Chicken Thighs
Chicken Drumsticks
Flour
Salt
Pepper
Vegetable Oil
1. Skin chicken drums and thighs.
2. Place chicken in a brown paper bag with 1/4 cup of flour. Preheat skillet to 425 degrees.
3. In pre-heated skillet, place about 1/4 cup vegetable oil in pan. Place floured chicken in skillet. Salt and pepper.
4. Cook for 15 min or until brown uncovered. Flip chicken to the other side. Sprinkle salt and pepper. Cook for 15 min or until brown uncovered.
5. Turn down skillet temp to 325-350 degrees. Flip chicken and cook for 15 min. Cover chicken with a lide slightly askew so the steam can escape.
6. Flip chicken once more. Cook for 15 min with lid slightly askew.
Ingredients:
• 16 oz shellbow pasta or pasta shells
• 4 cups low sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth
• 4 cloves minced garlic
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
• 1/2 cup parmesan cheese shavings
• 1/2 cup chopped Italian parsely
• 3 cups fresh baby spinach
• 1 tsp salt (more or less to taste)
• 1 tsp fresh ground black pepper (more or less to taste)
• Lemon zest from 1 lemon
• juice of 1/2 lemon
Pour the pasta into a deep pot or dutch oven.
• Sprinkle in salt and chopped garlic, followed by broth. Heat up the pot on the stovetop and bring it up to a boil. Cover and cook the pasta for 10-12 minutes or until pasta is al-dente
• When cooked, squeeze in the juice from one lemon, zest and give it a quick mix.
Pour in heavy cream, spinach and chopped parsley. Give everything a mix and allow the spinach to wilt from the heat of the pasta.
• Sprinkle on shredded parmesan and mix it one more time.
• Serve with a lemon wedge, fresh parsley and a sprinkle of parm!
For the flank steak pinwheels you can either use a meat tenderizer and pound the raw steak flatter, or use a filet knife and cut it thinner so it will produce a nice pinwheel when rolled. Generously salt the steak, add minced or crushed fresh garlic, sprinkle it with shredded mozzarella cheese and shredded Parmesan. Drizzle it with olive oil, salt and pepper it and lay down a large bundle of spinach down. Starting at the short side tightly roll the steak tucking all the ingredients in. Tie it off with string to hold the shape and cut into slices. Cook on a hot pan or griddle coated with olive oil.
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https://www.walderwellness.com/whipped-feta-with-strawberries/
https://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/fruit-salad/
PASTA:
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DESSERTS:
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https://freshaprilflours.com/blueberry-lemon-pie-bars/
https://www.thefedupfoodie.com/haupia-pie-with-macadamia-crust/
Whipped Feta and Roasted Olives
Pizza Chenna or Pizza Rustica I only cooked this for 1.5 hrs, cooled for 30min (you could then eat it immediately but the bread is a little crusty/tuff. Putting it in the fridge for a day seems to help that problem. I just microwave each slice for a bit to warm it up before eating). For the meat, I just ask the deli to slice it thick (like 1") because I am going to cube it.
Arrabbiata sauce I puree this in a blender at the end so that it has a smooth consistency. If eating it with pasta I like to add capers and some crumbled goat cheese on top.
Creamy Garlic Mushrooms. When I added the cream cheese and parmesan, it was really thick and didn't need an additional 5 min of cooking. I just added a little bit of water and stirred it and it was good to go!
Pioneer Woman Raspberry crisp. (1 recipe makes just a pie plate or 8x8 so I doubled this recipe). You may need to broil it at the end for just a minute or two to brown the topping a bit.
Oatmeal Cake (I cooked a 9x13 pan for 35min)
Sarah's lasagna recipe from Italy
I got the boxes, containers, napkins, twine, and rose gold disposable utensils at Orson Gygi.
Summer Noodle Salad with Soy Ginger dressing
Baked Ham and cheese sandwiches (I used Swiss but any kind of cheese would work)
Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding
Fruit Salad: blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, bananas, and fresh pineapple. I pour the fresh pineapple juice (from the bottom of the container) over the whole salad as well.
And the quote inside the box was something my mom would always say, "There's something to be said for the person who takes lunch outside and calls it a picnic."
Cookie Decorating Class by Lindsay Bryner (instagram: lindsayscakesnbakes and online lindsayscakesnbakes.com)
