Breaded Lemon Pepper Tilapia

Very quick, cheap, and simple dinner idea.

What you will need

Frozen fillet of tilapia (thawed)
Bread crumbs
Parmesan cheese
Lemon pepper spice
McCormick Fiesta Citrus spice
1 Egg
2 lemons
Rosemary

Getting started

Preheat oven to 375.
Mix in bowel bread crumbs, lemon pepper spice, Parmesan cheese, and small amount of fiesta citrus.
Beat one egg and mix it with lemon juice.
Soak fillet in egg/lemon sauce for a little bit prior to placing in bread crumb mixture.
Completely bread the fillet and place on a sheet of aluminum foil.
Sprinkle on rosemary to season to taste.
Place a small slice of butter on top of the fillet.
Place two lemon slices on top to finish it up.
Fold over aluminum foil to make a single packet.
Place in oven and cook for 15 minutes.
Remove and serve with rice and steamed veggies.

Notes
Always check temperatures of fish and chicken prior to eating.
When you put the fillet in the oven you can start cooking the instant rice in the micro wave then follow it up with steamed veggies. This should be just the right amount of time to have all items done and ready to serve. We also had a bottle of Cupcake Moscato wine, complimented it very nicely.

Crockpot Pulled Buffalo Chicken Sandwich

Very easy 4 ingredient recipe.

What it takes...

Frozen chicken breasts
Bottle of buffalo wing sauce approx 12oz
Packet of Ranch salad dressing mix
Cream Cheese

How to...

Place chicken breasts in the Crockpot to cover the bottom, we used 4.
Cover chicken with buffalo sauce using whole bottle.
Sprinkle in packet of Ranch dressing mix on top of sauce.
Set Crockpot on low setting for 6 hours or high for 4 hours.
After cooking remove chicken and pull apart.
Also at this time add in the cream cheese to remove the hotness of the sauce.
Replace chicken back into Crockpot and stir together, let sit while you set your plate up or get sides put together.
Serve on a bun with a slice of mozzarella cheese.

Notes.

You can choose any brand of sauce or style of sauce you would like. We used Frank's buffalo hot sauce. Will probably try another brand next time. It tasted to hot and not enough flavor for our likes. We also used half of the cream cheese block.

Fall off the bone delicous Crockpot Ribs

These ribs turned out amazing. They are definitely going on the make again list. Very simple to prep and make. Took more time to fix the sides than it did to prep or finalize the ribs.

So here we go...

Ingrediants

Ribs (I used pork loin country ribs)
1 big TBS paprika
1 big TBS light brown suga
1 big TSPS McCormick Perfect Pinch Fiesta Citrus
1/4 TSPS pepper
Sweet Baby Ray Honey BBQ Sauce (I imagine you can use any bbq sauce for taste preference)
1 can of Dr. Pepper

Prep work

Mix together paprika, brown sugar, pepper, and fiesta citrus. Use as a dry rub and apply all over ribs. Then place in Crockpot.

Cover with BBQ sauce (I used about half of the bottle)

Pour the can of Dr. Pepper in

Cook in Crockpot on low for about 6-7 hours. Mine was about 6.5 hours. When I tried removing the ribs from the Crockpot they wanted to just fall apart.

Now the fun part

Carefully remove the ribs and place on baking sheet.
Drain the bbq sauce from Crockpot to a pot.
Bring the sauce to a boil and reduce down to a thicker sauce, it took about 10 minutes to get it to a consistancy I liked.
Apply sauce over ribs generously, then with your oven set to broil, broil ribs until sauce gets that slightly charred looked to help capture the taste of the sauce. Reapply and repeat as needed.







Cleaning the microwave

I came across an old trick on how to easily clean your micro wave so I wanted to attempt this.

In a microwave proof glass or measuring cup add 1 cup vineger and 1 cup hot water. Place in microwave and '"cook" for 5-10 minutes. I ended up doing 10 because I forgot about it. I also added a small wooden spoon inside the liquid for safety reasons.

After the 10 minutes carefully remove the measuring cup, as it will be hot. Then you can wipe down the inside with a wet cloth. Some spots took a little more scrubbing than I had hoped for but over all not a bad way to easily and quickly clean the microwave.

Stay tuned...

Trying out two new quick ideas today. easy mocrowave cleaner and a rib recipe. Results to follow!

Crockpot Chili

The wife and I attempted for the first time crock pot chili. We really like this recipe after we modified the original to our tastes. We do believe this is a keeper.

Here we go...

Ingredients
2 pounds ground beef. (more or less for personal taste)
1 large bell pepper
1 white onion
3 jalapeno peppers
2 15oz pinto beans (drained and rinsed)
1.5 cans of diced tomatoes (about 15oz)
1 can beef broth
1 tablespoon cumin
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 big table spoons minced garlic
6oz tomato paste

Prep work
Chop half of the onion and 2 jalapeno peppers and brown with ground beef.
Chop remaining onion, jalapeno, and bell pepper. Then place all ingredients in crock pot and stir them together. Cook on low 8-9 hours or high 4-5 hours. Garnish with cheese or ketchup or just about anything. Serves about 6-8.

Notes:
We cooked ours for about 9.5 hours and did not stir once after stirring together as we were not home at all that day.

Married Life

OK we are about 7 hours into the 6th day of October. Have a birthday coming up next week. Working on the family budget. Will give a walkthrough on the budget binder as we get it in full swing inbetween moving. Following Dave Ramsey's approach to finicial peace. ok for now hopefully I will be back sooner if not follow me on Twitter and remind me @calwhit33