Cooking For Two!

Dear Meagan,

Considering you are now officially living on your own with your roomie Karen, I thought it would be appropriate to write about cooking for two :)  As I always say I am no expert but hope what I've learned over the last couple years can help!

So I almost always cook for 4-6, so we have leftovers... that way there is extra for lunches or dinner later that week. I know sometimes you don't love leftovers but you gotta get over that because full out cooking twice a day is worse than eating leftovers in my opinion lol.

Here are are a couple of my FAVORITE easy recipes! They also use rotisserie chickens which is nice because it saves you a step in cooking the chicken!

 FRENCH CHICKEN BROCCOLI SUPREME

Ingredients:

  1 – lb. fresh broccoli Break in pieces, and steam for 2 minutes.
3 cups cooked chicken breasts  – Break up in small pieces
3 cups Grated Cheddar Cheese divided
2 tubes Ritz Crackers
1  stick melted butter
1 tablespoon poppy seeds

  SAUCE:
1/3 cup Butter- melted
1/4 cups Cornstarch, dissolved in 1/2 cup COLD Water
1/3 cup Chicken Broth
1/4 tsp. Salt
1/4 tsp Pepper
2 Cups Milk
1 1/2 cups of the above Cheddar Cheese

 Directions:

In greased 13×9 pan, layer the broccoli and chicken, then set aside. In saucepan over medium heat, combine the melted butter, cornstarch dissolved in water, chicken broth, seasonings, and milk. Stir well, and continue stirring until sauce has thickened. Turn heat down to low, and add 1- 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese. Stir until melted. Pour over the chicken and broccoli. Top with 1- 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese.
Melt the butter, and add the poppy seeds, and stir well. Crush Ritz crackers in large zip-lock bag with a rolling pin. Don’t crush too small. Add crumbs to the melted butter. Sprinkle crumbs over the top of the grated cheese.
Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes, or until hot & bubbly.




Easy 'Chicken Pot Pie'

Ingredients:
1 can of refrigerated biscuits
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1 10 oz bag of frozen 'pot pie' veggies  (peas, carrots, green beans, etc)
1 rotisserie chicken

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease 13x9 baking pan
Mix together soup, frozen veggies, and 2 cups of shredded rotisserie chicken meat
Add salt and pepper to taste
Place biscuits in one even layer on top of mixture
Bake 30 minutes
Let Cool



Hope you get to try and enjoy both of these! Love you! So great to see you on Easter :) Good times!

XOXO,

Brooke