Artichokes Bites – Yummy

I’ll admit it.  I have never much liked cooking.  My signature dish has always been my famous Chocolate Chip cookies.  That being said, over the last six months, I have been trying to expand my dinner repetoire.  My foray into more “cooking from scratch” was born mostly out of my desire to lower my grocery bill.  After I got comfortable with that, I started trying to improve the quality of my meals – more fruits and veggies, more whole grains.

Well recently, I started watching “30 Minute Meals” with Rachael Ray.  Her can-do attitude has inspired me to become more creative and adventureous with my cooking.  So today for lunch (hubby is on vacation), I made Artichoke bites (which can best be described as muffin shaped artichoke quiches) to go along with Chicken salad on homemade whole wheat bread and carrot sticks.  Boy, were they yummy!!! The crushed red pepper added a surprising kick to them and everyone except Peter(3), who is objecting to everything these days, enjoyed them.

So here’s the link to the recipe which I got from FoodNetwork.com:  Recipe for Artichoke Bites (by the way, I doubled the recipe).  Enjoy!!!

P.S. I know that I have been a very inconsistent blogger of late.  I hope to remedy that.  However I would suggest subscribing to my RSS feed through a blog reader like Bloglines or Google Reader so that you won’t have to check back to Doodle Acres until the reader tells you I have updated my content.  Just a suggestion!!!