Friday, March 18, 2016

Baked Chicken Egg Rolls and Ham Fried Rice

This meal is a favorite of my hubby's - his favorite part is the ham fried rice.
Every two weeks we buy a rotisserie chicken and then I usually get at least three meals out of it. This is one of our favorite meals to make with the leftover chicken.
Start out with about eight ounces of coleslaw mix. Then add 1-2 sliced green onions and shredded baby carrots to your liking. Cover with saran wrap and microwave for one minute. Stir and microwave another thirty seconds.
Then add about a cup of shredded chicken. Next I add some flavor. I don't like to use sweet & sour sauce on my egg rolls so I like to add lots of flavor to them. I add about a teaspoon of soy sauce and hot chili sauce and then a few shakes of Hot Shot! pepper and a shake of salt. If you don't like a lot of spice you can just use regular pepper and leave out the hot chili sauce. Now you are ready to make your egg rolls.
I usually make six egg rolls with this amount but you can make them each as small or large as you want. I'm still not the best egg roller after making these a dozen times. Maybe I can watch a YouTube video on that.
Put your finished egg rolls on a greased pan and put them in the oven for ten minutes at 400 degrees then turn them over and put them back in for another six to seven minutes to get the golden color below.
As the egg rolls are baking, I chop up some onion and ham (a couple slices each) and cook in some olive oil until the onion is tender then I add about two chopped green onions right at the end. Then set that to the side and scramble two eggs with a little salt and pepper added to them. I have been cheating a little with the rice and have been using frozen rice so I just do that at the end since it only takes four minutes to cook. If you would like to cook rice from scratch you will want to start it when you put the egg rolls in the oven. Stir the onions, ham and egg in with the rice and add some soy sauce, salt and pepper.
Enjoy!

Egg Roll mixture:
8 oz coleslaw mix
1-2 shredded baby carrots
1-2 sliced green onions
1 cup of shredded chicken
1 tsp hot chili sauce
1 tsp soy sauce
dash of salt & pepper

Ham Fried Rice:
2 slices chopped onion
2 slices chopped ham
2 sliced green onions
2 scrambled eggs
10 oz bag frozen rice
1 tsp soy sauce
salt & pepper

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

3 Ingredient Oatmeal Scotchies

These are my somewhat healthy go-to cookies of the moment.
They only require 3 ingredients (if a cookie mix counts as one ingredient) and they are so quick that I make them way to often.
Just add a single serve cup of applesauce to a package of oatmeal cookie mix and combine. Then mix in as many butterscotch chips as you would like and dig in - since there are no eggs in this version, the cookie dough is safe to eat.
Or bake them according to the directions on the package.
Enjoy!
P.S. Since there is no butter in the recipe - they do stick to the pan a bit so you might want to grease your pan first or use either parchment paper or a baking mat.