Chicken Pesto Stromboli

Chicken Pesto Stromboli

What you need:

Rhodes Rolls Frozen bread Loaf

Pesto Sauce

Spinach

Cooked Shredded Chicken

Mozzarella

Parmesan

Garlic Salt

Egg White

Here is how you do it! 

Thaw bread according to package

On greased counter roll out to a rectangle about the size of a cookie sheet

Spread Pesto all over leaving a 1 inch space from edge

Sprinkle Parmesan on top of that

then sprinkle Mozzarella

Layer you Spinach on that

Last your shredded Chicken

Now you are going to roll it starting at the long end

Roll it all the way so it makes a long tube

Place on a greased cookie sheet, make sure seam is on the bottom

Tuck ends under

Brush with egg whites

Sprinkle with Parmesan and Garlic Salt

Cut slits along the top to vent

Let Rise 30 minutes. Bake @350 until golden brown.

This is super yummy! You could fill it with all different things. Use your imagination. It may seem complicated, but it is not. It is so easy, and the whole fam loves it. 

Red Pepper Pasta

ROASTED RED PEPPER PASTA

2 roasted red peppers
Or
1 jar roasted red peppers
Blend together with:
1 bar cream cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
1 clove garlic
Parmesan cheese (1/2 c or so)
Pour over cooked bowtie pasta and mix in ½ bag of frozen peas.
Delicious!!!

this is one of my favorite meals in all the world!

Parmesan Chicken

also from http://www.domesticationinprogress.blogspot.com/

Parmesan Chicken

SO EASY, especially if you don't know what to do with that frozen chicken in your freezer.I love this chicken even more than the one at that Italian restaurant we all know...

Ingredients

1 tsp crushed garlic

1/4 C olive oil

1/2 C Italian style bread crumbs

1/4 C fresh grated Parmesan cheese

1/4 C grated mozzarella cheese

2 chicken breasts

How to:
1 - Heat oven to 425

2 - Warm the garlic and olive oil to help blend the flavors (I do this in a bowl and heat it on low in the microwave)

3 - Combine the Parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs in separate bowl

4 - Dredge chicken through olive oil and then bread crumbs so it is fully covered and place in glass pan

5 - Bake for about 30-35 min, until chicken is cooked through

6 - Place mozzarella cheese on chicken and broil until cheese is brown and bubbly

7 - Serve with steamed vegetables or pasta

tortellini soup

YUM! this was some good soup. i copied and pasted and stole from dani's blog so here is a plug for it. they have some yum recipes. go here when stumped for a meal. www.domesticationinprogress.blogspot.com.

Tortellini Soup
The Ingredients


1 1/2 pkg tortellini (you can find this in the "deli meats and cheeses" section of the grocery store)- they come in packages of about 10 oz. I usually buy two and use a package and a half. The leftover tortellini is also great with a little pasta sauce for lunch the next day. Or you can freeze it.
24 oz. chicken broth
4 garlic cloves - minced14 oz. can of stewed tomatoes
1/2 lb. ground sausage (the butcher out here had never heard of ground sausage. he kept trying to get me to buy sausage links but I eventually found these "sausage patties")- you can use the whole pound if you want to but I find it overwhelms the soup. basically, it becomes "sausage soup" with tortellini - stick with the 1/2 lb.
1 tsp. basil
1 pkg chopped spinach (in the freezer section, but thaw and drain before adding it to the soup)
1/2 c Parmesan cheese
1 can tomato sauce (optional)* I also think adding some white beans, zucchini, or chickpeas would make this soup even better... I just haven't tried it yet.

How to:

1. Brown the sausage and garlic.
2. After the sausage and garlic has cooked through, drain the fat and dump the sausage into a large soup pot.
3. Add the chicken broth, stewed tomatoes and basil
4. When the soup is boiling add the tortellini and simmer for about 10 minutes* if you think the broth is too thin add the can of tomato sauce - I always to because I like the sauce a little heartier
5. Add the spinach and Parmesan cheese and simmer for about 10 minutes more
6. Serve with a small salad and garlic bread and you've got dinner!

Pumpkin Soup

Fall is here!! So, of course, I had to make

Pumpkin Soup

1 sugar pumpkin (3lbs-cooked soft) or
4 cups canned pumpkin
1T salt
1/4 t pepper
4T butter
1 C. chopped onion
1/2 C red pepper
large jalapeno-quarter, seed and mince
4 C chicken broth
1/4 C creamy peanut butter
1/2 C cream or milk (I use milk)
2T fresh lime juice (I use bottled sometimes)
green onion (if desired)
To roast your pumpkin, turn oven to 350 degrees and bake pumpkin, cut in half and seeded) for 1 hour.Remove from skin.
In soup pot, melt butter, saute onions. Add pumpkin, red pepper, jalapeno and broth. Bring to a boil and let simmer 20 minutes. Stir to break up pumpkin. Next, remove all but one cup of soup and put in to food processor o blended and puree. Pour back in to pot and add peanut butter and cream or milk. stir until peanut butter is melted. Add lime juice and salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with green onion if desired.
Really good and it was good with Dilly Bread (see blog for recipe). Happy Fall!!

Chicken Pesto Pizza

Chicken Pesto Pizza

I made up half of this recipe but it turned out well and it was tasty so if you want a variation on regular pizza, try this.

Pizza Shop Dough

4 3/4 C flour

1t. salt

2t. sugar

1t. basil

3/4 t. garlic poweder

Mix above ingredients and add:

1 3/4 cup warm water

> let yeast foam in water

2T. yeast

This dough is pretty moist (almost sticky)

Let rise for 1/2 hour

Chicken

This is the part I made up. I had 2 chicken breasts and I put them in a baking dish sprayed with pam and sprinkled garlic salt, basil and rosemary and a dash of seasoning salt on them and let them bake for 1 hour in a 350 degree oven, covered in tin foil. Then I shredded them when they came out. You can use any spices that sound good to you.

Pesto

Basil

Parmesan Cheese

Olive Oil

Garlic (1 clove or more)

salt and pepper (to taste)

I don't have any measurements for this but I used about 1/4 C. or a little more olive oil and about 2 cloves of garlic. The rest i just added until it was a spreading consistency. The cheese will really help with that. I let all the flavors mix together and then made everything else. Then spread the pesto on your dough, add the mozzarella and the chicken and bake for 15-20 minutes on 350. We put sliced tomatoes on top. Very tasty!