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Fancy Schmancy Pigs in a Blanket

August 28, 2014

Take your party or football watching to the next level with these Fancy Schmancy Pigs in a Blanket. They are not your average snack. So much better with the tender, flaky puff pastry and the everything bagel seasoning on it!!


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You guys the new football season starts in a week!!!!!!!!

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Filed Under: Recipes, Starters Tagged With: appetizer, everything bagel seasoning, football food, mustard, pigs in a blanket, puff pastry, sausage, snack

The Ultimate Chicken Sandwich

July 31, 2014

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There are plenty of nights now when we just wing it when it comes to dinner. I always have high hopes for a great meal every night but real life gets in the way. I mean I can pin some great ideas until the cows come home while I am on the bus heading into work wishing that I was actually heading home. At least I’ve been on a one-pot meal pinning streak so I’m looking forward to trying one of those soon.

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I wish I had the energy to cook but most days I’m drained. Hmm… maybe it’s the lack of sleep and constant moving I’m doing. We’re the on the go kind of family but lately I’ve been hauling butt walking all around town trying to enjoy the nice summer time weather and gets steps, which I’m tracking with my Fitbit. Love it.

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So when it comes to dinner I’ll admit that we’re there are equally as many meals of cereal or take out as there are of cooked ones. And by cooked I often mean assembled. Does cutting up tomatoes and dressing with olive oil count as cooking? Yes… cool!!

Anyway, this sandwich is the kind of meal I can manage- grab a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, cut off one of the breasts which you then thinly sliced. Cook up some bacon, which I hardly qualify as cooking in this case as you just do it in the oven. Then assemble the mega sandwich, cut, enjoy.

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This would also work just as well with some turkey. would be a nice post Thanksgiving sandwich to change things up from the stuffing loaded ones. Don’t get me wrong, I love Pilgrim Sandwiches, but I get over stuffing pretty quickly. Anyway, I even thick sliced deli chicken or turkey would work well.

I suggest serving this with some chips, as opening a bag is the kind of cooking I like. Ha!

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The Ultimate Chicken Sandwich

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients

  • 6 slices of bacon, cut in half
  • loaf of Italian bread (I used a Vieira Saloio)
  • 1/4 cup mayonnaise
  • 1/4 cup spicy brown mustard
  • a large bunch of arugula
  • 1 large breast of roasted chicken, such as a rotisserie chicken
  • 2-3 tomatoes, thinly sliced
  • 6 slices of bacon, sliced in half
  • 1 avocado, very thinly sliced
  • salt and pepper

Process

  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place the 12 pieces of the bacon on the foil so they are just touching on their long edges. Bake for 12-14 minutes (depending on thickness of bacon) until crisp. Remove the bacon from the baking sheet and place on a plate covered with paper towels.
  2. Halve a loaf of Italian bread to separate the top and bottom.
  3. Spread the mayo on one half of the bread and spread the mustard on the other half. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  4. Put a generous amount of arugula on the bottom half of the sandwich.
  5. Completely cover the arugula with the sliced chicken.
  6. Cover the chicken with the tomatoes, bacon, and then avocado. Cap off with the upper part of the bread.
  7. Cut into 4 sandwiches and enjoy!

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Filed Under: Poultry, Recipes, Thanksgiving Tagged With: bacon, bacon in oven, chicken, chicken sandwich, fast dinner, Mayonnaise, mustard, quick fix meal, sandwich, ultimate chicken sandwich

Potato, Bacon, and Blue Cheese Spinach Salad with Warm Mustard and Shallot Dressing

May 7, 2012

I love a good challenge. I love to try something new in the process as well. Well, that is exactly what happened when I saw a mustard contest on the Stonewall Kitchen blog. Stonewall Kitchen specializes in various jams, jellies, and mustards, as well as gift box collections and kitchen wares. They were looking for bloggers to create recipes using their mustards. After browsing their mustard varieties I decided on their Blue Cheese Herb Mustard.

 

  

 

 The package from Stonewall Kitchen arrived at work and I started to tell my coworkers about the mustard and the recipe contest. I was asking around for their ideas and one of my coworkers suggested a potato salad. That intrigued me because I began to wonder how I could create a recipe around that idea. Would it be mayo based? Would it be vinegar based like German Potato Salad? The more I thought I about it I decided to use that term ‘potato salad’ loosely and develop a salad with potatoes. To tie the Blue Cheese Herb Mustard into the dish would use it in the dressing and use blue cheese in the salad as well. And of course I would have to add bacon so it, because what good salad doesn’t have bacon?

 

 

 

 

The salad is hearty enough to be a whole entrée. The potatoes are flavored from the bacon fat and are crunchy adding a nice element of texture to the salad. The bacon of course adds a great texture to the salad, but it also adds a nice flavor component to it as well. The combination of the bacon and blue cheese reminded me of a burger which tricks the mind into thinking this is filling meal from a salad. The warm dressing is very flavorful with the shallots and the mustard in the vinegar dressing. I didn’t add oil to the dressing because the bacon adds fat to the dish and the shallots were cooked in olive oil. The warm dressing wilts the spinach greens so this dish should be assembled right before serving.

 

 

 

Potato, Bacon, and Blue Cheese Spinach Salad with Warm Mustard and Shallot Dressing

serves 4

Ingredients

  • 7 oz bag of baby spinach
  • 1 1/2 pounds of small potatoes (such as Trader Joes’ teeny tiny potatoes)
  • 1/4 pound thick cut bacon (approximately 4 slices)
  • 2 large shallots
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/4 cup red wine
  • 4 tablespoons Blue Cheese Herb Mustard
  • 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flake
  • salt and pepper
  • 4 oz of crumbled blue cheese

Process

  1. Rinse the baby spinach and set aside in a large bowl.
  2. Rinse and halve the potatoes. In a medium pot, bring water to a boil. Add the potatoes and cook until fork tender. Strain the potatoes and set aside.
  3. Cut bacon into small pieces and cook in a large skillet on medium-low heat until the bacon is cooked thru. Set aside on paper towels. Drain off the bacon fat reserving 2 tablespoons in the skillet.
  4. Turn up the heat for the skillet to medium-high and add the potatoes. Let sides of the potatoes to crisp up before stirring them. Make sure each potato is crisp before removing them from the skillet and setting aside on a plate.
  5. Thinly slice the shallots. Gently cook the shallots on medium-low heat in the skillet with 2 tablespoons olive oil. Once the onions are softened and golden brown, add in the wine and 2 tablespoons of mustard. Mix together until the mustard is incorporated into the wine and shallots.
  6. While the shallots are cooking, mix together the vinegar, garlic, remaining 2 tablespoons mustard, red pepper flake, and salt and pepper in a medium size bowl. When the shallots are done add them to the dressing in the bowl.
  7. It is now time to assemble the salad. Gently toss the dressing into the salad. Layer the potatoes, blue cheese, and bacon on the salad.

As part of entering this Stonewall Kitchen Mustard Contest I received a complimentary jar of mustard to use in creating a recipe.

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Filed Under: Recipes, Salads Tagged With: baby spinach, bacon, blue cheese, contest, mustard, salad, spinach salad, stonewall kitchen, stonewall kitchen mustard, stonewall kitchen mustard contest

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