Lucky for me, there are wonderfully balanced spice packets from Lawry's to make dinner a snap. I need all the help I can get in the kitchen. I am NOT a cook (I took shop in jr high, NOT home etc). If presented a recipe, I can follow it, make me come up with a combination and you might as well order a pizza!
I tried this chicken dish on my family and even my picky 4 year old ate it up. I will admit I did use canned mushrooms in place of slicing free ones myself, but other than the time involved in "browning" the chicken, it took NO time to prepare this meal. I was able to make rice and veggies in the microwave while cooking this up and dinner was DONE!
I can't wait to try the other 3 new Lawry's varieties:
Asian Style Beef & Broccoli, Chimichurri Burrito Casserole, and Mediterranean Sundried Tomato & Garlic Chicken.
And now to the giveaway. The winner will receive a Lawry’s “Complete Meal Ideas” gift pack that includes all four of the new Lawry’s seasoning mix varieties – Asian Style Beef & Broccoli, Chimichurri Burrito Casserole, Mediterranean Sundried Tomato & Garlic Chicken, and Tuscan Style Chicken Marsala with Garlic & Basil – in addition to a marinating dish. (A HUGE Pyrex, yay!)
To enter leave a comment on some easy "cheats" you use in the kitchen that changes up dinner but also takes NO time to prepare.
Giveaway will end next Tuesday December 7th. One entry per reader.
Disclosure: Lawry's through MyBlogSpark offered me the Complete Meal Ideas gift pack to review and one to give away to one of my readers. No other compensation was provided and all opinions as always are my own.
18 comments:
I'm actually a good cook, but a favorite easy meal is homemade Alfredo. Most people think you need to buy a jar but they are soooo wrong.
Melt 2 tbsp butter on medium. Sprinkle some garlic salt. I like to include Tony's to give it some spice. Add a small carton of whipping cream. Whisk until warm. Add a small carton of fresh shredded parmesean. Whisk.
DONE!
I cook bacon in the oven, no mess!!
One of my cheats is scrambling eggs in the mircrowave. Takes less time and I don't have to hand wash a skillet.
I either grill or bake boneless breasts sprinkled with Greek seasoning. I then flash freeze and keep ready for many different meals. Some of the meals:
1. chopped over noodles and a white sauce
2. quesadilla- add cheese,beans, and corn
3. roll up with lettuce, tomato, cheese in a tortilla
4. In place of cooked chicken in any casserole
5. Chicken salad sandwich
6. Over noodles with a pasta sauce and mozzerella
7. In stir fry dishes
I keep frozen hamburger patties in the freezer. For a quick meal, I fry some up, drain off the grease, cover them with a can or two of cream of mushroom soup, sprinkle with garlic powder, top with a lid, and let them simmer a few minutes. I add a vegetable and serve the "gravy" over rice (the microwaveable kind.) It's easy to make and is a nice change from plain old hamburgers.
Using canned beans and mushrooms like what you did when calling for fresh. It's super quick and easy and no difference in taste.
I've been baking my meatloaf in microwave for years. Its Great that way. Cooks in only 15 minutes.
I guess I need a cheat to enter....
I use instant pudding in my banana pudding but I mix in 1 cup of whipcream to disguise it
I have found that my biggest time saver in the kitchen is using the crockpot. You can cook practically anything in them! I just throw everything in the crockpot before I leave for work in the morning & when I get home...TADA...it's all done! And now that I've discovered the crockpot liners, the clean up is super quick too :)
Left over Rotissere chicken...packaged pie crust, can of cream of chicken soup and steamable peas and carrots....i usually make 2 eat one and freeze one! Its a snap!
Amy
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I like to use frozen mixed vegetables in my fried rice! They're as good as fresh! :)
For breakfast I use poineer brand pancake mix and you only need water and the kids love them...also my step mom said to make molest in a ziploc bag with whatever you want and then place them in a boiling pot of water so you can make many different ones at the sometime.
I take rice a roni fried rice and add diced up chicken to it. To make chicken fried rice and sometimes add canned peas and corn.
i've recently started doing some once-a-month cooking with a friend, and most times i just have to thaw something, then throw it in the oven to bake while i change clothes, etc, and viola - dinner's ready!
I'll boil and shred 4 chicken breasts at a time and freeze for later use. I'm also one of the world biggest fans of the crockpot! Can of cream of chicken soup, 8oz cream cheese, 2 cups of chicken broth, chipolte peppers in ancho sauce some salt and pepper over chicken in the crockpot 4 hours later. awesome chipolte chicken.
Mine would be I make big batches of brown rice and then freeze them by the cup size so all I have to do pull out the bags in the morning and then they're all ready for dinner that night!
My biggest cheat is to get the kids involved. They can peel an onion or stir a pot just as easily as I can, and it frees me up to do the things they can't. Another cheat is to freeze 1 pound of ground meat flat in a ziploc bag - that way the meat defrosts in no time because the package is so thin.
I actually use Lawry's Garlic Salt to cheat when I need to change things up. It does miracles on changing the flavor of anything from chicken breasts to fried potatoes.
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