Sunday, May 10, 2009

Vikki's May Recipe and June Menu Item

Hi all,

Russian Chicken

1 bottle of Apricot Preserves
1 pkg. of onion soup mix
1 bottle of Russian Salad Drsg
Chicken tenderloins

Mix together then bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes


I will be making Weight Watcher's Turkey Chili for June

Vikki

Friday, May 8, 2009

Recipes!!

If you haven't submitted your recipe, please e-mail me at maranda.carlile@imail.org and I will get it posted here.

Here are the recipes submitted so far:


Melanie Longmore

Chicken & Broccoli Casserole
2 full chicken breasts cooked and finely chopped
1C broccoli cooked (slightly underdone) finely chopped
1 can cream of chicken (or any cream of___)
1/2 C shredded cheese (you choose type)
10 corn tortillas
Combine chicken, broccoli, soup, cheese, salt to taste
Wrap tortillas in two moist paper towels and microwave for 1 minute
(Tortillas will now be soft and more pliable)
Add about 2 TBS of chicken mixture to each tortilla, roll and place in pan
Pour approx 1 additional cream of chicken to top of casserole
Top with about 1/2 C additional cheese
Cook @ 350* for 20 minutes


Lisa Harper
Soya Chicken
Put the following in a crockpot:
1 cube butter
1 package dry italian dressing
4 chicken breast diced - uncooked

Cook on high for 2 hours - or low for 6 hours

Add the following:
1 8 oz cream cheese
1 can Cream of Chicken soup
1 16 oz sour cream

Cook until warmed through, about 30 minutes.
Serve over rice or noodles

You can double the sauce to help stretch the chicken
Cathy Cottle
Wet Burritos

1 # hamburger
1 can refried beans
1 pkg taco seasoning mix
¾ c water

Fry hamburger. Drain fat. Add ¾ c. water and taco seasoning mix. Simmer one minute. Add refried beans. Set aside.

1 pkg brown gravy mix
8 oz salsa (any brand)

Make gravy according to directions. Add salsa. Set aside.

10-12 tortillas

Place small amount of hamburger mixture on tortilla, place 1-2 T gravy/salsa mix on top of meat. Roll up tortilla. Place on a greased or foil lined 9X 13 pan (I use foil, it makes cleanup a lot easier. I also grease the foil.) Cover rolled tortillas with cheese, top with remaining gravy/salsa mixture. Bake at 300-350 degrees until heated through .

Maranda Carlile

Simply Lasagna

12 Lasagna Noodles
2 C Cottage cheese
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 Tbsp. Parmesan cheese
4 C Mozzarella cheese
4 C. Spaghetti sauce
1lb ground beef

Cook meat. Combine spaghetti sauce and meat. Set aside. Combine cottage cheese, slightly beaten egg, parsley, and parmesan cheese. Set aside. Grease foil baking pan. Cover bottom of pan with thin layer of meat sauce mix. Layer noodles(uncooked), then meat sauce, then half of cheese. Top with another layer of noodles, then cottage cheese mixture, another layer of noodles, then rest of cheese. Top with a thick layer of meat sauce. Cover with foil. Freeze. To serve: Thaw; bake, covered 45-60 minutes at 375 F. Uncover; top with more Mozzarella cheese. Bake an additional 15 min, until cheese melts.




Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Thanks for lettign me join this distinguished group!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

May's Meals

Maranda-Lasagna
Melanie-Chicken & Broccoli Casserole
Aneisa-Shepard's Pie
Candie-Upside Down Spagetti
Cathie-Enchiladas
Lisa-Creamy Chicken and Rice
Mandy-Taco Soup
Colleen-Sweet & Sour Meatballs
Vikki-Russian Chicken
Jodi-Spagetti Chicken

The ratings widgit is still being worked on. I hope to have a rating star after each menu item and a place to post anonymous tips. Patience-Patience-Patience

Our First Exchange

Well, we did it. Our first exchange of meals. Thank you everyone for your willingness to be flexible. I am guessing this will be a requirement as we manuvuer through our crazy lives and try to make this dinner exchange work.
What we learned our first go around:
  1. we are a creative group of gals
  2. the physician's parking lot is not so secure after all
  3. chaos can be fun
  4. the physician's parking lot isn't the best place for the exchange
  5. we might need to start a 4-serving dinner group and a 6 serving dinner group
  6. Candie's husband is very nice
  7. Maranda's baby Lila is very cute