Homemade Burgers and Orzo Salad

Kristie & Sydney — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:14:09 +0000

Homemade Burgers

Ingredients

2 packages of extra lean ground beef or meat of your choice
2 eggs
3 tablespoons parmesan cheese
salt, pepper
6 dashes of tabasco
10 dashes of worchestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon mustard
2 tablespoons of steak or grilling spice

To assemble mix all ingredients together in a large bowl and mix until well incorporated. With your hands take a handful of the burger mixture and create burger patties. You can make them as large or small as you want but try to keep them about 1 to 2 inches thick. When finished place on a baking try and take out to a BBQ when it is at medium to medium high heat. Cook for about 10 minutes or to your liking. Enjoy

Orzo Salad

Ingredients

1/2 bag or orzo
2 zucchini diced
2 red peppers diced
2 yellow peppers diced
1/2 red onion
1/2 cup Greek feta
1/4 fresh basil chopped
3 garlic cloves
1/4 cup olive oil
1 large lemon

Cook orzo to specific cooking directions on the back of the box. While the orzo is cooking take a large serving bowl and begin to chop and add all of your vegetables to the bowl. Chop the basil and add the feta cheese along with salt and pepper to serving dish. While vegetables are combining prepare your vinaigrette. Add the three cloves of garlic finely diced, 1/4 cup of olive oil and 1 large juice of a lemon. When orzo is finished add to the serving dish of vegetables and add the vinaigrette and mix together.
Serve hot or let chill in the fridge and serve as desired. Enjoy

Pasta, Chicken & Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

Kristie & Sydney — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:28:10 +0000

Baked Chicken with Sundried Tomato Sauce

Ingredients:

skinless chicken breasts
butter
garlic
sundried tomatoes
chicken broth
lemon
cornstarch

Instructions:

In a cooking dish lightly season chicken breasts with salt, pepper, fresh lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Place into an oven at 350 degrees until cooked about 25 minutes. In the meantime over a sauce pan on medium low heat add 2 tablespoons of bueer, and 2 cloves of garlic chopped. Let simmer and next add 1 small can of chopped sundried tomatoes. Next add 1/2 cup of chicken broth and to thicken sauce 2 tablespoons of cornstarch. Let sauce come together and thicken about 2 minutes.
Once chicken is cooked plate and add sundried tomato sauce on the top. Enjoy.

Cherry Tomato and Brie Pasta

Ingredients

1 container of cherry tomatoes, cut in half
3 cloves of garlic
1/2 cup fresh basil
1/2 cup of brie cheese cubed
olive oil to coat

Add 1 container of penne to boiling water and cook according to directions on the back of the box.
In the meantime take a large serving bowl to make the fresh tomato sauce.
First chop up garlic very fine and add to serving bowl along with olive oil. Coat serving bowl with olive oil about 3 to 4 tablespoons. Next add cheery tomatoes to mixture along with salt and pepper to taste. Add cubed brie cheese and chopped basil.
Let mixture sit and the flavour will combine while the pasta is cooking. When pasta is ready lightly strain pasta allowing pasta water to mix with the sauce. This thickens the sauce and add more if necessary. Serve and enjoy.

Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter softened
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 whole wheat flour
3/4 all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups quick cooking rolled oats
1 cup flaked coconut

Mix wet ingridents together and dry ingredients together. Slowly add dry ingridents to wet ingridents and add to a greased pan at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly brown. Enjoy.

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Homemade Burgers and Orzo Salad

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