So I quickly thawed out some flash-frozen convenience chicken that I had in my freezer, and it's now going into the oven with some BBQ sauce slathered all over it. That, along with mashed potatoes and some canned corn ought to make Glen and the kids very happy tonight! Quick, easy, and it beats takeout any day.
Note - if I had any leftover mashed potatoes in the freezer, I would have used them, but I didn't - so I made fresh with extra, so that I could stash some in the freezer for a later date. :)
Friday, January 9, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Dinner for a friend
Sometimes the best thing you can do for a busy mom is put a meal in her freezer that she can quickly prepare at a later time with minimal fuss. Here's what I did with a recipe of Yummy Apricot Chicken:
4-6 boneless/skinless chicken breast halves
12 oz jar of apricot or jam or preserves (peach works just as well!)
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup plain breadcrumbs
In a shallow bowl, mix together jam, lemon juice, soy sauce and salt. Put breadcrumbs in a separate shallow dish. Dip the chicken heavily in the jam mixture, coat with breadcrumbs, and place on a pan-coating-sprayed baking dish. Spoon any jam mixture left over the top of the chicken and sprinkle with any remaining breadcrumbs. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes or until done.
When the chicken was done and cooled, I placed it all in a Gladware baking "dish" - you know the kind that you can use in the oven and give away to folks? Well, the things do great in the freezer, too, because they have a nice fitting plastic lid and can go from freezer to oven or microwave. With the chicken, I cooked up a bunch of rice and froze that in a separate bag with my Foodsaver, and I included a bag of frozen green beans - and now my friend has a fully cooked dinner for her and her family anytime she needs it.
4-6 boneless/skinless chicken breast halves
12 oz jar of apricot or jam or preserves (peach works just as well!)
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup plain breadcrumbs
In a shallow bowl, mix together jam, lemon juice, soy sauce and salt. Put breadcrumbs in a separate shallow dish. Dip the chicken heavily in the jam mixture, coat with breadcrumbs, and place on a pan-coating-sprayed baking dish. Spoon any jam mixture left over the top of the chicken and sprinkle with any remaining breadcrumbs. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes or until done.
When the chicken was done and cooled, I placed it all in a Gladware baking "dish" - you know the kind that you can use in the oven and give away to folks? Well, the things do great in the freezer, too, because they have a nice fitting plastic lid and can go from freezer to oven or microwave. With the chicken, I cooked up a bunch of rice and froze that in a separate bag with my Foodsaver, and I included a bag of frozen green beans - and now my friend has a fully cooked dinner for her and her family anytime she needs it.
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