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
