Fried thin chicken breast two different ways

Today I had a package of thin chicken breast and wanted to do something different with it. So I wanted to use my two cooking sauces from Kraft which comes with a dressing to dip your chicken in.

I sliced the chicken into strips and mixed half of the chicken  portion into the remainder of my teriyaki ginger cooking sauce (Asian chicken cooking sauce).

Let it soak for in a small bowl a few minutes then sprinkle a coat of flour on top and mix. I mixed the second half of my chicken strips into the Southwest chicken Zesty Fajita cooking sauce.

In a fry pay with olive oil heated add your chicken strips and fry each side that's it and easy.

I tasted the teriyaki ginger chicken strip as is and tasted very good and then I took the Barbecue Ranch dressing (southwest chicken dressing) and the (Asian chicken dressing) Toasted sesame dressing that comes with the package and dipped the chicken into the dressing.

Both dressing tasted great with the teriyaki ginger chicken strips.

Chicken strips coated with Asian Teriyaki ginger cooking sauce and dipped in dressing

Barbecue Ranch  Southwest dressing or  Toasted Sesame Asian dressing

Then I took the other half of the thin chicken breast and sliced it and mixed it with Zesty Fajita (Southwest) cooking sauce in a bowl and added flour. I then fried the chicken in a pan using olive oil both sides.

This flavor of chicken tasted so good and I decided to taste it as is and tried a little of the Dressings that comes in the package made by Kraft. Both dressings taste good with both types of my chicken Teryaki and Zesty Fajita.

Cooking Sauce and Dressing by Kraft comes in a set

Both the chicken with and without the dressings were great and I did mix and match the dressings.

You can make a wrap or add the chicken on top of your mixed veggie salad and top with the dressing.

Be Creative

Enjoy

Garden Flowers 2012

Why strolling in my yard today I was checking out which flowers are in bloom the mid of June.

I found Lillie's, day Lillie's yellow and orange, my pink cone flower and my pansy's are still in bloom.

I also have my petunias that I potted in containers for this summer and a few I planted into the flower bed next to the pansy's plus my marigolds.

Yellow Lilly

Orange Day Lilly

Yellow Lilly

cone flower

pansy

Assorted pansy and petunias

Colorful garden flowers

Mixed Marigolds

Potted petunias and cosmo flowers

Such a colorful yard plus the butterflies and tiny bees love the flowers.

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My Strawberry Patch

I have been growing strawberries under my flag pole for many years. They get full sun so they love that spot in my yard.

This year I did add a few new types of strawberry plants. I added Roman Strawberry (fragaria roman) which has a pink flower unlike the original white flower and I added an Allstar.

There are a number of different types of strawberry plants and if you decide to plant them check out the variety and when they will bloom. You can have strawberries all season long so do your homework.

They are a hardy plant in New Jersey and you have nothing to do they are perennial and come back every year.

After a few number of years if they get over crowded you can thin them out and start another patch in your yard.
I have given some of my plants to family and friends who never grew them before and they love them.

To pick them is easy you just put your two fingers on top of the strawberry and pull, they will snap off the little vine that holds them into your hand. (Hey be gentle)

Strawberry Patch under my Flag Pole

Roman Strawberry mixed into my patch

Love those berries

Roman Strawberry I have on my porch in a container

A few I just picked today

Happy Gardening
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Growing plants from Soup Beans

I have made a bean soup using Goya 16 Bean Soup Mix and made a wonderful bean soup which this recipe is on my blog under 16 Bean Soup.

But I did push the limits and decided to take one chickpea bean out of the Goya dried bean mix and planted a chickpea outdoors in my planter next to my string beans.

That little baby grew into a little cute chickpea plant. 

Now I am trying out again in my outdoor planter a few bean mixture. I took out 4 seeds of each bean I selected.  Lential, Small white beans, Chickpeas and Split green pea. 

I am looking forward to see what will sprout from those beans.

Hey live off the land I tell my sons.

Goya 16 Bean Soup Mix

Here is the cute chickpea plant that I experimented and grew.

Chickpea plant 

Chickpea I grew from Goya dried bean soup mix

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Easy Way Growing a Avocado House plant from the seed

Easy way to grow Avocado House plants from the pit or seed.

I love to eat Avocados and also put them into my mixture of veggie salad. So being a Gardner that I love to do and do not want to toss out the seeds of anything. I decided to Grow a Avocado house plant and here is what really happened.

I did look up on the Internet and many sites said to take the seed (which is a huge pit) wash it and put
toothpicks on four sides of this pit. Place the pit into a glass of water half way just enough to get the root of
the pit into the water.

I tried this one and if you do not remember to change the water in this glass will get nasty.

So being ME I decided that I will Experiment on my own and Remember Mother Nature did not own toothpicks to root any of her seeds.

Again being ME I took the Avocado seed and JUST Planted Into my Garden and Marked it.

Guess what I Grew a Avocado Plant. I do have good Garden soil so this pit or seed loved my garden soil and I did not have to do anything extra, say like spiking it with toothpicks or changing a glass of water.
(Who thought of that idea)

 I did transplant the plant into a house container in Miracle Grow Potting Soil. Then placing it next to my sunny side window and that Baby Grew during the winter.

Then I took an Avocado pit or seed and just placed it into Miracle Grow Potting soil indoors and Guess what that Avocado Plant Grew.

So here are a few pictures of my Avocado plants that I grew.
( The toothpick thing is not worth your trouble.)
Just have good soil Garden soil or indoor potting soil.

This is the Avacado plant I grew outside and brought inside

The little guy on the left is the one I planted inside with potting soil

The Avocado plant is very easy to grow just put the pit seed into good soil and your good to go.Just do what Mother Nature would do plant them in good fertile soil.

Forget that toothpick thing I hope I have been helpful with all you Gardner's and remember.

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Chicken Caesar Wrap

Today I made chicken caesar wrap and this comes in a kit by Mission.
This box contains 12 flour tortillas, caesar dressing and caesar seasoning.

I dices 1 package of thin chicken breast put into a fry pan with a little coating of olive oil.
Fry the chicken until white then add the caesar seasoning with 1/4 cups of water mix and bring to a boil until
the water is almost evaporated.

The box has the 3 Easy steps to prepare this Quick and Easy Wrap.

You can add anything you love like lettuce, tomatoes, corn, avocado's, peppers. red onions your favorites. Then add your favorite toppings like sour cream, taco sauce, cheddar cheese sauce or salsa sauce anything.

If you like to kick it up to HOT add a little crushed red pepper spice or add a few HOT peppers.
Remember this is up to your own taste.



This is a fast a quick chicken caesar wrap kit by mission and if you have a Casadia maker. You can make the same recipe using your Casadia maker if you have one give it a try.

Casadia Maker

Try it this way in the Maker

 

Finished Wrap

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Chicken Wraps Asian and SouthWest

Today I am making two types of Chicken Wraps.

One Asian chicken with the cooking sauce of Teriyaki Ginger and adding Toasted Sesame dressing on the finished wrap.

The second is Southwest chicken using a cooking sauce of Zesty Fajita and adding the topping of the wrap using Barbecue Ranch dressing.

This cooking sauce for chicken with a dressing for salad is new and the brand is from Kraft. So I like to try new and different things and experiment the new taste and flavors on my boys.

I diced the chicken breast up in tiny pieces and fried them in olive oil until they were white and then added the Asian cooking sauce teriyaki and continued to cook the sauce into the chicken.

I took a tortilla wrap and put the chicken in it with lettuce, shredded cheddar cheese, diced tomatoes and added the toasted sesame dressing on top. If you have the hard taco shells will work out too.

You can add anything you like different veggies or kick it up a bit adding sour cream on top. Hey mix the sour cream together with the toasted sesame dressing. Think of that one experiment.

Two new sauces and dressing from Kraft they come together in a pack

Diced chicken using the teriyaki sauce

Finished Dish 

 

You can even take the same recipe and use a casadia maker like this one I have.

Be Creative 

Enjoy