Bread Machine Pesto Bread, great with any pasta dish...

 Bread machine Pesto Bread is so good.  Just served along with butter, or toasted and buttered with a nice bowl of soup and the most amazing garlic bread.  With ingredients you probably have on hand already, you can whip up a delicious loaf.  This recipes was from the recipe book that came with the Cuisinart Bread Machine that I use.

For a medium loaf (1 and a half lb size); place ingredients in order listed into bread pan.
1 cup warm water, 2 tbsp olive oil, 1/4 cup pesto, 3/4 tsp salt, 3 1/2 cups white bread flour, 1 tsp sugar and 13/4 yeast.

The kitchen will smell amazing while this is baking.

We were having just spaghetti and sauce this amped up dinner a bit.

This recipe will not disappoint.  Please let me know if you try this, enjoy.

Ribs and Corn, yummy easy and fast dinner...

I have to admit, when I travel to the states I like to go into the grocery stores and check out what they have there and can't get here in Canada.  There are staples that we always pack home like Red Vines, love them.  But I also like to look in the spice isle for new spice packets or these pre-package dinner ideas.  They are handy, almost always good and easy.  Tonight we tried the Knorr Roasters Southern Style BBQ with some spareribs that were on sale this week.

I didn't end up using all the meat since there was only going to be two of us dining tonight and the bag is actually quite small.  I already didn't have all the meat in a single layer like it suggests.  It also says in the instructions that you may use chicken which would have been yummy as well.  I also cooked for two hours since I used much for meat that their suggestions as well.

After two hours (I also cooked a couple potatoes on the same pan) it looked like this and was ready to come out.  Clean up was easy and fast, love that.  I did let them rest for a couple minutes to let the steam out.  After I took the ribs out I poured the remaining juices into a gravy separator, I wanted to pour the sauce out but not the fat.

I did like these the flavour wasn't over powering, juicy and tender.  Oven bags are a great way to cook ribs, they don't dry out at all.  Defiantly recommending these Knorr's Roasters, can't wait to try a different one.

As another side, I made this corn recipe from Pinterest, Addicting Corn Recipe.  It was quite good but I don't follow the recipes completely.  I didn't used all the Paprika, only have and I used Smoked instead of regular.  I will make this again but I will probably only use half again but of regular Paprika.

Try my recommendations and let me know how they worked out for you.  Thanks:)

Chicken Wings made in a T-Fal Actifry

We I am a kitchen appliance lover.  I love what they do, what they can help you with and basically I just love to play with new toys.  I bought the T-Fal Actifry on a whim from The Shopping Channel.  It was expensive but it was already ordered and didn't bother to cancel it.  I did however use it as soon as I got it, of course the first thing I made was fries.  They were easy and crispy, I knew it was not getting returned.

I fond it quite large to store on the kitchen counter so it lives in a cupboard in my laundry room and therefore it gets forgotten about but I was thinking about it and knew I had to get inspired about it again.

My family loves fried chicken wings and I knew I had seen people cook them in the Actifry.  I had heard in as little as 20 minutes so I had to try.

I bought about 4 lbs. of chicken wings.

I added vegetable oil with their measuring spoon.  And started the timer for 20 minutes.

In just a few minutes you could see them changing colour, I knew after 7 minutes that they were going to be longer than 20 minutes.

After 35 minutes they were done and browned nicely.  I tool out about half of this point because my daughter likes them plain with just salt.

 To the remaining ones I added a sauce that consisted of soy sauce, honey, dry sherry, rice vinegar, ground ginger and chopped garlic.

I started it again for 2 minutes just to get the sauce on the wings and caramelized a little. They were smelling quite tasty at this point.

After two minutes they looked nice.

To make this a complete meal I made fried rice.

Overall I think I do like the Actifry.  It is easy to clean but I really must look into more recipes for it.  I think I would have gotten better results with the wings if I didn't overload it with wings, maybe 4 lb. was too much?

Please share any favourite recipes that you make in you Actifry:)