Sunday, August 22, 2010

Recipes. No, seriously!

Due to the fact that I'm currently unemployed I've been branching out quite a bit lately in the area of cooking - basically, I've actually been cooking! (Go ahead, laugh as long as you feel led to...) I mentioned some of my recipes and have actually had requests for them so here are some online favorites:

1. Soy Sauce/Brown Sugar Grilled Salmon
2. Cinnamon French Toast
3. Meatloaf

Also some family favorites:

Birkner Family Christmas (or in this case, Birthday) Cookies
*This does take quite a bit of time even though they only cook for 10 mins.
3 eggs
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla
4 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt

Mix together. Chill dough before rolling it out. Cut and cook on 350 for 10 mins or until lightly brown. 

for the icing...
1 stick butter
1 tsp vanilla
2 T canned milk (add more or less to get desired consistency)
3 cups powdered sugar
1/2 tsp almond extract
food coloring


Barton Family Chicken & Rice
1 stick butter
1 cup uncooked rice
1 can cream of chicken
1 pack Lipton onion soup mix
4-6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
salt and pepper
Pam

Pam the pan. Melt butter in baking dish. Pour 1 cup rice into baking dish w/ butter. Boil 2 cups water with cream of chicken. Pour boiling mix over rice and butter. Lay chicken over the mix. Add 1 pack Lipton Onion Soup mix. Salt & pepper on top & cover with foil. Bake @350 for 1:30 - 1:45




Breakfast Casserole
6 slices white bread buttered on each side
1 lb sausage, browned and drained
1 tsp salt
1 tsp dry mustard (although I left this out because I didn't know what it was! :) )
1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese
2 cups milk or half and half
5 eggs

Place bread in a long baking dish. Lightly mix eggs, sausage, milk, seasoning and cheese. Pour mixture over bread. Cover and refrigerate over night. Bake uncovered 40-50 mins on 350.


We half a lot of the recipes so we don't have oodles of leftovers, although they do make a quick, easy lunch for the next day. Trust me, if I can make these anyone in the world can make them! haha Hope you enjoy some of them as much as we have!

Yours truly,
Betty Crocker/Rachel Ray
Uh, I mean...Jamie :)

5 comments:

  1. Hey, quick question (cause the recipes look yummy and I want to get them right when I try them!). for the Barton Family Chicken and Rice, is that 4-6 WHOLE chickens?! Or just chicken breasts? If it's for a LOT of people, then whole chickens would make sense! Thanks for these, it gives me more to learn!

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  2. Oh, sorry!! Just chicken breasts! hehe We used 4 larger ones and had leftovers for lunch the next day that neither of us could finish. It would feed more like 4-6 better than 2. The last time we made it with 6 chicken breasts and ate it for like 4 days! I didn't half it because it asks for a full can of cream of chicken and a full pack of onion soup mix which it's hard to keep halves of.

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  3. I can't wait to try some of these out! Thanks Jamie :)

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  4. So I'm thinking about trying the chicken and rice dish, but I have one question for you. Do you have to cook the chicken before putting it in the oven? I've made dishes similar to this and sometimes the chicken has to be cooked and sometimes not so I just wanted to make sure. Thanks for posting these!

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  5. Nope, just thaw them before you put them in the dish - I guess that's why it cooks for an hour and a half!

    Martha, your chicken & rice seems to be awfully popular!

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