My Favorite Recipes

Baked Chicken with Spaghetti Squash


What you will need:
     For Chicken:

• 4 oz chicken breast(s)
• Water or Chicken Broth ( your choice) to bake chicken in

For Spaghetti Squash:

• Acorn Squash aka Spaghetti Squash
• Tomato Pesto ( flavor of your choice) I use Sun dried with Basil

Chicken:

1. Preheat oven 350 degrees
2. Cut chicken breast into 4oz halves
3. Place in a casserole dish
4. Season chicken to your taste
5. Add water or Chicken broth ( my choice) half way up breast
6. Cover with aluminium foil
7. Place in oven bake for about 30minutes until not pink on the inside

Squash:
 Preheat oven to 375 degrees

1. Keep squash whole
2. Pierce rind all over with a fork( to create air pockets so it will not explode)
3. Place in microwave on high until skin is soft (approx.2-3min per pound)
4. Remove from microwave let stand for 5min
5. Place in shallow dish
6. Bake in 375degree oven for 1 hour (rotate half way through cooking)
7. Remove from oven CAREFUL VERY HOT!
8. Cut in half and remove seeds from center of squash(should come out fairly easy)
9. Take fork and scrape and twist squash from sides of rind (hence name spaghetti squash because it will look like squash)
10. Place in bowl
11. Take Tomato Pesto of your flavor choice on squash and stir it in
12. Serve warm.

ENJOY!!!




Corn and Red Bean Salad

What you will need:

• Can of Whole Kernel Corn
• Can of Red Kidney Beans
• Optional: Cooked  Brussels Sprouts or Broccoli

1. Open can of Whole Kernel Corn and DRAIN completely
2. Open can of Red Kidney Beans and DRAIN completely
3. Place both in a bowl
4. Add cooked  brussels sprouts( cut in half) or broccoli if you choose to
5. Season to taste
6. Great cold by itself for lunch or as a side dish

ENJOY!!!!

Tune Casserole

What you will need:

• 2Can of tuna (in water) DRAINED
• Egg noddles
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon of pepper
• 4 tablespoons flour 
• 2cups of milk
• Optional: Steamed broccoli 
• Whisk(whisk will remove clumps from sauce)
• Cracker crumbs

• Boil egg noddles DO NOT OVER COOK! Will become very mushy
• Cook til a lighter cream color but still firm 
• Preheat oven 350 degrees

Sauce:

1. Melt 4tablespoons butter in 5quart sauce pan
2. Mix in 4 tablespoons of flour (will clump up naturally)STIR CONSTANTLY with whisk or flour will burn 
3. SLOWLY stir in milk (with whisk) Constantly stirring and removing clumps
4. Stir with whisk til thick and smooth ( if too thick add milk to your desired thickness)
5. After your sauce is thick and smooth remove from heat
6. Add tuna,salt and pepper
7. Place back on heat for 3min
8. Place egg noddles in a lightly greased bottom casserole dish
9. Add Tuna Sauce over egg noddles
10. If you chose to add broccoli add it here
11. Stir together
12. Place cracker crumbs on top
13. Place in preheated 350degree over for 15min
14. Let cool slightly

ENJOY!!!