French Dip Crescent Rolls

    OK, so I'm addicted to Pintrest! I love, love, love it! I love the recipes, and the home decor ideas, the DIY crafts, and the hair & makeup advice...Pintrest is my Mommy escape! Well...not too terribly long ago I came across a recipe for Crescent Roll French Dips...I hit repin and forgot about it...Hey I have over 300 pins on my Food & Drink Board...Well, the other night when I was making the shopping list I came across the recipe again and got the ingredients (more or less) to make them. So tonight I made them for dinner, and I gotta say I'm a little disappointed in myself for waiting so long to make them. So...From table to yours here's the recipe I did:

2 pkg. Crescent Rolls
1 lb. of Roast Beef
Dubliner Cheese


    That's it! Roll the meat and cheese up in the rolls and cook for 12 minutes on 375 and enjoy! Now the recipe I had called for a lot more, but I don't like horseradish or Au Jus. I did use some Organic Potato Leek Soup which was yummy...I added some more cheese, fresh rosemary, pepper, and Trader Joe's Garlic Salt.

    All in All it was a very yummy dinner...even my super picky 17 month old gobbled it up. I will note that I didn't have enough roast beef so for the boys I just put 1 small piece of cheese and 1 slice of roast beef on a roll, and I did wind up with one plain cheese roll, but as I said they were all great!




ORIGINAL RECIPE:
http://www.mamalovesfood.com/2012/01/french-dip-crescents-with-easy-au-jus.html

Ode to Salmon

  My family is a HUGE fan of fish!! Salmon, Cod, Tilapia, Tuna...Fried, Baked, or Barbecued...Give us a good fish and we'll turn it into an awesome meal! Tonight was no different!! Tonight I made a Salmon Teriyaki that is to die for!! I amazed myself it was that good!! Don't worry I'm not here to make you jealous, I'm here in my supermom cape to bring you the wonderful recipe that graced our table this evening!!

NOT YOUR USUAL TERIYAKI SALMON

This is AMAZING Teriyaki Sauce!!

4 Salmon Fillets (or however many you happen to be using)
Kona Coast Spicy Teriyaki Sauce
1/2 stick of softened butter
1-2 cloves of minced garlic
1 green onion
A few mint leaves
Rosemary
Pineapple 




First off grease your baking dish...I used Olive Oil because it tastes the best and helps the fish not dry out so fast!! Place Salmon Fillets in dish and cover with Teriyaki sauce..turn over a few times so that both sides are covered in the sauce.
Next mix butter, minced garlic, chopped onion, mint leaves (chopped), and rosemary. (I used our teeny-tiny food processor and it worked great!) Take butter mixture and place on top of the fillets. Also at this time place pineapple pieces randomly around the dish.
Cook on 450 degrees for 6 minutes (uncovered)..check at 6 minutes for doneness...We had to cook ours an additional 2 minutes, but it's always best to check because you don't want to overcook the salmon or it will get dry!!
ENJOY

I gotta say the bags of frozen Salmon at Winco have been a lifesaver!! They thaw out super fast and they taste great!! Anyway, try it out...make it your own and see what you come up with!!

My BIG, FAT, GREEK Dinner

   Here at University Land there's a place called The Pita Pit, it's really good, but being married to a college student we don't have the money to eat out all the time. However we both really like Pita's. There filling and as we learned really easy to make! Now neither my husband or I are of Greek decent. I'm German and my Husband's Finn/Scottish/ and French, but we both like good food and trust me when I say that Gyro's are good!!! So this is what we had for dinner the other night! 




PITA RECIPE


1 PKG. GYRO MEAT
TZATZIKI SAUCE
1 PKG. PITA POCKETS
LETTUCE
1 CUCUMBER
2 ROMA TOMATOES
1 RED ONION
1 PKG. FETA


COOK THE GYRO MEAT ACCORDING TO INSTRUCTIONS. TOAST PITA POCKET (IF DESIRED), PUT TZATZIKI SAUCE ON BOTH SIDES OF PITA, ADD GYRO MEAT, LETTUCE, CUCUMBER, TOMATOES, AND ONION...ENJOY!!

This is not our Pita's from the other night,
but this is basically what they look like

Now, we use the pockets because they're easier to eat. They keep all the ingredients neatly tucked inside. You can also use chicken strips instead of the gyro meat. Gyro meat does have MSG in it, which we try to stay away from, but believe me when I say that it's still really good. Anyway, try them see if you like them. You can put any veggie in them and I imagine they'd taste pretty good. The Pita Pit has a whole array of veggies they use, we just like the ones listed above because they give it a nice crisp/fresh taste. Make it your own!!!