Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Update! My Day of Cooking... and of course, therefore, Cleaning!

Today marks the first of what I hope to be my Monthly Freezer Cooking Days!
Today's Menu
Brown Bag Burritos
Meatloaf
Meatloaf Cups
Meatballs
Homemade Refried Beans
Black Bean Salsa Chicken
Homemade Rolls
Sausage/Egg/Cheese Cups
Freezer Waffles
Granola

Status @ 1:00pm: I have made 40 burritos, 1 meatloaf, 36 meatloaf cups, 24 meatballs, a pot of beans is cooking, 4 bags of BBSChicken, the roll dough is rising and the S/E/C Cups... are unfortunately causing me much trouble... more on that later.

Update... so I didn't tackle everything on my list, I got too tired... but I got a lot done! This morning I was able to finish making up the refried beans. That was messy, but I am glad that my blender is self-cleaning! The S/E/C Cups were hard to make! Unfortunately, I wasn't sure about the amount of cups, and so I put way too much biscuit dough inside each cup. Let's just say that the windows had to be opened and the fans going because I got egg all over the oven and, even though I tried to take preemptive measures to keep it all from burning... alas, it was too late and I blew out an eardrum trying to stop the smoke detector.... if I make these again, there will be foil lining the bottom of the oven and I will make them much smaller and fill them with a lot less eggy goodness. Oh well. We ate the meatloaf for dinner. It tasted good, so hopefully the other items made with the same mixture of meat will be good as well!

Got any good recipes for me to try Next Month?! ;-)

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Recipes

Here are two recipes that I have recently discussed with friends/family on Facebook. I wanted to share them with you all! And for some reason, every time I tried to put them on FB, it crashed my Mozilla... strangeness.

Hopefully this will work!

Chilaquilles con Pollo
(Barb Tyson)
Serves 8
4 cups shredded cooked chicken
1 cup+ sour cream MIXED WITH 1/2 cup+ whipping cream
12 corn tortillas cut into strips
4 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1/3 cup Parmesan
Salsa
1 lg ripe pitted avocado

Add ingredients to a casserole dish, in layers: chicken-salsa-tortillas-cheddar cheese-cream(s). Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Then sprinkle the Parmesan cheese on top and cook for 5-10 more minutes. Serve with avocado.
(I usually do less cheeses and it still tastes good!)

Banana Bread
(Me plus "The Joy of Cooking" cookbook)
Makes 1 Loaf
Sift together:
1 cup white flour
3/4 cup whole-wheat flour
2 1/4 tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Blend until creamy:
1/3 cup applesauce
1/3 cup unrefined cane sugar
1/3 cup honey
Dash of Lemon
Beat in:
1 egg
3-4 ripe bananas (mushed)

Add the sifted ingredients in about 3 parts to the sweet mixture. Beat the batter after each addition until smooth. Fold in 1/4 cup finely chopped dried apricots, 1/4 cup-ish wheat germ, and nuts if you want to. I also sprinkled some flax-seeds in there for fun! Place the batter in a greased bread pan. Bake the bread at 350 degrees for about 1 hour or until done. Cool before slicing.

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