Food suggestions?!
Food suggestions?
I'm not a very good cook so I'm looking for something simple but good to make anybody have any good recipes or ideas for something to make also a good dessert. Thanks for any help you could give me.
Additional Details2 weeks ago
It can be hot or cold but it's for dinner. I would also like just anything easy I could make at any time of the day.
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2 weeks ago
It can be hot or cold but it's for dinner. I would also like just anything easy I could make at any time of the day.
An even easier Chicken Fettucini Alfredo:
Buy a jar of Classico Alfredo sauce.
Cube 2 chicken breasts and cook the cubes.
Add the cooked chicken to the heated sauce.
Pour over cooked fettucini.
Serve with some garlic bread (bought uncooked at the grocery store, already prepared, or buy a french stick and a tub of garlic butter and make your own.)
Add some salad (basic: lettuce, a few cucumber slices, tomato slices, add salad dressing of your choice)
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ok so try hamburger helper with a fresh salad,buttered bread, and ice cream for dessert. try bob evans foods in the freezer section at your local grocers.
CHICKEN FETTUCCINE
1 stick butter
2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breast
1 cup half and half or cream
1/3 cup Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup green onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 T lemon juice
Melt butter in skillet and saute chicken which has been cut into 2 inch chunks. When chicken begins to take on color, add garlic and green onions.
Add remaining ingredients except lemon juice, cover and simmer over low heat until mixture thickens and chicken is tender.
Serve over cooked and drained fettuccine. Sprinkle with lemon juice and additional Parmesan cheese if desired.
ORANGE DREAM CAKE
1 pkg yellow cake mix
3/4 cup Miracle Whip
1 pkg Dream Whip
3/4 cups orange juice
3 eggs
2 tsp grated orange zest
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Combine the Miracle Whip, Dream Whip, cake mix, orange juice, beaten eggs and orange zest with electric mixer at medium speed for 2 minutes.
Pour into a greased and floured 10" bundt pan.
Bake 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out nearly clean. Cool 10-15 minutes, loosen sides with a blunt knife and remove from pan.
Cool completely. Stir together 1 1/2 cups 10X sugar (confectioners) with 2-3 tablespoons of milk and drizzle over cooled cake. Sprinkle top with coconut if desired.
Try the site listed below for a lot more great recipes
You don't say if you want hot or cold... lunch? Anyway, here's easy...
Heat a skillet with 1/2 cube butter (not margarine!!!), throw in boneless, skinless chicken breast pieces to cover the bottom of the pan. Cook on med high until light brown on that side, then turn over and do the same. The butter should be just about gone by now. Dump about 3/4 cup white wine, the cheaper and sweeter the better over it all, cover and cook on medium until the wine is pretty well gone. You should have a nice crispy crust formed out of the sugars in the wine and the butter. It's yummy as is, but if you wanted to put pepper and some chopped garlic in while browning, that's ok, too.
Here's a twisted, but exciting dessert I did as a kid....
Get Hostess cupcakes and cut them into about 4 pieces. Alternate scoops of peppermint ice cream and hunk s of cupcakes in an angel food cake pan, pressing down to take up air pockets. It's probably 1/2 gal of ice cream and 4-6 cupcakes. Freeze for at least 1 hour to harden. Take out and dip the pan's outside in hot water to loosen the cake. Flip it out on a plate and slice and top with whipped cream. Or just scoop it out.
Something easy is SPAGHETTI & MEAT SAUCE with an APPLE DUMPLING for dessert.
2 tablespoons olive oil; 1 Vidalia sweet onion chopped 4-6 cloves garlic; oregano; basil; salt, pepper to taste; fresh mushrooms; 28 oz can tomatoes & 1 small can tomato paste or one large can of spagetti sauce; 1 lb ground beef
Method
Brown onions ,add sliced mushrooms then ground beef and
brown add all the spices and pour in canned tomatoe s and sauce.or one can of spagetti sauce.
To take away the tomato tanginess add 1 tbsp honey to your sauce and cook on low heat for 15 minutes set aside.
Cook your pasta while sauce simmers.
Apple dumpling
Use any kind of apples you have or buy a few mac intosh apples
Peel, core and slice them up
Squeeze a few drops of lemon juice or orange juice onto apples then Sugar and cinnamon and flour your apples in the bowl
Make a quick pie pastry in food blender.
Wrap pie pastry around a scoop of apple and place on a greased cookie sheet. Use one egg yolk and a pastry brush to coat each apple dumpling pastry before baking.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes until golden brown and apple is cooked.
look at google under impossible pie recipes, there are tons of them and they are easy to prepare and there are dinner ones and also dessert ones.
Try the bread and apple pudding on the following site:
www.tasty-german-recipe.com
The recipes are in English so no probs there.
The German Potato Salad is good, my friends all rave about it
Sweet and sour chicken
This recipe assumes that you are using one chicken
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion
- Salt, sugar, pepper, garlic, ginger
- Yogurt
- Vinegar
- Bell peper
- Tomatoes
- Lemon juice
- Soy sauce
1. Marinade chicken (small pieces) in vinegar, salt, yogurt and half a teaspoon of red chili powder
2. Take 1 medium onion, dice it up
3. Add the garlic and ginger
4. Heat it up in a skillet for about 2 minutes in olive oil
5. Add chicken
6. Cook for about 10 minutes
7. Add tomatoes, lemon juice (1/4 of a cup) and 2 tablespoon of sugar
8. Add a little less than half a cup of soy sauce
9. If it is too dry add a little bit of boiling hot water.
10. Cook till done (20 more minutes )
11. Dice the bell pepper and decorate
12. ENJOY
You can also replace the sugar with honey
Spiced Potato (I am assuming that you are using about 8 potatoes)
1. Take 1 large onion and chop it up (about 2 cm per piece)
2. Heat up a skillet/any type of pot you like and add the onions in some cooking oil
3. Cook for about 5 mints
4. Add pepper, and a can of salsa
5. Add about a cup of yogurt and a cup of boiling water
6. Cook for about 15 mints
7. Check if the potatoes are done
8. As soon as the potatoes are done add some chopped ginger, 1 chopped bell pepper, 2 large tomatoes and fresh cilantro. Cover the pot for about 10 mints to steam the pepper and tomatoes
9. ENJOY
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Masala Tortilla
Ingredients
- 1 tortilla bread
- 1/8 of a teaspoon Mint (pasted leaves)
- Olive oil
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 tablespoon onions soaked in lemon juice
1. Cut up the tortilla bread in 4 pieces
2. Rub the garlic clove lightly on either side (only on one side)
3. Mix the mint to 1 tablespoon olive oil
4. Spread the oil over the tortilla
5. Toast till lightly crispy
I will tell you one even better, I do this all the time. Go to www.cooks.com. You will find alot of simple good recipes on this site.
try tacos. brown some ground beef over medium heat in a pan. you can add ready mixed seasoning that you will find in any ethnic area of your local food market. the rest is all non-cook ingredients. grate some cheddar or pepper jack cheese, cut lettuce into shreds, chop some tomatos, and buy store ready dour cream and salsa and tortillas. super easy! as for dessert, there is a really delicious, easy to make ice cream cake that i make, and you can even make a version for diabetics by buying this in sugar free variations!
ice cream sandwiches (1 package)
cool whip (1 tub)
cookies (the crispier the better)
put a layer of ice cream sandwiches on the bottom of a baking dish. add a layer of cool whip. repeat process. top with crumbled cookies. freeze for about half an hour. serve.
DINNER MENU
Fried chicken, white sauce, buttermilk biscuits, spinach, fruit.
Fried Chicken
Cut up several pieces of chicken (as much as you are planning to eat) into strips. I use chicken breasts and cut them in about half inch thick slices. Always cut against the grain of the meat, to make it tenderer. In a small bowl mix a small amount of flour with salt and pepper to taste--maybe about 1/2 teaspoon salt to every half cup of flour, and as much black pepper as you like. Dip the pieces of chicken in the flour mixture until they are all covered. Put a few tablespoons of oil in a large frying pan and heat it over medium to low heat. The pan is just hot enough when you can see the the first tiny bit of smoke rising of from the oil. Keep it at that temperature and fry the floured chicken on it. If the the chicken begins to stick to the pan, add more oil. Serve hot with white sauce.
White Sauce
White sauce is an essential thing to learn. It is the basis of many things, including creme soups, and different sauces. Plain white sauce, is good on fried chicken as well. The main point of learning to make a white sauce is to learn to use flour as a thickening agent. The white sauce can be make thicker or thinner by adding more or less flour.
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
A few gains pepper
In a small saucepan melt butter and mix with flour, salt, and pepper. Pour on milk gradually, mixing constantly. Cook over medium heat, and, stirring constantly, bring to a boil. This may take a while. When you see the first bubble, set the timer for 2 minutes, and let boil for 2 minutes, all the while stirring constantly.
If you add grated cheddar, or other strongly flavored cheese to this sauce while it is cooking, you can make a good cheese sauce to put on broccoli or other dark green vegetable. Also good on cauliflower.
Buttermilk Biscuits
An excellent quick bread. The key is not to knead or handle the dough more than you have too.
1 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp soda
5 tablespoons oil
2/3 to 3/4 cup buttermilk
Before you start, check the buttermilk to make sure is not spoiled. I gotten halfway through this recipe many times only to find the buttermilk is spoiled and unusable. If you ever do this, you can substitute milk and a little bit of lemon juice. It will not taste nearly as good, but it will rise at least, and it is better than throwing away the ingredients you have already added. The reason the buttermilk is added besides the flavor is because its acidity makes a chemicals reaction with the backing soda and makes it rise.
Mix together the dry ingredient. Cut in oil. Add buttermilk and mix lightly. Knead dough lightly then roll out dough and cut with biscuit cutter. Bake for about 10 to 12 minutes on ungreased baking sheet at 450 degrees F (425 degrees convection).
Spinach (or any other leafy green)
Steam leafy greens for about 5 - 8 minutes. You can also boil them, or put them in the microwave, but if you put them in the microwave, it will detract from some of the nutritional content of the vegetable.
Fruit
To have a good balanced meal you should have something from the fruit group as well. You can eat any fruit you would like, or make a fruit salad. This is not especially hard, does not require further explaining.
DESERTS
X-tra Special Celebration Cake
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
2 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
2/3 cup oil
2 tsp vinegar
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups cold water
Grease two round 9 by 1 1/2 inch cake pans and dust with flour. Mix together oil, vinegar, and vanilla. Stir together flour mixture, water and oil mixture really hard. Pour evenly into pans and cook for about 35 minutes at 350 degrees F (250 degrees F if your using convection). Let cool for about ten minutes before removing from pans.
Mocha Butter Frosting (Frosting to go on Cake)
1/4 cup butter or margarine
2 + cups sifted confectioner sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons coffee
1 1/2 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cream butter with cocoa powder. Add some sugar, and the salt. Add additional sugar alternately with coffee until all the coffee has been used and the frosting is of a consistency that you like. If you are using margarine you will need to use more sugar to stiffen the frosting than if you were using real butter. Add vanilla.
Scotch Shortbread
1 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 1/2 cup flour
Beat butter with an egg beater until fluffy, and add sugar. Blend thoroughly. Add flour and mix to make dough. Roll out dough and cut with cookie cutters. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for about 20 to 25 minutes at 300 degrees F, or 275 degrees F if you are using a convection oven.
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this is something i invented its u take your saucepan and u pour some oil in it then u take your flour mix it with some water in a cup or bowl than u take some chicken spice mix it with the flour mixser and mix it till its tig and stiff and just pour your mixser in your pan and let it fry until brown almost like and egg ull tell me again