Oven baked red curry chicken

The other night I had chicken breasts in the refrigerator but not a clue of how I wanted to make them. So I went through my cupboards and decided on this new recipe for myself.

Ingredients;
Red curry paste
Mrs dash seasoning
Salt
Coconut oil
1/2 can of Tomato sauce
Chicken breasts

Now I didn't measure at all, sorry about that ;) just go by your taste.

Spread coconut oil on the bottom of the oven dish then spread red curry paste, salt and mrs dash seasoning all over the chicken and place in oven dish.

Cover with foil and Bake at 375 F for 30-35 mins or until cooked (depending on thickness)
Uncover and pour tomato sauce for the last 5mins re-cover. Use more or less of sauce depending how you like it.

Serve over rice. I used jasmine rice and it was delicious!!

Easy slowcooker chicken soup!

What I love about the slowcooker chicken soup recipe is that you can add whatever you like to it depending on what you have in your refrigerator.

Yesterday I made the soup with the following.

4 cups water
4 cups chicken broth
Teaspoon of salt
Dash of pepper
Chicken breasts ( I used boneless cutlets (6) but you can use bone in too)
Baby carrots or 2 chopped carrots
2 celery sticks chopped
5 round potatoes cut in half
1 small onion
Handful of cilantro
Handful of parsley


Put all in the slowcooker and cook low 6 hours or high 4 hours

Once done take out the chicken and cut it up to small bite size pieces. Then add it back.

I also added small soup noodles (about 5oz) so add these once soup is done. And set timer for an extra 1/2 hour on high to cook the noodles.

And you will have a delicious chicken soup!! Yum!

BBQ Salmon and corn

*Season Salmon with olive oil, fresh lime juice, salt, pepper and crushed red pepper.
* Place salmon flesh side down on BBQ on High heat. Close the lid and let cook for about 8 minutes.
* Turn salmon over on skin side and let cook another 5 minutes (lid closed)
* When salmon is cooked to your desire, use a spatula to go in between the flesh and skin to separate it... And Serve. :)

Corn on the BBQ

*melt butter and season with salt and garlic powder.
*brush seasoning on corn
*Place corn right on BBQ and cook for 10-15 rotating them a couple times. Keep lid closed most the time while they cook.

Easy Foil Baked Asparagus

PreHeat Oven 400F
First, snap the lower part of the stem off
Lay asparagus on a sheet of foil.
Drizzle with Olive oil and Season with Salt and Pepper or your favorite seasoning salt

Fold up the foil, folding edges upwards.
Bake for 30 mins

Delicious!

Baked Garlic Zucchini

What you need:

Zucchini

Olive Oil

Garlic

Salt and Pepper

Preheat your oven to 400°F or 200°C.

Rinse and dry Zucchini first. Then Slice them up, your choice which way. I usually do length wise but some times I do cubes as well. Place them in the baking dish - skin side down.

In a separate bowl, add two tablespoons of Olive oil (more or less depending on how many zucchini you have) Chop up 1 clove of garlic in the olive oil and press down the garlic with a fork to get the flavor into the oil.

Brush oil mixture on Zucchinis and sprinkle them with salt and pepper.

I cover the dish with foil and place it in the oven for about 30 mins.

Quick and easy and delicious!

Homemade Pancakes

Make them any size you like!

1 1/2 cups flour

2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
pinch of salt
1 1/2 cups milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons oil

1 tablespoon of vanilla extract

1 teaspoon of Cinnamon

Mix the dry ingredients together. Add milk and eggs, oil and vanilla. Mix

Scoop mixture onto heated grill, or skillet on medium heat.

Serve with fresh fruit and maple syrup!

Oven Baked Pork Chops and Veggies

For Tonight's Dinner I made Oven Baked Pork chops with Beans, Zucchini and Potatoes!

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins at 400 degrees

Drizzle pan with olive oil.
Place 6 pork chops and season them with Mrs Dash no salt garlic seasoning and a drizzle of Diana's steak spice marinade (optional)

I chopped up onions and added kidney beans.

Cover with foil and cook for 35 mins at 400 degrees.

I also chopped up zucchini and some small round potatoes. Seasoned with mrs dash no salt garlic seasoning and a drizzle of olive oil. Toss them and cover with foil and cook for the same time as the pork chops. (add any seasoning you like!)

Yum!

Mom's Banana Cake

At the beginning of the week I bought a lot of bananas to bring to work as snacks but everyday I brought one, it ended up coming back home with me. Yesterday I noticed that I had many ripe bananas and would feel terrible if I had to throw them away. So I called my mom and asked her for her banana cake recipe ;) and mmm it turned out great!

Here is the recipe, it is so easy. (not fat free tho lol so beware of hidden cals in this delicious cake!)

4 bananas (3 mashed up and 1 banana sliced)
1 cups sugar
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
1/3 milk
3/4 oil (I used canola)
1tsp vanilla extract

2 bowls.

In one bowl mix flour/baking powder/baking soda

In bowl 2 blend mashed banana's/eggs/oil, and sugar.

Stir in flour mixture to wet mixture and add milk and vanilla, blend.

You can make 1 large cake or 2 smaller ones (sorry I am not sure of the sizes but 1 of the pans I used was 8x8 square and the other was a small rectangular one)

Pour mixture into pans and add the slices of banana pushing them into the mixture (optional; mom doesn't do this, this was my added touch ;)

cook 45 mins at 350F

Quick and Easy Chicken Breast and Veggies

I wrote about my small meal on my Main Blog today.

I'm all about fast meals, I like to cook but dread standing around in the kitchen.

Yesterday I made Chicken with Veggies and a side of rice.

Chicken:
In a casserole dish I put a little bit of olive oil to coat the bottom.
Sprinkled the oil with garlic salt.
Add the chicken.
Season Chicken with garlic salt and a drizzle of soy sauce.
Cover with foil and cook for 35-40 min on 375C depending on the thickness of the meat.

Veggies:
In a separate casserole dish- chop up veggies!
I used colored peppers and zucchini.
Sprinkled olive oil and garlic salt. Tossed
Covered with foil and baked for 30 mins (a little less if you want them more crunchy)

This took me 10 mins to prepare and in the oven in went while I checked my emails! :)

Next week when I start work I will be using my Slow cooker more often. Coming home to the main dish cooked is heaven for me! :)

Shrimp and Green Peppers

Don't have much time... But have frozen shrimp?

I always buy frozen precooked shrimp and have them in the freezer, they always come in handy when I need to make a quick and easy dinner.

• Saute chopped Onions and Green peppers (add as many veggies as you want!)
  
• Then add thawed shrimp last
• season with garlic salt and soy sauce
• simmer for about 5 mins and DONE!

I ate them with no carbs only a little 50 cal samosa that I buy frozen as well and pop in the oven for 15mins just the same amount of time for me to prepare my meal and be ready exactly at serving time. Husband had a toasted Tortilla with his meal. Either way, this meal was quick and easy just the way I like it! (Also a perfect dish to serve over rice, yum!)

Thai Coconut Shrimp Dinner! 20 mins is all you need!

20 mins is all you need!

What you need:
* a little oil for the wok
*Chopped Onions
*Chopped garlic
* Chopped Cilantro
*Red curry paste
*1 can of coconut milk
*Frozen Veggies (or fresh)
*Frozen cooked Shrimp (thawed)


*Saute onions, garlic and cilantro in a little bit of oil
*add half of the coconut milk and red curry paste, bring to boil
* add frozen veggies as much as you like (I use 2 cups)
*add remaining coconut milk, as well 1/2 cup of water
*Bring to a boil
*Add cooked thawed shrimp last, simmer for 5mins
* add any other seasonings you like, salt,garlic salt.

Serve with rice :)

Slow Cooker Chicken and Chocolate Dipped Strawberries!

Easy dinner, no sweat!!

Most grocery stores sell pre-seasoned whole chickens, perfect for slow cooker meals!

All you need to do is take it out of the packaging and drop it in the slow cooker!

Cook Low for 8 hours or High for 4 hours.



Add any side dish you like. I used peas and Caesar salad yesterday.

Peas: In a pan add a little olive oil and onions, add peas - cook for a couple minutes until onions are soft or however you like them :)

YUM

Dessert was quick and easy tooo!
I bought semi-sweet choc chips and poured about 1/2 cup into a bowl.
Heated them in the microwave for 2 minutes.
Stir the chocolate and dip the strawberries in the bowl.
Once all dipped place on plate and in the fridge to harden.
They harden quick so you can make them before you sit to eat dinner and they will be ready for dessert!

Stuffed Peppers - My specialty

Easy Stuffed Peppers! I will write "optional" on the ingredients that you do not neeed to have, and remember you can add anything you like to them, make them to your liking.

In a bowl combine:
1 package Ground meat (use any you choose, beef/turkey/chicken)
1 package of rice mix, any flavour you desire!
Chopped Cilantro (hand full) (optional)
Chopped Onions - I like a lot! (optional)
Seasoning of your choice - I use salt and sometimes garlic powder and hot sauce! (optional)

Mix all together.

Cut the top of your pepper and scoop out the inside.

Then, Scoop in the meat mix in each pepper.

What I also like to do is chop up Mozzarella cheese and stuff pieces of them between the meat mixture in the pepper. When it's all melted it tastes so yummy.

Depending on how big the peppers are you can fit 4-6.

Put in slow cooker and put timer on for 8 hours on Slow or 4 hours on high.

Serve with Salad or any side dish you like.


The picture above I have Caesar salad with cucumber and a avocado salad.

Avocado salad/salsa:
Chop cilantro, green onions, tomatoes, (sweet onions if you want too and hot peppers if you like it spicy!) some dashes of lemon juice and salt. Refrigerate for a couple hours or over night. Then when ready to serve, cut up avocado and add it to the mix.

Stuffed peppers are very filling. I usually make 4 and my husband and I only eat 1 each and 2 left over for lunch next day.

Try it out!

Recipes!!

I decided to start this blog to write the yummy EASY recipes that I love!

My husband and I are always on the go, and although I have been home (laid off) with more time to cook, I just hate having to waste my day cooking. So here I will post my easy to do Breakfasts, lunches and dinners and of course desserts! My main focus will be easy fast dinners.

Just think, walking in your door after 8 hours of work and dinner will take you less than 15mins to get it on the table! And a healthy dinner too!

Appliances I use:
Stove and Oven of course!
Slow Cooker and Toaster Oven :)
Blender (rarely)
Grill (sometimes)

Hope you all enjoy my new recipe Blog!

Tania