Tag: Recipe

Instant Pot, Recipe, Side Dish, Vegetarian

Buttered Cabbage (Instant Pot)

Nicole

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My Forking Life has it all together. This recipe is amazing! I mean amazing!! I am not a huge cabbage fan, but in this recipe was excellent, and was just as good the next day. It is easy… I mean easy!! It can’t get much easier if you have an Instant Pot. I have no doubt you can make this in a skillet too. So good, so simple, so yes make it!! I have made it twice now and changed it up a bit. Once I added bacon bits too. I am going to put my version below but check out My Forking Life for the original recipe!

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 head of cabbage chopped into 1 inch pieces
  • 1/4 cup butter unsalted
  • 1 cup beef broth
  • Fresh ground pepper

Directions:

  1. To your Instant Pot add beef broth and butter. Top the butter with the chopped up cabbage.
  2. Close the Instant Pot lid, and don’t forget to set the valve to Sealing
  3. Cook on high pressure for 4-5 minutes depending on your preference. If you want it crunchier I would go with 4 minutes, less crunchy you can go up to 6 minutes. I liked it at 4 minutes because it had a little crunch left, but that is up to you.
  4. Once your Instant Pot has completed, Do a quick release.
  5. Once your pot has de-pressurized carefully remove the lid
  6. Top with pepper, then stir all together
  7. Serve right away

Original Recipe Source

Bread, Recipes, Simi Homemade

Pizza Dough Bread Sticks

Nicole

 

This is a quick and easy way to make bread sticks especially in a hurry. There isn’t any science to this recipe but it’s easy and anyone can make these. I would even go as to call them semi-homemade.

This is a great kid friendly recipe that everyone can get involved in. you never know when you will need bread sticks or you catch a can of pizza dough on sale and you have no use for it. Quick easy, and delicious!

Ingredients:

  • 1 can pizza dough
  • ½ stick butter
  • 2 cloves of garlic minced
  • 2 tbsp. Parmesan cheese
  • 1/4 tsp. dried Italian seasoning

Directions:

  1. To a jelly roll pan add a piece of parchment paper
  2. Roll out the pizza dough onto the parchment paper and make sure it’s spread out and flat.
  3. Melt butter in the microwave then add the minced garlic. Do not add the garlic to the butter before you microwave it or it will turn to a clump.
  4. Once the butter is melted spread it over the pizza dough, then top the garlic butter with Parmesan cheese, then Italian seasoning.
  5. With a pizza cutter cute the dough into bread sticks, but do not separate the bread sticks.
  6. Follow the baking directions on the can. Watch your bread sticks carefully because you want the bread sticks to be soft, but cooked.

 

Breakfast, Dessert

Cinnamon Roll Casserole

Nicole

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This recipe is delicious! Your stomach will tell you to take a large serving, but let me warn you to start off small then go back for seconds. This is very sweet, but very good. I  made it at Christmas and everyone loved it. It is a lot like a bread pudding. I do not care for bread pudding but I really liked this recipe. Don’t even ask when it comes to the calories. This is one of those recipes … If you have to ask you shouldn’t be eating it!!

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Ingredients:

  • 2-24 oz. tubes of Cinnamon Rolls (Refrigerated)
  • 4 -Eggs
  • 1/2 cup Whipping Cream
  • 3 Tbsp. Maple Syrup
  • 2 tsp. Vanilla Extract
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • Icing that comes in the tubes
  • Pecans -Chopped-optional

Extra Icing Ingredients: (Optional)

  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1/2 TBSP butter -melted
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp. heavy cream

Directions: (This can be made up the night before)

  1. Spray a 9×13 pan with cooking spray (even consider lining your pan)
  2. Cut up cinnamon roll pieces into 4 pieces each and place them in the pan in a single layer
  3. Beat eggs, cream, maple syrup, vanilla, and cinnamon in a bowl
  4. Pour wet ingredients over the cinnamon rolls to completely cover
  5. Bake on 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes depending on your oven. Check often after 20 minutes
  6. Once the casserole is cooked spread the packaged icing over the casserole
  7. If you desired make additional icing by combining in a small bowl powdered sugar, melted butter, vanilla extract
  8. and 1 tbsp. heavy cream. Whisk up the additional icing and pour over the cinnamon rolls.
  9. Top with pecans if you desire

Ooey-Gooey!

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Beef, pasta, Recipe, Side Dish

Cowboy Pasta Salad

Nicole

 

This recipe is super delicious. The calories are listed below. You might not want to look at that. BUT I will say that this recipe is worth the investment! I found the recipe on http://www.bellyfull.net. I changed it up a bit to what I had on hand and I didn’t follow the directions exactly the way Belly Full wrote them out, but that was simply because I didn’t read the directions until I was already halfway done. I guess I got the directions in my head the way I thought they should be verses the way they were. Nevertheless the recipe is super delish!

Honestly I had reservations. It’s a very odd and off the wall recipe if you ask me, but it performs in the end. We all loved it. We actually had it as a main dish but you could serve it on the side that’s for sure. For your waist line… that’s probably the way it should be served. This would be great for a potluck, or church event, or even to take to a party. My intention was a work potluck, but instead I got the flu and missed it.

Give this a try. I think it will surprise you!! We thought the taste was even better the second day. It says you can eat it hot or cold but I wasn’t a fan of it cold. I liked it either heated or room temperature.

Ingredients:

  • 1 pound dried Rotini
  • 1 pound uncooked bacon
  • 1 pound 90/10 ground beef
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1/8 tsp. red pepper flakes
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 cup mayonnaise
  • 1/4 cup barbeque sauce (I used G. Hughes sugar free)
  • 2 tablespoons Spicy Brown Mustard
  • 2 tablespoons Heinz Worcestershire sauce
  • 2-1/2 teaspoons Sriracha Sauce
  • 1 can (15 ounce) Whole Kernel Golden Sweet Corn, drained
  • 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved (Optional I omitted)
  • 1-1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese (I used any cheese mix I had on hand)
  • 5 diced green onions
Directions:
  1. In a large pot Cook pasta according to the package directions. Drain and set aside.
  2. In the same pot (to prevent additional mess) add diced bacon and cook in small batches until all the bacon is cooked. Allow bacon to drain on a few paper towels and set aside. Remove bacon grease from the pot, but there isn’t any need to wash the pot. The bacon drippings will add flavor.
  3. Add ground beef to the same pot. Cooked on a medium heat and break up the meat as you are cooking it. Once the meat is cooked and the grease has been drained mix in the cumin, red pepper flakes and the salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
  4. In a large bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, barbecue sauce, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and Sriracha Sauce until combined and smooth. Add pasta, bacon, beef, drained corn, cheese, and green onions. Mix well
  5. Eat right away or place in the refrigerator and re-heat when you are ready to eat. We found that the longer it sits the better it will taste.

Original Recipe Source

Chicken, Low Calorie, Recipe, WW Friendly

Mushroom Spinach Chicken

Nicole

 

This recipe is delicious and surprisingly easy to make. I didn’t know if I was going to have enough time to make it last night but I ended having plenty because I didn’t expect it to go so quickly. I saw a recipe online that is similar and that is what I was planning on making except the reviews were so horrible that I changed my minded and decided to take the concept of what this person was trying to accomplish and give it my own spin.

This recipe turned out marvelous and surprisingly everyone told me how much they loved the spinach in it. I think people smell canned spinach and assume that anything with cooked spinach is going to taste like canned smells. Well that couldn’t be further from the truth. I find that adding spinach to a recipe is a great way to get in extra veggies!

 

 

Ingredients:

  • 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, divided
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
  • 1 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 garlic cloves minced
  • 1 large can mushrooms -drained
  • 1/2 cup dry white wine
  • 1/2 cup fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
  • 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1 cup onion sliced
  • ¼ teaspoon thyme
  • 4 cups fresh spinach
  • Prepared Brown Rice

Directions:

  1. Cut chicken into 1-inch pieces place chicken in a zip bag with flour and shake to coat. To a medium pot add oil and allow to heat through, then add all the chicken in and cook until the chicken is brown.
  2. Remove chicken and set aside.
  3. Leave any drippings in the skillet then add onion, and garlic to the skillet and cook until the onion becomes soft.
  4. Add chicken broth to the pot slowly and with a whisk work up any bits that may be on the bottom of the pan.
  5. Next add white wine and cook until the wine becomes less fragrant about 5 minutes.
  6. Then add remaining spices, mushrooms, and the chicken back in.
  7. Cook for another 5 minutes then add in the spinach. Cook for an additional 5-10 minutes for thickness of the sauce.
  8. Serve over pasta or brown rice or even alone! This would be amazing over mashed potatoes! Ummm wish I had thought of that earlier!