Here is the Four foods On Friday for this week. This is a great meme to be a part of. You don’t have to have a cooking blog to join in either! The only thing I would change is that I like it when the fourth question is a recipe better. I get a lot of good ideas from others!

#1. When going out to dinner what items do your order? Appetizers, soup, salad, dinner, dessert. When we are with the kids, we get dinner and then leave. When it’s just my husband and I, we get the whole nine yards.
#2. How predictable are you when eating out? Do you usually order a meal that you’ve had before or do you like to try new things? Very predictable. I always order the same thing.
#3. When eating at a restaurant, what beverage do you like to order with your meal? Sprite or a strawberry margarita.
#4. Name a meal that you ate at a restaurant that you liked so much you tried to recreate it, as well as the name of the restaurant and the recipe. Honestly, I am not a good enough cook to even try to recreate anything.

Aghhhhh!!!! I forgot to do this last week, because I tried to wait for Friday to actually do the meme!!! Therefore, this week I am doing it now, so I don’t forget! If you’d like to participate, head over to Fun, Crafts, and Recipes.

#1. What’s your favorite food smell? Pork chops. The funny thing is that I really don’t like to eat them all that much but I love how they smell when they are cooking.
#2. What’s your favorite kind of apple? Ummm apple pie? I don’t really eat just apples.
#3. What veggies do you like in your salad? Carrots.
#4. Share a recipe that uses beef.

Lasagna Rolls

9 lasagna noodles
1 lb. ground beef
1 cup chopped onion
2 cloves garlic
1 jar (26 oz) pasta sauce
1 container (16 oz) ricotta cheese
1 1/4 shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese

Preheat over to 350 degrees F. Coat a 13×9 baking dish with cooking spray.

Prepare the noodles according to the packaging directions. Drain noodles. Rinse with cool water; drain again. Lay noodles flat on wax paper.

Cook the ground beef, onion, garlic in a skillet until browned. Drain fat. Add pasta sauce and heat to a boil. Spread 2 cups of meat sauce into prepared baking dish.

Mix ricotta and 1 cup mozzarella in a large bowl. Spread cheese mixture over each noodle.

Roll up noodles tightly. Place seam side down on top of the meat sauce in dish. Spoon the remaining sauce over rolls and sprinkle with parmesan. Bake rolls until heated through (about 30 minutes). Sprinkle remaining mozzarella and let stand for 5 minutes.

Yes, its that time again this week for Four Foods on Friday. The questions this week are very interesting:

#1. What’s your favorite form of potatoes? French Fries
#2. Pie crust. Premade or from scratch? Premade — I don’t think I even know how to make one from scratch
#3. Vegetables. Fresh, frozen or canned? Canned
#4. What one dish do you wish you could prepare better? Lasagna and this is because my oven is not working, so its guess workwork on when it is actually done. I’m in the process of looking for a new stove, so that should solve my problem.

Yes, it is that time again. If you want to join in, make sure that you check out Fun, Crafts, and Recipes. This week’s questions are:

#1. What’s your favorite fruit and how do you like to eat it? Strawberries (wait is that a fruit?)
#2. What is the one spice in your kitchen you use more than any other? Garlic.
#3. Pudding. Instant, stovetop or premade? Instant and chocolate.
#4. Share a recipe using potatoes.

Slow Cooker Roast

Roast
Red Potatoes
Baby Carrots
1 pkg. of Onion Soup Mix
1 can of cream of mushroom soup

Turn your slow cooker to low. Put in roast. Cut up potatoes to whatever size you like and put them in the cooker. Put in a couple of handfuls of baby carrots. Put the onion soup mix and cream of mushroom soup on top. Let cook 6 - 8 hours, and you have your whole meal done.

Can you believe that tomorrow is Friday already? So here’s my installment of Four foods on Friday:

#1. What type of m&m is your favorite? Just the plain chocolate ones.
#2. Peanut butter. Smooth, chunky, creamy. How do you like it? In a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.
#3. Do you usually drink out of glass, acrylic, Tupperware type or paper cups? Glass.
#4. Share a chicken recipe.

Bruschetta Chicken Bake

1 can diced tomatoes undrained (I personally buy the ones with lots of spices added, but you don’t have to do that)
1 pkg Stove Top Stuffing Mix for Chicken
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces
1 tsp dried basil leaves
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Preheat over to 400 degrees F. Pour tomatoes with their liquid into a bowl. Add stuffing mix, 1/2 cup hot water and the garlic; stir until stuffing mix is moistened. Set aside. Put chicken into 13×9 baking dish; sprinkle with basil and cheese, and top with the stuffing mixture. Bake for 30 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.

This meme takes place over at Fun, Crafts, and Recipes if you’d like to join and answer the following questions:

#1. Do you ever use scissors to cut any foods? Which? Raw or cooked? No

#2. Popcorn. Homemade, microwave, bagged, hot, cold. How do you like it? I love popcorn, so I’ll eat it any way I can get it. My favorite has to be caramel corn though. I mostly make microwave popcorn at my house though.

#3. Sushi. Love it or hate it? Hate it. Yuck. Several years ago, my hubby got food poisoning and ended up in the hospital for a week, so we eat nothing that is not cooked fully now.

#4. Share a dessert recipe.

Easter Bonnet Cookies

Ingredients:

1 package (18 oz) refrigerated sugar cookie dough
1 box (16 oz) confectioners’ sugar, sifted
6 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons meringue powder
food coloring
12 large marshmallows
Pastel flower shaped candy decors

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare 24 round cookies according to the package directions. Place cookies on baking sheets. Bake cookies until golden brown (8 - 10 minutes). Cool on wire racks placed over waxed paper.

-In a medium bowl, combine confectioners’ sugar, water, and meringue powder. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Divide glaze among several small bowls; tint with food coloring.

-Cut marshmallows in half horizontally. Place a marshmallow half cut side down in the center of each cookie. Spoon glaze over each cookie coating the marshmallow and cookie evenly. Let dry.

Once dry, you can decorate the hats. The recipe I had for this had my making icing which I am just not good enough to do. I cheated and bought gel icing to decorate. DO NOT DO THIS. The gel never dries. The next time I will buy the regular icing to decorate with. With these hats, you can be as creative as you want. For St. Patrick’s Day, you can use the whole marshmallow and green glaze to make top hat cookies or use whole marshmallows and chocolate glaze to make pilgrims hats for Thanksgiving!

Here’s what they look like:

This is a meme that I had been putting on My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings. However, since this is a cooking blog, I thought it may go better here. That being said, here we go:

#1. Steak. Plain, steak sauce, hot sauce, ketchup or something else? Ketchup.
#2. Water. Flavored, plain, carbonated. How do you like it? Does with Crystal Light count as water?
#3. What’s your favorite kind of waffle? Belgium. Yummy.
#4. If you could have any one new small appliance for your kitchen what would it be and why? I would have to say blender, since I don’t own one.

Head over to Fun, Crafts, and Recipes if you want to join in the fun!