Quick dinners home made for the in-laws?!
Quick dinners home made for the in-laws?
ok my inlaw are come in and i do not know what to make ! if i do not cook thay think i am not good!
Answers:
Make Italian Chicken- SO easy and really good.
Get boneless & skinless chicken breasts. Put them in a baking dish. Cover them with an entire bottle of italian dressing (get a kind with big chunks). Bake at 350 for one hour.
While the chicken is baking, boil up some pasta and make some alfredo sauce. (They sell alfredo seasoning packets at all grocery stores that you just mix in some milk and butter- way easy and better than bottled)
Remove the chicken from the italian dressing and serve.
Serve with a loaf of french bread.
Microwave lasagne. Delicious.
pan dinners.
pasta and sauce - brown some ground mean, drain off the grease and add a can of crushed tomatoes. Add some salt and pepper (and maybe some basil or italian seasoning or a splash of red wine) and let simmer - boil some pasta and serve with crusty bread and a salad.
I just answered the person who asked about tenderloin with blue cheese - that looks fancy, and is easy... try this recipe if they eat meat:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/blue-cheese...
If they are not meat eaters, try this chicken, it is easy, and also seems fancy...
http://recipes.chef2chef.net/recipe-arch...
Good luck!
Meatloaf. Simple, easy, make it ahead of time (just allow for cooking time). Serve with either baked or mashed potatoes and a veggie. For dessert either cookies, brownies, angel food cake, or strawberries over pound cake.
for easy recipies try www.allrecipes.com
A quick and easy meal; Purchase a spiral sliced ham, heat and serve, with scalloped potatoes, and a tossed salad or baked beans, complete with dinner rolls.
Easy clean up too.
Casseroles!!!!!!!!!!!!! easy to make easy to eat, I like ta tor tot casserole, with broccoli. It's good
Brown hamburger
ta tor tots
cream of celery
cream of mushroom
1 can of milk
cheese
put soups together with milk mix it well now layer
hamburger, ta tor tots, soup mix, and then cheese
350 for an hour
eat with broccoli
enjoy!
I'd go with the spiral ham suggestion, it is easy and hard to screw up! If they don't eat pork, try baking boneless chicken breasts with a little storebought barbeque sauce on them at the last 10 minutes, side tossed salad, frozen bag of peas boiled with a little butter, store bought dessert.
Buy at least 3 kinds of salad dressing so they have a choice.
You'll be fine, they'll like you, RELAX... :)
You didnt mention if they are seafood lovers or not but this is an awsome receipe and super easy but great for spring/summer:
Because it is cooked with wine and wild mushrooms, this makes a very “special” light summertime dish. Its an excellent change of pace from the standard barbecue fare, and it can be prepared in minutes. Spinach salad or a pile of whole wheat pasta makes a perfect accompaniment.
Sauce:
? cup butter
1 chopped shallot
2 pounds chopped wild mushrooms (your choice)
? cup white wine
? cup chopped chives
Melt the butter in a skillet, then add the shallots and mushrooms. Cook over medium low heat for approximately 10 minutes or until soft. Add the port wine and chives. Keep this mixture over a low heat, stirring occasionally, while cooking the scallops. If necessary, thin with additional port wine.
Scallops:
? cup butter
2 ? pounds scallops
ground black pepper and salt to taste
Rinse the scallops under cold water, then drain and pat dry. Most importantly ask for sea scallops, make sure they are fresh and all apx the same size, it makes for a much better presentation. Season before you put in the pan with salt and pepper. Melt the butter in a skillet and sauté the scallops and pepper over high heat until a golden crust forms apx 2-3 minutes per side. If you are not sure they are done you can check them by pressing on them with your thumb, they shoud have the same give as pressing your thumb into the fatty part of your palm (between your thumb and index finger). Add the sauce and serve over piping hot Arborio or couscous.
If you want that added "bam!" take your couscous and press it into a ramakin and turn it over on to your plate before serving it should form a circle mold, then place your scallops on the plate and pour some of the sauce over the entire thing.
Ok, first off, do you have a Trader Joe's near you? If so, I have a great chicken pesto pasta dish! Boil two bags of Penne pasta. Cook, drain, and place back into pot. Add fresh pesto, in the fridge section, julienned sun-dried tomatoes, in the grocery section, toasted pine nuts, and Parmesan cheese. Mix together and then add a little bit of the sun-dried tomato juice. Then, take a cooked rotisserie chicken that TJs also sells in the fresh food section, reheat, and then use your kitchen shears to cut pieces into the pasta dish. Serve with warm bread and salad, and your in-laws will think you are straight off the Food Network. Enjoy!
Bro is a goumet chef. Great simple recipe that is very impressive. I serve it often and absolutely cannot cook to save my soul. 5 star lasagna.
Boil the noodles and set them in cool water to cool down. Mix a bag of grated "3 cheese blend", ricotta and cottage cheese or just ricotta with an egg in a bowl.
Take each noodle out one by one and cut them down the middle the long way. It's very messy. I usually spread the ricotta mix on wax paper, but the counter is fine. You put the mix on the noodles and then roll each one of them up like little balls. You set them next to each other sitting on a cookie sheet or long flat pan on the straight side (that you cut) with the curly edge side up so it looks cool. Once you are done rolling all of them you cover them with aluminum foil and bake them at 375 for 30 minutes.
The sauce, noodles and meat you cook separately. As your noodles are baking you make the meat and sauce.
For the meat you take ground italian sausage you can buy it in a roll by bacon, and one yellow, orange and red pepper for color chop and fry them together.
For sauce - never tell - you mix Prego or your favorite brand. I usually get the italian sausage flavor, a container of whipping cream (that is the secret ingrediant) and a cup of sugar. You can find the whipping cream near liquid creamers. It looks like a kid's milk container.
When you "plate it" you have to make sure it's all hot. You take three rolls and put them on one plate, you sprinkle the meat going one direction and then the sauce the other direction like in an X shape over the noodles and then you sprinkle a bit of the 3 cheese blend.
One box of noodles, one egg, three cartons of ricotta mix (make sure to at least have one if you mix it with small curd cottage cheese). Then two bags of cheese in the ricotta mix and one bag for sprinkling on at the end leaves you with one can of whipping cream, 2 tubes of italian sausage,and your three peppers.
If that sounded complicated it is NOT - I had it as a recipe for my daughter's "cooking" party when she was in the second grade mainly because it is messy and fun for the girls to spread out. I just keep the noodles in the cool water, take them out one by one, cut them down the middle, smear the goop on both of them, then cut your veggies, mix your mixes and put it all together.
It is a very delicious and unexpected surprise because it takes about a half an hour, a second grader can do it, and it is quite impressive.
Good looking out. They will be wowed.
Last time I had my in-laws over I made this
One Pan FISH dish and they loved it.
In a large buttered baking dish:
6 cut up potatoes
2 chopped onions
3 minced garlic cloves
8 carrots
1 peeled and cut up acorn or butternut squash
2 sweet potatoes
fill halfway with fish stock or clam juice
salt and pepper
Bake at 375 covered with foil 1 hour or until vegetables are almost done.
Layer fish fillets of your choice(I use tilapia, but cod or any white fish would be good) over vegetables and top with plenty of grated cheese(your favorite).
Bake another 15-20 minutes and serve. Garnish with parsley. You can serve with a green vegetable and or a salad if you like.
this is a recipe for "Citrus Grilled Chicken"...
Now, you can do this on your grill...
First, mix w/ a whisk: 1/2 a cup each of orange juice & barbeque sauce in a bowl...
now, pour half of the mixture into a lrg sized zip-lock baggie... then add 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves to the bag w/ the mixture in it, seal the bag and turn it 2 evenly coat the chicken... Let the chicken marinate in the refridgerator for @ least 15 min.... cover & refridgerate the remaining barbeque sauce mixture for later use... meanwhile cut 4 med. sized seedless oranges into 4 slices each & set them aside... have ur grill pre-heated... lay 8 of ur orange slices together on the grill, forming a platform for the chicken... Then place the chicken on top of the oranges... brush the chicken w/ half of the remaining barbeque sauce mixture... cover & grill for 5 min....as the chicken cooks, a delicous orange flavor will be imparted into the chicken from the orange slices... turn the chicken over & brush it w/ the remaining barbeque sauce mixture... cover & cook an aditional 10-15 min. or until chicken is cooked through & reaches an enternal tempeature of 170 degrees ferenheight...when the chicken is alomost done, place the remaing 8 orange slices around the chicken and cook about 3 min. per side, or until heated through... serve the barbequed chicken breasts on-top of the 8 grilled orange slices... discard the 8 orange slices that the chicken breasts were cooked on-top of... serve w/ mashed patatoes, corn, or ur choice of veggies, this meal will be sure 2 impress ur in-laws... as a dessert: bake a white cake w/ white frosting and place orange slices on-top...
Express Jambalaya
* 1 package Spanish Rice-a-Roni
* about 3-4 chicken breast- I buy the Cajun Chicken By George
* 1/2 pound of sausage -I buy andouille but you can use any Polish sausage
* 1 can of of tomatoes -I use the Mexican seasoned tomatoes
* crushed red pepper (optional)
PREPARATION:
Cook the chicken breast and sausage till done:
Cook rice-a-roni in large skillet; add the water, tomatoes, seasoning from rice-a-roni, cooked chicken, cooked sausage and cook for about 15 -20 minutes.
(If you can't find the chicken by George you can use plain chicken breast and just season them with a little onion salt, garlic salt and cayenne).