 Hey guys, welcome back to another week of what's for dinner My name is Andrea with food inventory adventures in food and in my household There's me my husband and our one-year-old little boy this week We are kicking off another week of what's for dinner with a new recipe. It is tortellini carbonara So in my skillet here, I have some bacon that I have fried up and to it I am adding some heavy whipping cream And this is gonna be so good So traditionally in a carbonara, it has the raw egg that you toss with pasta This does not have any egg in it at all. So I guess it's not really a carbonara, but it sounds really good So I've got my heavy whipping cream in there. I'm gonna add some parsley and Some grated Parmesan Gonna give that a stir and I've already prepared my tortellini and it is this from This package from Aldi and it was a dollar 19, which is a steel so I'm gonna let this melt down just a little bit Okay, so the cheese has melted and now I'm just going to add my tortellini that I've already prepared And I'm just going to let this warm all the way through So here it is and Howard and I tried it and it is so good I mean really how could anything with bacon and cheese be bad? This is delicious I will definitely be making this again and with it. We are just having a side of Garlic bread and this is from Tom thumb. I already threw away the box But it's their brand and we buy it all the time It's so good and then we are having a chopped Caesar salad kit with it And it is from Aldi here. It is in the bowl and then this is it and we really like these a lot as well So anyway, this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time Hey guys, so for dinner tonight I took the easy route and I grabbed some stuff from our freezer that we needed to use up anyway So we are having these fish sticks from Trader Joe's I popped them into my air fryer and then we are also having this mac and cheese from Trader Joe's This is probably my favorite frozen mac and cheese of all time and This box has two servings in it So Howard and I are splitting it and then I also made some frozen corn the frozen corn is from Sam's And it is members mark version It's the kind that comes in the big bag and it has about six bags I think a frozen corn you can pop them in the microwave and steam them Which is what I did or you can cook it on the stove top So this is my second time making this corn the first time I did make it on the stove top this time I did steam it and to me it's not my favorite corn because it's not very sweet So I probably would not buy this again, but anyway, this is what we are having for dinner tonight And we'll see you guys next time Hey guys, so for dinner tonight I am making some roasted chicken and homemade mashed potatoes and I thought I would pop on really quickly and show you How I make my mashed potatoes so in my pot. I have two pounds of Potatoes that I cubed and I boiled and heavily salted water and then to that I am adding one cup of warm heavy whipping cream. I just warmed it up in the microwave And then I'm also going to add in a half a stick of unsalted butter That's also softened in that room temperature and then I am just going to mash away All right guys, and that's it. That's all there is to it now If you want you can add in some pepper, but Howard's not a big black pepper fan So I probably won't add that in if you want to add in additional salt you can but again Like I said, I heavily salted my potato water So I don't need any of that so let me get everything plated up And I will show you our plates So I have pulled the chicken out of the oven. These are two humongous Lay quarters and I just roasted them and so here they are and then with it We are having these creamed green beans that I picked up from Trader Joe's and let me grab the box here is What the box looks like Howard and I just tried them and they're really not that great I mean, I could have skipped these They are cheesy, but there's not much flavor not much to them at all And then of course here are the mashed potatoes that I made as well So one thing I think I may have forgotten to mention when I was making the mashed potatoes is that you do want to make sure that your Butter is at room temperature and that your whipping cream is Warm as well because when you use cold ingredients on these warm potatoes They can seize up and when your ingredients are warm that makes the potatoes nice and fluffy So anyway, this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time Hey guys, so for dinner tonight I decided to use up some stuff for my pantry and I had this in my pantry. It's new to us We haven't tried it before you can make it with sausage Chicken or seafood and I had a big bag of shrimp in my freezer that I needed to use So that is what we're using and so I am serving it with a scoop of jasmine rice on top and some Green onions Howard and I tried it and we're not crazy about it. It's okay. It has a really Strong seafood taste and it's not from the shrimp. I think it's from the from the roux I probably wouldn't purchase it again, but again, I'm just using up stuff in my pantry So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time Hey guys, so for dinner tonight, I'm making chicken cordon bleu pot pie This is a recipe that I made up Howard and I aren't big fans of the Traditional pot pies with the peas in the carrots because we don't like peas and carrots So I came up with this recipe So let me show you what you're going to need you are going to need some chicken some broccoli some ham potatoes Swiss cheese and Some Alfredo sauce now. I happen to have the basil Alfredo sauce in my pantry Plain works just fine So let's get started Okay, so in my bowl, I'm adding my chicken and Broccoli now broccoli is not part of the traditional dish But I like it so I can add some bulk to the pot pie traditionally chicken cordon bleu is a chicken breast with ham and Swiss cheese so but I'm gonna add some broccoli and Like I said, this is a recipe that I made up So I will Add the recipe in the description box and I'm gonna add my ham the ham I had left over from Thanksgiving and I just pan fried it to brown it up and get rid of some of the moisture in it and Going to add in my Swiss cheese and this is grated Swiss cheese and Then I'm going to add in a potato. I just have one medium potato here Like I said potatoes aren't traditional to this, but I just like it for the bulk And Going to add my Alfredo sauce. I Don't add any additional salt to this because there's enough in the ham and the Alfredo sauce and that's enough for us All right guys, so now I'm going to put the filling into the pie crust So I did par bake my bottom pie crust. I am using this pie crust from Aldi I've never used it before typically I stick with Pillsbury, but someone told me this is really good So I'm going to give it a try so I par baked it for about 15 minutes and now I'm going to add in the filling All right, so I'm going to pop this in the oven for about an hour an hour 25 minutes whenever it's golden brown and of course I will bring you guys back when it's finished So here is the pot pie it ended up baking this for about an hour in 10 minutes Let it cool for about 15 minutes and I cut out a slice so that you could see the inside So here it is and here is a piece on the plate I will say I did try the pie crust and I definitely prefer the Pillsbury pie crust To me the Pillsbury pie crust is a little bit flakier Has a little bit of a sweeter kind of taste to it. This was okay I don't think I'd buy it again. I don't think So anyway, this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time