Honey - Garlic Chicken / Multi-Grain Medley with almonds / Depression Cake.

Today I made a few things that did turn out to be really good. I need to add this to the rotation. Who am I kidding I need to start a rotation.

Honey - Garlic Slow Cooker Chicken  I didn't have basal and so I used thyme. I also didn't have a lot of catsup and so I used some pasta sauce I had (Ragu flavored with meat) .

I made Minute Rice - Multi-Grain Medley (with almonds added after it cooked) to go with it.

I also made a depression cake - I know that is not what it was called on this link, but it's another name for it. For icing I melted some butter - added a little cocoa and powdered sugar. I didn't measure, but it was good - a little too good.

Cakes

Cake can be so simple and yet so beautiful. I found some great ideas.

Upside Down Cakes - The idea is pretty much just brown sugar and butter melted in the bottom of a pan. Fruit is place on top of it and batter poured over that. Then bake as usual.

Sites with great recipes

1. No Fruit
2. Pineapple 
3. Banana
4. Lemon 
5. Strawberry 
6. Almost any Fruit 
7. Pumpkin Cranberry
8. Multiple Recipes

Recipes using Canned Biscuits

Easy and low cost.

Desserts

• Cinnamon Sweet Puffs - I actually made these (see picture). I didn't roll the dough in butter before rolling it in the cinnamon/sugar mixture but other than that I followed the recipe pretty close.
  
  Warning: be careful for expanding marshmallow, one biscuit turned into a mini volcano and  marshmallow lava came out onto my muffin tin.
• Apple dumplings - Don't have a picture, but I have made a version of these. 

Freeze ahead meals

Freezer meals from various sites

Tammy's Recipes -  I love this site and need to try some of her recipes

Breakfast Bowls -  This looks so good, I can't wait to try it

Chicken

Haven't figured out what I want to say about chicken yet, but I do cook it often.

oven

• fried chicken - I loved the way this one turned out and the paprika!!!! yum

pan

• I'm going to have to search my files a little more for this one

whole chicken

• crockpot - this also includes directions for making stock afterward
• roasted - reviews on this call for a little more or different spices

other

• bourbon chicken - I tried this one and it was really good

Pancakes

I love good pancakes so and I have found a few good recipes.

• Good Old Fashion Pancakes - good standard recipe (you might use a little less salt)
• Healthy Oatmeal Pancakes - has flour, wheat flour and oats
• Todd's Famous Blueberry Pancakes - this sits for an hour before cooking
• German Pancake - I have got to get a cast iron pan
• German Potato Pancake - more of a hash brown

Behind the scenes

I am trying to gather and organize some of my recipes and will post them as they get straightened out.

Breakfast meat

I would probably not have thought of this as a separate category, but I ran across some good recipes for breakfast sausage. It's made from ground turkey. The first one was too mild and the second one was too hot. Then I accidentally got them mixed up used ingredients from both and it was pretty darn good.

Breakfast sausage  - I didn't know you could make this stuff

• Turkey Sausage Patties - I have to alter this one some. half the meat and cut back on the pepper and salt
• Turkey Breakfast Patties - This is the first on that I tried and it opened my eyes to what can be done with spices

Bacon  - In the past I would have said that nothing could be better than just plain crisp bacon, but maybe I was wrong.

• Chipotle and Honey Glazed Bacon
• Spiced bacon twists 
• Pig Candy (aka brown sugar bacon) 
• Maple Mustard Canadian Bacon
• Mustard and Jalapeno Rubbed Bacon

French Toast

Something really simple to make in the morning. I sometimes use only bread and egg and don't add milk or sprinkle powdered sugar on it. I plan to come back and add to this list.

French Toast  - bread dipped in egg

• French Toast - standard version
• Fluffy French Toast - this one adds flour to the egg
• Baked French Toast link to recipe
• French Toast Casserole link to recipe

Unique French Toast -  these look great

• Passover French Toast - homemade sponge cake inside
• Crunchy French Toast Sticks  - rolled in cereal before frying
• Apple Pie Sandwich - french toast with apple pie insides

Omelet

This morning I found out about a couple of really great sounding omelets that I had never heard of. I never really stopped to think about what all an omelet could be. Omelet is defined as a dish consisting of beaten eggs cooked until set and folded over. Most have a filling inside. This could be a great way to use some leftover meat or vegetables.

Regular Omelet - just cheese and or vegetables inside

• I found this site that tells how to make an omelet
• Cheese Omelet - simple youtube example

Bread Omelet - a slice of bread inside. It's a south India street food. Looks like less mess than making french toast.

• Recipe on tastyappetite.net 
• Bread Omelet - youtube example

Japanese Omelet Rice  (Omu Raisu) - omelet with fried rice and vegetables inside. I can't wait to try this out.

• Rice Omelet - youtube example
• Recipe on allrecipes.com
• Recipe on justonecookbook.com

Oven Omelets - This is something you can put together ahead of time then cook last minute

• Recipe from www.makeanomelette.com how to information and a list of ingredients 
• Baked Omelet Squares recipe from allrecipes.com link to recipe
  

Recipe Sites

I"m trying to save money by becoming better at managing my food budget. There is so much information out there. I started to feel like Alice in Wonderland. I went down a lot of rabbit trails and got lost for a while. Now I hope to pull together something that works for me.

 A small sample of my Alice in Wonderland Experience

 Eat Me 

• http://allrecipes.com/ (probably my current favorite site)
• http://www.familycookbookproject.com (a lot of family recipes pulled together)
• http://www.supercook.com (select ingredients available to see what you can cook) 
• http://www.cookingchanneltv.com (find a recipe you saw on TV)

  Drink Me

• http://simplegreensmoothies.com (healthy green smoothies) 
• http://www.smoothieweb.com (more smoothie recipes) 

  Take Me

• http://www.medicinenet.com/ (lots of information on supplements and vitamins) 
• http://www.myhomeremedies.com/ (real people telling their experience)