Recipes

Red Beans and Rice

Sauté diced onion with cut up smoke sausage and season with some Tony’s, garlic (powder not salt), pepper, and ground or flake red pepper. 

Cook until onion is translucent and sausage it browned.

Next add a bag of dried red kidney beans and water to cover and fill up the pot and just cook forever (covered)!  You will have to add water as the beans soak it up.

Once the beans are cooked through remove the lid and reduce the liquid down so it’s thicker and how you like it.  Then season again.  Don’t season between the time you add the beans and the end because with the water being added and then reduced you want to wait until you’re not going to change the liquid level.

 

The following filling can be used for almost anything… soft tacos, enchiladas, pizza, top salads, etc.

Buffalo Chicken Filling

Boil chicken (or leftover chicken of ANY type… grilled, baked, boiled, whatever) and strip from bone… tear or cut up…

Buffalo sauce… 1 Cup hot sauce (texas pete or frank’s red hot are best), stick of butter (to reduce the heat, but I don’t normally add this anymore), 1 package of the dry Italian seasoning mix… heat through.

Add the sauce to the chicken or… I add the chicken to the pot of the hot sauce and mix through so it heats up the chicken at the same time if its leftovers.

 

Enchiladas

Take soft flour tortillas, use cream of chicken and put a line of it down the middle of the tortilla, add the chicken mixture and some cheese, roll up and put in a baking pan.  Continue until pan fills up.  Once filled, top the enchiladas with cream of chicken and cheese… cover with foil and bake 350 until heated through.

I quit doing the enchiladas and just opt for putting them in soft tacos because I’m impatient and by the time I get off work and get home and all of it done, I’m ready to eat and don’t want to wait another 30 minutes!

 

My Favorite…

Burrito Casserole

Take leftover chicken or use ground meat, whatever you want to use for the filling of the burrito… cook thoroughly and add either taco or fajita seasoning mix per the instructions on the packet (or you can make buffalo style using the above filling).

Layer in a casserole dish… enchilada sauce (so tortillas won’t stick, get dry or burn), tortillas to cover the bottom, burrito filling, cheese, tortillas, enchilada sauce, meat, cheese, repeat until casserole dish is full and end with a layer of tortillas covered with enchilada sauce.

Cover with foil and bake at 350 for about 30-45 minutes.

For my burrito casserole I add a can of Rotel in with the meat and seasonings to add some more heat (yum!).  Then I top with all the taco toppings that I want. 

 

Everyone’s Favorite…

Chicken Salad

Bake either a whole chicken or split chicken breasts… season with Tony’s, garlic and onion powders.

Cover with foil and bake until cooked through

Once baked, uncover, remove the chicken to a different dish and cut the skin off (or at least peal it back), and cut the chicken while it’s still on the bone to help cool.  Let cool about ten minutes and then debone the chicken and tear or cut into bite size pieces.

Add mayo, garlic powder, onion powder and pepper to the mix until flavored to your liking.

The following are optional but I add grapes (either cut in half or quartered depending on how big they are), onion (diced small) or green onion, and walnuts or pecans.

This really is AWESOME chicken salad and I hope you enjoy!