Chicken and spinach stuffed pasta shells

Yumm! I had these amazing chicken and spinach stuffed pasta shells a few days ago and I needed to share this recipe. I originally got it from Haute Apple Pie, but I just changed the recipe a tad. They were easy to make and quick! This is what you need:

1 box of pasta shells

2 C ricotta cheese

2 chicken breasts

1 1/2 cup of frozen spinach - thawed

2 C shredded mozzarella

1 C grated parmesan
2 cans of tomato sauce

salt

paper

Preheat oven to 375.

Bring a pot of water to a boil and put in the pasta shells with some salt. Cook until the pasta is al dente. Drain and set aside.

Cut the chicken breasts into bite size cubes and cook over meduim heat in frying pan with just a little oil to coat the bottom of the pan. When cooked, add the spinach, just enough to heat up. Dump into a large mixing bowl.

Combine the ricotta cheese, mozzarella, parmasan with the chicken and spinach. Mix ingredients until well combined. Set aside.

In another bowl pour both cans of tomato sauce and season with salt and pepper.

Begin to spoon the chicken, spinach and cheese mixure into the shells and place in a baking dish. I used a tablespoon from my measuring spoons to get the right amount each time.

After your done filling all the shells and placing them into the baking dish, spoon the tomato sauce over the shells generously.

Finally add mozzarella cheese on top of the pasta shells, lightly. Bake for about 20 minutes and enjoy!

Valentine's Day cookie sandwich

Hey everyone!

I stumbled upon this blog called "A Small Snippet", where I found this great idea for Valentine's Day cookie sandwich's.

Now I changed the look of these compared to the recipe instructions because I couldn't bare to waste that much cookie to make them heart shaped. Visit the link above to A Small Snippet to see how hers came out and then compare to mine. By the look of the picture over at LeAna's blog, I couldn't wait until the big day to make them so we had them last night for dessert. Here is what I got:

Not bad huh? They were very easy! In fact, I didn't know you can take any cake batter and make it into a cookie by just adding 1 stick of butter and 2 eggs.

The recipe is as follows:
1 box of red velvet cake batter
1 stick of butter (unsalted)
2 eggs


This recipe will yield approx. 24 cookies.

Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl, and use a cookie scoop (I used a tablespoon from my measuring spoons) and scoop out and place on cookie sheet (Tip - dip measuring spoon in water after every scoop of cookie batter, it makes it very easy to put on the cookie sheet).

After you bake at 350 degrees for 10 min, let them cool on a rack. Grab your cookie cutter in the shape you desire. I grabbed the circle, because it was super easy and as described before I couldn't bare wasting that much cookie.

After I cut all my circle shapes, I then followed this very simple way to put frosting on. I don't own a pastry bag, so I used a Ziploc and just cut off the tip to use as the base of the pastry bag.
After I piped on a fair amount, I used another cookie and squished them together, and viola, a cookie sandwich!

Enjoy!