Recipes 'n Stuff

I've been asked for a few recipes, so I thought I would go ahead and post them on here.  I cannot take any credit for these!  Two of them are my mother in law's ideas and one is from Kraft Food and Family Magazine!  I feel very fortunate (or cursed for our waistlines) that both Jordan and I come from homes with great Southern chefs!  Our moms can bake and fry it up with the best of them!  So here they are!  P.S.  ALL of these are EASY to throw together with things that you usually have sitting around the house!

#1   Jane's "no recipe" Chicken Pot Pie:

2 refrigerated pie crust (found near biscuit section)
Cooked chicken (either 3-4 chicken breasts or a rotisserie chicken=super easy, fast dinner)
1 cup or so of cooked rice (a bag of Success rice is easy)
2 cups frozen mixed vegetables (corn, english peas, limas, carrots, etc.)
cream of chicken soup (depends on size of casserole, usually 2

1/2 cup sour cream
optional...you can also add shredded cheese to mixture...about 1 cup
 
Let the pie crust sit out for about 10 -15 minutes before trying to put the first one in the bottom of your buttered casserole dish.  I use a deep oval casserole dish, so I have to either roll or stretch the bottom crust to fit the dish.  You can use a round casserole dish which makes this step easier. 
 
Cook bottom crust for about 8 - 10 minutes until it starts to get a little puffy, but not too brown.
 
Mix the soup, sour cream, mixed veggies ( I usually microwave this to get it warmed up and to cook the veggies a little.) 
 
Then add cooked rice and chicken.  Stir .  If it looks way too thick, then I sometimes add a little water or chicken broth. Better to have it too thick than too thin though.
 
Pour mixture into casserole dish over bottom crust.
 
Put the top crust on and roll the edges and pinch to make pretty around edges.
With a knife, cut a few slits in top crust.
 
Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with herbs.  (Either rosemary and garlic, or chicken herb, or herbs of your choice...anything to give it a savory taste)
 
Cook at 350 until bubbly and top crust is brown.  Everything inside was already cooked so it just has to get hot.  Enjoy!

 This chicken pot pie is SOOO good and yummy...easy weeknight meal to throw together, especially if you grab a rotisserie chicken on the way home and use that.

#2   Easy Chinese Chicken Stir-Fry

Simple ingredients

1 large bag Bird's Eye Teriyaki mixed frozen vegetables (comes with 2 sauce packets inside)

1 bag frozen Tyson Chicken fingers - buffalo flavor

Rice - I LOVE jasmine rice with this recipe, but whatever kind you like.

honey to taste

There's no real recipe for this, but you just cook the frozen stir-fry vegetables as the package instructs.  I accidentally got the oriental frozen bag, but the teriyaki is better.  Cook your rice to package directions.  While these are cooking on the stove, pop your frozen chicken fingers into the microwave for a couple of minutes to get them just a little cooked.  After you take the chicken out of the microwave, cut it into small bite-sized pieces and throw it in with your veggies.  Continue cooking, adding the sauce packet that comes with the frozen veggies and a few tablespoons of honey.  Serve all of the chicken mixture over rice.  Note: I keep an extra bottle of teriyakki sauce in the fridge and usually add more to my mixture.  I promise you, this is one of my favorite things and it's quick and easy.  It's my go-to recipe for a busy (or lazy, as in my case) weeknight.  

#3  Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

 

1 package devil's food cake mix

4 oz cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 egg

Preheat oven to 375.  Place ingredients in bowl and beat with electric mixer on low for 2 minutes, then on medium for an additional 2 minutes. 

Shape into 1 inch balls.  Place 2 inches apart.  Flatten each ball in criss-cross pattern with a fork dipped in sugar.

Bake 7-8 minutes.  Cool 2 minutes.  Place on wire racks.  Makes 3.5 dozen.

This recipe is seriously easy and took little to no time to put together and they only bake for 7 minutes.  These are my cookies from Bunco Cookie Swap!  They are chewy and chocolately!  Yum!

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And just for fun:

Don't you just love how we're giving into our 7 month old's demands to have OUR cups whenever he sees them in our hands???  Weird.  I love how you can see Jack in this picture.  I'm sure he was fresh from licking all over the high chair and/or John Michael's hands.  What a wonderful dinner!  Of course, I wouldn't want it any other way!

Verse O' the Day:

We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ.

Colossians 1:28