Mini Chicken Pot Pie

Ingredients:

• 1 pkg Puff Pastry Shells
• 1 chicken breast
• 1 tbsp thyme
• 1 tbsp rosemary
• Pinch Parsley
• 1 stalk celery, chopped
• 1 carrot, chopped
• 1/2 onion chopped (this time i used 4 pearl onions)
• 1 can chicken broth
• 3 tbsp butter
• 3 tbsp flour

Directions:

1. Prepare Puff Pastry according to directions.
2. Melt butter on bottom of a small baking pan.  Sprinkle in thyme and rosemary.  Coat each side of chicken breast in butter and then bake in oven at 350F for 10-15 minutes or until cooked.
3. Meanwhile on the stove saute veggies.  Set aside
4. Pour chicken broth into a large pot.  When chicken is done shred chicken up and add to chicken brother, pour in butter and seasonings as well for extra flavor.
5. Bring to a boil
6. Add veggies and bring to a boil again.  Reduce heat and add 1 tbsp at a time, until nice and thick.
7. Remove tops of pastry shells and spoon in filling.  Replace tops and serve! 

“healthy” home fries

Ingredients:

• 2 potatoes, cubed into 1″ squares
• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 tsp lawyres seasoning salt

Directions:

1. Let potatoes soak in a bowl of water for 5-10 minutes
2. Pour oil into bottom of a baking sheet.
3. drain potatoes and dry on a towel.  It is VERY important to get the potatoes as dry as possible
4. Spread potatoes out flat in bottom of pan and sprinkle with seasoning salt
5. Bake in oven at 400F for about 10 minutes or until golden brown.
6. Enjoy!!  Eat alone or add to a breakfast skillet

Delicious Stir Fry

Ingredients:

• 2 cups instant white rice
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 stalks fresh celery, sliced thinly
• 2 carrots, sliced thinly
• 1 onion, sliced and diced to 1/4″ pieces
• 1 pepper, sliced and diced
• 1 stalk broccoli, chopped
• 2 stalks fresh chives, chopped
• ham, sliced and diced
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp ginger
• 1 tsp lemon pepper
• 1 tsp garlic powder

Directions:

1. In a small pot bring water to a boil.  Add rice, cover, and remove from heat.
2. In a large sauce pan combine all the fresh veggies, except for chives, with oil.  Saute.  Add the ham.
3. In a small sauce pan combine soy sauce and sugar.  Bring to a light simmer.
4. Add soy sauce to veggies.
5. Add seasonings to rice, mix thoroughly.
6. Slowly add rice to veggie mix.  Top rice off with fresh veggies.  Serve warm.

Easy Mexican Rice

Ingredients:

• 2 cups instant minute rice (white)
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 can rotilla diced tomatoes
• 1/4 can enchilada sauce
• 1/2 onion, sliced and diced
• 2 small peppers- sliced and diced
• Cumin – to taste

Directions:

1. Saute dry rice in butter
2. Add onion and peppers
3. Season with Cumin to taste (1-2 tsp)
4. Add can of tomatoes and enchilada sauce, bring to a simmer for 5 minutes
5. Serve warm with Enchiladas.

 

Rhubarb Pie

I love a good rhubarb pie.  When I was growing up we had a ton of rhubarb to use, so I was always making a rhubarb pie.  This recipe is not the recipe that I used to use, but it is the closest one that I have been able to find.  It was delicious, and I am looking forward to making more pies and trying a few experiments with this recipe.

Ingredients:

• 4 cups fresh rhubarb
• 1 1/3 cups white sugar
• 6 tbsp all purpose flour
• 1 tbsp butter
• 2 puff pastry pie shells (any pie crust will work but these are extra flakey, you can find them in the frozen section of the grocery store next to the pies)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450 F
2. Unwrap the pie crusts and let them thaw at room temperature, when thawed place one pie crust in pie pan.
3. Mix sugar and flour together in a bowl.
4. Sprinkle 1/4 of the mixture onto the bottom of the pie crust.  This will help give it a nice crisp texture as the sugars carmalize while the pie bakes
5. Fill pie with rhubarb
6. Sprinkle the rest of the sugar mixture over pie.
7. Cut the other pie crust into thin strips
8. Weave the strips on the top of the pie to make a nice pattern and dot or brush with butter.  This will give the pie crust a nice golden color and help keep it from drying out.
9. Serve hot with some vanilla ice cream!

 

Akbirdie’s Awesome Steaks

Ok….so once again this is actually my husband’s recipe.  I’m still going to take credit for this delicious, super easy dinner though  Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos of the sizzling steaks after they are cooked because they were devoured before the camera was pulled out.  Yes, they are that good!!

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs Tri-Tip Steak
• Lemon Pepper to taste
• Garlic Powder to taste
• Lawry’s Seasoning Salt to taste
• 1/2 cup worcestershire sauce
• 2 tbsp dried, minced onions
• 1 tbsp soy sauce

Directions:

1. In a large container with a lid mix all ingredients together
2. Marinate steaks in sauce for at least 4 hrs.  Flipping at 2 hrs
3. Preheat grill
4. Grill delicious steaks to a perfect medium rare, or however you like yours.
5. Serve hot with delicious sides!!

This recipe isn’t a precise recipe because we have never actually measured any of the ingredients.  We just mix it all up until it smells good and then put the steaks in the fridge to soak it all up.

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The Mountain

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glacier on ocean

Fajitas!

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