For a handful of years now (I cannot recall when I actually started) I have used Pinterest to save and collect recopies but what usually ends up happening is I find something that looks good and save it than forget about it or I will skim my Pinterest looking for ideas for dinner that night, or because I want to bake something but not sure what, and most the recipes I find have ingredients I do not currently have and either it is not in the budget to buy what I need or I Just don’t feel like going to the store. So I have created a challenge for myself. I have scrolled through to the very bottom of my Pinterest recipe board and I am going to plan to make everyone of my recipes starting from the bottom (the oldest items added) working up to the top (the newer items).
Now as I mentioned before I like to bake to there will be a large number of baked goods and sweet treats in my list but there are some savory items thrown into the mix as well.
Here is what I have made from my Pinterest recipes thus far:
S’mores bars: I love S’mores as many of us do but it is not always practical to make old fashioned s’mores. You might not have what you need on hand to make a fire, or the weather may not be conducive to being outside or maybe you just don’t want the hassle of the mess they can cause. This is a great, easy, and not overly time consuming way to have all the taste and texture components of a S’mores baked in your oven. They are quite additive and I almost prefer this alternative to the original S’more.
Pan Roasted Chicken and Vegetables: A great hassle free easy dinner and very adaptable. Cut up some chicken, quarter some potatoes, add the vegetables and seasoning of your choice, and through in the oven.
Baked Chicken Parmesan; Chicken Parmesan has always been one of my favorite things to order when I go out but it always seemed a bit daunting to make. But this recipe made it fairly simple. I did some adaptations to it. Traditionally it is served over pasta, but my partner is not a big fan of pasta as a side dish (He likes his pasta full of meat and veggies) so instead I served it with an Italian style air fryer roasted potatoes and rosemary and Parmesan broccoli.
Ricardo’s Lemonade Chicken: A very tasty dish. The original recipe said to let the chicken marinate in the sauce for two hours and I completely forgot that step so around five’o clock I start getting things together to make dinner and do not want to wait an extra 2 hours, so instead I just coated the chicken in the sauce and than dumped the remaining sauce in the pan and simmered the chicken in it and it turned out great. I served it with a pineapple corn bread made in the crock pot (It was actually quite good) and a chili-lime rice.
Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies: I just baked these today, they are still cooling in the pan so I cannot comment on the taste or how they came out. I did sort of simplify the recipe. In order to get the swirl look you were supposed to divide the batter in half, and put the chocolate in half the patter and the peanut butter in the other half and than make a checkerboard pattern in the pan with the chocolate and peanut butter portions. Yeah I did not feel like doing it and did not really care if it looked pretty or fancy, I just wanted to eat something gooey and chocolaty so I Just miked it all up together.
Labyrinth of the Mind 