Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Dijon Breadcrumbs and Brussels Sprouts

The nice thing about "Google" is you can put in the ingredients you have and Voila, up pops a recipe.  This was it for tonight.  I spent the whole day cleaning and Christmastizing the house so I wanted to make something easy and simple.

Baked Ziti with Bacon & Goat Cheese

I came up with this in my head tonight after debating whether to order in or not.  I've been bad with ordering in this past week so decided to see what I could put together from what was in the house.  The ingredients I came up with:

Chicken & Ham Pot Pie in a Cast Iron Pan

I saw chef Michael Symon on "The Chew" making a turkey pot pie and I stole the idea of the cast iron pan and puff pastry.  If you know me, you know I love my cast iron pan more than anything.  I made a pot pie and used these ingredients:

Beef & Beet Borscht

I was telling my friend about these great precooked organic beets that I buy at Costco.  She says she likes to make Borscht with beets.  I can't remember ever having Borscht before, though I know I've seen it.  Well, since I have never made it before and I had the vacuum sealed packs of beets in the fridge crisper, I decided to give it a try.  I looked at a lot of different recipes and then came up with this one for me.  Obviously, the nice thing was that I wouldn't have to peel the beets. The hard thing would be getting my son to like this dish.  He doesn't like beets, dill or cabbage... I used:

Turkey Pesto Calzone

I had some frozen pizza dough in the freezer.  I still haven't gone grocery shopping since coming home from vacation so this is what I came up with for dinner, for my son tonight.  I needed a little help to get started so found this post helpful.

Slow-Cooker BBQ Ribs

First day back from vacation so I wanted to make something super easy.  I had some ribs in the freezer that I wanted to use up.  I decided to do a dry rub and then put them in the crock pot.  I get my Canadian made BBQ sauce that I really like by Cattleboyz (I like "Original") so I used that instead of making my own.

Chicken, Spinach Lasagna Roll Ups with Alfredo Sauce

When I go away on vacation, I always leave my son a casserole to get him started.  This was the one, this time.  I've seen many recipes for this in different variations, but created my own and it was pretty easy.  I didn't make it all from scratch and took some shortcuts.  I used:

Southern-Style Smothered Chicken

The PBS show "Cook's Country" where I made the "Apple Pandowdy" from, also made this dish in that episode.  That episode was called "Smothered & Dowdied".  I found the recipe online so I didn't have to write it out myself, which was nice.  This looked fantastic and I wanted to make it too.  It made me drool watching them put this together.  I did all my mise en place first today and it felt good - all I had to do was dump, stir and cook once I started...