Exciting Blessed Life of Jenny Lou: Memorial Day Dinner with the Family~

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day. It was so nice spending 2 whole day with my husband and kids; don't get that very often. We rested alot and got alot planned out for vacation. But we also spent sometime in the kitchen.
Lunch time we had homemade fried Mozzarella Sticks. Dinner was ribs and corn on the cob grilled up on the BBQ pit. With creamy rosemary potatoes. Topping it off with dessert of homemade molton chocolate cake. What a wonderful day of food.

Fried Mozzarella Sticks

Do you like the Mozzarella sticks at Sonic? You will have to make these if you answered yes. These cheese sticks tasted better than Sonics.
We wanted to make these for lunch but we didn't have all the ingredients so off to the store James went.

Yep, that's it. Marinara sauce, string cheese, flour, eggs, parsley flakes, milk, and panko crumbs. Not alot, huh?
Start off by cutting your string cheeses in 1/2.

Put your flour in one bowl, your eggs and milk in another bowl, and your panko crumbs and parsley flakes in a separate bowl.

We are going to start by placing one of the half's of the string cheese in the flour.

Then put it in the egg mixture.

Lastly (is that actually a word?) put it in the Panko crumbs.

Now place it on a cookie sheet. Continue with the other half's; flour, egg, panko. Flour, egg, panko....I think you get it :)

When you are done your fingers will look like this:

Oh how lovely.
Once you have completed all of the string cheese half's and they are all placed on a cookie sheet. Pop them in the freezer for about 20-30 minutes. Don't skip this step. If you do; then will be a good chance that the cheese will melt in the hot oil before the outside crisps up.

Now that the 30 minutes is up get your oil heated up. I started out heating up the oil in my fry daddy...well that wasn't working. For some reason the cord wasn't staying in there. So Plan B...I put some oil in my wonderful iron skillet and fried them in there. I placed about 5 or 6 of them at a time once the oil was all heated up.

Turn them on the other side after a few minutes. It won't take long in that hot oil. Once you have them all cooked you have wonderful Fried Mozzarella Sticks.

Creamy Rosemary Potatoes

I know I've made a different type of scalloped potatoes and have blogged about it. So I was really iffy about blogging about this one. Once I got all my ingredients out and ready to go...I thought...why not. These are different than the other ones I must share.

The ingredients are pretty much the same as the other ones, but these have cream cheese...YUM. Those must be good. Now let's get started.

Take a cup of 1/2 and 1/2 and a cup of heavy cream and combine them.

Place your potatoes (make sure that they are thinly sliced) in a big bowl and then drizzle half of the cream mixture on top....set aside.

I then melted the butter in my iron skillet and then added the onions and chopped garlic.

Once those were translucent looking I added in the 8 oz. of cream cheese. Heated that up and melted it until it was nice and smooth looking. Then added the rest of the cream mixture in. Keep stirring....don't stop. Mix it well.

Now that you have mixed it well add in your salt, pepper, and rosemary, and green onions.

Add about 1/2 a cup of cheese (I used mozzarella cheese) and mix till melted.

Remove from burner and set aside. Take your potatoes that have been soaking in the cream mixture and place them in a buttered 9 x 13 dish. Pour on the cream mixture from the pan right on top of the potatoes.

Spread it on there evenly then sprinkle more cheese on top. Bake in the oven for about an hour.
Oh how wonderful it smells and looks when it's done.

Molton Chocolate Cake:

You know the Folgers song....The Best Part of Waking Up; It's Folgers in your Cup. Well that's what I say about dessert. Sing it using the same theme music. The Best Part of Dinner is; dessert afterwards. :)

I just love dessert. Mainly when it's Molton Chocolate cake. Oh just the sound of it is wonderful.

My daughter wanted to help make this so here we go.

Melt the butter (1 stick) and chocolate (semi Sweet Baking Chocolate - 4 pieces) in the microwave for about a minute.

Don't melt it till the chocolate melts...just the butter.

Once the butter is melted whisk it together till the chocolate melts. You don't want to over melt...if that makes any sense :)

Stir in the Powder Sugar (1 cup) until well blended. Whisk in your eggs (2 whole eggs) and egg yolks (2 egg yolks).

Stir in your flour (6 TBSP). Mix well.

Divide the mixture up between 4 custard cups (make sure to spray them real good).

Bake at 425 degrees for about 13-14 minutes. You want the sides to be firm and the center to be soft. Remove from oven and let stand for 1 minute. Take a plate and place on top of the dish. Flip over. Then you have a wonderful Molton Chocolate Cake.