French Onion Casserole
17 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in Recipe Tags: chicken casserole with french onion soup, french onion, french onion casserole, french onion soup casserole, lipton's french onion soup
We had some left over fresh chicken the other day and since we get our meat fresh from a butcher I had to cook it one afternoon even though we already had plans for dinner. I also had left over FRENCH’S® French Fried Onions from the holidays as well. I decided to throw together casserole similar to my Poppy-seed Chicken Casserole recipe. It turned out really good, especially if you’re a fan of french onion soup. So here’s the recipe!
4 Chicken breasts boiled until done and cut into bits sized chunks.
1 Cup of Whole Grain Rice cooked and then season as you desire. (I started this while the chicken was boiling)
1 large head of broccoli steamed until done but still crisp
Mix together:
8 oz of sour cream
1 can of cream of mushroom OR cream of chicken soup
I packet of French Onion Soup Mix (I used Lipton’s)
In a 9×13 casserole dish, add the rice then the broccoli, on top of the broccoli spread out the chicken bite sized chunks and top with the sourcream/creamed soup/Lipton mixture and spread evenly.
Bake until the casserole is cooked through out and then in the last five minutes add the French’s French Fried Onions and allow to brown.
Enjoy
All sorts of yummy!
Chicken Egg Rolls
10 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
in Recipe Tags: chicken egg roll recipe, chicken egg rolls, chinese egg rolls, chinese hot mustard recipe, making egg rolls
1lb boneless chicken breasts finely chopped
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons of soy sauce (I use a bit more than this and I use low sodium)
1 teaspoon of ginger (I buy a shoot of ginger, chop it up finely and add about 1 1/2 tablespoons but I really, really like ginger)
4 tablespoons of oil
1/4 lb mushrooms, finely chopped (I buy a small can of chopped mushrooms and then finely chop them)
1/2 cup finely chopped bamboo shoots (I do the same as above. Buy a small can and chop finely)
1 small green or red cabbage (fyi – red cabbage will dye the ingredients) finely chopped (three cups or more)
1/4 cup finely chopped water chestnuts (again, I buy a small can and chop finely)
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons white sugar
In a small mixing bowl combine chicken, cornstarch, soy sauce and ginger. Blend; let stand for 15 minutes. Meanwhile chop the rest of the ingredients. Heat oil in wok. Stir-fry mushrooms (about a minute) then add chicken mixture and continue to stir-fry until the chicken is fully cooked (firm and white – although the soy sauce should have died it darker so sometimes it’s hard to tell that it’s fully cooked). Add remaining ingredients, sprinkling salt and sugar across the mixture at the end, and stir until cabbage is crisp-tender. Cool completely. Filling makes about 20 egg rolls.
Egg roll wrapping.
Place egg roll on a plate in a diamond shape. Add 2 tablespoons of cooled chicken filling mixture to center of diamond. Take edge closest to you and fold up and over the mixture. Then take the two sides and fold them one and a time toward the center, sprinkling a small amount of water to the edge to adhere it. Take the three sides folded into the middle and roll it up toward your last edge (resting on the plate) so that it seals the roll.
Heat fryer to 375 degrees and deep fry for about 5 – 7 minutes until golden brown.
Serve with soy sauce and hot mustard.
Hot Mustard recipe:
Ground mustard (about 4 tablespoons)
1 – 3 teaspoons of white vinegar (add slowly so that you get a thick mixture and you don’t water down the ground mustard)
Untraditional Shepherd’s Pie
09 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
in Family Time, Recipe Tags: A1 shepherds pie, hamburger casserole recipe, shepherds pie recipe, untraditional shepherds pie
So I am not a great cook, (certainly not ms. sally sue) but I am pretty good at keeping my family happy. One of the ways I do this is by throwing random stuff into the pot when I cook. I have no rhyme or reason and no recipe. I just smell what I’m cooking, smell the spice and then throw whatever I want in. Sometimes it works, sometimes I think I’m holding Worcestershire Sauce and it’s Soy Sauce and we eat out but whatever, you know!
Recently I have toyed with a new recipe for Shepherd’s Pie to keep the kids happy. Eric and I like ours traditional but the kids still seem to be unconvinced that it’s the best dish ever. So this is my new recipe. I’m guessing on the amounts so bear with me!
3 large baked potatoes
1 TBS Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/4 Cup of minced garlic
1/2 Cup of Chopped Sweet Onions
1lb Hamburger meat
1 tsp White Pepper
1 bag of pre-steamed microwaveable mixed veggies (corn, peas, carrots and green beans is what I used)
1/4 cup of Mayo
1/4 cup of Yellow Mustard
1/2 Cup of A1
Slice the potatoes into chunks and then add them to salted water and place on high.
In a separate sauté pan, put the oil in the pan on high until it gets nice and hot. Then add the onions and garlic and sauté. Then add the hamburger and the white pepper and cook until the hamburger is well done reducing the heat as you cook. Then add the mayo, mustard and A1.
After that simmer until the seasons are mixed, removed and spoon it in the bottom of a large rectangular casserole dish.
Your potatoes should be in a light roiling boil now, use fork to make sure they are tender and then remove from stove and pour into serrated colander to drain liquid. Transfer to a bowl, mash and then add the following to taste:
Butter (about 1/2 stick), chicken stock (1 – 2 cubes – if you use cubes place in a small amount of milk in a cup and microwave until the cube is softened), salt, pepper, milk (1/4 cup or less depending on the next ingredient) and sour cream (about 1/2 cup).
Add the mashed potatoes to the top of the meat in the casserole dish and then grate cheese for the topping. Bake at 350 until it bubbles on the edges and if needed, use a low broil at the end cook the top well done.
Enjoy!
Christmas Cupcakes
18 Dec 2009 1 Comment
in Recipe Tags: christmas cupcakes, cupcakes
This is just a simple cupcake recipe, I used strawberry, with cream cheese frosting (from a can!) that I added some red food coloring to. The decorations are simply red cookie icing in a tube and red and white sprinkles. I just thought they turned out beautifully on my cookie platter!
Ready to bake!
Porter says, "Yum!"
Banana Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
28 Jun 2009 Leave a Comment
in Recipe Tags: banana, banana cupcakes, banana cupcakes cream cheese, banana recipe, cream cheese frosting, cupcake recipe
As usual, I look over to make my weekly grocery list and OF COURSE there are those pesky few bananas that the kids begged me to get that are now all brown and bruised. Wanting them not to go to waste, I decided to try my hand at a new banana cupcake recipe and even do an icing. I found this one and while it is a bizarre recipe, calling for 3 cups of flour, 2.5 cups of sugar and a little over a CUP of Canola Oil, these are smelling tasty as can be while they bake.
You can find the original recipe here: Banana Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting
Horton Creamed Tacos
03 May 2009 Leave a Comment
in Recipe Tags: creamed taco recipe, creamed tacos, creamy taco recipe, creamy tacos, taco casserole, taco recipe
CREAMED TACOS
(1 recipe makes 24 tacos using one large 9”x 13” and one 8” square pan)
24 corn tortillos
2 lbs ground beef, browned and drained / or chopped chicken
2 lbs velveeta cheese
2 12 oz cans canned milk
1 medium onion chopped fine
2 10 cans tomatoes, drained and broken into pieces or RO*TEL ®
Dip tortilla shells in hot oil and drain on paper towel.
Cook hamburger meat and then spoon a couple tablespoons of hamburger on each, sprinkle with salt. If you want to use chicken, I usually chop it into bite sized pieces, then marinate in saucepan with hot oil, chopped onion and cumin.
Melt in saucepan ; canned milk, cheese, onion and tomatoes. Heat till cheese melts.
Roll filled tacos and place with open edge down in Pam sprayed pyrex dishes. Pour cheese mixture over top. Bake at 350º until it bubbles. Recipe may be halved.
I lay newspaper on counter and cover with paper towels to lay all taco shells on as they come out of the hot oil. I sprinkle each shell with a little salt and then go to the meat. Serve with taco sauce at the table for those who want it caliente.
Chris Horton 1977
Monkey Muffins (on a rainy day)
02 Apr 2009 Leave a Comment
in Family Time, Recipe Tags: banana bread, banana muffins, cooking with kids, kids cooking, quick banana bread recipe
P: "Gracie we're cooking today!" G: "Say what?!"
We love Chick-fil-a. I mean we LOVE it. It started back when I was younger but really took off after living in CA for three years and not being able to even drive to one. When we returned home on vacations to visit family, I’d always have my necessary three chicken sandwiches (then throw up) but it’s just tradition! It’s kind of like when you have lived on the west coast and move away then come back to visit. What’s one of the first things you want to eat? That’s right, a double-double, animal style from In and Out. It’s just that damn good.
So anyways, (sorry for the rant there) the kids and I started going to CFA about once a week starting from when Porter was pretty much born. It wasn’t so much that I took him, but we would go over and see Grandboy and Grandgirl every week and besides Golden Corral, there wasn’t much more that they would eat. My kids now love CFA and about a year ago we received some books in our kid’s meals that have turned out to be quite cool.
They are books entitled, “The Party Book, “The Rainy Day Book,” and “The Cooking Book.” These things are great. They mostly have arts/crafts and quick recipes that my kids can enjoy without having to sit and watch because I’m doing something that maybe isn’t age appropriate yet. Well, I had forgotten about these books until Porter reserrected one yesterday after our three hour back and forth fighting about finishing up the cleaning of the play room. I told him we’d put it aside (IF HE FINISHED CLEANING UP HIS ROOM) and try to find some thing to do tomorrow.
Well this morning we found a great recipe for Monkey Muffins, which I’ll post here.
Proper attire, first and foremost!
Monkey Muffins:
1 stick of room temp Butter
1 3/4 cup of Self-Rising Flour
1/2 cup soft Brown Sugar
1 cup Raisins
2 Eggs
2 tbsp Honey
3 Bananas
Mix the butter and flour together (by hand) until it resembles bread crumbs.
Add raisins and sugar.
Beat the eggs separately then add to flour mixture along with honey.
Mash bananas separately then add to mixture.
Grease the pan (we did muffins) and bake at 350. 1 hour for pan, 15 minutes for muffins.
For our recipe we ditched the raisins (mommy no like) and added chocolate chips on top instead. Yummy!
Green Goddess Salad Dressing
15 Mar 2009 Leave a Comment
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I saw this in the store the other day and thought it looked wonderful. I told my mom about it who told me that she used this dressing all the time when she was growing up. So she sent me the recipe. Enjoy!
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