Thursday, June 25, 2009

Jello-O Salad with cottage cheese: Allie Dickson

Ingredients:

1 small lime jell-O (or other flavor if you prefer)
16 oz. cottage cheese
1 can pineapple tidbits
small carton cool-wip

Mix dry jell-O and cottage cheese until well blended.
Add your pineapple and cool-wip and fold in.

Refrigerate until set, about 3 hours

I can't tell you enough how yummy this is! You have to try it!
This is good as a side dish for a dinner or good as a dessert.

Lemon Chicken in a crock pot: Allie Dickson

Ingredients:

1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 c. milk
1/2 c. white grape juice
1/4. c. apple juice
4 cap fulls of lemon juice
2 large chicken breasts cut in large chunks

Stir everything together until smooth

Cook on high 3 - 4 hours in your crock pot
serve over rice with Parmesan cheese on top

This is a great recipe for those who are on WIC because you can get all of the juice for free. If you already have juice open in your fridge then this is a great meal to prepare, and if not, you can always drink more juice! So open up a bottle and make this for dinner!

Turkey meatloaf by Allie Dickson

Traditional Thanksgiving in an untraditional way

Ingredients:

1 lb Ground turkey
3/4 cup dried stuffing
3/4 cup chicken or turkey stock
1/2 galla apple chopped very small
1 1/2 celery stocks chopped very small
1/2 cup sweet onion chopped very mall
poultry seasoning 1 tsp.
salt & pepper
1 egg
olive oil

Preheat oven to 400
Begin by setting aside your surfing and adding your stock to it. Let stuffing soak up the stock.
Combine all other ingredients except olive oil. Add your stuffing and mix together.
You can put the mixture into a bread pan to form a loaf, or you can form your own loaf on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or some other nonstick baking thing (I'm so technical). Coat with olive oil and bake for 45 min- 1 hour depending on how your oven bakes.

To compliment the apples in the loaf you can make a delicious and easy Cider gravy!

Cider Gravy

On medium heat, melt 2 TB butter and then add 2 TB flour. Cook for one minute.
Then add 1 c. apple juice or cider, and 1 c. chicken stock. Season with salt and pepper. Cook over the heat until it thickens. Pour over your turkey & stuffing meatloaf and serve everything with mashed potatoes. Delicious!

You don't have to save turkey for thanksgiving day. It is good any time of the year.

*Tip, ground turkey is an excellent subsitute for ground beef and it is so much healthier. When you season it with taco seasoning for example, you can't even tell the difference between it and beef.

Chicken Penne by Allie Dickson

Ingredients:

Chicken cut up (however much you want, about 1 - 1 1/2 breasts) and seasoned w/ poultry seasoning and salt and pepper.
olive oil
sweet onion
garlic
can of diced tomatoes
penne (pasta)
arugula (green leaves like spinach)
basil (fresh or dried)
Parmesan and mozzarella cheese

Begin by boiling water, once rolling add your penne.
While cooking penne heat a 10-12" frying pan to medium heat and add your olive oil, about 2-3 table spoons. Once oil is hot, add your chicken and brown on all sides. When it is about half way through cooking add some chopped onion ~ 1/2 cup and some grated garlic to the pan. Once chicken is done and onion is tender, add your can of diced tomatoes and let simmer for a few minutes.
By this point the penne should be done. Add about a 1/2 cup of the starchy water from the penne into your frying pan and let it simmer down. Then add your drained penne right into the skillet.
roughly chop up a large portion of arugula and add it to the penne. It will begin to whilt around the chicken penne as you stir it. Then add some basil and your grated mozzarella and Parmesan, however much you like.
Give it a good toss, and serve hot!

This recipe might sound complicated but it is actually really simple and fast. You can make this in under 25 minutes. Don't be afraid of trying something new like arugula, it is very delicious and healthy. * when you buy it, get it from broulims next to the spinach and basil, not albertons. Albertons will rip you off!
Also, a good tip when cooking with any meat is to always season it before you cook it! It will make your meals so much tastier. And, garlic is good in everything, use it!