I am also open to fun recipes suck as brownies, tinkerbell cakes etc...Any quick simple recipes that I can fix for the kids? All help appreciated!?
Buy a basic tomato and cheese or 4 cheeses pizza and add your own extra toppings - onion, sweetcorn, peppers, herbs, meats, etc - and top with more cheese. Maybe even cut it into two or four pieces and, after cutting up the toppings, let the children choose their own extra bits before topping with the cheese and baking.
A microwaved potato is very quick (8-10 mins for 3 or 4 medium sized ones at once) and can be filled with cheese, etc and then finished under the grill, or mix some tuna and mayo together (perhaps with sweetcorn or onion or cucumber) and fill it with that.
Fish fillets can be seasoned with salt and pepper, wrapped in foil and steamed over boiling vegetables or baked in the oven.
Pork or lamb steaks/chops can be grilled within ten minutes. Chicken, cut into thin strips, with thin strips of vegetables, can be stir-fried with spices of choice or simply add some shop-bought Chinese stir-fry sauce.
Vegetables - courgette (zucchini), peppers, tomatoes, aubergine, carrot, parsnip, sweet potatoes, onions, etc - can be cut into chunks, tossed with salt, pepper and olive oil and then roasted in a medium-to-hot oven. It takes an hour or so but you only need to shake them a couple of times while cooking so the time is 'free' to do other things (I realise that there never really is any 'free' time when you've got kids but that's life!). Put some of the foil-wrapped fish on another shelf in the oven when the veg only needs another 20 mins or so (or chicken, though you'll need to cook this for about 40 mins)
and they'll all be ready to serve together.
As for desserts, make up a sponge mix (packet if necessary) and add any fruit, honey, jams, etc that you like to it before baking. Try mixing 100g of butter with 4 tablespoons of caster sugar and then mixing in a pack (125g) of soft cream cheese (';Philadelphia'; brand in the UK). Add a tablespoon or more of orange/lemon juice to thin it slightly (and some grated zest too if the kids don't find it too sharp) and spread over the sponge or through the middle. Mmm, yummy. It may sound a bit odd - some people don't like the idea of sweet cheese but, believe me, I've never found a kid who didn't want to lick the bowl clean once they'd tasted it! Plus you can always mash strawberries or pineapple int it. Remember it needs to be kept in the fridge...although mine never last long enough to have to do this!
Hope this helps.Any quick simple recipes that I can fix for the kids? All help appreciated!?
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KID (AND MOM) FRIENDLY MACARONI
CASSEROLE
1 box macaroni and cheese, prepared as directed
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/4 cup sweet onion, chopped
1/2 cup milk
2 teaspoons butter
1 lb hamburger (lean or it will be too greasy)
salt and pepper, to taste
Preheat oven to 350掳F.
Cook hamburger with onion and butter. DO NOT DRAIN (unless you used a more fatty beef)! Add cream of mushroom and milk.
Cook over medium/medium-high heat until smooth. Remove beef from heat.
Starting with the prepared macaroni and cheese, layer beef mixture and macaroni. Make 2 layers of each.
Be sure that macaroni is covered well by the beef mixture and its' ';juice'; or it will dry out when cooking. Cook for about 25 minutes or until bubbly.
TIN CAN ICE CREAM
1 (3 lb.) clean coffee can
1 (1 lb.) clean coffee can
Duct tape
2 or more kids
INGREDIENTS:
1 c. milk
1 c. whipping cream
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 egg (optional)
Fruit (smashed), chocolate, etc.
Rock salt
Ice (crushed or small cubes)
Pour all food ingredients into 1-pound coffee can. Duct tape lid on securely. Place inside 3-pound coffee can. Layer ice and salt around sides of small can. Duct tape 3-pound lid on. Roll briskly on hard ground for 10 minutes - cement works best.
Open lid and drain ice water. Open 1-pound lid and stir, scraping sides well. Re-tape. Re-pack big can with ice and salt. Re-tape and roll again. Makes about 3 cups of ice cream.
CHILE FOR KIDS
Brown 1 pound hamburger and discard grease. Place in colander and rinse with hot water. Saute 1 onion in 1 teaspoon olive oil in large heavy pot. Add 1 can tomato sauce, 1 large (any flavor) can spaghetti in sauce (spaghetti for kids) and 1 can kidney beans. Heat through and serve.
CARROT BALLS FOR KIDS
1 (3 oz.) cream cheese, softened
1/2 c. finely shredded Cheddar cheese
1 tbsp. apple juice concentrate
1 c. finely grated carrots
1/2 c. finely chopped nuts or wheat germ
Cream together first 3 ingredients; stir in carrots. Roll into small balls. Allow kids to roll in nuts or wheat germ.
Banana Blasters
Submitted_by : Stacey Perry - Delray Beach, Florida
Popsicle Sticks
Bananas
Honey
Wheat Germ (Optional)
Granola (Optional)
Take a banana and peel it. Cut it in half so you have two equal parts. Place a Popsicle stick in the flat end. Pour honey onto a paper plate. Roll the banana in honey until it is fully coated. Proceed to sprinkle either wheat germ or granola on the banana. Eat and Enjoy!!!!!
Biscuit Delights [adult supervision for younger children recommended]
Recipe By: Dancer23
Ingredients:
1 buttermilk biscuit [pre-baked]
1 banana
honey
Instructions:
1. Heat the buttermilk biscuit so that it is warm
2. Cut biscuit in half
3. Pour 3-4 squeezes of honey on each half of the biscuit
4. Mash the banana in a bowl
5. Put mashed banana on each half of the biscuit
6. Put halves together and put on a plate
7. Pour honey and confectionary sugar around biscuit
8. Eat and Enjoy!
BHMC Sandwich
Recipe by : Jimmy
Ingredients :
SLICED HAM(4 SLICES)
2 SLICES OF WHITE BREAD
1 SLICE OF AMERICAN CHEESE
1-2 TABLE SPOONS OF MUSTARD
(MICROWAVE, VERY IMPORTANT)
Instructions :
1.SPREAD MUSTARD EVENLY ONTO BREAD.
2.PLACE TWO SLICES OF HAM ONTO THE FIRST SLICE OF BREAD.
3.THEN ON TOP OF THE HAM PLACE THE CHEESE.
4.NEXT PLACE THE OTHER TWO SLICES OF HAM ON TOP OF THE CHEESE, AND COVER WITH THE OTHER SLICE OF BREAD.
5.PLACE SANDWICH ON MICROWAVE SAFE PLATE, AND PUT IT INTO THE MICROWAVE.
6.SET THE MICROWAVE ON HIGH FOR 24-26 SECONDS OR WAIT TILL CHEESE STARTS TO BUBBLE.
7.WAIT ABOUT 30-60 SECONDS FOR SANDWICH TO COOL.
8.ENJOY!
Easy Cookies (Kids love these!) [adult supervision for younger children]
Submitted by: A Guest
1 cup sugar
1 cup white corn syrup
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
4 cups Corn Flakes
Combine the sugar and corn syrup. This just needs to come to a boil so that the sugar dissolves. You can do this in a saucepan on top of the stove or you can use the microwave. A 2-qt. container in the microwave needs 4 min. on high or a 1 qt. container needs 5 min. on high. Add the peanut butter and stir until it is smooth. Stir in the Corn Flakes. Line a jelly roll pan with waxed paper. Drop the cookie mixture by teaspoon while still warm. You may need to reshape them a bit after you are finished dropping the mixture. Makes delicious cookies when you need them in a hurry.
Ham and Cheddar Roll-ups (adult supervision for younger children)
Recipe by: Tami Goodyear - New Mexico
Yield : Serves 4
1 package (4) refrigerated crescent rolls
prepared mustard
1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1/4 cup finely chopped fully cooked ham
Unroll crescent rolls. Tear along perforations. Place 4 triangles on an ungreased baking sheet. Spread lightly with mustard. Sprinkle each with 1 tablespoon cheese and 1 tablespoon cooked ham. Starting at large end, roll dough toward point. Fold ends in slightly to form ';horns.'; Bake in a 375 degrees. oven for 11 to 13 minutes or till golden
Campbell's soup has fast recipes on their soup labels as well as Kraft Marconi and cheese and Velveeta.
Broiled shrimp scampi. Put half a stick of butter in a bowl with a little salt, pepper, and 3 cloves of garlic on medium until the butter is melted. It takes about 3 minutes. While this is happening put a pot of water on to boil. Then season peeled devined shrimp with lemon pepper. Pour the butter over the shrimp with 1/4 c. white wine. Broil about 5 minutes, just until the shrimp are done. Drain the pasta and put it back in the pot. Toss with some of the liquid from the shrimp bake. It takes 15 minutes tops.
Also baked quesadillas. Put whatever in there your kids will eat.
Also, don't forget breakfast. We rarely get to eat a hot breakfast together, so some nights we have pancakes, bacon and eggs.
Also, at least once a week I made a large piece of meat and reuse it. This Sunday I made a roast chicken dinner. I used some of the chicken in quesadillas later in the week. Then I made pot pies (chicken, veggies and gravy in a muffin tin topped with a refridgerator biscuit in the oven at 350 for about 20 minutes).
Cook up a ground beef, peppers, onions, garlic, mushrooms, whatever you like (and the kids won't notice most of the veggies). Add about 2/3 jar of tomato sauce and let simmer about 5 minutes until it thickens slightly. Hollow out a loaf of Italian bread and top with mozz cheese. Bake at 400 about 10 minutes. Oh, toast the bread slightly while cooking the meat.
Make a roux, add cheese then some milk and then tuna. Put on toast.
for a quickmeal we make spaggeti carbonara - cook the pasta in a pan then fry some onion mushroom %26amp; bacon, add to the frying pan the cooked pasta %26amp; then cover with store bought cheese sauce.
We also make tortilla wraps with grated cheese %26amp; ham %26amp; they can be heated in the frying pan for a minute just to melt the cheese, i serve these with corn on the cobs for tea.
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