Friday Favorite...Fat Free Half and Half

Fat free half and half is one of my favorite inventions! I don't know how half and half can be fat free because it makes everything that you put it in taste so good!

I've been buying a quart of this pretty regularly the last few months, so I thought I'd share with you what I've been doing with it.

I've been adding it to soups (regardless of whether or not it's in the recipe)...

I think this Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Soup started my obsession with fat-free half and half since it calls for it in the recipe...

I've replaced the cream in this Creamy Mushroom and Chicken Soup with half and half. Delicious! (Restaurant Quality too!)

I added it in my Turkey Noodle Soup that I made after Thanksgiving (instead of using cream of chicken soup). Creamy good!

I splashed some into my Chicken Tortellini Soup that I made the other night. (This picture is without half and half, so just imagine it creamier.)

I've also added to the Baked Potato Soup and Broccoli Cheese Soup recipes that I just make up as I go along. Just add it when the soup is done and let it warm through. The half and half makes the soup a bit thicker and much more delicious.

I'm sure that I added it to this Crockpot Chicken Stew too...

I wish that my family loved tomato soup (which they don't), so I could make this delicious Tomato Basil Parmesan Soup.

I've made Chicken Pot Pie with it. I've never posted my recipe for it, but I think I've finally perfected it. I made it last week and my dinner-hating-three-year-old said that it was yummy. And my eight year old daughter wanted some in her thermos for lunch at school the next day.

Splash it into your mashed potatoes instead of milk.

Add it to your eggs when you're making scrambled eggs for breakfast burritos.

Toss some into this Crockpot Chicken Stroganoff right before serving.

Replace the fat free evaporated milk with fat free half and half in this Chicken Tetrazinni.

Make gravy with it for your Swedish Meatballs (using an IKEA gravy packet of course).

And my latest experiment...whisk in a little half and half into your Porcupine Meatballs sauce right before serving. Divine! (so much better than this picture looks too!)

Have I convinced you yet to try some Fat-Free Half and Half? It's a little pricey, like $3.29, but I use every drop of it over a couple of weeks. Just pour it into anything that is saucy or soupy. Delicious!

One Hour Rolls

These rolls are amazing! I've been making these rolls since 2001 when I was a newlywed and my sister-in-law shared the recipe with me. The rolls are light, fluffy, easy to make and they only take one hour! And delicious too! I've made these rolls more times than I can count, so I've perfected the art of making them. Here are some step-by-step instructions with pictures for you. Here's what you'll need. I buy pretty much all of the ingredients in this recipe at Sam's club, thus the huge containers. You need warm water, yeast, oil, sugar, salt, egg and flour. In the mixer bowl, add warm water (not hot), oil, sugar and yeast. Mix together. After ten or fifteen minutes the yeast mixture should be puffed up like this. Time to add the salt and beaten egg. Then mix in the flour. (I've used a mixture of half wheat and half white flour successfully.) Keep adding flour until the dough is manageable. It will be a little sticky, b

Don't like your house to smell like food? I've got a kitchen tip for that!

I have a smallish, one story house and if I cook food that is kind of smelly, like onions, the smell tends to linger in every room. This is a pet peeve of mine and (also my husband's). Over the years I've found a few ways to cook smelly food without smelling up the kitchen. Use your garage! I use my garage quite often to cook things in. I open the window and it airs out, especially when you open the garage door. I'm sure my neighbors wonder what I'm cooking. I've used two different kitchen appliances in the garage: my crockpot and my food dehydrator. Crockpot - I did this very thing today since I'm simmering chicken, onions, carrots and celery to make chicken noodle soup tonight. I don't want my house to smell like onions all day, so I plugged it in on my husband's workbench. Food dehydrator - when I make jerky, I plug the food dehydrator in in the garage. I don't really want my house to smell like meat for hours

Chicken Angelo

Don't forget to enter the Whirley Pop giveaway . It ends tomorrow! Am I the only person that asks their friends what they're making for dinner all the time? That's kind of why I started this blog, because I want to know what my friends are making for dinner. The other day I asked my friend, Juli (who is great cook), what she was making for dinner. She told me she was making Chicken Angelo. Then she told me what's in it. I knew I had to try it too because she has some picky eaters at her house like I do. I figured if they'll eat it then maybe it was worth a try at my house. This Chicken Angelo pasta has my favorite things, artichoke hearts and mushrooms in it. But don't be fooled into thinking that my family likes these things too. Because they don't. They won't touch an artichoke or mushroom with a ten foot pole. That being said, my family loved this pasta dish. They even gave me the go ahead to make it again. They loved the ch

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