Salmon Salad Spread with Pepperjack Cheese and Bacon on Toasted Wheat Bread Sandwich

Great sandwich this morning! Yesterday I made a salmon salad spread, and today It was combined with bacon and pepperjack cheese on toasted wheat bread. Absolutely fantastic!

Salmon Salad Sandwich Spread

-Chicken of the Sea brand Pink Salmon, foil pouch near cans of tuna etc

 Skinless & Boneless

 5 oz package

 BC 48000-01197

-1 HB Egg diced finely

-1/3 diced purple onion 70 gm

-Bread & Butter Pickles, Vlasic, chopped, 57 gm (5 pickles)

-Miracle Whip 77 gm

-Mustard 3 gm 

Season with black pepper, garlic powder, and salt.

Chickens of The Sea Soup

I use Lipton Cup of Soup packages. They come 4 to a box, individually they are 0.6 oz each.

1 Package of Cream of Chicken Soup, single serving

1 Package of Chicken Noodle Soup, single serving

Chicken Deli Meat, 1 oz, diced finely

1 1/2 cups water

Oyster Sauce, 1 teaspoon (brand KaMe)

Tabasco Sauce to taste 

Worcestershire Sauce to taste

Garlic Powder to taste 

Black Pepper to taste

Combine water, oyster sauce, Tabasco sauce and Worcestershire sauce in bowl. 

Heat to boiling in microwave oven

Oyster sauce incompletely dissolves

Add both soup packets and stir

Add 1 oz of deli chicken diced finely

Add garlic powder and black pepper

Add crackers !!!!

Anchovy Sandwich

Ingredients:

Wheat Bread

Miracle Whip

Bellino Filet of Anchovies (glass jar)

Boar's Head Smoked Gouda Cheese slices

Steinfeld's Home Style Sauerkraut

Sliced Tomatos

Spices: Salt, Pepper & Garlic Powder

Next time I will add a little bit of smoked turkey meat

Buffalo Faux Phở

The two Vietnamese restaurants in Amarillo that I was getting phở soup have gone out of business, so I devised a similar soup of my own.

I cook a buffalo steak and then save the pan drippings for this soup.

I use two box mixes:

       Thai Kitchen Bangkok Curry (Dry)
       Lipton's 'Recipe Secrets' Onion Soup Mix (Dry)

Sauté one fourth of a white onion that is diced finely.

During the onion saute process add 1 teaspoon of olive oil and two tablespoons of water.

Season with:

       Garlic powder
       Black Pepper
       Oregano
       Thyme
       Sweet Basil
       Bay Leaf
       Tabasco Sauce
       Worcestershire Sauce
       Oyster Sauce, one teaspoon (Brand: KA-ME, by Panos Brands)
       Add Buffalo steak pan drippings

Watch the liquid level and add just enough water to keep from scorching onions.

MEAT OPTION: I added some left-over pork roast at this point, about an 1/8 of a pound, shredded

After the onions are soft (20-30 minutes), add two cups of water and bring to a boil.

Add half of a package of Lipton's Onion Soup Mix (Two packages per box, so 1/4 of the box contents)

Simmer for 10 minutes
Add the dry powder and oil seasoning of the Thai Kitchen Bangkok Curry mix, stirring frequently to dissolve powder.

After a minute of stirring, add the rice noodles of the Thai Kitchen Bangkok Curry package.

Cook on high heat for 3 minutes with constant stirring.

Serves One

OPTION SPICE: Add sliced fresh jalapeño peppers if desired (I just happened to be out when I devised this recipe this morning)

Modified Thai Kitchen Bangkok Curry Instant Rice Noodle Soup

This is my modification for this store bought soup, Thai Kitchen® brand Bangkok Curry Instant Rice Noodle Soup

Prepare meat patties ahead of time. I use a 50:50 mixture of ground buffalo and pork sausage.

Each meat package I use is 1 lb, so there are a total of 2 lbs of mix mixed together to form 5 patties.

Cook meat patties on stovetop in a covered pan for about a half hour or longer until meat is thoroughly cooked. I start with a high flame then gradually lower the intensity turning the meat every five minutes.

I like to cut them up after they have been cold in the refrigerator over night. I prefer to cut the burger patty into 8 wedges like slices of pie, adding them into the soup after the noodles have softened.

Cook soup as per package direction eXcept use 1 1/2 cups of water instead of 1 cup

Use 1 1/2 quart pan

Extra Ingredients:

1/4 of a Red Bell Pepper - diced
Slice of Purple Onion 1/4 inch thick - then diced to about the size of a grain of rice
Meat Burger - I use a 50:50 mix of ground buffalo and pork sausage - divide burger into 8 pie shapes
3 thin slices of a jalapeno pepper - diced - approximately a tablespoon
2 leaves from Basil plant - diced - remove middle vein of the leaf

Season with Garlic Powder and Black Pepper

Dump all of the ingredients listed above into the soup after the noodles have softened.

Serve with a side container of Hoisin dipping sauce (Vietnamese)


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Uncle Ern's World Famous Soup

Start with one pound of regular ground pork sausage cooked and chopped into small pieces.

Drain most of the grease off meat.

Finely dice an onion, and saute with olive oil until translucent in a separate pan.

Seasonings can be added anytime after the meat has been cooked: Tabasco sauce, one teaspoon of sugar, pepper, oregano, garlic powder.

Then add one can of tomato soup and one small can of tomato sauce, mix that up

Add a can of Van Camp's Pork 'N Beans. Spend some time smashing the beans while mixing them into the soup. Puree part of the beans with a spatula.

Add enough water to keep it fluid, a little less than one can of the tomato soup can amount of water.

Add a half to full 15 oz can of Wolf brand chili, no beans. Adjust amount to your desired taste.

Add a slice of cheese off the end of a block of Kraft Mild Mexican Velveeta that is about a 1/4 inch thick.

The soup burns easily, so watch the amount of heat, stir often.

Add a small amount of Minute Rice, dry, into the soup, maybe a half cup, I use a small amount in my hand.

Double Broccoli Soup

Today's Soup !

1 can of Cream of Broccoli soup
1 can of Broccoli Cheese soup
1/4 pound of leftover chicken, shredded
1 cup of milk
1/2 can of water
1/2 of jalapeño pepper, diced
1/4 of red bell pepper, diced
couple tablespoons of diced purple onion
1/4 cup of frozen corn

Stir often, scorches easily Season with:
Black Pepper
Garlic Powder
Tabasco Sauce
Worcestershire Sauce

A Great Trail Mix

My new snack mix:

Combine in equal volumes:

A) Cashews
B) Nacho flavored Doritos
C) Garden Valley Veggie Wheat Thins

Bust the Doritos and Wheat Thins into 1/4 their original size.

I store the mixture in an old clear plastic container that cashews came in originally.

Bonus Day Candy Bar

This recipe is eXtremely simple. For an improved candy bar eXperience while eating a PayDay candy bar, grab a handful of cashews (halves) and pop some in your mouth before each bite of the candy bar. Chew them up just a little bit before taking a bite of the PayDay. Start off with just a few pieces of cashews at first and then keep adding until you find your optimum personal amount. I like 4 halves.

"My" Version of Chicken Noodle Soup

Ingredients:

1 Can of Chicken Noodle Soup, 10 3/4 oz Campbell's Condensed
7 Saltine Crackers
1 "helping" of chicken meat, prefer thin sliced deli, already cooked, approx 1 oz (just however much you would put on a sandwich)
1 Slice of 2% Milk Pepperjack Cheese, 2/3 oz, Kraft

Season with pepper & garlic powder
Optional Ingredient: Dash of Worcestershire Sauce - try it both ways!

Heat soup in a pan that is around 5-6 inches wide, so that the slice of cheese will lay in it comfortably (don't put cheese in just yet, it goes on last)
Add only a half can of water to the soup.

Add seasonings

Chop up the chicken deli meat, add to soup. Mix.

Heat on med high heat until it begins to boil, then reduce heat to low.

Crunch up the crackers and sprinkle them on top of the pan of soup, do not mix, let the crackers be a layer.

Let the crackers have just enough time to get completely wet before placing the cheese on top. Do not mix.

Let the cheese heat up for three minutes before eating.

Eating straight out of the pan getting a little bit of proportional sized bits of cheese throughout the consumption of the soup.

Serving Size: Just right for one hungry person

ENJOY !!!

Fudgies

Fudgies

Category: Cookie, No Bake

Recipe makes about 24 cookies

I have been making this cookie all my life starting from the time I was probably about 10 years old.

Sauce Ingredients:

Milk - 3/4 cup

Dry Non-sweet Chocolate - 6 Tablespoons

Sugar - 2 cups

Oleo - 1/2 stick equals 4 Tablespoons

Peanut Butter - Creamy - 1/3 cup [DO NOT ADD at the beginning of the sauce cooking.]

Dry Ingredients:

Oatmeal - 3 cups (Quaker Oats - Quick 1 Minute variety)

Coconut - Flaked - 1 cup

Heat the sauce ingredients (except for the peanut butter) for 20 minutes on a medium heat, should bubble some. 

Stir constantly. 

The peanut butter is added at the 16 minute mark into the cooking process. Peanut butter should be completely mixed into the sauce before the sauce is mixed into the dry ingredients.

Put dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Mix the oatmeal and coconut thoroughly before the chocolate sauce is added.

Add the cooked sauce to the dry ingredients and mix so they are completely covered with sauce.

Spoon out lumps of a cookie size. Do not flatten.

Allow to air dry some and cool before containerizing.

The cookie on the left is probably cooked about the right amount of time, the one on the right is too dry, the sauce cooked too long.

Tips:

If the cookies crumble very easily or have difficulty even forming a cookie, then the sauce was cooked too long.

If the cookie takes forever to dry, and its completely gooey and shiny, then the sauce was not cooked long enough. The cookie should be somewhat dull, with very little shiny luster after it dries.

Update 2012.01.04

I ate some of the cookie crumbs with some cashews and it was great! For my next batch I am going to substitute 1/2 of a cup of the oatmeal with a 1/2 cup of cashews.

Ultimate Fast-From-Frozen With Extra Chicken Chicken Quesadilla

Do you like my blog entry title? I just couldn't resist putting in an extra chicken to tell you about one of my favorite things on earth to eat.

I combine three things to make the ultimate fast food chicken quesadilla at home. Start with a Stouffer's Chicken Quesadilla Flatbread Melt, then add some extra Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh Chicken Breast Strips, Southwestern Seasoned, and then top it off with crushed red pepper, the kind usually served at my local pizza place. The prep time is maybe a minute to dice the chicken and spread it around the quesadilla, and then 3 minutes to microwave the frozen quesadilla.

CAUTION: There is a similar product called "Stouffer's Chicken Alfredo Flatbread Melt" which I do not like as well as the one used for this recipe. But never be afraid to experiment (within reason, of course!)

• Stouffer's Flatbread Chicken Quesadilla - 370 calories
• 1/5 of a package of Deli Fresh Chicken - 66 calories
• A dash of peppers - insignificant calories
• Total Calories per serving approximately 436

The cost per serving at time of publication was less than $4.00 - but sometimes I can catch the Stouffer's product on sale at 2 for $5 instead of the normal 2 for $6 

Fortified Gumbo

Try adding extra frozen chunked Okra, jalapeno peppers, red bell pepper and Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh Southwestern Seasoned Chicken Breast Strips (cut into small pieces)

It is very nice to have the already cooked chicken in your ice box, ready for a quick snack or add to a soup or sandwich. The product ID is 44700 02289

We use the Campbell's Chunky Grilled Chicken and Sausage Gumbo, product number 51000-15007.

Calories per serving of the original soup is 140

A fourth of the chicken container is 55 calories (half a serving size) for the whole soup (divide by two)

The amount of calories from the vegetables are close to negligible.

So the total calories per serving are less than 200

Some Soup Recipes 2010.02.11

3 Soups

Minestrone Whole Grain Soup

                                                      Calories

Minestrone (Select Harvest) 1 – 18.6 oz can              160

Tomato Sauce, 1 – 8 oz can                                70

Diced Tomatoes, 1 – 14.5 oz can                          140

     (Use the kind you like best)

Ranch Style Beans 1 – 15 oz can                          390

     (Use less if desired)

Hamburger meat (extra lean) 1 lb                         640

     (Brown in pan with seasonings)

     (It is 160 calories for every 4 oz. you add)

     (Adjust to your desired thickness and calories)

Rice (1/3 of pkg)                                        240

     (you can use Lipton Taco Rice, Spanish Rice,

      or Fiesta Rice which ever you like)

Season to taste with:

◦                                Garlic Powder

◦                                Onion Powder

◦                                Salt

◦                                Pepper

◦                                Mild Chili Pepper

Put in sauce pan and cook about 10 minutes with lid

Let stand gets thicker.

You can change the calories by changing how much you

add by changing meat to 1/2 pound.

Then you have taken out 320 calories.                                                                                                                                ¯¯¯¯¯

                                                       1640 Total

Total calories of 1640 divided by 6 servings          274 Serving

                                                      

Extras

You can also put on top of Baked Doritos             120

You can add some cheese on top                        55

                                                   ¯¯¯¯¯                                                                                                                                                                                                  449 Serving

Remember: You need to eat enough to make yourself full, so if you need more leave out the extras and eat another serving of soup.

Mexican Chicken Tortilla

Mexican Chicken Tortilla (Select Harvest)              220

Tomato Sauce                                            70

Diced Tomatoes                                         140

Ranch Style Beans                                      390

    (You can use less if desired)

Chicken (Boiled)      

      (Chicken Tenders boiled)  4 oz 110, using 8 oz   220

Rice (1/3 pkg)                                         240

     (You can use Lipton Spanish Rice, Taco Rice or

         Fiesta Rice)

Season to taste with:

◦                                Garlic Powder

◦                                Onion Powder

◦                                Salt

◦                                Pepper

◦                                Mild Chili Pepper

Place all ingredient in pan with lid; cook 10 minutes

Let stand to thicken.

                                                                                    

                                                       1280

                                                      ¯¯¯¯¯

                          Divided by 6 Servings         214

Extras

     Baked Doritos (Crunch into small pieces)           120

     Grated Cheese                                       55

                                                      ¯¯¯¯¯

                                                        389     

Make sure you eat enough – you can always leave out

extras and eat more soup to be more filling.

                                                                                  

Chicken Tuscany

Chicken Tuscany (Select Harvest)                         180

Bean and Bacon Soup (Campbell's)                         340

Diced Tomatoes                                           140

Chicken (Boiled 8 oz)                                    220

Add Jalapeño (seeded) cut into very small pieces       ¯¯¯¯¯

Season to taste with:

◦                                Garlic Powder

◦                                Onion Powder

◦                                Salt

◦                                Pepper

                                                      

                                                        880 Total

Divided by 4 Servings                                   220 Serving

Extra Cornbread mix