BBQ sauce mixture but we did not choose to use the jalapenos.

Now we followed the recipe as directed but instead of the jalapenos you could throw in fried diced onions, pickles or anything else to give it an individual touch. You could also change up the cheese and try something completely different.

We will definitely be trying this recipe again as it was straightforward and easy. Now we just used regular Pillsbury biscuits as we didn't have the grand in my local store. It seemed to still work out fine but they just weren't quite as big and we had more of them.

We don't seem to eat a lot of potatoes except in french fry form and this looked easy and good plus it had lots of cheese! 

Now I did "cheat" and go with the soup instead of making the white sauce from scratch due to both it being a time saver and wanted easy. There are some times when I will go the more difficult route but this was not going to be one of those times.

This recipe is straightforward and so easy to follow! Then when I tried it I thought I went to heaven! It was so incredible and absolutely delicious!! It was creamy and cheesy and was perfect for what I had wanted!

BBQ Beef Cups: https://spicysouthernkitchen.com/bbq-ground-beef-biscuit-cups/

Funeral Potatoes: https://thefoodcharlatan.com/funeral-potatoes/

Homemade Chicken and Dumplings

 There are some days when comfort food is needed and I was excited to give this recipe a try. As we have been going down to the US more lately I keep seeing dumplings on the recipe so I wanted to give this one a shot. 

This one is relatively easy to make - just remember to keep an eye on the roux when adding in the stock to make sure you are able to get the right consistency. 

I cooked up my chicken fresh and then saved some for other meals. I just diced it up so it wouldn't take very long to cook. I also skipped the peas as I personally hate them and then I unfortunately missed the bay leaf as my package had gone missing.

This was a great meal and I loved eating the leftovers! 

You can find the recipe here: https://www.browneyedbaker.com/chicken-and-dumplings/

Cheese Enchiladas

I try and make Mexican a couple of times a month but it doesn't always work out that way. This looked good on pinterest and I decided to give it a try.

First off - so simple and quick to make! The longest thing on prep was grating all of the different cheeses. I used Monterey Jack, Old Cheddar and Mozzarella as my three types of cheese. I bought some enchilada sauce but I think I could have doubled the amount of sauce. I also put some whip cream into the bottom of the pan to make it a creamier sauce 

OMG!!!! These are the most simple and delicious things ever! I could have probably eaten the entire pan. 

There are so many different variations and I think it would be awesome to add in either a pineapple or mango salsa into the tortilla as well as a fun twist. 

As soon as I finished dinner I ordered more enchilada sauce so I can make these at a moments notice!

I highly recommend giving these a try:

https://julieblanner.com/cheese-enchiladas/

Best Banana Bread

 So this is another one of the amazing banana bread recipes that I tired. This one is for all of you people out there that just want a plain banana bread without all of the extra goodies. 

This recipe is simple and straightforward and once again I just used three bananas instead of the exact 1.5 cups so not sure of that would really change anything or not.

I think next time I might even add in a little more cinnamon just because I really love the cinnamon and banana combo.

This recipe is really good and I love the different combos that this website has with banana bread!

You can find the recipe here: https://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/banana-bread/