What's for Dinner [Chicken Pot Pie]

Did you do any shopping at the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale over the weekend?  I'd love to hear what you picked up and maybe add a few items to my wish list!  We had a quiet weekend and it was absolutely perfect! 

One of my favorite Sunday dinners is a simple roasted chicken.  Whether it's Sticky Chicken, Creole Butter Injected Chicken, or even a Costco rotisserie chicken, it truly is one of my very favorite meals.  As an added bonus, the leftovers make week night dinners so simple.  This chicken pot pie fits that bill perfectly.

Easy Chicken Pot Pie
Ingredients:

•  2-2 1/2 c. chicken, shredded or cubed
• 1 package mushrooms, sliced
• 1 bag frozen mixed vegetables, thawed
• 1 can cream of chicken soup (Certainly you can use a white sauce mix, but tonight this is what we went with ;).)
• 1/2 onion, diced
• dash milk
• 1 t parsley
• 1 t thyme
• salt and pepper to taste
• ready or home made pie crust (one for top only, two for top and bottom)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• In a saucepan saute onion (and garlic, if desired) in a bit of olive oil. 
• Add mushrooms and cook until soft.
• Add vegetables and seasonings. Cook 1-2 min.
• Add soup and chicken.  Heat through.  Thin with milk, as needed.
• If using two pie crusts line bottom of pie pan with one crust.  Add heated filling and top with second pie crust.  Cut the top to vent and cook for 25-30 minutes, until the crust has browned and the filling is bubbly. 
• Freezer Option: Lots of leftover chicken?  Double the filling, make one pie, and pop the remaining filling into the freezer.  When you're ready to use it, thaw and you're ready to fill a second pie.  Or, for a different twist, thaw and top with biscuits.  

Happy Cooking!

Omelette Muffins

I have a confession....it's taken me twice as long to write this post because I've had an ongoing internal debate about just how one correctly spells omelette.  Finally I googled and came up with the cause of my confusion: it can be spelled either way.  The French speaker in me has always spelled it omelette and I'm sticking with it.  All that to say I whipped up some yummy omelette muffins over the weekend.  Hubby is supposed to eat more eggs and this seemed like the perfect way to add them to our menu.

What's for Dinner? [Marinated London Broil]

The flowers are in full bloom, the sun is shining, and temps are balmy....the perfect weather for grilling.  One thing I love most about summer is having "Happy Hour" on the porch while Hubby grills up something yummy for dinner.  It's relaxing, easy, and has minimal clean up.  (I'm not one that enjoys doing dishes -- and I always manage to use every dish, pot, and pan we own.)

This recipe fits the bill perfectly.  I mix up the marinade in the morning, throw it all together, and we're ready.  It also fits my freezer marinating perfectly.  I make several packages of them when either London Broil or flank steak is on sale.

Freezer Cooking [Marinades]

Between school, tennis, and the summer tennis program (which is still in session, even though I'm back at school), there's not much time left for cooking.  This post is a short and sweet little tip that I love.   Freeze your meat in a marinade.  Yep, that's it.  I buy my meat in bulk, mix up a huge batch of marinade, and pop it in the freezer.....pretty simple.

This week's meat was pork tenderloin.  I usually get a large one at Costco, but happened upon a couldn't pass up deal at Kroger.  I cut the huge tenderloin into four smaller ones (although probably could have done even more).....