Tues. night dinner

Oven-baked Ranch Chicken Tenders
Serves 3-4
1 pkg. chicken tenders
1 cup ranch dressing
1 tbl. milk
1 cup bisquick
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper


In zippered bag pour in ranch dressing and milk. Add in the chicken tenders. Zip up the bag and squeeze out excess air and massage until all chicken is covered. Allow to marinate for 15 to 30 min.
Preheat oven and line large baking pan with foil (spray with no stick spray or drizzle with 2 tbl. oil) This is very important to keep them from sticking.
In a large zippered bag mix all the other ingredients, add chicken and shake till all are covered.
Place chicken on baking pan not touching each other and drizzle another 2 tbl. oil over all.
Bake for 8 to 10 min. then carefully flip and bake for another 9-10 min.


I served these with ranch beans and a little salad of tomato  and cucumber.

Christmas gift

Loving this little Christmas gift. I have never had these kind of salt and pepper shakers and have discovered how easy it is to get salt and pepper out of them for recipes by just unscrewing the lids.

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Merry Christmas

May the light of Christmas be yours all year long..........

Tues. night dinners (catch up)

I am determined to get these caught up!

                                                     
                                                  Dan's Peppery London Broil
1 beef flank steak (about 3/4 lb.)
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 tsp. seasoned salt
1/8 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
Wish a meat fork, poke holes in both sides of meat. Make a paste with the garlic, salt and red pepper flakes and rub over both sides of steak. Place the steak in a resalable gallon-size plastic bag. Add Worcestershire sauce and close bag. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours turning once. Remove meat and discard marinade. Broil or grill until meat reaches desired doneness, about 4-5 min. on each side. To serve, slice thinly across the grain. Yield: 2 servings.
Note: This is normally eaten on the rare side.

Creamy Cucumber and Tomato Salad

3 med. tomatoes or cherry tomatoes cut in half

2 med. cucumbers

1/2 med. onion

1 large garlic clove

3 Tbl. mayo

3 Tbl. sour cream

1/8 tsp. pepper

Cut the tomatoes into 1" pieces, cut the cucumbers in half and slice and thinly slice the 1/2 onion.

Place in a medium bowl. In a small bowl, combine the remaining ingredients and mix well.

Mix the dressing into the vegetables. Add salt to taste just before serving.

Note: I used plain yogurt instead of the sour cream because it was cheaper to buy and it did fine.

 

                                                         
                                                             Hoppin John

1/4 cup chopped onions

1 (15 oz.) can black-eyed peas, drained and rinsed

1/2 can Italian style stewed tomatoes

1/2 cup rice

1 1/4 cups water

Mix all ingredients in saucepan. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 20 min. Let stand covered 5 min.











My beautiful granddaughter

  This girl just never takes a bad picture:)

2nd year of college in Colo. and a friend snapped these impromptu pictures.

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Flowers

Recently a friend brought me a bouquet of flowers and they were so interesting...

 There were these daisies but it seemed they were green in the middle and then turned yellow...is this how they grow? Also there were some with glitter on the leaves and I assume that was something they were sprayed or sprinkled with.

I have no idea what kind of flower this was (this is one plant) but this was one like it budding...

 This was most unusual and never opened up.

Anyone know anything about these plants? I enjoyed seeing them.

Tues. night dinners (catch up)

Hungarian short ribs
2 to 3 Tbl. oil
4 lb. bone in beef short ribs
2 med. onions sliced
1 can (15 oz.) tomato sauce
1 cup water
1/4 cup packed sugar
1/4 cup vinegar
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. ground mustard
1 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp. paprika
Cooked wide egg noodles
Brown ribs on all sides in oil. Add onions; cook until tender. Combine all remaining ingredients except noodles; pour over ribs. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Thicken gravy if desired and serve over noodles.


Note: The sauce is delicious but the ribs were fatty so if I was to fix this again I think I would just use stew meat and forget the bones and fat:)

Never know

Here in Arizona you never really know what to expect with our weather. Here is a picture from my office chair on Dec. 1

 (blurry because of the screen) and it was nearly 80. Here it is just four days later and it is barely 70 and we all are looking for our sweaters.