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Monterey Chicken

August 27, 2009
Monterey Chicken

I came up with this recipe after attempting a Sandra Lee recipe. I decided to delete a few ingredients because I didn’t like some of the items (mushrooms, onions, and baby corn). I also bought only one can of the cream soup instead of two. Lastly, I didn’t have any fresh or dried thyme, so I substituted my favorite all-around spice. When the chicken came out of the crock pot, it was delicious, but definitely not what Sandra Lee had intended. Here’s what I came up with: Ingredients: 3 or 4 chicken breasts McCormick Garlic Pepper seasoning (or my homemade version) 1 cup baby carrots 3 or 4 red potatoes, skins on, quartered 2 cans condensed cream of chicken soup (optional) 1/4 cup diced onion (optional) 1/4 cup diced green pepper (optional) 1/2 tsp. dried parsley Step 1: Place red potatoes on the bottom of a 5-quart slow cooker, add the carrots on top of the potatoes. Top veggies with one can of the condensed soup. Optional Step 1.5: For a little extra kick, sprinkle some diced onion and green pepper over everything. Step 2: Generously coat both sides of the chicken breasts with the Garlic Pepper seasoning. I...

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Menu Planning 101: Assignment 2

August 27, 2009

Last week we came up with 15 of our family’s favorite meals. This week’s challenge from The Happy Housewife was to add another 5 meals and list our favorite side dishes. My first list of meals from last week included our absolute favorite main dishes. This week I’m adding a few meals that we like to splurge on once in a while: Taco Cheese Dip Breakfast for Dinner (eggs, potatoes, pancakes, homemade muffins, waffles, any combination of breakfasty foods) Big Chef Salad with veggies (uncooked sweet corn and raw carrots) and different meats (turkey or chicken, salami or pepperoni), shredded cheese, and fruit like raisins, craisins, pineapple bits, mandarin orange slices, apple chunks. Basically a mish-mash of an antipasto tray mixed into salad greens. Hot Dogs (I have a weakness, but I try to keep it in check and at least buy the quality hot dogs) Orange Chicken We don’t really worry about too much variety in side dishes, we’ve got our favorites and stick to them: Carrots Mashed potatoes Rice A Simple Walk’s Simple Pull-Apart Rolls Potato Cheese Casserole Rice-a-Roni Corn on the cob Baked potatoes Green salad Tater tots Guacamole with chips Fruit cocktail Peaches Pears Pineapple...

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