BBQ Baked Chicken and Baked Beans

I used chicken breasts because I like white meat, however sometimes I get a whole, cut up chicken. You can use whatever pieces you like. 
 
Sprinkle your chicken with salt, pepper, a dash of garlic powder, and Tony's. 

I make a sauce made of a smorgasbord (sp?) of ingredients: BBQ sauce (sometimes I use a couple of different flavors like a honey BBQ sauce and a hickory smoke sauce), either syrup or honey, Tony's, a bit of garlic powder, salt, and pepper...you can add whatever you like though. Some other good things to add are A-1 cajun marinade and worcerstire sauce.  

Cook at 350degrees for an hour or until chicken is done.


For the baked beans, I take a couple of cans of pork n beans.  Then, add a bit of ketchup and mustard.  Stir.  Add syrup and BBQ sauce (again, I usually use a couple of different kinds of sauce).  You can also add finely chopped or minced onions. Layer the top of the beans with bacon.  Cook at 350degrees for about an hour. 

 

Here is the finished meal  (you can use the sauce from the chicken as a good topper for mashed potatoes)

Strawn's Eat Shop Also

Strawn's is a pretty popular restaurant in Shreveport/Bossier.  Their Bossier location is named Strawn's Eat Shop Also.  Because of some health issues, I've had to lay off red meat....so I got grilled chicken, dry mashed potatoes, and a salad.  Strawn's salad consists of only shredded lettuce and tomatoes.  The bread I got was hamburger buns cut into quarters and buttered. 

My friend Kala ordered the BLT and fries. 

Lean Cuisine

This is a comparison of Lean Cuisine's Sweet n Sour Chicken meal.  The chicken was just okay....the rice was terrible...and I didn't even attempt the veggies. 

Drunken Rib-eye

A friend of mine, APRIL, wanted to create her favorite restaurant dish, drunken steak (rib-eye). She guessed on the ingredients, and made a steak that was "dead-on".



She made a marinade out of minced garlic (from the jar), soy sauce, honey, and white wine. The steak was then marinated for 4-5 hours.

She topped her steak off with sauteed mushrooms and onions.

Meatloaf

Ingredients:
Ketchup
2 lb hamburger meat (ground chuck is best for this recipe)
1 can corn (optional)
Half an onion, chopped
1 cup milk
2 eggs
Package of meatloaf seasoning
1 cup bread crumbs
Salt, Pepper, and Tony's (Tony's is optional)

Directions:
1. Mix meat, eggs, all seasonings, bread crumbs, onion, and milk until the meat mixture becomes firm and sticks together easily.  (If using fattier meat such as standard ground beef, you may need a little bit more of the bread crumbs). 

2.  Add corn to the meat mixture (as much or as little as you want, again, this is an optional ingredient but does wonders for the texture).

 
3.  Stir in about 1/2 cup - 1 cup of ketchup.

4.  Spread mixture evenly into 8x8 casserole or put into a loaf pan.  Spread a thin layer of ketchup on top.

5.  Bake at 350degrees for one hour. 

 

6.  Drain excess fat/grease from the pan. 

ENJOY!!!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

 









This is a comparison of Kroger's version of the "brake and bake" cookie dough and how they turned out. Might I add that these cookies were sooooo good.  Maybe because I just wanted cookies really bad that night....but I swear they even tasted better than the TollHouse kind. 

Wendy's and Julie Anne's Bakery

WENDY'S

Today we had Wendy's for lunch.  I decided to compare the actual burger with the advertised picture.  The burger I pictured does not include onion....I'd also like to add that I asked and PAID for a piece of cheese for the burger, yet...no cheese.  

I had the baked potato with everything (chili, cheese, broccoli, chives, bacon), but I could only find a pic of the bacon, cheese potato.  














Here's a comparison of the nuggest:

We also had Petit Fours from JulieAnne's bakery in Shreveport...AWESOME!  

3-ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup peanut butter (crunchy is 'da bomb')

1 egg

1 cup sugar

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 350degrees.

2.  Mix all three ingredients together.

3.  Pinch dough and roll into balls.  Place balls on cookie sheet.

4.  Press each dough-ball with a fork to make indentions on the top of the cookie (I don't know why, they are just supposed to look like this okay?)

5.  Bake for 10-15 minutes (depending on whether you like chewy cookies or crunchy cookies)

Oven Fried Chicken

Ingredients:

Pack of chicken (whatever pieces you like, I used chicken tenders)

1 cup flour

Black pepper

Garlic powder

Tony's (creole seasoning)

Cayenne Pepper

1/2 cup butter

Salt

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 425degrees.  Pat chicken dry, then sprinkle with garlic powder and Tony's.

2.  In a plastic bag, combine flour, salt, Tony's, cayenne pepper, and mix well.

3.  Shake chicken in the bag full of flour and seasoning. 

4. Line a 9x13 pan with foil. Add butter to the pan and put in the oven until butter melts and sizzles. 

5.  Put chicken in the pan, skin down if your chicken has skin, and bake for 30 mins.  Turn chicken, lower heat to 325degrees and bake for another 30 mins or until done. 

Mashed Potatoes:

Ingredients:

Potatoes (I usually use one large potato per person + 1 or 2)

Milk

Salt & Pepper

Butter

Directions:

1.  Peel potatoes, rinse, and put in pot to boil.  Boil potatoes until they are tender.

2.  Drain potatoes. 

3.  Add butter, salt and pepper to taste.  Mix with an electrix mixer, adding small amounts of milk as you go until the potatoes are the consistency you like. 

Now, make some GRAVY!