Tony Chachere (client) has this really cool recipes module available on their site and I have been using it like crazy.

When I came across a white chicken pizza recipe, I thought it would be perfect for spicing up and decided to start adding my own Tony’s inspired recipes.

It’s a quick and easy meal using store bought rotisserie chicken – perfect for a mid-week meal. My kiddos do NOT do spice… so this is a pretty tame recipe as far as Cajun goes… feel free to walk on the wild side – just add more seasoning.

Check out the Grilled Creole White Chicken Pizza and many, many more Tony’s recipes here >>

I am having oodles of fun creating content as an Editor over at The Tasteful Life…

The Tasteful Life is about making the everyday more meaningful and redefining what it means to live a rich life. We take these experiences from the kitchen to entertaining while embracing cultures and traditions.

My first post was a recipe to honor my Mother-in-Laws Birthday… Pink + Champagne + Cupcakes!

Oatmeal Recipes Continued… in honor of one of my favorite oatmeal companies, Quaker Oats, giving $50,000 to end hunger in the US, I am sharing some of my fav oat recipes…

This is the recipe on the inside of the top of the Oatmeal… it really is the best one!

Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2  cup (1 stick) plus 6 tablespoons butter, softened
• 3/4  cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/2  cup granulated sugar
• 2  eggs
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1-1/2  cups all-purpose flour
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1  teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2  teaspoon salt (optional)
• 3  cups Quaker® Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
• 1  cup raisins

Preparation

Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat butter and sugars on medium speed of electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; mix well. Add oats and raisins; mix well.

Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to wire rack. Cool completely. Store tightly covered.

Notes: I generally double, if not triple, the amount of cinnamon I use – and I know to add a little nutmeg as well. Or – you can use 2 tsp of apple pie spice.

Thanx for the pic! http://www.flickr.com/photos/saad/23070859/

I love Oats! I think they are one of God’s greatest gift to man, woman and child-kind alike… and in honor of one of my favorite oatmeal companies (I liked them before I got written into the Quaker Book of Friends) Quaker Oats giving $50,000 to end hunger in the US, I am sharing some of my fav oat recipes.

This week’s menu included meatloaf and you may think Oatmeal? Meatloaf? Yep, replace the breadcrumbs with oatmeal and you increase the nutritional value of your meatloaf… something this mom is ALWAYS trying to do.

So, here’s the recipe…

1. Preheat over to 350 degrees
2. Mix in a large bowl (the best is really just with your hands):
   1. 2 lbs of good quality ground beef *
   2. 1 1/2 cups chopped onion
   3. 1 cup old fashioned oatmeal
   4. 1 cup ketchup
   5. 1 cup chopped cilantro (you can use parsley)
   6. 3 large eggs, slightly beaten
   7. 2 tsp non-salt garlic herb blend (like Mrs. Dash)
   8. 1 tsp salt
3. Form mixture into a loaf, about the size of a loaf pan, on a cookie sheet
4. Glaze the loaf with ketchup
5. Cover the loaf cross-ways with 8-10 slices of bacon. Tuck the ends of the bacon underneath.
6. Cook for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes , until internal temperature reads 160 degrees.

Enjoy! … and go create your day over at Quaker Oats so they can donate some more!

*Costco is one of the few places that check their ground beef at the store for E-Coli.

I am a Quaker and I love me some oatmeal! I also love to envision a world where no one goes hungry. So, I LOVE that Quaker Oats is mixing fun and giving with their Create Your Day Campaign. Big, HUGE thanx to Rachel over at A Southern Fairytale for shining a light on it…

Quaker has created an application that allows you to Create Your Day.   Go to their website and create the perfect breakfast for you, for a friend, your child’s teacher, your husband.. whomever you’d like.   Using their application, answer a few questions and it creates a fun card with the ideal oatmeal to get them revved and ready for whatever lies ahead of them that day.  It then allows you to share it via email or facebook.  For every dish that you create (4 per day) through March 31, 2010… they will donate $1 up to $25,000 whoops… $25,o0o has already been donated!!! So they’ve upped the ante to $50,000.

Let’s make Quaker eat that $50,000 and up it to $75,000.

Please help me in this.  No child, no family, no person in this country should go hungry.

The App is super cute and fun… I could play around with it all day… @thisisnotapril says I am like a cat… which is so totally a compliment in our neck of the woods.

So here is my super cute Create Your Day story…

(How did they know peaches and cream is my favorite oatmeal? It’s like oatmeal magic!)

Anyway… whether you are as entertained by this as I am or not… go check out the oatmeal magic… create your day… and help Quaker Oats do a little towards ending hunger.

Go on now… go… now>>> oooo… and then tell me what kind of oatmeal did you get… I wanna know – and then go tell Rachel cause she’s got some cool stuff to give away!