New Month!

I have really enjoyed eating my meals this month. I have loved everyone and so have my family. It is that time again to exchange meals. Marianne will you rotate the assignments and then everyone please let us know when you are available to meet. I can meet on the following days...
Tuesday: afternoon
Wednesday: Anytime
Thursday: afternoon
Friday: Morning
Saturday: anytime

Yummy Chicken pillows and Soup!

We just had Sarah's Chicken pillows. Just so you know...I make these too and I bake them frozen at 400 for 20 minutes and they turn out great! I also make a gravy for it that I'm not sure if Sarah mentioned one or not. It is a can of Cream of Chicken soup, milk to thin it, a few shakes of basil and that's it! I like to dip the chicken pillow into it. Marainne's soup was great!!!

Sorry about the dry baked French Toast!

Ladies, I just made the recipe of the baked french toast for my family and it turned out too dry!!! It's one of those recipes where it calls for 6-8 eggs, 3/4-1 1/2 c. milk and I couldn't remember how much was the perfect amount. So, if you would like to have your more moist, I would mix up a few eggs and milk and let it soak in before you bake it. Jane made hers and she said the middle was fine but the outsides were dry. I'm sorry!!! Or you could just add A LOT of syrup to it!

Italian Minestrone Soup

I hope everyone is not tired of soup yet... because my meal this month is an Italian Minestrone Soup. Maybe one of these days it will actually be cold and/or overcast and we can all curl up around the fire and eat hot soup. But, since I don't see that happening anytime soon, I hope you enjoy this soup anyway. :) It is already cooked through, so all you have to do is thaw it and heat it up. (If it is too thick you can add a little water or tomato sauce to thin it down) And I highly recommend serving it with a hot loaf of garlic bread! YUMMY!

Oh, and here is the recipe (to the best of my recollection :)

Italian Minestrone Soup

1 pound ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped
1 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes
2 14 oz. cans diced tomatoes
1 15 oz. can kidney beans, drained
1 cup frozen corn
1 15 oz. can garbanzo beans, drained
1 14 oz. can cut green beans, drained
1 8 oz. can tomato sauce (or tomato juice)
2 1/2 cups water
1 T. salt (or more if you prefer)
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 tsp. pepper
3 T. Italian seasoning
1 1/2 cup pasta (any variety, I used shells)
1 small zucchini, thinly sliced

Brown ground beef and onion. Drain grease. Add all other ingredients and bring to a boil. Simmer for at least 10 min. or until pasta is fully cooked. Top with parmesan cheese or oyster crackers and serve with garlic bread.

Yummy soups!

We just had Tami's Chicken Soup and muffins and Aften's lentil soup. They were both delicious! I would love the recipes! I also want the recipe to the corn muffin mix, they were soooo moist and yummy! Thanks!

Apology #2

I am so sorry I am going to have to change my plans again!! This day off of school in the middle of the week really threw my schedule out of whack! I won't be able to bring my meals until Thursday afternoon. Is everyone ok with that. I promise I won't change my mind again... :)

Sorry for the Delay!

Hi Everyone! I am sorry I didn't get to see you all last week and bring you my meal. The week was abnormally busy and I couldn't make it when you got together. So, I would like to bring my meal around to everyone on Wednesday in the morning. Will that work for everyone? If you are not going to be home would you mind leaving an ice chest out so I can drop off your food? Or is that a pain? Let me know what works!

Kari was so thankful!

Here is an email she wanted to pass along:

These did help a ton. It is nice not to have to think about dinners at this point. I'm hoping to get back to normal where I can spend a little time in the kitchen again, but dont know exactly when "normal" will be. Our family truly appreciates all the help. Thank again!
Love,
Kari

Cooking temp for spaghetti casserole?

Amy,
What should we cook the casserole at? I tried to look at older posts but I can't seem to find it. I'm assuming 350 but more often than not I am wrong on things like this!

Sweet and Sour Meatballs

Easy Easy! Just uncover and take directly from your freezer to the oven- no thawing required. Bake at 350° for 55-65 minutes. Serve on top of rice with steamed veggies or a salad on the side. Enjoy!

Chili and Cornbread

With the fall season upon us I am making chili that will be great for on of those hopefully cold days we will soon be having. Just thaw, heat and serve. I will also be giving you some cornbread to make cornbread muffins with it. Enjoy!

Chicken Pillows

For this meal, you will receive a bag of chicken pillows and a packet of chicken gravy. I usually make the gravy from the drippings from the chicken, but I need to simplify for such a large group. When you are ready to eat my meal, I would suggest taking the pillows out and putting them on the baking sheet that you will be using to cook them on. Cover with saran wrap (spray with Pam so they don't stick to the pillows). After they thaw out, cook them at 400 degrees for 12-15 minutes. They are made out of Pillsbury crescents so when they are golden brown, they are done. Make the chicken gravy and serve them with the gravy on top. We saute mushrooms and garnish with those. This is my make shift recipe.

Cooked chicken
2 cans crescent rolls
stouffers chicken stuffing mix
cream cheese
green onions
chicken gravy
mushrooms


Cook and debone chicken, then add softened cream cheese. Add diced green onions to your liking, then salt and pepper.

Open can of crescent rolls, pinch two triangle crescent shapes to make one big rectangle. Put a nice sized scoop of chicken mixture inside and roll it up to make a "pillow." Next, get dry chicken stuffing and crush it. Then dip each pillow into the dry stuffing. Bake pillows at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. Make gravy out of drippings from chicken or get a chicken gravy packet. Pour gravy on top of pillows and add sauteed mushrooms if you want.

P.S. For those of you who like to follow more accurate recipes, there are 3 or 4 different versions of this recipe in our ward cookbook. They are the first few recipes under main dishes.

Sausage Lentil Soup

For whenever it is that we meet...
Recipe:
Evoo
onion
carrots
celery
chopped and sauteed
heat until tender remove from pan
cook sausage 1-2 links Italian
add chopped garlic
tomato paste 6 oz
8 c beef broth
diced tomatoes 1 can
Italian seasoning
pepper
1 cup lentils
parm cheese for top
add all together and cook until lentils are tender
30 minutes-45 minutes

frozen, just thaw heat and serve

The Cook's Blog

For those of you not in the ward (you two lovely ladies) here is the the Cook's blog: http://www.famofcookies.blogspot.com/