Chicken and noodles

Chicken legs or wings
Any kind of pasta side,

Cook pasta side add to an oven safe  pan bury chicken in noodles   cook in oven at 425 for 1 hour make sure  chicken is 180

Ranch chicken from scratch  

6 chicken legs

Dried parsley  

Dried Chives 

Onion powder

Garlic powder 

Dill weed

Salt 

Pepper

Chicken Boullion  or stock

Oil an oven safe pan, this recipe is really spice to taste, mostly. Sprinkle your powder spices first cover chicken evenly, then add your dried herbs parsley,chive, dill. Don't over use the dill  it's very strong about a dash per chicken leg, unless you really like your dill. The add salt Pepper. Pour 2 cups chicken Boullion  or stock into pan, and cook at 400° for an hour chicken should 180 when ready. If like Your chicken tender you can baste every 15 minutes.

1. Freezer is your best friend

2. Gords  last for a long time so grab them if they have them, squash, squash and more squash.

3. If it's left over and you don't know what to do with it grab it anyways there's a recipe  online for anything.

4. Anything unappetizing  can be made appetizing if you need the nutrients.

I say those things because they all apply to my recipe tonight  

I made bacon wrapped turkey legs with baked cubed butternut squash. The turkey legs I just got from the pantry and ew I can't stand turkey, not much of poultry fan never have. Been so I stuffed them and dressed them in bacon thay I had gotten from the pantry at the beginning  of summer. But I froze. 

The squash I had gotten at least a month ago if not more. Anyways let me get on with my recipes 

Bacon stuffed and wrapped turkey legs

2. Turkey legs

1 LB bacon

 Salt

Pepper

Slice the legs at the thigh aND stuff with 1-2 slices of bacon. Then close the slice and wrap in bacon. Place in oven at 425° for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours always check and make sure poul try is at 180°.  let meat rest for a couple minutes

Baked  squash

1 butternut squash

1 apple

1 onion

1 stick butter

Garlic salt

Pepper

Peel and Cube butternut  squash, place in oven safe bowl add chopped apple, garlic salt, pepper, then melt butter aND drizzle over squash and butternut, then add chopped onion, and place in oven at 425 for 25 minutes check onion and squash for softness

This week  was a mix of thing decent bread an obnoxious  amount yogurt again. My idea for a recipe is focaccia pizza bread

 My suggestion  is don't use yellow cheese it clashes with the spices of the focaccia bread  

Focaccia  bread 

White cheese

Tomato or red pasta sauce

Bake I  oven at 425  for 10-15 minutes you can put any kind of pizza topping  mushrooms pepperoni  black olives garlic etc....

This week, we'll this week was not  good one for ingredients, how ever I got a ton and I mean a ton of kitchens of India  basmati  rice. Now for people who are wanting to diet, flush they're systems   etc. This is a good dish for quick and easy at work  or feeling lazy meal. If you are looking to cut sodium out of your system  stay away from any ethnic package noodle they all have tons of sodium. personally  I like Indian food but the heat gets to me  to make it so I can taste some of the flavors of the inferno on my plate I add 1 tbs ranch or mild ceasar dressing. Makes it a little  more tolerable  And tasty, for people who down right don't like Indian food if you don't have a choice grab it anyways if it's premixed spices and all you can always  dump a bunch of ranch on it.m so it tastes like spicy ranch rice. If  it's separate  packs and such you can Always do so e thing with carb from those packets.  They are great for homemade chicken soup and it's awesome if you don't like or Re gluten intolerant. They are usually rice based. Even the rice is amazing to use in soups.

Another thing that I grabbed was bread lots of bread, french onion soup, and hamburger meat. What can I do? Well that's salsbury   steak my style.

1 can cambells  french onion
Homemade bread crumbs or you can use the dressing to if you have it
And of course hamburger meat. Then add onion soup to

Add bread crumbs to hamburger  about 1/4 to half fup depending  on bread crumbs. Mix it up real good add french onion soup slowly you don't  want it get to mushy or have to much bread and not enough meat. Add appox  1 cup soup. Depends o  if you like hour salsbury  steak tough or tender less for tough,  more for tender.  Save half can of soup or 1/4 cup. For basting and making gravy. Now be careful with French onion soup it can sometimes be way to salty always double  check  soup and add water to lessen the saltiness.

If you cant get french onion =) you can make it.

4 tbs butter, margarine  or oil
One onion
1 cube beef bullion for every cup of soup
Melt butter, in a soup   pan meanwhile  slice onion, and to melted butter let cook till Transparent, stir every few minutes on medium high heat, takes about 10 minutes. The add cups of water can make maximum of 6 cups  minium  2 cups add 1 bullion cube for every cup of  water,

 Lazy french onion
4 tbs dried minced onion
2 cups boiling water
2 bullion cubes
1 tbs Butter margarine or oil

Use a 2 tbs hot water in a mixing bowl  add onion, butter, stir, then add bullion cubes to the rest of the hot water, make sure cubes are de solved before you add it to the onion  butter mixture. Then dump the  onion butter mix in the beef bullion stir taste to tell.

, this week I kind of have to scratch my head at what the food pantry had, mostly  because it was all sheer dumb luck that I could use it all to make some decent ramen noodles, and few meals of pan fried noodles and veggies

How you should make ramen noodles whether it's stove top, nissen, or sappiro

Pick
2-4 veggies
1-3 protein

if it's inexpensive  brand match twith the flavor i.e. chicken with chicken flavor, unless your using fish for a protein using or multiple proteins
  Tonight I used

Chinese celery
Carrots
Onions
Pork

Sappiro  Japanese  noodles i.e. fancy oriental flavored ramen.

Pan fried noodles  cook up ramen w/o seasoning
Pick
Veggie
Protein
Fry and add noodles

Mmm I have a bunch of crazy cheese and herb bread  from the food pantry so I think what I'm going to do is make croutons  out of it. They're good for salads, poultry dressing, or you can add pretzels to it and make a make shift gardetto  style snack. And it keeps longer then leaving it as a loaf. And  😁 I've been trying various style of spicing with these anything from Spanish style to Italian

1 loaf cheesy herb bread
Olive oil
Garlic salt
Pepper
Optional
Basil
Orageno
Parsley
Chives
Onion powder

For Mexican style
 Use a cheese bread or chedder jalapeño
Olive  oil
Cayenne
Chilli powder
Lime salt or pepper
Lime juice salt

Cut loaf into bit size cubes or chips depending  of what your using them for.  Place in an oven pan, add olive oil and garlic salt and pepper make sure to mix it up real good. Bake for 2 hours for a soft center and 5 hours for crunchy or you can check it periodically to find out how crunchy you like it  and check the spices see if it needs more

So yesterday at the food pantry I lucked out they had a ton of produce for some reason. And I managed to get a very lovelyrics package  of fingerling  potatoes  that were spices Italian style with rosemary, and a carton of chopped onion and celery 😀          so I made mash.

1/2 stick salted butter
Spiced fingerling potatoes
Chopped onion
Chopped celery
Salt
Pepper
1 cup hot water

In a large sauce pan melt  butter on medium heat, when it's melted add onions and celery. Cook for 10 minutes, add potatoes, rosemary (optional), cook for 5 minutes add hot water, bring water to a boil, then reduce heat and cover. Cook potatoes  until soft can take anywhere from 15-30 minutes depends on how many potatoes  and size. Check potatoes  by smooshing  one if it smooshes  easily they are ready to be smooshed. Smooth potatoes together (if this combo has blue fingerLing potatoes  it will look kind of gross)
Cook in low for 5 minutes and salt and pepper to taste


This stuff  goes amazing  with chicken. If your making a whole chicken  you can probably  stuff   the chicken with it.

To make it a chicken dressing following cooking instructions  but while smooshing the potatoes  leave them a little chunky and add bread bread crumbs to taste




Another thing I got from the food pantry yesterday was tons and tons of bread. So what do I do. I grab the artisan cheese and garlic bread and make croutons.

Loaf of bread ( garlic, cheese, herb, jalapeño and chedder or your choice to yoir taste)
Butter or olive oil
Garlic salt

Preheat oven to 225°
Cube bread to quarter inch
Place in a baking pan
 add olive oil and garlic salt
Bake until crispy approx 1-4 hours I like to slow baking but you can pull them out in an hour

This is what I got today. A sour dough bread bowl 😁 made my week. I went to the store and grabbed the 1$ pasta sides. Brocolli  and cheese. Cooked  a little chicken hamburger mixed with the pasta side and stuffed the bread bowl with it then I popped  it I the oven for about half hour on 425°  added a salad to it for some veggies.

Bread bowl

Pasta side 

Chicken or beef 

Pasta side (I prefer brocolli  and chedder)

Cook pasta dish meanwhile cooking meat 

Add meat to pasta and stuff bread bowl with pasta

Bake for 30 minutes  at 425 then add a veggies of some sort to kind of balance the meal  

So some people know the pain of having to go to a food pantry to feed the family. The funny thing is a lot of times it's hard to figure out what to do with some of the food for recipes. That's where this blog Come in these are my personal food pantry recipes and combos that I have used am using. Trying to make something from ingredients  from the pantry, and it doesn't always work but sometimes it does, and I hope it helps someone.