Showing posts with label easy ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label easy ideas. Show all posts

4/13/10

Teriyaki Chicken and Rice

Credit: Chelsea Bennett

Ingredients:
  • 3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • 1/2 c teriyaki sauce of coice
  • 1/2 c gourmet sauce
  • Rice, prepared
Directions:
  1. Cook chicken in Pam sprayed frying pan. Once cooked, cut chicken into 1" slices.
  2. Carefully wipe down your pan. Combine the sauces in the pan and add the sliced chicken.
  3. Heat through and serve over individual rice bowls. Feel free to add steamed broccoli, mandarin oranges, and cashews to the mix!

4/12/10

Cream Cheese Chicken

Credit: Amber Wardell

Ingredients:
  • 3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • 1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, cubed
  • 1 packet Food Seasons Italian dressing mix
  • 1 can cream of chicken soup
  • Frozen broccoli {regular or steam-able}
  • Rice
Directions:
  1. Place chicken in crock pot.
  2. Layer on top in this order: cubed cream cheese, 1/2 Italian dressing packet, cream of chicken soup, 1/2 Italian dressing packet.
  3. Cover and cook 3-4 hours on low heat, mixing sauce about 2 hours into it {you'll be fine if you can't mix it around 2 hours into it... just go ahead and leave it cooking}. Before serving, divide chicken into smaller pieces and add broccoli.
  4. Prepare rice and eat!!
Note: If you add broccoli, you can use the frozen kind by putting it in an hour before you're ready to eat. If you get the steam-able broccoli, just follow the directions on the package and mix in the steamed broccoli before serving.

Chicken Tacos

Credit: Amber Wardell

Ingredients:
  • 3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • 1 packet taco seasoning
  • 2 cups salsa of choice
  • Toppings {cheese, sour cream, etc.}
Directions:
  1. Place chicken in crock pot.
  2. Mix salsa and taco seasoning together and pour over chicken to cover.
  3. Replace lid on crock pot and cook on low 4 hours. Check to see if you need to add any water during cooking.
  4. Shred chicken and serve with flour tortillas {I prefer to buy the uncooked tortillas from Sam's or Costco and probably will for the rest of my life!} and any other toppings you'd like... cheese, sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, tomatoes, cilantro, etc.

BBQ Chicken

Credit: Brandel Family

Ingredients:
  • 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts {frozen or fresh-- either one will work!}
  • 1 cup BBQ sauce of choice
  • 1/2 can of jellied cranberry sauce
Directions:
  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Place chicken in a 9x13 pan. You can adjust the amount of chicken that you need as long as it will all fit nicely in the pan!
  2. Mix together BBQ sauce and cranberry sauce until it's a fairly smooth consistency. {I use a small hand mixer/puree machine, but you could use a fork if you need to!}
  3. Pour BBQ sauce mixture over the chicken to cover. If there's not enough, mix up a little more sauce. Luckily this recipe will be delicious no matter what. It's not science at all!
  4. Bake uncovered for 1 hour. Voila!
**I also bake some potatoes at the same time. It makes a perfect meal! Just wash, scrub, poke, and wrap up some small- to medium-sized yellow potatoes in foil. Put them on the same rack as your 9x13 pan and bake for 60-75 minutes. You'll want to pop these in before you start on the chicken for it all to be done around the same time.

4/10/08

Fresh Fruit Dip

Credit: Suzy Mondragon

Ingredients:
  • 1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese, softened
  • 1 jar marshmallow creme
  • 2-3 Tbsp pineapple juice
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together until well blended. Serve with fresh fruit!

*Note: you can also use crushed pineapple, zest of a lemon or an orange, etc. depending on the flavor and texture desired.

2/29/08

Easy Chicken & Rice

Credit: Jenn Eastman

Ingredients:
  • 1 can cream of mushroom soup
  • 1 can chicken gumbo soup
  • 1/2 C milk
  • 5 pieces of chicken
  • 1 1/3 C minute rice
  • 1 package dry onion soup mix
Directions:
Mix soups, milk, and rice in bowl. Transfer to large, greased casserole dish. Lay chicken skin side up on top of mixture. Sprinkle with onion soup mix. Cover with foil or lid. Bake at 325 for 2 hours.

Pizza Dough

Credit: Sue Cornwall (www.suesfood.blogspot.com)

Ingredients:
  • 3 C warm water
  • 2 Tbsp yeast
  • 6 tsp sugar
  • 3 tsp salt
  • 6 Tbsp oil
  • 6 C flour
Directions:

Mix the above ingredients and knead for 8 minutes. Let rise 35-40 minutes. Fit into pizza pans and let it rise slightly. Makes enough dough for 3 pizzas (it makes really thick crust so adjust according to your liking).

2/25/08

Fruit Smoothies

Credit: Lori Frost

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup orange juice
  • 1/2 cup frozen fruit of choice
  • 3 scoops sherbet (orange or raspberry are delicious)
Directions:
Pour juice into blender. Add frozen fruit; then scoop sherbet on top. Blend thoroughly until desired consistency (add more orange juice or water to thin; add more sherbet or fruit to thicken).

Flavor Ideas:
  1. For a smoothie with a "kick," try: orange juice, orange sherbet, blueberries, pineapple, and peaches.
  2. For a "smoother" smoothie, try: orange juice, raspberry sherbet, bananas, and strawberries.
  3. For another taste, try substituting apple juice for orange juice and use frozen vanilla yogurt instead of sherbet. Ex: apple juice, frozen vanilla yogurt, and pineapple -- along with 2 Tbsp. coconut milk -- makes a great pina colada smoothie. Or, apple juice, frozen strawberry yogurt, strawberries, and bananas makes a great strawberry banana smoothie.
Healthy Idea: Just replace sherbet with your flavor of yoplait light yogurt. This changes the texture just a bit, but it still has a delicious flavor! 3 ingredients: yogurt, frozen fruit, and orange juice. It's as easy as that!

Simple Crusty Bread

Credit: "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day," by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois

Ingredients:
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp yeast (... remember: 1 Tbsp = 3 tsp, so 1/2 Tbsp = 1 1/2 tsp)
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp kosher salt
  • 6 1/2 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour + more for dusting dough
  • Cornmeal
Directions:
1. In a large bowl or plastic container, mix yeast and salt into 3 cups lukewarm water (100 degrees). Stir in flour, mixing until there are no dry patches. Dough will be quite loose. Cover, but not with an airtight lid. Let dough rise at room temperature 2 hours (or up to 5 hours).

2. Bake at this point or refrigerate, covered, for as long as 2 weeks. When ready to bake, sprinkle a little flour on dough and cut off a grapefruit-size piece with serrated knife. Turn dough in hands to lightly stretch surface, creating a round top and a lumpy bottom. Put dough on pizza peel sprinkled with cornmeal; let rest 40 minutes. Repeat with remaining dough or refrigerate it.

3. Place broiler pan on bottom of oven. Place baking stone on middle rack and turn oven to 450 degrees; heat stone at that temperature for 20 minutes.

4. Dust dough with flour, slash top with serrated or very sharp knife three times. Slide onto stone. Pour 1 cup hot water into broiler pan and shut oven quickly to trap steam. Bake until well browned, about 30 minutes. Cool completely.

Makes 4 loaves.

Variation: If not using stone, stretch rounded dough into oval and place in a greased, nonstick loaf pan. Let rest 40 minutes if fresh, an extra hour if refrigerated. Heat oven to 450 degrees for 5 minutes. Place pan on middle rack. Bake as directed above, until well browned.

10/16/07

Fettuccini Alfredo

Credit: Jan Wilson (Frost Family Recipes)

Ingredients:
  • 1 Tbsp margarine

  • 2 cloves minced garlic

  • 1 Tbsp flour

  • 1 ¼ cups milk

  • ¼ cup cream cheese

  • 1 cup grated parmesan cheese, plus ½ cup

  • 1 box fettuccini noodles, cooked and drained

Directions:

Melt margarine over med or med-low heat. Add garlic. Stir in flour. Gradually add milk while stirring with a whisk. Cook 8 minutes or until thick and bubbly. Stir in cream cheese. Add 1 cup parmesan cheese. Stir until cheeses melt. Toss with cooked fettuccini noodles and top with ½ cup grated parmesan cheese, fresh parsley, and pepper.

Peach Pie

Credit: Lauren Anderson

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 Tbsp cornstarch
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 stick butter
  • 1 tsp almond extract
  • 5-6 large peaches cut up without peel
  • 2 prepared pie crusts
Directions:
Stir together sugar, cornstarch, and water. Boil until thick and clear (about 10 minutes-- it should barely drip from spoon). Remove from heat. Add remaining ingredients. Place in 2 pie crusts. Put in fridge for about 30 minutes. Yum!