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What's Cooking?

 It's been fun to concentrate our meals based on the oldest of whatever we have in the freezer.  It also makes me pay attention to what we use more of, or less of, and what other ideas think of.

One idea, was to thaw a pound of ground chicken and try making breakfast "sausage" patties for breakfast sandwiches with egg, and cheese.  

The results?

Bagels were too big for the Sandwich.



Delicous!  We discovered (if I didn't already mention it), that the yogurt bagel recipe (making 4 bagels), makes bagels too big for breakfast sandwiches.  Next time I will make bagel "thins" for this purpose.  Homemade English muffin would be good for these too.

Back to the chicken pattie, that is mixed up with sausage flavorings....so good!  It's a nice change in breakfast meat, and much healthier than sausage and bacon.  It's added to our rotation now.  It does not taste as good as a sage sausage would, but it's pretty good.  It passed my picky husband's taste test too.

Here is what mixed in 1 pound of ground chicken:  Recipe is online free from Lauren from Scratch.  One pound of ground chicken makes 6 breakfast patties.


New vegetable side dish tried - Buttter Bean and wild Rice Salad with Steamed Greens and Roasted Cauliflower.  What's in it?  Green beans, butter beans, wild rice, spinach, cauliflower and red onion (and seasonings, with a homemade dressing in the end).


Recipe is in this book, that I borrowed for the library - The Better Bean Cookbook, by Jenny Chandler.  However, I did not steam the green beans, and I thawed blanched spinach.  I pre-cooked the frozen garden green beans for this, and added it all together in the end.  We loved it, but the curry you put on the cauliflower lingers in the air the rest of the night.  It was a strange set of ingredients to put together, but utilized the green beans and spinach we had in the freezer.  Also, it stated that it's good a salad, but we ate it warmed up as a side dish.

Nothing new here, but we enjoyed crock pot pork chops, simply seasoned, and with an entire freezer container (thawed) of homemade cream of mushroom soup on top.  So tender, so simple, and so good.  One freezer container is equal to a can of condensed soup you buy at the store (only better ingredients). 


What's Cooking?  © November 2024 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart

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Katie C. said…
Thank you for the cream of mushroom soup link. How much do you think a can’s worth would measure? I’m surprised that it freezes well with the flour in it.
November 27, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Sandi said…
It all looks delicious!
November 27, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Jackie said…
Your breakfast sandwiches look very good, if rather large. I bet you enjoyed them.

God bless.
November 27, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Pioneer Woman at Heart said…
Katie C, I freeze one "can" in a pint freezer container, but it's a bit less than a pint maybe. I'd have to pull one from the freezer and measure next time, or measure when I make more. Yes, it freezes and thaws nicely.
November 28, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Pioneer Woman at Heart said…
Jackie, the bagels were way to big for a sandwich. I took the photo to show my husband, and sent his sandwich to work with an English muffin instead. The chicken patties were delicious.
November 28, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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