This is so simple I’m not sure it even qualifies as a recipe and most people probably already know it. But it has, on occasion, impressed my eaters far beyond the skill involved in making it.
Easy-ass Chicken Parmesan
Skinless boneless chicken breasts(one for each eater)
Jar of spaghetti sauce(I like prego, but it doesn’t matter)
White cheese(mozzerella, provolone, jack, and mildish swiss all work well, stronger cheeses arn’t as good in my opinion)
Grab your smallest pan where you can set all the chicken down side by side(smaller just to waste less sauce)
Pour the spaghetti sauce until it covers the chicken
Cover and cook at just under medium for like 8 minutes.
Flip the chicken cover and cook for 3 more minutes. Put the cheese on top of the chicken, cover and cook for 5 more minutes.
If your a stickler about the name throw some parmesan some of that on with the other cheese. You can also throw garlic or whatever into the sauce. Putting it on top of spaghetti is good too, but even the simplest version is good and only takes about 5 minutes of shopping and 15 of cooking.
To make a really large meal of nachos don’t use corn chips use french fries. Chunky ones work best, just put on whatever you would have put on the corn chips and into the oven.
Fenris-your chicken-artichoke casserole is What’s For Dinner tonight. Stoid-your mushroom pork chops are What’s For Dinner tomorrow night. I’ll let you guys know how it all turned out, and whether the Family Critics ate it all up and asked for more.
Here’s my contribution:
Coke & Ketchup Chicken
Chicken Parts, bone-in preferred
optional vegetables:
1 onion, chopped or sliced into rings
1 green pepper, chopped or sliced into crescents
2-3 carrots, sliced thin
1-2 cloves sliced garlic if you wish
1/2 lb mushrooms if you’re in the mood
1-2 Tb oil or butter
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 cup cola, NOT with nutra-sweet (it breaks down when heated)
Put the oil or butter in a deep skillet with a cover. If using onions, throw those in first, over medium heat, until translucent. Plop in the chicken, turn up heat to medium-high or so, and brown those bad boys. (about 5 minutes) Add any of the other veggies that you want. (Note that any veg you add will change the flavor of the finished dish, so variations are endless. All of the veggies are optional, though.) Mix the coke & ketchup together in a measuring cup and pour over the chicken, lifting up the chicken so the sauce gets underneath each piece. Cover,lower heat, and simmer ~20 min until done. Bigger pieces, give it 30 min. Check occasionally to be sure it isn’t too dry–if so, add more cola, right from the can.
When done, sauce should be thick. If not, turn heat to high and remove lid to thicken sauce. This only takes about 2 minutes.
Final product is like a sweet BBQ sauce, and tastes very rich with very little fat. (Fair amount of sugar, though.) Please note that I don’t like either ketchup or Coke, but I love this dish!
Serve over boiled potatoes or rice or noodles. Please try it! It’s sooooo goooooood…you know you want some Coke & Ketchup chicken…mmmmmmmm…
1 Large dollop Ruth’s Old Fashioned Pimento Cheese
2 slices Merita bread (I prefer at least one heel)
Preparation:
Spread pimento cheese lovingly and generously on one slice of bread. Dip for more if necessary. Cover with other slice of bread. Eat as is or grill or broil both sides until golden brown.
Italian bread slices toasted
spread with basil pesto
top with thin-sliced red onion, roasted red pepper, and a slice of provolone.
Broil until cheese is melted.
or
Toss fresh diced tomatoes, minced red onion, capers, a little red-wine vinegar and olive oil, s 'n p, chopped basil, and shredded parmesean cheese. Place on top of toasted italian bread slices.
Your Artichoke-Chicken casserole was a hit! The printout of the recipe is in my permanent recipe notebook (attributed to you, of course). My 7-year-old tried one artichoke and decided to pick the rest of them out, but other than that…the plates were cleared, and I had plenty left over for 2 lunches. Whoo! I didn’t have basmati rice, so I used Jasmine rice. Still very good. I might make this for my mother-in-law, who is very fond of artichokes.
Thanks!
Since I’m posting in this thread, here’s another one:
College Food: Hot Dogs with Ramen
Cut up 1-2 hot dogs. Throw into boiling water with 1 package of ramen noodles. Cook 3 minutes, breaking up ramen block with a fork. Drain all, then add half of seasoning packet and stir it up. Eat, trying not to drip any onto your organic chemistry text.
1 Caesar salad kit
1 package cooked chicken (like Perdue Shortcuts)
Tortillas
Parmesan, if the salad kit doesn’t have it
Leave croutons in package; crush to coarse crumbs. Set aside. In large bowl, mix greens from kit, dressing and chicken. Scoop into tortillas. Sprinkle with crushed croutons and parmesan. Roll up and eat.
Mix it all up in a bowl and pour over whatever type of salad you want. Goes excellent, by the way, with ramen noodles, and can usually be quickly thrown together while the noodles are boiling.
1 lg. can crushed pineapple, drained
1 lg. can cherry pie filling
1 yellow cake mix, dry
2 sticks margarine or butter
Put ingredients in tube or bundt pan in layers:Pineapple, cherry filling, cake mix, then repeat, ending with the cake mix. Cut up the margarine in pieces and place on top. Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees, F.
Stoid, your pork & mushrooms were in-freaking-credible! I licked off all the utensils before I washed 'em. Everyone including the dog enjoyed. (He got the fatty parts.) I used country-style pork ribs, since my local store didn’t have any thick chops, and you can’t really braise those thin ones. Probably had about 1 1/2 lbs or so, used one can of soup and two of water, 1/2 lb fresh mushrooms (quartered), cooked for 2 hours. I even bought a cast-iron skillet just for the occasion! Seasoned it, too. Now I have to figure out how to clean it…
OK, since I’m posting to this thread YET AGAIN, here’s STILL ANOTHER easy recipe.
Baked Chicken with Lemon
Get a chicken cut up into its respective parts. Rinse parts and pat dry. Get a 9x13 pan, either spray with cooking spray or use a paper towel to rub around about a tablespoon of oil. Salt & pepper the chicken, put in the pan. Juice the lemon and pour over the chicken. If you have another lemon, slice it up and throw that in too. Bake at 350 for 1 hr. Eat.
Treviathan, what kind of hot sauce? Tabasco, or chili oil, or what?
Oh, and Fenris, I knew it was a pilaf, you silly! I just never thought of adding artichokes and chicken to make a meal out of it…brilliant!
cover bottom of dish with cubed chicken breasts
Pour 2 cans cream of chicken soup over chkn.
Cover soup with dry stuffing mix.
Sprinkle with stuffing spice packet.
pour 1/stick melted margarine over all.
Cover with Al foil and cook 350 degrees for 1 hour
In 9 X 13 pan
layer hashbrowns
put several pats of margarine on potatos
add several cubes of cheese - enough to leave layer of melted cheese when cooked.
Salt and pepper
layer hashbrowns
layer margarine
layer cheese
S & P
Pour 2 cups milk over top
Cover with Al foil and cook 350 degrees for 1 hour uncovering for last 1/2 hour.
Theobroma , go with a nice tabasco-esque type of sauce. And if you want to make an excellent salad to go with it, try throwing on snow peas and (no joke) slices of pears. Mighty tasty.
3 packages ramen noodles (Preferably 2 pork and 1 oriental flavors but that depends on taste)
1 can of SPAM (light, low sodium ok as your dietary needs dictate, but at all costs avoid turkey SPAM, it’s just wrong on so many levels)
Boil a bunch of water in a 3 quart pot
Remove SPAM from container, rinse of gellid fat, and cut into 1/4" straws
Boil noodles for about 2 minutes
Drain of much of the water.
Add all spice packets, stir, and SPAM straws and stir again.
Put it in a bowl and eat healthy, satisfying soup while spending much to much time in front of computer