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Easy Sun Dried Tomato & Sausage Orzo!

Hi My Loves!!

I recently cooked a super yummy dinner and showed it to you guys on our daily vlog channel . It was so good and I figured it would be a crime not to share how to make this recipe :) This was a new favorite and is very filling as well. I think this would feed a family of 4 easily. We had it for dinner and then left overs for dinner the next night too and it reheated really well. We all really loved it (which some of you know can sometimes be hard to please a toddler at dinner time)....

Here's the finished result! SO YUM!!!

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

1 Jar Classico Sun Dried Tomato Pesto

Pine Nuts (I used half of the bag)

1 Pack of Aidells Italian Style Mozzaella & Garlic Chicken Sausage sliced

1 lb of Orzo Pasta

1 Orange Bell Pepper diced

1 Onion diced

Asparagus cut into 1 inch pieces

Olive Oil

1. Get 2 separate pots of water boiling with olive oil and salt

2. Add diced onions and bell peppers to a separate pan with olive oil and cook on medium heat until onions are transparent

3. Add orzo to water and cook until al dente (about 9 minutes)

4. While the orzo is boiling, add your sausages, sun dried tomato pesto and pine nuts to the onions and peppers and stir until everything is coated with the pesto sauce.

5. Turn heat down to low and keep stirring occasionally.

6. The last 5 minutes of waiting for your orzo to cook, add asparagus to the other pot of boiling water and boil for about 4 minutes.

7. Drain pasta and asparagus and add to sausage mixture.

8. Give everything a good mix and serve.

We added parmesan cheese to ours and it was super delicious. You could just add the aspragus and cook it in with the bell peppers if you wanted but I don't like the way the feel as far as texture goes when I do that, that's why I boil them first. You could always steam them too... however you like to cook them :)

The most time consuming part is just chopping up the veggies and sausage. Other than that this is pretty easy and fairly quick. It took me about 1/2 hour all together to make.

Hope you like it!

Please share a picture on my facebook or twitter and let me know how you and the family likes it :)

The Most Amazing Cookie Recipe Ever from our Child Birth CLass :)

These cookies are so delicious and soft and yummy.. I love them! I hope you guys like them if you make them!! Let me know if you do!! :)

Catherine’s Cookies

½ lb butter or margarine (2 sticks)

2 c. brown sugar

½ c. white sugar

2 eggs

½ c. water

2 tsp. vanilla

3 c. flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

5 c. old fashioned oats

(1)  12 ounce bag of chocolate chips

(1)  12 ounce bag of peanut butter chips

       Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

       Cream together butter and both sugars, then add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.  Add water and vanilla.

       Sift together flour, baking soda and salt in separate bowl.

       Add sifted dry ingredients to butter/sugar mixture (about ½ cup at a time), stirring after each addition.

       Add oats, then chocolate and peanut butter chips. (I add these ingredients a little at a time, mixing well after each addition). The dough will be very thick and dense, best if it is blended using a big spoon rather than a mixer.

       Drop cookie dough by rounded teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets.

       Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Let cool for two minutes then remove from baking sheets and cool on wire rack.

       Store tightly covered.

       Makes at least 6 dozen.  Dough freezes well if stored in airtight container.

Super Easy and Yummy Lentil Soup Recipe!

Lentil and Carrot Soup!!!

1 oz 2 tsps butter
1 onion finely chopped
3 to 4 carrots chopped
4 oz lentils (1 cup)
2 stalks of celery chopped
5 cups of water or stock (i like to use vegetable stock)
salt and pepper
1 bay leaf

melt fat in pan, add chopped onions and grated carrot and celery, stir for 3 mins, add lentils cook for a few more minutes, then add water or stock and simmer for about 1 to 2 hrs until lentils are soft. The original recipe said 1/2 an hour but my lentils were not cooked!!!

add milk at the end if its too thick, non fat. I didnt have to do this :)

This is such an easy recipe! ANd so good, my husband absolutely hates lentil soup and he went back for seconds!!! I like it cuz its not all mushy like slop, everything is still in its form and its more like a veggie soup but just with lentils!

Great protein and fiber too if your not really into meat..... like I am right now :)

Hope you like it!

xxxxx