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Cilantro Green Chile Pork Penne

By on October 1, 2013 in Complete Family Dinner, Entrees Recipe, Holiday Recipes, Recipes, Reincarnating The Leftover

Reincarnate The Leftover

This recipe is made with leftover cooked chicken or pork chops, or, as part of our Weekly Meal Plan.

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Cilantro Green Chile Penne

Cilantro Green Chile Penne

Ingredients

  • Leftover cooked chicken or pork chops- about 2-3 cups
  • Penne pasta- 1 lb
  • Queso-fresco cheese- 1 round
  • Diced green chiles- 4 7oz. cans
  • Cilantro- 1 bunch leaves pulled from stems with one “twist-and-pull”

Instructions

  1. Boil pasta in salted water until tender.
  2. In blender, combine green chiles (not drained), three-quarter of the cheese leaving out about a fourth to crumble on top, and cilantro.
  3. Blend on medium until it becomes a sauce; do not over-blend; be careful not to puree it.
  4. Before draining pasta, use a glass measuring cup or coffee cup to scoop out about 1 cup of the cooking water.
  5. Drain pasta and return to pan.
  6. Add pasta water back to pasta.
  7. Pour sauce from blender over pasta.
  8. Add cooked chicken or pork chops to pasta.
  9. Serve topped with remaining cheese, hand-crumbled.
https://tonispilsbury.com/cilantro-green-chile-pork-penne/

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Graveyard Chicken with Penne Pasta

By on September 1, 2013 in Complete Family Dinner, Entrees Recipe, Gluten Free, Holiday Recipes, Recipes

Easy Dinner Idea

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Graveyard Chicken with Penne Pasta

Graveyard Chicken with Penne Pasta

Ingredients

  • Boneless skinless chicken breasts- 2 lbs (4-5 trimmed breasts)
  • Diced tomatoes- 1 15oz. can
  • Condensed chicken stock (like Knorr Homestyle Stock)- 1 tub (or 3 chicken bullion cubes, or 2 cans of Chicken Broth)
  • Sliced black olives- 1 small can
  • Baby spinach lettuce- 1 12oz. precut ready-to-eat bag
  • Gluten-free penne pasta (or regular penne if not gluten-free)- 1 lb
    • STAPLES:
  • Poultry Seasoning- 2 tablespoons (or salt & pepper)
  • Butter - 3 tablespoons
  • Olive oil - about 3 tablespoons

Instructions

  1. Place chicken breasts between two sheets of plastic wrap and pound with a meat tenderizer until thin.
  2. Heat butter and olive oil together in large heated or non-stick skillet over medium high heat.
  3. Season chicken breasts with a poultry seasoning or salt & pepper, and sauté until brown on both sides, approximately 5 minutes each side.
  4. Remove chicken to paper towel-lined plate.
  5. Add tomatoes, chicken broth, olives and baby spinach to pan and simmer until spinach is reduced, approximately 4 minutes.
  6. Add chicken back to sauce and spoon sauce over chicken to let simmer.
    7. Pasta:
  7. Boil pasta in salted water until tender.
  8. Before draining pasta, dip a glass measuring cup or coffee cup into pot and scoop out 1 cup of pasta water.
  9. Drain pasta and transfer to serving bowl.
  10. Add about half of pasta water to pasta reserving half in case pasta becomes dry.
  11. Place chicken on top of pasta.
  12. Pour sauce over the chicken and pasta.
https://tonispilsbury.com/graveyard-chicken-with-penne-pasta/

 

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Candy Apple Pork Chops

By on October 26, 2012 in Holiday Recipes, Recipes, Videos

A Halloween Dinner Spookatcular from The Organized Cook. Candy Apple Pork Chops with Red Skittles. See how easy it is to make this terrifyingly tasty dinner… Boo!

 

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Chicken and Brown Rice Dinner In A Pumpkin

By on September 3, 2012 in Holiday Recipes, Recipes

Fall Dinner Recipe

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Chicken and Brown Rice Dinner In A Pumpkin

Chicken and Brown Rice Dinner In A Pumpkin

Ingredients

  • small to medium pumpkin- 1
  • celery- 2-3 stalks, trimmed and diced
  • fresh sliced mushrooms- 1 container
  • vegetable oil- a few tablespoons
  • rotisserie chicken- (chicken pulled from one store-bought cooked rotisserie chicken)
  • dried rosemary and dried thyme- 1 teaspoon each (or a tablespoon of poultry seasoning)
  • cream of chicken soup- 1 can
  • cream of celery soup- 1 can
  • cooked brown rice- 2 cups

Instructions

  1. Wash off outside of the pumpkin.
  2. Cut off top of the pumpkin and save, and thoroughly clean out seeds and pulp.
  3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  4. In a large skillet, saute celery and mushrooms in oil until tender.
  5. Add chicken and season with rosemary, thyme and a little salt & pepper.
  6. Stir in soup.
  7. Simmer for just a few minutes, stirring occasionally.
  8. Add cooked rice.
  9. Spoon mixture into clean pumpkin shell.
  10. Replace pumpkin’s top.
  11. Place filled pumpkin onto a baking sheet.
  12. Bake one hour or until meat of the pumpkin is tender.
  13. Put pumpkin onto a serving plate, remove pumpkin “lid” and serve casserole!
  14. Make sure to scoop out and eat the cooked pumpkin – Enjoy!
https://tonispilsbury.com/chicken-and-brown-rice-dinner-in-a-pumpkin/

For a quick cooking demonstration of this recipe, check out this video from Toni Spilsbury, The Organized Cook.

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