Chicken Enchiladas

Super simple and easy...took them to a neighbor recently and she loved them so much I thought I'd share

Chicken Enchiladas
2 cans cream of chicken soup
2 cups sour cream
1 can diced green chiles
1 can cooked chicken
cheese
olives (optional)
tortillas

Mix together soup, sour cream, chiles and chicken. Set aside about 1/3 of filling. Spoon filling inside tortillas, sprinkle with a little cheese and olives (optional). Roll up and place in pan. Cover with filling set aside earlier. Sprinkle with cheese. Cook until cheese is melted.

Crock Pot Pulled Pork

http://video.about.com/bbq/Crock-Pot-Pulled-Pork.htm

I found this crock pot recipe online....it looks way nummy!!!

Crockpot Italian Chicken

This a recipe that was recommended to me by my daughter for a
good Sunday crockpot meal. It is super easy to make and soooo
good.

Ingredients:
4 chicken breasts (boned & skinned) - I used two large ones
1/3 c. water
half pkg of dry Zesty italian dressing - (used regular and it turned out great)
3 Tbsp. butter or marg.
4 oz. cream cheese
1 or 2 cans cream of chicken soup
rice or noodles (cooked) - I did mashed potatoes

Directions:
Cook Chicken, water, Italian dressing and marg on high till
chicken shreds easily (about 4 hrs or so). Add cream cheese
and cream of chicken soup. Serve over rice or pasta.

Enjoy!!!

French's crunchy onion chicken

2 cups (4 oz.) French's original or cheddar french fried onions
2 tbsp. flour
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 egg beaten

Crush French Fried Onions with flour in plastic bag. Dip Chicken in to egg, then coat in onion crumbs. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes until cooked through.

Quick Mesquite Fajitas

So over at Macey's you can buy a seasoned whole chicken, which is very nummy, as I was cooking mine today, I noticed a recipe on the bottom of the bag. It looked way good so here it is

1 tablespoon olive or vegetable oil
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 pepper, cut 4x 1/2 inch pieces
(red, green or a combination)
1/4 large white onion, sliced 1/2 inch
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 cup shredded chicken (again I bought the mesquite seasoned whole chicken from macey's)
8 (6 inch) soft corn tortilla, warmed
1 avocado, sliced
sour cream

1. In a large skillet heat oil over high heat. Add garlic, peppers and onion. Cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring frequently, until peppers are hot. Stri in cilantro and cooked chicken.
2. Cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring frequently until chicken is hot.
3. To serve, spoon 1/4 cup of the chicken and pepper mixture onto tortillas. Top with sliced avacado and sour cream if desired.

Chicken Marinade

Ok, girls, sorry it took me so long to get this up :) Sheldon grilled this up for the 4th of July and it was so yummy!

1/3 C. lemon juice
2 T. olive oil
2 t. Worchestershire sauce
1 t. paprika
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 t. sugar
1/2 t. salt
dash of hot pepper sauce

I use a blender to mix it all together. Reserve 1/4 C. marinade and pour the rest over the chicken, trying to completely cover the meat. Marinade for no longer than 24 hours. It's a pretty strong marinade. I only do it for a few hours.

Use the reserved marinade to baste the chicken as you are grilling it.

Vegetable Hamburger Soup

I got this recipe from my aunt from her ward cookbook when I got married. I have loved this recipe every since. I had the cookbook out (for the sloppy joes so decided to add this one too)

3/4 -1 lb hamburger
2 c. tomato juice
2 c. potatoes, diced
2 medium carrots, diced
½ c. celery, diced
1 medium onion
1 t. salt
1/4 c. rice or macaroni (I always use the macaroni)
1/8 t. pepper
1 ½ qt water
combine and cook one hour

Sloppy Joes

This is my favorite recipe for sloppy joes. We are having them tonight so I thought I would share;

2 lb ground beef (I have used l lb if I am sort on meat and it works fine)
1 onion chopped finely
½ c. catsup
2 T. mustard
1 can chicken gumbo soup (undiluted)
1 can tomato paste
1 T Worcestershire sauce
1 T. brown sugar
2 T. vinegar
Cook meat and onion and season with salt and pepper. Add remaining ingredients and simmer
over low heat until ready to serve on buns.

Cameron's Mom's Chicken - one of our favorites!!!

This recipe is from my daughter's mother-in-law. We love it and hope you enjoy it too.
4 cans of cream of mushroom soup
32 oz of sour cream
2-3 pkg of wafer thin ham
4-8 chicken breasts (can use chicken tenders)
1 can of mushrooms
Swiss cheese (optional)
Mix sour cream, soup and mushrooms. Layer chicken in bottom of pan and cover with ham and Swiss cheese . Top with sour cream mixture. Bake 1 1/2 - 2 hrs at 350 deg. Serve with cooked rice.

You can put this in a crock pot and cook on low 6-8 hrs.

Sweet and Sour Pork

I got this recipe about 30 yrs ago (I know I'm old!) from a ward party we had. We have loved it ever since and is one the staples we love to fix.
1 lb pork cut in bite size pieces - cook until done in 4 T. oil heated or roll pork in flour, dip in
beaten egg and deep fat fry at 375 til brown.
2 small green peppers
1 small onion
1 carrot
Fry in 2 T. oil until veg are crisp
add 2 T. Ketchup and the pork
In a separate pan mix;
6 T. Ketchup
1 t. soy sauce
3 T. vinegar
3 T. sugar
1 ½ T. corn starch
1 c. water
Mix until sugar is dissolved. Add pork and veggies and heat through. Serve over rice.

Halladay Classic - Jon's White Lasagna

My son served his mission in Rome, Italy and learned to cook (very well I must say) from the "Pasta Mamma's" over there. This is one of the recipes he fixes. A different twist on typical lasagna but we have come to love it!

l bag frozen peas
1 8 oz pkg of fresh mushrooms sliced and diced
1/2 cube of butter
4 ham lunch meat pkg (small size)
1 lb chicken breasts
1 qt half and half
corn starch
1 pint of cream
3 boxes of Barilla ready to bake lasagna noodles
oil oil
6 cloves garlic
l large white, red or yellow onion
2-3 c. grated Parmesan cheese.

Add olive oil to 2 pans, enough to cover the bottom. Place on stove over medium-low heat. Place
half and half, cream and about 1/4 c. corn starch to make a white sauce in a 3rd pan. This is what we use - you can substitute any white sauce you want). Add 3 cloves of garlic to each of the 2 pans with olive oil. Once garlic starts to 'dance" add half of the chopped onion to each of the 2
pans plus 1/4 c. of butter to each. Cook until chopped onion pieces are somewhat clear. To one
pan add 1/2 the mushroom and bag of frozen peas plus salt and pepper and cover. To the other
pan add the remaining mushroom and cook on medium heat for about 5 min then add the white
sauce. Take a lasagna pan or 9x13 big baking pan and put about one big ladle full of the white
sauce on the bottom. Layer with the lasagna noodles, then another layer of the peas and ham
mixture with pieces of ham draped on top then a layer of lasagna noodles, layer of white sauce,
lasagna noddles, peas and ham, lasagna noddles etc. Sprinkle a good helping of Parmesan cheese
on all of the peas and mushroom and white sauce layers. Cover with foil and bake in 350 deg oven for one hour.

French Bread Pizza Surprise

A very tasty dinner!

First mix up some French bread:

1/2 c. warm water 2 pkg. yeast- Combine and set aside to dissolve.

2 c. hot water 1/2 c. oil 3 T. sugar 1 T. salt 6 cups flour

Combine hot water, sugar, salt, oil, and 3 c. flour. Beat well, add yeast mixture and the remaining 3 c. of flour. Mix well and let dough rise for 1 hour in a pam-sprayed bowl. (I turn on the oven to the lowest setting, turn the oven off, and cover the bowl I mixed the dough in and set it in the warm oven.)

This is the dough doubled after an hour.

Divide the dough in half, roll into rectangles, and add toppings. (Left pizza has pepperoni and mozzarella, right pizza has chicken and colby jack- obviously a lot more creativity may be added to this step!)

Fold sides and ends over the toppings. This is the bottom of the loaf of bread.

Flip over onto baking sheet, rearrange the shape as necessary, score with a knife if desired.

Cover both loaves and let raise for 30 minutes.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. I bake both at the same time as shown, then switch places and turn around after the first 15 minutes. Those with convection ovens don't need to do the switcheroo!

Finished product! Slice and serve. Dip in desired sauce. (Pizza, marinara, alfredo, etc.- I'm cheap, so I drained some moisture out of some spaghetti sauce by placing it in a dishcloth laid over a bowl- the same way I drain the mock mozzarella cheese)

Lemon Chicken

1 Tbs. butter
1/3 cup Italian Salad Dressing
1 lemon zested & juiced
1 Tbs. Worcesteshire Sauce
8 Chicken Tenderloins
Lemon pepper to taste
Garlic salt to taste
Onion powder to taste

Place butter in pan and melt in oven. Remove from heat and mix italian salad dressing, lemon juice and Worcesteshire sauce. Arrange chicken in baking dish, coating with butter mixture. Season both sides with lemon pepper, garlic salt and onion powder. Cook on 350 degrees for 25 minutes or until juices run clear.
Enjoy!