Easy Appetizer - Sausage Crescent Bites

Our family serves snacks instead of a big meal on Christmas Day.  I browsed Pinterest looking for something different to make and found this easy appetizer recipe here:  http://www.thekitchenismyplayground.com/2013/01/3-ingredient-crescent-sausage-bites.html.  This was quick to put together, and definitely a keeper for me!

3-Ingredient Crescent Sausage Bites

Ingredients 1 lb. hot sausage (pork or turkey) 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese 2 packages crescent rolls Dash salt & ground black pepper Directions  In a saute pan, brown sausage; drain. Add a dash of salt and pepper. Blend in cream cheese until the cream cheese is melted. Unroll one package of crescent rolls and place on a baking sheet. With your fingers, gently press the seams together to seal them. Spread the sausage mixture evenly over the crescent roll dough, leaving about a 1/2-inch border along the edges. Unroll the remaining package of crescent rolls and place on top of the sausage mixture. Press the edges together to seal. Gently press the seams together. Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes, or until crescent roll dough is golden brown. Cut into small squares and serve.  (A pizza cutter makes really quick and easy work of the cutting.) Source:  The Kitchen is My Playground www.thekitchenismyplayground.com Read more at http://www.thekitchenismyplayground.com/2013/01/3-ingredient-crescent-sausage-bites.html#xU0y0rPd6zkm2zlO.99

25 Years Ago Today

The first website went online 25 years ago today, although it did not go public until August 6, 1991.  The site was called Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, and you can still go here http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and see the content today.  It was interesting to me to browse the pages and even more interesting that they list ways the public can help the web grow such as put up some data, manage a subject area, and write some software. 

Tried-And-True Recipe - Chicken Spaghetti

I found this recipe for Chicken Spaghetti on BoomerBrief.com ( http://www.boomerbrief.com/2012/03/super-satisfying-chicken-spagetti.html) and made it for lunch today.  I used regular spaghetti and a large can of chicken. Yummy!  This recipe is definitely a keeper.  Boomerbrief.com has some other recipes I may need to test out, too!

Chicken Spaghetti

• 8 ounces angel hair pasta
• 2 cups chopped, grilled chicken or 1 large can of chicken
• 1 can (10 3/4 ounces) cream of mushroom soup (98% fat free or regular)
• 1 can (10 3/4 ounces) cream of chicken soup (98% fat free or regular)
• 1 can (10 ounces) Rotel diced tomatoes and green chiles, undrained
• 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
• Sprinkling of Parmesan or Mexican-blend cheese
  
  
  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  
  
  Boil pasta as package directs and drain. Mix all other ingredients (except cheese), add to cooked pasta and put in a 9" x 13" baking dish. Cover with foil and bake 30 minutes or until hot and bubbly. Sprinkle with your choice of cheese and return to oven to melt.

This makes an easy meal for your family or as a dish to share at a potluck.  What are your favorite easy main dish recipes?

Sooner Football Headed to Orange Bowl

Boomer!  It was announced today that No. 4 Oklahoma football is heading to the Orange Bowl on New Year's Eve!  They will be taking on No. 1 Clemson in the national semi-final game.  According to Sooner Sports, the Oklahoma-Clemson winner will advance to the College Football Playoff Championship on Monday, Jan. 11, in Glendale, Ariz., against the winner of the other New Year's Eve playoff semifinal between No. 2 Alabama and No. 3 Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl.  http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=210564801

Are you a college football fan?  Who do you think will playing in the College Football Playoff Championship on January 11? 

Interesting Read Today-College Football Playoff Software

I read a great story by Jenni Carlson on NEWSOK this morning about Jason W. Taylor, a 1995 University of Oklahoma graduate and owner of Code Authority located in Frisco, Texas.  In early 2014 Mr. Taylor received an e-mail from a third-party consultant asking him to bid a job for a high-profile client.  As it turns out, the client was the College Football Playoff, and the project was for software to record their voting and tally the results.  Interesting read!

http://newsok.com/how-an-oklahoma-software-developer-wound-up-in-the-middle-of-college-footballs-biggest-decision/article/5464279