Saturday, December 10, 2011
Soft Pretzels!!!
I just made these, and they are AMAZING!
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/buttery-soft-pretzels/detail.aspx
Ingredients
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/buttery-soft-pretzels/detail.aspx
Ingredients
- 4 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- 1 1/4 cups warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup baking soda
- 4 cups hot water
- 1/4 cup kosher salt, for topping
Directions
- In a small bowl, dissolve yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
- In a large bowl, mix together flour, 1/2 cup sugar, and salt. Make a well in the center; add the oil and yeast mixture. Mix and form into a dough. If the mixture is dry, add one or two tablespoons of water. Knead the dough until smooth, about 7 to 8 minutes. Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). In a large bowl, dissolve baking soda in hot water.
- When risen, turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide into 12 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a rope and twist into a pretzel shape. Once all of the dough is all shaped, dip each pretzel into the baking soda solution and place on a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with kosher salt.
- Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes, until browned.
The baking soda helps it brown...much better than egg whites!! It doesn't alter the flavor at all either. These are so yummy!!
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Kristen's Chicken Tortilla Soup
2 cups chicken broth
1 recipe Enchilada Sauce
4 oz. can diced green chilis
2 large chicken breasts (I cut them into thirds width wise)
1 can black beans (drained and rinsed)
1 bag frozen corn
Place all ingredients in crock pot except the corn. Cook on High for 4 hours. Remove chicken and shred. Return the chicken to crock pot and add corn. Heat through. (About 10 minutes.)
You can top with cheese, tortilla chips, sour cream, or avocado (a fav!).
Serves 4-6.
This is an amaingly easy recipe and full of flavor like we Anderson's like it!!!!!!!!!!
1 recipe Enchilada Sauce
4 oz. can diced green chilis
2 large chicken breasts (I cut them into thirds width wise)
1 can black beans (drained and rinsed)
1 bag frozen corn
Place all ingredients in crock pot except the corn. Cook on High for 4 hours. Remove chicken and shred. Return the chicken to crock pot and add corn. Heat through. (About 10 minutes.)
You can top with cheese, tortilla chips, sour cream, or avocado (a fav!).
Serves 4-6.
This is an amaingly easy recipe and full of flavor like we Anderson's like it!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Chili Chicken Chowder
3 chicken breasts, cut into 1" pieces
2 cups frozen Hash Browns
3 cups Chicken Broth
3/4 tsp.Garlic Powder
1 1/2 tsp. Cumin
1 can Cream Style Corn
1 can Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup
1 (7 oz.) can chopped green chilis
3/4 cup half & half
Stir together all ingredients except half and half until combined in crockpot.
Cover and cook on High for 4-5 hours.
Stir in half and half and serve. Simple dish and delicious!
2 cups frozen Hash Browns
3 cups Chicken Broth
3/4 tsp.Garlic Powder
1 1/2 tsp. Cumin
1 can Cream Style Corn
1 can Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup
1 (7 oz.) can chopped green chilis
3/4 cup half & half
Stir together all ingredients except half and half until combined in crockpot.
Cover and cook on High for 4-5 hours.
Stir in half and half and serve. Simple dish and delicious!
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Easy Chicken Zucchini Bake
This was a very simple, quick, and tasty meal. It was great served with rice. The recipe was discovered on SparkRecipes.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 4 pieces of lean skinless chicken breast
- 1 cup raw Zucchini
- 2 tablespoons of any kind of shredded cheese (more never hurts)
- 1 raw onion
- salt
- pepper
- oregano
- (You may want to experiment with some different spices)
- Pre-heat oven to 450 Cut Zucchini and Onion into slices
- Arrange Chicken breast onto non-stick baking pan
- Sprinkle chicken with salt, pepper, and oregano
- Sprinkle cheese onto chicken
- Arrange sliced Zucchini so that it's covering the chicken
- Arrange onions onto Zucchini (feel free to add some more seasonings or cheese on top of the veggies)
- Bake for 30 minutes covered
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Heymee Haystacks
I made up the name for this. It goes back to when Josh always greeted my with "Hey Aimee" but he talked really fast and it became "Heymee." This is just a variation on Hawaiian Haystacks that takes 10 minutes to prepare
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Cream of Mushroom or Chicken Soup
- Can of Mandarin Oranges
- Can of Pineapple (any variation works)
- Canned chicken
- Minute Rice
- Boil the water for minute rice or cook regular rice (or reheat left over rice)
- In a pot mix can of soup, all the mandarin oranges, half the juice from the can, a quarter of the pineapple and juice.
- Mix on hi heat.
- When rice is done, serve and enjoy!
Pasta Pie
This is a fast an easy recipe. If you cook everything at the same time you can finish in the microwave in just a few minutes or if you make beforehand stick in the over for probably 45-60 min (I've always done the microwave.)
For 2-4 people, use a glass 8x8 pan
Ingredients
For 2-4 people, use a glass 8x8 pan
Ingredients
- I box (8 oz) Cream cheese
- Pasta (I use macaroni, but my friends use spaghetti, it will be fine with whatever noodle you have)
- 1 lb ground beef
- Spaghetti sauce
- Mozerella Cheese (enough to cover the top)
- Cook pasta
- While the pasta is cooking, brown the beef. You can season it if you want. I never have and it's always tasted great. If you do want to season, I recommend oregeno or something that compliments your spaghetti sauce.
- Soften the cream cheese and spread evenly on the bottom of the pan.
- Drain the pasta, put the noodles on top of the cream cheese, the hamburger on top of that, pour spaghetti sauce enough to cover, then sprinkle the mozerella on top. (can refrigerate at his point and heat up later)
- Put in microwave or oven until cheese is melted.
Creamy Chicken Taquitos
These are amazing! So full of flavor, and they are baked! You can serve them with guacamole, chile con queso, or salsa. Right before you get to the baking part you can even freeze them to have on hand for a quick meal.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup softened cream cheese
- 1/4 cup green salsa (Salsa Verde)
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 cups cooked shredded chicken
- 1 cup grated pepper jack cheese
- 20 small (6 inch) flour tortillas
- Mix seasonings, salsa, and cream cheese, add chicken and cheese.
- Heat oven to 425 and soften tortillas in the microwave for 30 seconds.
- Place two tablespoons of mixture on the bottom third of the tortilla and roll up very tight. Place seam side down on baking sheet, and continue until all your mixture is gone.
- At this point you can place the pan in the freezer, and after they are hardened place them in a freezer bag--if you would like to save the taquitos for later. If you are using them tonight spray them with cooking spray and sprinkle them with salt and bake for 15 to 20 minutes!
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)