Archive for the 'Easy Preparation' Category

Grilled Polenta with Spicy Steak

This dish is fantastic!  Definitely tastes like something you would get at a restaurant.  The best part…it’s quick and easy.  Certainly company worthy.
Recipe is adapted from a recipe in the June 2010 issue of Cooking Light.
Ingredients:

3 tsp. olive oil
1/4 to 1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 1/2 tsp. ground chipotle chile powder (1 dried chipotle, […]

Pasta Arabiata with Sausage

This sauce recipe is awesome!  It tastes like something you would get in a restaurant.  The original recipe calls for cooking the sauce for 4 minutes, but I like the flavors when the sauce is simmered for a longer period of time…it’s richer and bolder.  But if time is short, you can certainly cook the […]

Easy Peasy Hamentashen

This hamentashen recipe is so easy.  I’ve got a family recipe that calls for the dough to be refrigerated overnight, and whenever I look at that recipe I just want to make these cookies right now!  So this easy recipe is perfect and tasty too!
This recipe is from allrecipes.com.
Ingredients:

1 (18.25 oz.) package moist yellow cake […]

Fried Rice

Here’s a great recipe for leftover chicken or turkey or use a rotisserie chicken. The leftovers are great too!
The recipe is adapted from the November 2009 issue of Southern Living.
Ingredients:

2 TBSP vegetable oil, divided
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 c. diced onion
1/2 c. diced red bell pepper
1 c. cooked chicken, cut up
1 1/2 c. frozen mixed […]

Quick Reuben Sandwiches

Here’s another really tasty recipe for quick Reuben sandwiches.  To me what makes this sandwich is the homemade thousand islandish dressing.  It’s easy, so don’t skip that step.
Thousand Island Dressing Ingredients:

1 c. mayo
1 c. ketchup
1/2 c. sweet pickle relish (I only had hot dog relish which is a mix of mustard and relish)
1 TBSP […]

Quick Corned Beef Hash

The country club in the town where I grew up served an awesome brunch.  Every time I went there I would get corned beef hash.  The corned beef hash was not that minced mush looking stuff you get at some restaurants or out of a can.  They used big roasted potatoes, fresh corned beef, and […]

Garlic Curry Aioli

I found a bag of frozen sweet potato fries at the grocery store.  They looked interesting, so I thought I’d give them a try, and see if they’d pass the test.
I gave -s the job of finding a dip or something for the fries, because ketchup seemed well, wrong.
He found this dip at Kirsten’s Home […]

Easy Chicken and Dumplings

This is a tasty, hearty, and super easy version of the slow cooked classic: chicken and dumplings.  Be sure to use low sodium broth, and if you don’t I would suggest using half broth half water, otherwise it will be too salty (trust me–there is plenty of salt in the rotisserie chicken, cream of chicken […]

Creamy Jalapeno and Cinlantro Dressing/Sauce

This dressing is so good.  It’s good on salads and fish tacos.  We loved this dressing on fish tacos so much that we had fish tacos 2 times in one week.
Ingredients:

1 c. mayo
1/3 milk
2 tsp. chopped cilantro
1-2 jalapenos, minced
1 tsp. garlic, minced
1 tsp. onion, minced
juice of 1 lime
1 tsp. white vinegar
1 tsp. granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. […]

Chicken and Broccoli Pad Thai

I love Pad Thai, and the nice thing about this dish is that it is quick and easy to make.  It’s certainly a bit more adventurous than my kiddos are willing to try, so I just set aside some of the chicken for them, and they were happy with that.  You could also skip the […]