Chocolate Croissants

These are super easy to make and usually we have the ingredients on hand.  If you have an unexpected guest sleep over, you can whip these up in the morning and impress with very little effort. 

Chocolate Croissants
1 roll of Pillsbury crescent rolls
1/2 c. or so of chocolate chips
sliced almonds, if you have them

Roll our the crescent rolls into triangles.  Put a small amount of chocolate chips on the wider side and roll into croissants.  Add some toasted almonds on top, if you like.  Cook according to package directions, I think it is 375 for 10-12 minutes until golden brown.  Serve warm, although I am sure they would still be good if they cooled off.  Only thing is that they wont last that long- they are really good hot and people will definitely eat them up long before they cool.

Turkey Meat Loaf

In my former meat-eating days, I was NEVER a meat loaf person.  But I made this and it was REALLY really good, pretty easy and very satisfying.  Great with mashed (or roasted) potatoes and any veggie.  Using ground turkey makes this a little healthier than the ground beef version too, and the flavor is still great. 

Turkey Meat Loaf
1/2 envelope of Lipton Onion Soup Mix
1-1 1/4 lb. ground turkey
strong heaping 1/3 c. of bread crumbs (1/2 of 3/4)
1 egg
1/2 of 3/4 c. water
1/6 c. spaghetti sauce

Preheat oven to 350.  In large bowl, combine all ingredients.  In a 13x9 pan, shape into loaf.  I did mine kind of rectangular, probably an inch and a half high and maybe 5" wide and 11" long, maybe.  Bake 1 hour or until done, let stand 10 minutes before serving. 

If you want to, you can drizzle some ketchup (or spaghetti sauce?) over the top for the last 10-15 minutes so it cooks on in a glaze form.  We dipped ours with ketchup and it was also really good.

Our family of 2.5 ate about half the loaf on the original night we made it.  A few days later, I reheated the leftovers, wrapped in foil- in the oven for probably 45 minutes or so at 350, and the leftovers were JUST AS GOOD as the original!  I halved the recipe above because I knew it would be WAY too much to use 2 lbs. of meat for just us- but I think you could double this and pre-cook both loaves, and re-heat the second one later. 

Enjoy!