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Recipe Swap?
If any of you are like me, I have been trying to get back into "real life" and for me, that includes more cooking. I thought maybe we could all share 1 new or favorite recipe. I am always looking for new and simple things to cook.
Last night I made Layered Mexican Chicken:
6 - 6" corn tortillas
1 lb raw chicken breast
1 c. lite sour cream
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
1/2 4 oz can diced green chiles
2 c. shredded 2% cheese
1 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp black pepper
Put the chicken in a saucepan and fill with water to cover meat 1". Boil until cooked through. Dice up chicken and put in mixing bowl. Add sour cream, 1 c. cheese, chiles, beans, cumin and pepper. Cut tortillas into 2" strips and place half of them overlapping in a 9x9 (or 8x8) dish sprayed with PAM. Spoon half of the chicken mixture over tortilla strips. Add the remaining tortilla strips and then spread the remaining chicken mixture over that. Top with remaining 1 c. cheese. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or cooked through. Serve topped with salsa. Cut into 6 pieces. 7 points for 1/6 of casserole, for you WW's out there. To make it even healthier you could use FF sour cream and decrease the total cheese to only 1 c, then I think it would be 6 pts per serving.
I think this recipe was good, but kinda bland. So next time, I think I am going to add taco or southwest spices either to the meat or sour cream mixture.
Re: Recipe Swap?
Sounds good to me!!
Turkey Italian Sausage and Farfalle in Creamy Tomato Sauce
(**This is my own recipe**)
1 package Jennie-O Sweet Italian Turkey Sausage (5 links)
1 16-oz box of farfalle pasta (or any shape, really)
1 small can of tomato sauce
1 tablespoon of heavy cream
1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons of parmesan cheese
2 cloves of minced garlic
3 tablespoons of low-fat margarine (or butter, if you prefer)
1 teaspoon of oregano
1 teaspoon of basil
1 teaspoon of fennel seeds (I chop them)
Pizza spices (they have a grinder of these spices at any grocery store)
Olive oil
Salt & pepper
Boil the pasta until tender and strain.
Brown the sausage links in a pan until almost thoroughly cooked. Remove from the stove and slice into 1/2" thick slices (I angle my slices) and put the slices back into the pan to finish cooking them (they are raw from the package, so be sure to cook them thoroughly so that they are no longer pink).
In a small saucepan, lightly brown one clove of the garlic and add the tomato sauce, 2 tablespoons of the parmesan cheese, oregano, basil, fennel seeds, salt and pepper and slowly stir in the heavy cream until the sauce is evenly mixed and a light orange color.
Take the strained pasta and return it to the boiling pot. Add the other clove of garlic, two tablespoons of margarine, ? cup of olive oil, salt, pepper, about 1 tablespoon of the pizza spices and the rest of the parmesan cheese and stir it all together on a warm burner. Add in the creamy tomato sauce and cooked sausage and mix it all together until the sauce has lightly coated everything.
Break out the garlic bread and enjoy!
(This recipe serves four ? I make this recipe and take two or three containers of leftovers to work for a few days after!)
Aunt Diane's Meatloaf:
1 cup chopped onion
6 TBL. ketchup
2 TBL. dijon mustard
1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup italian seasoned bread crumbs
1/4 cup parsley
2 TBL. parmesan cheese
1 TSP oregano
1/4 TSP pepper
1 large egg - lightly beaten
1 1/2 lbs. lean ground beef
Saute onion.
Combine onion, 3 TBL. ketchupp, 1 TLB dijon mustard, mozzarella, bread crumbs, parley, parmesan cheese, oregano, pepper and egg. Mix well.
Add ground beef and mix.
Put mixture in loaf pan. Top with remaining ketchup and mustard (3 TBL ketchup and 1 TBL dijon).
Bake at 375 for 1 hour.
These are in my blog, so good!
Easy Cheesy Chicken Enchiladas
Ingredients
1 whole chicken - boiled until done and debone
( you can use chicken breast instead of whole- takes about 3 chicken breast. This is what I did.)
1 pkg 8'' flour tortilla's
1 can enchilada sauve
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 cup sour cream
2-3 cups shredded monteray jack cheese (I actually used a "Fiesta Blend" that was at our grocery store. Delicious!)
Boil and shred chicken. Mix with soup & sour cream. Spread 2-3 large spoons of enchilada sauce in bottom of 13x9 pan to cover. Place 1 large spoonfull of chicken mixture down middle of flour tortilla, add a small handfull of shredded cheese down along chicken mixture, then roll up, placing seam side down in dish. Continue until all chicken mixture is used up and 13x9 is full. (I actually made two pans to use up all my tortillas).
Cover with remaining enchilada sauce. Use your spoon and pull enchilada's apart a little and let some of the sauce run down between them. Sprinkle with a little remaining cheese. Bake @ 350 approx. 30-40 minutes until hot and bubbly and cheese is melted on top.
I tried this pork tenderloin in bourbon recipe from allrecipes.com and it is really good!
1/4 c soy sauce
1/4 c bourbon
3 tbl brown sugar
3 cloves garlic
3 pounds pork tenderloin (I did two butterfly pork chops)
Marinate the pork in the sauce for at least 2 hours, turning occasionally. (It is best if you do it overnight.) Preheat oven to 325 degrees, remove pork from marinade and bake approximately 45 mins (for 3 pounds pork) or until meat thermometer reads 160 degrees.
I did as one of the reviews suggested as reduced the marinade to a syrup and poured it over the pork with approx. 10 minutes left to cook.
Yummo!
These Asian potstickers are sinfully delicious. I would only tweak one thing, use spicy Italian sausage for those who love a little heat. I'm drooling :oP
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/guys-big-bite-/pot-sticker-ginger-pork-recipe/index.html
I'm sorry, but I couldn't just leave one, so here is the Baltimore Bad Boy. DH loves it, which totally blew me away! Guy Fieri is amazing:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/guy-fieri/baltimore-beef-bad-boy-recipe/index.html
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