Recipe for Biscuit Bowls
Maybe you've seen at restaurants "biscuit bowls"... sometimes an egg casserole, or chicken & gravy? Here's a picture of what one looks like. I wanted to make these and found a secret to making the bowls with a Paula Dean video (posted below). Thought I'd share! I'm making these bowls right now and am making a tomato and chicken herb meal to serve inside the bowls I'm making...
A Favorite Healthy Snack - Apple Salad
APPLE SALAD
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl
1 sliced apple
1/2 cup of cottage cheese
2 Tbsp raisins
1 Tbsp of sunflower seeds
Drizzle Honey on top (or a sprinkle a packet of Sweet & Low sugar)
Sprinkle with Cinnamon
So easy. So good. So healthy. And cuts the sweet craving!
My Own Recipe - Shrimp Flatbread
You know them Pillsbury biscuits that come in a tube and you slam it against the counter and it pops open? OK... so you can a long tube now that contains pizza dough. That's what I used to make this....
I made this recipe up... and the kids like it.
Preheat Oven to 400 degrees
Ingredients -
1 Tube of Pillsbury Pizza Dough
Frozen cooked shrimp
Pesto paste (if you don't have any, you can instead use some olive oil, basil leaves and dried italian seasonings, rosemary - or anything like that).
Sliced fresh mushrooms
Chopped garlic - fresh or in the jar
Chopped fresh spinach leaves
tomatoes sliced
crumbled feta cheese
Shredded mozzerella/provolone/parmesan cheese
Spread pesto paste or oil and seasonings and then sprinkle all the ingredients. Bake until done - about 12 minutes.
Yum!
Guacamole - Freshly Made by YOU!
NACHO GUACAMOLE
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Serves: 8
Ingredients
* 4 ripe, Fresh Avocados, seeded, peeled and diced
* 2 medium tomatoes, diced
* 2 jalapeño peppers, seeded and finely diced
* 1/2 (15-oz.) can black beans, rinsed and drained
* 4 green onions, thinly sliced
* 2 limes, juiced
* 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
* 1 tsp. garlic salt
Instructions
- Place half the avocado in a medium bowl. Add remaining ingredients and stir to combine, somewhat mashing the avocado.
- Gently stir in remaining avocado. Chill until ready to serve.
Serving Suggestions
Serve with tortilla or pita chips.
Tip: If a smoother guacamole is preferred, add all the Hass Avocado in step 1. If a chunkier guacamole is what you like, add all the Hass Avocado at the end and gently stir in.
Nutrition Info:
Nutrition Information Per Serving: Calories 210; Total Fat 16 g (Sat 3.5 g, Trans 0 g, Poly 2 g, Mono 9 g); Cholesterol 5 mg; Sodium 250 mg; Potassium 490 mg; Total Carbohydrates 15 g; Dietary Fiber 8 g; Total Sugars 2 g; Protein 5 g; Vitamin A 491 IU; Vitamin C 23 mg; Calcium 79 mg; Iron 1 mg; Vitamin D 0.9 IU; Folate 81 mcg; Omega 3 Fatty Acid 0.1 g
% Daily Value*: Vitamin A 10%; Vitamin C 40%; Calcium 8%; Iron 8% *Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 Calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Note: Large avocados are recommended for this recipe. A large avocado averages about 8 ounces. If using smaller or larger size avocados adjust the quantity accordingly.
If You Like Sushi.... Make this at Home - ASIAN BEEF ROLLS
Here's a great recipe and sooooo easy. The grocery store made them and gave out samples and I was hooked, and so was my daughter. It reminded me of sushi, only there's no fish in this recipe, which is good for the faint-of-heart about raw fish.
ASIAN BEEF ROLLS
Ingredients:
-Sliced Roast Beef from the deli
-Seedless Cucumber (use 1/2 a cucumber, cut into matchsticks/julienne)
-Bean sprouts
-Hoison Sauce (bottle in the ethnic foods section of grocery store)
-Ginger Spice Paste (this is a refrigerated item, located in produce area of store)
- Optional: Asian Sweet Chili Sauce (ethnic foods section),
- Optional: ginger wonton strips(these come in a bag like potato chips)
OK...
In a bowl, stir 2 tbsp. Hoison sause, 1 tsp. ginger paste. Roll in 1 c. bean sprouts and cucumber strips until evenly coated.
Lay roast beef slices flat and place 1 tbsp. of cucumber mixture near short end of slices. Roll beef tightly starting at short end. Repeat with slices until you use up the mix.
You can sprinkle crushed wonton strip crumbs on top of rolls (optional).
Cut rolls into short lengths (like sushi rolls) and arrange on serving platter. Top with tiny bit of chili sauce and serve.
Yum! Great for a New Year's Eve party!
Easy Dinner - My Kids Love This.
I've modified the various recipes you see in cookbooks or on the back of the Jilly corn muffin mix box because... well, mine's the best.... I like my cornbread a little sweet (so I add sugar)... And I've added chicken to to the recipe, so now the whole thing is DINNER IN ONE DISH!
Main Course:
Doreen's Chicken Cornbread Casserole
1 regular size can whole kernel corn, drained
1 regular size can creamed corn
1/4 c. white sugar
2 boxes Jiffy corn muffin mix
1 container sour cream - 16 oz.
1-2 cans (6 oz.) chicken meat, drained (or use leftover boneless, skinless chicken)
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Mix all ingredients. Bake in casserole dish or 9"x13" baking dish for about 40 minutes or until fully cooked in center (Stick a knife in it & make sure it comes out clean and not gooky).
This makes a great side dish for office Thanksgiving buffets and it's inexpensive to make.
Tonight's Dinner - A Recipe
This was what I made for dinner tonight, modifying a recipe from a friend and everyone liked it..
Spinach Feta Chicken
Ingredients:
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 bag fresh spinach (6 oz)
Fresh Thyme
1/4 bottle of any kind of balsamic vinegar and oil salad dressing
Small tub of crumbled Feta Cheese
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Drizzle salad dressing on bottom of cooking pan
- Layer fresh spinach leaves
- Put half of feta cheese on top of spinach
- Cut chicken breast in half widthwise and then lengthwise to make thin tenders/strips and place atop the spinach/cheese
- Put rest of cheese on top of chicken and rest of spinach leaves
- Drizzle salad dressing over the top
- Add some fresh thyme
Bake 1 hour. Serve with rice or potatoes. I made mine with roasted red bliss potatoes and it went well with the chicken.
