Recipe experiment... yay!!!

So yesterday, I had the urge to make up a new recipe and take pictures along the way. So I looked for things in my fridge that I had, that I thought would go good together. I had asparagus, bacon (left over from our camping trip), frozen chicken, and cream cheese (left over from making Chicken Enchiladas) So I originally wanted to make asparagus with bacon wrapped around a few of them, but then decided to do them all together when I did a internet search for the ingredients, I found a few recipes for asparagus in chicken, wrapped in bacon. It sounded delicious, but I was missing some key ingredients so I decided to make it my own and forget about the recipe.
So my first step was to cook the asparagus in butter with fresh garlic, then after the asparagus got nice and green.


I pounded out the chicken, I put grated Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper, and Italian Seasoning on the inside of the chicken, then the asparagus and then some cream cheese.


I rolled it all up and wrapped it in bacon. Put them on a tin foiled pan and bake it at 375 for about 40 minutes. then on broil for the bacon for about 2 minutes.


It turned out totally delicious and it wasn't really that hard, the best part was that most of the bacon grease melted onto the pan and not all over the chicken, so even though this recipe was probably a weight watchers nightmare, it didn't seem greasy at all!

This recipe didn't take that long and looked totally gourmet. :)


For a side I decided to use the rest of the bacon (only one piece) and the asparagus. So I chopped up the asparagus cooked it with the bacon and a little water to steam it. Then I cooked about a cup of Macaroni noodles. After the water had dissolved out of the asparagus, I added a can of corn and browned it, then I mixed the macaroni, asparagus, bacon, and corn in a bowl, I cooled it down in the freezer and added a little mozzarella and Parmesan cheese and some zesty Italian salad dressing. It went well with the bacon, asparagus chicken. So it made for a great meal and it was fun experimenting!

First camping trip of the year!!

So, this weekend me and Paul went camping for the first time this year! We went to Red Cliffs with our friends, Brian & Lindsey& their 7 month old baby, Mike, Brett and Janell. Mike, Brett and Janell didn't camp with us but came up for dinner. We ate dutch oven potatoes, Chicken and of course Smores. Everything was delicious and the weather wasn't too bad either, as long as we kept close to the fire, we were just fine and once we were in our tent we were really warm.
So we had a great time visiting with everyone for dinner. Sleeping in our tent was perfect and we were pretty comfortable. Brian and Lindsey were worried how there daughter would do on her first camping trip and she actually slept through the entire night and woke up happy!
In the morning we woke up to the voice of the Ranger, telling us that we couldn't camp next to the river because it was a flood plain and not even a camp site, who would have thought, we thought it was perfect. I guess last year there were "20 foot waves" crashing over the bridge by our campsite. :) So, I guess we are lucky that we got to the campsite late and didn't get kicked out last night. :) All in all, it was a fabulous trip and I'm looking forward to doing it a lot this summer. So if anyone wants to join us, give us a hollar! :)