Reuben Casserole (Not your everyday boring Casserole!)

Casseroles are popular because they're easy, but usually they consist of hamburger, tuna or chicken. Corned Beef is delicious but people rarely cook with it outside of St. Patrick's day. Two reasons why this Reuben Casserole is so great: It's something different...and Corned Beef! 

Ingredients:   

• 6 slices rye bread, cubed
• 1 (16 ounce) can sauerkraut, drained and rinsed
• 1 pound deli sliced corned beef, cut into strips
• 3/4 cup Thousand Island salad dressing
• 2 cups bagged shredded Swiss cheese

(We're all you'll need!)

Preheat the oven to 400. 

Cut up (or violently tear) your rye bread into cubes and lay them in the bottom of a casserole dish.

Drain your sauerkraut and lay over the top of the bread cubes.

Slice up your corned beef. Layer that on top.

Cover with the dressing. 

Cover with foil and put in the oven. Bake for 20 minutes. 

(I'm a Mystery Casserole...what could I beeee? )

After 20 minutes, remove from oven, uncover. Spread evenly with the Swiss Cheese.

Stick this back in the oven, uncovered, for 10 more minutes.

IT'S FREAKING DONE! And you barely even had to DO anything!
How PRO is THIS? 

Soo sooo soooo gooood! 

So good. 

So. Good.

Stupid Easy Pineapple Mango Chicken

1. Cut up Chicken

2. Sprinkle with cumin and fry in pan until brown on both sides. (About ten minutes)

3. Pour a cup of Mango salsa over the chicken.  Add some Crushed Pineapple. Reduce the heat to low.  Cover and cook for 15 minutes or until the chicken is cooked though.

4. Serve over rice or shred and serve in a taco. 

5. Look incredibly pro! 

Crusted Baked Chicken

Okay, so this isn't super instant easy or anything but its easy enough..and it is now the most requested dish in my house.  You just need the following stuff (and things.)

• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups Herb Seasoned Stuffing, crushed
• 1 can Cream of Chicken Soup 
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted

Stuff..and things.

Preheat the oven to 400. Slice the chicken in half lengthwise so its nice and thin, like this: 

Put the flour on a plate.  Put the stuffing on a plate.  Stir 1/3 cup soup and 1/4 cup milk in a shallow dish. Set up an assembly line! Automate with robots. Don't have robots? Dude, it's 2014...get yourself some robots. (To crush breadcrumbs, just hand crunch the crap out of the bag before you open it. Store the rest away in a big, plastic baggy!)

(Old-fashioned non-automated assembly line.) 

Coat the chicken with the flour.

Dip the Chicken in the soup Mix. Coat the chicken with stuffing.

There's actually a piece of chicken in this picture. It's just super camouflaged..which makes it a lot harder to find and kill...but at Killer Gourmet...we will find you...and we will kill you and eat you. We're cold like that.

Lay your chicken pieces on a foil lined pan coated with some cooking spray.

(Don't have cooking spray? It like doesn't even really matter with this.) 

Drizzle with melted butter. (To melt butter, put it in a mug and stick it in the microwave for a minute, newb.)

 Stick it in the oven. BAKE for 25-30 minutes.

 

Meanwhile, mix together the remaining soup and milk in a pot over medium heat - stir occasionally until it's smooth and hot. 

(Famous Killer Gourmet Cats)

 

Make mashed potatoes or something for a few minutes. Oh, Look....The chicken is done! 

 

Perfectly tender and juicy inside.

Cover with the sauce and serve with mashed potatoes!

ZOMG Mmmmmmmmm! 

Slow Cooker Chicken Stroganoff

Holy Cow, was this delicious! Easily one of the most heavenly things I've eaten this year. Slow cookers are so awesome for 'set it and forget it' meals. So I'm kicking off the Killer Gourmet New Year with this amazing recipe! Let us..begin!

Things you will need:

• 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - cubed
• 1/8 cup margarine
• 1 package dry Italian-style salad dressing mix
• 1 (8 oz) package of Cream Cheese
• 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup 

The only thing you really have to do for this recipe is cut up the chicken, and that only takes like a second. Not even a second. A millisecond.

One millisecond later, throw that chicken in the crockpot and add the butter.

And the dressing mix....

Mix it all together...

And cook on LOW for 5 hours. Seriously, just walk the hell away for 5 hours.   

Stupid easy, right? 

'I KILL YOU!'

Five hours later, you will add the cream cheese and soup mix....

Mix it all together and let it cook on HIGH for 1/2 hour or until it is heated through. 

This is so (the opposite of) visually pleasing!

Now you're ready to spoon your Slow Cooker Chicken Stroganoff over some white rice or egg noodles. The flavor here was unreal...I was actually very surprised at just how amazing this tasted. 

Enjoy. ;)

FAST Healthy Flat Bread Pizza

Flat bread pizzas are easy and fun to make, so be sure to include your kids in their creation! 

The first time I tried making homemade pizza was when stores started carrying those bagged lumps of low fat dough - but rolling that stuff out was crazy hard. The dough stuck to the rolling pin or stuck to the counter or insisted on shrinking, alien-like, back into a ball form, and no amount of flour, elbow grease and fake Italian curses helped. After two attempts at making them, my 'homemade pizza' phase ended. So when I saw it suggested that one could make pizza on plain old flat bread, I decided I had to try it.

Ingredients: 

1 Bag Whole Wheat or Multi-grain Smart Thins type flat bread. 

1 Jar Pizza Sauce

1 Bag shredded Low Fat Mozzarella Cheese.    

1 pack Turkey Pepperoni

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees. 

To start, open up your Flat Breads and separate into halves. Make as many or few as you like, but if you're making the whole bag, be ready to use more than one baking pan. These guys like their space. 

 Many little 'pizza to be's'... 

Spread some Pizza Sauce onto each one evenly. A small jar of Pizza Sauce like this one perfectly covers one whole bag (two pans worth) of Smart Thins.  

Neatly cover each piece with some shredded Mozzarella. 

Dust with a pinch of Oregano if you like. Add the Turkey Pepperoni. (Or, feel free to chop up a red and green pepper and use that instead. Hell, you can stick anything you want on them, at this point. Mushrooms, onions, etc.) (No..you can't use bacon.) (I said NO.) 

Turkey Pepperoni can usually be found near your deli counter and also by the 'make it yourself' pizza stuff. The store brand is fine...Boar's Head was on sale. (Everything was on sale *boggles*) 

(You can sprinkle some Parmesan Cheese on top when they come out of the oven, but keep in mind that does add fat and calories to your healthy pizza. My husband adds it. I do not. Everyone is happy!) 

Stick both pans in the oven and bake at 425 for 15 minutes.

Pull them out and eat them! 

Unless you are a bottomless pit like my husband, three of these guys will stuff you, and they're half the fat and calories of a slice of frozen pizza. 

I'd love to see pictures of your kids making these things! Please feel free to email them to Theserialqueen@gmail.com and I'll feature them there!!

Chicken with Red Wine Sauce

Real connoisseur's will wince at this admission, but I love cooking wines.

When my brother and I were children, on a few rare occasions, we were allowed sips of red wine. Usually it was connected to the holidays, but sometimes my father just indulged our curiosity. While I loved pretending to be drunk, I always hated the taste - an unfortunate prejudice that followed me into my adulthood. Forget the Manischewitz...I didn't drink anything with alcohol in it at all.

For years, I avoided recipes that included wine in its ingredients, assuming I wouldn't like them either...but finally I gave in and tried one, and I've been hooked on Holland House ever since.  So, if you're like me and know nothing about wine but want to try something new, this recipe is for you. :)

Chicken with Red Wine Sauce

Ingredients : 

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 2 lbs boneless chicken breast
• 1 tablespoon paprika
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup red cooking wine 
• salt and pepper to taste

  Directions:

Cut chicken into small strips.

 
Heat oil in skillet over medium/high heat. Stir fry chicken with garlic and onion until chicken is no longer pink and its juices run clear. Sprinkle with paprika and brown sugar.  *I* use two heaping tablespoons of minced garlic, myself...but then, I love garlic.

Pour red wine around chicken. Lower the heat to medium, cover and simmer for 20 minutes, lightly basting chicken as you cook.

 The wine will slowly thicken and your chicken will pick up a beautiful caramel color. Towards the end, you can leave the lid off to help the sauce thicken if you like.

Season to taste with salt and pepper, but keep in mind that cooking wines have a higher salt content than regular wines. You might not want to use any at all. I serve mine over white rice (I serve everything over white rice because I have a microwave rice cooker, and that thing is the bomb!) but this goes perfectly with spaghetti as well.

Easy, tasty and fabulous looking!!  Make it this weekend. It will be a perfectly yummy surprise for your hungry family!