Yummy Chicken Casserole with Cheese

Chicken Crescent Roll Casserole

 http://www.tastebook.com/recipes

 

Makes 6 servings

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ingredients

• 2 (8 ounce) cans Pillsbury Refrigerated Crescent Dinner Rolls
• 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can cream of chicken soup, undiluted
• 3/4 cup grated cheddar cheese or swiss cheese (or any cheese of choice)
• 1/2 cup 18% table cream (or use whipping cream)
• FILLING
• 4 ounces cream cheese (very soft)
• 4 tablespoons butter (very soft but not melted)
• 1/2-1 teaspoon garlic powder (optional)
• 1/3 cup onion, finely chopped (can use green onions)
• 2 large cooked chicken breasts, finely chopped (or use about 2 cups, can use cooked turkey)
• 1/2-3/4 cup finely grated cheddar cheese
• 1/2 teaspoon seasoning salt (or use 1/2 teaspoon white salt or to taste)
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper (or to taste)
• 2-4 tablespoons mayonnaise or whipping cream
• 1-2 cup grated cheddar cheese (for topping)

directions

• 1
  1. Set oven to 350°F.
• 2
  2. Butter a casserole dish (any size to hold crescent rolls).
• 3
  3. In a saucepan, mix half and half cream, 3/4 cup grated cheese (can use more cheese if desired) and undiluted chicken soup (can season with black pepper if desired).
• 4
  4. Heat just until the cheese melts (do not boil).
• 5
  5. For the filling --- (make certain that the cream cheese and butter are very soft) in a bowl, mix the soft cream cheese with butter until very smooth, then add in garlic powder (if using).
• 6
  6. Add in the chopped chicken, onion and cheddar cheese; mix well until combined.
• 7
  7. Add in 2 tablespoons whipping cream or mayonnaise; mix to combine (add in a little more if the mixture seems too dry).
• 8
  8. Season with seasoned salt or white and black pepper to taste.
• 9
  9. Unroll the crescent rolls.
• 10
  10. Place 1 heaping tablespoon chicken mixture (or a little more) on top of each crescent triangle, then roll up starting at the thicker end.
• 11
  11. Drizzle a small amount of soup mixture on the bottom of the dish.
• 12
  12. Then place the crescent rolls seam-side down on top of the creamed mixture in the casserole.
• 13
  13. Drizzle the remaining sauce on top (you don’t have to use the full amount of cream sauce, just use as much as desired) and sprinkle with 1 cup (or more) grated cheese, or amount desired.
• 14
  14. Bake for about 30 minutes.

Valentine's Snack

There's really nothing to this fun snack -and a great way to get your kids to eat their fruit!  It's fun and they will have fun helping you make it too.  A great idea from Parents.com:



Gather a variety of melons, cantelope  watermelon and honey dew and cut them into heart shapes with a cookie cutter.  You can then put them onto pop-cycle sticks to dip into the yogurt dip or just eat the fruit as it is.

Here is the recipe for the yogurt dip:
8 ounces vanilla yogurt
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon lemon juice

Mix together ingredients and refrigerate.

~Jennifer
BrankletsNBling

Valentine's Napkin Wreath

Fun Valentine's Wreath to make with only paper napkins!  This fabulous idea from Today is my Someday is a great way to make a cute and simple Valentine's decoration at little to no cost:

Materials:
Combination of luncheon napkins and  cocktail napkins
Styrofoam wreath form
Pencil
Glue gun
Straight Pins
Ribbon for hanging

1- Tear open a package of napkins. 
2- Grab the napkin in the middle and twist



3- Wrap the white wreath form with the smaller cocktail napkins, so that nothing would show through in the “empty” spaces.  I secured the napkins using regular straight pins



4- Poke holes into the wreath form with a pencil, so that you can insert the twisted end of the napkin.



5- Dab a little hot glue in the end of each twisted piece and shoved it in the hole as quickly as possible.  Do this all the way around filling each hole with a twisted napkin.  It is surprisingly full looking when you are done!


6- Last, add a ribbon for hanging and a bow to make it pretty!



~Jennifer
BrankletsNBling

Jewelry Spotlight - Michele Caponi - Jewelry Artist Origami Owl

I have the special privege of introducing this next's jewelry artist.  Her name is Michele Caponi and she is a Jewelry artist from Origami Owl.  Origami Owl is a wonderful company that specializes in "Living Lockets"  You can partner up with Michele and together make a beautiful locket however you would like.  To make your very own personalized locket contact Michele from her website or check out some of her recent designs on her Facebook pages at:

Fine Designs By Michele

Origami-Owl Michele Caponi

Below is the 5 step process when creating your locket - they have a Huge variety of charms for you to choose from all very high quality.  They also have many different lockets and chains to choose from as well to really make it your own.  Next you can add a personalized plate and some dangles and with Michele's help you will have a One-of-a Kind beautiful locket!!

Michele has told me that the current specials are:

Buy a locket: then get 2 charms for Free!!

AND 

Buy a chain and a tag: get a accent dangle for Free 

All inspirational tags are made of pewter and made in the U.S.A!!  

Don't miss out on this fabulous special and create your own special locket today!

GIVE YOUR VOCABULARY A BOOST

100 Exquisite Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives:

Adamant: unyielding; a very hard substance
Adroit: clever, resourceful
Amatory: sexual
Animistic: quality of recurrence or reversion to earlier form
Antic: clownish, frolicsom
Arcadian: serene
Baleful: deadly, foreboding
Bellicose: quarrelsome (its synonym belligerent can also be a noun)
Bilious: unpleasant, peevish
Boorish: crude, insensitive
Calamitous: disastrous
Caustic: corrosive, sarcastic; a corrosive substance
Cerulean: sky blue
Comely: attractive
Concomitant: accompanying
Contumacious: rebellious
Corpulent: obese
Crapulous: immoderate in appetite
Defamatory: maliciously misrepresenting
Didactic: conveying information or moral instruction
Dilatory: causing delay, tardy
Dowdy: shabby, old-fashioned; an unkempt woman
Efficacious: producing a desired effect
Effulgent: brilliantly radiant
Egregious: conspicuous, flagrant
Endemic: prevalent, native, peculiar to an area
Equanimous: even, balanced
Execrable: wretched, detestable
Fastidious: meticulous, overly delicate
Feckless: weak, irresponsible
Fecund: prolific, inventive
Friable: brittle
Fulsome: abundant, overdone, effusive
Garrulous: wordy, talkative
Guileless: naive
Gustatory: having to do with taste or eating
Heuristic: learning through trial-and-error or problem solving
Histrionic: affected, theatrical
Hubristic: proud, excessively self-confident
Incendiary: inflammatory, spontaneously combustible, hot
Insidious: subtle, seductive, treacherous
Insolent: impudent, contemptuous
Intransigent: uncompromising
Inveterate: habitual, persistent
Invidious: resentful, envious, obnoxious
Irksome: annoying
Jejune: dull, puerile
Jocular: jesting, playful
Judicious: discreet
Lachrymose: tearful
Limpid: simple, transparent, serene
Loquacious: talkative
Luminous: clear, shining
Mannered: artificial, stilted
Mendacious: deceptive
Meretricious: whorish, superficially appealing, pretentious
Minatory: menacing
Mordant: biting, incisive, pungent
Munificent: lavish, generous
Nefarious: wicked
Noxious: harmful, corrupting
Obtuse: blunt, stupid
Parsimonious: frugal, restrained
Pendulous: suspended, indecisive
Pernicious: injurious, deadly
Pervasive: widespread
Petulant: rude, ill humored
Platitudinous: resembling or full of dull or banal comments
Precipitate: steep, speedy
Propitious: auspicious, advantageous, benevolent
Puckish: impish
Querulous: cranky, whining
Quiescent: inactive, untroublesome
Rebarbative: irritating, repellent
Recalcitant: resistant, obstinate
Redolent: aromatic, evocative
Rhadamanthine: harshly strict
Risible: laughable
Ruminative: contemplative
Sagacious: wise, discerning
Salubrious: healthful
Sartorial: relating to attire, especially tailored fashions
Sclerotic: hardening
Serpentine: snake-like, winding, tempting or wily
Spasmodic: having to do with or resembling a spasm, excitable, intermittent
Strident: harsh, discordant; obtrusively loud
Taciturn: closemouthed, reticent
Tenacious: persistent, cohesive,
Tremulous: nervous, trembling, timid, sensitive
Trenchant: sharp, penetrating, distinct
Turbulent: restless, tempestuous
Turgid: swollen, pompous
Ubiquitous: pervasive, widespread
Uxorious: inordinately affectionate or compliant with a wife
Verdant: green, unripe
Voluble: glib, given to speaking
Voracious: ravenous, insatiable
Wheedling: flattering
Withering: devastating
Zealous: eager, devoted

Heath Bar Chocolate Trifle

Heath Bar 
Chocolate Trifle

by:   http://partiesandpatterns.blogspot.com

-One 9x13 pan of baked brownies cut into small squares
-One 6 oz. package of chocolate pudding
-One 8 oz package of Cool Whip + 1 cup or so (if desired to garnisth the top)
-One package of mini Heath Bars (broken into small pieces--you can use a mallet or even a pastry cutter) save a few to garnish the top

Make the chocolate pudding according to package directions. Fold cool whip into the chocolate pudding.   In a large glass dessert bowl layer the brownies, pudding, Heath Bar. Repeat layers and top with more cool whip. Garnish with small Heath Bars.

This recipe is great for parties, get-togethers, and showers--we make it for practically every shower that we have! For more great ideas on throwing a shower, you can download free invitations, games, favors, and ideas HERE

Valentine's Heart Wreath

Valentine's Day is just a little over a month away and this is the perfect decoration you can do with your kids.  This fun craft from Blissful and Domestic, is very easy as well.  I added a little something that you can choose to do or not, but I decided to ask my kiddos to write a special thing they love about a family member on the inside of their stripes of paper.  Just a nice way to say something nice and about each other for everyone to see:

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Here is what you need to make a Paper Heart Wreath.



Hot Glue Gun & Glue
Double-sided Scrapbook Paper in various patterns
cut into strips 
Ribbon



Take your strip of paper and fold it in half



Bend to make a heart
and glue together



Make 10 hearts
glue each one together.




Now add the ribbon