Bored with Dinner - one of our favorites

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
  
• 1 lb chicken breast, skinned, boned, cut into 2 x 1/2 inch strips
  
• 1-2 teaspoon chili powder
  
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin (not in original recipe)
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  
• 1 cup thinly sliced onion
  
• 1/2 cup green bell pepper, strips
  
• 1/2 cup red bell pepper, strips
  
• pizza dough, for 12 inch pizza (you can use refrigerated pizza crust if you like)
  
• 1/2 cup mild salsa
  
• 2 cups monterey jack cheese, shredded

• Heat oil in large skillet.
  
• Add chicken and cook, stirring frequently until lightly browned.
  
• Stir in seasonings.
  
• Add onions and bell peppers, cook an additional minute or so until vegetables are crisp-tender.
  
• Heat oven to 425°.
  
• Sprinkle pizza pan with semolina flour and press dough into pan.
  
• Pre-bake dough until it is a very light golden brown, about 6 minutes.
  
• Remove from oven and scatter chicken over crust, spoon salsa over chicken, spread vegetable mixture over that, and finally, top with cheese.
  
  
• Bake for another 15 minutes until crust is golden brown.

• New dinner recipes - Bored with dinners
  • Apparently it's national cheeseburger day today..sm - mt
  • Bored with Dinner - one of our favorites - Donna
  • I have an eye roast recipe that's easy - and kids like it too.
  • We have this all the time and never get tired - me
  • im not much of a cook, but... - Emily Ayn
    • Yummy! - jss
  • dinner ideas - mt
  • Great idea! - jss
    • Still thinking - - jss

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Pork BBQ:

3 lb boneless pork roast

1 large can/bottle tomato juice

6 oz worcestershire sauce

1 large onion, cut up (doesn't have to be chopped)

3 tablespoons sugar

3 tablespoons vinegar (white)

salt & pepper to taste

Place pork roast in crock pot. Pour tomato juice over roast. Add remaining ingredients, stir, cook on high for 4-5 hours. The meat falls apart, but you may need to shred. Turn to low until ready to eat. Delicious

Pot Roast:

3 lb beef roast

1 onion cut up

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 can beef broth

3-4 beef boullion cubes

2-3 bay leaves

garlic salt and pepper

Sprinkle roast with garlic salt and pepper on all sides; place in crock pot. Spread soup over top of roast. Add onion and bay leaf to pot. Add beef broth and boullion cubes. Add enough water to just cover ingredients. Cook on high 4-5 hours or low 6-8 hours. Meat is real tender and falls apart.

I usually serve over rice or noodles. Makes delicious hot open-face roastbeef sandwiches too.

Yes, it is possible. Here is a link to the instructions:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237954

Lilly

as well as the ones that answered this!

My 86-yo dad is the same way.  Sticking his nose into my business.  He also constantly rags on me about my son not mowing the grass, etc.  I have explained to him that I LIKE to mow the grass and to please drop it and he just keeps on and on.  One day he walked in my office and shook his finger at me and said, "You just wait, you just wait, y'all are drinking way too much pop."  This because I buy it when it's on sale and it lasts a very long, long time.  And, by the way, neither my son nor I are overweight.  Older people just can't (anyways he can't) realize I am 53 years old and have lived on my own without his valuable input for a long time.  He just doesn't have anything else to do. 

The thing that really bugs me is when he comes over and just plops down in here when I am working and I tell him he can't be in here when I'm working and he gives me all kinds of excuses ("I can't see read what you're typing") and I have to just keep the screen minimized until he goes.  He just doesn't get it.  The other day I told him to go over and check on my cousin's new fence, and that got his train of thought going in a different direction and off he went.  He called me one day and told me not to commit to the big diocesan pledge thing that's going on, that I am to tell them I am a single parent just barely scraping by, etc., etc., and I wanted to tell him I am not quite that destitute yet, but I just agreed. 

Oh, and I have an extremely screwed-up sister, too, who Dad thinks can do no wrong and her son is the greatest, etc., etc.  Oh, the stories I could tell about her!  Well, it was me who gave him a place to live after Katrina and it was me who gave him my couch for his new house because he didn't have one (another delusional idea, he thinks he is broke), not her, so I just keep quiet and keep civil and remind myself he's old.   When it gets to be too much I tell his sisters, who tell him to back off then he does for a while.  All part of life. 

I always have my TV on in the next room just for noise and every now and then to catch something going on. If it was turned off now I think I would be asleep! 

I will either have leftover vegetarian chili with cornbread, or leftover penne with cheese. I always cook enough to have leftovers because I hate cooking, especially everyday.  The kids (13 and 20 year old girls) will probably have fast food.  My 13 year old is a vegetarian like me so she will probably get cheese pizza or a veggie patty sandwich at Subway.  My oldest with probably have McDonald's.

I am doing Easter at my house for the first time, as I am the only one with kids in my family.  I am looking for something to do that is sort of traditional, but fun.  My family does not like lamb, but all else if fair game.  I would love any ideas to help me plan for my first real holiday feast!!! Thanks and hope you all have a great holiday!