Oven Baked fajita

Oven Baked fajita

Ingredients:

1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into strips
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsp chili powder
1 1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/4 tsp seasoned salt
1 (15 oz) can diced tomatoes with green chilies (Rotel)
1 medium onion, sliced
1/2 red bell pepper, cut into strips
1/2 green bell pepper, cut into strips

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. 

Place chicken strips in a greased 13×9 baking dish.
In a small bowl combine the oil, chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, dried oregano, and salt.
Drizzle the spice mixture over the chicken and stir to coat.
Next add the tomatoes, peppers, and onions to the dish and stir to combine.
Bake uncovered for 20-25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and the vegetables are tender.

Sausage Bites

Sausage Bites

Ingredients*
1 lb. hot sausage (pork or turkey)
1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese
2 packages crescent rolls
Dash salt & ground black pepper
Directions
In a saute pan, brown sausage; drain.
Add a dash of salt and pepper.
Blend in cream cheese until the cream cheese is melted.
Unroll one package of crescent rolls and place on a baking sheet. With your fingers, gently press the seams together to seal them. Spread the sausage mixture evenly over the crescent roll dough, leaving about a 1/2-inch border along the edges.
Unroll the remaining package of crescent rolls and place on top of the sausage mixture.
Press the edges together to seal.
Gently press the seams together.
Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes, or until crescent roll dough is golden brown.
Cut into small squares and serve.
(A pizza cutter makes really quick and easy work of the cutting.)

MARYLAND CRAB CAKES

MARYLAND CRAB CAKES:

INGREDIENTS:
1 large egg
2½ tablespoons mayonnaise (I like Hellman’s Real)
1½ teaspoons Dijon mustard (I like Maille brand)
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ cup finely diced celery (you’ll need one stalk)
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley
1 pound lump crab meat*
½ cup panko (I like the Whole Foods 365 brand for this recipe)
Canola oil

DIRECTIONS:
1. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.

2. Combine the egg, mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire, Old Bay, salt, celery, and parsley in a large bowl and mix well. 

Add the crab meat (be sure to check the meat for any hard and sharp cartilage) and panko; gently fold mixture together until just combined, being careful not to shred the crab meat. Shape into 6 crab cakes (about ½ cup each) and place on prepared baking sheet. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

3. Preheat a large nonstick pan to medium heat and coat with canola oil. When oil is hot, place crab cakes in pan and cook until golden brown, about 3-5 minutes per side. Be careful as oil may splatter. Serve immediately with tartar sauce or a squeeze of lemon.

Quick Tartar Sauce

Ingredients:
1 cup mayonnaise
1½ tablespoons sweet pickle relish
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon minced red onion
1-2 tablespoons lemon juice, to taste
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Sausage, egg and biscuits casserole

Sausage, egg and biscuits casserole

1 can buttermilk biscuits any brand
1 lb  sausage 

1 c shredded mozzarella
1 c shredded cheddar
6 eggs
3/4 cup milk
salt & pepper to taste

Directions
Cut biscuits into six to eight pieces place in a grease 8x8 pan, 

brown sausage on the stove top and drain 

spread over the cut up biscuits, 

beat eggs and add milk and salt and pepper to them 

 pour over sausage and biscuits, 

sprinkle both shredded cheeses over the top.
Bake in 8x8 pan at 425 for 30-35 min. Let sit 5 min.

MELT IN YOUR MOUTH CHICKEN

MELT IN YOUR MOUTH CHICKEN

And it's Healthy...So much better than fried!!!

1/2 cup parmesan cheese
1 cup Greek yogurt -plain
1 tsp garlic powder
1 1/2 tsp seasoning salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Spread mixture over chicken breasts, bake at 375 degrees for 45 mins

CHEESESTEAK CRESCENT ROLLS

CHEESESTEAK CRESCENT ROLLS

Ingredients
2 Tbsp. butter
1 onion, sliced
1 green bell pepper, sliced
3/4 lb. sliced roast beef (from the deli)
1/3 c. beef broth
8 oz. cream cheese
2 (8 oz) tubes refrigerated crescent rolls
4 slices Swiss cheese


Instructions
◦Preheat oven to 375-degrees.
◦In a large skillet, saute onion and pepper in butter over medium heat until they become soft and onions become transparent.
◦Coarsely chop roast beef and add to onion/pepper mix.
◦Stir for about 2-3 minutes or until roast beef becomes hot. Add beef broth and cream cheese, stirring until cream cheese is melted and coats the roast beef. Remove from heat.
◦Separate crescents dough into triangles and press flat.
◦Slice Swiss cheese into 4 strips and lay each strip over each crescent triangle.
◦Scoop about 2 Tbsp. of roast beef mix over each triangle and roll up, pinching the sides of the crescent so cheese doesn't ooze out.
◦Place crescent rolls on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375-degrees for 10-13 minutes or until golden brown.

CHICKEN AND CHEESE LASAGNA ROLL-UPS

CHICKEN AND CHEESE LASAGNA ROLL-UPS

3 cups chopped cooked chicken
1/4 cup milk
1 cup Ricotta cheese
1/8 teaspoon white pepper
1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
8 lasagna noodles, cooked and drained
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 cups of your favorite Spaghetti Sauce

  In medium bowl, combine chicken, cheeses, milk, and pepper
  Spread 1/2 cup mixture on each lasagna noodle; roll jelly-roll fashion
  In a 13 by 9-inch baking dish, spread 1 cup spaghetti sauce
  Arrange lasagna rolls, seam-side down in sauce in baking dish
  Top with remaining spaghetti sauce
  Cover
  Bake at 375 degrees F for 30 minutes or until hot
Serve, if desired, with additional Parmesan cheese.

Million Dollar Spaghetti Casserole

Million Dollar Spaghetti Casserole

Ingredients

1 lb. of Ground Beef
28 oz spaghetti sauce
8 oz of Cream Cheese
1/4 cup of Sour Cream
1/2 lb. of Cottage Cheese
Whole Stick of Butter
1lb pasta such as elbow noodles or rotini
Bag of shredded cheese (I use pizza blend)
optional: sliced mushrooms, diced bell pepper, diced onion

Directions

Preheat oven to 350. Boil the noodles.
Mix together the cream cheese, sour cream and cottage cheese in a mixer to thoroughly mixed together. 

Set aside.
If you have chosen to use the bell pepper or onion saute them for 3 minuted 

then toss in the hamburger meat.
Brown hamburger meat in a skillet and drain.
Add spaghetti sauce and mix together.
Put a few slices of butter in bottom of a 9×13 casserole dish.
Then layer half of the noodles in the bottom of the dish.
Spread the cheese mixture over this layer.
Then add the rest of the noodles on top of this with a few pats of butter.
Now pour the red sauce and meat on top and spread.
Bake for 30 minutes.
Remove from oven and spread cheese on top 

 return to oven for another 15 minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly.