Dinner Brought to you by pinterest

Oh, Pinterest, thank you for giving me the motivation to cook thanks to some amazing bloggers/cookers and your good pictures! I pretty much rely on my Pinterest Boards every night for dinner. I have loved trying out these new recipes and I am pretty sure my hubby is happy with it too:)

Here are a few things we cooked up this month:

First up, these Chicken Nuggets with Honey Mustard Sauce from Tracey's Culinary Adventures are AAaaamazing. . . amazing enough to make them twice in 2 weeks. They are so easy to make and my boys LOVED them too, double bonus. They remind me of Chik-fil-A and since we haven't lived by one of those for YEARS, they are a special treat! I HIGHLY recommend cooking these up tonight, you probably already have everything you need on hand.Another quick and easy dish are these Italian Seasoned, Lemon Shrimp. I have not been able to find the original source for this recipe. Every picture just has the instructions on it. So please let me know if you came up with this goodness! I HIGHLY recommend serving it with a side of french bread that you can soak up the left over butter in!!

For a simple and easy side (can you tell, I am ALL about quick recipes here. . . I have a small window of opportunity to cook around here with my little munchkins), this Quick Summer Fruit Salad by Real Mom Kitchen was also a hit! It is also just great to have in the fridge as a snack.

BBQ Chicken Salad is one of my favorite salads and this fun twist was delicious. Goddess of Scrumptious Recipes shared this BBQ Chicken Quiona Salad. Again, my 4 year old and 2 year old even loved this. It was also so good cold the next day! 

Ok, if you haven't tried these 7-up Biscuits that have been floating around Pinterest, you are missing out. These are from Plain Chicken and might be a new staple around here! Love buttery goodness.

Now on to desserts . . . I don't know if I can thank Pinterest for all these recipes. . . I have a problem where there HAS to be dessert in the house or I can't sleep (seriously). I have another problem and that is I can't stop eating them. Like these S'more Graham Krispie Treats from Wanna be a Country Cleaver. 

Funny story about Golden Grahams . . . a couple weeks ago, a little boy in front of us at church was eating Golden Graham's and shared some with my boys. My boys didn't want them and my husband thought I brought them so sneaked them in his mouth. When we got home he went straight to the cupboard and asked if the Golden Graham's were all gone, I told him we didn't have any and he realized he was eating somebody else's cereal at church . . . Aaaanyways, after feeling foolish for a bit he told me those are one of his favorite cereals . . . we have been married 9 years and I never bought them and felt terrible I didn't know that. So when I saw these babies, I had to make them and I used a whole big bag of marshmallows!! They lasted about 2 days before they were devoured!

 Ok, so if you don't know me Diet Coke and chocolate are two of my most favorite things in the world. Although this is made with regular Coke . . . it is still my new favorite cake . . . EVER! This Chocolate Cola Cake by May Flaum is out of this world amazing and is best served with a tall glass of cold milk. I also just realized that I can somehow find time to make a good cake but try to do the quickest thing possible for dinner. . . hmmm.
I have made this twice in the last month and if you want it to last longer than 2 days, I don't recommend eating it after breakfast, lunch and dinner. The second time I made it, I put chopped up pecans in the frosting. . . that way I was getting some protein, right?!?!
Thank you to you fabulous cookers and bakers out there who make dinner easy for me!! PLEASE be sure to visit and pin the original source of these recipes!!

Dutch Babies Recipe {free printable recipe card}

 These delicious, easy to make egg pancakes have a few names: Dutch Babies . . . German Pancakes . . . Hootenannies . . . whatever you call them, they are DELICIOUS! Since I married a Dutchman, I like to call them Dutch babies:) 

My mom and sisters recently took a girls trip out here (still laughing out loud at the crazy fun time we had) and I made these for them. One of my sisters said she has never seen or heard of these. . . WHAT?!? I don't understand how we are sisters and don't know the same food. Anyway, this post and recipe card printable is in honor and of her and anyone else who has gone their whole life without tasting of this goodness.

All it takes is 5 ingredients:

4 tablespoons butter

6 eggs

1 cup milk

1 cup flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

Heat your oven to 400 degrees, melt the butter in a 9x13 pan by placing it in the oven (unless you like burnt butter, keep your eye on it. It doesn't take long to melt)

Meanwhile, Whip your eggs together: add milk, flour and salt. Blend together and pour over the melted butter.

Increase the oven temperature to 450 and bake for 15-20 minutes, reduce heat to 350 and bake for another 5 minutes.

NOTE: I ran out of flour and had to use half whole wheat flour, so it didn't come out as "yellow" as they normally do. . . and threw my kids for a loop. Good grief. However, after promising over and over again that it tasted the same, they gobbled it up. 

It will REALLY puff up in the oven, don't worry that is normal and will collapse a bit when you take it out of the oven, like the picture below. 

 Sprinkle those babies with powdered sugar and fresh squeezed orange juice and the whole pan will be gone before you know it!

Here is a 4x6 recipe card to add to your breakfast stash! Enjoy!

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Dinner brought to you by {Pinterest}

I have Pinterest to thank for motivating me to cook and try new recipes. I am a visual person and am easily sold when I see delicious looking food. I am starting a new series here on my tried and true recipes found via Pinterest, called

First up on the menu:

Mexican Stuffed Shells from The Way to His Heart. 

I might be eating these as I type, so good:)

Chicken & Dumpling Casserole from Plain Chicken

Dumplings and one pot dinners (i.e. casseroles): two of my favorite things to make and eat. Combine them and you get this goodness.

Pepperoni Rolls by What About Pie

In Cleveland, we lived a block away from the best calzones and just about walked there every Thursday night to get their 2 for 1 deal. Well, we have been away for almost 2 years now and eating these Pepperoni rolls reminded me of those oh so good calzones. I added some olives, spinach and canadian bacon to mine because that is what I loved in Cleveland.

And for some good snacks, side dishes and desserts:

Keep Your Diet Real rounded up 20 Quick & Healthy snacks and since I just had a baby. . . I need all the quick and "healthy" snacks I can get. I am obsessed with apples topped with peanut butter and granola and bananas and chocolate pudding. 

Cheesy Stuffed Sourdough Loaf by NancyCreative

AMAZING, enough said. 

Grasshopper Mint Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies form Six Sister's Stuff.

Always in need of some green dessert around this time and chocolate and mint is just the thing. Too bad my husband isn't a fan of mint flavored things. . . a whole batch to myself:)

Come by again to see what we are cooking around here!

Zucchini Recipes

If any of you are swimming in zucchini like we are or have walked out to your garden to find this lurking under the leaves, I have done a bit of taste testing on some delicious 

ZUCCHINI RECIPES.

Don't mind the goof ball with crazy hair. . . 

The Ultimate Stuffed Zucchini from Mel's Kitchen Cafe

Zucchini Pancakes

These were surprisingly OUTSTANDING!! Our boys even devoured them.

Zucchini Bread from Smitten Kitchen

Zucchini and Cheese from How Does She

Soooooo simple and sooooo delicious.

Baked Zucchini Sticks and Sweet Onion Dip from King Arthur Flour

I am not much of a veggie girl but I will eat zucchini any day, especially in these recipes!

Enjoy!