Family favorites
I have been making these chicken bites for a number of years now. I usually make these tasty bites using my brother’s home made BBQ sauce but because that recipe is under lock and key, I am going to give you one that you might make with your favorite seasonings and your favorite BBQ sauce! I like to use a hearty sprinkle of Cajun seasoning but you can use any of your favorite spices I like to use spicy seasoning, then a sweet BBQ sauce.
INGREDIENTS
3 chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
1 package center cut bacon, cut in half
1 Tablespoon of Cajun spice
1 cup honey BBQ sauce
Toothpicks
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line a baking sheet with tin foil and set aside. Sprinkle the bite size chicken pieces with the seasoning and wrap once piece of bacon around each piece of chicken securing with a toothpick. Place each chicken piece on the baking sheet. When all of the chicken has been wrapped bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Turn the chicken pieces and bake an additional 15 minutes. Take the pan out of the oven and drain the liquid from the baking sheet and move your oven rack to the upper portion of the oven. Turn the oven to broil leaving the oven door slightly ajar. At this point brush each chicken piece with BBQ sauce and place back in the oven to broil (leaving the door slightly ajar) for about 2-3 minutes until the sauce starts to caramelize. Turn the chicken pieces over and brush the second side with the BBQ sauce and broil the second side for 2-3 minutes (leaving the oven door ajar). When the BBQ sauce has caramelized and the bacon has crisped up, remove from oven and serve warm OR place in a crockpot on the WARM setting to enjoy through the afternoon or evening!
Enjoy,
Quick and easy meals are my favorite and this recipe is just that. I had dinner on the table within 30 minutes and we all really enjoyed it. Feel free to add a little more crushed red peppers if you want a little more heat. I also made this a little easier buy using a microwave bag of steamed broccoli to add and I served this over Basmati rice and it was the perfect compliment.
INGREDIENTS
4 Tablespoons of water
2 Tablespoons of ketchup
1 Tablespoon of soy sauce
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon honey
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
1/4 cup scallions, sliced
4 cloves garlic, minced
Steamed broccoli florets
1 pound medium sized shrimp peeled, deveined and tails removed
Basmati rice
DIRECTIONS
In a bowl stir together water, ketchup, soy sauce, corn starch, honey, red pepper flakes and ground ginger. Mix well and set aside. Steam your broccoli florets and set aside. Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium /high heat, add the shrimp and scallions and cook until shrimp are just starting to turn pink then add garlic, your desired amount of steamed broccoli and the sauce. Cook until the sauce is thickened and the shrimp have cooked through.
Serve over rice.
Enjoy,
This apple bread is to DIE FOR! No joke this is hands down the BEST apple bread I have ever tasted! My good friend Cathy from work made this bread and brought some in for us to try. We all went crazy over this and had to have the recipe! So when I made this at my house last week we had just a small snow storm the night before. While the boys were out clearing the driveway I was inside making this bread. When Robby walked in the door he instantly said how good the house smelled and made his way over for a warm piece of the bread. He decided that this MUST be made for every holiday or any day! Jim came in next and loved it just as much as Robby and I did! Needless to say this apple bread was GONE, G_O_N_E , gone by the end of the day not a single crumb could be found! If you want to impress everyone at your house I highly suggest making this apple fritter bread!
INGREDIENTS
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2/3 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup milk (I used 1%)
2 apples peeled and chopped (I used fuji apples) Mixed with 2 Tablespoons granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon
GLAZE
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1-3 Tablespoons milk, depending on how thick you want your glaze.
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan with non-stick spray and set aside. In a medium size bowl beat the white sugar and butter together until creamy. Beat in eggs one at a time and add vanilla extract. In another bowl combine and whisk flour and baking powder then add a little bit at a time into the creamed butter mixture stirring until well combined. Mix milk into the batter until smooth. In a medium bowl mix together the brown sugar and cinnamon, peel and chop the apples and add to the brown sugar and cinnamon mixture. Stir to coat all of the apples. Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan, add half of the apples on top of the batter and half of the brown sugar/ cinnamon mixture. Lightly pat apples into the batter. Pour the remaining batter over the apple/cinnamon layer and top with the remaining apples and then the brown sugar cinnamon mixture. Lightly pat the apples into the batter. Bake in a preheated oven for
50-60 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean.
To make the glaze simply mix the powdered sugar and desired amount of milk to get the thickness you like and when the apple loaf has cooled for at least 15 minutes, drizzle with glaze.
Enjoy,
I love a good , hearty, easy, tasty dish that can feed a crowd! This casserole hit ALL of those marks and I LOVE it! This can also be changed up anyway you want, you can use almost any cheese you like or sausage links (sweet or spicy) instead of kielbasa. Be warned this makes a TON but don’t worry your friends and family will all enjoy it!
INGREDIENTS
12 ounces of cooked smoked kielbasa, sliced in rounds
1 pound spiral pasta
1 1/2 jars of pasta sauce (I used Ragu onion and garlic 24 ounce jars)
2 jars roasted garlic parmesan Alfredo sauce ( 14.5 ounce jars)
1 1/2 cups sharp cheddar cheese grated
1 1/2 cups Monterey jack cheese grated
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook the pasta according to package directions. Heat the sliced kielbasa in a medium saucepan until lightly browned on both sides. Spread 1/2 cup of the spaghetti sauce on the bottom of a 9×13
pan. Layer half of the pasta , then half of the kielbasa, half of the remaining spaghetti sauce, half of the Alfredo sauce and half of the cheeses. Repeat with all of the layers ending with the cheese on top. Cover with foil and bake for 25 minutes. Remove foil and bake an additional ten minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly. Serve with a side salad and garlic bread.
Enjoy,
We have all seen the smokies wrapped in crescent dough. Well if you like those you are going to LOVE these. These little bite size treats are so good. I used a sweet pineapple sausage with uncured bacon so I had the sweet flavor from the sausage and a crispy texture from the pastry. I did not serve this with a dipping sauce but if you use a spicy sausage you could certainly add a dipping sauce. Maybe a honey mustard sauce or a sweet and sour sauce. This recipe is so versatile, you can make some sweet and some spicy any way you want it ! You are going to love this recipe!
INGREDIENTS
One sheet of puff Pastry
three sausages (your choice sweet or hot)
1 egg yolk
1 Tablespoon of water
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Open up the thawed puff pastry and slice into three pieces following the fold marks on the pastry. Taking one section at a time, roll the dough out on a clean work surface dusted with a slight bit of flour. Roll the dough out so it is long enough to wrap completely around the sausage. Before rolling the sausage in the pastry, mix the egg and water together and brush this along the edge of the pastry all the way around. Now wrap the sausage completely in the pastry and put in the freezer for about ten minutes and continue with the following two pieces of pastry placing them in the freezer when they are wrapped. After ten minutes take the sausages out and slice them into about 1 inch slice and place each piece in a mini muffin tin with the cut side up. Bake for 25 minutes or until the pastry is puffed and golden. Serve warm.
Enjoy,
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