"Italian" Chicken

Really quick chicken dish!

All you need is some Wishbone italian dressing (or another oil-based italian dressing), some chicken breasts, and a 350 degree oven.

Pour some dressing on the chicken. Bake 30-45 minutes or until done! I cooked 4 breasts for 40 minutes and let it rest.

You can also make this in a pan on the stovetop.

I paired it with mashed potatoes (the add-hot-water kind) and corn microwaved in milk with some salt.

Pretty darn tasty... something my mom's done since I was a kid with chicken and pork. ^__^.

EDIT:  this chicken leftover, either sliced thin or shredded, is DELICIOUS in baja rolls.

Beef & Broccoli With Fried Rice

Yum yum yum!

I had two steaks that I needed to use,  and I am trying to avoid pasta as a side dish for a while (making easy stroganoff tomorrow night).

So!

Beef & Broccoli Ingredients:
1 strip steak; have the butcher slice it horizontally if you want.
olive oil
worchestershire sauce
soy sauce
garlic powder
freshly ground black pepper
broccoli – I used frozen, microwaved til thawed.
1-2 pats of butter

Fried Rice:
bag of rice – i used boil-in-bag rice
some frozen peas
4-5 baby carrots, cut up
minced onion
1 egg
garlic salt
soy sauce
olive oil
fresh ground black peppersesame seeds if ya have ‘em!

Alrighty. First, start the water for rice. Then I cut up the carrots, put them in some water with the peas, and microwaved for first 10 seconds, then 15. Then I just let the sit. I then put the frozen broccoli in a bowl with water, and nuked them for 1:30 and 1 minute as I sliced up the steaks into strips. (hahaha I stripped the strip steak… ok, not funny to anyone but me)

Once the water was boiling, I turned the heat up a little, and heated up the pan for the meat. Once it was hot, I poured in a little olive oil, tossed in the steak, the butter, some soy sauce (two rounds around the pan), and the worchestire sauce (once around the pan). I followed this with some garlic powder, and some pepper. (To taste. I enjoy me some steak!!)

When it was halfway done, I added the broccoli, stirred it up, then covered it.

When the rice was done, I put the rice bag in a strainer over the bowl I had used for the broccoli, and left the heat on.

Into the hot pot, I put a little bit of olive oil (vegetable oil works too.. I just like olive oil), and cracked in the egg. You need to stir quickly, keep it moving. Once the egg starts to scramble, quickly add the minced onion, carrots, peas (strain both…), a little bit of soy sauce, some garlic salt and ground pepper.

When the egg was cooked, I cut the heat, put in the rice, stirred in a little more garlic salt, soy sauce, and pepper.

As always, double-check that the steak is done and cut the heat.

Serve it up and enjoy!!!!
Pretty darn tasty. ^_^.

"Easy" Beef Stroganoff

This is a quick meal, cheap and elegant, something my mom does.

Ingredients:
1 package of pre-made beef tips & gravy
1bag of noodles – egg noodles. Either extra-broad or the dumpling variety
1 8oz container of sour cream

Boil the water for the noodles. When you put in the noodles, cook the package of beef tips & gravy (these are in the supermarket, btw, near the lunch meat, usually) according to instructions.

When the noodles are done, strain, rinse, and return to the pot. Add in the beef tips & gravy, and the sour cream. Mix and serve!!!

*To jazz it up a bit, heat the oven to 350, and get some french bread. Slice the bread, brush with butter (I just melt a quarter stick), sprinkle with garlic salt, garlic powder, and powdered parmesan cheese. Wrap in foil and place in oven – turn off the oven, it will warm with residual heat. Then add to the plate of delicious beef stroganoff.

Yanno, this is pretty cheap and easy. I mean, noodles are what, 1.99 a package? My supermarket sells french bread for 1.99 a loaf, too. Sour cream? Also under two bucks. The package of beef tips? 8 bucks. Kinda hard to beat “cheap, quick, easy, and delicious”!!!