Made with boneless chicken breasts, broccoli, butter, extra-virgin olive oil, crushed garlic cloves, minced onion, flour, chicken broth, milk, white wine, Swiss cheese, Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, and salt & pepper.
So, if you have nothing else to do today, serve up chicken divan for yourself and loved ones.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Chicken recipes are some of the most simplest to make.
Made with ground turkey, whole wheat spaghetti, pinto beans, scallions, chopped garlic cloves, tomato paste, chili powder, chicken broth, ketchup, hot sauce, cheddar cheese, sour cream, salt, and olive oil.
Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm.
Recipe for—Spaghetti With Turkey Chili
So, if you have nothing else to do today, make it a spaghetti chili night.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Does there have to be a life lesson with every recipe?
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Made with black-eyed peas, crumbled bacon, smoked ham, onions, scallions, green bell pepper, minced garlic cloves, dried thyme, butter, cayenne pepper, chicken broth, and salt & pepper. Served with Rice Pilaf made with long-grain brown rice, shallots, butter, chicken broth, and salt & pepper.
Oh, MAN! This is SO righteous! Now this is some GOOD STUFF. I couldn’t stop eating. The combination of all the flavors was crazy good.
Recipe for—Black-Eyed Peas with Bacon
So, if you have nothing else to do today, make some Hoppin’ John black-eyed peas deliciousness.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Bacon and ham can amp up almost anything.
Made with angel hair pasta, shrimp, olive oil, minced garlic cloves, red pepper flakes, lemon juice, lemon zest, white wine, butter, and fresh parsley.
I actually made this recipe for someone else—because, eewwww, seafood grosses me out. I mean, have you seen what seafood looks like when it’s ALIVE?! I can’t even imagine eating it.
Maybe it’s because when I was growing up we never ate seafood— unless you count frozen fish sticks in a box as seafood, then OK we did. But that’s about it!
So, needless to say, trying to cook with something as simple as shrimp was a disgusting chore. I used super long tongs to grab the shrimp every time I needed to do something with them. I just kept imagining these things were alive at some point with their little antennas and all.
I had also bought them already peeled and deveined. I couldn’t even imagine doing surgery on shrimp myself. YUCK!
But before I put the shrimp into the pasta I, naturally, scooped myself up a dose of the pasta without the shrimp because I knew once the shrimp touched it I wouldn’t be having dinner at all.
Recipe for—Shrimp Scampi with Angel Hair Pasta
So, if you have nothing else to do today, get up close and personal with some seafood if you dare. And, if you’re so bold, pull some lobster, octopus, crabs, clams, oysters, shrimp, or shark fresh out of water ALIVE and then cook, cut, and chop or vice versa—EEWWW!
Take-Away Life Lesson: Rubber gloves and super long tongs can help when you want to keep your distance from any seafood while cooking with it.
Made with ground beef, lasagna noodles, egg, mozzarella cheese, ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese, spaghetti sauce, fresh parsley, and water.
What exactly do you want me to say about this? Is there something about the picture you’re just not getting? It speaks loud and clear to me.
Can you imagine a bathtub being layered with this stuff? If only there was a baking dish the size of a bathtub. Man, I’d immerse myself and go to town—right in the dead center! I mean, can you imagine being surrounded by all that good lovin’?
Then again, you have the problem of finding an oven that big.
Made with ground turkey, no-boil lasagna noodles, olive oil, onion, minced garlic cloves, stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, eggs, cottage cheese, Parmesan cheese, mozzarella cheese, cheddar cheese, fresh parsley, seasoning salt, and salt & pepper.
Now this was a different second lasagna recipe I tried. This one had a few more ingredients in it than the first one above but was still just as lovely and simple to make.
I was reluctant to make any lasagna at first because I always thought there was so much work involved. But once I started making it, there really wasn’t anything to it. It was much simpler and quicker than I thought it’d be. And if you have someone to help you, it can cut the time down even further.
So, if you have nothing else to do today, find the largest bathtub-sized baking dish you can find and make a big fat lasagna.
Take-Away Life Lesson: There’s nothing wrong with taking a little cheese bath.
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Made with roast turkey breast, extra-wide egg noodles, white wine, chicken stock, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, heavy cream, extra-virgin olive oil, chopped fresh thyme leaves, sliced garlic cloves, fennel bulbs, onions, flour, fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves, salt & pepper, and topped with pine nuts.
I don’t know what to say other than it did not make the cut into my recipe binder. It was ”meh” at most for me.
Recipe for—Roast Turkey, Fennel & Onions with Buttered Egg Noodles
So, if you have nothing else to do today, find a way to turn a “meh” meal into an OMG meal.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Sometimes you just gotta grin and bear dinner.
Made with cooked grits, sugar, butter, chopped hard-boiled eggs, chopped cooked turkey sausage patties, cheddar cheese, tomato, sour cream, fresh chopped chives, and salt & pepper.
This was a fun spin on eating grits.
Recipe for—Breakfast Trifle Grits
Made with course stone-ground white grits, chicken stock, milk, chopped roasted garlic in olive oil, and salt & pepper.
I had never roasted garlic before in my life. BOY—the smell throughout the house! Let me tell you!
Recipe for—Garlic Roasted Grits
So, if you have nothing else to do today, try making grits in new and different ways.
Take-Away Life Lesson: There are many other ways to serve grits other than with the basic butter and sugar you’ve had your whole life.
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