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Just a compilation of recipes I've tried and liked. I used to keep them on scratch pieces of paper but now I have an exploring baby who continues to find my stash. Some recipes aren't very precise, forgive me.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Chicken Pasta

Ingredients
2-4 chicken breasts or bag of already cooked/grilled chicken (frozen)
4/5 cups cooked pasta
red bell pepper
green bell pepper
2 zucchini
2 green onions
2 cloves fresh garlic
1-2 tablespoons white wine
1/2 cup or so chicken broth
Olive oil

Cook pasta. In large saucepan with hot olive oil put everything except broth and wine. Saute until tender and the chicken is cooked/warmed. Then add pasta, wine and broth to make "sauce" (just enough to get every moist but not "swimming".

Chicken Cornbread Casserole

Ingredients
3-4 chicken breasts, cooked, cut up (I usually cook in crock pot with chicken broth for about 2-4 hours on high and it's so tender you can cut with a fork)
1 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cups chicken broth
2 packages of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix
1 stick butter, melted
2 little green onions
1 can cream of chicken soup
thyme

Cook cornbread. Crumble and place half in large casserole dish. Add melted butter and chicken.
Mix sour cream, soup, thyme and pour over chicken mixture. Top with rest of crumbs. Pour chicken broth over entire pan. Bake at 350 for about 1 to 1 1/2 hours until golden brown.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Coca-Cola Baked Ham

Ingredients
1 either semi-boneless or bone-in ham
1 1/2 cup coca-cola
brown sugar


Take a knife and cut slits into and all over the ham. Baste with mixture of 1 cup coca-cola and 2/3 tablespoons of brown sugar. Put on grill at about 325-350 for about 2 hours basting halfway through.

Judah Pot Roast

This is Joel's favorite version of pot roast. It's a little different from the other recipe I've posted.

Ingredients
1 Sirloin Roast (this type does the best for me)
flour
2 long green onions (I'm sure they have another name)
1 medium sweet onion
1 cup beef broth
olive oil
3 garlic cloves chopped

Dust roast with flour, salt and pepper. Cover bottom of oven safe pan with olive oil and allow to heat to med-high heat. Then brown roast on both sides. Add a tablespoon or so of flour to hot oil in bottom of the pan. (This starts the gravy). Cut green onions with scissors onto the roast, add garlic cloves and large slices of the sweet onion. Add about a teaspoon of red wine vinegar to the roast and 1 cup of beef broth. Heat oven to 325 degrees and cook covered (I use my dutch oven for this and it works great for browning on the stove and then cooking in the oven~all in one pan!) for at least 2 hours. Watch the drippings in the bottom of the pan as it will turn brown making a very very good gravy. Once the meat is done, take the meat out of the pan and warm up the drippings and add 1/2 to 1 cup water and a couple of tablespoons of flour to make additional gravy.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Chicken Stromboli

Ingredients
1 refrigerated pizza dough crust
1 cup marinara sauce
1 10oz chopped spinach, thawed and water squeezed out
mozzarella/cheddar/Monterrey jack (some kind of cheese)
chicken tenderloins (about 6-8)
Parmesan cheese

Boil (I put mine in crock pot on high for about 3 hours) chicken tenderloins (can also use turkey) until done.
Roll out pizza dough on rectangle pan and put 1/2 cup sauce down the center, leaving 3" margins.
Layer with spinach chicken and cheese.
Cut dough (with scissors) in strips on each side of sauce and fold over each other (should be about 12 strips)
Brush with olive oil and sprinkle with paremesan cheese.
Back @ 400 for about 12-15 min. and serve with remaining sauce.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Eclair

Ingredients
1 8 oz container of cool whip
2 small boxes vanilla instant pudding mix
3 cups milk
1 box graham crackers
1 can chocolate icing


Mix cool whip, pudding mix and milk together. Layer 13 X 9 pan with graham crackers and 1/2 pudding mixture. Then add another layer of crackers and the rest of the pudding mixture. Another final layer of crackers. Microwave the icing until just "stirrable" and then pour the icing over the crackers. Refrigerate for about 1 hour and then serve.

Paula Deen's Mac-n-cheese

Ingredients
4 cups macaroni (2 cups dry macaroni makes 4 cups cooked)
2 cups grated cheddar cheese
3 eggs beaten
1/2 cup sour cream
4 Tbsp butter, cut into pieces
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk

Preheat to 350. To cooked macaroni add cheddar cheese. In separate bowl, combine the remaining ingredients and add to the macaroni mixture. Pour it all into casserole dish and bake for 30-45 min. Top with additional cheese if desired.

Homestyle Chicken & Biscuits

Ingredients
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/4 cup milk
3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
16 oz bag frozen veggies (broccoli/cauliflower
2/3 breasts cooked Chicken
1 pkg refrigerated biscuits (10 biscuits)

Preheat to 400. Stir soup, milk, cheese and then add vegetables and chicken. Bake for 15 min or until chicken mixture is hot and bubbling. Stir the chicken mixture. Top it with biscuits and bake for another 15 min or until biscuits are golden brown.

Banana Bread

Ingredients
1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup plus 2 Tbsp sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 1/2 very ripe bananas
2 Tbsp low fat sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup walnuts, toasted and chopped

Preheat oven to 350. Sift together first four ingredients. Beat sugar and eggs with whisk until light and fluffy. Drizzle in oil. Add bananas, sour cream and vanilla. Fold in flour mixture and nuts. Pour batter into a buttered 9 X 4 loaf pan and bake for 45 min or until toothpick comes out clean. Makes 12 servings.

Glazed Carrots

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups carrots
3 Tbsp honey
2 Tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp lemon juice

Stir until bubbly and then add to cook carrots

Tortellini & Sausage Soup

Ingredients
1 lb pork sausage
28oz can tomato puree
2 tspt Italian Seasoning
14.5 oz can diced Italian tomatoes
1 frozen box chopped spinach, thawed
2 beef bouillon in 4 cups of water dissolved
9 oz fresh cheese tortellini

In large soup pot, break up and brown sausage; drain. Add remaining ingredients, except tortellini. Heat to boiling; add tortellini and simmer for 5-7 minutes until tortellini is soft.

Bar-B-Q Sauce

Ingredients
1 cup ketchup
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
2 Tbsp Orange Juice
1 tsp Worchestshire sauce
1/2 tsp liquid smoke
1/2 tsp dry mustard powder

Mix and enjoy!

Pot Roast

Ingredients
Pot Roast (any kind)
Lipton Golden Onion Soup Mix about 1/2 envelope
couple dashes of Worchestshire Sauce
Flour
Olive Oil
Potatoes
Carrots
Green or yellow Onions
Garlic
1 Can Cream of Mushroom soup


Dust roast with flour and brown on both sides. Add remaining ingredients and either bake for about 2 hours or put in crock-pot on high for 4 or low for 6-8.

Tofu Manicotti

Ingredients
1/2 package tofu
15 oz package of Riscotta cheese
Some Mozarella cheese
Some parmasian cheese
Italian Seasoning
Manicotti noodles
Spaghetti sauce
1 cup water

Preheat oven to 350. Combine first 5 ingredients and stir. Pour 1/2 spaghetti sauce in already Pam-sprayed 13x9 dish. Put mixture into noodles and then cover with rest of spaghetti sauce, some mozarella cheese and then 1 cup of water. Bake 350 for about 1 hour.