Monday, February 18, 2013

Honey Garlic Chicken

6 chicken pieces
3 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoon minced garlic
½ tablespoon ginger, minced






You can grill or bake this chicken recipe, but I'm going to write it for baking.
Combine the honey, soy sauce, garlic, and ginger in a Ziploc bag. Add the chicken and seal, removing as much air as possible. Refrigerate to marinate for an hour.-This is optional, usually I forget about marinating the chicken so I skip that part.
Preheat oven to 425ºF.
Lay chicken on a greased (or foil lined) baking sheet. Bake for 25-35 minutes, or until the chicken is basically done (you want to bake to be able to bake it for 15 minutes more and not dry out the chicken) Brush all of the remaining glaze on the drumsticks and bake for 10 minutes. Turn on the broiler and boil the chicken for 3-5 minutes, until crispy.

Yummy, yummy, in your tummy!!
With hungry thoughts from the kitchen;
Gabrielle W.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do it all for the glory of God. ~1 Corinthians 10:31

Friday, February 15, 2013

Baked Banana

I love sweets. I have a major sweet tooth, I did a 25 days of Christmas goodies remember! Unfortunately my waist line also loves sweets. So when I can mix good with bad, it takes the guilt off. Like, chocolate covered strawberries,  fruit smoothies, frozen banana covered in chocolate, you get the idea. Well, this dessert is take care of the chocolate craving without add (to much) guilt!
 Phyllo dough (I divided one roll amongst 6 bananas)
6 medium ripe bananas
1 tablespoon chopped walnuts,
Cinnamon
Canola oil spray
Chocolate chips
Vegetable oil
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Spray an 13x9 inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.  
Unroll thawed phyllo dough and place it on your workspace, cut dough in half (cut in half the short way-you want two thick stacks not two thin ones). Divide each stack into three piles (leaving you with 6 stacks), place a peeled banana along one end and sprinkle the rest of the dough with a sixth of the chopped walnuts.  Sprinkle the banana with your desired amount of cinnamon and carefully roll it up in the phyllo dough.  
Place it seam-side down in the baking dish.  Repeat with remaining bananas.  Spray the top of the bananas with canola oil.  Bake for 20-30 minutes or until the tops are golden brown.  
 Melt desired amount of chocolate chips with a little bit of oil mixed in (the oil helps the melted chocolate stay soft like a glaze).  Drizzle the chocolate on top of baked bananas. You can either serve this warm or cooled (I like mine cooled, while my sister likes hers warm), either way, serve with a yummy dollop of cool whip on
top. 

Enjoy!!!
With hungry thoughts from the kitchen;
Gabrielle W.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do it all for the glory of God. ~1 Corinthians 10:31

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Crunchwrap Suprreme

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I forgot to get a picture of my crunchwrap supreme, but the above is what my (kind of) looked like. The tortillas we bought were to small, so we used two, we folded it like above (to much filling showing) and then placed another tortilla over it, flipped it and folded it again. Either way, this is really, really good! Everyone in my family loved it!!! And, I know what's in this taco! Don't get me wrong, I love taco bell, but I also like NOT eating a boat load of preservatives! It may look and sound intimidating, but it really is easy, the folding part is kind of hard, but you figure it out quickly.

Large Flour tortillas
1 lb ground beef, cooked (make sure it's hot when you make your wrap)
1 pkg taco seasoning
Sour Cream
Tortilla chips
Warm Queso Style cheese (optional-I preferred it without-it tasted the same without and you save calories)
Shredded Cheddar cheese
Shredded lettuce
Diced Tomatoes
Mix together the beef and taco seasoning. Depending on your tortillas you may need to warm your tortilla a little, take a tortilla, **spread some sour cream in the center, add some beef, then cheddar cheese and then some tortilla chips (you may need to break them up a little), if using-plop on some queso cheese; now add your lettuce and tomatoes. 
On medium-low heat in a skillet put a little butter in the pan. Once the butter is melted, your pan is ready.
Now, fold your wrap, like the picture above (it's OK if a there's a slight opening). Place, folded side down in skillet cook until brown (don't flip early). Brown other side and then enjoy-just be careful it may be hot!
**You could always make it like my mom, fill it like you're going to fold it in half and fold it in half, rather than wrap it. 
Makes 4 wraps. 
With hungry thoughts from the kitchen;
Gabrielle W.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do it all for the glory of God. ~1 Corinthians 10:31

Buffalo Chicken Pizza

This pizza is really good. My mom said she thinks she prefers it to regular pizza. It's so different you could have regular pizza one dinner and the next dinner serve this pizza. 

Uncooked Pizza Crust (I used my homemade recipe found HERE )
1/4-1/2 cup thick (i.e. not light) Ranch Dressing (I just eyed it)
1 cooked chicken breast, thinly sliced into chunks
1 cup buffalo sauce
2 cups mozzarella
Preheat oven to 450.
Spread the ranch dressing onto pizza crust. Mix together the chicken breast and buffalo spread over pizza (you may have extra sauce in the bowl you can either pour it over or discard it). Top with mozzarella cheese, cook for 15 minutes or until done.

With hungry thoughts from the kitchen;
Gabrielle W.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do it all for the glory of God. ~1 Corinthians 10:31