Recipe: Chicken with Spinach and Tomato

Ingredients:

• 8 to 12 ounces fresh chopped or baby spinach, cleaned
• salt and pepper
• 1/4 cup chicken broth
• 4 chicken breast halves, boneless, pounded slightly to even thickness
• 2 tsp Italian Seasoning
• salt and pepper
• 1 large tomato, diced
• 1 onion chopped

Preparation:

Heat oven to 350°. Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking dish or spray with cooking spray. Put spinach in the baking dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add chicken broth. Sprinkle chicken with seasoning blend, salt, and pepper; arrange over the spinach. Sprinkle with the diced tomato and onion. Cover the baking dish with foil. Bake for 25 minutes. Uncover and bake for 10 to 15 minutes longer, or until chicken is cooked through.
Serves 4.

Out of oven

Before oven

Recipe: Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Ingredients

• 1 lb skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut into bite sizes pieces
• 4 slices turkey bacon
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp chili powder

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil, and spray with cooking spray.
2. Wrap bacon around each chicken fillet, and secure with a toothpick.
3. In a small bowl, combine sugar, salt and chili powder. Roll the bacon wrapped chicken breast in the sugar mixture until thoroughly and evenly coated.
4. Place on baking sheet and bake in oven for about 20-30 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and bacon is crisp.

Chicken Alfredo

Chicken and Bok Choy ~ Recipe

Chicken and Bok Choy

Ingredients:

2 tsp Olive Oil

2 lbs Chicken of your choice (Pictured is deboned boiled drumsticks)

Bunch of Bok Choy

Package of Snow Peas

1/2 cup of Leeks sliced

2 Cups Chicken Broth

1/4 cup of Corn Starch

Directions:

Heat pan on medium heat, add Olive oil.
Sautee chicken until cooked.
Add snow peas and leeks.
Sautee for another 5 minutes.
Add Chicken Broth and Bok Choy.
Lower heat to simmer
Cover and allow Bok Choy to wilt.
In seperate small bowl add corn starch and a few teaspoons of cold water. Stir until Corn starch is dissolved. Add to liquid in pan and stir.
Recover for 5 minutes then serve over steamed rice.

Enjoy!

Spring Chicken Fricassee

Our Fresh 20 meal last night! Yum!

Mediterranean Chicken with couscous salad

Well we have the funk in our house - Dakota got it Monday and Eli and I got it last night. Strep throat. UGH.

And I did NOT feel like cooking. But I didn't marinade that chicken for nothing, ya heard?

So I went thru with it. I cooked it up and I ate the dickens out of it! And it was darn tooting delicious! SO take that Mr. Strep!

By the way this one was NOT gluten free - because my local shop didnt have gluten free couscous - s I splurged and bought the rainbow - cuz it was cute. YES, because it was cute!

So here is our photo:

And as always - the recipes we use are from The Fresh 20

I do NOT get paid to endorse them in any way - just sharing :)

Although I wish I did get paid - Hey - Fresh 20 - You hear that??

Wink Wink!

Chicken Tenders with Mashed potatoes and Peas

Hello!! Here is our dinner from last night.
It was supposed to be - Fish fingers with pureed peas..

So why does mine look nothing like that? Cuz it isnt.

I dont eat fish - so we did chicken tenders.
I didnt think my kids would eat green mashed potatoes so I didnt mash them together.

Same ingredients, just kept them seperated. And you know what? My kids had seconds! The potatoes were so good! The trick was fresh grated parm cheese!! MMMM...

And YES! It is gluten free!! We made our own bread crumbs out of gluten free multi grain bread - the kids love the food processor...

Here is our photo!

Chicken!

This week, I ran out of grocery money so I have been having to improvise!
Day one was a Chicken Milanese - Which I had everything for!
Here is that meal! It was so good!!

And today was supposed to be Shrimp Scampi, but I didnt have the items for that so I move don to Wednesday - which I had everything for, but it was so similar to yesterdays, I changed it up a bit - it called for rice, but I opted to use noodles - and it is def not gluten free as I didnt have the right noodles...

It was a Chicken Broccoli Casserole and it was GOOOOOD!!!

Here is a photo of that...

Yummmm!

Chili and Chicken tacos!! Ole!

And mexican week continues!

Here we have chicken tacos with a rice and veggie salad- ( we discovered we arent really fans of corn tortillas) But ate them anyways...
Chicken was spicy according to the kids, so next time, less spice...
For them at least, LOL

And the chili was astounding and had tons of hidden veggies, if your family doesnt like those sorts of things... My kids prefer veggies over meat so they were pleased to have it mixed in...
This was supposed to be served with home made corn chips - but I burnt them... Dang it!
I am NOT posting the photo of that! LOL!!

Enjoy this feast of the eyes!

Turkey, Ham and Mushroom - Oh My!

I have clearly been slacking this week! Or just havent had time, I am SO sorry!

Here are the meals I prepared for the rest of this week.
They were all hit EXCEPT - the mushroom linguine. Which, by the way, I was looking forward to the most! I was so sad! My husband and I managed to get it down, but the kids didnt even touch it. I take that back, they did try it, but made a face. Skylar even refused my offer of cookies to eat it! Geesh!

It probably would have been better with non-gluten free pasta, or more oil, or more cheese. Something. It just lacked flavor. And the citrus dressing was sooooo citrus-y. Ah well. Cant win them all!

Here are the photos combined into one post!
Enjoy!
And like always, the recipes can be found at The Fresh 20...

Lemon Chicken and Tangerine Green Beans

Lemon Chicken and Tangerine Green Beans -
Does this kinda sound like a rock band to you?

Well whatever it was pretty good!
I LOVED the beans, but my kids hated them. Bummer.

I cheated and used minute brown rice, and its LIES all LIES - Minute? More like 15 minute! I could have used my rice steamer in the same amount of time. Lesson Learned.

Reminder we are using The Fresh 20 Meal Plans Gluten Free!!

Here is your picture:

Greek Chicken & Warm Spinach Salad - Gluten Free

Tonights menu was Greek Chicken with a warm spinach salad.

I marinated the chicken for 4 hours and it was amazing! The recipe called for boneless skinless, but they didnt have that at my local grocery store. So I bought bone in. It was still amazing, and I never eat the skin anyways.
The spinach salad on the other hand - wellllll - my daughter and I didnt really care for it. It was really tomato-ish. Maybe if I cut the tomato amount in half next time. Im not sure, it just felt like it was missing something.

Anywho - it was still good, and still gluten free!

The Fresh 20

Chicken with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce and Parmesan Kale Beans

Last night was night #2 for gluten free eating for me.
I must confess I have already started getting headaches, I assume from my body detoxing a bit and the fact that I havent had any soda in two days.
But thats okay, it means its working right??

Last night was supposed to be Salmon with Roasted red pepper sauce and a side of beans with Kale.
I dont eat fish, so I changed it to chicken. I thought it was very good. Still not sure if I like kale. But I ate it. The kids all loved the chicken, my daughter tried but didnt like the beans. ( I really think she didnt like the kale). And both boys ate everything. Of course.

I really thought the kale would cook down like a spinach but it didnt. It fought me to the bitter end. ( see what I did there - bitter/kale)  but it held its crunch.

Here are some shots I took of it...

All in all, we ate, our bellies are full and not full of gluten. Score!
Stay tuned for more!!

Recipe ~ Potato Soup

Potato Soup

Ingredients:

6 large potatoes
1 1/2 cup chopped celery,  (include leaves)
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup half-and-half or 1/2 cup cream
2 Cups of Diced Ham
2 Bay Leaves
1 Cup of Carrots
2 Cans of Chicken Broth

Stovetop Directions:

1 Peel and cube potatoes.

2 Put in a saucepan along with the onions and celery.

3 Add chicken broth, enough to just cover the vegetables.

4 Bring to a boil, lower heat, cover and simmer for 25 minutes, or until all of the vegetables are very tender.

5 Using a potato masher, coarsely crush the potatoes, but don't mash them--you want chunks left.

6 Add enough milk or cream to thin to desired thickness and add salt& pepper to taste.

Crock pot Directions:

1. Peel and cube potatoes

2. Put all ingredients in crock pot.

3. Cook for 5-8 hours.

4. Enjoy!

Recipe ~ Easy Brown Asian Sauce

Today I was searching for an easy asian sauce to toss in my chicken and veggies..

I found one that was amazing!

And so simple!

Here it is!

Ingredients

• 2 cups beef broth (can be made with bouillon cubes)
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 cup corn starch (Hint: mix this with few tsp of cold water first so no clumping occurs)
• 1 tbsp sugar

• 1/2 tsp garlic powder or 1 clove garlic

That is it!!
I added sliced up chicken with squash and mushrooms to mine over a bed of white rice!
Delish!!

Pineapple Chicken - Recipe

Ingredients

3 Chicken Breasts Halved

• 1 cups packed brown sugar
• 2 tbs prepared mustard
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1/4 cup grated onion
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Juice from Pineapple Rings
• 1 Small Can of pineapple rings
• 1 tsp salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Layer chicken in a lightly greased 9x13 inch baking dish.
3. In a large saucepan over low heat, combine the brown sugar, mustard, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, onion, 1/2 teaspoon salt and water. Bring to a boil, and pour over chicken.  Top each piece with a pineapple ring.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 1/2 hour, or until chicken is no longer pink and juices run clear. 

We served ours with mashed potatoes and carrots...

Enjoy!

Creamy Chicken Recipe

Creamy Chicken

Ingredients:

3 Chicken Breasts Chopped

1 Green Pepper Sliced

1 Cup Onion Sliced

1 Cup Baby Bella Mushrooms Sliced

1 Can Cream of Chicken soup

1/2 Cup Water

1 Tbs Butter

Directions:

Saute Pepper, Onion, Mushrooms in butter.

Add Chicken, cook until no longer pink.

Add Soup and water.

Simmer 20 minutes.

Serve over Rice.

No Beef Chili - Recipe

No Beef Chili

Ingredients:

2 lbs of Ground Turkey

1 lb of Ground Chicken

1 Pack of Chili Seasoning

1 Small Can of Tomato Sauce ( I used Zesty Rotel Tomato Sauce)

1 Can of Rotel Diced Tomatoes and Peppers

1 Large Can of Diced Tomatoes

2 Cans of Pinto Beans

Directions:

Brown both meats with Chili packet.

Add all canned ingredients.

Simmer for an hour or more.

Serve.

Yep, its that easy!

We served ours with Cornbread Muffins...

Chicken Teriyaki - Recipe

Chicken Teriyaki

Ingredients

Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast
Broccoli Cauliflower Frozen Mix
1 Onion
A Bell Pepper ( I used Red)
1 tbs Garlic
5 tbs of Sweet Baby Rays Teriyaki Marinade
2 tsp Olive Oil
3 tbs Soy Sauce
3 or 4 Sprigs of fresh parsley
Salt and Pepper to taste

Directions

In a skillet, saute chicken, onion and pepper until cooked...
Add garlic, soy, parsley and marinade...
Simmer for about 15 minutes.

Serve over white rice...

Orzo Pasta Mushroom Meal - Semi Home Made Recipe

Orzo Pasta Mushroom Meal

Ingredients

1 Box of Velveeta Cheesy Skillets - Chicken and Broccoli Flavor
( For this you will need Chicken Breast or as I did it, Ground Chicken and 1 1/2 Cups of Water)
1 Cup of Baby Portabella Sliced Mushrooms

Directions

1. Make Package according to directions:
2. Cook Ground Chicken all the way through then toss in Mushrooms
3. Add water, pasta and seasoning packet.
4. Add Broccoli Packet. Simmer until water is gone.
5. Stir in Velveeta Pack.

Thats it... A Semi Home Made Meal in 20 minutes!!