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Pinterest Recipe Reviews, Part 2

Here is round 2 of my pinterest recipe review. I know you're dying to know, since I am the go-to food critic! After all, Klout says I am influential in recipes. So let me influence.....

But you know what they say.....

1. Hot Chicken Wing Dip

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Delicious! Loved this. Ate it with tortilla chips. I boiled and shredded my chicken. I'm thinking next time I will do canned chicken. But there will definitely be a next time!!

2. Cream Cheese Crockpot Chicken

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OK, I was not a fan of this. I'm not sure why, either. I love all the ingredients. I would have thought I'd love it. But I didn't.

3. Peanut Butter Cup Brownies

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I love all things peanut butter and chocolate and this was no exception. I didn't put any chips in it because I was scared to mess with what was sure to be perfection. Umm, I want to go and bake these again right now. YUMM!

4. Black Magic Cake

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OHMYWORD!!! On my first Recipe Review Post I told you I had a new favorite chocolate cake recipe. This is it. Delicious. Go make it. NOW!! Then, send me a piece!

5. Chicken and Spinach Pasta Bake

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This was really good. Next time, I might add a block of cream cheese or more shredded cheese. Or something. It wasn't dry, but I think it needed something else...

6. Peanut Butter Sheet Cake

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This is soooo good. The cake itself is good, but this icing. Oh mannnn.....delicious. It's like peanut butter fudge, but softer. I could make this and eat it with a spoon. Wow.

7. Mexican Casserole

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This was very good and very easy! Kids liked it and I liked it! I just wish Velveeta wasn't so dang expensive!

8. Crack Potatoes

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These are great. So easy and delicious! Took these to a church potluck last weekend and there were NONE left!!!

OK, these two posts are all the recipes I have tried from pinterest. I will get to cooking and let you know what else I find!! :)

Pinterest Recipe Reviews

So, I have pinned 359 recipes on pinterest. (Granted, some of them were pinned more than once....what can I say...I like what I like!) I thought I'd share with you the ones I have tried out and my thoughts on it.

1. Caramel Cake

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This cake had great potential to be delicious! The baker (ME) messed this one up! I either over or undercooked the frosting so that the consistency was all wrong. AND I didn't let my cake cool completely before trying to turn it out of the pan, so it stuck. My fail....but I will try this again. I think it'll be great if I can get it right!



2. Crock pot potato soup

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This I LOVE!! I have made it several times. So good and so easy!!


3. Cheesy Bread

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This was really, really good too. Kinda greasy but yummy!

4. Peanut Butter Fudge

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I liked this. It tasted great. It got kinda hard, so I guess I need to figure out how to better store it.

5. Copycat White Chocolate Mocha

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All I can say about this one is YES PLEASE!!! I may or may not have gone through several bags of white chocolate chips! :)

6. Ham and Cheese Crescent Rolls

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I really like this...quick, easy and good. I love that it gives the kids and me a break from the normal spaghetti-o's, chicken nuggets and pb&j.

7. Kaytucky Chicken

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Loved it! Very fancy, but not too hard. Will do again when I have company coming! May would sub crescent rolls for pastry sheets, but that's just my preference. Pastry sheets seem more dry.

8. Copycat Chick-fil-a chicken nuggets

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This is AMAZING!!! Seriously. Tasted just like chick-fil-a. The only thing missing was their fabulous barbecue sauce. I bet I could google it.... Let me give you a hint on this one. The secret ingredient... powdered sugar. Oh yes! Yummm!

9. Asian Glazed Drumsticks

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These were really good. I messed up the glaze so it wasn't really a glaze...more of umm, a glob. But it was still very tasty!

10. Marlboro Man Sandwich

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Wasn't a huge fan of this one. Too Worcestershire-y.


11. Chocolate Sheet Cake

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Delicious! Was my new favorite cake until I found the next one....keep reading!!

12. Sloppy Joe

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This was good. Not awesome, but I'll make it again. I'm a sucker for a sloppy joe!!

13. Cajun Chicken Pasta

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Very good!! Shockingly, I messed the sauce up on this, too. I didn't have heavy cream so I substituted..the cream never thickened. But it was still very good!

14. Cinnamon Sugar Pull Apart Bread

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This wasn't as good as I hoped it would be. The top got crunchy.

15. Crock Pot Chicken Taco Chili

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I have to say I had my doubts about this one. I'm not used to chicken being in my chili. But it far exceeded my expectations. It was very good! Will definitely add this to my rotation.


OK....I went through the first 300 pins. I'll do the other 59 later...I'm tired!!! Be watching...the awesome chocolate cake recipe will be coming soon!!

What are some of the best recipes you have found on Pinterest?

October

I can't believe it's already October!! To celebrate, I thought I'd share a few of my Fall Pinterest finds....I have pinned 71 things to that board, so today I'll do decoration ideas, and I'll share food ideas later!

Black thumb tacks and a pumpkin. Too easy!  via

Happy Halloween banner...polka dots & burlap via

candy corn wall decor via

candy corn candle via

Fall apothecary jars  & pumpkin centerpiece     via

                           Lighted pumpkin topiary via                  

Pumpkin place cards (not sure where this was from...sorry)

Pumpkin tea light holders   via

Beautiful centerpiece (not sure again whom to credit...sorry)

Another pumpkin topiary  via

painted argyle pumpkins  via

fall wreath via

OK...I had more stuff than I realized!! To be continued...

Until then, have fun decorating! :)