Chicken and mashed potatoes

 This is my husbands favorite chicken dinner.  Super easy to make and it's delicious!  One of those good comfort foods! 
I like to cook my chicken (usually frozen chicken tenderloins) in a pan of boiling water for at least an hour, if I have time. I am picky about my chicken so I like to then cut it apart and cut out any "gross" looking pieces.

Chicken Dinner

Heat a few tablespoons of oil in a pan over medium heat.

3 cups cooked chicken

1/2 cup flour

1/4 tsp pepper

1/2 tsp paprika

1 tsp salt

1/4 tsp garlic powder

Mix all together.

Place chicken in a bag and pour flour mixture in, seal bag, shake to coat chicken.

Cook chicken with mixture in pan until browned to your liking...I usually cook it for 15-20 minutes, turning it over to cook both sides.

Chicken Gravy

Melt 2 Tbsp butter in pan

add 2 Tbsp flour

cook for a minute or two

add 2 chicken boullion cubes and 1/2 tsp salt, dash of pepper

Add 1 1/2 cups milk.

Stir constantly until it comes to a boil for a minute.

Mashed potatoes

I bake my potatoes in the microwave first.  Then mash them with butter, salt, milk, and cream cheese!

                                                                                

Berry Best Muffins

Last summer, I made some blackberry muffins that turned out delicious! Funny thing is, while making them, I realized I was following two of my favorite muffin recipes.  I like to print out all my favorite recipes from Allrecipes.com and Epicurious, then I put them in a binder. So my two favorite recipes were side by side and I started following one and then accidently the other!  So then I had to put all the ingredients from both in the bowl....delicious!  I made a few changes to them and made it again yesterday.  (Love having frozen blackberries to make muffins all year.)  Allrecipes.com and Epicurious.com : my favorite sites!

I always have a helper when cooking! Here is my little guy, Jacob.  He loves to help out and taste test everything!  By the way, love my old Kitchenaide passed down from my Grandma Nelle. Don't know what I did all those years with out it...I use it almost everyday! (Also in the picture is measuring spoons and cup measure from her.)

Berry Best Muffins

6 Tbsp butter

1/3 cup applesauce

3/4 cup sugar

1 c brown sugar

3/4 cup buttermilk

2 eggs

3 1/2 tsp baking powder

1tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

3 cups flour

2 cups berries (I like to use blackberries

and crush them first.)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix butter, applesauce, white and brown sugars until light and fluffy.

Then add eggs and mix again.  In separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.  Alternate mixing flour mixture and milk into the batter.  Do not overmix.  Stir in the crushed berries. Spray muffin tin with no-stick cooking spray then fill 2/3 full with muffin batter.

Next make the crumble to add on top.

1/4 cup sugar

1/3 cup flour

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

mix aall together and sprinkle a little on top of each muffin.

Bake at 400 degrees for 17-20 minutes. Enjoy!!

Almost done!! Yay!!