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Chicken Stuffing Casserole

December 18, 2015 by Margaret Leave a Comment

It’s so much fun working with my Mom and sister. We stay pretty busy and always have 3 or 4 projects going at a time plus busy family schedules. So its really important to us to have easy yummy meals to make for our families.

We love good food!

Now that Fall is in full swing and our weather is nice and cool I love warming the kitchen by cooking. Fall is always so busy with school, work and lessons I love a fast and easy casserole that I can quickly through in the oven.

I hope you enjoy!

Chicken Stuffing Casserole

Ingredients

Box of your favorite Stuffing Mix

2-3 Cooked Chicken Breasts (cubed)

1 can Cream of Chicken Soup

1 cup Milk

1 cup Cheddar or Colby Jack Cheese

1 cup Steamed Broccoli

Salt and Pepper to taste

Cook your Chicken breasts and cut them into bite size pieces then set aside. Cook your Stuffing Mix according to directions and set aside. In your favorite casserole dish or 9″x13″ baking pan mix until smooth 1 can Cream of Chicken Soup and Milk. Then add a Chicken layer, then Broccoli and Cheese. Top with Stuffing.

Bake at 400 Degrees for 30 min.

Its really that easy!

I hope your family loves it as much as mine does.

Steak, Onion, and Pepper Kabobs for Two

August 12, 2015 by Mary Catherine Scott 1 Comment

My husband and I have decided it’s time to change our eating habits to be a bit healthier. This includes watching our portion sizes and making sure we eat enough fruit and vegetables. To help us with this we started a running program that included an eating plan. The meal plan is helpful, but does not include recipes for the menu items. One of the meals included steak, onion, and pepper kabobs. That was all I had to go on, I had never made kabobs before. I like a good steak, but it is not a food we eat very often. I am also not one for just cooking meat without seasoning. I feel that marinated steak is sometimes better than non-marinated steak. I set off reading about marinades and looking at marinades I already like.

We have not been the greatest on keeping up with our running plan, but we have been keeping to the meal plan. It is so nice to see us adding in more fruits and vegetables to our meals on a regular basis. Sometimes I just cannot face a vegetable, but including them in the main dish is so helpful, not only for me, but for the kids too. Then sometimes just putting it on a stick makes it better, kabobs are good for that. I have loved mixing things together and eating better on a regular basis. This meal I was worried about at first, peppers and onions are not my favorite, but this meal will be coming back in the future whether its on the meal plan or not. I may just substitute it in every now and then.

Mary Catherine

Steak, Onion, and Pepper Kabobs for Two

Prep time

4 hours

Cook time

25 mins

Total time

4 hours 25 mins

Author: Mary Catherine Scott

Recipe type: Main Dish

Serves: 2

Ingredients

8 oz steak
⅓ cup EVOO
¼ cup soy sauce
1 tbls Worcestershire Sauce
2 tsp garlic powder
1 tbls dry mustard
1 tsp black pepper
½ sweet onion
1 bell pepper
6-8 skewers

Instructions

Cut steak into bite size pieces, about 1 inch cubed
In a resealable plastic bag mix EVOO, Worcestershire Sauce, garlic, mustard, and black pepper. Put in meat. Let meat sit in marinade for 4 hours or more if desired. (Mine went just over 12 hours).
While the meat is marinating, cut the onion and bell pepper into just bigger than bite size and soak the skewers for at least 30 minutes in warm water.
Once everything is prepped if cooking in oven turn oven on to 350 degrees. Put meat, pepper and onion on skewers. I like steak more than peppers and onions so I made sure each skewer had 3 pieces of meat until meat ran low then I did two per skewer. Line the skewers up on a cookie sheet.
Bake for about 25 minutes. I rotated my skewers about every 8 minutes.

Sweet and Sour Chicken

August 10, 2015 by Margaret Leave a Comment

I found this recipe on my search for camping recipes. We tossed it as a camping recipe – too many ingredients to take camping. But it’s a keeper at home. My kids seriously polished their plates and asked for more.

Big Points for Mom!

I love to see them eat good food even if it’s not the healthiest.

I’m still on the look out for a Sweet and Sour Chicken recipe for camping, but if I never find one I’m good with just eating this at home. So if any of our readers has a great Sweet and Sour Chicken dutch oven recipe please share.

Now back to our new recipe. I cheated a little on this recipe – it’s not all from scratch. I know… shocker. I’m also busy mom and dinner sneaks up on me all the time so I used bottled Sweet and Sour Sauce. Forgive me – someday I’ll try making my own – but until then this works great for busy days.

You will need (measurements on printable recipe):

chicken
cornstarch
eggs
salt
pepper
garlic powder
canola oil
gallon size re-closable
sweet and sour sauce

It’s so easy you toss everything in a bag, shake, fry and bake.

Sweet and Sour Chicken

Easy dinner the whole family will love.

Author: Margaret

Recipe type: Main Dish

Ingredients

1 pound chicken (cut into nugget size)
1 cup corn starch
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
½ teaspoon garlic powder
2 - 3 eggs, whisked
½ cup canola oil
1 bottle sweet and sour sauce

Instructions

Place cornstarch, salt, pepper, garlic powder and chicken in reclosable bag.
Shake until chicken is coated.
Heat half of oil in a frying pan.
Dip chicken pieces in whisked egg and place in frying pan.
Fry both sides of chicken.
Fry chicken in 2 - 3 batches.
Place chicken on baking pan. Lightly sprayed with cooking spray or line with foil.
Pour half sweet and sour sauce over chicken.
Bake for 15 -20 minutes.
Turn chicken and pour remaining sweet and sour sauce of chicken.
Bake for 15 minutes
Enjoy!

Other Chicken Recipes you might love.

Honey Barbeque Chicken

Baked Chicken Fingers

Cashew Chicken

I hope you enjoy!

Margaret

Slow Cooker French Dip Sandwiches

July 3, 2015 by Margaret 3 Comments

I’ve had French Dip Sandwiches quite a few times in my life and they were all pretty good. But the best French Dip Sandwich I ever had was in the hospital after my son was born. I know – hospital food? Most people lump hospital food in the same awful category as school lunch. Hospital food is bland for a reason – its made for sick and weak people. Well after a long labor and very little sleep and food my hospital French Dip Sandwich was heaven – I had 2. [Read more…]

Gluten Free Biscuits

June 22, 2015 by Mary Ellen Stringham Leave a Comment

I’m always looking for new “bread” products recipes for our gluten-free eaters. I think that is the thing they miss the most. Thanks to “The American Test Kitchen” ( ATK ) the possibilities are a lot greater.

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