I would take your chicken and dice or shred it, add taco seasoning to make chicken tacos. If you don’t have taco shells or tortillas you can serve it over tortilla chips or on it’s own with a side salad of this along with it: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/13933/black-bean-and-corn-salad-ii/
Parsley can be subbed for cilantro.
Or brown the chicken and then take the mushroom soup, thin it with milk and pour over chicken and let it simmer for awhile with lid on. You could add some baby carrots when you add the soup if you like (if you have them!). Serve over instant mashed potatoes with asparagus on the side.
I’d be using up that asparagus today. It doesn’t keep well. I’d be eyeing the baby spinach, too.
That looks tasty. I’d toss the baby spinach into the chicken mix at the end, and serve it over a small pasta shape or spaghetti. With the asparagus on the side.
You can do a stir fry with the spinach, cauliflower, and onions—use a half chicken breast and eggs for the protein. Add soy sauce. If you have rice, serve the stir fry on top the rice.
Here’s an easy recipe. You can add whatever vegetables and protein you have on hand.
Chicken enchiladas tonight. I have a couple of avocados that have been in the refrig so if they are decent I’ll make a little guac to top the enchiladas with.
This morning I made a small “cookie cake”. D who is a grad student and has been sequestered and alone in her apt for the past two weeks decided to come home for a little while for a different environment. She’s “clean” as far as seeing (or not seeing!) people so we felt fine with that. Anyway wanted to make something special for her first night here - gave half of it to S and DIL who I went on a social distance walk with earlier.
Chicken Taco Soup. 1 shredded breast, seasoning mix, corn, stock, black beans
olives, onions. Top with cheese, yogurt.
Muffin Tin Eggs Eggs and add toppings of your choice (bacon, spinach, tomatoes
parsley, onions, cheddar.
Chicken Shepards Pie: shredded chicken, spices, onions, peas, corn, cheddar
cheese in a casserole. Cover with instant potatoes to seal in. Top with a bit
of cheese and bake 350 for ~ 25 minutes.
Stuff a chicken breast with spinach, parmesan or swiss, onion, tomato, red
pepper flakes, s&p. Bake.
Roast cauliflower (and/or brussel sprouts) and chicken in a sheet pan meal.
Jazz up the mac and cheese with bacon.
Chicken and pasta soup, much like taco soup
spinach salad with cranberries, swiss cheese, pine nuts.
make pasta; add cooked chicken, can tomatoes, cream of chicken soup, cooked
onions, cheddar cheese and heat and eat.
pasta with bacon, chopped tomatoes, spinach, yogurt sauce above, parmesan
@gosmom …yowzaa! I would definitely want to with you in a pandemic!
I’m definitely trying these…love the Shepard’s pie idea, egg tin pan and that last pasta dish.
I also like the idea of the Mac and cheese with bacon, alongside the Brussels sprouts or cauliflower. We eat too much chicken, so it’s will be nice to have meals without it.
Tonight I’m using one Chicken breast browned and cut up in pieces. I’m using it with oven baked asparagus in Penne pasta, costing it all with cream of mushroom soup and 1/2 jar of basil pesto I have left that I discovered. I don’t have whipping cream, so using the mushroom soup instead. I’ll use plenty of Parmesan cheese, too.
Wow! I’m thoroughly impressed w/ the impromptu cooks here! I consider myself a good cook, but I can’t just throw something together on the fly. I need to follow a plan.
Tonight was chicken gyros. I cut up some chick breasts super small and marinated it in olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, and greek seasoning. Fry it up in a skillet and toss onto warmed naan. Those who wanted it added feta, tzakiki, lettuce, and tomato. Took all of 15 minutes!
Made stuffed peppers last night for our Skype dinner with friends. They also made stuffed peppers! No, we did not plan it that way! They had white wine, we had red. Chatted and ate - for two plus hours.
While we were eating, a big pot of beef stroganoff was simmering on the stove.
Will make chicken pilaf tonight… should be good for at least a few days with that and the leftover peppers and beef.
Roasting a whole chicken tonight stuffed with lemons I picked up from my sister at a safe distance. Making a green salad. I was going to use up a bag of dried stuffing left over from thanksgiving but we are stuffed from eating half the loaf of the no knead baked bread that I baked this afternoon.
Made myself a predinner cocktail with fresh squeezed orange juice from my D’s orange tree with some vanilla rum. I think the rum has been in the back of our liquor cabinet for at least 10 years. Made my H a mojito with lime juice from our homegrown limes and homegrown mint. All out club soda was flat but he didn’t miss it.
@conmama… I almost forgot one of my favorite recipes — from @abasket !
“Hummus:
Basically I drain (saving a little of the juice) and rinse the chickpeas (1 can). Throw in a blender with:
Juice of 1/2 fresh lemon
Couple cloves of garlic
Blend well - will be very chunky.
Add olive oil and extra chickpea juice to thin out to preferred consistency. Add more lemon or garlic if desired. When consistency is reached, add 1/2 tsp. or so of sea salt and blend just till mixed. Throw in a tsp. or two of chopped parsley at the end as well if I have it.”
My fam loves this. I have used garlic from a jar …and once used garlic salt in a pinch.
You could use with your raw cauliflower…or use on pasta!
Yesterday I made teriyaki chicken in the Instant Pot and also rice. My husband and son had leftovers of it today.
Here is a link to the video recipe. You can substitute ingredients and it still comes out great. Well, I’m veggie so I haven’t ever actually eaten it but everyone else tells me it’s delicious and it seems not to matter than much if I make some changes to the ingredients.
Today I made a veggie curry in the slow cooker and quinoa.
We also used leftover pasta to make a yakisoba-type dish with some chicken, onions, garlic, ginger, the pasta, and a sauce with agave, soy sauce, sesame oil, some corn starch, a little bit of water, and a tiny dash of ketchup poured over the top along with some scallions. My son and husband loved this.
We are trying to be frugal and use all the things in the fridge and not waste anything, which we always try to do but sometimes are not so great with. Right now we are being even more careful about it.
I got a sweet tooth yesterday (for chocolate), but I have none in the house. However, I have Cocoa! So glad I didn’t throw that out! I found this brownie recipe. I used baking Truvia instead of sugar! Almost threw that out a few months ago. They actually turned out pretty good. I only did 3 eggs, and it seemed brownie/cake like.
Ingredients:
1 cup Flour
1 cup plus 1 Tablespoon butter, melted
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup Cocoa
3 eggs (One to two more optional for denser brownie)
1 cup sugar (or sweetener that = 1 cup sugar)
2 teaspoons vanilla
Chocolate chips (optional 1 cup)
Walnuts (optional 1 cup)
Mix flour and baking powder together.
Blend in Cocoa powder.
In larger bowl, blend melted butter and sugar (I used 1 cup baking Truvia)
Blend in powder mixture to butter mixture in halves.
Blend in eggs
Blend in vanilla
Blend in optional ingredients.
Bake at 325 for 25 minutes in 9” pan. Vary your time if different size pan.
I lined my square pan with parchment paper for the first time and will do this again when I bake brownies. So easy to lift out and cut when cooled. Even without the chocolate chips, they were very yummy, I did enjoy the walnuts!
