Aunt Lisa's Crock Pot Chicken and Dressing

Chicken and Dressing (Crockpot)

 

Needed for chicken:

A whole chicken to boil, debone, and pull apart

1 can of regular size cream of chicken soup

 

Needed for dressing:

2 quarts of cornbread crumbs

2 tablespoons of sage

1 onion chopped

2 sticks of melted butter

1 large can of cream of chicken soup

¾ cup of chicken broth (from boiled chicken)

2 eggs

 

Mix all items needed to make the dressing.  At the end, mix in the chicken.  Place the mixture in the crock pot and add the regular size can of cream of chicken soup on top.  The dressing mixture needs to be juicy, so add additional broth as needed.  Place the crockpot on low heat and cook 4-5 hours.

 

Aunt Lisa said:  If you do not want to boil your own chicken, you can purchase a cooked chicken or canned chicken and cans of chicken broth, but it is not near as good as boiling your own chicken. 

Sesame Chicken

Sesame Chicken serves 3 - 4, or 5 - 6 as part of a multi-course meal.

Prep Time: 25 minutes; Cook Time: 20 minutes; Total Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 pack of chicken tenders, cut into 1'' cubes.

 

Marinade:

• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon chicken broth
• a few drops of sesame oil
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
• 1/4 tsp of Chinese 5 spice

Sauce for Sesame Chicken:

• 1/2 cup water
• 1 + 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 2 T (1/8 cup) vinegar
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 TB soy sauce
• 2 TB sesame oil
• 1 heaping tsp tomato paste
• 1 t minced garlic & 2 t of garlic juice

Other:

• 2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds (toasted in dry pan for 2-3 minutes until golden brown)
• oil for shallow frying the chicken after marinating
• 6 cups of steamed rice or instant rice, prepared according to package directions (making enough rice for 6 servings)

Preparation:

Marinade:  Mix the marinade ingredients and marinate the chicken for 20 minutes (or up to 2 hours).

Sauce: mix together all of the sauce ingredients.  In a small pot, bring ingredients to a boil, stirring continuously. Turn the heat down to low and keep warm while you are frying the chicken pieces

Fry the chicken:  Add the marinated chicken pieces a few at a time and toss them around with tongs and fry until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Repeat with the remainder of the chicken. 

Just before you are finished cooking the chicken, bring the sauce back up to a boil. 

I cooked the instant rice according to directions.  (Steamed rice is preferred, but instant works in a pinch).  I placed the cooked rice in the bottom of a large bowl, dumped in the chicken, poured over the sauce and sprinkled the sesame seeds over everything.  Enjoy!

Sour Cream Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 cup butter
• 3 cups white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 6 very ripe bananas, mashed
• 1 (16 ounce) container sour cream
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons baking soda
• 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease four 7x3 inch loaf pans. In a small bowl, stir together 1/4 cup white sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Dust pans lightly with cinnamon and sugar mixture.
2. In a large bowl, cream butter and 3 cups sugar. Mix in eggs, mashed bananas, sour cream, vanilla and cinnamon. Mix in salt, baking soda and flour. Stir in nuts. Divide into prepared pans.
3. Bake for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

My Homemade "Little Pizzas" (Little pizza = BIG flavor)

1 (8 pk) can jumbo biscuits - any flavor, any brand as long as they are JUMBO

1/2 jar of spaghetti sauce or 1 jar of pizza sauce

1 tbsp of sugar

1 pk of Pepperoni

1/2 to 1 lb browned hamburger meat

1 can (or jar) of sliced mushrooms, drained

1 onion (minced)

1 Green pepper

shredded mozzarella cheese - The amount of cheese depends on how cheesy you want it

1/2 cup of bench flour (regular flour that you dust your board with to roll out the biscuits)

Preheat your oven to 350 or 375. I take a large flexible plastic cutting board that is smooth surfaced and dust it with flour and flour my rolling pin and roll out all of my biscuits into 6-8'' rounds depending on how big you want them. Dont worry -- they'll all look different. Once I have them all rolled out, I take two trays either pizza trays or rectangle (however they will fit) and arrange them so they are not overlapping.

Open your jar of spaghetti or pizza sauce and add in the sugar, put the lid back on and shake it up. Once its mixed in, I spread it evenly across the little rounds of biscuits and then I pile on the toppings and top it with cheese! Let it bake for 15-20 minutes until the bread part underneath is golden brown and the cheese is good and melted! If cooking 8 pizzas and using two pans, half way through cooking, switch the pans from top to bottom and bottom to top rack, just so all of the pizzas can be the same and cooked through.

You can use any pizza toppings you like: mushrooms, onions, pepperoni, peppers, cheese, sausage, hamburger, steak, tomatoes, etc.. whatever you normally like on your pizza! Get the kids involved. They'd love to get in there and help arrange "their own" little pizza and put the toppings on the way they want :)

This is what I made for dinner tonight - and I had a left over porterhouse steak that was marinated in my own special sauce and grilled and i took it and chopped it up and put it on the pizzas too. Anything goes! Just be sure and drain whatever you have before you put them on there, you dont want the pizzas to get watery, they'll take forever to cook and will never be crispy. If you want your pizza crust crunchy, right after you've rolled them out, go through and poke holes in them with a fork all over so the crust won't rise (called docking) and then bake the crust separately before you add on the toppings (called blind baking). Then you'll only have to have it in the oven long enough for the cheeese to melt and the toppings to soften.

Enjoy!

2 lb cinnamon raisin bread (breadmaker)

• 4 cups White bread flour
• 2 1/4 tsp bread machine yeast

• 2 tbs Margarine
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2-2.5 tsp Ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 cup Water
• 1/42 c Sugar
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• mixins
• Raisins
• 2 tsp Salt