Oh My Chicken

Oh My Chicken - Doug Goodrich
1 whole chicken (or several chicken breasts)
1 can of broccoli cheese soup
1 can of cream of chicken soup
1 can of chicken broth
Italian Seasoning
Garlic Salt
Pepper
Vegetables (include but are most certainly not limited to... carrots, potatoes, squash, onions etc..)

Directions...
Brown the chicken on your stove top on medium heat and flip the chicken every two minutes while applying a healthy dose of the seasonings mentioned above.
While the chicken is browning, mix the soup mixture together into a large bowl.
Have all of your vegetables previously chopped.
When the chicken is nearly browned on the stove, dump the onions in with it. Let the onions brown for a minute or two. Get a baking pan and put the vegetables and chicken in first. Then smother it with all of the soup mixture. Let it bake at 375 degrees. Trust yourself for how long, until it's not pink and the vegetables are tender I guess. This dish goes quite nicely with warm soft rolls.

I made this at one of the family reunions in a dutch oven. It's good.

Di's Taco Soup

Hi, I just made up a yummy taco soup inspired by my friend Karen's recipe. The V8 juice adds more nutrients and more flavor. Add more juice for a thinner soup.

1 lb lean ground beef seasoned with pepper and browned
1 onion chopped and sauteed with the beef
1 can corn drained
1 can black beans drained
1 can kidney beans drained
1 can diced tomatoes
2 cans of V8 juice (approx. 2 cups)
1 packet of Taco Seasoning
Cilantro

Simmer all the ingredients together. Serve with corn chips.
Optional toppings: cheese, cilantro, sour cream, guacamole, olives, etc.

Indian Rice

Another recipe from my neighbor Fatma. You will eat the best rice you've ever had.

Ingredients:

2 c. Basmati rice
3 c. boiling water
1/4 c. oil
a chopped onion
minced garlic clove
3 cubes chicken boullion
garam masala (a combination of coriander, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, fennel, anistar, etc.) I would assume you could find it in any foreign food store. I don't know where to find it in Utah, so if anyone knows, please share! I want to know for when I move back! If you can't find it, then just some ground coriander and a little cinnamon works fine.

Preheat the oven to 350. Saute the onion in the oil, add the garlic and the rice. Fry for a minute then add the masala and the boullion and the boiling water. Place in the oven for about 15 minutes until soft.

Enjoy!!
--Di

Indian Bread

This is a recipe for Indian flat bread that is SO DANG GOOD! My neighbor Fatma taught me how to make it, and she doesn't have a recipe, so I'm guessing on the measurements. You can't really mess it up as long as you pay attention to the texture.

Ingredients

5-6 c flour
1/2 t. salt
2 t. yeast dissolved in 1/4 c warm water until it fizzes
1 can coconut milk (look in the Asian foods section of the store)
sesame seeds (optional)
melted butter or ghee

Mix the yeast mixture, flour, salt, and coconut milk along with one can full of warm water together in a big bowl. Using your hands, break up all the lumps. The mixture should be a little bit thicker than pancake batter, add more water if you need to. Let it rise covered for 2 hours.
Preheat the oven at 300, and preheat non-stick skillet on the stove and pour in the batter. With wet hands push the dough out to the edges of the pan. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top. The batter will get a little brown around the edges and puff up as it cooks. Brush it with melted butter or ghee. Put it in the oven for about five minutes until the top looks hard. Slide it out of the pan onto a paper towel and cover with aluminum foil. The foil will make the bread soft. Repeat until the dough is gone.

Sausage Potato Stew

This is a recipe that Logan gave me to try and it was FABULOUS! We halved it and used summer sausage instead. Enjoy!
Sausage Potato Stew – Logan Bohman
8-10 med red potatoes
2 large onions
1 large green pepper
1 large red pepper (optional)
2 lbs. smoked Polish sausage
1/3 c olive oil
1 Tbsp dried basil
½ Tbsp pepper
1 c cream
3 tsp cornstarch
3 Tbsp water

Clean potatoes and cut into bite size pieces. Boil potatoes in water until almost done. Drain off water. Add onions, peppers, sausage, oil, basil, and pepper. Cook in large pan until vegetables are tender but still slightly crisp. Combine cream, cornstarch, and water and pour over potatoes and vegetables. Cook until thickened. Salt and pepper to taste. It is very thick; add more cream or milk to make more of a soup if desired.

-Starving AND Sleepless in Seattle
(Emily)

Cafe Rio Sweet Pork

4-5 lb. pork roast
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon dry red pepper flakes
2 teaspoons cumin
1-2 teaspoons salt

Mix brown sugar, red pepper flakes, cumin and salt together. Rub all over roast. Brown roast and place in crockpot. Bake on low from 6 pm to 9 am.
In the morning add to pot:
1 can Coke (not diet!)
1 cup chicken broth
2 cloves minced garlic
1 chopped onion
Continue to cook on low from 9 am to 5 pm. One hour before serving shred pork and add:
1 cup brown sugar
Mix together well and serve with:
rice, beans, shredded lettuce, cheese, and Chili Verde Sauce
This can be served as a salad (which I like to crumble tortilla chips on) or wrapped in tortillas.

Chili Verde Sauce

1 pkg. Hidden Valley Ranch dressing mix
8 oz. jar Verde salsa (green salsa)
2 chopped garlic cloves
3/4 cup mayonnaise
3/4 cup sour cream
1/8-1/4 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until creamy. Add juice of 1/2 lime and mix again. Make ahead and chill before serving.

This recipe has a lot of ingredients and it takes a lot of time to cook, but it is so good and it makes a TON!!!! I got this recipe from our stake president's wife. I gave it to Di and she said her hubbie Matt made an awesome chili with the left over meat. Last time I made this I made Lime Cilantro Rice and garlic Black beans to go with it. It was really good. I cooked the rice with chicken stock and a little lime juice and then just stirred in some cilantro at the end. The beans I just heated up with a couple of teaspoons of minced garlic.
I hope you all enjoy!!!!

Crockpot Chicken

4 Chicken breasts
1 pkg Taco seasoning
1 cup salsa

Spray crockpot with cooking spray. Put in chicken. Sprinkle with Taco seasoning and top with salsa. Cook on low for 6-8 hours. When ready to serve, remove the chicken from the pot. Place about 2 Tablespoons cornstarch in a tad of water. Stir well and pour into pot. Then stir in 1/4 cup sour cream.

(This is Beth, by the way! And this website is awesome!!! Thanks Nanners and Em!)
I like to simplify, so I made this a little differently First of all 4 chicken breasts makes a lot!!! I just use 2 for my family and we always have leftovers! I don't take the chicken out of the pot when it's done, I just shred it in the pot. Then I serve it over tortillas with cheese, of course!, and some sour cream. It's really good and very easy!

I got this recipe from justcrockpotrecipes.com which is a great website. I also like kraftfoods.com and epicurious.com
Would anyone be interested in my Cafe Rio pork recipe that feeds a small army?

I hope all you Goodrich gals had a wonderful Singles Awareness Day! Love you all!

Help!

We're having the missionaries over on Sunday, and one of them is a diabetic. Anyone have any good recipes that would cater to his needs?

Banana Cookies

I made these cookies for my first new mommy's get together today. I found the recipe somewhere on the blogosphere between 2 and 5 AM when Sophie didn't feel like sleeping. So Sophie and I had cookies and milk for breakfast (well...I had cookies and she had milk). The word 'banana' in the title makes it count as breakfast, right? They were quite healthy tasting...until I piled on the frosting. Enjoy!

Banana Cookies
3/4 c. butter
1 egg
1 tsp. Vanilla
2 mashed bananas
3/4 c. Brown sugar
1/4 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Soda
2 c. flour

Frosting
6 TBL. Brown sugar
4 TBL. Evaporated milk
4 TBL. Butter
1 tsp. vanilla
Powdered Sugar

Combine the wet ingredients in a mixer then combine dry ingredients in a second bowl and add to wet mixture. After all ingredients are mixed, drop heaping spoonfuls of dough on greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees. For the frosting, add ingredients to a small pan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and wisk in 1 tsp of vanilla and enough powdered sugar to make a good frosting.

Happy Baking!

-Starving in Seattle
(Emily)

Mango Salsa Pork

Mango Salsa Pork

1 pork tenderloin

1 jar of Costco Mango Salsa

I started with a 4 pound peppered/marinated pork tenderloin roast from Costco. I like the peppered meat contrasted with the sweet salsa. You could go smaller or larger depending on how many you are cooking for. I've gotten a smaller one at Albertsons.

I added about 1/4 in. amount of water at the bottom of the crock pot, added the meat, then turned it on high for about an hour and a half.

The pork goes from pink to white as it cooks. After the first hour and a half, empty a little water...maybe about a 1/2 cup, then add about 3 cups of mango salsa (from costco) on top of the meat. Keep on high and let cook for about three more hours. (If you want to you could take a full day and cook it on low). I added more salsa before I served it.

Last time I made this it came out kind of watery ( I think it was from the marinade). But it still tasted great. So you might want to experiment on how to keep it less watery.

serve over rice or with mashed potatoes!

-Maggie (Jordan's recipe)

Elephant Pancake

In honor of National Pancake Day, Logan and I went out for free pancakes at IHOP last night - see how desperate we are for new food ideas!!! It got me thinking about pancake day in England. Shrove Tuesday is pancake day. Traditionally in Britain they eat pancakes, often served with sugar and lemon, on the last day before Lent. This is the craziest pancake recipe I heard while I was over there. This isn't something I would normally post, but it's fun and it's something to get us started!

Elephant Pancakes

Put a huge pancake on a large plate. Spread cherry pie filling on top. Put another pancake on top of the first and place canned pineapple chunks on that. Pour maple syrup over the pineapple. Put another pancake on top and place banana slices over it. Pour maple syrup over the bananas. Place a final pancake on top and microwave the whole lot for a couple of minutes. Pour hot chocolate fudge sauce over it all, sprinkle on some coconut. Serve with ice cream or cream and enjoy!

Now, if you have time to make all that and eat all that, you probably have enough time on your hands to make one of these fabulous and very fashionable evening gowns entirely out of balloons!
Happy cooking everyone!

-Starving in Seattle
(Emily)

Feeding Frenzy

Hello Everyone! Thanks to Emily for starting this blog. I hope you will all take advantage of this opportunity to share with us. Posting a message and/or photo is super easy, and I hope you will post some recipes as well. We had the missionaries over for dinner the other night, and halfway through, they told me I had already cooked this same meal for them before. Ooops. I am so ashamed. Help me. My repretoire is in need of expansion!
Doofus in Des Moines
(Di)

Calling All Goodrich Gals

I was talking to Di about how poor Logan is starving to death. I've got nothing. I'm spent. I never thought this would happen to me, but food has become boring. There's not a single recipe in my arsenal I ever want to make again. I'm out of relief society frozen casseroles and I never want to look at a pizza again. I need help! So, we decided to make a family recipe blog where all of you wise, wonderful chefs can share with those of us struggling padawan learners. Please join us! Post a recipe that's tried and true or one that you've recently discovered. If you don't have a clue how to post a recipe, email us, call us, or write us, and we'll post it for you! Leave a family update while you're at it or post some pictures. We want to know what everyone is up to as well! Here's a huge thank you in advance for helping me feed my family!

-Starving in Seattle
(Emily)