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Originally Posted by Ginger's Mom
MINE ARE!! MINE ARE!!
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jumps up and down, like a crazy person and says.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Ginger's Mom
MINE ARE!! MINE ARE!!
:p
mine too:D
And mine . . . . .
May as well just come out and say it:D Jenn, your recipes look complicated but yummy! They have been printed out for a day when I'm feeling adventurous:D
Here's a simple one:
1. Buy a package of frozen broccoli in sauce - any frozen veggie mix that come with sauce will do.
2. Boil water, make a bunch of pasta - any shape will do.
3. While the pasta is cooking, cook the frozen veggies, dump in a LARGE bowl.
4. Chop up some cooked chicken, ham, whatever protein you have leftover or handy.
5. Dump pasta, and chopped up chicken in the bowl with the veggie mix and pasta - stir well. If the sauce doesn't seem plentiful enough, dump in some grated cheese until it looks about right.
6. Done. Eat!
Black Bean Burritos
1 can black beans, undrained
1 can refried beans
1 can corn, drained
Mix everything together in a saucepan, heat, spread on a burrito shell and top as desired.
These are a little bit plain but you can spice it up with a packet of taco seasoning or assorted spices. I made these 2 days ago and topped them with shredded lettuce, grated cheese, chopped onions, and tomatoes. :D I'm about to go have leftovers for lunch!
I really like breakfast food as supper -- especially omelets.
Omelet Recipe courtesy Alton Brown
Show: Good Eats
Episode: Zen and the Art of Omelet Maintenance
3 eggs, warmed in hot water for 5 minutes
Pinch salt
1 teaspoon room temperature butter, plus 1/2 teaspoon for finishing omelet
1/2 teaspoon fresh chopped chives
Crack warm eggs into bowl, add salt, and blend with fork. Heat a 10-inch non-stick aluminum pan over medium-high heat. Once pan is hot add butter and brush around surface of pan. Pour eggs into center of pan and stir vigorously with rubber spatula for 5 seconds. As soon as a semi-solid mass begins to form lift pan and move around until the excess liquid pours off into pan. Using your spatula move around the edge of the egg mixture to help shape into round and loosen edge. Let omelet sit in pan for 10 seconds without touching.
Shake pan to loosen from pan. Lift up the far edge of the pan and snap it back toward you. Using your spatula, fold over 1/3 of the omelet. Slide omelet onto plate and fold over so that omelet is a tri-fold. Coat with remaining butter and sprinkle with chives. Serve immediately.
(before you fold it into thirds - put cheese in center so it will melt ... any grated cheese will do)
Be sure to bookmark this... I will need to learn how to cook some stuff while I'm back at OSU in September!
Gosh.. and they are the simple ones I have. They're just a little prep work really. Other than that... pretty easy. They may sound intimidating, but really, they can all be prepped within 15-20 minutes, tops.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirrahsim
I do have some hard ones if you want ;):p I love to cook (have been doing so since I was 5 or 6), so I have a ton of recipes and cookbooks.
Sometimes you have to get past the prep work, or the words of the ingredients, and see how easy cooking really is. Once things are cut up, it's just throwing it all together. And if you hate dealing with knives, like me, you can buy most things already cut up in the store. Even better!
Ok, how's this one?? This is my favorite for when I have the munchies.
1 container sour cream
1 jar salsa or chili
1 bag of shredded taco cheese
8x8 baking dish
In a baking dish, sour cream on the bottom.
Spoon salsa or chili on next.
Top with shredded cheese.
Bake in 375* oven till bubbly. About 20 minutes. Serve with nacho chips.
This is from a woman at school
Veggie Pizza
2 pkgs Pillsbury crescent rolls
1 8oz. pkg cream cheese
1 oz pkg dry Hidden Valley Ranch dressing mix
1/4 c. mayo
Assortment of raw veggies (carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, green pepper, cauliflower) chopped and diced
Grated cheddar cheese
Directions:
Combine cream cheese, dressing mix, and mayo. Let sit for 1-2hrs in fridge.
Unwrap the rolls, press onto a cookie sheet and bake at 350* for 8 minutes or until golden brown.
When crust is cooled, spread evenly with cream cheese mixture.
Distribute veggies evenly on top of cream cheese mixture.
Top with cheddar cheese.
Cut and serve.
Another from my assistant
This works if you have guest, or if you're just by yourself. Kids like to make this too, because they choose what is in their omelet.
Ziploc Omelet
Quart size freezer bags for as many people as there will be omelets.
Crack 2 eggs, large or extra large, into the bag(no more than two) shake to combine them.
Put out a variety of ingredients such as: cheese, ham, onion, green peppers, tomato, hash browns, salsa etc...
Each person adds prepared ingredients of choice into their bag and shakes to combine.
Make sure to get air out of the bag, and zip it up.
Place bags into rolling, boiling water for exactly 13 minutes. You can cook 6-8 omelets in a large pot.
Open bags, and omelet will roll out easily.
I had gotten this book for my friend Regina when she moved out of her mom's house to Bethlehem.
Help! My Apartment has a Kitchen!
I thought it was pretty good for a beginner's cookbook! :D
Jen, I'm going to try this recipe. One of the few things my mother made that I enjoyed was tuna noodle casserole. But it's got to have peas...so I think I'll just throw some frozen peas in in the mix. I'm going to use crushed potato chips on top.Quote:
Originally Posted by jenluckenbach
I miss tuna noodle casserole! But I'm now allergic to the tuna, and the peas, so it's a "never mind" now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rachel
When I was a poor college student, a sometimes meal was pasta (whatever was on sale), a can of tuna, a can of mushrooms, and parmesan cheese. Yum. Now I have to do without the tuna part, and it's not as fun.
Oh - here's a quick and easy one!
Wash some spinach and tear it into smaller pieces. (Baby spinach you can leave whole). Put it in the bottom of a bowl.
Dump some grated cheese - room temperature - in with it.
Boil some pasta.
Dump the cooked pasta into the bowl, stir the spinach and cheese in, and then cover the dish and let it sit for a minute.
The heat from the pasta will cook the spinach just enough, and met the cheese.
Dump in some bacon bits - just microwave some bacon until it's crunchy and crumble in.
Stir and serve!
How much cheese and how much spinach and bacon depends on your taste!
Use canned Salmon or chicken for a similar meal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
go to www.kraft.com and sign up for their emails and you can get their cooking magazine for FREE.
also this is a great magazine - http://www.tasteofhome.com/simple-delicious-magazine/ and their quick cooking or Light and Tasty magazine is great also.
I've been interrested in this cookbook but have held off on getting it
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...eapskatemonthl
here are some pre-existing recipe threads here
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...=recipe+thread
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...=recipe+thread
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...=recipe+thread
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...+tortilla+soup
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Originally Posted by shais_mom
Staci - thanks for this info. I just signed up. What I like best about the Kraft site - they give the nutritional breakdown of each recipe. As a T2 Diabetic, I pay close attention to my carb intake.
That made me laugh!! It will be my first apartment in September.. and I will be living on my own so.. I think I'm gonna have to look for that!Quote:
Originally Posted by jenn_librarian
:D no problem!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
they have some easy and good recipes. I made lemon chicken awhile ago with LEMON JELLO!!! :cool::p
for 2 people, turn oven on to 350 degrees to preheat. 2 -boneless mild fish fillets, like tilapia or orange roughy, 4-8 ounces each.
pull out 2 sheets of aluminium foil, slightly larger then the fish and lightly oil them , olive oil is good, crisco is okay (butter doesn't work for me)
place fish on the foil, pour 1-2 tablespoons of salad dressing like ranch, french, thousand island or italian over the fish, if you have fresh veggies like green beans, bell pepper strips, zucchini or carrot coins put those on top of the fish, close the foil, like a sandwich is wrapped and bake 18-20 minutes. fish is done when it flakes apart very easily with fork. i serve this with rice-a-roni and broccoil almost every monday night before i leave for bowling. dessert this month has been a torn in small pieces pound cake topped with mashed strawberries and topped with whipped cream.
i've done this with boneless chicken breasts too, but you bake it longer.
enjoy
Nuked Potatoes
Wash spuds (don't bother to peel) and cut up small. Put in microwavable bowl, sprinkle with salt, pepper, paprika, and rosemary, squirt with olive oil, stir. If these are to be an ingredient for something else, nuke covered until soft. If they're Part of Your Balanced Breakfast, nuke uncovered (stirring occasionally) until crispy!
Love, Columbine
These recipes all sound great!
Thanks Shaismom - I signed up!
Jen- I made your tuna casserole tonight, and it was GREAT! I added parmesan cheese, and lays potato chips crushed on top! We are gonna have the leftovers tomorrow night! THANK YOU:D
I read that as Naked Potatoes.Quote:
Originally Posted by columbine
:p
then he wouldn't EAT in my house! :D ;) :pQuote:
Originally Posted by kt_luvs_kitties
When my friend, Regina, got married and moved to Canada to be with her new husband (same one I got the Apartment cookbook for), she still wasn't a big cook.
One time she called me and asked how to make SCRAMBLED EGGS. I was like, um... you put eggs in a bowl, whisk them up, and fry them, lol. I just figured it was a no brainer really.
So, when she was leaving, all the librarians decided to have a going away party for her, and we put together a huge cookbook with all our favorite, and easy, recipes for her.
I also gave her a "gift". I bought her a TWINKIE cookbook, with a box of Twinkies to go with it; a MARSHMALLOW FLUFF cookbook, and a container of fluff to go with it; and a SPAM cookbook, and a container of spam to go with it.
I figured if she didn't use the cookbooks, at least she could eat the twinkies, fluff and spam as is w/out cooking, lol. :p
OK ...Quote:
Originally Posted by columbine
1) What Kinda taters? ... There's more tater flavours than I can remember ...
Whas'sa difference?
2) How long does "until crispy" take?
My nuke box doesn't have an "until crispy" button. :p
Pean-Butter an FLUFF ... sammich of my youth!Quote:
Originally Posted by jenn_librarian
HAD to be "Skippy" pean-butter, KRUNCHIE style with "Real Peanuts",
soft white bread, and the Marshmallow FLUFF!
I think I ate those P-B & Fluff sammiches all the way through high school.
FLUFF was also great as an ice cream topping ... *sticky*, but good!
:D
I've done this before and fold in some ricotta cheese and garlic salt. And toss some grape tomatoes in right before serving..Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
and garnish with lemon juice. It just brings all the flavors together!
What kind of cheese with the spinach?
When do I put in the ricotta?
Tonight for dinner I made McDonalds:rolleyes:
parmesanQuote:
Originally Posted by kt_luvs_kitties
I like to put the ricotta in while the pasta is still hot, AND use a wee bit of pasta water mixed in with the cheese as your folding to help it be creamier and fold better. You just have to eyeball it. And you can dish it up and squirt a SMALL amount of lemon juice over each dish. Use sparingly to taste as you would salt.Quote:
When do I put in the ricotta?
:D
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Originally Posted by jenluckenbach
I do something similar to this but mine is kind of more simple. I just take mac & cheese, a can of peas, and a can of tuna. Mix it together on the stove, and voila I have Tuna Mac.:D
Another easy one is Stromboli.
Take the frozen Bread dough from the freezer section of the grocery. Thaw it completely.
PREHEAT OVEN TO 350.
ROLL it out with a rolling pin and grease it *I use spray Pam* This takes some practice but the practicing tastes just as good!
Spread with your favorite pizza sauce and your favorite pizza toppings whatever you like on pizza - PILE it on.
fold the dough over and PINCH it together to make a seam.
Place on a greased cookie sheet (I've discovered parchment paper and use it for EVERYTHING) SEAM side DOWN.
Spray with Pam again
and bake for 20-30 minutes until golden brown.
let cool for about 8-10 min before slicing.
you can serve extra pizza sauce for dipping if you like.
I'm going to try to get the stuff to make this as a Rueban tomorrow and make it for my dad since my mom is gone for the week.
Now that sounds GOOD! I might make that on Monday:D Is their a name brand for the pizza dough? I know that sounds silly, but I have never seen it before!
Seared salmon.
salmon fillet
salt and freshly ground black pepper
butter
squeeze lemon juice
Season the salmon fillet on both sides with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Melt the butter in a frying pan until frothing, then add the salmon skin-side down and fry for 2-3 minutes, or until golden-brown. Turn the fish over, squeeze over the lemon juice, remove from the heat and allow the salmon to finish cooking in the residual heat.
Serve with whatever takes your fancy, with just new potatoes is good.
Another easy dish I often have. Don't have quantity for the ingredients for you though.
Fry some onions & mushrooms, brown some minced beef until pink has gone and add to the onions & mushrooms. Mix up 1/2 pint of instant gravy & add to the beef mix, simmer for around 15 mins. Serve with mashed potato & vegetable of choice.
I had this once. DELISH!!!! :love:
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Originally Posted by jenn_librarian
These would be a lot of fun for a special event, like Xmas morning or a brunch. I wish my sister would do them. :(
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Originally Posted by jenn_librarian
no - I just use frozen bread dough. If you look in the frozen bread section where the rolls, biscuits, and garlic bread are in your grocery, you should find it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by kt_luvs_kitties
I'm sure there is a name brand of the Bread dough I think its like Rhoades or Rhodes or something. I'll have to look, but I **think** I bought Walmart brand the last time.? :confused: Can't remember!
Pizza Dough...
If you have a Wegman's near by (not sure if you do), or any other foodstore that has a really good deli and fresh food/take out area, they should have pizza dough in bags in that section. In our Wegman's, it's in the big long open cooler areas where they have all the premade items like lasagna, shells and cheese, pizza sauce. They have bags of premade dough, and all the directions for it to raise or whatever you do with it, is right on the bag. Good dough too!!
You can buy a box of mix to make pizza dough too. It should be in the spaghetti area of the market.
I do have recipes for homemade dough, IF you're interested, lol, but that's more work, lol.