Mama Ward's Baking Powder Biscuits

My mother had the best and easiest baking powder biscuits. The ingredients are simply but the key to a nice fluffy biscuit is warmth of milk and how you handle your dough. I'm loving that my little boy loves to help me bake. He sure loves the kitchen as much as I do.  I know his "Mama Ward" would love this!

I love to make this as clean as possible. I love doing half and half whole wheat flour and white flour. If I do just whole wheat it's 4 tsp of baking powder instead of 3. 

2 cups of flour

3 tsp of baking powder 

1/2 tsp salt

4 tbsp softened unsalted butter

3/4 cup lukewarm milk

Mix all dry ingredients. Chop butter in dry mixture. Slowly mix and pour milk until dough is mixed. Slightly sticky. Knead gently and roll out to about 1/2 in thickness. Cut and bake at 350 for 10-12 min. Enjoy with butter, jam, or honey :) 

We did pumpkin cutters for fall. We realy wanted to do stars but thought we would wait for a couple more weeks. 

All ready to bake!!!

"Mom they huge!"

Along with the biscuits tonight, ryker helped me throw together some yummy individual meat loaf! It was something new I threw together and it turned out amazing. Our dear friends Wayd and Aubrey loved them:) 

2 lbs lean ground turkey

2 eggs

2 cups whole oats

1 cup Stubbs original bbq sauce 

1 1/2 tbsp Dijon mustard

1/2 tsp  garlic powder 

1/2 tsp Lawrys seasoning salt 

A dash or too of cumin 

Mix all ingredients together. Form into 1/2 cup servings. Bake at 350 for 35-45 min. 

Chicken sausage...my absolute favorite :)

Finishing the best chicken sausage has been quite a chase for me. I've tried the stuff from Costco, Sprouts, Walmart, I believe even Trader Joes, but my new favorite is the Simply Balanced brand from Target!!! It is soooo Good!!! Last night I mixed it with so veggies and sauted them. We had whole wheat tortellini and fresh steamed green beans on the side. It was awesome!!! 

My favorite seasonings that I use for everything is Nature's Seasoning Salt and Paprika!! I'm obsessed with paprika right now. It is so good with everything. 

I encourage you all to try chicken sausage if you haven't already! It is so yummy and so clean as well!!!

1 pkg of Italian chicken sausage, sliced 

1 onion, chopped 

1 red pepper, chopped

1-2 zucchini, chopped

2 tsp minced garlic

1 tsp paprika

1 tsp nature's seasoning salt

Olive oil drizzled

Combine all ingredients in pan. Sauté for 10-15 min on medium to low heat. 

Serve with rice pasta or quinoa 

Serves 4 😃

Last nights Mexi style dinner

WLast nights dinner was so quick to throw together. I know I love quick easy meals. Especially when I have a hungry household and I'm running late from work or errands!  Hopefully you find this just as yummy and easy as I did 😃.

 

The bbq chicken was the first thing to fix on the menu. I took chicken pieces and marinated them in bbq sauce ( I used Stubbs ) I then added paprika, garlic  salt, Montreal steak seasoning and a pinch of cumin. I hardly ever measure, so all the seasonings were equivalent to about 1/2 tsp. After mixing everything I cooked the chicken for 30 min at 350 F. 

As the chicken was cooking, I chopped and sauted red peppers and onions in a bit of olive oil and sprinkled with white pepper. I love white pepper because it has a nice bite and a little goes a long way. 

Rice and beans came next and they were so easy. For the rice I have found microwaveable rice pouches at my local grocery store. My favorite is the fried brown rice. I also mix a brown rice quino mix as well. I then add about a cup of corn and peas. This was my hubs favorite part of the meal 😍. 

Beans are so easy to make. I used red beans tonight. Black are my favorite but I didn't have anymore. After rinsing the beans I added a small can of green chiles. It gave the beans flavor without having to add salt or seasonings. 

After fixing everything, but the chicken was ready as well. This whole meal prep and cooking took me 30 min! Here is the finished product. Hope you all enjoy it! 

 

Turkey Red Pepper Burgers

So I was looking at Instagram yesterday and saw some yummy burgers and I was inspired to make burgers for dinner. I have made these burgers before but last night they turned out amazing!!!!! I hope you all enjoy!! 

1 lb lean ground turkey

1 small red pepper, diced

3-4 green onions, diced

1 tbsp garlic salt

1 tsp paprika

1/2 tsp Montreal steak seasoning 

1/2 tsp pepper

A dash of salt 

A dash of white pepper 

1/3 fresh grated Parmesan cheese

Mix all ingredients in bowl except cheese. Form into burgers. Cook on George Foreman grill for 3-4 min. After cooked, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Top with lettuce tomatoe and avocado!!!

Oven baked chicken

Tonight's dinner was an amazing success!!! I found lots of recipes on Pinterest about how to cook oven baked chicken and collaborated them all together and it was awesome. I just love when I try something out and it turns out wonderful!!! Hope you all enjoy!

3-4 lb whole chicken

1 1/2 Tbsp sea salt

3/4 tsp garlic salt

3/4 tsp Italian seasoning

1 tsp paprika

1/2 tsp white pepper 

1/4 tsp lemon pepper 

1 pinch of sugar 

1 1/2 lb heirloom potatoes

2 cups chopped carrots

1 large yellow onion

1 Tbsp unsalted butter melted

Olive oil

Rinse chicken and place in 9x13 pan and pat dry. Massage salt into chicken. Mix remainder of seasonings together and then sprinkle and rub into chicken. Add veggies to the pan on either side of the chicken. Refrigerate for 1-2 hours. Preheat oven to 400 F. Lightly drizzle olive oil on veggies. Placing the chicken in its side, apply melted butter till covered. Cook for 30 min. Remove from oven and then butter other side and cook for an additional 30 min. Remove chicken again from oven. Stir veggies. Place the chicken breast side up and add the remainder of the butter. Cook for an additional 30 min. Turn off oven and let sit for 5 min. Remove from heat and enjoy!!!!

Banana Pear Naked Berry Protein Shake

I Love Naked juice and so does my little boy! We don't drink a lot of juice cuz of all the sugar but when we do Naked is our go to juice.  Because of lack of frozen berries we decided to use the juice as our main source of fruit. We mixed in our protein powder and extra fruit and it was so rich and frothy :) 

16 oz of Naked juice ( your choice. We used the blue berry one) 

2 bananas

2 pears

2 scoops of whey protein powder

A handful of ice

Blend and enjoy! I topped mine with some coconut and chia seeds :) 

Ginger Honey BBQ Chicken

4 trimmed chicken breasts 

1 cup BBQ sauce 

2 Tbsp clover honey

1 tsp ground ginger or 1 1/2 Tbsp fresh grated ginger

Pinch of salt

*place all ingredients in gallon bag 

* mix and refrigerate for at least 1 hr to marinate

* grill and enjoy :)

*serves 4