Showing posts with label quick meals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quick meals. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Food Network Recipe - Shake and Bake chicken recipe with stuffed baked potatoes


Today for dinner we will be making shake and bake chicken with stuffed potatoes. This meal may sound complicated but I assure you it isn’t. I discovered this recipe off of the Food Network,courtesy of Rachel Ray who is known for being one of the most popular tv chefs of all time. This meal will take approximately 40 minutes to make this easy meal of shake and baked chicken with baked stuffed potatoes , so lets get started!
 
You Will Need
Chicken
Shake and bake mix
A clear plastic bag
4 potatoes
bacon
Cooking oil
2 scallions chopped up                                              
Black pepper
Salt
2 cups worth of shreddaded cheese
Sour cream (optional)

steps for cooking stuffed potatoes            

1.       Make sure the potatoes has been cleaned, before doing any cooking. Once clean use a fork to prick the potatoes numerous times around each potatoes.

2.       Lightly spread your cooking oil evenly around the potatoes and them put them into the microwave to cook for 12 minutes.

3.       During this time chop up your bacon into even edible sizes, some people prefer them extreme tiny why others like to leave them a bit bigger. Place your bacon pieces into a frying pan to cook until it fits your liking, some people prefer they’re bacon crisp while others may not, once bacon is cooked lower the heat and added in your chopped scallions to heat up for approximately 1 to 2 minutes.

4.       Once the potatoes have cooled for five minutes slice the potatoes in half and use and ice cream scoop or potatoes scoop to make an empty middle whole into the potatoes, fill the whole of the potatoes with scallops and bacon and then reinsert the removed potatoes.

5.       Once this is done place the potatoes into oven to cook and melt the cheese for the duration of another 5 minutesFood Network

Steps for cooking Shake and Bake chicken

1. Clean your chicken prior to anything else , make sure it has already been defrosted

2.  Pre-heat your oven to approximately 450 degrees

3. While your oven is pre-heating take a clear plastic bag and pour in your shake and bake mix into the bag ,( by purchasing shake and bake mixes from the store this allows you to save some extra time because of branfs like No Name)

4.Take chickens individually and place it in the bag of shake and bake and shake the bag till the chicken leg or breast is now completely coated , reapeat this step until all chicken pieces are coated evenly.

5.Now lay tin foil on your baking sheet to avoid the chicken from sticking onto the pan and lightly oil it with cooking, then lay your chickens onto the pan and rotate the side of the chicken after 20 minutes when chicken until chicken is golden brown and juices are running.

Hope you enjoy this delicious meal of shake and baked chicken with baked stuffed potatoes. Feel free to tweet me, or send me a message on my twitter page on any additional questions you may have at @Its_DinnerTime. The recipe of the Stuffed potatoes was taken from the Food Network and made by the famous chef Rachel Ray.Hope you enjoyed this meal and dont be afraid to share it with friends.

Bon appetite and thanks for dinning with me.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Food Network Canada recipes for Easter Sunday Dinner - Crispy Baked fish with fruitsalad


Easter Sunday Dinner
For those of who celebrate Easter Sunday as a religious holiday, I’m sure you’re in need of an easy recipe to satisfy all taste buds around the dinner table. During Easter Sunday it is required that no poultry or beef during that week, so in honor of the tradition this meal will not require any of those ingredients. This meal was inspired from the Food Network website and the actual recipe was discovered on Life Made Delicious it is an easy Easter recipe that all can enjoy.
This week I will be making Crispy Baked Fish with a tropical salsa, hope you enjoy it . 
You will Need
A fish of your choice


2/3rds of a cup of Bisquick mix from Betty Crocker
3 tbsp of cooking oil
1 tsp of chili powder
1 beaten egg
1/4th a cup of cornmeal
 
For the fruit salad you will need
Pineapples
Cantaloupe

Strawberries
Kiwi
Cilantro
Lime juice
Mango

Instructions

1. Take your fish and cover it with the beaten egg. After the fish is covered in egg dip lay it on a flat baking pan and cover it with the Bisquick mix, along with cornmeal and chili powder

2. Place the fish into the oven, uncovered, at this time foil paper or any other oven materials are un needed. Let the fish cook for approximately 10 minutes. Then flip the fish and let it cook for an additional 10 minutes on the opposite side. To ensure the fish is cooked use a fork to determine if the fish is still hard or flakely.

3.  As the fish is cooking you can prepare your fruit salad by peeling and washing your fruits if necessary as well as chopping up all fruits into small diced portions.

4. When plating the meal you can either place the fruit salad on top of the fish as a garnish or plating it in a completely separate depending on how picky you and your guest may be .

 Bon appetite, thanks for dining with me, 

 HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY

 

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Skewered Shrimp


Skewered shrimp is one of the easiest recipes out there. This tasty meal only takes up to 10 minutes to make and will have your mouth watering with great tasting flavor. This meal is classic and clean when plated but adds colour to any plain old dish.Many people believe in order to make skewered shrimp successfully it must be done on the BBQ, and this my friend is simple not true.So if your hungry and are feeling for shrimp; make this dish, you won't regret it.

What you will need

  •   Peeled Shrimp
  •   salt
  •   Kebab sticks
  •   Green peppers , yellow peppers
  •   Black pepper
  •   Olive oil
  •   Lemon juice

 

 

Instructions

Step1. defrost shrimp under water for 2 to 3 minutes

Step 2. dry shrimp and season them with 1 tsp of black pepper and ½ a tsp of salt and 2 tsp of lemon juice and place it into a zip lock bag.

Step 3. Let the shrimp soak into the seasoning for at least ½ an hour

Step 4. Put the shrimp threw the skewers and add your preferred vegetables on as well, creating a pattern.

Step 5. Lightly glaze the grill with Pam spray oil and place your shrimp kebab stick on top and into the oven at 350 degrees for approximately 7 minutes on till the shrimp have fully changed colour

 

Bon appetite, thanks for dinning with me .

 

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Pasta





          There’s nothing tastier than a hot bowl of pasta for dinner especially on a cold weekday .There are many kinds of pasta you can have such as Fettuccine, linguine , asnolottu or a bucatini just to name a few. This week for dinner I decide to have pasta. Pasta is another quick and easy meal not to mention cheap meal to make on a weekday.
 
I love pasta and it’s has been one of the first meals I’ve ever learned to make. At my local grocery store you can purchase various types of pasta for as little as 99 cents. Tomato sauce prices range so you are able to find one within your budget, but be aware the cheaper this tomatoes sauce is can affect the quality and the taste. You will also need cheese, people usually uses parmesan cheese , but I preferred marble, so that’s what I used.

What you will need

  • Parmesan cheese (I prefer marble cheese)
  • Tomatoe sauce of your choice
  • Strainer
  •  Water
  •  Oven
  • Pot and pan
Cooking Pasta Steps
1. Rinse the pasta off , place into pot and fill the pot with water until water has covered the pasta and turn burner on high
2. Allow the pasta to cook , you will notice it is softer to pick up with a fork from the pot, let it cook for approximately 15-20 mins depending on the type of pasta or the instructions from the package
3. Once pasta is almost done add 2 teaspoons of salt
4.Drain the water from the pot by using a strainer , and place pasta into a bowl
 
                  Sauce Instructions
 
1. Take pan and heat the oven to 6, and pour tomato sauce into the pan to heat up
2. You can add additional ingredients to the sauce if you wish ( I cut up onions, green peppers, black peppers)
3.      Stir the tomatoes sauce occasionally and you may want to add water if the sauce is becoming too thick just as little expired