Wednesday, July 29, 2015

OMG Chicken & Mac Bake


This bake just seemed to design itself. Keep it simple, keep it chicken. From the chicken thighs and chicken soup to the eggs that give it an almost quiche texture, this is the good stuff.


An elegant brunch dish that really does not take that much time.


Ingredients:
2 cups  Uncooked Elbow Macaroni or Rotini Pasta
2 Tbs Olive Oil
Salt &  Pepper
1 lb  Uncooked Chicken, I used boneless skinless thighs
½ (11-ounce) Bag Frozen Mixed Vegetables
2 Tbs Butter
1 stalk celery diced fine
1 medium Yellow Onion thin sliced.
2 slices bacon
4 Tbs brown sugar
1 (10.75-ounce) Can Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup
4 large Eggs

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.


Do your cutting.
Cut the celery then the onion. Use a mandolin slicer on the onion and let it fall into a large bowl. Then stir in the brown sugar.
Cut the bacon into 6 small pieces.

Heat a skillet over medium heat and fry up the bacon till it is crisp, about 4 minutes per side. Remove the bacon and add the onions to the bacon grease. Turn the heat down to a medium low and cover. Let cook covered for about 15 minutes before starting to stir occasionally.



In another skillet heat 2 tbs of oil over medium heat and brown the chicken. (About 4 minutes per side.)

Set on paper towels to drain and place the water pot on the already warm burner to cook the pasta. When it reaches a boil add pasta and let cook for only 3 minutes. Then add the ½ pkg of frozen mixed vegetables. Now it will take about 7 minutes for the water to return to a boil, when it does, cook for another 3 minutes.

While that is cooking and you are occasionally stirring the onions, Spray a 13x9-inch glass baking dish with cooking spray.

After the onions have cooked for over 22 minutes and have started to turn brown, add the celery. Cut up the chicken pieces into 1 inch chunks and stir that into the onion skillet. Let these flavors blend.


By now the time should have gone off on the pasta and vegetables, drain them in a colander.


In a medium bowl, dish out the soup and ½ can of milk and blend in the 4 eggs.

Now pour the pasta – vegetables into the baking dish. Spread the chicken -onion mixture over that evenly. Pour the soup over the top carefully, you want it to soak in, not splash over the edges.


Bake this in the 375 degree oven for 30 minutes or until the casserole is bubbly.


Lordy, this is a fantastic dish! I doesn't need anything else. Not ever grated cheese on top. Sit down and let the compliments roll in!



Remember George Benson?

So happy to be serving my Master

socialslave


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To nourish, support and maintain.
To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to nurture, assist, and sustain
..I cook!

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Sunday, July 26, 2015

Chicken Pasta Salad


Thursday, I found something on my desk. My new boss, Karen, had presented me with a Heirloom Striped German Tomato from her garden. What a marvelous gift! Was a tomato or a squash? Such a strange shape and wonderful colors.



I was intrigued and could hardly wait to research and learn more about it. You have probably noticed how important learning is to me. Almost as important as serving! Among other things, it made me think about gifts:
The Gift of a Gift
is in the Giving
Allow someone to give to you

You'll find Your prize shine
From Their eyes
True joy springs forth anew.

That said, lets find a great unique recipe to feature this interesting food stuff. The tomato has a unique taste, however most references found in recipes proved to be basic, only with more taste. This lead to the creation of a Chicken Pasta Salad that would highlight any tomato taste.
Just imagine the impression this will make at any summer gathering! Even if you are not fortunate enough to have one of these wonderful tomatoes. You can explore and enjoy the gift found in giving.



Ingredients:
2 12.5oz. cans cooked chicken (white meat)*
2 cups corkscrew-shaped pasta
1 cup low fat mayonnaise
2 5oz plain low-fat Greek style yogurt
1 small red onion
2 tablespoons mustard
1 tablespoon vinegar
2 stalks celery, sliced (about 1 cup)
½ cup dried cranberries

1 LARGE tomato! (German Striped Heirloom, if you have it!)
Dry toast points

*you can also use any leftovers of white meat about 1 lbs.

Directions:
Put the water on to boil for the pasta. Wash and slice the celery. Dice the red onion.



Cook the pasta according to the package using the shortest time. Drain and let cool.

In a medium bowl, blend 1 container of non-fat, plain Greek style yogurt with the low fat mayonnaise. Stir in the mustard, vinegar, red onion and celery. Whisk this with a fork until nicely incorporated. Taste and adjust with any salt and pepper to your liking.

In a large bowl of cooked pasta, stir in the chicken and the dressing mix. Sprinkle in the dried cranberries and toss through. 


 
Seal this and place in refrigerator for at least 4 hours or better, overnight.


When ready to serve:
Rinse and dry the tomato and slice into 1 inch thick slices, one per plate.
Cut the slice into 6 wedges (like you would a pizza). Then pull them out to the edge of the plate.



Toast the bread for the toast points.
Uncover the chicken pasta salad and stir in the 2nd container of yogurt.



Serve a nice sized mound on each plate inside of the tomato crown!



If you like, sprinkle some grated cheese on top, but it is not necessary. Your plate is already loaded with more than enough taste.

Place the toast points on a common platter between you and enjoy a unique, cool summer taste treat.

This recipe may easily be doubled.


For our song today:

Hope you enjoy!



Serving my Master with all I have!

socialslave

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To nourish, support and maintain.
To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to nurture, assist, and sustain
..I cook!

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Friday, July 24, 2015

Mini Minon Bombs


Here is a quick to fix, fun type of main dish for when work ran late and no time to play in the kitchen. Not what you would call super healthy but then no one is suggesting you try to live off these delicious little bits.


Much of this you can keep in the pantry until the mood strikes you.


Ingredients:
12oz. Can corned beef, chopped up (NOT corned Beef Hash)
8 oz Cream Cheese Spread
1 envelope Onion Soup Mix
24 “slider” buns.

Directions:

Bring the cheese spread to warm temperature. In a medium sized bowl, mix in the onion soup mix. Make sure it is incorporated. A fork works well for this. Be sure to let this absorb the moisture from the cheese spread. Otherwise your sandwiches may have a small crunch!


Open the corned beef, remove and break up. Yes, slave knows this looks a bit like dog food. If you are not into “Puppy Play”, you just have to over look this. Since it may have been a long time since you opened one of these cans. Just take the key, push the tiny metal tab into the slot on the key, and start twisting all the way around the can.



This stuff breaks apart with a fork so just mash it all together with the onion mix. Make sure it is blended.


Spread bottoms of buns with the corned beef mixture. About a tablespoon full to each. Replace tops.
If using Hawaiian type rolls, cut them horizontally like buns.



Microwave a plate full for 30 to 45 seconds, or until they are hot & moist!


Serve with anything!.

For some music:

This recipe can be doubled or tripled if you are fixing for a party.

So happy to be serving my Master Indy

socialslave
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To nourish, support and maintain.
To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to nurture, assist, and sustain
..I cook!

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Everything Possible

Happy National Hot Dog Day!



 On this day let’s honor America’s food with this simple exercise.
 
 



Don't be afraid to substitute what you have on hand. Trust me it will work. Slave found it had smoked sausage on hand as well as some great Havarti cheese, so that's what was used.

 

Ingredients:


Hot Dogs or smoked sausages, etc.

Slices of cheese:  American or cheddar, or your favorite.

Bacon

Hot Dog rolls

Directions:

Pre-heat the oven to 450.

Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil and lightly spray with cooking spray.



Cut pockets into the hot dogs. Not all the way to either ends or all the way through, just pockets.

Fold and stuff strips of the cheese into those pockets.

Wrap a slice of bacon all around and secure with a toothpick.


Bake on sheet for 10 to 12 minutes. Be sure bacon is crispy, if not to your liking; flip the oven to broiler for 3 or 4 minutes. That will do the trick.


Serve with your  best picnic side and enjoy our national dish.




This is super easy and new fun way to enjoy these even in the rain.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1rH_iaZkv0 enjoy!


Summer serving my Master Indy

socialslave


To satisfy and restore.

To nourish, support and maintain.

To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

to nurture, assist, and sustain

..I cook!


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Monday, July 20, 2015

Slow Cookin Crazy Que


When slave first heard about this taste combination, the first thought was: “Are You Crazy?” But this simple dish with it's four ingredients produces a great taste that has lasted in various recipes for decades. It is so easy why not try it?



This makes a great rainy day barbecue that cooks itself while you are busy doing other things. No one will be able to guess the secret to the wonderful
taste.



Ingredients:
1 thick cut pork steak, or any thick cut of pork approximately 1½ - 2 lbs.
2 medium onion sliced thinly
1 12oz. jar of shrimp cocktail sauce
1 18 0z. jar of grape jelly.
Season as you wish.

Directions:
Wipe out your slow cooker, spray it with cooking spray and set it on low.
Peel and slice the onions thinly. If using a mandolin slicer PLEASE use the handle that came with it so we don't have to taste the cut off end of your fingers. Leave the onion slices in a large bowl.



Heat up 2 tbs oil over medium heat in the skillet. While that is getting hot, trim as much of the fat as possible from the piece of meat. If you were frying or grilling, even if roasting, that fat would help make the meat tender. HOWEVER in a crock pot, that fat just stays there in the meat and sauce, making it greasy. So trim as much as you can.


Sear the sides of meat in the skillet, no more than 3 minutes per sides. You don't want to cook it, just turn it a nice shade of brown.


Dump half of the onion into the pot and nestle the meat in that bed. Cover with the rest of the onion.


Now in that large bowl mix the cocktail sauce with the grape jelly. Whisk it until all of the purple has mixed into the dark red.


Pour this over the mound of onions and meat.



Let it cook for 6 hours. That's the whole thing, that all you have to do.



Now slave invited a next door neighbor over for dinner and fixed green beans and some brown rice to finish off the full meal.
What a taste treat!



Remember this number one hit? Nancy Wilson



It is so much fun creating meals like this that no one suspects.

socialslave

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To nourish, support and maintain.
To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to nurture, assist, and sustain
..I cook!

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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Chicken and Forget It!


After the fantastic steak dinner, slave thought you might like another wonderful tasting meal that is so easy to fix, it is nearly illegal! The beauty of this creation is that you make a different dinner every time by choosing different cans of condensed soup, depending on what strikes your fancy.


For this evenings feast, slave chose Cream of Chicken soup with mushrooms (mushroom soup works just as well) and Tomato Bisque, (tomato also works). Just stand in front of the soups at the store and pick two. Even chicken noodle soup will work, it is your choice. Can slave make it any easier?



Ingredients:
About 2 lbs of chicken (slave used 1.5 lbs of skinless thighs) Again Your choice
2 medium yellow onions, sliced thinly
2 cans of condensed soup (Chicken with Mushrooms & Tomato Bisque)
½ can of half & half (milk will also work)
seasoning to taste if you like

Directions:
Pre heat the oven to 300 degrees. (called a “slow oven”)
BE sure to place a large pan on a rack below to catch any drips or messes.



Peal the onions and carefully slice on a mandolin, using the handle!
Put them in a big bowl and fluff them with your fingers.

Spray the oven proof baking dish and spread the chicken on the bottom.



Distribute the onion over that.

Now in the same bowl you had the onion in, use a wooden spoon to dish out the two soups, why dirty another bowl? Slowly add the half & half.


Notice how slave laid the whisk on its side and twisted it to blend the soups without slopping it over the sides.

Give it a taste test and add any seasonings you feel would improve the mixture, like some sage, or herbs de Provance, or smoked red pepper flakes, whatever.


Pour this down the center of the dish, it will flow to both sides. If it needs any help - smooth with that wooden spoon. Cover tightly with foil and let bake for 1 and a half hours. Remove the foil and continue to bake for another 30 mins. Or so. You can check the chicken with an instant read thermometer. It should read at least 150 degrees.


Remove the dish and let sit for about 7 minutes. This gives you time to zap a nice green vegetable to go as a side. Or if you like: fix some mashed potatoes, or rice, or even noodles, the gravy is fantastic!


At the last minute slave decided to serve this over angle hair pasta.



Here is some great music for the night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9nkzaOPP6g
Just love to serve my Master Indy!

socialslave


To satisfy and restore.
To nourish, support and maintain.
To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to nurture, assist, and sustain
..I cook!

Please buy slave's cookbook:

The Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes by Dan White http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F315Y4I/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_vAT4sb0934RTM via @amazon