Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Tuesday Topics: 5 recipes

My top recipes happen to be these homemade oreos and the world's easiest peanut butter cookies.

Here's my family's classic go-to-dinner recipe of Chicken Marsala (sorry, I don't have a picture).


-3/4 cup all purpose flour
-2 tsp. course salt
-1/2 tsp. ground pepper
-4 boneless chicken breasts
-3 T. extra virgin olive oil
-4 T. unsalted butter
-10 oz. white button mushroom
-2 cup sweet Marsala wine (I use white wine vinegar)
-1 clove of garlic
-3 T. squeezed lemon juice
-2 T. finely chopped parsley

Combine flour, salt, pepper in a large shallow dish, set aside. Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Dredge chicken in seasoned flour, tapping off excess, set aside. Add 3 T. of oil to the skillet. When oil is shimmering add chicken and cook until light browned. Put the chicken in a plate and set aside.

Then, heat 2 T. butter in the same skillet. Add mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, until mushrooms are golden and all released liquid is evaporated.

Remove skillet from heat and add wine (or vinegar). Return skillet to heat, scrapping any brown bits with a wooden spoon. Add garlic, lemon juice, remaining 2 T. of butter and parsley. Cook for two minutes till reduced and slightly thickened. Taste and adjust as needed. Pour sauce over chicken and sprinkle with parsley. Serve immediately.

I remember my mom making this dish whenever we had company over growing up. It's always a very special to me when I make it for company too.

Add some rice and there you have it! Your dinner guests will be asking for seconds and thirds!


Now for the recipes I want to try: 

The Pioneer Woman's Monkey Bread

My Baking Addiction's Pumpkin Cheesecake Trifles

While I did include one dinner recipe, you can tell at my house, it's all about dessert! 

What are you planning on making this holiday season? 

xoxo

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Day Seven

Make a favorite treat and leave it on a stranger's doorstep

The Best Lemon Cookies
{according to Nate and Kevin, that's saying something}
-a box of lemon cake mix
-one egg
-1/4 cup of oil
-1/4 cup of water
-just a little bit of powdered sugar (optional)


Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix cake mix, egg, oil and water together. Beat until well blended. Drop by tablespoon onto a greased cookie sheet.


Bake 10-15 minutes until done (for me, it's about 12 minutes).


Makes a little over two dozen cookies.


Now for the best part, sprinkle powdered sugar over your warm baked cookies, adding just an extra bit of sweet-ness!


Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly Merry Christmas.
~Pat Bracken
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