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Spanish Brown Rice

Tamarah — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:36:47 +0000

Here is how I made this stuff:

In a frying pan heat 2 Tbsp oil or butter
Add 2 cups instant brown rice, cook like ‘rice-a-roni’ over medium-high heat until it starts to look browner. I also added a cube of tomato- chicken bullion.

Then add 1 can of tomatoes with chilies in it.
Add two cans full of water.
Lower heat to a simmer (low).
Simmer for 15-20 minutes until water is absorbed.
Season with salt and pepper.

Filed under: Appetizers, Main Dishes Tagged: brown rice, instant, mexican, rice, tomatoes

Crock pot chicken for burritos

Tamarah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:28:22 +0000

4 chicken breasts
2 cups salsa
1 can black beans
1 can corn
Put in crockpot
Cook in high 4 hours or low 6-8 hours
20 minutes before it’s done stir in 8 oz. Cream cheese
Serve on tortillas
Eat up!

Filed under: Main Dishes Tagged: black beans, burritos, chicken, crock pot, salsa, tacos

Chicken and Spinach Pizza on wheat

Tamarah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:01:55 +0000

This is another dinner idea that I learned from the nutrition class we are taking. The kids made their own. I told them they had to have some vegetables (spinach) on it too. Making this on roll dough helps with portion control. I measured out the cheese so everyone had the same amount.

Rhodes wheat rolls- 2 per person or 1 fir smaller kids is plenty. Defrost rolls for about 4 hours on cookie sheet sprayed with a little oil. Spread dough into circles. It is best to just pull the dough rather than rolling it around and then trying to form your crust.
Pizza sauce
Cooked chicken sliced
Fresh spinach leaves
Part skim mozzarella cheese -I used 1/3 cup per pizza
Diced red onion
Olives
Sprinkle with parmasean cheese

Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes until dough is golden and not doughy.
Enjoy!

Also good on English muffins

Filed under: Main Dishes Tagged: cheese, chicken, pizza, rolls, spinach, wheat

Easy Chicken Stir Fry

Tamarah — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:37:44 +0000

I made this stir fry with pre cut vegetables and pre cooked chicken it was quick and easy. Serve over rice, use minute rice fir a quicker meal.

Cooked rice
Frozen stir fry vegetables
Pre cooked grilled chicken, frozen or Tyson refridgerated
Stir fry sauce, like Lighthouse
Olive oil or Pam if needed

Over med- high heat warm up chicken
And vegetables add stirggnfry sauce as much as desired. Serve over rice.
Easy!

Filed under: Main Dishes Tagged: chicken, Chinese, rice, stir fry, vegetables

Fruit and Yogurt Parfait

Tamarah — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:33:32 +0000

My children and I started going to a weekly class that teaches families how to make healthier food choices and to get active as a family. After one of the classes they had a table set up with the ingredients to make this parfait. The kids enjoyed being able to make their own and choose what went on it, healthy too!

Yogurt any flavor – vanilla, strawberry lemon are the ones my girls like to use
Berries- blueberries, raspberries, etc. again choose what you like. You can even use frozen mixed berries
Walnut pieces
Graham crackers- crushed on top

Yummy!

Filed under: Appetizers, Breakfast, Dessert Tagged: berries, fruit, walnuts, yogurt

Taco Salad

Tamarah — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:16:37 +0000

This is a easy, quick, and good meal. Also a great way to use leftover hamburger meat:

Ground beef- browned and drained
Salsa
Cheese- grated
Thousand Island Dressing
Tortilla chips- crushed we like the Tostitos lime ones

Oh yeah and salad -I prefer the spring mix- a lot healthier than iceberg

Just mix exerything up and enjoy!

Filed under: Main Dishes, Salads Tagged: beef, cheese, chips, easy, salad

Sausage Egg Rolls

Tamarah — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:09:45 +0000

These were the best egg rolls I have made. I think it was the sausage that gave it the good flavor. Normaly I just use some pork and try to chop it up to look like it does in real Chinese egg rolls. I had extra ‘stuffing’ so I made a few rolls out of spinach tortillas and fried then up also, my kids said they were good but I got full before I could try one!
Here you go:

You will need:
1 chub Farmland pork and bacon sausage
One package Chinese egg roll sheets
1/2 head Cabbage
1/2 head Purple cabbage, or maybe 1/4 mine was a little bigger than a softball
4 Carrots
4 stalks green onion
About 1 Tbsp. Sesame oil
1 inch piece Ginger
Salt, white pepper
1 egg, beaten add a little water if too thick (1Tbsp) to seal rolls
Oil for frying
Dipping sauce, I had teriyaki sauce so that’s what we used

Cook sausage and crumble it up while cooking. Drain grease.
Chop up of a cabbages, carrots, and green onion, use more or less depending in your needs and taste.
Add vegetables to pan with sausage grate ginger and add sesame oil, salt and pepper to taste.
Cook stuffing until heated through.
Start rolling out the egg rolls, and seal with egg.
Heat oil on medium and fry rolls until golden brown.
Dip in sauce and enjoy.

‘How to roll egg rolls’ are normally on the back of the egg roll sheet package. But if not I’ll try to explain here:
Place sheet so that a corner, is pointing toward you. A corner should be at 12 o’clock, 3 o’clock, 6 o’clock, and 9 o’clock. Put a few Tbsps stuffing between 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock. Grab the 6 o’clock corner pull up past stuffing and sort of roll it under the filling while keeping filling inside. Grab 3 and 9 o’clock and pull them tightly to the middle. Brush the 12 o’clock corner with egg. Now tightly continue to roll up the egg roll over the 12 o’clock corner. And you should now have a egg roll ready to fry!

Filed under: Appetizers, Main Dishes Tagged: cabbage, carrots, egg rolls, how to roll egg rolls, sausage

Eggplant Pasta

Tamarah — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:48:55 +0000

My children and I stopped by the produce market today and I let them pick the fruits and veggies they wanted. One of them picked a nice big eggplant and some tomatoes. Those two veggies became our dinner: I started our by sautéing half the eggplant in olive oil, I sliced it then cut the slices into fourths. Then I deceided to throw in some chopped onion, I used about 1/4 of a yellow onion. I cut up four tomatoes and threw it in with the eggplant, I then made a bad choice and smelled the food, it smelt like manure. Then my daughter came along and smelt it too, but I continued on my cooking, it was getting late. I added a can of tomato sauce and cut up mozzarella cheese then seasoned it with salt, pepper, and basil. We ate it over penne pasta and it was a lot better than it smelt! I don’t know why the eggplant smelt like stink, but it sure did. The kids asked if we could go back to the market tomorrow, whatever gets them to eat healthier!

Posted in Main Dishes Tagged: cheese, Dinner, eggplant, tomato

Egg and Tortilla -not burritos

Tamarah — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:25:02 +0000

If you can scramble eggs you should be able to make this:

Feeds about 5 people, easily add more or less if needed.
1/2 pkg. Bacon, cut up cooked
In bacon pan keep about 1-2 Tbsp grease, tear or cut 8-10 corn tortillas into pieces ( not too small, I break into 1/4 then a little smaller) cook tortillas on med-med high for about 7 minutes.
Add a dozen eggs and scramble. Cook through. Salt & pepper to taste. I eat mine with cheese and ketchup.
* you can also use sausage instead of bacon or no meat. Try with salsa or hot sauce. Enjoy

Posted in Breakfast, Main Dishes Tagged: bacon, cheese, eggs, tortilla

Ham & Cheese Spirals

Tamarah — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:59:27 +0000

From Kraft Food & Family Magazine with my own personal touch:

1 egg
1 Tbsp. Water
1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed (1/2 pkg.)
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese*
1/4 tsp. Cayenne pepper*
Deli/lunch meat*
4 slices bacon, crumbled

Unfold pastry sheet on lightly floured surface. With rolling pin, roll into a 14X10″ rectangle; cut in half lengthwise.
Beat egg & water; brush both pastry halves with egg mixture.
Sprinkle some cheese & pepper then cover with ham slices, *I don’t really measure these, and bacon on one of the pastry pieces. For extra tastiness I splash a little bacon grease on top of ham.
Place 2nd sheet on top, egg side down. Roll gently with rolling pin to seal. Brush with egg mixture.
Roll tightly to form a 14″ log. Cut 24 slices. Place on a well greased baking sheet.
Brush slices with egg mixture. Sprinkle with more cheese.
Bake 400* 12-14 min. Enjoy!

Posted in Appetizers Tagged: cheese, ham, puff pastry