I'm always looking up recipes for dinner ideas, so maybe this will help a few of you out tonight!
1. Blender Quichee - mine was without the blender, and I used fresh spinach and onion. I've made this twice now.
2. Garlic Shrimp and Scallops - I'll have to try again since I burnt the garlic a little, but it was still good!
3. My Family's Favorite Chili - uses beer, and I added diet coke to give it my own touch! VERY GOOD! I served with my own version of Caribbean Corn Bread by following the back of a Jiffy corn bread box, but added crushed pineapple and cheese and cooked in a muffin pan.
4. Spicy Pork Chili - I had some pork to use up, tasted best as leftovers.
5. The Perfect Burger served with Oven French Fries - my stir in was Caesar dressing. A nice twist on a burger, and they'll never taste the same!
6. Slow simmered Curried Chicken
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups chopped onions, 1 medium green bell pepper, chopped, 1 pound boneless skinless chicken cut into bite-size piece, 1 cup medium salsa, 2 teaspoon grated fresh ginger, 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder, 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes, 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon curry powder, 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Place onions and bell pepper in slow cooker. Place chicken on top.
- Combine salsa, ginger, garlic powder and pepper flakes in small bowl and spoon over chicken. Cover and cook on low 5-6 hours until chicken is tender.
- Combine cilantro, sugar, curry powder and salt in small bowl, add to slow cooker and stir in. Cover; cook on high 15 minutes or until hot. Serve over rice.
7. Microwave-Steamed Sea Bass with Asparagus & Black Bean Sauce
Place your striped bass or halibut 1-inch thick steaks in a lightly greased 8 or 9 inch square heat proof glass baking dish. Season lightly with salt. Place the asparagus around the fish (about 1/2 a bunch). Instead of making the sauce, I found Lee Kum Kee Black Bean Garlic Sauce in the foreign foods aisle at the Commissary, which has the exact same ingredients as the sauce she was calling to make. So, dribble the sauce over the fish and then add 2 tablespoons of water. Wrap tightly with plastic wrap and cook in the microwave for 2-3 minutes on high power. Stir the asparagus, then continue cooking until the fish flakes and the asparagus is cooked through, 1-2 minutes more. Serve at once over rice. (Thank you rice cooker.)
8. Goat Cheese-Stuffed Chicken Breast with Spinach - that's on my menu again for this week! I posted this recipe about a month ago. This time I'm trying the Panko bread crumbs.
Recipes from friends and family:
9. Lindsay W's Spaghetti Recipe - Combine 1 can of traditional spaghetti sauce, 1 can diced tomatoes, 1 can mushrooms, and the secret ingredient, 1 can of cream of mushroom soup. (This was my second time making spaghetti for the two of us, and David said, "This tastes even better than last time!" - it must have been the secret ingredient!) Add garlic salt and Italian seasoning to taste. Brown 1 pound of ground beef with 1 minced garlic glove and add to sauce. Serve over noodles.
10. Mom M's Peanut Indonesian Rice Bowl - I've also made this twice now. The first time the peanut sauce was too thick, so I made sure it was more on the watery side since it thickens up when stirred in with the rice and chicken.
Make rice per rice cooker instructions, or on stove top.
Cook up abut 2.5 cups of cubed boneless, skinless chicken breasts and set aside.
Make the sauce - in sauce pan combine 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter, 1/2 cup chicken broth, 1 tbsp dry sherry, 2 tbsp rice vinegar, 2 teaspoon peeled and grated fresh ginger, 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1/2 tsp sugar, 1 clove garlic minced. Cover over low heat and stir until mixture achieves a sauce like consistency. Cover and keep warm. (You want this to be a little more "watery" then you might think, since it will thicken up when mixed with chicken and rice)
When rice is ready, add chicken, then stir in the sauce and serve. Add a little chicken broth if you need to "unthicken" the sauce! Original recipe calls to add 2.5 cups of peas but I have not done this yet. Top off dish with 1/2 cup chopped roasted peanuts.
11. Susan O's Chicken Tetrazinni - Make 12oz spaghetti in chicken broth. In pan, saute 1 medium onion and 1 large can of mushrooms in olive oil or butter. Stir in 2 cans cream of chicken soup, 2 tbsp parsley flakes, 1 cup sour cream, salt and pepper to taste. Drain spaghetti. Combine spaghetti, chicken and sauce in large bowl and stir. Add to casserole dish. Top with 1/2 cup shredded cheddar or Parmesan cheese. Bake uncovered for 30 min at 350 degrees. I've got this in the refrigerator pre-made for tonight's dinner. By the way, it makes a HUGE casserole dish. David and I will be eating leftovers for weeks! Good thing we love it! I made this on our honey moon when we had both his parents and my parents over for dinner.
From the Quick & Easy Recipe Deck:
12. Sweet & Sour Chicken - Be sure you have enough pineapple chunks. I was a little short, and next time I would make sure I have at LEAST 2 cups to add to the dish. Very good!
Preheat over to 300 degrees. Drain 2 cups of pineapple chunks reserving 3/4 cup of juice. In bowl, stir together the juice, 1/4 cup ketchup, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 2 tbsp of water, and 4 teaspoons of sugar.
Cut 12 oz of skinless boneless chicken breast halves into 1 in cubes. Cut 2 peppers (green or red bell) into 1/2 in squares.
In a bowl, stir together 1 egg 1 tablespoon cornstarch. Add the chicken and stir. In a shallow dish, roll the chicken in 3/4 cup crushed saltine crackers.
Pour 1 tablespoon oil into a nonstick wok or large skillet over medium high heat. Add half of the chicken and stir-fry for 3 minutes. Remove and keep warm in oven. Repeat with the remaining chicken.
Add the peppers and stir fry for 2-3 min, remove from wok.
Stir the pineapple juice mixture and add to wok. Cook and stir until bubbly: cook and stir 2 min more. Add chicken, vegetables and pineapple; cook and stir until heated. Serve over rice.
13. Seafood Tagliatelle - I lost the card, but this dish was VERY rich, more like a Shrimp & Scallop dish with fettuccine sauce. A think a little too rich for our blood. If I try it again, I'll cut WAY back on the sauce ingredients. I believe it used whipping cream? But I'll have to find the recipe first! Oh well!
From my own creations:
14. Classic Mediterranean Garden couscous (actually, from the back of the Near East Parmesan Couscous mix)
Instead of using 2 cups of broccoli florets, I used 2 cups of bell peppers, 1 green, 1 red, and 1 orange. And instead of 1/4 cup feta cheese, I used Parmesan cheese, and I skipped out on the 2 cup of fresh tomatoes. This was DELICIOUS! Pick up a box of couscous, 3 peppers, chicken, cooking wine, garlic, olive oil and Parmesan, and have this quick dinner!
I served this with Glazed Carrots, a recipe I found in my OLD Betty Crocker cookbook.
15. Pork Cube Steak Served with Okra, Tomatoes & Rice
I picked up 2 pork cube steaks, cooked in the skillet with a little bit of butter & olive oil, had rice going in the rice cooker, and cooked up some okra and stirred in a can of diced tomatoes. Yummy!
My Lunch Recipes
16. Chicken Enchiladas
I cooked up some chicken, and added a bit of a taco seasoning package with water to give the chicken a little flavor. Brown the four tortillas, then smooth a small amount of Spicy Ranch Dressing on one side, add the chicken, sprinkle some cheese, fold in half and cook until flour tortilla is browned and cheese is melted. I served with shredded lettuce, salsa and sour cream.
17. Chicken Caesar Wraps
Having some chicken cubed and cut up in the refrigerator, I add some Caesar dressing and shake it up until chicken is lightly coated. I then put the flour tortillas in the oven on broil just until they puff up and are a little browned. Put the Caesar coated chicken in the wrap with shredded lettuce and you have lunch!
18. My Very Own Meatloaf - I make this a little different each time. Try using instant potato flakes! I've also made this using salsa, and another time I crushed up some tortilla chips since I didn't have any saltines! But I always add 1 egg, ketchup, some kind of bread crumb (saltines, potato flakes, tortillas chips, your pick) salt, pepper, garlic salt, then I add a little something for flair, kind of like the Perfect Burger Recipe, like Italian dressing, salsa, Dijon mustard, Worsheshire sauce . . . just play!
From a cookbook I can't quite remember - apparently she has a cooking show, is a "voluptuous" woman??! Ring a bell??
Anyways, she had a yummy recipe for Doughnut French Toast, and I also made her Chocolate Mousse Butterfinger Crumble which was DECADENT!
I've also made Lemon Bars from another cookbook I checked out from the library and can't remember now!
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