The Way to a Man's Heart~ Baked Fried Chicken #recipe #goodeats

The Way to a Man's ♥~

Baked Fried Chicken

This simple recipe for Baked Fried Chicken frees up your time so you don't have to spend an hour standing over a hot greasy pan or deep fryer-

Ingredients-

Chicken

Milk

1/2 tsp. Salt

1 TBSP Season All

3/4 tsp Pepper

1 cup Flour

2 tsp Paprika

Mix dry ingredients in a Gallon size Ziploc bag or a large bowl.

Preheat oven to 400º. Melt 1/2 a stick of butter in a 9x13 dish in oven after it's preheated.

Make sure bottom of dish is thoroughly coated in melted butter (if not, use some cooking spray to cover it)

Dredge chicken through milk and then into flour mixture then place in dish.

Cook 20 minutes and then turn each piece over and continue cooking for another 20 minutes more, until cooked through.

The Way to a Man's Heart- Cheesy Bacon Tator Bake

Starting a New Year has thrown me for a loop, as this first week of 2013 has gotten away from me. I meant to work on a short blog post for this and then post on Saturday. My husband ended up being off work Friday, so we did the grocery shopping while the kids were at school and I hadn't gotten on the computer at all this weekend until now, because I remembered that I didn't post a Six Sentence Sunday snippit (and unfortunately I hadn't planned ahead for it, so I'm holding off on that. The last snippit I shared was a stopping point for me as I don't want to give away all of Love By Design before I publish it.)

So...having said that, I'm going to post this today, though it's Sunday rather than a Saturday, but wanted to get this one on out there. It's a potato dish I threw together once when we were going to be having company and it's morphed into a favorite side dish we have quite often. Hope you enjoy it!

Ingredients-

Potatoes (amount depends on size of serving dish. I generally use an 8X8 glass dish)

8 oz. Sour Cream

8-16 oz. bag of Shredded Cheddar, divided 2/3 for mixing in, 1/3 for topping

Bacon Bits (to taste)

Salt & Pepper (to taste)

Stick Butter (melted)

Cooking Spray

Directions-

1. Preheat oven to 350º
2. Peel & rinse desired amount of potatoes, cut into bite-sized cubes
3. Boil or Steam until fork tender (in my steamer, approx. 35-40 minutes)
4. In large bowl, combine cooked potatoes, melted butter, salt, pepper, sour cream, bacon bits and the 2/3s of shredded cheddar
5. Spray your casserole dish with cooking spray so it doesn’t stick
6. Pour mixture into casserole dish and sprinkle top with remaining shredded cheddar.
7. Bake at 350º for approximately 30 minutes, until heated thoroughly and top cheese is golden brown.

The Way to a Man's Heart- Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

The Way to a Man's ♥

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

I've been thinking a lot about this and since December will be the last of my SCENTsational Saturdays regarding my own favorites about perfumes and fragrances- Ironic, my favorites worked out to be just the right amount for each month this year when I started doing it.

Starting next year, I'm switching things up and turning Saturdays fully into RECIPE day, so I hope you'll continue to join me through the rest of this year and into next year, as

The Way to a Man's ♥

 gets underway.

Today I'm offering my own version of Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup. My tastes have outgrown Campbell's Basic Chicken Noodle, but though Progresso has a decent one with big noodles and chunky veggies, I'd rather have fresh chicken instead of what comes in a can and a person can only eat so much Ramen before the body says- whoa...what's up with all the salt?

 It doesn't hurt that after making this on the fly based on what I thought ought to go in typical homemade chicken noodle soup, my husband and kids love it so much, it gets suggested all the time for the menu, even when we've had it the week beforehand.

So here it is-

Taryn's Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

Ingredients:

2- 32 oz. Chicken Stock/Broth

2 chicken breasts

1 small onion, diced

3-4 carrots, cut in rounds

3 celery sticks,

1/2 to a whole stick of butter

salt and pepper

12 oz bag Extra Wide Egg Noodles

Water

Crackers

Instructions:

1. Dice onions and cut up celery and carrots
2. Add them to a stove top dutch oven or large pan with 1/2-1 stick of butter
3. Add chicken breasts, broth and pepper
4. Simmer for 2-3 hours until chicken is tender, remove from stock and cut into bite-size pieces, then return to pan
5. Add 2-3 cups water, salt & (more pepper if needed) to taste and entire bag of Egg Noodles
6. Simmer on low-to med until noodles are done, serve with saltines

Have a SCENTsational Saturday!