HONEY GARLIC CHICKEN WINGS

I made these wings last night for dinner. After thawing the wings I did cut the skins off since Im on a low fat diet. I was really unsure if this would work and turn out ok, but it DID! It was very yummy. Ive never had a wing sauce that tasted like this. It was very different and very yummy! The hubby and daughter liked it too!

INGREDIENTS
3 lb Chicken wings
1/2 c Honey
3 tb Vinegar, cider
1/4 ts Pepper, black
x Garlic salt
1/4 c Soy sauce
5 Garlic cloves; minced

PREPARATION
Trim wings and Season with garlic salt; arrange in a 13"x9"x2" baking dish. Cover with foil and bake at 325F for one hour until tender; drain all liquid. Combine remaining ingredients in a saucepan and simmer five mins. Drizzle honey mixture over spareribs and bake, uncovered, at 350F for 30 mins., baste every 10 mins.

Low Fat Low Calorie Chicken Salad- I made up!

Like I said in my last blog post, I been craving chicken salad but didnt want all the calories of the mayo in it. So I threw this together hoping it would turn out good, and it turned out better than good. It was GREAT!

1 large can chicken drained
1 cup red seedless grapes, all cut in half
salt and pepper to taste
fat free mayo to taste
green onion to taste

Mix all together, serve on wheat bread!

Honey Lemon Chicken

Ingredients:
3 lbs broiler/fryer chicken (use breasts, thighs, and legs)
salt and pepper to taste
1/4 c. veg. oil
1/4 c. honey
2 tbs soy sauce
2 tbs lemon juice
1 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 egg yolk

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Wash chicken, remove skin, pat dry. Place chicken in large casserole dish, salt and pepper to taste. Mix next 8 ingredients in a bowl, drizzle over chicken. Bake uncovered for 1 hour. Baste occasionally during cooking. Serves 4-6.

This is a perfect potluck! You can easily double or triple the ingredients to accommodate a large crowd.

Serve with buttered noodles and steamed broccoli.

Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches

This is incredibly good. This is the 2nd time Im making this in about a month. So delish! So easy!

4 frozen ( or not) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
1 (17.5 fluid ounce) bottle buffalo wing sauce, divided
1/2 (1 ounce) package dry ranch salad dressing mix

1. Place the frozen chicken breasts into a slow cooker, and pour in 3/4 of the wing sauce and the ranch dressing mix. Cover, and cook on Low for 5-7 hours. ( depending on frozen or not)
2. Once the chicken has cooked, add the butter, and shred the meat finely with two forks. sump the rest of the sauces on it. Then pile it onto buns, or hoagie rolls and add whatever you like!
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Creamy Chicken Enchiladas

Kraft picture about, not mine.

Sooo yummy! WILL make this one again, and again and again! The recipe calls for sour cream...I lost my grocery list on the way to the store so I forgot to buy the sour cream. I made the enchiladas without the sour cream and it still turned out really good. Next time, I will make sure not to forget though. Also, the hubby doesn't eat salsa, so I didn't add that either. Next time, I will.

From Kraft.Foods.com

what you need!
2-1/2 cups chopped cooked chicken
1 can (10-3/4 oz.) condensed cream of chicken soup
1 pkg. (8 oz.) KRAFT Shredded Colby & Monterey Jack Cheese, divided
1 cup BREAKSTONE'S or KNUDSEN Sour Cream, divided
1/4 cup chopped cilantro, divided
12 flour tortillas (8 inch)
1-1/2 cups TACO BELL® HOME ORIGINALS® Thick 'N Chunky Salsa
make it!
HEAT oven to 350°F.

MIX chicken, soup, 1 cup cheese, 1/2 cup sour cream and 3 Tbsp. cilantro until well blended. Spoon down centers of tortillas, adding about 1/4 cup to each; roll up.

PLACE, seam-sides down, in 13x9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray; top with salsa and remaining cheese.

BAKE 25 min. or until heated through. Top with remaining sour cream and cilantro.

TACO BELL® and HOME ORIGINALS® are trademarks owned and licensed by Taco Bell Corp. kraft kitchens tipsSERVING SUGGESTIONServe with a mixed green salad and your favorite fresh fruit to round out the meal. SHORTCUTSubstitute 2 pkg. (6 oz. each) OSCAR MAYER Deli Fresh Oven Roasted Chicken Breast Cuts for the chopped cooked fresh chicken. Or, use 2 pkg. (6 oz. each) OSCAR MAYER Southwestern Seasoned or Grilled Chicken Breast Strips, cut into bite-sized pieces. NOTETortillas can be warmed before use for easier handling. Just stack tortillas, then wrap in foil. Bake at 350ºF for 10 to 15 min. or just until warmed. Or, wrap tortillas loosely in wax paper and microwave on HIGH 1 min. or just until warmed.

Warm Lemon Pepper Chicken Salad

This recipe is from The Pampered Chef. Its very good and healthy. I did alter it a little bit so I blog about the altered recipe, and it came out great. I will make this again.
A couple bulk mushrooms, sliced (Recipe actually calls for snap peas but our store didn't have any)
1 lb baby red potatoes, quartered
2 tsp salt (I omitted)
4 boneless skinless chicken breast (actually I oven roasted a whole chicken and then shredded the meat)
1 lemon, 1 garlic clove, minced
1/4 cup olive oil, 1/2 small red onion (I forgot to get to I sliced a yellow onion)
1 medium red bell pepper (Kayla picked out a green pepper)
1 jar, 6oz, marinated artichoke hearts, quartered, drained
1/2 cup fresh parsley (I omitted)
2 tablespoons lemon pepper rub, divided

Here are MY directions:

Start boiling potatoes. Slice up onion, green pepper, mushroom and place them in a pan with a little olive oil and cook until desired doneness.

Place shredded chicken in pan with small amount of olive oil, turn on low heat to keep warm. Add 1 tablespoon lemon pepper rub.

If using chicken breasts, rub with 1 tablespoon lemon pepper rub and cook chicken 7-9 minutes in pan. Set aside and keep warm.

For dressing: juice lemon to measure 2 tablespoons. Combine juice, remaining rub, and minced garlic in small bowl. Slowly whisk in olive oil. Set aside.

Combine chicken, green pepper, onion, mushrooms, parsley, artichokes in bowl. Mix. Add potatoes and dressing. Toss gently. Serve warm.

This was really good!

Lemon Pepper Chicken

So sorry I don't blog on here as much as I would like to. But last night I made a fantastic dinner! Lemon Pepper Chicken. I got this recipe from the back of the Lemon Pepper bottle. This was oh so good and so easy with little clean up! I WILL be making this again very soon!

I cut the recipe in half since I only made 2 portions. 1 for myself and 1 for a fellow deployed's spouse pregnant on bed rest.

This recipe calls for 4-ish chicken breasts.

Mix 1/4 cup flour and 2 tbs lemon pepper. Moisten 1 lb thinly sliced boneless skinless chicken breasts with water. Coat with flour mixture. Cook 2 tbs butter in large skillet on medium heat 5 minutes on each side.

Michelle's Magnificent Chicken Wings

This last few days I been on a chicken recipe hunt. I discovered our new favorite wings. We had a 5 lbs bag of wings in the freezer and I knew I couldn't eat them all before they got freezer burned. So my goal was to finish them before Nick left. We did.

Here's what I did.
I split the 5 lb bag into 2 dinners. So 1 meal that we shared was about 2 1/2 lbs.
I bought the Dales' Steak Seasoning and marinaded the wings in this for at least 30 minutes. It's steak seasoning, but on the bottle it says you can use it for anything. The ingredients in the sauce is soy sauce, garlic, onion, vinegar.

Marinading wings..


Then I placed all the wings into a zip lock bag, with half of a pack of McCormick Original Bufflo Wing Seasoning.


Shake bag. Then I added 5-6 tablespoons of brown sugar. Shake bag.
Spread on foil lined baking sheet in single layer.


Bake 30-ish minuted on 450 degree oven.

And you've got the most savory chicken wing ever! Ok, maybe not ever- but close! There is the PERFECT amount of spice and sweetness in every bite!!

Chicken Citrus Salad

So, after our last visit to Hard Rock Cafe, I wanted to re-create the salad I had there. Chicken Citrus Salad. The attempt I made is very delicious but it's not that HRC salad I had. I cant get the dressing right. Mine is missing a spice and I don't know what it is. HRC's dressing was very citrus-y with a hint of kind of spice. Some to give it a zip. And I don't know what it is.

So, what did I put in my salad?
Lettuce- I used just your plain ole iceburg because I was in the mood for the crunch
red onion, dried cranberries, mandarin oranges, butter toffee almond slivers, blue cheese crumbles, and southwest chicken strips cut into bite size pieces ( This is the oscar mayer chicken in your lunch meat aisle )

Its sweet and spicey and crunchy and oh so yummy. I cant get enough.

and the dressing..
3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
3 tablespoons of orange juice
1 tablespoon of red wine vinegar
salt and pepper

but- the dressing is missing that zing- and I cant figure it out!

Magically moist chicken+Oven fried eggplant

So, the Cadum Pak'ju that I was to make, I messed up too. It turned out ok, but I wont post it until I make it the right way next time.

For Christmas Eve dinner I made Magically Moist Chicken breasts and Oven Fried Eggplant. This dinner was delish! I've had fried eggplant before but didnt like it. Oil poured from it and it really had no flavor. But this eggplant...Yum. I ate the entire eggplant myself. Nick doesnt eat eggplant...or anything that is a vegetable.

The chicken, he absolutely loved. This will now be a regularly made dish in the Alessi house.

Magically Moist Chicken (4 servings)
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (I had bone in skinned chicken breasts in the freezer I used up for this recipe and it turned out fine, I removed the skin before cooking)1/2 cup mayo, 1 1/4 cups italian bread crumbs
I also added in some other seasonings- whatever you wish and I mixed them into the mayo
1. Preheat oven to 425. 2. Brush mayo onto breasts, then coat with bread crumbs. 3. On pan arrange chicken breasts. Cook 20 minutes.
It's that simple.

Oven Fried Eggplant
1 large eggplant, 1 cup italian breadcrumbs (I just used left over crumbs from the chicken breasts) 1/4 cup parmesan cheese, salt, mayo
1. Preheat oven to 425. 2. In small bowl combine bread crumbs, cheese, salt. 3. Pare skin from eggplant. Slice crossways 1/4" thick slices. 4.Spread thin coating of mayo on each side sliced eggplant and dredge into the bread crumbs. 5. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. 6. Bake 10 minutes per side.

An EASY and YUMMY dinner!

Maple Dijon Chicken in the crock pot

Last night's dinner was Maple Dijon chicken in the crock pot. It turned out great excpet I made one mistake. I thawed out the wrong chicken pieces. Yup, instead of grabbing the bag of breast tenderloins, I grabbed the bag of wings. This dish would have been 10 times better had I used the right chicken. It was easy to make and I will make this again, only with the breasts instead. And I think I will double the amount of mustard for more flavor. Since I only feed Nick and I, I cut the recipe in half. Plus he doesnt eat onions or sweet potatoes.

1 lb chicken pieces, breast tenderloins work best. 1 cup chicken broth, 2 sweet potatoes peeled, chopped, 1 onion chopped, 2 tbs dijon mustard, 3 tbs maple syrup, 3 cloves garlic chopped, 2 bay leaves, 1 tsp thyme

Put chicken in crock pot, toss with thyme, syrup, mustard. Add sweet potatoes. Add onion, garlic. Pour in broth. Add bay leaf.
Cook low 6-8 hours or high 4-5 hours.

Since I used wings instead, when this meal was done the meat just fell right off the bones. It was so juicy and tender. But the skin of the wings wasnt good at all. Please use the tenderloins for this!!

I forgot to take pictures. Sorry.

Today Im going to try to make Cadum Pak'ju. It's a local dish here on Guam.

Roasted Cornish Hen

This is so simple. Its nothing special just a good easy simple meal.

You need 1 cornish hen, butter or olive oil and whatever seasonings you like. I used McCormick's Grill Mates Chicken Rub, fresh ground black pepper and McCormick's minced garlic. This is the first time I used the minced garlic instead of using fresh garlic. I must say, I like the fresh garlic better. I think you can taste it much more and the smell through the house is amazing.

Rub the hen all over with butter or olive oil. I used butter since I was low on olive oil. Then sprinkle generous amounts of seasonings all over hen.

Bake about an hour on 450.

Another idea which I have done a few times is to put chicken broth in the roasting pan. Then when the hen is all cooked add a little flour salt and pepper to the juices to make gravy.

Crispy Chicken Wings

I WILL make these wings again. In fact, I will make this a regular dish in the Alessi household. These wings turned out better than I would have ever imagined had I not eaten them. Nick loved them too.

Crispy Chicken Wings, serves 4. However, for just Nick and I, I only made servings for 2.
1 tsp olive oil for baking sheets, 1 8oz package salted corn tortilla chips, 2 large eggs, recipe calls for 1 tsp paprika but I used McCormick's original chicken seasoning. Salt, Pepper, 12 whole wings

Preheat oven to 450. Line 2 baking sheets with foil paper, brush with oil. Set aside. In food processor pulse chips until finely ground. (Should be about 2 cups)
Transfer chips to shallow dish.

In separate bowl wish eggs and seasonings. Working in 2 batches, place wings in egg mixture. Remove wings one by one letting excess egg mixture to drop off. Transfer to ground chips. Toss to coat patting mixture with hands onto wing. Arrange on baking sheet. Bake switching pans 1.2 way through, 45 minutes.

Again, DELICIOUS! This was like eating Popeye's or KFC without the guilt and grease!
Go ahead...try it! If you do, let me know how you like it.