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Cranberry Chicken

This is a super easy no brainier recipe, it has alot of pre-packaged food that I try to avoid, but sometimes we all need a little break and this is the perfect meal for that, and as a bonus it's a slow cooker meal!

Ingredients:

1-1.5lbs boneless skinless chicken breast

1 can whole berry cranberries

1 pkg onion soup mix

1 cup french dressing


In your crockpot/slower cook, mix dressing, onion soup mix, and cranberries, add chicken, cook on low for 6-8 hours, that's it, no flipping chicken nothing! We serve our ontop of steamed rice and side caesar salads.

Broccoli Beef and Ham Fried Rice

Maybe this should be 2 separate post, but I always make it together, so that's how i'll post it.  It gets a little over whelming making everything at once, so i like to have everything mixed/chopped/prepared, and ready to be cooked.

This is how many frying pans you need.

Broccoli Beef:

1lb Beef for stir fry, do not buy stew meat!

2 heads of broccoli

1 packet broccoli beef seasoning mix (we buy the sun-bird brand)

2 mushrooms

ground/powder ginger

1 garlic clove

soy sauce ( 2 thbs is needed in the seasoning mix)

oil for frying the meat

season mix prepared

Directions

Heat frying pan with oil and add in one clove of garlic chopped (low medium heat).

Sprinkle meat with ginger, wash and cut broccoli and mushrooms, prepare seasoning mix as directed.  Place meat in frying pan, stir so all sides get browned, about 10 mins. Steam broccoli in microwave.  Add seasoning mix to meat, it will be very thin. add in broccoli and mushrooms, cook for 5 more mins, or until sauce thickens.

when the sauce is first added and very thin

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Thickened sauce, and it's ready to eat!

Ham Fried Rice:

The secret to non-mushy ham fried rice is to let your rice cool completely before frying it.  I usually steam my rice in the morning, put it in the fridge and take it out hours later when i'm ready to cook.

2 cups rice, steamed, I use Jasmine rice, with this rice you do not add double the water, instead its 1.5 cups water to every 1 cup jasmine rice.

diced ham

6 eggs, scrambled

soy sauce

ground ginger

Directions:

heat large pan with oil, low medium heat. cook eggs, and set aside.  Place rice in hot pan, sprinkle ginger ontop and allow to sizzle while you stir it for 2-3 mins.  Create a hole in the center and add ham, let that cook for about a min, while stirring around, and eggs, and mix well.  Soy sauce is up to you and your taste buds, I put in just enough to see a color change in the rice, then allow each person to add soy sauce to there own plate, to their liking, you can always add more soy sauce, but you can't take it away once you add to much, i've done that before!!

rice with ginger ontop

add ham in the middle

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wala, it's done :)

time to eat!!!

This has nothing to do with food....

My cute little 2 year old :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkyt73MEY9w

Chicken Noodle Casserole

My 6 year old loves to be in the kitchen just as much as I do, her favorite is to make up new reicpes, this is our favorite so far, it's got a lot of random stuff in it and might not seem that appetizing, but it is so good! We have made it about 5 times in the last 3 months, so give it a chance :)

Ingredients

4 boneless skinless chicken breast
Cream of chicken Soup (recipe found here)
mini or small shell noodles (half of the bag)
frozen peas and carrots
real crumbled bacon
cheese

Boil chicken, while your chicken is boiling make your cream of chicken soup again you can find that recipe here.  Boil the small or mini shell noodles, the last 2 mins of boiling I throw in half a bag of the frozen peas and carrots, drain and set aside..  Once your chicken is done boiling shred it, then mix in your cream of chicken soup, noodles and frozen veggies, 1/2 cup crumbled bacon and 1/2 cup cheese, mix together and put in a pyrex dish, I use an 8x11, but a 9x13 would work fine.  Cover and bake 20 mins at 350.  After the 20 mins uncover, and sprinkle cheese and bacon  on top, bake just until cheese melts~ we serve ours with rolls.

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mixing it all together

cover and bake

with the melted cheese and bacon on top

ready to eat :)

Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup.

I was in the middle of making a dish one day, went to my cupboard to grab a can of cream of chicken soup and realized I was all out.... After a quick google search, there where hundreds of recipes, I picked one that looked the easiest and made that, over a coarse of a few weeks, I developed my own, cost less than .50 to make, and is sooooooooooo much better tasting!

Ingredients:

6 Tablespoons flour
4 Tablespoons Butter
1 Cup half and half
1 Cup water
3 bullion cubes



Mix half and half and water together, set aside.  Melt butter and flour together until it becomes a thick paste, SLOWLY, I can not stress that enough, add in your half and half and water mixture, just a little at a time, stirring in between, once you get about half the liquid in, you can poor the rest in, but that first half has to be done a splash at a time to prevent your flour from clumping.  Once all liquid is in put your bullion cubes in and whisk away, I keep mine on a medium heat the whole time, takes about 7 mins from adding in all the liquid to get the thickness i prefer, your time will depend on how thick you want it.

flour and butter mixed together

add the liquid mixture in a little at a time

once all the liquid is in, before it starts to thicken

nice thick, homemade cream of chicken soup

Chicken Cordon Bleu

You can find the original recipe here

This is one of those recipes that you are just going to have to find what works for you, i've made it 3x and each time and folded the chicken differently.

Ingredients 

*4 bonless, skinless chicken breast

* pieces ham

*2 mozeralla cheese sticks

*salt and pepper

*1 tsp dried thyme

*1/4 cup melted butter

*1 cup corn flakes, crushed



Directions:

1) preheat oven to 400 degrees


2)Place 1 piece of chicken between sheets of plastic wrap and pound with a meat mallet to about 1/8" thickness.

3) Cut cheese sticks in half, place 1/2 piece of cheese stick on 1 piece of ham, sprinkle salt, pepper, and thyme on-top (hubby likes me to go easy on the thyme on his piece, and i like a little extra) roll up ham around cheese "jellyroll-style", then roll each chicken breast with ham and cheese inside.  Tuck in ends and fasten with toothpicks, do no use colored ones, unless you want streaks of red, green, and orange in your cooked chicken ;)

4)Place melted butter in a small bowl and place cereal crumbs in a shallow dish or bowl,  dip each chicken roll up in butter, then roll in cereal crumbs, make sure it's coated thoroughly   Place coated rolls in a lightly greased 6x9 baking dish.

5)Bake at 400 degrees for about 35-40 mins, or until chicken is gold brown and juices run clear.

chicken is uncooked here

all done!