Mynti's Cookbook!

I enjoy cooking, and just want to share things I've cooked, family recipes, etc. <3

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Campbell's Tasters: Creamy Parmesan Chicken, and Creamy Poblano Mac and Cheese.

As I posted before, I'm a Campbell's Taster, and this is the other dish I made that I love, that I wanted to share. Creamy Parmesan Chicken, from their skillet sauces, and Creamy Poblano Mac and Cheese, using their Latino Inspired Soups. So first, I put water on for my Elbow Macaroni noodles, I also chopped up some garlic cloves on the wonderful little cutting board that Campbell's sent me!

Now, on the instructions for the Skillet Sauce it says you're just supposed to put oil in a skillet and cook your chicken. You know me by now, I can't do that. I want flavor seared INSIDE and out. So I threw some Italian flavor cubes in there. If you don't have any, you can put butter, olive oil, LOTS of garlic, parsley, and some onion flakes. I also add a little red pepper for a kick. Oh, and garlic cloves, of course. Then you brown the chicken.

And yes, I know, I made a mess. Lol. I always do. I clean up after! I promise!

So, once that browns, you pour in the skillet sauce. 

And let it cook for 5 minutes. It smells sooo delicious. Now, by this point my noodles were done, so they got strained, and I had already mixed up the condensed Creamy Poblano & Queso soup with some milk. I also added some seasonings. A bit of pepper, and garlic salt. I know, I love garlic. I can't help it. I mixed it up, and it turned out like this:

Juuuuust right!

And the full meal looked like this:

The chicken is wonderfully flavored, cheesy on the outside, buttery and garlicy on the inside. The mac and cheese is a little bit spicy, but wonderful. If you have a marinara sauce, you could put it with the chicken and easily turn it in to chicken parmesan. So good! I'd recommend Campbells 3 Cheese Sauce, myself, but I love cheese. :)

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Campbell's Tasters, Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Chicken, and some Penne-chicken alfredo pasta!

Hello! 

 So, the first meal I cooked with my Campbell's Tasters stuff was pretty easy. I used Swanson Cream Starter for some mashed Potatoes.  First, let me link you to the recipe.  

Swanson Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes.

Now of course, I turned it in to my own thing. I added some Dill, Crushed Red Pepper, and Oregano. I like my potatoes extra flavorful. I might have also used a tad bit extra of the cloves...

Then you chop up some taters.... Toss 'em in the water and bring it to a boil.

Yeah, I know, the stove is a bit messy. Sorry!

While we did that, I started working on the chicken.

I also put water on to boil penne pasta. I thought I had pictures of that and the sauce I made, but sadly I don't...

Anyways, I put it in some lemon pepper seasoning. Mmm. I love lemon pepper. I use sautee cubes, but you can always make your own sauce for it.

Deelicious Chicken! Right about then, the potatoes were finally done, so here they are, drained, and looking pretty.

Now, you season them, and mash 'em. You also put your Swanson Cream Starter in! Normally I use milk but I have to say, these taste even better with the Cream Starter. I love it! For the Penne Pasta sauce, I had the Prego Alfredo sauce that Campbell's sent me.... But my Mom isn't a fan of just straight up Alfredo sauce. What to do? I know! I have some Campbell's Soups for Easy Cooking Creamy Herb and Garlic, with Chicken Stock! So I mixed them together, seasoned to taste, and bam. There was the sauce for the penne pasta. We cooked some green beans to round out the meal.

Thank you so much Campbell's! This was fun, and delicious! :)

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So, I'm a #CampbellsTaster!

It's really cool to have been selected for this! I'm so excited that Crowdtap and Campbells chose me as one of the people to try out some of their new products! So first, here's all of the awesome stuff they sent me!

I didn't think to include the tote bag in it... So, the next few posts I make I will feature things from this. I'm so thrilled.

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Not to do with cooking... I'll get back to that soon

Just a little something to keep y'all busy til I get back too cooking!

I've recently tried this awesome soap from Adovina, it's Sulfur soap for Oily / Acne Prone skin with Blackheads. Lately I've had a ton of problems with blackheads unfortunately, but this has helped MAJORLY. No up close pictures for proof, really. But here's one of me with my soap, showing how much I've used it. Lol.

I also should add, I have pityrosporum folliculitis. It seems to have helped with my outbreaks. I'm a happy camper!

Thanks so much Adovina for letting me try out your product! I'm so thrilled!

Back to cooking soon I hope, just been terribly ill....

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

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Sorry for not posting much...

 I've been pretty ill for the past few months, between my cluster headaches getting worse, and my shunt malfunctioning, I haven't felt up to posting a whole lot. Or had a lot that I felt like I absolutely needed to post. Hopefully that'll change soon.  My family keeps complimenting me on my spaghetti and my chicken fried steak, so maybe I'll talk about what I do to make mine special.  Hope to be back soon!  Mynti.

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This was pretty simple, just 2 mixed. But I added my own little twist to it!

The bread, you usually let rise for just 25 minutes... I let it rise for more like 45 minutes. Mainly because I forgot to boil the water right when I put the bread on to rise. Whoops!! I also put jalapenos and some sharp cheddar on the bread, along with some garlic salt, and ground pepper. In the cheddar potato soup, to make it taste a bit smoother I put a little bit of shredded sharp cheddar, and some shredded Velveeta in it. (As my Mom prefers Velveeta.) Garlic salt, and pepper to flavor it.

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Ingredients: 1 stick of butter Olive Oil 2 Potatoes, at least. You can cook more, or less. Garlic Salt Pepper Steak Seasoning (I use Texjoy) Preheat the oven to 350. I coat the pan in butter, first. Slice the potatoes a bit thin. I also toss the potatoes in a bowl, coat them in olive oil, garlic salt, steak seasoning, and use a pepper grinder until I feel like they have enough seasoning. I then put them in a pan.

Melt the butter to add some flavor, drizzle it over the potatoes, and then stick it all in the oven. Cook the potatoes on one side for 15 minutes, flip them over. I'm not really sure if you actually need to flip them... But I flip 'em anyways. Because I'm strange like that.. Taste test them, you don't want them cooked so much they're like potato chips. 

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Cola Baked Chicken Breast!

Ingredients Sweet Baby Ray's Cola Q Sauce At least 3 Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts.

Some Garlic Salt, Steak Seasoning, and Pepper.

Preheat your oven to 350 Degrees.

I coated my glass pan in tin foil because Mom told me to. Not sure if that's a requirement.  We chopped all the fat off of 3 Boneless, Skinless chicken breasts, then seasoned the bottom with some Garlic Salt, Pepper, and Steak Seasoning. I coated the pan in half of the Sweet Baby Ray's Cola Q. I put the unseasoned side face down. Coat the chicken in the rest of the Cola Q sauce, place it in the oven, and bake it for 20 minutes. Then turn the chicken pieces to the other side. Bake for 20 more minutes. Check to see if a piece of it is cooked all the way through. (There should be no pink meat, and all of the fluids should come out clear if you poke it with a fork or knife...) Then enjoy!

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First post!

Well, first of all, I don't use a whole lot of 'measuring'. Throw that out the window... Except in some recipe's. I go with what I think will work well. Second, some of these are simple, but bare in mind, I'm a novice cook. I've lived a sheltered life. I've been chronically ill, and my cooking skills were limited. Just recently, things have changed to where I've had the opportunity to cook.

Third, You'll probably hear a lot about family recipe's here. I'm a southern girl. My family is teaching me to cook so some of this stuff is theirs. Tweak this stuff as you'd like!