Our Family Favorite Recipes

Country Sweet Calzone.......Yummmmmmmmmmmm!!!

Doesn't this look so yummy????

My Sister Tracie got me addicted to Country sweet calzone's  from Avanti's years ago. And very time I came in to visit my family I always want to stop and get one. But that only happened twice. But the last time I came in for a visit. I went grocery shopping with my mom and found the sauce!!! I was so excited!!!! And my Walmart actually sells the sauce too!!! (that is amazing) So I taught I would give it a try and I did and it was amazing!!! My hubby even loved it!!! This makes two large calzones .This is what I did....

I made my calzone dough which is 

1 cup of water

3 cups of bread flour

2 tbsp of olive oil

1 tsp of salt

2 tsp of dry active yeast

And while that was stirring and rising in my bread machine. I cooked 4 chicken tenders all the way done.

When everything was done I cut the dough in half and rolled it out. And then I placed 1/4 of cup of the Country sweet sauce in the center of the dough and I spread it all around the dough 2 inches away from the edge. Then I cut up 2 chicken tenders and placed them all over in the sauce and then I put 1 cup of Cheddar cheese on top of the chicken tenders. And then I folded the dough over.  I also put a little olive oil on top with Italian seasonings and Parmesan cheese. And then I placed it on my cookie sheet stone and cooked in on 400 for 20 minutes. Make sure you have the sauce with you while your eating it. I love to dip my extra bread in the sauce...yummmmmmmmmm 

Sweet balsamic pork chops

Usually when i make something new Its like pulling teeth from Alex to me how he liked it or how I can make things better. Well this Sweet Balsamic Pork Alex loved. I didn't even have to ask him if he liked it. He told me that this is favorite i have cooked lately. I found a recipe on pintest that i made it was good. But i knew i could make it better. So this is what i did....




I cooked 4 pork chops in my crock pot with a half of a cup of water, a sprinkle of black pepper, salt and garlic powder and cooked them till they were done and shredded them with a fork.

Then I made my sauce which in a pan which is.
1/2 cup of water
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
and 1 tablespoon of corn starch
I put all those ingredients in my sauce pan and stir it until it starts to thicken and once it does that I put the shredded pork chops in my sauce pan.

And I stir everything together and let the sauce thicken up more.

I put it over white rice but you could just have it alone or put it on a hamburger bun.

And this was dinner. It doesn't look as good as it taste.

Zoe even loved it!!!

I hope you will try it out. If you do let me know!!!

Maple Glazed Chicken

Put 2 tablespoons of canola oil in a frying pan and let it get hot then sprinkle grill mates chicken seasoning in the pan and then place the chicken in the pan and sprinkle the top of the chicken with the season again. Meanwhile the chicken is cooking i cook my rice pilaf. Once I get the rice started cooking i then place a half of a cup of maple syrup over the chicken in the frying pan. The maple syrup is gonna bubble and its supposed to. Once the rice is done i put it on the plate and then place the chicken on top of the rice and then poor some of the glaze over the chicken and rice.....

And Enjoy!!!

*Hint* The longer you let the glaze simmer the more thicker the glaze gets!!!