BACON, AVOCADO & CHICKEN CROISSANT SANDWICH

Ingredients:

Croissant (from Costco)

Rotisserie Chicken Breast (from Costco), or just chicken breast

1 avocado sliced

2 slices bacon

Sandwich spread of your choice, optional

Directions:

Slice the chicken, slice the avocado, cook the bacon (remove the grease) and slice the croissant in half.   Add the sandwich spread to the croissant (optional).   Layer the avocado, then the chicken then the bacon.  Serve and Enjoy.

Ingredients

Avocado Layer

Chicken Layer

Bacon Layer

Yum

CHEDDAR BACON CHICKEN BAKE

Ingredients:

2 Tablespoons butter

4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Bowl Ingredients and Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. 

Bowl 1:  1 cup Milk

Bowl 2: Mix  1 cup flour, ½ tsp. salt, ½ tsp. pepper and 1 tsp. garlic powder together

Bowl 3: ¼ - ½ cup butter, melted

Bowl 4:  Add the 1 cup grated cheddar cheese, 10 strips crumbled bacon, ½  cup bread crumbs*, 1/2  cup crushed cereal and a few shakes of pepper.  Mix well.

Let the chicken breast soak in Bowl 1 (milk) for about 10 minutes. 

Cube 2 tablespoons of the butter.  Place 2 tablespoons butter in a 9 X 9 –inch or 8 X 8- inch baking dish.  Let butter melt in the oven for about 3 - 5 minutes.  Remove from Oven.  Slide the baking pan around to coat the pan with the butter.

Add the chicken breast to Bowl 2 and coat chicken breast completely with flour and seasonings.  Dip the chicken  into Bowl 3 (melted butter) or Brush the chicken with the melted butter.  Immediately place the chicken in Bowl 4 (cheese, bread crumbs, bacon and cereal) and coat completely.

Place in the prepared baking dish and cover with foil and bake for 35 - 40 minutes in a 350 degree F. oven.   After 15 minutes of baking, remove foil and continue baking. Serve with “Creamy Three Cheese Sauce”

 * If you don't have any bread crumbs, but you do have croutons, just put your croutons through the food chopper and make your own.  Or, just put your croutons in a ziplock bag and smash them into bread crumbs yourself.

Serve with Creamy Three Cheese Sauce....

Ingredients

Soaking in :Milk

Bowl 2

Bowl 4

Butter for Baking Dish

Bowl 2 - 4

Melted Butter in Baking Dish

Coated in Flour from Bowl 2

Coated in Butter from Bowl 3

Coated in Bacon and Cheddar in Bowl 4

Added to Baking Pan

Ready to Bake

Just Out of the Oven

Plated

Ready to Eat  with http://bakingbanquet.blogspot.com/2012/11/creamy-three-cheese-sauce.html

FRIED RICE FOR THE PICKY DINER

Ingredients:

2 cups Brown Rice

5 - 10 strips Bacon (crumbled)

1 pack Green Onion (chopped)

3 eggs

Garlic Herb Mrs. Dash (a few dashes – season to taste)

Pepper (I use Rainbow Peppercorns from Trader Joe’s – season to taste)

(cooked frozen peas, optional)

Directions:

Cook brown rice as directed.  Microwave bacon until really crunchy.  Crumble bacon (I use the electric food chopper).  Chop Green Onion (I use the electric food chopper).

In a large sauteuse pan, brown rice.  Add crumbled bacon.  Add eggs and immediately scramble and stir.  Fry until eggs are cooked.  Season with pepper and Mrs. Dash.  Add green onion.  Stir in peas, if desired.  Serve very warm.   

Ingredients

Crumbled Bacon in Food Chopper

Frying Rice

Crumbled Bacon in Rice

Eggs Added

Stirring it all together

One with Peas, One without

No Peas

With Peas

BREAKFAST FOR DINNER

Ingredients or Breakfast Options:

Multigrain pancake and waffle mix

Sausage links

Egg  and Bacon casserole (recipe below)

Hash Browns (potatoes – peeled and grated – see recipe below)

Strawberries, sliced

Berries (raspberries, blue berries, etc.)

Whipping cream, whipped

Butter

Maple syrup

Pecans

Chocolate chips

Ketchup

Make pancakes and waffles according to package directions.  Spray waffle iron with cooking spray.  Pour batter on a preheated waffle iron and cook until golden.    I have both Pumpkin and Standard Waffle Pics here.

Standard Waffle Batter

Pumpkin Waffle Mix and Ingredients

Pumpkin Waffle Batter

Pumpkin Waffles with Whipping Cream and Pumpkin Pie Spice

Sausage – cook on preheated grill, turning every 3 minutes until crisp.

My husband likes these the best

Cooking Sausage Links on the Grill

Turn when they look like this (I use both Pork and also Turkey Sausage Links)

Set table with butter, maple syrup, pecans, chocolate chips, ketchup, etc.

Serve waffles and/or pancakes warm and top with butter, whipping cream, pecans, maple syrup, chocolate chips, etc.

Hash Browns.  Peel potatoes and grate them in a food processor.  Place them in a bowl of salt water for 10 – 20 minutes.  Squeeze grated pieces to drain.   In a mixing bowl, add salt and pepper and desired seasoning to taste .  Spray preheated waffle iron with cooking spray.  Add shredded potatoes to waffle iron and cook until crispy.

Grated Potato

Grated Potato in Salt Water

Grated Potato on Waffle Iron

Ready to Eat

Eggs Over Hard – Crack eggs into a sautuesse pan.  Cook on medium low until the eggs turn completely white and are no longer runny.  Carefully turn the eggs over.  Cook for about 5 minutes until the yolk is no longer runny.  Serve hot.

Egg added to sautuesse pan

Eggs cooking and ready to turn over

Eggs Over Hard and Ready to Serve

Egg and Bacon Casserole recipe –

8 eggs,

8 – 12 strips of bacon crumbled,

¼ cup green onion,

1/8 cup milk,

½ cup grated cheese

Garlic Herb Mrs. Dash – to taste

Coarse Ground Pepper – to taste

Cook bacon then crumble it. (I crumble it in a food chopper) .  Over low heat, in a sauteusse pan, add milk.  Add  one egg at a time, beating it as you add it in.  Add crumbled bacon.  Add pepper and Garlic Herb Mrs. Dash.  Mix well.  Cook over low heat until the eggs are no longer runny.  Add green onion.  Mix well.  Sprinkle grated cheese.  Transfer to an oven safe casserole dish and cook for about 10 minutes or until cheese is melted.