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