Teriyaki Chicken and Rice

 Ingredients

Sauce

    1/4 cup Soy Sauce

    1/4 cup Wine

    1/4 cup Sugar

    1/4 tsp Ground ginger

    1 Clove Minced Garlic

    1/4 cup of water

Thinkener

    2 tsp Corn Flour

    2 Tbsp water

1 lb chicken thighs or breast

2 cups cooked rice. 

Instructions

1) Start rice per the package

2) Mix all of the sauce ingredients into one bowl and the thinkener ingredients into a seperate bowl

3) Cut the chicken into 1 inch cubes and pan fry chicken 3-5 minutes per side until done

3) Add sauce to the cooked chicken and simmer for 3 additional minutes

4) Remove chicken to a bowl

5) Add the thickener in two parts until fully mixed with sauce, cook on medium for 3-5 minutes until thickened. 

6) Add cooked rice to bowl and then chicken and sauce. 

Oatmeal Raisin cookies with Chocolate chips

Oatmeal Raisin cookies with Chocolate chips

Ingredients 

14 tbsp butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup raisins

3 cups Quick cooking oats
1 cup chocolate chips

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350. In large bowl, beat butter and sugars on medium speed until creamy
2. Add eggs and vanilla, beat well
3. Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt mix well
4. Add oats, raisins, and chocolate chips mix well
5. Drop rounded tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheet
6. Bake 12-14 minutes 

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Ingredients:

• 3 medium bananas, divided
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 - 1 cup mini or regular chocolate chips

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9×5 loaf pan with nonstick spray. then lightly flour.  Set aside.
• In a medium bowl mash 2 of the bananas with a fork, leaving them slightly lumpy. Slice the remaining banana thinly, and set aside.
• In a large bowl stir together the butter and sugar. Mix in the eggs and vanilla and stir until smooth. Add the sour cream, mashed bananas, baking soda, and salt, and stir until blended. Next mix in the flour until incorporated.
• Fold in the chocolate chips, and sliced banana.
• Pour batter into the prepared pan and bake for 73 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean except for melted chocolate chips of course.
• Cool in the pan for 15 minutes, and then using the parchment paper as handles, carefully lift the banana bread out of the pan to cool on a wire rack.

Lemon Meringue Pie

Ingredients

Crust
3/4 cups (175g) Graham Cracker crumbs
1/4 cup   (50g)   Sugar
6 tbls butter

Lemon filling

1 cup white sugar
2 tbls flour
3 tbls cornstarch
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups water
2 lemons, juiced and zested
2 tbls butter
4 egg yolks beaten

Meringue topping

4 egg whites
6 tbls white sugar

Directions 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
• Mix crust ingredients and press into glass pie shell.
• Bake pie crust for 10 minutes. 
• In a saucepan, whisk together sugar, flour cornstarch, salt, water, lemon juice and zest.
• Cook over medium-high heat stirring, until mixture comes to a boil.  Stir in butter.  
• Place egg yolks in bowl and gradually whisk in hot sugar mixture. when fully mixed with a cup of hot sugar mixture,  add it back to saucepan. Continue stirring until thick. 
• Pour into pie crust. 
• In mixer beat the egg whites until foamy. Add sugar gradually, and continue to whip until stiff peaks from. 
• Spread over pie, sealing the edges at the crust.
• Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes or until meringue is golden brown. 

Strawberries and Cream Crepes

Strawberries and Cream Crepes

Ingredients:

3 eggs
1 1/2 cup milk
2 tsp Vanilla extract
2 tbls Melted butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup flour

For savory crepes eliminate the vanilla and sugar. Add 1/8 tsp pepper and 1 additional tbls butter.

1 cup heavy cream
2 tbls powdered sugar
11/2 cups strawberries sliced

Other possible fillings, Eggs, bacon and cheese sauce, chicken in mushroom sauce, mushroom and gruyere, pork havarti and apples.

Preparation:

1. In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs. Pour in milk, water, vanilla extract, and melted butter, then whisk until combined. Add in salt, sugar, and flour. Whisk until the batter becomes smooth and no lumps remain.

2. Heat a lightly greased nonstick 10" skillet over low heat (6). Pour in a scant ¼ cup of batter. Tilt pan in a circular motion so that the batter coats the pan in an even circle. Cook for 1 minute. Flip and cook the other side for 30 seconds. Remove from pan. Repeat with the rest of the batter.

3. Pour heavy whipping cream and 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar into a bowl. Beat with a hand mixer until peaks form.

4. Dollop a few tablespoons of whipped cream onto each crepe. Place a few strawberry slices on the whipped cream, then roll the crepe over the strawberries and cream.

5. Top crepes with more strawberry slices and dust with powdered sugar.

Cheesy Potato Egg Bake

Ingredients

1 pound bulk lean breakfast sausage
1 3/4 cups sliced vegetables (your choice)
4 cups fresh spinach, coarsely chopped
6 large eggs
1 cup 2% milk
Dash salt
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
6 cups frozen potato crowns (tater tots for the rest of us)

Directions

1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  In a large skillet, cook the sausage over medium heat until no longer pink, 5-7 minutes, breaking in crumbles.  Add vegetables of choice and spinach;  cook until tender and spinach is wilted, 2-4 minutes.

2) Spoon sausage mixture into a greased  13 x 9 baking dish.  In a large bowl, whisk eggs, milk and salt until blended;  pour over the sausage mixture.  Layer with potato crowns and then sprinkle cheese on top.

3) Bake, uncovered until set and top is crisp about 45-50 minutes. 

Fudge Brownies

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter
2 1/4 cups sugar
4 large eggs
1 1/4 cups cocoa powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups flour
2 cups chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 and lightly grease a 9 x 13 pan lined with aluminum foil. 
2. In a saucepan over low heat, melt the butter, then add the sugar and stir to combine. Heat just until the mixture is hot, but don't let it bubble.  Watch for it to start looking shiny as you stir it. 
3. As the butter is heating, in a mixing bowl beat the 4 eggs with cocoa, salt, baking powder and vanilla till smooth. 
4. Add the hot butter and sugar mixture to the egg and cocoa mixture, stirring until smooth. 
5. Add the flour and the chocolate chips, again stirring until smooth. 
6. Pour the batter into you prepared pan.  Bake for about 30 minutes or until the edges of the brownies look set and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean.  It's ok if a few crumbs stick to the toothpick.  the middle should be very moist but not unbaked.