Homemade Italian Bread Crumbs

Ingredients
3-5 Slices of hard or toasted bread
1 teaspoon of garlic powder
3 basil leaves
2 sprigs of Rosemary
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of black pepper

Preparation
If bread is soft bake or toast until the bread is a golden brown,
I suggest to use the ends of the bread.
Place the toasted or hard bread in the food processor or blender
with dry ingerdients and mix until it becomes a fine texture.
Place in a container or baggy until ready to use.


This recipe will become a favorite and a great way
to use the ends of the bread.

Slow Cooker Boneless Pork Shoulder or Cutlets

Ingredients
1 1/2 to 2 pounds of pork boneless shoulder or cutlets
1 cup of Coke
1 lemon
1/2 cup of Worcester's sauce
1 tablespoon of minced jarred garlic 
2  tablespoon of vanilla extract
1/2 cup of Wondra (flour product)
1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper 
1 teaspoon of kosher salt
1 can of black beans

Preparation 
Cook low for 6 to 8 hours

Sprinkle salt and pepper on pork  and place in crock pot.
Add Worcester sauce, garlic, 1 tablespoon of vanilla, coke, lemon and mix.
Pour on top of pork.
1 hour before serving mix 1/2 cup of wondra and add slowly 1/4 cup of water or less until mixture is thick add 1 tablespoon of vanilla mix then pour on top of pork.
 Also add a rinsed and strained can of black beans and mix in crock pot and continue cooking for an hour.
Add side dishes of your choice.
Servings 4 to 6

Bacon Meatloaf

Ingredients
2 pounds of ground beef or turkey
6 slices of bacon
1 package of Lipton onion soup mix
1 egg
1/2 cup of bread crumbs
1/2 cup of ketchup
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of black pepper

Preparation
Mix meat with dry ingredients, egg, and ketchup and shape to a loaf.
Wrap bacon around meat and across completely cover the loaf with bacon.
Preheat oven at 350 degrees bake meatloaf for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until bacon is cooked.

Servings 4-6

Lemon and Orange Baked Chicken

Ingredients
6-7 pound whole chicken
1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon of smoked paprika
2 lemons
1 orange
1 cup of olive oil

Preparation
Pre-heat oven at 350
Sprinkle dry ingredients on top of the chicken.
Squeeze lemon and orange all over chicken and inside the cavity.
Put the squeezed lemons and orange skins into the cavity of the chicken.
Put chicken in a baking pan with olive oil.
Bake for 1 1/2 to 2 hours until there is no pink when cutting into the leg of the chicken.

Testing for pink in the leg of the chicken is a true marker that the chicken is done. The legs of poultry are the fattest part of the body and takes the longest to cook. 

Papa Murphy's Chicken Bacon Garlic Pizza

From one of Chat Me More's followers, Stephani.


Ingredients: 


CRUST:

4 ounces cream cheese 

2 eggs
 
1/3 cup cream
 
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
 
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning 

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
 
2 cups shredded mozzarella or Italian cheese blend 


TOPPINGS

1/2 cup Alfredo Sauce (low carb if available)

2 boneless/skinless chicken breasts cooked and chopped small

6 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled

1 tomato, chopped (about 4 oz)

3-4 green onions, 
sliced
2 cups shredded mozzarella or Italian cheese blend

1/2 c. artichoke hearts (optional)



How To Prepare: 
Beat together cream cheese and eggs until smooth.
 
Add cream, Parmesan cheese, and spices. 
Blend well.
 
Add 2 c. shredded cheese and blend until combined.
 
Pour mixture into a 10x15 jelly roll pan/baking sheet. 

Bake at 350 for about 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
 
Let crust cool 30 minutes.


Spread Alfredo sauce over cooked crust.

Top with 1 cup. shredded cheese.

Top evenly with chicken, bacon, tomatoes and onions.

Top with remaining 1 c. shredded cheese.



Bake for another 10 minutes or so until cheese it melted.

Let rest for about 5 minutes.
 Cut into squares and serve. 
The crust isn't very sturdy, so it will need to be eaten with a fork.




Number of Servings: 
15 slices 
Carbs per serving - include all nutritional information if known: 
Per slice: 2.3g carbs, 200 calories, 15g fat, 15g protein 



Effort (Easy, Average, Difficult): Easy


Thank you Stephani!

Stuffed Manicotti

Ingredients
2 pounds of manicotti (pasta)
1 pound of ground beef or turkey
3 slices of chopped bacon
16 ounces of ricotta cheese
1 egg
1 cup of Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon of kosher salt
1 teaspoon of pepper
6 leaves (chopped) of fresh basil
1 cup of olive oil
2 onions chopped
2  tablespoon of minced jarred garlic

Preparation
In a large pot boil water
when water come to a boil add pasta and 1 teaspoon of salt.
Stir water every few minutes.
Cook pasta until soft, but not too soft.
Drain pasta and run cold water over pasta.
Brown meat lightly (simultaneously with cooking pasta and sauce).
Add 1 chopped onion and bacon cook until onion becomes transparent.
Add 1 tablespoon of  minced garlic
Add 1/2 teaspoon of salt and pepper
Continue to cook until meat is cooked thoroughly (10 mins)
shut off flame.
Mix ricotta cheese with egg, garlic powder and 3 chopped basil leaves.
Add a cup of cooked ground meat to ricotta cheese.
Slice pasta and open flat and add a teaspoon of ricotta cheese mix on one side
close pasta.
Put pasta in a long baking casserole dish (put sauce on the bottom of the pan)


Sauce
1 jar of tomato sauce or a 16 ounce can of crushed tomatoes
 Heat oil in a 2 quart pot add 1 chopped onion.
Cook until onion is transparent.
Add 1 tablespoon of  minced garlic and the rest of the chopped basil leaves.
Cook for 3 minutes and stir.
Add sauce and add leftover cooked meat and cook for 30 minutes.

Baking
When all pasta is stuffed place in casserole dish (can put manicotti on top of each other if needed).
Pour sause on top of pasta and parmesan cheese.
Bake at 350 for 20 minutes

Serves 6-8

Barbecue Chicken

Ingredients 
6 to 8 pieces of chicken thighs or legs (can use both)
1 cup of barbecue sauce
1/2 teaspoon of Cayenne Pepper
1 teaspoon of kosher salt
1 cup of  olive oil

Preparation
Pre heat oven to 350 degrees
Sprinkle all dry ingredients on both sides of the chicken
Place chicken in pan with 3/4 cup oil
Bake 20 minutes
Heat grill pan on top of stove with the  remainder of olive oil
Take chicken out of the oven and place in grill pan
Brush barbecue sauce on upside of chicken
cook 5 minutes and turn over and brush barbecue on this side
Cook for 5 minutes and serve

Optional serve the rest of barbecue sauce as a condiment

This recipe can also be used with the outside grill
Cook on the top rack and low flame
Cook chicken for 7 minutes on each side then add barbecue sauce and cook each side for 5 minutes.

Do make sure the chicken is not pink

Homemade French Fries (easy)

Ingredients
5-6 baking potatoes peeled
2 tablespoons of kosher salt
3 cups of vegetable oil

Preparation
Cut potatoes length ways and 1/4 inch thick the same as the fast food restaurants.
Place oil in a large pot and only fill less then 1/2 with oil.
Cook oil until it reaches 350 degrees approx. 15 minutes.
Drop a handful of fries (approx. 10) into the oil.
Cook until fries turn a golden brown approx. 2 minutes.
Take fries out of the oil with a hand strainer and place on paper towels.
Place fries in a bowl and sprinkle salt on them and cover with tin foil to stay warm while all fries are cooked.
Continue to do this until all fries are cooked.

Each time the fries are dropped in the oil it brings the temperature down this is why they are cooked in batches.
The oil raises when you drop the fries in the oil that is why oil should be less then 1/2 from the top of the pot. 

Garlic and Rosemary Potatoes

This recipe is shared from Dev a viewer of Chat Me More

1 1/2 pounds of diced small red potatoes
4 garlic gloves chopped
1 cup olive oil
1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt
4 sprigs of Rosemary
1 teaspoon of white wine vinegar
2 teaspoon of Dijon mustard
1/4 teaspoon of pepper
2 green onions (thinly sliced)

Place potatoes in baking pan mix oil and all ingredients and mix.

Preheat oven 450 degrees and cook at 450 degrees for 25 minutes or until potatoes are done ( test with fork in the potato are soft then ready).

Pork Loin Roast

Indigents
5-6 pounds of pork loin shoulder
1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
 1 tablespoon of jarred minced garlic
1/2 tablespoon of olive oil
1 cup of water

Preparation
Sprinkle salt, pepper, paprika and garlic on top of the roast.
Put olive oil and water in the bottom of roasting pan.
Bake for 350 degrees for about 3 hours, make sure there is no pink
 in the middle of the roast, cook longer if there is.

Optional
After baking for 1 1/2 hour add peeled and cut potatoes to the bottom of the pan,
mix well with the juices in the pan.
Cook potatoes until the roast is done.
Mash the potatoes add heated milk and butter,
1/2 cup of milk and a tablespoon of butter,
add slowly for desired consistency.

Can feed a family of 6