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[ninjapoodles]

Author: Backyard Buddies

Reduced-Fat Sour Cream Chicken

1 pkg. boneless skinless chicken breasts - cut into bite sized pieces
1/4 cup butter
1 can cream of 97% FF mushroom soup (undiluted)
8 oz. - 16 oz. light sour cream (to taste)
salt and pepper (to taste)
pasta or rice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt the butter in a pan. Place chicken breasts in the pan and brown until they are almost done. Remove the chicken to an oven-safe casserole dish and set aside. Let the pan cool for 5 - 10 minutes. Add the mushroom soup and the sour cream into the pan with the butter and mix well. Pour over the chicken. Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Serve over rice or pasta.

 

[ninjapoodles]

Author: ninjapoodles

Fabulous Fruit Smoothies

In my opinion, there's no wrong way to make a smoothie, but my favorites always have some basic ingredients in common:

1/2 cup Blueberry/Pomegranate juice
1/2 cup Frozen strawberries
1/2 cup Frozen blueberries
A tablespoon or so of Montmorency tart cherry concentrate
6-7 drops of liquid Stevia

Blend into a puree, and it's just brilliant. By using frozen fruit, you bypass the need to add ice, which means your smoothie is not at ALL watered down, like the ones you get at smoothie bars where they charge you $4 for a cup of crushed ice, sugar, and a little fruit. If I didn't use the tart cherry juice (but I do because it helps my joints), I wouldn't even need any sweetener. I love the liquid stevia, though. You can get it at Wal-Mart, even, in some places, but I have to order it from drugstore.com.

Tonight's addition to the above "basic" recipe is 1/4 cup or so of frozen blackberries--giant juicy ones. WOW, that makes it good! Alex likes a few of the frozen large, dark cherries in his. We also keep white, red, and black grapes in the freezer, as well as sliced banana, apple and pear (with peel), and peaches, and even some frozen lime and lemon wedges. That way you can customize your smoothie for the mood you're in.

For extra nutrition, toss in any number of vegetables. The fruit flavor and color are strong enough to totally camouflage them. Spinach, kale, cabbage, carrots, broccoli, etc. For the harder veggies like carrots or broccoli, I puree them alone with the juice to get them as liquid as possible before adding anything else.

 

[ninjapoodles]

Author: ninjapoodles

Fresh Corn Spoonbread EDIT to add: NOT THE SAME as cornbread! Much moister, like bread pudding.

MAKES 8 SERVINGS; PREP: 10 MIN., BAKE: 45 MIN.

1 cup white cornmeal mix (I used self-rising)
½ cup all-purpose flour
¼ cup sugar
1 tsp. salt

4 cups fresh corn kernels (about 5 to 6 ears)
2 cups plain yogurt (Gee, I wonder where one might learn to make yogurt?)

3 large eggs, Lightly beaten (Gee, I wonder where one might find fresh eggs?)

¼ cup butter, melted

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Stir together cornmeal mix and next 3 ingredients in a large bowl; make a well in center of mixture. Stir together corn and next 3 ingredients; add to cornmeal mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Spoon corn mixture into a lightly greased 2-qt. rectangular baking dish.

2. Bake at 350° for 40 to 45 minutes or until golden brown and set.

 

[ninjapoodles]

Author: bionic_chicken

June's Fried Green Tomatoes

Mix flour with salt & pepper. Taste. Should be flavorful.
Pour buttermilk in large bowl (not lowfat).
Cut green tomatoes in 1/2 inch slices.
Throw slices into buttermilk.
Heat large skillet with 1/2 - 1 inch canola oil.
Put flour mixture into shallow dish.
Put soaked tomato slice into flour mixture. Coat thickly on all sides. You can also redip in buttermilk and recoat in flour mixture for a thicker crust.
Gently place breaded tomatoes into hot oil. Brown thoroughly on both sides. Browner is better than lighter.
Drain on bed of paper towels.
Be careful. Family feeding frenzy will resemble a chicken/mealworm melee.

 

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Author: ninjapoodles

Classic Southern Fried Green Tomatoes

No one in my house can abide a raw red tomato (and yet we love all cooked tomato products), but the green ones? That's a different story!

buttermilk, salt, and pepper--no egg wash in this version--OR, you can even skip this step

equal parts cornmeal or cornmeal mix and flour

YUM!! I don't like egg batter on fried veggies, and I'm torn as to whether I prefer the buttermilk method shown here or just dredging in seasoned cornmeal. If I was frying okra, it would just be dredged in a flour/cornmeal mixture and fried.

 

[ninjapoodles]

Author: Aneesa's Muse

Sauteed Shredded Cabbage

I just put a little good olive oil in a skillet and let it get hot. Throw in some sliced onions and various colors of "sweet" peppers ..maybe a little bit of one bird chile or a serrano.. (I almost typed Serama ..haha). Once the onion is aromatic, I add the shredded or chopped ..however you prefer it.. cabbage and carrots. You can hold the peppers back to add after the cabbage, if you prefer them crispier. Move this around a bit, until everyone is the consistency you want them ..grind some fresh pepper over this and salt to taste. (I love my red mineral salt, but will use sea salt if without it)

This cabbage can be tricked out a bit, if you want to serve it in a more ethnic manner ...like as a side for some great Jerk Chicken or other meat/fish.. just add a few cooked beans to it, as well. You can add garlic to the cabbage, too. And, if you still want beans and rice with this, cook some coconut milk into them ..give it a little island flavor!

 

[ninjapoodles]

Author: happyhen

Egg Pasta (With Variations!)


Basic Egg Pasta (1 1/2 pounds)

4 large eggs, room temp and lightly beaten
2 TBSP warm water
1 TBSP olive oil
2 cups unbleached AP flour
1 cup semolina pasta flour (can omit, just increase AP flour to 3 cups)
1 tsp salt

Place in bread pan according to manufacturer's instructions. Program for Dough or Pasta Dough cycle; press Start. Set a kitchen timer for 7 minutes. When timer rings, check the dough ball. It should be firm but pliable. Reset timer for 3 more minutes. When timer rings, press Stop.

Remove dough from pan, form into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and let rest at room temperature for 30 minutes.

You can freeze the dough ball for up to 1 month. Defrost in refrigerator overnight before bringing to room temperature and rolling out.

You can freeze formed noodles in bundles on a baking sheet, then traansfer to plastic bag.
These can be cooked frozen, they just take about 2 minutes longer.


Herbed Egg Pasta

Replace water with milk. Add 2 TBSP minced fresh parsley, 2 TBSPS minced fresh basil and 2 TBSPS minced fresh marjoram to flour in bread pan.


Black Pepper Egg Pasta

Add 1 heaping TBSP of finely ground black papper to the flour in pan.


Whole Wheat Egg Pasta

Increase warm water to 3 TBSP and replace 1 cup of semolina flour (or if using all AP flour, replace1 cup) with 1 cup of whole wheat flour.


Green Spinach Pasta

Decrease eggs to 3 and add 1/2 pound fresh spinach, cleaned, pureed in food processor, and squeezed of juice (should equal about 3 TBSPS of spinach puree).

I hope you enjoy these smile

 

[ninjapoodles]

Author: Tutter

Pizza Dough

Flour, 2 cups
Yeast, ¼ ounce (1 packet ~ check the date for freshness.)
Sugar, ½ teaspoon
Salt, ½ teaspoon
Olive Oil, 2 Tablespoons
Water, 2/3 cup, heated

Whisk yeast, sugar, and 1/3 cup of the warm water in a large bowl.

Let set 10 minutes, until foamy.

Stir in other 1/3 cup of warm water, oil and salt, and put into a food processor.

Process 15 seconds w/ reg. metal blade. If too dry, add 1 Tablespoon H20 at a time and process.

When it forms a nice ball, process 15 more seconds.

Oil large mixing bowl lightly. Flip dough ball in it to coat. Cover, let set 1 hour, or until risen.

Punch down.

Roll pretty thinly with a jar or thick glass soda bottle. Alright, use a rolling pin if you must. roll big_smile

Put on pan, p-r-i-c-k (the system won't let me type the word, it changes it to 'jerk') very well with fork all over. Put on toppings, bake.

 

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Author: nccountrygirl

Tomato-Shrimp Pie

Bake 1 Deep Dish Pie shell for 10 Min's and let cool slightly.
Peel 2-3 lg tomatoes, slice into thick pieces, salt and let drain on paper towels.
Saute 1/2 lb. of shrimp in olive oil with some chopped garlic, basil, salt and pepper, drain on paper towels.
Mix 8 oz. of shredded cheddar cheese with 1/2 cup mayo, or more to suit taste.

Put drained tomatoes in bottom of pie shell, top with shrimp then cover with cheese mixture. Bake at 350 for 30 to 40 min.

Edited to Add: You do not have to use the shrimp in it but it is so good with them in it.

 

[ninjapoodles]

Author: happyhen

Potatoes O'Brian

I brown some spicy breakfast sausage, add par- boiled diced potatoes, onions and bell peppers and cook until done. Top with cheddar cheese, cover and let cheese melt. Fried eggs are optional.