June Exchange Date

Hi all,
The June exchange date will be Wednesday, June 17th @ 7pm at Erin Bailey's house. You can email or call to RSVP. Hope to see you all there!
Erin

Porcupine Beefballs

Beefballs

1 lb ground beef
1/2 C uncooked rice
1/4 C minced onion
1 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper

Quick Tomato Sauce

2 Tbls margarine
1/4 C chopped celery
1/4 C chopped green pepper
2 Tbls chopped onion
1 can (10 1/2 oz) tomato soup
2/3 C water
2 Tbls lemon juice
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
2 tsp brown sugar
1 tsp dry mustard
1 tsp salt

Sauce: Cook margarine, celery, pepper, onions in skillet until tender. Add remaining ingredients and simmer 5 minutes.

Beefballs: Mix beefball ingredients and shape into balls. Place in greased 8x8 baking dish. Pour Quick Tomato Sauce over balls. Cover with foil and bake @ 350 F for 1 hour or until rice is tender when pressed.

Freezer version: Do everything as directed, but freeze before cooking. On cooking day, thaw completely. Cook covered @ 350 F for 1 hour or until rice is tender. Make sure beefballs are cooked completely through before eating.

Easy Orange Chicken

Ingredients:
4 boneless chicken breasts
2 TBS brown sugar
2 TBS soy sauce
3 TBS orange juice conentrate (thawed)
2 teaspoons garlic
1 teaspoon ginger
Coarse salt & Pepper to taste

Freezer Instructions: Prop open a one gallon freezer bag. Add the brown sugar, soy sauce, orange juice, garlic, ginger, salt and pepper to the freezer bag, and mix using your hand on the outside of the bag until all ingredients are well blended. Add the chicken breasts to the bag, and turn inside the bag to coat with marinade. Squeeze excess air out of the bag, seal, and label the bag with a Sharpie. Lie bag flat in freezer. Freeze.

Cooking Instructions: Thaw. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Coat a baking dish with light cooking spray. Remove chicken from freezer bag, and DO NOT discard the bag & remaining marinade. Place chicken in baking dish, and place in the oven for roasting for 25 minutes. Baste occassionally with the remaining marinade. Once the chicken is cooked through, turn the oven to broil and broil the chicken for a minute or so, until it is nice and brown on top.

Serving Suggestions: Jasmine Rice and Garden Salad with ginger dressing.

Rosemary Lemon Chicken

Rosemary Lemon Chicken

4 large chicken breasts

3 medium lemons

3 long sprigs fresh rosemary

6 table spoons olive oil

1 red onion sliced

salt

Put chicken and olive oil into a large freezer bag. (for freezer meal I just put it into the freezer pan)

cut in half and squeeze one lemon's juice into bag

slice remaining lemons into wedges and put into bag

break up the Rosemary sprigs and put them in bag.

add in sliced red onion

Let chicken marinate for at least a few hours or up to a few days. (for freezer meal I just covered with tin foil and froze it.)

Cooking Instructions:

(If frozen thaw completely and don't worry about transferring it to a different pan, just cook it in the pan it is already in)

Bake at 450 degrees for 45 minutes. Serve with rice or potatoes and veggies.

May Exchange

Alright, I was able to finally get a head count and there will be 6 of us this month. So you will need to bring 5 meals for the exchange, if you want one for yourself you will need to make 6. This is who I have participating:

Mitzi Peterson

Becca Moser

Erin Bailey

Jamie Smith

Alisha Ashton

Amy Smith

We'll see you at my place Tuesday May 19th at 7:00pm. I will have a yummy treat so come hungry for it!!! See ya then!