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20 Minute Chicken Creole
4 med skinned & boneless chicken breast cut into strips
(cubbed if preferred)
1 14oz can stewed tomatoes
1-2 cps of chopped green onion & stalks
1 cp of chopped bell pepper
1 cp of chopped red bell pepper
1/2 cp of chopped celery
1 tsp basil
1 tsp parsley
1-2 tsps of chili powder (depending on taste)
Season to taste adding garlic, red pepper
or cayenne pepper, sea salt & coarse ground pepper
Brown rice or whole wheat pasta (cook accordingly)
Nonstick Cooking Spray
Spray deep skillet w/ nonstick spray & preheat
Stir in chicken for 3-5 minutes (until not pink)
Reduce heat, add ingredients, bring to boil
reduce heat again, simmer 10-15 minutes
Serve over your choice
YUM!
New Orleans Red Beans
1-2 lb bag of dry red beans
1-2 cps green onion &/or yellow onion
Season to taste, garlic, pepper, sea salt
2-4 bay leaves
3-5 tsp parsley
2-3 tsp thyme
Remove bad beans & rinse
Add onion & bay leaves to water
Bring water to boil, Add beans now
Cover & cook 1-2 hours, until beans are tender
Add other ingredients, simmer about 30 minutes
Serve over brown rice
Dat Good Cook`in!
Gourmet Potatoe Salad
(my original recipe)
Make potatoe salad like you would but change up with my ingredients
1 bag of red potaoes unskinned
1-2 bunches green onion & tops diced
luv dem on`yon!
1 sm can of chopped black olives
1-2 tbsp of dill relish
1 cp of chopped celery
1-2 cucumbers peeled & cubbed
Depending on how much potatoe salad your making
Fry up some turkey bacon, drain, break into pieces
1-2 boxes of creme cheese
Requested for the Last 5 years at My Husbands Employee Christmas Party.*S*
Tater-Tot Casserole
1 lg bag of frozen low-fat/light tater-tots
1 lb of ground turkey, cooked & drained
1 lg cn of low-fat/light creme of mushroom soup
1 bunch of green onion chopped
1 sm cn of mushroom (stems & pieces)
1 cp of low fat grated cheese
Nonstick spray
Mix all ingredients together,place in a sprayed 13x9 pan or larger
Spread cheese over top
Bake at directions on tator-tot bag
YUMMY!
Whoa now, you'll want to gobble this up!
Dream Cycle Pie
You may use sugar-free jello, fat free or low fat cheese & whipped topping
1 lg graham cracker pie crust
1 sm box of orange jello
1 box of creme cheese
1 sm tub of whipped topping
1 sm cn of mandarin orange (drained)
1 cn of crushed pinapple (drained)
1 tsp of vanilla
Mix jello, creme cheese, manaradin oranges,pinapple,
vanilla & tub of whipped topping
Save a few oranges to decorate top of pie
Pour into pie crust & place in icebox to set
aprox; 1 hour
Tastes just like it sounds!
Sad Cake
this cake will fall & look so-so sad
2 cps bisquit mix
1 bx of lt brn sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cp of chopped walnuts or pecans
beat egss, add vanilla & nuts
stir in brn sugar well, add bisquit & mix well
Cook at 350 for 25-35 minutes, depending on oven
cool & cut into small squares
YUM-YUM!!!
Chicken & Sausage Gumbo
w/ homemade roux
chicken, link sausage, celery, green onion, chives, parsley, garlic, S&P,
canned whole tomatoes, rice, bacon, flour
Boil mixed chicken parts & de-bone..save water, skimming fat off top (chicken amount depends on your preference)
Cut up celery & boil in chicken water, eventually adding onion, garlic, tomatoes
To make your homemade roux this takes time & expertise...learning over time.
Cook bacon, remove & add 1-4 teaspoons of flour, stirring constantly. You want it pasty, not runny or too thick.
Brown flour slowly checking & stirring occaisionally. Add chicken pieces, sausage, chives, parsley to cooking water, season w/ S&P.
While stirring..slowly add roux & watch your gumbo thicken thicken some.
Serve over rice
Better Than Sex Cake
1 white cake mix
1 instant vanilla pudding
1 can of crushed pinnapple
2-3 lg bananas
1 cool whip
1/2 cup of pecans or walnuts
or add cherry halves, shredded coconut
Preheat oven according to cake, bake & allow to cool.
Pour crushed pinnapple & juice, spread over cake. Make pudding, pour & spread over pinnaple, set in icebox.
After pudding is set add chopped bananas, nuts or alternate ingrediants.
Add cool chip spread & set in icebox for 1 hour. Serve cold
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