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Sunday, February 28, 2010

All Crockpot, all the Time (or for a week!)

Well, its been awhile, but Im sure all 2 of you expected that! I had the wonderful honor of helping cook the food for my brother engagement party and truly enjoyed it. The items that I contributed:

Tea Smoked Lettuce Cups
Spinach and Artichoke stuffed Mushrooms
Jalapeno-Cream Cheese Wontons
Mini Mac and Cheese cups
Petit Fours
Bourbon Balls
Butterscotch Dip with fresh fruit

To ease back into my cooking after a fabulous engagement party, Ive decided to go all crockpot this week! Starting Monday I will test out recipes from some fellow bloggers (whom I do not know, but would love to be as faithful to blogging as they are!) I will try to post what websites I got each recipe from (as well as a critique), but here are the few I frequent: Momswhothink.com, Crockpot365.blogspot.com, StolenMomentsCooking.com, AllRecipes.com, and Recipezaar.com.

Not that this one is healty, but heres what I made Friday night to end my no cooking spree!

Cheesy Ravioli Casserole
Ingredients:
2 lbs pre-packaged 4-cheese ravioli, cooked and drained
2 cups broccoli florets
1 ½ cups diced chicken, cooked
1 jar alfredo sauce
2 cloves minced garlic
1 cup mozzarella cheese, divided
1/3 cup parm cheese
1 tbs butter

1. Preheat oven to 350 F degrees.
2. Coat the bottom of a 9×13 glass baking dish with a thin layer of alfredo sauce.
3. In a medium bowl, mix the ravioli, broccoli, chicken, garlic, alfredo sauce, 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese until combined. (Be careful not to mix too hard that you tear the ravioli.)
4. Place mixture into baking dish and top with 1/2 cup mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
5. Cut the butter into small pieces and scatter on top of the cheese. 6. Bake for 20 minutes or until cheese is hot and bubbly.
6. Set to broil for additional 5 minutes if you want it more toasty!