~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Camero Jones
I'm not sure how many your cooking for, so I won't give quantities, and nobody reads them. This is not baking! Let's all have some fun. Its a trial and error life.
The Great Stuffed Potato
If you want to show some love, this is the recipe. This is a true "show me what you got." The simple but truly healthy potato gives you ample room to be creative. The only challenging thing here is to get to the store and get what most kitchens do not have, a piping bag and tips. If you don't have one, go get one, there a good tool and fun.
Ingredients
What ever your heart desires but here are a few suggestions. Keep the dairy products light to keep calorie and fat count low. Parsley for health and color, onions, green leafy vegetables, artichoke, corn, asparagus tips, broccoli, kidney beans,, lean beef or chicken, carrots, your favorite cheese, a little pepperoni for a great flavor, bell pepper, la la la, bla bla bla bla. Also stuffed potato's will last three days in refrigerator and freeze great.
Method: Poke potato with sharp instrument so it don't go boom in oven. Yep, I done that a few times. Did I clean it? No, just baked it off in the oven over time. Bake potato until soft, let cool, cut down the middle, and scoop out the potato with spoon. Add your favorite ingredients and some butter and milk or cream to soften potato so it will go through the piping bag in your mixing bowl. Mix it up and taste and adjust, taste and adjust. Top with a little cheddar cheese and melt in oven. Finish with more parley and paprika for garnish and serve
Tip 1, peel a few extra potatoes and mash them and add them in with ingredients and potato so you will have enough potato to make a nice high crown of potato stuffing to fill your potato with piping bag, and have fun.
Tip 2, If your not getting along with your significant other and they are ignoring you or just being plain stupid. Wing one of these babies across the room, not a hot one. They are like little hand grenades. They splat great against a wall, window, etc, and don't clean it for a week, and don't say a word either. Lets see who gets their point across, but most important, who cleans it. It's always a battle of wills.
Cream of Tomato Soup
Lets go with something healthy!
This soup recipe is healthy for your heart, kidneys and liver. If you are maintaining a healthy lifestyle and calorie count this is a great low fat recipe. You will need a blender or food processor for this recipe.
Ingredients
Blender/food processor
Fresh tomatoes
Onions
Garlic
Carrots
Celery
Parsley, add after the soup is finished and on top for garnish
Salt, just enough for flavor or use chicken base.
Wine or a little water to help the vegetables steam
Pepper (don't be shy, a good source of chromium)
Lemon
Butter/optional
Cream/optional
Parmesan, right before serving
Method: Yes this is a labor intensive recipe but it is your health here and your health is worth the effort. First the tomatoes, we want to get the skin off. Get a pot of boiling water, slit your tomatoes at the tip with a small x, then place into boiling water for five minuets, remove then cool in running water, peel. OK, now we need to peel and steam the carrots to give them a little head start. Next, in another pot place all your ingredients here accept for the cream and parsley. Don't dice vegetables small, keep in large chunks. Put no more than a 1/2 tsp of butter per 12 ounce serving to keep calorie count low. Important, do not over cook the vegetables or the nutritional value will be lost, keep them el dente. When your mix is cooked lightly, over to the food processor. Let the machine do the chopping for you and it leaves your soup with a great texture. Now all goes back into the pot with 1 oz of cream per 12 oz serving for a low calorie count. Bring soup to a light simmer and off the stove, add parsley. If the soup is to thick for you, add a little water. Now we have something that tastes great and is healthy. If you are on a diet and exercising to lose weight but want some protein in your diet add some lean, diced grilled chicken breast to your soup or to fu if you are a vegetarian.
Tip, Go to the junk store and buy used blenders. The multiple uses of a blender can never be under appreciated for cooking or getting even. For the lip stick you found on his shirt, or the phone number you found snooping in her hand bag of your supposed friend. It works wonders on a favorite golf ball, nick knack, even a sweater if you take your time. Remember to wear safety goggles on anything harder than her damn kitchen magnets.
Jambalaya
Chicken
Smoked Sausage
Shrimp
onion
Bell peppers
Celery (optional)
Tomatoes, fresh or canned
Garlic
Salt
Pepper
Olive Oil or Butter
Wine if you haven't drank it all
lemon
Rice
Tabasco or something with a little heat
Method; First things first. I would cut about a 1 foot piece of sausage, invite your significant other or kid in the kitchen and just start shaking it at them, get your point across, Ok. Dice chicken and sausage, get your 2 favorite pots. Pot 1, cover bottom with oil or butter, add chicken, sausage, spices, and veggies, cook until el dente, then add shrimp in the last minuets, taste and adjust, taste and adjust. Pot #2 is were you cooked your rice at the right time at a 2 to 1 ratio of water and rice with a little butter and followed instruction so as not to over cook. If want, add pot 1 and 2 together or serve pot 1 over pot 2. Tell your significant other you love them or something nice to your guest's. Great with cold beer or wine, enjoy!
Secret, smoked sausage, el dente rice and vegetables, not a wad of mush, and don't make it to hot, have Tabasco at the table or your favorite sauce so guest's can add more heat if they desire.
My Chicken Gabriella
Boneless Breast of Chicken
Pepperoni
Mushrooms
Red Bell Pepper
Fresh Parsley
Cheese Tortellini
Garlic
Sea Salt
Black Pepper
Olive Oil
Wine
lemon
Vinegar
Flower
Method; In pot one, boil your tortellini until el dente and cool with running cold water, strain and set aside. Slice your chicken and dredge in seasoned flour. Place your oil in skillet and add chicken,. When chicken is almost done add the rest of ingredients and top with parsley and fresh grated parmesan if you got it. Delicious!
Secret, The vinegar, if you don't have a red bell use a can of diced red peppers, the nitric acid will do the same as the vinegar.. Also get some flowers you, and put on a little Frank in the stereo, and a sincere complement would not hurt..
Jell-O
Fun, fun, fun, tasty, wiggles, and looks real cool in the right glass. Put some pudding on top of it! Tilt glasses while setting layers, looks neat with two or more colors. Put a prize in it! Add fresh fruit to make it healthy, avoid pineapple, kiwi, won't set.. Or if you aggravated at em, put a bug in it and play dumb.
Swiss Steak
Cheap, quick, down and dirty but hardy and tasty.
Ingredients
Hamburger patty, make em fresh or frozen works fine
Some of this
Some of that
Onions
Tomato, canned chunk
Garlic
Sea Salt
Black Pepper
Olive Oil
canned brown gravy
Method; Form a patty, or buy a patty. place them in a baking pan. Chop onion into chunks and simmer in pot with garlic, olive oil, pepper. Add your tomato and brown gravy and salt if needed. Don't make the sauce to thick or to thin. Add over patties and bake for 45 minuets at 350 or until it reaches 165.
Secret, the chopped simmered onions. and some hip gyration while your at it.
