Quick and Easy Bread Pudding

This was surprisingly delicious and super, duper easy! The best part... I already had all ingredients on hand. :)

Ingredients:
6 slices of bread (I used wheat to try and make it a bit healthy)
Butter
Non stick cooking spray
1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup milk
Cinnamon

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Toast and butter each slice of bread. Cut each slice into even, small squares (9 squares per slice).
3. Put bread in the bottom of an 8 x 8 baking dish that has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
4. Combine sugar and eggs in a medium bowl. Beat well. Add milk and vanilla and stir just a little until its all mixed.
5. Pour egg mixture over bread pieces.
6. Sprinkle with cinnamon. You could also add raisins and/or nuts if you want.
7. Bake for 45 minutes.
8. Serve warm. I topped mine with vanilla ice cream and it was DELISH!

Wagon Wheel Supper

Ever have those days where you have no clue what to make for dinner and really, really don't want to go to the grocery store to figure it out? That was me last week. I decided to just open my pantry to see what we had. Staring me down was an almost full box of wagon wheel pasta that I'd had to buy for a 4th grade science experiment. I hadn't know what to do with it, so it'd been sitting on the shelf for quite some time. Today was the day of conquest... so I threw some other random items together and the result was this DELICOUS pot of what I call "Wagon Wheel Supper".



Ingredients:
Wagon wheel pasta (or any other pasta really could work)... I used about 2 1/2 cups

1 pound of chicken breast, cut into bite sized pieces

1 jar of salsa

1 bag of frozen corn

5 oz cream cheese, cut into bite sizes pieces

Chili powder to taste (I think I used about 1/4 tsp... Maybe a little more)

Grated cheddar cheese

Steps:
1. Cook and drain pasta. Set aside.
2. While pasta is cooking, cook chicken in a LARGE skillet! (I used the biggest I had and ended up having to transfer it a to a pasta pot because it was overflowing...)
3. Add salsa, corn, cream cheese, and chili powder. Simmer and stir occasionally until the cream cheese is melted all the way.
4. Add pasta to the mix and a handful of cheddar cheese. Stir and simmer until the cheese is melted and it's warm all the way through.
5. Top with more cheddar cheese, but don't stir and just let it melt on top.
6. Grab a large bowl, dish up, and enjoy! :)