Easy Stir Fry

Easy Stir Fry

Ingredients

3/4 head of Cabbage

2 medium Onions

3 Lg Chicken breasts (1.5 to 2. lbs)

6 good sized Carrots 

3 cups of Parboiled Rice

6 cups of Water

Salt, Pepper, and Morton's Nature's Seasoning

     First you are going to chop everything up, (with the exception of the rice and water of course).  Once that is done mix the all veggies in a bowl together. Cube the chicken and put it in a bowl big enough to toss the chicken around.  I like to put an even coat across the top ( works for me and tastes good).  So, coat the chicken with salt, pepper, and natures seasoning and toss making sure that you get all the chicken coated with the seasoning.  

    After you got the meat seasoned and the veggies cut up, its frying time.  It's going to take at least 2 skillets to get the veggies and meat fried.  I used a wok and a iron skillet for my frying, it worked really well. 

     To keep the veggies hot as they comes out of the frying pan, I put mine in a crock pot on warm. The chicken, I put in a glass baking dish with a lid and paper towel inside.  About a fourth a way through frying that you will need to start boiling the water for the rice.

      Once boiling, pour the rice in, when the water comes back to a boil (which won't be long), cover with a lid and time it for 20 minutes.  In the meantime just keep the meat and veggies going.  Everything should come out right about the same time give or take.

Side note:  You are not just limited to these vegetables, this is just what we had in the house at the time.  You can add celery, green onions, broccoli, cauliflower, just use your imagination!  Have a great day and God Bless!

Grandma's Pot Pie

     My Grandma's Pot Pie

     My Grandma makes the best pot pie ever, and to my luck she let me use her recipe.  My grandma, on Sunday's likes to have lunch ready by the time we get back from church.  So, before she leaves she puts on a huge pan of roast, potato's and carrots.  (My second favorite meal that she makes!).  If for some reason there is leftovers, during the week she makes pot pie.  We didn't have roast (sadly) but I was wanting pot pie so I made up my own recipe.  These are the ingredients that you will need.  (This is not a wheat free dish).

  The Biscuit dough

 (Redbook cookbook recipe)

2 cups of all-purpose flour

3 tsp of baking powder

1 tsp of salt

6 Tbsp soft butter

2/3 cup of milk

Because in this dish there is a top covering the filling you will need to double this recipe to have enough dough.

Filling 

1 lb of Ribeye steak

(doesn't really matter what kind of meat you use) 

1 can of carrots

6 medium red potatos

1 can of green beans

1 can of cream corn

1 can of your choice of peas

1 large onion

2 cloves of garlic

McCormick's  instant Beef gravy mix

        Start by cutting up the potatoes.  Once there all cut up, put the them in a soup pot and cover with water.  While that is cooking start the meat going. Cut the meat into1 inch chunks.  I like to stir fry mine in a wok with the onion and garlic so that all of the flavors mix (Scrumptious).  Now this is the perfect time to season the meat.  I, when cooking meat, like to experiment with all kinds of seasoning. This time I used 2 Tbsp of Fajita seasoning, a dash of garlic powder, and onion powder, salt and pepper, and 1 Tbsp cayenne pepper ( I like things with a kick).  So, really whatever floats your boat :).  After the meat and potato's are done, drain the potatoes and put both in both in a large bowl and mix in the rest of the ingredients in the filling in.  Set to the side.

    Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F.  Now it's time to start on the dough.  In a large bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Once that is done cut the butter into the flour mixture (I personally just use my hands). The butter needs to be smaller than English peas. Make a well in the center of the mixture and pour the milk in and mix thoroughly with a fork until soft dough is formed.  Knead dough on a lightly floured counter top about 6 times.  Split dough in half and set one section aside.  Roll out big enough to fit inside and up the sides of a 13x9x2 inch baking pan. 

     Now get the filling you set aside and scoop into the pan. We're not quite ready to put the top on this pie. Different people use different recipes for their gravy, and I (sadly) don't know how to make it.  I had my mom do it, and I don't know what she did (So sorry).  So, it is my suggestion that you get a store bought instant gravy mix.

   Once your gravy is made pour over your pie, then roll out the second piece of dough and place on the top of pie

       Mash or roll the 2 pieces together. 

  Your oven should be preheated by now.  It takes about 30 to 45 minutes to cook.  Hope you enjoy and God Bless!

  

Free of the wheat Biscuits

     First order of business wheat free, gluten free biscuits.  Sounds challenging right?  Not really, I got this recipe out of the Red Book Cookbook and it was good the regular way with wheat flour.  Me, being allergic to wheat decided to make it so that I could have it.   So first you will need...

Brown rice flour, white rice flour and potato flour (all mixed to make 2 cups)
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
6 Tbsp butter
2/3 cup milk 


   So, first you are going to preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.  Then sift the flours, baking powder, and the salt together.  My Grandma had already mixed a mamma jamma load and put them in pint jars so all I had to do was dump that in the bowl.  

      Next you will need to cut the butter into the flour mixture.( If you can't have dairy then you can substitute coconut oil for butter and coconut milk or water for the milk further on in the recipe).  After cutting the butter in, you will need to make a well in the middle of the mixture.  Add the milk all at once and mix with a fork (works the best for me).  Since the jar of flour was 2 cups exact, I had to add a handful of almond flour to take some of the leftover stickiness away. 
 




      


  So here is where you can take the recipe 2 directions.  You can leave it plain or you can add some CHEESE.  Yes, I said cheese. After trying this recipe the original way I found that I like it alot better with cheese.  Adding about a fistful should do it, I don't have an exact measurement ( the more the better for me).  If you really want to get fancy, put some breakfast sausage in there and you have sausage cheese biscuits.  But I don't have any sausage in the house right now so I will just do cheese.  If you do the cheese don't put the salt in, since cheese is salty already, the cheese and the salt is a bit of an overload. I used a cake pan to bake mine in, but whatever floats your boat.  I made mine about 2 1/2 inches wide and 1 inch thick.  It takes about 10 to 13 minutes to bake.

 So here is the final result.  I put a little oil on top of the raw dough so that they would be crispy when they came out.  I hope that this recipe helps you. :) God Bless!