Chicks On Lit discussion

I'm not sure if we have one..I searched and searched..I found a baking one. But if there is one..you can just delete this!

But I think we should have a thread to share our favorite recipes...dinners, desserts, etc.

I'm just starting to like cooking..I hate the cleaning up part..so I'd love some good recipes to test out on my boyfriend and family!

I was hoping to find your Tuna Noodle Casserole recipe when I saw the new thread. :o)

I am always looking for a new tuna casserole recipe!

haha I will be sure to post it tomorrow! The recipe is downstairs and I'm too lazy to get out of bed! lol.

I have to warn though..it's just a very simple, yet good, recipe that my mom used to make for us when we were picky eaters as children.

I have a few published recipes I would love to share. =)

Let me know if you would like any of them...

Aglio E Olio (Linguine w/garlic & EVOO)
Angel's Heavenly Macaroni Salad
Awesome Slow Cooker Pot Roast
Baked Mac & Cheese
Balsamic Vinegar and Garlic Chicken
Breaded Chicken Cutlets
Flank Steak in a Garlic Wine Sauce
Fulford Family Meatloaf
Italian Style Chicken Cutlets
Lazy Night Chicken
Librizzi's Chicken Francaise
Quick Beef and Noodle Stir-Fry
Simple Pretty Rice
Unbelievable Fried Zucchini
Vegetable Fried Rice for 1

I like simple and the new mama is a very picky eater, but she likes tuna so I'd like to try it.

And I wouldn't get out of bed either!

oh my goodness..ALL OF THEM!! lol

they all sound amazing!

I'm hungry just thinking about them!

Jamie, you just made me smile. I needed that tonight. =)

Here's a link that could give you access to all of those recipes. My favorite is the Flank Steak with Garlic Wine Sauce. (It tastes great with chicken too) My true love is cooking, reading a close second. I have so many recipes....just not that many published. ;)

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/more-a...

Mandy Sue, I'm so glad you gave us a link with all of your recipes. My mouth was watering as I read the list, but I didn't want to be greedy and ask for like 5 recipes. Anyway, thank you!

Lori ~ If you make any of them, let me know what you think. =)

Sweet! Thank you! I'm so excited to cook some of these! My boyfriend will be excited too for sure..as well as my stepdad. If I don't cook..he ends up eating hot dogs or something for a week straight.

haha Lori..I felt greedy too..but then I realized I couldn't even pick 2 or 3 of them to ask for! :)

Thauna..I'm going downstairs in 2.5 minutes to get that recipe before I forget! :)

Very Simple Tuna Noodle Casserole:

Ingredients:

1 can (6 1/2 ounces)water packed tuna fish
1 can (8 3/4 ounces) green peas, or 3/4 cup frozen peas
1 can (10 3/4 ounces) condensed cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup milk
3 cups cooked noodles


Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Drain tuna and put in bowl. Then break into small pieces with a fork.
3. Strain peas and put them in bowl if you are using the canned kind. (I used frozen).
4. Open the soup and pour contents into casserole dish. Begin to stir. Stir in milk a little at a time.
5. Add the tuna, peas, and noodles to the casserole and stir everything.
6. Bake for 30 minutes.

Serves 4.

I put cheese on top of it when it had ten minutes left to go and that tasted good. There's a bunch of things you could add to this simple recipe. It's good for picky eaters! Also, it said to use 1 1/2 quart casserole dish..and I did..but I felt like it was really small. Everything else we had was way too big. I mean..it worked out..but I felt like it was so small. Next time I would probably double the recipe so we could have leftovers. 3 of us ate the whole thing in one sitting.

Jamie, I'm going to try that recipe on my daughter.

Mandy Sue, thank you for sharing your recipes...can't wait to try a few of them!

If my daughter got to pick, we would live on hamburgers/mac n' cheese, sloppy joes, and fish sticks. Oh and of course, fast food. I need all the cheap, easy, picky-eater recipes I can find! lol

I hope she likes it! My sister hates tuna..but I made her try it..and she liked it! She picked around some of the bigger tuna pieces..but she really did like it.

My favorite easy summer (instead of hamburgers) sandwich recipe.
From Allrecipes.com
My id "1/2 fast cook" ha-ha


BarBQ Pork for sandwiches:


INGREDIENTS
1 (14 ounce) can beef broth
3 pounds boneless pork ribs (make sure it's boneless or you must hunt for tiny bone slivers, yuk)
barbeque sauce
1 Bay leaf

DIRECTIONS
Pour can of beef broth, bay leaf into slow cooker, and add boneless pork ribs. Cook on High heat for 4 hours, or until meat shreds easily. Remove meat, drain the crockpot and shred pork with two forks. It will seem that it's not working right away, but it will.
Transfer the shredded pork to the warm crock pot and stir in barbeque sauce,
cook until heated through or keep warm.

Oh that sounds excellent! I think my boyfriend might really like that!

All these recipes are going to fatten me up! :)

Jamie ~ Mine are all healthy recipes...except maybe the macaroni salad...

Rose ~ I love allrecipes. I'm Mandy Sue there too.

Hey Mandy Sue, I would like the recipe for "Unbelievable Fried Zucchini", YUM!

Also, Jamie the Allrecipes.com site is GREAT! It's made up of regular people posting their recipes. Simple, easy and people give their ratings after they try the recipe. Check it out!

I can't wait to check out those recipes, Mandy Sue!

I have a cooking blog at http://shabbychicgourmet.blogspot.com. It hasn't been updated for a while, but I'm hoping to get back in the swing of things very soon. The recipes aren't original. They're just my reviews of things I've found and sometimes modified.

There's a CoL recipe thread, hasn't been posted to in a while so here's the link: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/3...

LOTS of good stuff in there!

Wow Jo! How did you find it?? lol..I searched and searched through pages of threads and I never saw it!

Jamie wrote: "Wow Jo! How did you find it?? lol..I searched and searched through pages of threads and I never saw it!"

Lol, I had to use the "search" engine when you go into the archives in the right hand column! I couldn't find it at first either!

Here's a great related thread I remembered: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/3... It's a name a fav author you'd love to have a dinner date with & what the dinner would be! (Which resulted in the recipes thread I found above).