Broccoli Pot Pie

Ingredients:

2 (1 box) - premade pie crust (or home made - top and bottom)

1 lbs - turkey sausage (or plain ground turkey or chicken)

1-2 bags - frozen broccoli cauliflower mix (depending how full you want your pie)

for cheese sauce:

1 cup - any flavor cheese (I did a blend of cheddar and monterey jack)

1/4 cup - skim milk

1/4-1/2 cup - chicken broth

1-2 cloves - garlic minced

salt, peppep, and onion powder to taste

egg + water for egg wash for top crust

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Line 9in pie pan with 1 crust.

In a large skillet brown sausage, once cooked through add frozen broccoli mix and heat slightly. Pour mixture into prepared pie dish leaving some of the grease in the skillet for the cheese sauce.

For the cheese sauce, in the same skillet saute garlic, pour in milk and slowly add cheese, stirring in a little at a time until it is completely melted, alternate between cheese and chicken broth until all cheese has been added and is melted. Add chicken broth until it is to the consistency you like, I like mine thick so I didn't add all the chicken broth.

Pour cheese sauce over broccoli sausage mix, cover with other pie crust, pinching the ends to seal. Prick air holes in top of pie crust, then brush with egg wash.

Bake 30-45 minutes, or until crust is golden brown.

*For a little fun I added a pinch of red pepper flakes to the cheese sauce for a little extra spice!

Starry Broccoli Cheese

I tweaked a recipe I found on allrecipes.com I made a few changes to my taste. So here we go...

Ingredients:

1 tbsp butter

1/2 tsp onion powder (you can use real onion, but I just wanted a slight taste instead of onion pieces)

1 clove garlic, minced

1 brick- velveeta cheese, cut into cubes

2 (14oz) cans - Chicken broth

1 1/2 cups milk, I used fat free

1 1/2 cups water (for the milk and water I filled the can from the chicken broth)

1 (16oz) bag - frozen broccoli/broccoli cauliflower mix

1 bag star shaped pasta

shredded cheese for garnish

pepper to taste

Directions:

In a soup pot melt butter and saute garlic with onion powder. Add chicken broth and water and bring to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 2-3 minutes, not completely cooked.Reduce heat to medium and add broccoli, milk and velveeta, stirring constantly until cheese is melted, do not let come to a boil or cheese will burn. Serve immediately and garnish with shredded cheese on top.

Broccoli Cheese Stuffed Chicken

So I made this tonight and though it needs a little tweaking it was SUPER good!

Ingredients:

4 - boneless skinless chicken breast pounded to about 1/4in thick

1 can - Campbell's Cheddar Cheese Soup or Broccoli Cheese Soup

1.5-2 cups - frozen broccoli florets

1-1.5 cups - Italian Style Bread Crumbs (enough to dredge the stuffed chicken in)

Salt and Pepper to taste

toothpick to keep chicken together

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 Degrees

Put frozen broccoli in microwaveable bowl with a little water and steam in microwave for 1-1.5 mins. Once broccoli is finished drain and give it a rough chop.

Add cheddar cheese soup to chopped broccoli and salt and pepper to taste.

Take chicken and salt and pepper both sides (completely optional, I do this all the time though)

Put 1-2 spoonfuls, just enough to not make pouch over flow too much, of cheese and broccoli mixture into center of chicken breast and then close and hold chicken with toothpicks.

Dredge each breast through the breadcrumbs and place on baking sheet, I would line it just incase the cheese boils over.

Bake for 20-30 mins, or until chicken is cooked all the way through.

Serve over brown or white rice and enjoy! Please feel free to comment with tweaking suggestions! Picture to come soon I promise!

Chicken Divan

Made this last night, it was very tasty and super filling! It makes at least 2 servings.

Ingredients:

2- Skinless Chicken Breast, pounded to about an inch thick

1-can Campbell's Broccoli Cheese Soup

1/2- can water or fat free milk

1.5 cups - Broccoli and Cauliflower mix(or just Broccoli)

1/2 cup - bread crumbs, I did a mixture of plain and Italian

1 cup - mixed shredded cheese, I used a mexican blend

salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Salt and peper both sides of chicken breast. Place chicken in a glass baking dish.

Pour/spread broccoli cheese soup over chicken and then pour the water over.

Sprinkle half the bread crumbs over chicken.

Bake chicken for 15 mins. Remove chicken from oven.

Pour broccoli and cauliflower over top. Sprinkle with rest of bread crumbs and cover with shredded cheese. Return to oven for an additional 10 mins or until chicken is cooke all the way through.

Served over white rice and enjoy!

Chicken and Broccoli

Sorry I don't have a picture of this one yet, but when I make it again I'll be sure to take a picture of it ^_^

This I served tonight to my mom, dad and grandma with brown rice, but I'm sure it would go really good with steamed white rice.

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

4 boneless-skinless chicken breast, cut into strips(however big or small you want)

2 tbsp oil, vegetable/canola/peanut

1-2 cloves of garlic, minced

1.5-2 heads fresh broccoli, cut into pieces. or 1 bag frozen broccoli

1-2 tbsp soy sauce(we used low sodium), all depends on your salt preference

pepper

1 cup water with 2 tsp cornstarch(or flour) mixed in

Directions:

In a wok or large skillet heat oil and add garlic, let cook 2-3 mins, don't let the garlic burn.

Add the chicken and pepper it to taste. Cook most/all the way through. 5-8mins(depending how thick your chicken is cooked)

Add broccoli and soy sauce and cook until tender.

Stir in Cornstarch-water mixture and stir until sauce is to the thickness you like.

Serve with white or brown rice!

*I like a little spice =p so when I made it tonight(see pic) I added a pinch of red pepper flakes, and thickened with about a tsp of flour mixed in water, served over steamed white rice and it was DELICIOUS!!!*

Spicy Shrimp and Broccoli with Brown Rice

Ok, so this is me trying to replicate Zen's spicy shrimp bowl, which is delicious. If you've never had it (and can eat shrimp and in the Austin area) I highly recommend you go and try it, and if you're not a shrimp person go to Zen anyway, they have really good food!

Anywho, to make this, I did brown rice, but it's good with white rice or maybe even lo mein, so cook that according to the directions on the package.

So here's for the Shrimp:

*this is all for single serving, feel free to double or whatever if it's more than one person*

Ingredients:

- 8-12 medium shrimp, I used frozen and thawed them

-1 clove of garlic, minced

-2 tbsp oil(something with a high smoke temp, ie-vegtable, canola...)

-1cup broccoli, I used frozen but you can use fresh

-1.5 pinch of red pepper flake, depends on how spicy you like it

1-2 tsp soy sauce, I used the cap on my soy sauce to measure(1.5 of them)

Directions:

-In a large skillet (or wok) warm oil over medium-high heat.

-Add the garlic and red pepper flakes, let cook for 1-2 mins

-Add shrimp, broccoli and soy sauce.

-Cook until shrimp are cooked all the way through and serve over the brown/white rice or lo mein.

When I made this it wasn't very "saucy" next time I'm going to try and get a little more liquid so that the flavors can get all over the rice and stuff. If I like it I'll post how I did it ^_^

*OK so to make the sauce "saucy-er" I added a little more soy sauce/oil and then cornstarch mixed in water to help thicken it*

*Also the next day when I made this I put in about a palm full of red pepper flakes(If you want to know the exact measure Rachel Ray measures that way so she'll be able to tell you =p), it was really good if you like the "mouth kinda on fire/runny nose" kinda spicy-ness that I like.*