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April 8, 2014

Stuffed Pork Tenderloin

Filed under: Cooking Recipes,Pork,Staff Favorites — Tags: , , , , , — Chef @ 9:51 am

 

Stuffed Pork Tenderloin

Florence
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Course Main
Cuisine American
Servings 10

Ingredients
  

  • 4 pounds Pork Tenderloin
  • 1/2 teaspoon Basil
  • 1 Package Pork Stuffing Mix
  • 1/2 Pepper Yellow, Red or Orange
  • 1 Small Onion
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon Pepper
  • Cooking Twine

Instructions
 

  • Chop onion & pepper in to small pieces.
  • In small pan saute onions & peppers with salt and pepper
  • While that is cooking, take Pork Tenderloin and cut lengthwise down the center leaving approximately 1/2 inch at the bottom so it is still attached.
  • Mix together salt, pepper & basil and coat the outside of the tenderloin.
  • Make stuffing according to package instructions with sauted onions and peppers in it.
  • Stuff tenderloin and tie with Baking Twine.
  • Preheat oven to 400°F.
  • Bake tenderloin for 60 minutes.
  • Check to make sure meat is cooked properly.

 

April 1, 2014

But I Don’t Have Time To Cook

Filed under: Quick and Easy - Freeze and Reheat — Tags: , , , , , — Chef @ 12:00 pm

Busy days can lead to frustration when it comes to making dinner. Who has time to fix a meal when they don’t get home until 6pm or later? Better yet, who feels like cooking a meal after a hard day’s work? So, what’s a girl to do in order to avoid frozen dinners or worse yet, fast food? Use your weekends off to prepare all your meals for the upcoming week.

We’ve all been there at least once and if you’re like me, more times than we wish to admit. We go to the grocery store and spend a ton of money so that there will be food in the house. We then make a promise to cook each and every night since the food is already there and ready to be consumed.

 

But, guess what happens? I come home from work late and I am tired. Everyone else is tired from work and school and no one wants to cook. It falls on me to cook so I suggest that we order take-out food. We spend twenty or thirty dollars on food for one meal when we have a freezer full of food. Have you been there, too? Not a very good choice when we’re trying hard to save money, right?

 

One way I’ve found to stop this endless cycle is to pick one day on the weekend and have a cooking party. Yes, you read that right – a cooking party. I make a menu for the week and thaw out the food on Friday. Then, on Saturday morning I get to work. The kids can help me if they choose and when they do, they get a say in what we will be eating.

 

For your weekend cooking party, decide on the menu early. This ensures that everything needed is present and accounted for. Start with the meats. They will take the longest to cook so get that going and try to have a variety so you’re not bored with the same meats all week long.

 

Side dishes should be prepared, too. It seems like such a small thing to cook the main part of the meal and save the rest for later. What usually happens is no one feels like cooking anything. Avoid the drama by cooking everything at the same time.

 

Cooking that much food for later requires containers to hold it all. There are two ways this can be done. One way is to use containers that are large enough for each side dish and the main meat courses. Each day, take a meat and two sides out of the fridge and heat it up for dinner.

 

The second way gives the family a little more of a choice each day of what they want to eat. When the food cools (everything needs to cool before placing it in containers), have each person scoop what they want to eat into a serving container. Have one meat and two sides per container. In the absence of the family you can do it yourself. Label each with what is inside. During the week, everyone can pick from a variety of dinner combinations.

 

Each works, but it is up to you to decide which is better for your family. Cooking on the weekend saves time and money because you’ll be less tempted to go out when you’re tired from working all day. Not to mention, for once you’re sure to use the leftovers!

 

If your food makes more meals than you could eat in a week, freeze several of them for another time. Simply thaw each meal the day you plan to serve it. Yes, you will have to make an investment in dinner size containers, but it pays off the more you use them. Once you see how much stress you relieve and healthier your family is eating it will be well worth the initial cost.

March 27, 2014

Sausage Gravy

Filed under: Breakfast,Cooking Recipes — Tags: , , , , , , , — Chef @ 12:00 pm

 

Sausage Gravy

Florence

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb. pork sausage
  • 2/3 cup flour
  • 3 cups milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Instructions
 

  • Cook sausage and remove from pan.
  • Add 2/3 cup flour to drippings in pan. Cook and stir over medium heat for 5 to 10 minutes or mixture starts to turn golden brown.
  • Slowly add milk stirring constantly.
  • Add salt and pepper.
  • Cook gravy until it boils and thickens.
  • Add sausage to gravy mixture.
  • Server over warm biscuits.

 

March 19, 2014

Mini Meatloaf

 

Mini Meat Muffins Photo

Mini Meatloaf

Florence
Course Main
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 Cup milk
  • 3/4 Cup white bread crumbs soft
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 lb. ground chuck
  • Aluminum foil

Instructions
 

  • Beat egg slightly in a large mixing bowl.
  • Carefully stir in the milk.
  • Add the breadcrumbs and mix.
  • Sprinkle in the salt and pepper.
  • Add the ground chuck and mix well with hands to completely combine.
  • Preheat oven to 350°F
  • Spray each cup of a muffin tin with a non stick cooking spray.
  • Fill each cup with the meat mixture.
  • Bake 30 minutes.
  • Remove pan from the oven and allow to cool 10 minutes.
  • Remove muffins from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.
  • Wrap each muffin tightly in aluminum foil.
  • Freeze for up to 2 months.
  • To reheat, remove muffins from freezer.
  • Preheat oven to 450°F
  • Place wrapped muffins on a cookie sheet.
  • Bake 30 minutes.
  • Unwrap and bake another 5 minutes.

March 10, 2014

Crispy Chicken from the Freezer

Always good to make things in advance and have dinner ready in the freezer so you can just thaw it out and pop it in the oven.  I always omit the Worcestershire Sauce, because I am allergic to fish and it has anchovies in it.

 

Crispy Chicken from the Freezer

Crispy Chicken from the Freezer

Florence
Course Entree
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 2 1/2 lbs fryer chicken cut up
  • 3/4 C sour cream
  • 1 T lemon juice
  • 1 t Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 t celery salt
  • 1 t salt
  • 1/8 t pepper
  • 1/2 t paprika
  • 2 cloves garlic chopped fine
  • 1 C dry bread crumbs
  • Aluminum foil

Instructions
 

  • Combine sour cream and lemon juice in a small bowl.
  • Stir in Worcestershire sauce until completely blended.
  • Add the celery salt, salt, pepper, paprika and garlic and mix well.
  • Place bread crumbs in a shallow bowl or on a plate.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Spray a large baking pan with a non stick cooking spray.
  • Dip chicken pieces into the sour cream mixture.
  • Roll in the bread crumbs.
  • Place in a single layer in the baking pan.
  • Bake 50 minutes or until chicken is tender and brown.
  • Let chicken cool before removing from pan.
  • Once the chicken has cooled wrap each piece in aluminum foil.
  • Freeze for up to 2 months.
  • Reheat by preheating oven to 450 degrees.
  • Place each piece of chicken still in the aluminum foil on a cookie sheet.
  • Bake 35 minutes.
  • Unwrap from aluminum foil and place back in the oven.
  • Continue baking 10 minutes or until crisp.

 

March 6, 2014

Burritos That Are Sure To Please

 

Burritos That Are Sure To Please

Burritos That Are Sure To Please

Florence
Course Entree
Cuisine Mexican

Ingredients
  

  • 3 boneless chicken breasts
  • 1/2 jar 16 oz size salsa
  • 1 14.5 oz can refried beans
  • 1 8 oz pkg shredded taco cheese
  • 1 8 count pkg burrito size tortillas
  • Wax paper
  • Freezer bags

Instructions
 

  • Place the chicken breasts in a large sauce pan and cover with salsa. Add just enough water to cover the chicken completely. Place over medium high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for approximately 15 minutes.
  • Chicken should be white all the way through when done. Remove the chicken from pot and cool completely and then shred and return to pot. Bring back to boil to reduce liquid of the mixture looks to watery. Remove from heat when it is at your desired thickness.
  • Lay down tortilla flat.
  • Place 3 T of refried beans down the middle of the tortilla.
  • Place 4 T of the chicken mixture on top of the beans.
  • Sprinkle with cheese.
  • Fold in the sides of the tortilla and roll until completely closed.
  • Continue until you used all the tortillas.
  • Wrap each burrito in the wax paper.
  • Place the burritos in a freezer bag.
  • Freeze for up to 3 months.
  • To cook unwrap the burritos.
  • Place in the microwave for about 3 minutes or just until the burrito is beginning to thaw.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • Lightly spray a cookie sheet with a non stick cooking spray.
  • Lay the burritos on the cookie sheet.
  • Bake 12 minutes or until the burrito just begins to brown.

 

February 14, 2010

Marinated Lemon Chicken

Marinated Lemon Chicken

Florence
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups Greek virgin olive oil
  • 8 large boneless/skinless chicken breasts
  • 6 garlic cloves -- minced
  • 2 lemons -- juiced
  • 2 tablespoons fresh oregano -- finely chopped
  • 1/8 teaspoon pepper

Instructions
 

  • Combined oil garlic, lemons, oregano and pepper.
  • Place chicken in skillet and pour mixture over chicken.
  • Put refrigerate for 24 hours.
  • Charbroil the chicken for 6 to 7 minutes on each side, or until it is done

January 12, 2010

Barbequed Shrimp And Chicken

Filed under: Chicken,Cooking Recipes,Seafood — Tags: , , , , , , — Chef @ 8:00 am

 

Barbequed Shrimp And Chicken

Florence
Course BBQ
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
  • 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/4 cup melted butter
  • 1/2 pound medium shrimp
  • 1 pound boneless chicken breast

Instructions
 

  • Peel shrimp and cut chicken into 1 inch cubes
  • Combine all ingredients except meats.
  • Marinate shrimp and chicken while preparing grill
  • Put shrimp and chicken onto separate skewers..
  • Cook about 5 inches above hot coals, allowing 5 minutes for shrimp and 10 to 15 minutes for chicken.
  • Turn once or twice while cooking and baste often with remaining marinade.

January 8, 2010

Mustard-Barbecued Chicken

Filed under: Chicken,Cooking Recipes — Tags: , , , , , , — Chef @ 8:00 am

 

Mustard-Barbecued Chicken Legs

Florence
Course Chicken
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
  • 1 tablespoon dry white wine
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1/4 teaspoon oregano
  • 1/4 teaspoon rosemary
  • 1/4 teaspoon thyme
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 4 chicken legs and thighs

Instructions
 

  • In small bowl combined all ingredients except chicken.
  • Place chicken legs, thighs and sauce in a bag and shake well.
  • Cover chicken and refrigerate about 4 hours.
  • Bake or Grill chicken legs until well browned on both sides, about 45 minutes.

December 18, 2009

The Best Way to Cook Delicious Steak

Filed under: How To Cook — Tags: , , , , , , — Chef @ 1:20 pm

The following tips help you understand how to practice and cook meat to perfection.

A excessive steak starts with a part of the pack of meat quality. The trouble meant for many beginners at what time they grow to the supermarket before neighboring butcher is the perfectly span of meat is bad. In attendance are a variety of meat and span can transpire confusing.

At what time you set the meat taking part in the microwave thawing and sensation force ruin the meat. Microwave meat is on no account a satisfactory opinion, please design in front and constantly give rise to meat roughly speaking 24 hours beforehand consumption. This way, you know with the purpose of icing with no angles, and can transpire cooked accordingly.

Grilling on the appropriate heat ensures even cooking; average is by and large recommended. If the heat is too above what is usual, beef can scorch and grow to be overcooked on the outside beforehand the inside reaches the desired doneness. Charring beef is not recommended.

Taking part in universal, in attendance are three assorted categories of beef taking part in the United States: In the beginning Grade, span and decide on Grade Grade. Prime is the top of the rating balance and no more than a very trivial percentage of beef produced taking part in this voters. The quality of beef is frequently reticent meant for span and decide on grades are networks with the purpose of are on hand to consumers at present taking part in supermarkets and butchers. So at what time you grow to the butcher before supermarket, transpire for sure to decide on the finest quality you can bargain. If veto label on the package, transpire for sure to ask meant for help.

Beforehand the fire, if the holes taking part in the make contacts underneath sweeping. Meant for added fire, exercise of above what is usual quality coal. To determine the come to of briquettes wanted, broaden a layer of brick on the fire, the performance shelve delay to individual before two inches clear of the area of food are covered taking part in grilled dishes. Followed by, place the briquettes taking part in a pyramid. Add lighter fluid and light carefully. Taking part in roughly speaking 30 minutes, the coal ash be supposed to transpire covered. Carefully broaden taking part in individual layer with a long-handled pincers and cooking up the make contacts.

Style for sure the cook on a spit is not activated until the departure, followed by place the meat without delay on the quiz. Close the lid and cook the meat meant for a while. Veto need to disquiet roughly speaking the burn, the top might stop off the flames. Cook two steaks 1 edge your way thick, veto added than 6 minutes for each boundary. Meant for steaks 2 inches thick, try 8 minutes on each one boundary. If you stick to these orders and leave the lid of the quiz start smoking at what time it is phase to veer the meat. We indicate you and contract a timer and exercise it.

The finest way to determine doneness of meat and burgers is to exercise a thermometer time read. It is recorded taking part in seconds, but if round defiant not transpire dowry taking part in foods for the period of cooking. Addition the thermometer horizontally into core of steaks and burgers to check inner heat.

In attendance are on hand a variety of assorted cuts of at present and can transpire very confusing. The finest cuts meant for grilling taking part in my outlook, the Rib-eye, T-Bone, Porterhouse, inexperienced York Strip & Sirloin. In attendance are, of line, cuts with the purpose of award a remaining clean Mignon and Chateaubriand. These reductions are highly finely tuned, but contain very petite fat and not very tasty. I propose to stay away from these cuts meant for the quiz. Meat probably contains when much fat taking part in the arrange, but it is certainly individual of the nearly all appetizing cuts.

Three Popular Cooking Methods To Cook Turkey

Filed under: How To Cook — Tags: , , , , , — Chef @ 1:19 pm

Prepare to gain knowledge of supplementary approaching
to how to cook a turkey?

Three Methods in favor of Cooking a damp turkey

1. Roasting

The a large amount traditional method in favor of how to cook a turkey is roasting. The middling recipe calls in favor of an oven hotness of 325 degrees. To groom a turkey in favor of roasting you choose to dip it painstakingly, season it inside and made known with flavors your private enjoys, in that case leave it happening a roasting pan with run happening the floor. The run keeps the drippings from burning (you’ll choose persons in favor of gravy).

Loosely cover the turkey with aluminum foil. In favor of each four pounds of unstuffed turkey you’ll need with reference to single hour cooking while. If you take part in a kitchen thermometer, place it happening the thickest part of the turkey breast. The meat needs to take place 165 degrees to take place safe in favor of consumption. Additionally, experts advocate with the intention of you keep the stuffing outside the bird (mix and leave happening an oven confirmation container, placed happening the oven with reference to 1 hour previous to the turkey is done). This is as well a satisfactory second to remove the aluminum foil so you acquire a careful crispy skin.

At the end of the day, the pitch to a satisfactory heat turkey is resting while. As soon as you influence the turkey made known of the oven consent to it sit indifferent in favor of with reference to 20-30 minutes previous to carving. This keeps the turkey damp.

2. Oven-Bag Roasted turkey

Happening deciding how to cook a turkey, turkey oven bags are a huge alternative to traditional roasting. Supermarkets convey plastic cooking bags safe in favor of oven make use of. The hotness in favor of your oven is straight away 350 degrees F. Suggestion with the intention of your baking pan obligation contain the bird and the cooking bag completely – the bag expands for the duration of cooking and if it touches in the least part of the oven it want melt.

Equally with a heat turkey you must season your bird previous to introduction it happening the bag. Consider addition round about onions, a peeled orange and other tangy aromatics to the cavity of the turkey to undertake it even other spice up from inside made known. Cook according to the information on the cooking bag packaging.

The alternative to the oven bag is a satisfactory quality plastic wrap. You can pre-marinate the turkey, brine it, leave butter and seasonings under the skin and/or season it in that case wrap the bird happening plastic wrap. Check on with aluminum foil completely casing the bird.

Straight away you can cook the turkey single of two ways. Point the oven up to with reference to 375 if you choose a steamed turkey otherwise you can point the hotness down to 250 degrees and long-drawn-out cook the turkey (about 2 hours for every four pounds of totality bird). Happening either casing, you can remove the wrappings on your turkey 30 minutes previous to serving if you choose crispy skin. If using the slow-cook method point up the reheat to 375 in favor of with the intention of keep on amount of cooking while.

3. Oven Braising

Oven braising is akin to using an oven bag otherwise wrap happening with the intention of you’re steaming the turkey. Your oven must take place preheated to with reference to 340 degrees. Place the turkey happening a covered roaster (stuff the bird with vegetables otherwise aromatics equally with method 2). The while vital in favor of cooking is akin to traditional roasting.

Here are certainly many other options equally to how to cook a turkey. These options include deep frying, grilling / rotisserie flair turkey, marinated otherwise brined, and smoked turkey. Every single creates a faintly dissimilar spice up profile and humidity level so a destiny depends on private tastes. Carry out trial right through the time in that case make use of your favorite method happen blessing (or Christmas, otherwise… At whatever time!).

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