From Life Take 1
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On of my favorite things about holidays is the opportunity to create more memories with my children. Growing up, memory-making opportunities were few and far between so I tend to go a little overboard with all the decorating and traditions. My goal, despite all the decorations, is to get to the heart of the holiday. I want to create memories and traditions around the true meaning for these celebrations.
Easter is this weekend, and I am off to my kitchen to create memories with the boys. Come and join us! How about an old tried and true favorite? This is an old recipe that has been making its rounds on the Internet for at least the last 5 years if not longer. The original creator has some how been lost over the years. Whoever you are … thank you for the wonderful family memories you have helped me to create!
Resurrection Cookies
Ingredients: Things Needed:
1-cup Whole Pecans Mixing Bowl
3 Egg Whites Wooden Spoon
1-cup Sugar Bible
1-teaspoon vinegar Zipper Baggy
1 pinch of Salt Wax Paper
Cookie Sheet
Tape
There are 2 things you should know before starting this recipe.
This is best done made on the Saturday before Easter in the late evening right before going to bed. You MUST preheat the oven to 300° before starting the recipe.
Preheat oven to 300°F degrees. Place the pecans in a plastic freezer bag. Let your child break the pecans into small pieces by beating them with a wooden spoon. Explain that after Jesus was arrested, Roman soldiers beat him.
Read John 19:1-3
Let each child smell the vinegar. Put 1-teaspoon vinegar into mixing bowl. Explain that when Jesus was thirsty on the cross He was given vinegar to drink.
Read: John 19:28-30
Add egg whites to vinegar. Eggs represent life. Explain that Jesus gave His life to give us life.
Read: John 10:10-11
Sprinkle a little salt into each child's hand. Let them taste it and brush the rest into the bowl. Explain that this represents the salty tears shed by Jesus' followers, and the bitterness of our own sin.
Read: Luke 23:27
So far the ingredients are not very appetizing. Add 1-cup sugar. Explain that the sweetest part of the story is that Jesus died because He loves us. He wants us to know and belong to Him.
Read: Psalm 34:8 and John 3:16
Beat with a mixer on high speed for 12 to 15 minutes until stiff peaks are formed. Explain that the color white represents the purity in God's eyes of those whose sins have been cleansed by Jesus.
Read: Isaiah 1:18 and John 3:1-3
Fold in broken nuts. Drop by teaspoon onto waxed paper covered cookie sheet. Explain that each mound represents the rocky tomb where Jesus' body was laid.
Read: Matthew 27:57-60
Put the cookie sheet in the oven, close the door and turn the oven OFF. Give each child a piece of tape and seal the oven door. Explain that Jesus tomb was sealed.
Read: Matthew 27:65-66
GO TO BED! Explain that they may feel sad to leave the cookies in the oven overnight. Jesus' followers were in despair when the tomb was sealed.
Read: John 16:20-22
On Resurrection Sunday (Easter) morning, open the oven and give everyone a cookie. Notice the cracked surface and take a bite. The cookies are hollow! On the first Easter Jesus' followers were amazed to find the tomb open and empty.
Read: Matthew 28:1-9
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I love the idea behind that recipe so much! BUT what happens if your children are to young for that? What if they need something simpler? This is an alternative for the preschool, early elementary, time rushed families out there.
Easy Resurrection Cookies
Ingredients: Things Needed:
1 can of Pillsbury Croissant Rolls Mixing Bowl
8 Large Marshmallows Wooden Spoon
1/3-cup Sugar Bible
3-tablespoons of Cinnamon Cookie Sheet
2-tablespoons melted butter or margarine
Preheat oven to according to package directions.
Mix together Cinnamon and sugar in a bowl. Explain that after Jesus was arrested, Roman soldiers beat him. The marshmallow represents Jesus. The cinnamon represents his scars. The sugar represents the sweetest part of the story. Why Jesus died … because he loved us! Take one of your marshmallows and roll it in the butter then the mixture of cinnamon and sugar. My boys also beat their marshmallows with a spoon as I read the story to them. Discuss what they think it would have felt like to endure all of this.
Read John 19:1-3; Psalm 34:8; John 3:16
Lay out your Croissant roll dough. Place a marshmallow in the center and fold the sides up. Pinch the dough tightly closed so that you cannot see anything. Explain that Jesus is now sealed inside his tomb.
Read: Matthew 27:57-60; Matthew 27:65-66
Place in oven and cook accord to package directions.
Read: John 16:20-22
Remove from the oven and give everyone a roll. Be careful not to squish them when removing them from the tray. The rolls are hollow! On the first Easter Jesus' followers were amazed to find the tomb open and empty.
Read: Matthew 28:1-9
Enjoy your time in the Kitchen together this week! Happy Easter Everyone!!
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Eggs, Eggs Everywhere!
From Life Take 1
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It’s the day after Easter and I have at least a dozen eggs still in my fridge! I am not sure about all of you but I am tired of eating all those eggs! Every year it is the same thing. You have left over eggs; you don’t want to waste food so … you try to get creative. What do you come up with?? Deviled eggs, pickled eggs, egg salad sandwiches, tuna and egg sandwiches, Cobb salad, chef’s salad, pasta salad with eggs. There has to be something else you can cook with a boiled egg!!!
This year … how about something new! Something different. Try out this recipe:
Scalloped Eggs
Ingredients:
8 Hard Boiled Eggs
4 slices crumbled cooked bacon
¾ cup milk or cream
¾ cup seasoned breadcrumbs
2 Tablespoons butter
Directions:
Salt and pepper to taste. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Farenheit. Grease and 8” square glass baking dish and cover bottom with a layer of crumbs. Place a layer of sliced hard boiled eggs, then sprinkle with crumbled bacon, dot with a few bits of butter, then repeat this layer process, finishing up with a layer of buttered crumbs. Pour cream (or milk) over the whole dish until it comes about halfway up the side of the dish. Place in over until heated and browned, about 4-5 minutes. This is similar to a recipe I have made but we used scrambled eggs instead. We sprinkled cheese on top. Instead of bacon, try this recipe with ham or sausage.
Another recipe idea to try is HARD-BOILED EGGS AND PARMESAN ON TOASTED SOURDOUGH. If you try either recipe...I would love to know how you liked them!
Okay … you have created everything you can think of out of those eggs and you still have more. You turn green just thinking about eating another egg. And trying to get any more down the kids is impossible. So now what?? Science experiment time!!!
The Famous Egg in a Bottle Trick
Materials:
One of those eggs – shelled
Plastic bottle with wide opening
Cooking oil
Scrap of paper
Matches
Water
Directions:
Grease the mouth of the bottle with cooking oil. Fold one square of paper accordian style. Light it with a match and drop it in the bottle.Right away, set the shelled egg in the bottle's mouth
Watch carefully! The egg will gradually get sucked into the bottle. Be prepared to do it over and over again. I know that's what will happen here!
To get the egg out, fill the bottle with water to rinse out the burned paper. You’ll have to hold the egg out of the way with your finger. Hold the bottle upside down. Blow into the bottle past the egg as hard as you can. Keep the bottle upside down so the egg blocks the opening. The egg should drop right into your hand.
Or visit this website for more egg experiments http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000023.
Send me your pictures of your egg experiments and watch my blog for ours. We are planning on doing them sometime this week but I haven’t had the time to do it before I needed to post this. So you will just have to wait and see how it all turned out!
So … you cooked, did the experiments, and still have eggs left over. NOW WHAT!!?? How about a few games? You could rely on the old favorites egg & spoon relay or an egg toss contest. Only difference instead of a raw egg you have a hard boiled one. Less mess that way! But what about a new game? Try these:
Penguin Shuffle Races
With penguins, the daddy penguin incubates the unhatched egg by carrying the egg on top of his feet. Have the children pretend they are the daddy penguins in this fun race. Give each child an egg (normally this game is played with a plastic egg filled with sand but we are putting our hard-boiled eggs to good use here instead!). The children will race by shuffling across the floor toward the finish line without dropping their egg. First one to succeed wins.
Roll the Egg
Place masking tape on the floor for the start and finish lines. We did this in the kitchen … I do not recommend it on carpeting, as I am not sure how to get dye out of the carpeting! Place an egg on the starting line for each child. The object of the game is to roll the egg to the finish line with your nose!
If you have tried all the above and your eggs seem to be multiplying faster than you can use them up. Don’t panic – you can always use them for juggling practice. Take everyone up on the roof and see whose egg lands the first from that height. My oldest son is recommending egg baseball, my middle one is voting for egg dodge ball, and thankfully the little one is asleep. I wouldn’t want to clean up that mess from those ideas! : -)
That’s all I have for eggs but I will leave you all with an egg joke that was told to me by my son Kris. “What happened to the egg when he was tickled to much?” ………………. “He cracked up!”
I pray you all had a great Resurrection Day!
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It’s the day after Easter and I have at least a dozen eggs still in my fridge! I am not sure about all of you but I am tired of eating all those eggs! Every year it is the same thing. You have left over eggs; you don’t want to waste food so … you try to get creative. What do you come up with?? Deviled eggs, pickled eggs, egg salad sandwiches, tuna and egg sandwiches, Cobb salad, chef’s salad, pasta salad with eggs. There has to be something else you can cook with a boiled egg!!!
This year … how about something new! Something different. Try out this recipe:
Scalloped Eggs
Ingredients:
8 Hard Boiled Eggs
4 slices crumbled cooked bacon
¾ cup milk or cream
¾ cup seasoned breadcrumbs
2 Tablespoons butter
Directions:
Salt and pepper to taste. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Farenheit. Grease and 8” square glass baking dish and cover bottom with a layer of crumbs. Place a layer of sliced hard boiled eggs, then sprinkle with crumbled bacon, dot with a few bits of butter, then repeat this layer process, finishing up with a layer of buttered crumbs. Pour cream (or milk) over the whole dish until it comes about halfway up the side of the dish. Place in over until heated and browned, about 4-5 minutes. This is similar to a recipe I have made but we used scrambled eggs instead. We sprinkled cheese on top. Instead of bacon, try this recipe with ham or sausage.
Another recipe idea to try is HARD-BOILED EGGS AND PARMESAN ON TOASTED SOURDOUGH. If you try either recipe...I would love to know how you liked them!
Okay … you have created everything you can think of out of those eggs and you still have more. You turn green just thinking about eating another egg. And trying to get any more down the kids is impossible. So now what?? Science experiment time!!!
The Famous Egg in a Bottle Trick
Materials:
One of those eggs – shelled
Plastic bottle with wide opening
Cooking oil
Scrap of paper
Matches
Water
Directions:
Grease the mouth of the bottle with cooking oil. Fold one square of paper accordian style. Light it with a match and drop it in the bottle.Right away, set the shelled egg in the bottle's mouth
Watch carefully! The egg will gradually get sucked into the bottle. Be prepared to do it over and over again. I know that's what will happen here!
To get the egg out, fill the bottle with water to rinse out the burned paper. You’ll have to hold the egg out of the way with your finger. Hold the bottle upside down. Blow into the bottle past the egg as hard as you can. Keep the bottle upside down so the egg blocks the opening. The egg should drop right into your hand.
Or visit this website for more egg experiments http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000023.
Send me your pictures of your egg experiments and watch my blog for ours. We are planning on doing them sometime this week but I haven’t had the time to do it before I needed to post this. So you will just have to wait and see how it all turned out!
So … you cooked, did the experiments, and still have eggs left over. NOW WHAT!!?? How about a few games? You could rely on the old favorites egg & spoon relay or an egg toss contest. Only difference instead of a raw egg you have a hard boiled one. Less mess that way! But what about a new game? Try these:
Penguin Shuffle Races
With penguins, the daddy penguin incubates the unhatched egg by carrying the egg on top of his feet. Have the children pretend they are the daddy penguins in this fun race. Give each child an egg (normally this game is played with a plastic egg filled with sand but we are putting our hard-boiled eggs to good use here instead!). The children will race by shuffling across the floor toward the finish line without dropping their egg. First one to succeed wins.
Roll the Egg
Place masking tape on the floor for the start and finish lines. We did this in the kitchen … I do not recommend it on carpeting, as I am not sure how to get dye out of the carpeting! Place an egg on the starting line for each child. The object of the game is to roll the egg to the finish line with your nose!
If you have tried all the above and your eggs seem to be multiplying faster than you can use them up. Don’t panic – you can always use them for juggling practice. Take everyone up on the roof and see whose egg lands the first from that height. My oldest son is recommending egg baseball, my middle one is voting for egg dodge ball, and thankfully the little one is asleep. I wouldn’t want to clean up that mess from those ideas! : -)
That’s all I have for eggs but I will leave you all with an egg joke that was told to me by my son Kris. “What happened to the egg when he was tickled to much?” ………………. “He cracked up!”
I pray you all had a great Resurrection Day!
Quick & Easy Recipes Online
From Life Take 1
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Well …. It’s that time of year. Everyone seems to be sick with something; the last of the flu, a cold or allergies. I also heard that strep is making it rounds again. So… that got me to thinking. What can I make when I don’t feel like cooking? I need something easy, fast, inexpensive, and healthy. Something other than chicken noodle soup in the Crockpot.
I found a few places on the internet with some recipes for quick and easy meals.
Cryovac Simple Steps
Super Target
EZ Meal Prep
I found a few places that I could join either for free or not, that had some great looking recipes as well.
Café Mom
Six O’Clock Scramble
Saving Dinner
Dinner Planner
Kid Approved Meals
Then I hit the jackpot! A great place for family-friendly recipes, including some for the Crockpot! Hip Hip Hooray!!
Cheap Cooking
Simple Meals
Karen’s Country Kitchen
Why not try this recipe with the kids this week?
Crockpot Chicken & Mushrooms
Ingredients:
4 bone-in chicken breasts with the skin removed
salt
pepper
lemon pepper
paprika
1 cup sour cream
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 small can of mushrooms or 8 oz. sliced fresh mushrooms
1/4 cup white wine or chicken broth
Directions:
After removing the skin, sprinkle the chicken breasts with salt, pepper, lemon pepper, and paprika, then place in the crockpot.Mix together the remaining ingredients and pour over the chicken pieces.Cook on low 6-8 hours. Serve over rice or egg noodles.
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Well …. It’s that time of year. Everyone seems to be sick with something; the last of the flu, a cold or allergies. I also heard that strep is making it rounds again. So… that got me to thinking. What can I make when I don’t feel like cooking? I need something easy, fast, inexpensive, and healthy. Something other than chicken noodle soup in the Crockpot.
I found a few places on the internet with some recipes for quick and easy meals.
Cryovac Simple Steps
Super Target
EZ Meal Prep
I found a few places that I could join either for free or not, that had some great looking recipes as well.
Café Mom
Six O’Clock Scramble
Saving Dinner
Dinner Planner
Kid Approved Meals
Then I hit the jackpot! A great place for family-friendly recipes, including some for the Crockpot! Hip Hip Hooray!!
Cheap Cooking
Simple Meals
Karen’s Country Kitchen
Why not try this recipe with the kids this week?
Crockpot Chicken & Mushrooms
Ingredients:
4 bone-in chicken breasts with the skin removed
salt
pepper
lemon pepper
paprika
1 cup sour cream
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 small can of mushrooms or 8 oz. sliced fresh mushrooms
1/4 cup white wine or chicken broth
Directions:
After removing the skin, sprinkle the chicken breasts with salt, pepper, lemon pepper, and paprika, then place in the crockpot.Mix together the remaining ingredients and pour over the chicken pieces.Cook on low 6-8 hours. Serve over rice or egg noodles.
Mother's Day Breakfast
From Life Take 1
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This upcoming weekend is Mother’s Day. No offense to my children and sweet husband but I simply cannot eat another one of their concoctions that they call “breakfast in bed.” Waffles that are burnt on the outside and frozen on the inside, toast that resembles charcoal, runny omelets, and then there was the year of the fruit smoothie. I still have no clue exactly what was in it but I heard something about peanut butter, jelly, marshmallows, and bbq sauce. That was in addition to the fruit, milk, and ice cream. I love you all but no thanks!!!
This year I am determined to start a new tradition. Edible Breakfast in Bed!!! My options are limited as if I cook it myself … I will hurt everyone’s feelings. Going out to eat is not an option because of church and if we waited until afterwards, the kids would perish from starvation. So…. I came up with a few ideas.
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This upcoming weekend is Mother’s Day. No offense to my children and sweet husband but I simply cannot eat another one of their concoctions that they call “breakfast in bed.” Waffles that are burnt on the outside and frozen on the inside, toast that resembles charcoal, runny omelets, and then there was the year of the fruit smoothie. I still have no clue exactly what was in it but I heard something about peanut butter, jelly, marshmallows, and bbq sauce. That was in addition to the fruit, milk, and ice cream. I love you all but no thanks!!!
This year I am determined to start a new tradition. Edible Breakfast in Bed!!! My options are limited as if I cook it myself … I will hurt everyone’s feelings. Going out to eat is not an option because of church and if we waited until afterwards, the kids would perish from starvation. So…. I came up with a few ideas.
- Ask them what they want to make me for Mother’s Day. Make it the day before. They are all expert microwave users. So … the pancakes may be rubbery. That is much better than being sick all day and trying to pretend I am not.
- Suggest a quick breakfast of cereal bars, donuts, or muffins. Store bought! Then we can have a big brunch after church. This is just a little something to tie us over.
- Pre-cook ingredients and let them combine them for a breakfast feast.
- Give up and eat whatever they came up with. The Grin and Bear it again method.
- Find something that they can’t mess up when cooking.
So…. Those are the options. Now what??? First … finish this article! : -) Second – email to hubby. Think he will get the point?
Pre-cooking
Fresh Fruit and Dip: Purchase a variety fresh fruit cut up and store in the fridge. Perhaps have some cool whip, caramel, or fudge sauce for dipping. My boys love anything they can dip stuff into. Dip would bring this to the top of their lists of things to make.
Breakfast Burritos: Pre-cook some bacon, scrambled eggs, breakfast sausage (and cut into bite size pieces), fried potatoes (or hash browns). Purchase tortillas and salsa. Grade some cheese. They can simply warm in the microwave, pile into a tortilla, roll it up and serve!
Traditional Breakfast: Pre-cook bacon, scrambled eggs, breakfast sausage, and hash browns. They can simply warm in the microwave. Add some toast (I think they can manage this now!) or a muffin (store bought) and fresh fruit (see above).
Easy Recipes
Ziploc Baggie Omelets: Using a quart-size Ziploc freezer bag. Crack 2 large eggs (or extra large but ONLY 2!) into each bag. Shake to mix. Add in a variety of ingredients – whatever mom will like. Ham, cheese, onion, green pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa, bacon, mushrooms, etc… (mom – you might want to prep some of these things the day before). Shake to mix again. Squeeze all the air out of the bag before zipping. Place bag into rolling, boiling water for EXACTLY! 13 minutes!! EXACTLY! If you are making 1 for each person – writing names on the bag with a permanent marker is a good plan. 6-8 bags can be cooked at 1 time. Add a little something on the side and wala! Breakfast!
French Toast Souffle: You will need 8 slices of fresh bread cubed. 2 packages of cream cheese, cubed. A dozen eggs. 2 cups of milk. 1/3 cup of maple syrup. A 9x13 baking pan. Place half of the bread cubes in the bottom of the pan. Cover bread with cream cheese squares and top with the remaining bread cubes. In another bowl, beat eggs. Add maple syrup and milk. Pour over the bread cubes. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. (mom … since it’s the night before you can help!) In the morning heat the over to 375¢ªF. Bake for 45 minutes or until set. Serve with maple syrup on the side. Garnish with fresh fruit.
Here are some links for other ideas to try:
Breakfast Pizza: http://mountain-breeze.com/kitchen/breakfast/40.html
Breakfast Casserole in Crockpot: http://crockpot.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/41/Breakfast_Casserole55552.shtml
Crockpot Breakfast Cobbler: http://busycooks.about.com/od/dessertrecipe1/r/crockcobbler.htm
Sausage and Cheddar Quiche: (This is one for the more daring and experience cooks in your house) http://southernfood.about.com/od/christmasfood/r/blxm122.htm
Okay … now to be fair to my hubby. He can cook. Just not breakfast!! I am praying you all have a wonderful day filled with many blessings and memories. Each of you deserve the very best this day as you work so hard and tirelessly all year long.
Easy Cooking Recipes
From Life Take 1
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So sorry everyone that this is late! I had planned on having a bunch of articles written before surgery but I wasn't feeling as up to writing as I had hoped. I am now in the first week of my recovery and feeling better than I have in a long time! Although I still can't do much. Including, anything in my kitchen.
Sooooo..... CHEF JOHN TO THE RESCUE!!! I am so greatful and blessed with friends who have taken good care of me since the beginning. Chef John has always been a blessing to me but now he is a dream come true. He has volunteered to cook and go grocery shopping for me all through my recovery period. The down side..... he has meetings all week this week and can't actual do the cooking. BUT... he left the recipes. This one was so easy and so good ... I had to share. This is great for the nights when you just don't have time to cook or as a how to cook lesson for the kids. A great healthy meal with easy instructions. Okay ... bare with me as I am trying to translate Chef John speak into a recipe. : -)
Grocery Shopping: Puchase 1 bag of Tyson Popcorn Chicken (28 oz), 1 bag of Vegetable Stir-fry (in the frozen veggie section. He bought a brand called Flav-r-pac), 1 jar of Iron Chef Sauce (flavor of your choice), and a package of Rice Noodles.
Cooking: Cook chicken in oven according to the directions. While that is cooking, in a frying pan, saute the vegetable stir-fry in 1 drop of oil. Veggies need to be thawed before cooking. Set aside when done. Chicken will get done first. Place in a bowl. Cover in sauce but not to much. Just enough to coat it (or glaze it as Chef John wrote). Microwave until warm. Add in veggies. Toss (ahh... stir together). Cook rice noodles according to package directions. Serve chicken and veggies over noodles.
We had an Orange Ginger sauce. Good thing: It tastes great! Bad thing: I think I am allergic to ginger. I have only had ginger one time that I know of before and got a severe headache and was dizzy. Same thing after this. UGH! Boys also thought this was too spicy. Maybe next time we will try it with terraki or something else more boy friendly. This is so simply that my husband wants to cook it again. This coming from the guy who thinks opening a jar of spaghetti sauce and boiling noodles is gourmet and asking a lot. This coming from a guy who specializes in frozen pizza and fast food.
So .... enjoy this special treat. We did!!! I will let you all know if any of the other recipes Chef John left are as easy. I saw another one and it started out with the words ... marinate for 12 hours. I also saw the words blanche and mince. UH-OH!! Does this mean we will be calling for pizza??? Wishing lots of Kitchen Blessings!
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So sorry everyone that this is late! I had planned on having a bunch of articles written before surgery but I wasn't feeling as up to writing as I had hoped. I am now in the first week of my recovery and feeling better than I have in a long time! Although I still can't do much. Including, anything in my kitchen.
Sooooo..... CHEF JOHN TO THE RESCUE!!! I am so greatful and blessed with friends who have taken good care of me since the beginning. Chef John has always been a blessing to me but now he is a dream come true. He has volunteered to cook and go grocery shopping for me all through my recovery period. The down side..... he has meetings all week this week and can't actual do the cooking. BUT... he left the recipes. This one was so easy and so good ... I had to share. This is great for the nights when you just don't have time to cook or as a how to cook lesson for the kids. A great healthy meal with easy instructions. Okay ... bare with me as I am trying to translate Chef John speak into a recipe. : -)
Grocery Shopping: Puchase 1 bag of Tyson Popcorn Chicken (28 oz), 1 bag of Vegetable Stir-fry (in the frozen veggie section. He bought a brand called Flav-r-pac), 1 jar of Iron Chef Sauce (flavor of your choice), and a package of Rice Noodles.
Cooking: Cook chicken in oven according to the directions. While that is cooking, in a frying pan, saute the vegetable stir-fry in 1 drop of oil. Veggies need to be thawed before cooking. Set aside when done. Chicken will get done first. Place in a bowl. Cover in sauce but not to much. Just enough to coat it (or glaze it as Chef John wrote). Microwave until warm. Add in veggies. Toss (ahh... stir together). Cook rice noodles according to package directions. Serve chicken and veggies over noodles.
We had an Orange Ginger sauce. Good thing: It tastes great! Bad thing: I think I am allergic to ginger. I have only had ginger one time that I know of before and got a severe headache and was dizzy. Same thing after this. UGH! Boys also thought this was too spicy. Maybe next time we will try it with terraki or something else more boy friendly. This is so simply that my husband wants to cook it again. This coming from the guy who thinks opening a jar of spaghetti sauce and boiling noodles is gourmet and asking a lot. This coming from a guy who specializes in frozen pizza and fast food.
So .... enjoy this special treat. We did!!! I will let you all know if any of the other recipes Chef John left are as easy. I saw another one and it started out with the words ... marinate for 12 hours. I also saw the words blanche and mince. UH-OH!! Does this mean we will be calling for pizza??? Wishing lots of Kitchen Blessings!
S'mores
From Life Take 1
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Well... the public schools are back into the full swing of things here and the unofficial end to summer has come and gone. I thought this week we would celebrate with a traditional campground favorite: S'MORES!You all know how to make them over a campfire, on the grill at home (just not the same), or in the microwave (eat them fast before the get to hard to eat!). I found even more S'mores recipes for you - check out this spin on a old favorite.Tonight, however, I am making my own version of s'mores pie with my sons. I got the idea from another blog about finding one of these at the grocery store. I thought .. hey! I can do that!! So .... I am gonna give it a shot!
Ingredients:
1 graham cracker pie crust; 20 marshmallows, and 2 large chocolate candy bars.
Directions:
Fill up the pie crust with marshmallows. Break up the candy bar into chunks and sprinkle throughout the pie. Keep going until it looks good. Bake at 350 until all is melted. Let cool. Cut and serve! Enjoy!
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Well... the public schools are back into the full swing of things here and the unofficial end to summer has come and gone. I thought this week we would celebrate with a traditional campground favorite: S'MORES!You all know how to make them over a campfire, on the grill at home (just not the same), or in the microwave (eat them fast before the get to hard to eat!). I found even more S'mores recipes for you - check out this spin on a old favorite.Tonight, however, I am making my own version of s'mores pie with my sons. I got the idea from another blog about finding one of these at the grocery store. I thought .. hey! I can do that!! So .... I am gonna give it a shot!
Ingredients:
1 graham cracker pie crust; 20 marshmallows, and 2 large chocolate candy bars.
Directions:
Fill up the pie crust with marshmallows. Break up the candy bar into chunks and sprinkle throughout the pie. Keep going until it looks good. Bake at 350 until all is melted. Let cool. Cut and serve! Enjoy!
Banana Split
From Life Take 1
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I was looking for something fun the other day for lunch. I called up Chef John and he sent me a great idea that I just had to share with all of you! How about a Banana Split for lunch??! No, no ... I am not talking about the one with all the gooey fudge and ice cream. I am talking about a healthy version of this. This is a great way to let your finicky eater have a really fun, seeminly "naughty" lunch.
Ingredients:
3 bananas
3 strawberry yogurts
3 vanilla yogurts
3 chocolate yogurts
dry roasted peanuts, unsalted
granola
chocolate chips
pineapple chunks or tidbits
optional: Other healthy toppings (strawberries, cherries, flavored granola, ...)
Directions:
Peel bananas. Slice them length-wise. Place two slices in a banana split boat/dish. Add one small ice cream scoop full of each yogurt in a row. Top with pineapples, your favorite fruit, granola, and then a few chocolate chips.
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I was looking for something fun the other day for lunch. I called up Chef John and he sent me a great idea that I just had to share with all of you! How about a Banana Split for lunch??! No, no ... I am not talking about the one with all the gooey fudge and ice cream. I am talking about a healthy version of this. This is a great way to let your finicky eater have a really fun, seeminly "naughty" lunch.
Ingredients:
3 bananas
3 strawberry yogurts
3 vanilla yogurts
3 chocolate yogurts
dry roasted peanuts, unsalted
granola
chocolate chips
pineapple chunks or tidbits
optional: Other healthy toppings (strawberries, cherries, flavored granola, ...)
Directions:
Peel bananas. Slice them length-wise. Place two slices in a banana split boat/dish. Add one small ice cream scoop full of each yogurt in a row. Top with pineapples, your favorite fruit, granola, and then a few chocolate chips.
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