Lemon Chicken with Olives

1 Tbs. olive oil
4 chicken breasts, about 2.5 lbs
Salt & Pepper
2 cloves garlic
1 1/2 cups black olives (just use pitted halved caned black olives)
1 lemon
1 Tbs chopped fresh parsley

1. heat oil in frying  pan add chicken and brown on all sides (not cooking the whole thing just giving it color)
2. remove chicken
3. add garlic, cook 30 seconds and remove from heat. stir in 1/4 cup water 1/4 tsp salt 1/8 tsp pepper.
4. return chicken, cover and cook until done.
5. place chicken on serving plate.
6. add olives to pan. with 1/2 tsp lemon zest and 2 tsp lemon juice
7. boil remaining pan juices over high heat until slightly thickened
8. pour over chicken and sprinkle wit h parsley.

I thought this dish was ok. However, my dad and sister who don't like olives loved the way the chicken tasted. This is a quick an easy dish if you are looking for something fast and good.

Ground Meat Pork N' Beans

An old Kowicki family recipe. (we think). This sucker is "depression" food. Meaning my grandma made it up during the great depression. you get a lot of bang for your buck with this one.

1 lb ground meat (beef or turkey)
1 can pork n beans
1/4 cup katchup
1 tsp kitchen bouquet
1 tsp worstershire sauce
2 Tbs brown sugar
Potato


1. peel and boil potatoes (you are mak'n mashed potatoes.)
2. brown meat in large pan
3. add 1 can pork n beans
4. add ketchup, kitchen bouquet and worstershire sauce. stir.
5. add brown sugar and stir
6. heat until everything is warm all the way through.

serve this on top of the mashed potatoes and eat with saltine crackers. It doesn't look like much but it will fill you up fast and is super yummy.

Kielbasa with Cabbage and Potatoes

I did another recipe from The Chew web site. Below is the link to it.

http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/the-chew/recipes/Classic-Kielbasa-Michael-Symon

This recipe took more beer than I thought it would and I had to send my mom to the gas station to get more because I only had one bottle. I again used Blue Moon and found that it's really good to cook with. I also used smoke Kielbasa because that is what I had. It make preparing this much easier and a bit faster because I didn't have to worry about cooking the kielbasa.

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Bacon-Wrapped Scallops on Spinach

Let me start this with a few disclaimers. 1. This shit is expensive! so if you don't have money don't do it. 2. As yummy as it is I personally don't think it is worth it. You might as well go to your favorite sea food joint and just buy it.

12 strips of bacon
2 Tbs wine vinegar
salt and pepper
1/4 cup oil
4 cups spinach leaves (who measures this stuff?)
1/4 red onions
1 lb. sea scallops

1. Heat broiler (High). place bacon on broiler pan and cook until it's pretty cooked but still flexible. (If you do not cook it long enough (like I didn't) then when you wrap it the inner wrap wont cook well.)
2. make sure you drain on paper towels and get most of the fat off (another of my mistakes)
3. once bacon is semi-cooked and dried of fat wrap it around the scallops.  and skewer it.
4. cook 3-5 min per side until bacon is done.
5. in a jar or small container with a lid combine vinegar, 1/2 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp pepper and shake until salt dissolves. then add oil and shake again. this is the dressing for the spinach. pull the stems from the spinach and put on plate.
6. cut onion into thin slices.
7. Plate together and enjoy

Like I said its not worth all this trouble unless you are looking for bragging rights. Don't get me wrong it was really really good. but for about the same price and no work you could just go to a sea food joint.

Asparagus with Mushrooms

Can you tell I like mushrooms yet?

This is an easy side dish to go with any meal.

2 lbs. asparagus
1 lb. mushrooms
2 1/2 Tbs butter
salt and pepper

1.Snap key word is SNAP off the end of the asparagus this gets rid of the icky part that will get stringy and gross when you cook them. Quarter mushroom.
2. cook asparagus in boiling salted water until tender, 7-10 min or until a fork slides easily through.
3. heat 2 Tbs butter in pan and cook mushrooms over medium heat until they are soft. 10-12 min.
4. Add mushrooms and remaining butter to asparagus.

om nom nom. eat your greens!

BONUS! Whipped Cream Chocolate Pie

This is such a yummy pie and takes no time to make.

Whipped Cream Chocolate Pie
41/2 ox chocolate wafers
4 Tbs butter melted
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
2 Tbs powered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 ox bittersweet chocolate curled with vegi peeler

1. pull out the food processor and stick the cookies through it until they are crumbled little bits. if you don't have a food processor I'm sure you can just crumble them by hand.
2. melt the butter
3. in a small bowl combine cookie crumbs with melted butter. once all mixed together put in the bottom of a 10 inch pie pan and cool in the refrigerator.
4. shave the chocolate. take the peeler or  grader or something and get the chocolate in to flakes
5. in a mixing bowl add cream, powdered sugar and vanilla. whip with and electric mixer on high until its like whipped cream (duh).
6. fold in half of the chocolate into the whipped cream.
7. put the mixture on top of the chilled cookie bottom and add the remaining chocolate to the top for decoration.

Enjoy. and try not to eat the whole thing!

Chicken in Beer and Caraway

I am doing this from memory because I just lost the recipe after I made it like an hour ago but this is a very easy very delicious dish to make.

Chicken in Beer and caraway
2 Onions
2 Carrots
3 lbs Chicken (I used 4 chicken breasts)
2 Tbs oil
1 tsp Caraway
1/2 Beer
1 tsp Salt and 1/4 tsp Pepper

1. slice onions and carrots
2. heat oil in pan on high
3. brown the outsides of the chicken. you are NOT cooking the chicken all the way through just getting some quick nice color on the outside. about 2 min. a side. Remove after.
4. put onions in pan and cook covered about 5 min. on med/low heat
5. add carrots and caraway cover and cook anther 5 or so min.
6. add beer salt and pepper. For this I used Blue Moon technically it's an ale but whatever it was really good and that is what we had at my house.
7. add chicken and cover, cook until chicken is cooked through.
8. remove chicken and let the liquid reduce a little by bringing it to a boil.
9. add chicken back for a quick reheat and serve it up.

This was SO GOOD! it was a star keeper too bad i lost the recipe card... womp womp

Along with this meal we had Boiled Red Potatoes the little red ones. boil them up quarter them and serve them as your side dish. perfect meal if I do say so myself.

Every day is an Adventure.

Sorry about the lack of posts...

I went on vacation so my family had to fend for themselves. I made a really good dinner today and promptly lost the recipe card somewhere. I think I outsmarted myself and put it somewhere clever and I can't remember. Anyway I have a lot of good things planed for this week all of which I found in my moms recipe box and are things we have never had before, well most of them are. Once I find the recipe from today I'll add that it was really good too.