 Hey guys, welcome back to another week of What's For Dinner. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. Our What's For Dinner videos come out every single Tuesday and in my household, it's me, my husband, and our 10 month old. I typically cook about five meals per week and then the other couple of days we just have leftovers. So we are kicking off another week of What's For Dinner with some taco salads and I love these taco salad shells. I talk about them all the time on our What's For Dinners but they are very hard to find and when I do find them, I buy a bunch of them and then I just store them in my freezer. They come with their own little former shells and you bake them. Now I know that I could fry taco salad shells and I could just bake, you know, just some flour tortillas in the oven but I have tried that, it's not the same. These are the absolute best and so let me show you, this is my husband's and on the very bottom, you can't see but he has some refried beans, he has some lettuce, cheese, he loves avocado, sour cream, got some rice on there as well and then this is mine and I just have lettuce on the bottom. I've got some rice, I've got the meat, cheese and salsa and I'm not a big fan of sour cream just kind of on top of stuff like that. So the rice that I'm using is what I had in the cabinet. I was going to make some Mexican rice but I needed to use this. The expiration date was coming up pretty quickly and it's really good. It has a really good garlic flavor and then I have talked about this taco seasoning before. I had this one and I have one more in my pantry and I'm not a big fan of it. Trader Joe's is my favorite but I have a bad habit of not liking something and then just going out and replacing it and I've decided I really need to use stuff up in my pantry. So I finished this one off today and I have one more of these in my pantry. I also made some refried beans and this is what I use. Normally I'll bake my refried beans. I didn't feel like doing that today but I, so I cook them on top of the stove top and then I added just a spoonful of sour cream. It makes them really rich and creamy. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys, so I am starting out our dinner tonight and I've got some bacon going. I have it chopped up in here. I have about six slices of bacon. I'm making fried cabbage. So I have a whole head of cabbage that I chopped up into about kind of bright but into about this size and I'm just gonna drop it into the skillet. So I had to take the cabbage off of the burner so that you could hear me because it was sizzling so loud but all I did was add the cabbage into the pan as you could see and then I just let it kind of wilt down a little bit. So I like true fried cabbage. I don't add any water to mine. I don't put a lid over it because as you know, cabbage has a lot of water so it's going to release a lot of water. So if you put the top on it then more water is going to come out but I let the lid off and I just let it wilt down and fry. I'm also trying a new dish tonight and it may not look that appetizing but it actually has a really good flavor and what this is is ground breakfast sausage and I am using the hot version. So I browned up some breakfast sausage with an onion and then once it was done, I added in just one regular can of black-eyed peas and that's it. I added some seasonings. I didn't drain the black-eyed peas or anything and this is what it looks like. I made some rice. We're going to serve it over rice and I'm also going to make some cornbread as well but it has a really good flavor. So the original recipe that I have for this calls for regular breakfast sausage and onion, chopped up jalapeno pepper and then the recipe says that you should drain and rinse your black-eyed peas but Howard and I really felt like that would be kind of dry so like I said, I did not drain my black-eyed peas. I just added them in and then I added some additional seasoning to added some onion powder, some garlic powder and then I also added some Cajun seasoning. So anyway, once the cabbage is done, I need to put it back on the burner. Once the cabbage is done, I'll plate everything up and then I'll show you the finished product. So we have everything all plated up. This is Howard's plate as you probably guessed by the avocado but here it is and we both tasted the black-eyed pea mixture and we really like it, it's good. It has a really good flavor and then here's the cabbage. All I added to the cabbage was some season salt and some regular salt and a little bit of black pepper and then here are the corn muffins and I had this in my cabinet and I needed to use it. I actually, I think I picked it up because I didn't know Betty Crocker made cornbread mix so we're gonna be trying that and I made the corn muffins and little bitty heart-shaped muffin tins because you know, I was thinking about it. I was like, why do I only use these muffin tins one day a year, which is on Valentine's Day? So I decided I'm gonna use them all the time. So having that and then for dessert, I made this vanilla cake mix from Trader Joe's. So the last time I went to Trader Joe's, I picked this up and I said that I'd had it before but when I made it today, I realized that I have not had this before. It's okay, Howard said he liked it but this is what it looks like and the little black flecks you see in there are vanilla bean and so you're supposed to make it in a eight by eight pan and I used jumbo muffin tins instead and then I just looked online and found a cream cheese icing recipe so that's what's on top but to me, it's not very tender. It's not a very tender cake. Maybe it'll taste different tomorrow, I don't know but I probably won't buy it again unless Howard just absolutely loves it 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 pulled some sausages out of our freezer. I had this package of smoked sausage links and then a package of hot links so Howard grilled out for us today and so here is my plate. I just have a little bit of mustard on my hot link and then I'm finishing off these Cheetos white cheddar bites and this is what they look like and then Howard is having a hot link and just a regular smoked sausage and these buns are very crumbly and they tore. These are ballpark buns and this was my first time buying them. I probably won't buy them again because you can see he's also separated at the bottom as well. But I bought them because I looked at the ingredients on all the other hot dog buns and these have the cleanest ingredients and maybe that's why they broke apart, I don't know but he is having a little bag of ruffles. We have a package of the multi-pack chips and so he's having a bag of ruffles and then he is having this Tzatziki sauce or dip, I'm sorry, that I bought from all the, he's having that and then of course he has his ketchup on his sausages. So this is what we are having for dinner today and I will see you guys next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight, I'm kind of winging it. I made up a recipe in my head and I hope it translates to the dinner plate. So I'm just trying to use up stuff that I have in my pantry. So I am making a creamy chicken pesto pasta. So let me show you what I'm using. I am using half a box of this fettuccine. I had used the other half some other time and so this is a 12 ounce box. So I guess about six ounces of pasta that I have already cooked and drained and set to the side. In my skillet, I have half a jar of this pesto that I got from the Dollar Tree a long time ago and I had half a jar left in my fridge. So I've got that in the skillet. Actually need to turn it down a little bit. I've got that in the skillet. The chicken is leftover from when Howard grilled out a while back ago so I sliced it up but I actually have more of this chicken in the freezer so I'm gonna be using that. And I've got my heavy whipping cream right here that I'm getting ready to add to the skillet. And then I have some Parmesan that I'm gonna add in and then I'm gonna be making this. I got this when I ran into Kroger for a few things. It's a focaccia dough which I've never seen an Italian herb so this is going to be our bread for the night. You cook it at a really high temperature like 425. You put olive oil on it. You poke it with your fingers to get that focaccia look so I'm gonna be sticking this in the oven in just a little bit too. But to my pesto, all I'm gonna do is add in two cups of heavy whipping cream and I'm gonna let this simmer for about five minutes until it thickens up just a little bit. And then when it simmers, after it simmers, I'm gonna add in my Parmesan and I know there's a light. It's kind of glaring in the skillet. I'm gonna add in my Parmesan and once my Parmesan melts, I'm gonna add in my pasta and then my chicken will be last because it's already cooked and I don't want it to get too tough. So I will bring you guys back once everything comes together. Okay, so here's the focaccia. I baked it at 425 for about 11 minutes. So here is our plate. Here's the pasta and it really turned out good. I did end up adding some garlic salt to it and I also added some more Parmesan cheese and then here is the focaccia. I ended up baking this for about 12 minutes and so this is what it looks like on the inside. Here's the bottom of it. Howard and I tried it and it's pretty good. So before we tried it, I had mixed up this bread dipping sauce and we really don't need it because the focaccia is really flavorful already but here is the dipping sauce. I've had this for a while. I don't even remember where I got it from. But anyway, this is what we are having for dinner and we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys, so I am taking a break from cooking tonight. We are having Chicken Express which is a fast food chicken place here in Texas and so we got two dinner combos. We got thighs, both of us. So this is Howard. He got two thighs, a yeast roll. He got some corn on the cob and then he got an apple pie. So at Chicken Express, your dessert or a dessert can be a side. So his two sides are the apple pie and corn. I am having also two thighs, the yeast roll. I am having jalapeno poppers and these have cheddar cheese in them and then I am having a cherry pie for my dessert and my second side. So anyway, this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time.