Recipe Exchange #4: Chicken

This weeks theme: BEST/FAVORITE CHICKEN RECIPE

Send in your favorite Chicken Recipe!


When you send in your recipe, please include a difficulty rating (Easy, Moderate, Difficult). This should help you decide if you'd like to try out the recipe or not.


I will post recipes as they come to me, each recipe will get their own blog post. You can sumbit as many as you'd like and pictures are a big plus if you have them.

NEW: When you email your recipe, please put all the info in the body of your email rather than as an attachment. I've been having issues with pasting info from attachments and I've been needing to re-type a lot of the recipes I receive. It gets time consuming, so this would be much appreciated!

Please send your recipes to: ninerrecipeexchange@gmail.com Please include your Nest screen name when you sumbit your recipe!!


The next exchange will be held in 2 weeks.

Enchilada Casserole

Submitted by: lneuner09

Difficulty Rating: Easy

*Adapted from Southern Living Cookbook*

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 tbsp chopped green chiles, divided
• 3/4 cup chunky salsa
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
• 15.5oz can black beans, rinsed
• 11 oz can white corn, rinsed
• 10 oz can enchilada sauce
• 1/2 green bell pepper, chopped
• 8oz package corn muffin mix
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup shredded Mexican blend cheese

DIRECTIONS:

• Stir together 2 tbsp green chiles, salsa, cilantro, black beans, corn, bell pepper and enchilada sauce in Crock Pot. 
• Cover and cook on LOW for 4 hours.  Stir occasionally.
• Stir together remaining 1 tbsp green chiles, muffin mix, and eggs.
• Spoon evenly over bean mixture in crock pot.
• Cover and cook on LOW an additional 1 hour and 20 minutes or until cornbread is finished.
• Top with cheese and cook 5-10 minutes or until cheese is melted. 

Taco Soup

Submitted by: Diamond_Doll

Difficulty Rating: Easy

INGREDIENTS:

• 2lbs browned ground beef or ground turkey
• 1 can each black, pinto, and kidney beans
• 2 packages ranch dressing mix
• 2 packages taco seasoning
• 1 large can diced tomatoes
• 1 can Rotel
• 2 cans corn
• Diced onion

DIRECTIONS:

• Do not drain any ingredients except corn.
• Mix together in crockpot.
• Cook on high for about 6 hours.
• Serve with tortilla chips or Fritos.
• Garnish with cheese and/or sour cream.

Crockpot Shrimp Creole

Submitted by: Diamond_Doll

Difficulty Rating: Easy

From Paula Deen

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 Tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 cup each (diced large) bell pepper, celery,  and onion
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 14oz tomatoes
• 8 oz tomatoe sauce
• 1 Tbsp hot sauce (more or less)
• 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp sugar
• salt & pepper
• 1 1/2 lbs. large shrimp, peeled and deveined
• sliced green onions
• sticky rice

DIRECTIONS:

• Saute bell pepper, celery, and onion in olive oil. Add chili powder and cook until carmelized.
• Add to crock pot.
• Add tomatoes and tomato sauce, hot sauce, salt, pepper, worcestershire and sugar to crock pot. Stir, then cover.
• Cook 3 hours on high or 6 hours on low.
• Just before serving, add shrimp and cook on high 3-5 minutes.
• Serve over sticky rice and garnish with onions.

Recipe Exchange #4: Crock Pot Meals

This weeks theme: CROCK POT MEALS

Send in your favorite Crock Pot recipe - preferrably a "whole meal" type recipe (ie: pork roast & potatoes or something along those lines).

When you send in your recipe, please include a difficulty rating (Easy, Moderate, Difficult). This should help you decide if you'd like to try out the recipe or not.

I will post recipes as they come to me, each recipe will get their own blog post. You can sumbit as many as you'd like and pictures are a big plus if you have them.

NEW: When you email your recipe, please put all the info in the body of your email rather than as an attachment. I've been having issues with pasting info from attachments and I've been needing to re-type a lot of the recipes I receive. It gets time consuming, so this would be much appreciated!

Please send your recipes to: ninerrecipeexchange@gmail.com Please include your Nest screen name when you sumbit your recipe!!

The next exchange will be held in 2 weeks.

Mini Mushroom Tartlets

Submitted by: Dalto

Difficulty Rating: Easy

Recipe from Hungry Girl

INGREDIENTS:

• 15 mini phyllo dough shells (found in the freezer aisle)
• 1 cup finely chopped portabello mushrooms
• 1/3 cup finely chopped white onion
• 3 tablespoons chopped scallions
• 3 tablespoons fat-free cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 2 dashes black pepper
• 2 dashes nutmeg

DIRECTIONS:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Bring a pan sprayed with nonstick spray to medium-high heat on the stove.  Add mushrooms and onion, and cook until soft.
• Place mushrooms and onion in a small bowl.  Add scallions, cream cheese, garlic, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and mix well.
• Evenly distribute mushroom mixture among the phyllo shells.  Arrange shells on a baking sheet sprayed lightly with nonstick spray.  Bake in the oven for 12 to 15 minutes, until edges of tartlets are crisp.
• Allow to cool slightly before serving.

 

Pepper Cheese

Submitted by: lneuner09

Difficulty Rating: Easy

Hands down everyone's favorite at every party. Warning - it's crazy addicting. And best with Keebler Club Crackers :)


INGREDIENTS:

• 8oz cream cheese, softened
• 1 pkg dry italian dressing mix
• 2 tbsp butter, softened
• 1/2 cup parmesan cheese

DIRECTIONS:

• Mix ingredients well, spread in a shallow dish.
• Top with coarse ground pepper.
• Serve immediately.

 

*Note: can cover with plastic wrap and refridgerate until needed. If you do so, take cheese out of fridge at least 30 minutes before serving to soften up.

Black Bean Salsa

Submitted by: lneuner09

Difficulty Rating: Easy

Warning: HIGHLY addictive and my most requested recipe. This is a Mizzou tailgating staple. I got the recipe from someone my mom works with. Who knows where it came from, and WHO CARES. It's so yummy the whole world should make it.

 

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 - 15oz cans black beans, rinsed
• 1 - 11oz can white shoe peg corn, rinsed
• 2 - 14.5 oz cans of Rotel
• 1/2 of a red onion, chopped
• 1/3 cup lime juice
• 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 1/2 tsp cumin
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro

DIRECTIONS:

• Combine ingredients and stir until blended
• Cover and refrigerate overnight

Taco Cresents

Submitted by: AbsoluteSweetniss1977 by request of D74LeadinLady :)

Difficulty Rating: Easy

INGREDIENTS:

• ground hamburger or turkey
• 2 packages of crescent rolls (I used reduced fat ones)
• a package of taco seasoning
• mexican cheese
• salsa
• shredded lettuce.

DIRECTIONS:

• Brown up the hamburger or turkey, add the taco seasoning like you were making tacos.
• Preheat the oven to whatever is on the crescent roll package.
• Take the crescent rolls out and lay them on a pizza pan in a circle so that it looks like a big sun - you want to lay the rolls slightly over each other so that it forms a ring.
• Put the taco mixture on each crescent, then top with some cheese.
• Fold the end of the roll over the mixture - when you have done that to all of them it will look like a big ring.
• Pop it in the oven and bake for the time from the crescent roll package & then its done! :)

Pineapple Cheeseball

Submitted by: Diamond_Doll

Difficulty Rating: Easy

(I know pineapple and cheese sounds weird, but this is delicious! It's my mom's signature recipe.)


INGREDIENTS:

• 16oz cream cheese, softened
• 5oz crushed pineapple, drained well
• 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
• 1/4 cup finely chopped green pepper
• 2 cups chopped pecans
• 1 tbsp seasoned salt

DIRECTIONS:

• Whip cream cheese with fork until creamy.
• Mix all ingredients except 1 cup of the pecans.
• Form into a ball. Roll the ball in the remained 1 cup of pecans to coat.
• Wrap in foil and refrigerate overnight.