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Refrigerator Pickles

Edit** I definitely recommend this recipe!! Less onions than I originally put in, but no doubt almost as good as the store bought!! Crunchy and semi-sweet.

I can hardly wait til I can try them!!

https://www.browneyedbaker.com/bread-and-butter-pickles/

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Cheesy Ramen

Does anyone else like cheesy ramen? I like it, especially when I feel badly.

I put water in the pan, add the powder, then the noodles and cook until done.
I drain most of the broth.
I put slices American cheese, tearing them up and then some easy melting mozzarella cheese. Mic it all up.
All mixed up, ready to eat.
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Beef and broccoli, and more…

Jet Tila’s Beef and Broccoli

Marinade ingredients.

1 flank steak, cut into thin strips baking soda Tamari sesame oil garlic ginger corn starch Mix all ingredients for marinade, then add steak strips. Marinate for 20 minutes or more.

Marínate meat.
Sauce ingredients.

Using rice vinegar, oyster sauce and chili garlic sauce, water and corn starch, make the sauce and have it ready.

Boo choy and carrots.
Chop chop.
Soften mung bean noodles (cellophane noodles).
I brought the water up to a boil, turned off the burner and added noodles.

1 tblsp of avocado oil in high heat pan, add veggies. When they start to soften, add a few tablespoons of the sauce and continue to toss. Once the are about done, add the beef. Stir and move around until done. Add noodles, mix in and serve.

Yum!
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Chicken with root veggies

3-4 chicken breasts 2-4 pats butter 2 tblsp olive oil 2 carrots, chopped 1 parsnip, chopped 1 vidalia onion, chopped Salt & pepper garlic, crushed Put butter and oil in pan on medium-high heat. Peel carrots and parsnip, chop carrots, parsnip and onion. Put in pan, adding salt & pepper, mixing to help to soften. Cut chicken up in 3-4 chunks that way all are pretty uniform size. Move the veggies and add chicken to pan. Brown chicken while cooking through.

Asparagus, cleaned 2 slices bacon, chopped Garlic, crushed Salt & pepper Sauté bacon, until rendering some grease and browning some. Add asparagus and sauté until bacon gets crisp and bacon is done.

Serve with whatever you would like, we had mac-n-cheese.

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Pork ribeye, mash and broccoli

2-4 pats butter 2 tblsp olive oil 1 pork ribeye roast, cut into chops 1 8oz container mushrooms, chopped 1 vidalia onion, chopped salt & pepper garlic powder **spices of choice

Put butter and oil into a skillet on medium-high heat. Add onions, mushrooms and salt & pepper. Sauté until start of softening. Move veggies and add chops, so that they touch bottom of pan. Add spices of choice. If pan seems to be dry, add a few teaspoons of water to help lubricant and steam. Keep moving veggies around for even browning. Once pork is browned on one side flip to brown on other. Once done, serve with side of choice. Our was mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli.

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Sushi 🍣 Bowl, homemade

I love sushi, raw fish etc, but eating it alot can break the bank. So I make a California roll type in a bowl.

Ingredients: rice, water, salt, rice vinegar, cream cheese, avocado, imitation crab… this one is more for money, and if you like seaweed. This is a snacking seaweed.
So of course you need rice, I cook 1cup rice with water and a smidge of salt. When it is finished cooking, add 1-2 tablespoons of rice vinegar and mix well.
While hot add cream cheese, so it can soften and mix in the rice later.
Add avocado and crab to your liking.
Add seaweed and mix to your liking. The devour!!
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Crockpot Ribs

I saw this post and just had to try it. I love the simplicity of the cooking and wow the tenderness of the meat!!

https://thestayathomechef.com/wprm_print/10574

This is the link of the recipe I saw and used.

I had traditional bbq sauce, but this Korean bbq sauce is some good stuff. Next time we do them will be with the traditional bbq sauce since the hubby was only ok and only ok doesn’t bode well with me.

My hubby doesn’t like fat or gristle, crockpot cooking really takes care of the fat and most gristle to where he can enjoy it too. Doing pork ribs on the grill is not done at our house because of that and I love pork ribs!!

I used what I had in my pantry. Brown sugar, Himalayan salt, ground mustard, ground ginger, spicy blend of Ms Dash, garlic powder and a roasted garlic seasoning for the grill.
Threw it all together, amounts that were good for me.
Pre-measured the ribs to my crockpot and had to trim them down.
Put the rub on them, covered overnight.
Put the ribs in the pot, covering each layer with some sauce. Only used one jar, not the 2.
Cooked on low between 8-10 hours.
Took them out to put on a covered baking sheet, to broil. Should have broiled alittle more. The meat that was high up in the crock was tougher, need to move around alittle during the cooking process to help that, I think.

All in all, got t try again with regular bbq sauce and do the tweaks.

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Chicken recipe off TikTok

Finished dinner.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJ7Y99K2/

Above is the link to the video. Mine did not turn out like hers. I think I may needed to cook longer, the second batch came out alittle tastier due to alittle more browning. She told me, I messaged her, that she cooked it at 390 degrees at 22 minutes. Being that my airfryer is shaped different and maybe bigger that made a difference, I cooked mine at 400 degrees for around 30 minutes.

Also, cooking on a pan in the water/fat run off made a difference, rather than on a rack with drip pan.

I may try again but not on a workday night, since I have almost an 1 hour commute to work, 1 1/2 hour commute home.

The use of all the oils and type of oil with spices were tasty, we needed more crunch, maybe with skin on.

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Chicken Chowder

I made this recipe a few times. My son loved it and would ask for it at times. He asked for the recipe since he has moved out in his own a few years ago. So Ill share with you. I need to make me some, without corn though, sadly.

Chicken Chowder ◦ 4 tblsp butter (2 tblsp for veggies and 2 tblsp for chicken) ◦ 4 tblsp olive oil (2 tblsp for veggies and 2 tblsp for chicken) ◦ 1 - 1/2 sweet onion ◦ 1-2 carrots ◦ 1-2 celery stalks ◦ 2-4 chicken breasts ◦ 2 tblsp flour ◦ 2-4 cups chicken broth (2 tsp heaping Better than Bouillon in 1 cup hot water to disolve) ◦ Salt & Pepper ◦ Frozen corn, small bag ◦ Frozen (sweet) peas, small bag ◦ 1-2 cups heavy whipping cream

-Chop onion, carrots and celery.
In a deep pot, put 2 tblsp of olive oil and 2 tblsp butter. Add chopped veggies and salt and pepper and sauté over medium heat.
-In a pan (skillet), add remaining butter and olive oil and add the chicken breasts. Cook both sides, but only until there is a small amount of pink or just turned all white inside. Then set aside.
-When the veggies are soft and some browning has happened, add flour. Mix around for 1-2 minutes to cook the flour.
-Add the broth and put stove on medium high to high. Mix well, broth should start to thicken alittle. Once it comes to a slight boil, set heat down to medium low. Add bags of veggies and stir well. Add cream and mix well. Cut chicken into bite sized pieces and add to broth to the mixture and mix.
-Let the chowder to warm throughly, about 20 on the medium low setting.
Then eat!

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Best Biscuits, in my opinion!

Butter Swim Biscuits

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/280473/butter-swim-biscuits/

Its pretty simple, and easy to make. I even just make my own buttermilk and it comes out a smidge crispy on the edges and soft inside.

When preheating the oven, I put a stick of butter in my pan and put in oven. Then make the batter. When it comes out of the oven it looks like this. Let it rest while cooking other things to accompany to it.
See, yummy! No need for butter, but I put jam on it. My favorite is lingonberry.
This was New Years linner…. lunch/dinner. was stuffed for awhile.