Hi MomCooks readers! I have a big favor to ask you! See, I teamed up with two other food bloggers and the website EmealsForYou to run a recipe contest. The three of us asked our readers to post their favorite recipes that fit one of the categories on the EmealsForYou site in our comments. Then we are going to vote on all the recipes and pick the best three. Those three recipes are going to be published on EmealsForYou!
But see, I have a problem–I didn’t get ANY recipes posted in my comments. NONE! I know I have totally awesome readers, many of whom are cooks themselves, so I’m pleading with you again- please leave me a comment with either a link to or the directions for your favorite recipe! I’ll even make it easier for you by telling you what the categories are, your recipe needs to fit into one of these:
Appetizers – Great Beginnings
Beef Entrées -Here’s the Beef
Bread – Something smells good in here
Chicken Entrées -Not the same old chicken recipes
Cooking for the Kids – Meals the kids will love
Cooking on a Budget
Desserts – Just Desserts
Diet Friendly – Good for you, balanced recipes
Easy Recipe I Can Cook – Don’t be put off by the name game!
Fish Entrées – Food for thought
Food on the Run – Grab it and Go, food on the run!
Misc – Drinks, snacks, etc.
Salad – It’s not just for rabbits anymore
Slow Cooker / Crock Pot Cooking – Busy Day Cooking
Sodium Reduced – Healthier recipes for sodium restricted diets
Soups – Comfort food with a Capital C
Starch -Stoke Up
The Other Meat Entrée – Man can’t live on Veggies alone
Vegan – For those who choose a diet based on a respect for the natural world.
Vegetables – No need to hide these in your napkin!
Vegetarian Entrée -A delicious way to get the things that are good for you.
WOW (Watching Our Waists) – Careful eating, not tasteless eating
So there you go MomCooks readers, please leave me a link to or the directions for any recipe you think is the best in one of those categories! If you could leave it by say, tomorrow, that would be super awesome!!
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This actually fits into many categories:
Slow Cooker/Crockpotting
Chicken Entrées -Not the same old chicken recipes
Diet Friendly – Good for you, balanced recipes
WOW (Watching Our Waists) – Careful eating, not tasteless eating
It might fit others but you can decide that.
Crockpot Salsa Chicken Recipe:
4 chicken breasts (we usually use six so we have left overs)
1 can rinsed black beans
1 bag frozen corn (we use use two cans of canned corn)
1 jar salsa
Mix all together in crockpot and cook 8-9 hours on low. Shred chicken w/ 2 forks, but really as soon as you pick it up or mix it, it just falls apart and shreds apart itself. You can eat it in tortillas with shredded cheese on top or over rice.
The original recipe says to put it on for 8 hours on low, but we have found that it dries out the chicken so we have started putting on for a shorter time. Tonight we had it on for 6 1/2 hours on low.
I love this recipe for Poached Chicken. The kids love it.. it´s plain old chicken… but with a twist!!
2-pound fresh whole chicken
2 tablespoons fresh ginger, minced
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons soy sauce
Ginger Condiment
4 tablespoons fresh ginger, minced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
Rinse chicken and pat dry with paper towel. Remove skin if you like. Fill half a large stock pot with water and bring to a boil. Mix together in a small bowl the ginger, garlic, 1 tablespoon oil, and salt. Stuff this inside the chicken. Next rub 1 tablespoon soy sauce over outside of chicken. Carefully place chicken in the stock pot once water begins to boil.Cover and turn off burner. Poach for one hour.
After 15 minutes, lift out chicken with tongs and let water drain out. Then place chicken back in pot. After 30 minutes, turn burner to high and bring almost to a boil, then turn off. After 15 minutes, lift again and drain. After one hour, remove chicken from pot and let cool. In a small bowl, mix together 1 tablespoon soy sauce and one tablespoon olive oil. Rub over the outside of the chicken. Chicken will be very soft and moist and easy to remove from the bone. Cut into bit-sized pieces. Serve with white rice and ginger condiment on the side.
Add noodles to the chicken broth for a delicious soup or freeze and use chicken stock in other recipes.
Hope this helps!!! :-)
Oh I have lots:
Mexican Tilapia:
1 can rotel or other mexican flavored tinned tomatoes
2 Tilapia fillets
Refried Beans
Brown Rice.
Cook beans and rice as per directions
Heat oven to 400
Put tilapia in casserole dish
top with Rotel,
Bake 20 minutes.
Serve with beans and rice
serves 2
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I have a wicked veggie curry recipe too but I don’t have measurements for the veggies.
1T olive oil
1 cup potatoes – diced in about 1″ cubes
1 sweet potato – diced same as potatoes
1 onion, roughly chopped
1/2 head cauliflower – cut into florets (can use more or less)
1 handful baby carrots
1-2 cans chick peas
1 large can whole peeled tomatoes
1/4 cup Curry Paste (I use pataks mild curry paste)
1 bag washed spinach
1 small can stock (vegetable or chicken)or water.
Par boil potatoes and sweet potatoes — about 5-7 minutes. Drain.
Splash olive oil in a pot, add onions and cook until soft — about 3 minutes.
Add chickpeas, cauliflower, carrots, & curry paste and mix until all coated with paste.
Add potatoes & sweet potatoes, Tomatoes. Stir. Add about 3/4 c. stock or water.
Cover. Bring to a boil and then reduce to simmer.
Let simmer as long as you like or until veggies are soft.
About 2 minutes before you’re ready, add in spinach, cover until wilted and stir into curry.
Serve over rice or with naan bread. Add mango chutney, yogurt or whatever your favorite Indian sides are.
NOTES: You can use whatever veggies you like. Would also be good with chicken or lamb. Freezes well. This will serve about 6-10 people depending how many veggies you use.
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Salmon tikka
1 lb Salmon cut into 1 inch cubes
1 small tub plain, fat free yogurt (6-8 oz size)
2-3 T Tikka seasoning (I use the Cost Plus World market variety)
Lime/Lime juice
Mix yogurt, tikka seasoning and juice from 1 lime together.
Add Salmon cubes and marinade at about an hour.
Heat grill/broiler
Thread salmon cubes onto skewers. Broil/Grill for about 3 minutes a side.
Serve with rice, naan, and other Indian accompaniments.
****** Hope that helps. I can dig up more too… this is off the top of my head! *******
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Here’s one of our favorite soup recipes – Turkey Potato Soup
Also, I was wanting to get this copied over to my new blog first, but here’s a good Crockpot recipe – Crockpot Lasagna
Also, I’m not sure what category you’d put this in, but here’s a yummy recipe – Peasant’s Offering – maybe Budget?
A good hummus recipe is like shelter from the storm:
Ingredients
* 1 cup dry chickpeas
* water
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 2-3 cloves of garlic
* 1 teaspoon salt
* tahini and water, to make a paste; if available, substitute fresh lemon juice for some of the water
Procedure
On the night before you plan to cook
1. In a large pot, add the chickpeas, 2.5 cups of water, and baking soda. Leave to soak for 6-12 hours.
2. Rinse.
Cook the peas
1. Add the rinsed peas to 3 cups of water, the garlic, and one teaspoon of salt. Bring to a boil. After about 45 minutes, they should swell enough for their skins to come off. Give it a stir, and use a sieve spoon to remove as many of the skins as you can from the water.
2. Cover the pot and continue cooking for about 2 hours, or until they almost dissolve to a paste.
3. Pour out the water. (optionally, some can be reserved to add later, for extra flavor)
4. Mash the peas by pressing them through a pasta sieve.
5. Let it cool for 10 minutes.
6. Add tahini and water until you get the right consistency.
Season with
* salt
* ground cumin, and/or
* fresh, coarsely cut coriander leaves
Yum!
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