Whenever I come across a recipe in a magazine, I tear out the page, and place it in a “Recipes To Try” binder, organized by Chicken, Beef, Dessert, Breakfast, and Other. The categories probably need a little more refining, but that worked at the time I made my binder about 4 years ago. My Recipes [...]
Filed under: chicken, main dish, pasta on February 27th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I really like sun-dried tomatoes and surprisingly, The Picky Apple does too. I gravitate toward dishes containing sun-dried tomatoes in restaurants, but always forget that I could be cooking with them at home. When I saw this recipe for Sun-dried Tomato Chicken Roll-ups back in January on Celeste’s blog, Sugar & Spice, I knew I [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, chicken, main dish, pasta on February 21st, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Picky Apple and I are not the type to go out to dinner for Valentine’s. In fact, we normally don’t really celebrate at all, which is a little strange considering that Valentine’s day is also the “anniversary” of our very first date. That’s right. Our first date was on Valentine’s Day. Ten years ago, [...]
Filed under: cupcakes, dessert, holiday, main dish, pork, potato, vegetables, wine on February 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Remember the other day when I told you about Paula Deen’s recipe for Savory Baked Chicken, and how you were supposed to save the leftover chicken so you could use it again in another recipe? Well this is the other recipe. Hopefully you didn’t eat all of that leftover chicken (good as it was) because [...]
Filed under: chicken, main dish, pasta on February 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It won’t win a chili cook-off, but this is yet another quick and easy recipe for nights when I don’t really feel like cooking. I’ve been using this recipe for about 4 years now, and I make it about once a month.
Slow-Cooker Taco Chili
Serves 2
Ingredients:
1/2 lb. extra lean ground beef, cooked and drained
1/2 package taco [...]
Filed under: beef, chili, main dish, slow-cooker on January 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
This recipe for chicken patties is yet another recipe that I got from one of the Yahoo Groups I belong to. It reminds me of crab cakes, but it is made with chicken instead. Nathan doesn’t care for crab, so I thought I’d try out this recipe. I used seasoned bread crumbs [...]
Filed under: chicken, main dish, vegetables on January 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s a quick and easy recipe that is one of Nathan’s favorites.
Taco Rice
adapted from 30 Day Gourmet Freezer Cooking Manual
Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef
1 taco seasoning packet (I used Old El Paso)
1 can Rotel
2 cups cooked white or brown rice
Directions:
Brown meat and drain. Combine meat, taco seasoning, cooked rice, and Rotel in a saucepan and simmer [...]
Filed under: beef, freezer friendly, main dish on January 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here at the home of The Picky Apple, we’ve been branching out to try meats we don’t eat on a regular basis. Since I usually buy meat when it is on sale, we normally have a lot of chicken dishes and dishes using ground chuck. One of the new things we’ve been eating more of [...]
Filed under: main dish, pork on January 22nd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last night we had homemade pizza. I typically purchase frozen bread dough for homemade pizza crust, roll it out, and sprinkle it with garlic salt or whatever spices sound good at the time. However, I’m out of frozen bread dough, and my usual grocery store doesn’t carry it, so I decided to try my hand [...]
Filed under: main dish on January 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
This has just been one of those weeks. It is cold and rainy outside and I’m not getting any sleep (the Littlest Apple is waking up at LEAST every 2 hours at night, and not napping during the day), so I really wanted some comfort food. Something not too time consuming to make. Something cheesy. [...]
Filed under: chicken, main dish on January 18th, 2008 | No Comments »