31Jul/101

Recipe: Chicken sausage stuffed peppers

A friend of mine tweeted the other day that he was making stuffed peppers for dinner, and attached a pic, which got me slightly jealous with how good they looked, so I decided to attempt some on my own. And they were awesome. Epically awesome. And easy!

Ingredients:
Red bell pepper, split in half and stem removed
Chicken sausage - the spinach and feta cheese variety from Newflower Farmers Market is what I used because it smelled good
Fresh basil
Tomatoes
Cheddar jack cheese, shredded
Salt + Pepper
Olive Oil

1) Fire up the grill, and grill up the sausage
2) Chop up the basil, and mix it in a bowl with the tomatoes which I just sort of mashed up, along with a little bit of cheese
3) Chop up the sausage, ideally back to the raw, crumbly sausage state, and mix it into the bowl of stuff, along with a pinch of kosher salt
4) Spoon in the mix into the cavity of the pepper halves, and  top with a bit of black pepper
5) Drizzle a bit of olive oil on top, put it all on some foil, and throw it back on the grill for a few minutes. Done.

4Feb/100

Recipe: Baked salmon

Ingredients:
4-6oz Salmon filet
1 roma tomato
1/4 medium onion, white or yellow chopped into big chunks
4oz mushrooms
1tspn butter, cut into chunks
Salt, pepper, garlic powder
Steamed white rice

I found a really simple baked salmon recipe that I found online, and figured I'd give it a try, changing just a little bit. It turned out to be pretty tasty, but with the ingredients used, it's hard to screw up.

1) Place onions, tomatoes, and mushrooms in some foil
2) Lay the salmon on top of the vegetables
3) Season salmon with a bit of salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Add the chunks of butter on top.
4) Fold up the sides of the foil into a bit of a bowl
5) Bake in oven/toaster oven at 400 for 15 minutes, followed by 425 for another  10. The times are pretty flexible, so long as the fish is cooked. I raise the temperature to get the outside of the fish slightly more done. The butter will melt, and most of it will drain to the bottom of the foil where it'll mix with the veggies.
6) Lay on the bed of rice

What I like a lot is what happens in step 5. Because the butter melts off, it mixes with the veggies, which gives the onions a bit of browning, and the tomatoes and mushrooms contribute their own flavors. It's pretty tasty.

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12Jan/102

Recipe: Chicken mushroom spinach enchiladas

Decided to have a couple of friends over for dinner, so went with enchiladas. I've never made them before, but looking online, they didn't look difficult. Thankfully it wasn't difficult at all once I got started. You will notice that if a recipe calls for specific measurements, I follow those to a crossed-t, but when I cook on my own, the units of precision go no further than vague gestures of human guessing. I like it that way. Keeps things interesting. This turned out better than I had hoped, and is actually fairly healthy (cheese notwithstanding, but come on, cheese isn't THAT unhealthy if used right).

Ingredients:
3 chicken breast fillets
Half of a yellow (sweet) onion
Fistful of  washed baby spinach leaves
3 twists of the black pepper mill
4oz sour cream (really, it was a dollop of the stuff, but it was about half of the 8oz container)
A few shakes of oregano
10 HEB freshmade flour tortillas
15oz can of El Paso enchilada sauce
2-spoonfuls of Texas Texas Premium brand Mild salsa (they are the best!)
2-cups HEB Mexican blend cheese

1) Cook chicken per instructions if frozen, or otherwise cook them as one normally does.
2) Cube chicken into smallish bits
3) Preheat oven to 350F
4) Return chicken to skillet, add onions, oregano, pepper until onions are slightly brown. Add spinach, mushrooms, sour cream and a small handful of cheese. Cook until spinach is a bit wilty, stirring all the while. Stir in salsa.
5) Spoon even amounts of the mixture into tortillas and  place, folded side down, into 9x13 dish
6) Pour on the enchilada sauce, and cover with plenty of cheese. Bake for 20 minutes, uncovered. Let cool 5 minutes, and eat.

Chicken mushroom and spinach enchiladas

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