St. John's Banana Bread

We figured for Duggar Day we could also make a second recipe as a treat. We decided on St. John's Banana Bread. It was an easy recipe to make, although we made it at Hailey's so the oven is always an issue. Plus once we started making it we realized Hailey didn't have a loaf pan so we had to improvise. We had just planned on having the banana bread at lunch, but when we were at the office in the excitement of it finally being Duggar Day, the banana bread became "Duggar breakfast!!" It was the perfect treat to start a great day!

Snow Ice Cream

What's a perfect treat on a snowy day in January? The Duggar's Snow Ice Cream. We saw there was a snowstorm in the forecast and thought it would be an excellent time to try this recipe (requiring fresh snow). We decided to once again make it at the CCO office for 3 o'clock treats. By 2:30 that afternoon everyone in the building decided to go home because the snow was really coming down, but the CCO staff decided to stick it out - we wouldn't want to miss out on snow ice cream! It is an interesting recipe - we weren't sure how it would turn out. It's just snow, whipping cream, vanilla and sugar. Much to our surprise, it really tasted like ice cream!! YUM! Our co-workers quite enjoyed it too and it was talked about for days to follow!

Chicken Etti

This is a very delayed post, but back in the beginning of January we made Anna Duggar's Chicken Etti. We were very excited to try one of Anna's recipes, especially one we remembered seeing on the show! Well we picked up all the ingredients and headed to Katie's house to start cooking. As we started assembling the dish we realized it was definitely a Duggar sized meal - we couldn't even find a casserole dish big enough to fit it all! Since there was only three of us eating it for supper we decided we needed to find more people fast. So where did we turn? The CCO office of course - always ready to enjoy a Duggar recipe. We started texting everyone at work telling them not to bring a lunch the next day. After figuring out how we would possibly consume all this food we started eating. SO GOOD! The CCO office staff also enjoyed it the next day. Hailey enjoyed it so much that a few weeks later she made it again, this time for her and her roommate. Instead of using pasta she used spaghetti squash, which worked quite well! Probably one of our favourite recipes yet! Good job Anna - you're a true Duggar!

Cherry Vanilla Punch

We made this recipe for a tea party that we hosted for some of our coworkers' daughters. We thought that the girls, ranging from age 3-7, would be thrilled to drink punch that had ice cream in it - and while their initial reaction was one of excitement, one by one they chose to trade in the punch for some "red juice" - leftover cherry juice that we had put in the punch. Only Janna stuck it out till her punch was done, leaving us to finish off the ice cream/juice mixture - of course, we didn't complain - we thought it was delicious! In the craziness of entertaining four little girls, we forgot to take a picture! You'll just have to try the recipe yourself to see what it looks like!

Spectacular Sautéed Green Beans

To pair with the Hashbrown Casserole, we decided to make these spectacular green beans, but sadly they turned out not-so-spectacularly. The recipe called for garlic, which Katie forgot to bring from her house, so we used garlic powder instead, and since we were halving the recipe Hailey suggested using half the amount of soya sauce. Once again ignoring Hailey's suggestions, Katie poured in a lot of soya sauce, not thinking it would make any difference! Wrong! The beans soaked up the sauce and turned out very salty; we gave them a new name; Overpowering Sautéed Green Beans. Realizing our (Katie's) mistake, we vowed to try the recipe again sometime, but we'll actually stick to it the next time!

Hashbrown Casserole

On a cold night is December what better meal to make than the Duggar's Hashbrown Casserole! Katie and Hailey were getting together for a mini Christmas celebration before they went to visit family for Christmas. We decided it only made sense to make a few Duggar recipes! Before dinner we exchanged gifts and to Hailey's excitement Katie had bought them both a Duggar apron that read "I -heart- the Duggars (All of them!)". What a fun thing to make our Duggar recipes even more exciting!! We put on our aprons and got to work. The casserole was pretty easy, but took a while to bake, like most casseroles do. It was delicious, with creamy sauce and crispy cornflakes on top! Merry Christmas Duggars! Thanks for all the yummy recipes!

Butterscotch Brownies

We were invited to the house of our newlywed friends, Jackie and Jeff, for dinner and dessert, and specifically to make them a Duggar dessert! We enjoyed a lovely dinner and then whipped up this easy and delicious recipe. As newlyweds, of course they showed off some of the kitchen appliances they got as wedding presents, and Katie's eyes lit up when she saw the Kitchenaid mixer! As a former Sears employee, she'd seen lots of stand mixers but had never been so fortunate as to actually USE one, but Jackie was gracious enough to let her christen it!
With the help of the marvelous appliance, we quickly made the brownies - which aren't brownies at all as they don't have any chocolate, earning the nickname "Frownies" (fake+brownies= frownies) - and popped them in the oven. They were sweet and chewy, and a great alternative to brownies (for the strange people out there who don't like chocolate).

Afterward, we learned that Jackie and Jeff are hoping to compete with the Duggars and are aiming for 25 kids, and even have a name for their own reality show, called "Move Over, Duggars!" They sent us home early that night... ;)