Green Bean Casserole

I made this as a side to my Crunchy Honey Garlic Chicken last night. This has been a family favorite for years upon years upon years and I don't think this will ever go away or change.

Green Bean Casserole 

Ingredients Needed: 

• 1 10 oz can cream of mushroom soup
• 3/4 cup of milk
• 1/8 tsp black pepper
• 1 cup french fried onions
• 2 14 oz cans of cut green beans, drained

Directions:

1. Mix soup and milk.
2. Add pepper to mixture. 
3. Drain beans and add to mixture.
4. Add 1 cup french fried onions. 
5. Pour mixture into casserole dish and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. 
6. Pull out and stir, add remaining french fried onions to the top and bake for another 5 minutes.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

The other day I ate a pumpkin chocolate chip cookie and my mouth was craving more and more the rest of the day, so I decided to look up how to make them and came across a pumpkin chocolate chip bread that I wanted to try instead!

This recipe is for 2 loaves, but since I made it for my work and have quite a few co-workers I doubled the recipe, so the pictures look like I am making it for an Army (which might as well be the same thing lol). 

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

Ingredients Needed:

(for 2 loaves)

• 3 1/3 cups unbleached all purpose flour
• 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 2/3 cups sugar
• 2/3 cups softened unsalted butter
• 4 eggs
• 30 oz can pure pumpkin
• 2/3 cups water
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
2. Sift together all of the dry ingredients and set aside.
3. Cream the sugar and butter together. 
4. Add eggs one at a time to the sugar/butter mixture.
5. Mix in the pure pumpkin.
6. Alternate adding dry ingredients and water.
7. Fold in chocolate chips. (yes, it says 1 cup... don't limit yourself to 1 cup... just saying)
8. Pour into large, greased bread pans and bake for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the loaf comes out clean. 

The Rookee

Hello All!

I am going to start off by saying... that I am a complete rookie when it comes to cooking or baking so if you are going to criticize the way I cook please please please don't lol. Also, I know that rookie is spelled wrong, but obviously Rookie Cook was already taken, so I got creative!

This is not going to be a daily blog, if anything a weekly or bi-weekly, so just hold your horsies and stay in touch whenever I post new recipes. Trust me... they will be delicious and look delicious too because you will get to see pictures since I am a photographer after all ;)

Happy Cooking!

Jana