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Culinary Mystery Tour
Brian Alan Burhoe's page dedicated to professional and home cooking, cookbooks and culinary mysteries, with best recipes, food articles, chef's blog, imaginative literature and traditional fiction...
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This is a Cook's Tour of culinary things: books, cooking, kitchens and people.
In here, you'll find the experiences of living in the professional kitchen -- both my own experiences and those of the many people I've met in over three decades of plying the Trade of the White Hat.
There are my best recipes, food articles written by top experts with an emphasis on the latest trends, a blog and more...
Just check out the Menu and pick out the item that catches your fancy.
-- Brian Alan Burhoe
"Brian has various talents, to be sure. A passionate love of imaginative fiction blends easily with three decades as a professional cook. A deep fascination of the truths of dreams and mythology with an abiding love of the wild fiction of the Northland -- writers like Jack London, Farley Mowatt and James Oliver Curwood. He can be quiet at times -- and then burst into joyous cheers over finding an old pulp magazine he has been seeking, or a traditional recipe for Atlantic seafood..."
-- Kate Falken, founder of YOUR DREAM TEAM
Fast Dinner Recipes by Audra Elizabeth
We all know that we need fast dinner recipes to get dinner on the table quick. Very seldom do any of us have time to make everything from scratch and spend hours in the kitchen. Here are some of my favorite fast dinner recipes to get dinner on the table in a jiffy!
Salisbury Steak
This recipe doesn't take much prep time, but it does take a bit of time to bake, so plan ahead for that. The sauce has a nice zip to it, thanks to the barbecue sauce and the stuffing mix adds a nice flavor to the patties and helps to make this a quick fix dinner. To make this recipe even faster, substitute dehydrated onion flakes for the chopped onion.
Ingredients:
1 ½ lb ground beef 1 package stuffing mix for chicken 1 ½ cup water, divided ¾ c chopped onion (or 1 tablespoon dehydrated onion flakes) 8 oz fresh mushrooms, sliced ½ c barbecue sauce
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a large bowl, mix together then ground beef, stuffing mix, 1 ¼ cup water and the onion. Pat into ½ inch thick oval shaped patties. Put in a large baking dish and bake for 25 minutes.
While patties are baking, spray a skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium-high heat. Sauté mushrooms for 5 minutes, stirring every once in a while. Add remaining water and the barbecue sauce. Turn heat down to low and cook 1-2 minutes or until the sauce is heated.
Serve sauce over patties.
To round out this meal, serve with green beans and potatoes baked in the microwave while the patties are baking.
Zippy Chicken & Pasta
This is a fun and colorful fast dinner recipe that kids and adults love. It's a great way to get kids to enjoy eating their veggies. This is a complete dinner on its own so it's especially fast. Since it's fairly light, dessert would be a good addition to this dinner.
Ingredients:
1 (8 oz) package fusilli or rotini pasta ½ c Italian salad dressing, divided 1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into chunks 2 cups broccoli florets 1 large red pepper, chopped 1 small onion, sliced thin 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley (or 1 teaspoon dried) ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese
Directions:
Follow directions on package for cooking pasta.
While pasta is cooking, in a large skillet, heat ¼ cup of the dressing over medium-high heat. Add chicken chunks and cook about 5 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through. Stir occasionally. Add vegetables and parsley to the pan and cook 5 minutes longer.
Drain pasta. Add to chicken mixture and stir well. Add remaining ¼ cup of Italian dressing and toss to coat. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese.
A fun twist on this dinner would be to substitute shrimp for the chicken. If you make this substitution, you should reduce the cooking time to about 2 minutes or just until the shrimp turns pink. Shrimp will turn rubbery if overcooked, so it's important to watch your cooking time.
Since this fast dinner recipe is a complete meal in one bowl, there really isn't anything to be added to round out this meal. But since it's nice and light, a quick dessert would be fabulous. I would suggest a pudding parfait. Just take your favorite flavor of pudding, layer it with cool whip and some graham cracker crumbs in a pretty glass and there you have an easy but fancy looking dessert.
Audra Elizabeth enjoys menu planning, recipes and cooking. She loves to make quick and easy meals" that are both healthy and family friendly. Visit her blog at "www.easydinnerrecipes.bloggirl.net" for lots of easy dinner recipe ideas!
Check out Brian Alan Burhoe.com -- A CULINARY MYSTERY TOUR!
Bon Appetit!
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