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Slow Cookers and Crock Pots are great when you want to save time in the kitchen. All of these meals are easy to prepare with less work as possible. Your meal can taste like a gourmet dinner without the hard work of cooking and prepping. Although the crockpot does a great job with any meat, I think my favorite food to cook is chicken.

Chicken will absorb all the flavors of whatever youre seasoning it with, so it really is the perfect base for any dinner. Because Im so enthusiastic about poultry, my mother got me a book of chicken crockpot recipes that is filled with over 500 different variations on slow cooker chicken. I am especially fond of combining pineapple with chicken for a wonderful sweet and exotic flavor. This book of crockpot chicken recipes has more than 40 recipes with chicken and pineapple, so I dont think I am going to run out anytime soon!

Tonight Im making teriyaki chicken with pineapple citrus glaze. Yum! If you love chili but are trying to stay away from beef, because its higher in fat and cholesterol, you may want to consider trying a chicken bean chili recipe. The first time I heard of chicken chili, I thought it probably must taste awful. But believe it or not, chicken chili can be prepared mild or spicy, with essentially the same heat and seasonings as a traditional beef recipe. My favorite chicken chili recipe turns out to be a white chili, meaning that it uses fresh yellow tomatoes, shredded chicken, chili peppers, onions, and canned white beans, plus the usual seasonings and spices that give it a smoky and rich flavor.

The only ingredient that may be difficult to find are the yellow tomatoes, since they are not always in season. You can use a rotisserie chicken to save time, or roast your own. You can have the flavors meld together when you simmer int he pot for several hours until the chicken is tender. Once you try this chicken chili recipe, you wont want to go back to beef again! Some baked chicken breast can be the main dish of a wonderful and healthy meal. You can buy big bags of frozen chicken and thaw only the amount you need for each meal.

This is often the least expensive way to purchase chicken for your family. If you like variety, baked chicken breast can be seasoned in many different ways to avoid monotony. You can season the chicken breast with pre-made marinades, homemade marinades, or dry seasonings. You can cook your dinner right away if you marinade your chicken the night before hand.

You can also season your chicken with dry seasonings like garlic or onion powder. Try seasoning your chicken with onion, garlic powder, cumin and chili powder to give it a southwestern flavor. Sprinkle this mixture on both sides of your chicken breasts and bake.

Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by the big chef
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I love eating ethnic food, especially chicken curry! In any eat-out my first choice would be Spicy Chicken, for that is most delicious, yet nutritive when cooked in the proper way. Also, It is not that hard to make at home and it impresses guests every time. And it can made many different ways too! Even though I like the spicy version of this recipe, for the kids I make a milder version. There a multitude of ways you could make it: in a soup or stew, or even little pieces in a sauce, it’s up to you. Other varieties even contain fruit or candy in it.

I guarantee, if you are looking for a delicious treat, order it at your favorite restaurant or look for a renowned recipe to prepare yourself. The bold mix of flavors will leave you wanting more!! I dont think I will ever run out of boneless chicken, because my recipe box is overflowing with pieces of paper that were ripped out of newspapers and magazines, containing new ways to prepare boneless chicken breasts. I have to admit that chicken is my favorite meat. Low and fat and high in protein, it is neutral enough it will absorbs all flavors of any ingredients that you combine it with.

So it is a perfect food that everyone enjoys when its placed on the dinner table. My only problem is trying to file and categorize all of the miscellaneous recipes that Ive collected over the years. Though my recipe box has no more room, I still have hundreds of additional recipes tucked away in folders, envelopes, old cookbooks, and strewn about my house. There are so many wonderful recipes for boneless chicken; someone should find a way to save them all. By doing this, instead of spending all my time trying to find a lost recipe, I could be cooking instead.

Bundu Khan was a friend of my father’s and whenever I bite into a succulent kebab I am reminded of him. He would suddenly drop by, stay with us for a while and then leave without a word. After months, he would appear out of nowhere, but always got out of trouble with my mom with a 5 kg tin of ghee. Before making his disappearing act, Bundu Khan would stay in our house for weeks. It was he who showed me the amazing dish called Kebabs. He used to make delicious kebabs after sneaking into the kitchen in a all vegetarian house.

After the minced meat was sneaked into the house by a co-conspirator, he would pound it and add spices and then fry the kebabs in a low pan covered in oil. And people who were otherwise vegetarian would come crawling out of the woodwork to devour the kebabs before going back to their vegetarian meal. The nice thing about a kebab is that it continues to live long after its maker is gone. Bundu Khan, too, died some years ago but not before he had bequeathed his legacy to us. My mother got the simple chicken recipe for his kebabs, and I, an abiding fondness of kebabs.

Posted on June 25th, 2009 by the big chef
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It is very normally assumed that anything which is tagged as diet, low fat or low calories is not for regular consumption and is for people with extraordinary dietary needs. This is just not the case! These foods can be used by roughly all of us as a part of our diet and one can go about and gain healthy benefits from the same too. low carb soups are one such category of foods which is getting very common. Low carb soups can be incorporated as a part of almost all your meals. If you get these soups to be boring to taste then there are surely available several options which can allow you to spice them herb. Herbs and spices are the best ingredients to alter the existing flavor of the dish and to get better it tremendously. The other good thing about herbs is that they do not finish up increasing the total calories in the dish and stay them healthy and good.

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For dinner you can go on and use these low carb soups as a complete dish by adding to it green leafy vegetables, onions and other ingredients. These extra ingredients not only improve the flavor of these low carb soups but also make them nutritious and healthy for the body too. Healthy eating patterns serve all of us well, as preventatives to disease and obesity. Low carb soups made of recipes which include vegetables, use relatively small amounts of vegetables, making the total carbs quite low.

The other issue that very often comes across is that of lack of time to cook up anything good at home. This calls for people to order food from outside not concerning the fact that most of such food is not only unhealthy but also not good to be eaten regularly. There is aid for this situation too!! There are present some very easy to cook dinner recipes which will allow you to eat home cooked food that too cooked in very less time! These easy to cook dinner recipes add in them normal ingredients which can be very easily found at home and used to make them. These easy to cook dinner recipes make cooking dinner no longer a strenuous and an arduous task and in fact makes the entire process full of fun and experimentation. You can find plenty of such easy to cook dinner recipes on the internet and try them out at home to make your dinner time fun with tasty quick and easy dinner recipes.

Also worth trying are many of the cuisines from diverse parts of the world which are not all that popular in the food circle. One such example is that of Romanian cuisine. Romanian Romanian food recipe are not only rich in flavor but at the same time are very healthy and easy to prepare. There are available many cook books with Romanian food recipes for you to try out. The internet too has several links to allow you to try your hand at these Romanian food recipes.

Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by the big chef
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The monastery’s secret chicken soup recipe still is the best I have ever tasted! They use real chicken stock, diced celery, onion and carrots, solid white breast meat, salt, pepper a dash of thyme and a generous hint of mint or dill. To separate the rice or egg noodles from what your cooking, make sure to cook them separately and keep them to themselves until its ready to serve. Then place them in the bowl. No sogginess here! With slabs of homemade bread, cheese and some fresh fruit on the side, the meal is utterly simple and thoroughly satisfying.

At the monastery, I especially enjoy this meal after evening services. Watching the setting sun through the full length refectory windows, conversations are easy, touching on the work of the day, books we are reading, or welcoming new visitors. It always transports me to a peaceful place of inner tranquility to make this chicken soup at home with a similar meal. Isn’t it wonderful that both body and soul thrive on chicken soup? Lifting us from our daily drudgery and pedestrian travails, our book publishers ought to know that a fitting metaphor for stories, sayings, and advice, is good food.

Fulfilling and lifting the soul is just as important as healing the body. The right chicken soup recipe can do both. What about a chicken wings recipe? Chicken wings are really expensive to buy at restaurants especially when you can buy a whole bag of frozen ones for five or six dollars and you get sixty or seventy wings in a bag. You can buy fresh ones and its usually three or four dollars for twenty or thirty wings. I dont have a fryer so I usually place the wings on a foil lined baking sheet and brush them with vegetable or olive oil to help them crisp and cook them in the oven.

I usually turn them once when I am cooking them and brush the other side with oil as well. The oil usually helps keep them from sticking to the pan. Once cooked, you can use sauces, such as hot sauce or ranch dressing, to enhance their flavor. If you prefer hotter wings, smear a little oil on them before sprinkling some red pepper flakes and seasoning with spices. Now that summer is here you can cook outdoors more often instead of slaving away in a hot kitchen. You can make a quick healthy inexpensive diner by firing up the barbeque and making some boneless skinless cubed grilled chicken recipes on skewers with fresh garden vegetables like mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers and onions.

You can marinate the chicken and vegetables first in a zesty Italian salad dressing for seasoning. You can serve it on top of rice or pasta and have a fresh salad to go along with it. Baked potatoes are delcious made on the grill. You just clean them and cover with foil. You can use your grill instead of the oven to cook the potato by placing it on the barbecue for approximately 30 minutes depending on its size. For a healthier potato, you can use the dressing in lieu of the traditional butter or cream cheese toppings.

Posted on June 21st, 2009 by the big chef
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You’d probably get very few definitions and plenty of specific dessert names if you were to ask a group of 100 people for their definition of a delicious dessert recipe. Probably, you may say that the most delicious dessert in the world is chocolate cheesecake. But then you still got lemon meringue pie, apple pie, ice cream cakes and a lot more. You can truly write a small dictionary of delicious dessert recipes.

Every family has a little stash of recipes, handed down from generation to generation. Every family claims there’s nothing quite like their own secret family treasure, particularly when it comes to tasty dessert recipes. It may well be that just a teaspoon of this or that ingredient can make that lemon meringue pie recipe unique and your family just wouldn’t have it any other way.

My Mom had her own little stash of wonderful dessert recipe cards, which she kept on index cards in a cute little painted metal box. Most were handed down from her Mom and Aunts. Three of my very favorite and most delicious dessert recipes are still in my possession: one is for fresh strawberry pie, a summer delight all the neighborhood kids looked forward to eating for the other three seasons of the year. The second is her Mom’s secret, to-die-for lemon meringue pie. The third is her Mom’s famous Norwegian butter cookies.

Now these are the benchmarks against which I measure any other dessert. Although these delicious dessert recipes must be duplicated – almost - in millions of other households, even Marie Callendar’s pies don’t measure up to those pies. As for my Grandma’s cookies, well, they are like a little visit to Heaven on a plate.

The fresh strawberry pie had me closing my eyes, savoring the sweet delights of a mouthful of fresh strawberries, whipped cream and a flaky pastry I have yet to master. When it was strawberry season, my Grandma and Mom and all of us kids would pile into Grandma’s car and drive from San Francisco to Gilroy to buy strawberries from the farm stand vendors.

I think what made that delicious dessert recipe an all-time favorite is the fresh smell of a lot of fresh strawberries or the fact that it took all day to gather all the ingredients.

The lemon meringue pie made with fresh lemon and lemon zest is very lemony. The graham cracker crust added to its perfection.

There must be some Norwegian secret as for the Norwegian butter cookies because I cannot duplicate the plain butter cookie, with its ever so delicately browned edges, no matter how hard I tried.

So let’s hear your vote for the incomparably delicious dessert recipe! There must be thousands!

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Posted on June 12th, 2009 by the big chef
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