What are you having for dinner? (wanna share your recipe?)

[emily1890]

roast chicken today

 

[Friday]

From the Italian Bible… (Silver Spoon)

Chicken & Sage Roulades

But instead of a rad salad, some bruschetta & caprese salad & broccoli raab.

 

[Friday]

Tomorrow… But I’m making them now, since I’ve got zeh chicken out, and am fundamentally lazy.

Super easy / Super MILD Creamy Verde Chicken Enchiladas w/Black Beans & Rice

(I make this for my dad, who thinks Cornflakes are too spicy, but still likes Mexican style food. If he’s drinking beer I can use pepper jack, salsa verde, & add poblanos to the cheese sauce. Otherwise? It’s essentially chicken spinach dip wrapped with tortillas instead of dipped with chips.)

- Cooked Shredded Chicken
- Shredded Mozzarella &/or cream cheese
- Spinach Cilantro Cheese Sauce*
- Tortillas
- Cilantro / Fresh Coriander
- (optional) sour cream to garnish
- (optional) Pico de Gallo to garnish

Mix 2 parts chicken & 1 part shredded Mozz, and stuff rolled flour tortillas to line a baking dish (or tinfoil pan thing, in this case). JUST BEFORE cooking, or freezing, pour over sauce & bake at 350 until bubbly & hot through. Squeeze over fresh lime, and top with cilantro &/or Pico.

Spoiler: *Sauce

For crazy easy, just use a store bought sauce like Frontera, or pre made spinach dip, or both mixing them together.

But the below only takes about 5 minutes from scratch. It’s essentially green Mac’n’cheese sauce (cheese+cream added to sauce pan over high heat and stirred for the 30-60 seconds it takes to get ooey gooey) but simmered for a few minutes longer to soften the veg, and hit with an immersion blender, before adding the cheese.

- Olive oil
- Half & Half or Heavy Cream
- Better than Bouillon Chicken (or chicken stock)
- 1 Bunch of spinach roughly chopped
- 1 half bunch of cilantro stems roughly chopped (save the pretty leaves for Pico & garnish; the stems have just as much flavor and melt away when cooked and hit with a blender. No point in wasting pretty.)
- 1 onion roughly chopped
- 1-2 crushed garlic cloves
- shredded mozz

Ring a pan with olive oil and sauté the onions, garlic, spinach, & cilantro stems until softened. Add cream to cover plus about another inch (or equal parts cream and chicken stock), a spoonful of chicken better than bouillon, and bring to simmer. Hit with immersion blender & blend smooth. Add cheese to thicken, and turn off heat. Pour over enchiladas if cooking immediately, or freezing. Otherwise set aside to cool/ pour in a jar for tomorrow, etc.

SPICY Dairy-Free Chicken Chile Verde Enchiladas

Ditto most of the above, EXCEPT

- Mix chicken with salsa verde, poblanos/diced jalapeños/or serano peppers (depending on how spicy you want it), & shredded vegan cheese or cream cheese before rolling in tortillas.
- Fire roast poblanos, rinse off char, & add to cream sauce along with veg
- Dice up some serano peppers, & add to cream sauce
- Use cashew cream instead of heavy cream & cheese
- CLEARLY, bake these off in a seperate dish!

 

[nursenurse]

Lunch. Martini, gin, cuz anything else is fake. Four olives…vegetable and healthy fat….

 

[Freddyt]

From the Italian Bible… (Silver Spoon)

Chicken & Sage Roulades

But instead of a rad salad, some bruschetta & caprese salad & broccoli raab.

Hmmmm.......wonder if my cordon blue variation would work with this, filled with Montery Jack and green chilies.....maybe with a Mexican chopped salad with cilantro lime dressing....

 

[Friday]

Hmmmm.......wonder if my cordon blue variation would work with this, filled with Montery Jack and green chilies.....maybe with a Mexican chopped salad with cilantro lime dressing....

Do it with pork marinated in OJ & Lime, add green chiles & cilantro & Jack & garlic Mayo… makes a badass Caribbean Sammie.

 

[Nixx]

Ive done a variation of this in a slow cooker and sous-vide and it is simply amazing.

 

[Freddyt]

Do it with pork marinated in OJ & Lime, add green chiles & cilantro & Jack & garlic Mayo… makes a badass Caribbean Sammie.

My two fave cookbooks are the America's Test Kitchen Family and Quick cookbooks. They have a ton of Recipe and variations on that recipe. Gets me all creative.....

The Quick cookbook has so many Make Use Of: recipes too for quick simple proteins. Chicken finger satays anyone...

 

[Friday]

Creamy stewed tomato soup & cheesy toast

1 can stewed tomatoes
Dollup of cream
Teaspoon of better than bouillon chicken

Add those 3 things together to heat over med, & hit it with an immersion blender; or do it up cold in a blender first then heat.

Alternatively, simmer tomatoes, celery, garlic, & green bell peppers for a few hours to stew, then hit it with an immersion blender, chicken stock, & cream.

 

[Rose White]

@Friday your elote inspired me to get some corn! Don’t have a grill so maybe will broil after soaking/boiling? Not sure.

Also, I swear you or someone posted something about bacon wrapped Brussels sprouts on here? Can’t find it. Did I dream that?

 

[Friday]

@Friday your elote inspired me to get some corn! Don’t have a grill so maybe will broil after soaking/boiling? Not sure.

Also, I swear you or someone posted something about bacon wrapped Brussels sprouts on here? Can’t find it. Did I dream that?

Not me!

At least I don’t think so??? Once every few years I start wrapping everything in bacon (it’s like a seasonal flu/cold, except it’s visiting madness &/or the only protein I can afford that month), but ordinarily I only wrap grilled jalapeño poppers, scallops, & certain steaks.

Maybe this post hit your creativity button? https://www.myptsd.com/threads/in-not-of.96822/post-1830364

 

[Teasel]

Turkish stew.
Diff recipe, missing something.
Prolly chicken fat.

1kg chicken breasts, cut into 3 -4 chunks
2 medium onions chopped
3 cloves garlic finely grated
2 medium small potatoes, quartered
2 carrots, peeled and sliced diagonally
1 green & 1 red pepper, coarsely chopped
250g runner beans, cut diagonally, 3cm pieces
1 sliced courgette 1cm slices, halved
1 400g can of chopped tomatoes
Heaped tbsp red pepper paste (Biber Salçasi Tatli)
3 400g tins of water n a chicken stock cube
2 tbsp. olive oil
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp thyme
1 tsp oregano
Salt and pepper

Fry onions in oil (High heat for 2 mins then stir and reduce heat to low and cook for 10 mins)
Chop peppers, n potato into small chunks
Add garlic, herbs & spices, salt n pepper, stir and cook 2 mins
Add meat, potato n peppers, chopped tomatoes, pepper paste & stock,
Cook 25 minutes on stove
Slice and add courgette n green beans
Cook 20 mins