A quick and easy recipe from Bytes! This one is super fast! You'll need one medium pork chop per person. A medium chop is 3/4 inch to 1 inch thick. The ones Bytes used were about the size of my hand -- maybe three inches across by about five inches long. Grilling time is 5 to 6 minutes on each side. The apples also take about 10 minutes to cook -- no need to peel, just quarter, core and slice. If your grill has a side burner, this goes really quickly. Or you can cook the apples ahead of time and warm them just before serving with the finished chop. Use whatever apples you have on hand, a crisp apple like Gala or Fuji is good. Another Bytes' Bite --a meal that is quick to prepare and clean up and move on to the evening’s activity! Grilled Pork Chops with Sauteed Apples ... [Read More]
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Maple Bacon Pot Roast — Slowcooker
Maple Bacon Pot Roast -- my Mother's Day Gift. Before Wheels and I were married we talked about the things we wanted for our children. One item on that short list was to teach them how to be self sufficient. Wheels share of that goal was to teach our children things like how to change a tire and how not to get lost. (Neither of which belonged on my side of the list. I still can’t change a tire – don’t tell the kids! I can argue with the GPS, though.) My share was to teach our children things like how to cook a meal and do their own laundry. (Let it be noted that Wheels does a great job at those self sufficiency things.) And that is why, when Mother’s Day rolls around I only want one gift. A homecooked meal that I don’t prepare. This year Bytes selected this dressed ... [Read More]
Baked Sausage Stuffed Peppers
Baked Sausage Stuffed Peppers are a favorite because the recipe does not have tomato sauce – just the flavors of meat, vegetables and cheese. This recipe is also versatile. It was 11 degrees out the day I made this. No way was I setting myself in that cold car so I used what I had on hand – sausage, Birds Eye Wild Rice (microwave in the bag mix with broccoli and carrots) and Colby Jack cheese. Using sausage eliminates the need for other seasoning, but you can also add your own seasonings to ground beef. For us that would be salt and pepper , maybe a bit of minced garlic. You can see that sausage is a flavor boost for our household! (Sad isn’t it?? I’m working on it!) I’ve not used the wild rice mixture before but the mixture did just fine and we had the benefit of the bits of ... [Read More]
BLT Ranch Burger
First time I made Ranch Burgers, I used ranch dressing out of the bottle. They were moist – just like I thought they would be. That was a good thing. But they were so moist they came apart and slid down into the barbecue flames. Not a good thing. And they were so soft that it was impossible to slide a spatula under them to lift anything off the grill. Really not a good thing! Good idea -- bad execution!! This recipe using dry ranch dressing mix gives the taste and tenderness without the falling apart mess. Save the bottled ranch dressing to replace or supplement your ketchup allotment. Works much better! Adding the BLT takes a good sandwich up a notch. Or maybe it’s the other way around – adding a burger to your BLT takes a good sandwich up a notch! Either way marrying ... [Read More]
Orange Glazed Cornish Hens
Orange Glazed Cornish hens are an out of the ordinary entrée, perfect for any special occasion. So easy to prepare and so elegant on the plate! Cornish Hens are great for a Valentine dinner for two or an Easter dinner for the family, or a birthday celebration. And certainly Cornish Hens can replace the traditional Christmas and Thanksgiving turkey!. The history of the Cornish hen is interesting and fairly recent. A young Frenchwoman, Alphonsine Davis, moved to Paris where she worked in a cheese shop and a millinary shop. Jacques Makowsky, a Jewish printer to Csar Nicholas II, escaped the Russian Revolution and fled to France where he met Alphonsine. They married in 1933 and escaped the Nazis by moving to New York in 1940 where Jacques printed exquisite boxes for high end ... [Read More]
Parmesan Panko Crusted Chicken
Parmesan Panko Crusted Chicken -- another quick and easy dinner. Chicken made moist with egg, flavored with parmesan cheese and panko, then crisped in a bit of olive oil. Tender and flavorful any time, any season and picture perfect enough for guests. This is one of my “stand in the refrigerator door-- what am I going to cook now?” inventions, so if you are looking for gourmet – maybe next time! I spied a jar of grated parmesan cheese in the refrigerator door, looked at the package of chicken tenderloins in the freezer next door and remembered seeing parmesan chicken on a restaurant menu once and there you go. Chicken breast tenderloins are slices of chicken breast about one half inch thick. They’re not available in all stores, but I can buy them at one of the supermarkets for ... [Read More]