Bacon Wrapped Corn on the Cob

So I know it's been a very long time since I have posted anything but I feel like I had a good "excuse". I spent all of last summer into fall getting sick when ever I attempted to cook and after that pure exhaustion set in. Now I have spent the last 5 months getting getting to know my little lady and enjoying motherhood! 

My first post back didn't turn out the way I hoped and looked in the food network magazine but still tasted very good! Bacon wrapped corn on the cob! 

What you'll need:

Corn on the cob

2 slices of bacon per cob

Seasoning of your choice (I used Cayenne pepper, paprika, garlic, salt, pepper)

Heavy duty foil

What you'll do:

1) Clean up the corn 

2) season corn

3) Wrap 2 slices of bacon around the corn 

4) Wrap your corn in foil  leave some space for air flow

5)Put your corn on a medium high grill. Turn the corn after 8 minutes.

6) After another 10 minutes I peaked at the corn and noticed the bacon was not even close to being crispy so I listened to some reviews from other sources and took the foil off.... The bacon unwrapped immediately. So I just left the bacon to get crispy on the grill and charred the corn a bit!

This was the end result. The corn still had tons of bacon flavor and was very good! And the bacon had a great grill flavor! 

S'more Martini

This will be the first drink that I am posting but I hope to do more! I love a good martini and really enjoy experimenting with different flavors!

The other day my husband was watching T.V while I was slaving away in the kitchen (not really I was making sandwiches for dinner. It was a 100 degrees!) Anyway he saw a commercial for S'mores and I asked if there was any Martini's that tasted like one. Now as you know there are tons of Marshmallow vodkas out there right now so I new there had to be.  I began looking some up on Pinterest. I found that all the recipes had way to many ingredients so I decided to figure it out for my self!



What you'll need:
Smirnoff Fluffed Marshmallow Vodka
Chocolate Liquor
Cream
Granish:
Marshmallow
Chocolate Syrup
Graham Crackers (Crushed)

To Make:
Fill a Cocktail shaker with ice and these ingredients
2 ounces of Marshmallow Vodka
1 ounce of Chocolate Liquor
1 ounce of Cream
Shake well and let chill

In the mean time get your Martini glass ready to garnish! (this is one of my favorite parts making it look pretty!)

Toast a marshmallow over the stove

Rim your glass with chocolate syrup (I put chocolate on a plate and turn the glass on it)

Dip your rimmed glass into crushed graham crackers.

Add your toasted Marshmallow

Pour in the Drink

And Enjoy!!
*** I wanted to wait until I had more pictures to post this but I couldn't wait! So next time I make one I'll add the pictures!

Super Easy Summer Shandy Cupcakes

A few weeks back I was looking for a cupcake recipe that involved my all time favorite beer Summer Shandy! Well needless to say I didn't find anything easy enough to make at 8:00 clock on a Tuesday night so I did the simplest thing possible exchange the water in a cake mix for beer! The result a super moist and yummy cupcake!

What you need for the cake!
One box of Lemon Cake mix
A summer Shandy
Eggs
Oil
Water




Follow the direction on the cake mix box when it says to add water substitute half the water for beer. (Finish of the rest of it for you self!) See wasn't that simple!
Now for the hardest part of the recipe (it's really not that hard) Make a frosting! I used this one from allreceipes.com: Lemon Cream Cheese frosting. Then added a thin lemon slice for decoration!

Cilantro Lime Pesto Chicken Quesadilla

  This recipe was inspired by a find on Pinterest! I found a Cilantro Lime Pesto recipe at What's Cookin, Chicago?. This recipe was for a Cilantro Lime Chicken taco (Same concept just did my a bit differently).




I first made the Pesto from the above site. The only change I made was using a Chipotle Olive Oil. I then put the pesto along with some raw but frozen chicken breast into a Ziploc bag and let it defrost over the next day or so.
After a few days I thinned out the pesto with some chicken broth and put all the contents of the bag into the crock pot and let it cook on low for 5 hours.
When it was done I put the contents of the crockpot into my stand-up mixer with the paddle attachment on speed 2 for a few minutes.

Then just go a head and make into Quesadillas or Tacos with all your favorite fillings and toppings!