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Simple Honey’d Italian Chicken and Potatoes

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This Simple Honey’d Italian Chicken and Potatoes will take you just a few minutes to prep!

Our amazing across-the-street neighbors decided in the midst of April quarantine to start raising and butchering chickens. They generously asked if we wanted in on it.

Wellllllll. Yes. We wanted some chickens, most definitely. But we knew nothing about raising them and butchering them, and we didn’t have time to commit to it. They assured us that they’d take care of the hard part (which sounded more fun than hard to them). So how could we say no?!

We helped pay for feed and other supplies, saved all of our food scraps for the growing chicks, and best of all? Our littlest guys learned to stop whatever they were doing outside to holler “doodle-do!” across the street whenever their roosters started crowing. Cutest. Think. Ever.

So now we have several locally grown chickens in our freezer (can it possibly get more local than ACROSS THE STREET?!). They even went so far as to cut legs and thighs off for us during the butchering process.

I’ve been using the thighs in this Honey’d Italian Chicken recipe and not only is it incredibly simple to put this all together, but it is also super delicious! I can quickly slide this into the oven to bake, then steam a veggie and get out mixed greens to go with it. So easy!

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Simple 4-Ingredient Honey'd Italian Chicken
 
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Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • 2 pounds boneless or bone-in chicken thighs or breasts
  • 2 pounds yellow or red potatoes
  • 3 Tablespoons honey
  • ¾ cup Italian Dressing
Instructions
  1. Place chicken in a baking dish.
  2. Scrub potatoes and cut them into wedges, placing them in the dish with the chicken.
  3. In a small saucepan, mix honey and Italian dressing over low heat until combined.
  4. Drizzle dressing mixture over the chicken.
  5. Bake, uncovered, in a 425 degree oven for 45 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink.

If you prefer to use boneless chicken in this recipe, cut the baking time down to 25-35 minutes.

If you like simple recipes like this, you will love our Simple Real Food Recipes Cookbook. These are my go-to recipes now!

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How to Make Perfect French Toast

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Want to know the secret ingredient that makes Perfect French Toast? How about two secret ingredients? Mhmm, these ingredients are about to become not-so-secret…

I realize that these tricks may be what you’ve been doing all along to make Perfect French Toast. Still, it’s fun to share, just in case. Nothing like taking a delicious and easy breakfast, brunch, or dinner and making it just that much better!

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Here are the two tricks I use to take our French toast up a notch:

1. Add Vanilla Extract to the egg mixture.

2. Use Cinnamon Swirl Bread.

The vanilla adds a wonderful flavor to your French Toast. And using Cinnamon Swirl Bread instead of “regular ol’ bread” is a huge game-changer for the better. THIS MAKES FRENCH TOAST SO GOOD!!

I used to always make Cinnamon Swirl Bread at home. I started using:

  1. This Cinnamon Swirl Bread Recipe, then switched to an easier method which turned into:
  2. This Stir-and-Pour Cinnamon Swirl Bread Recipe

But now that we’ve added little ones to our home again and I find myself juggling my bigs, my littles, my marriage, my home, my work, court dates, case worker visits/meetings, appointments, my own health – well…

I happily and un-guiltily buy the cinnamon swirl bread.

Does it need to be said? Ok. Let’s review:

God is bigger than store-bought bread.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

However you would like to make your Perfect French Toast, with whatever bread works best for you, go for it and enjoy! But oh making it with Cinnamon Swirl Bread does make it so much better!

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How to Make Perfect French Toast
 
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Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • 10 slices of Cinnamon Swirl Bread
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 Tablespoons cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Butter for cooking French Toast
  • Fruit and Real Maple Syrup
Instructions
  1. In a bowl, whisk together eggs, cream, and vanilla extract.
  2. Heat butter in a skillet until melted.
  3. Dip bread into the egg mixture, coating each slice entirely.
  4. Fry each coated slice of bread in the buttered skillet until both sides are golden brown.
  5. Serve with real maple syrup and fruit

What about making homemade vanilla? Goodness I would but is the price of vanilla beans ever going to go back down?? C’mon beans. We need you. And we need you to cost less than our sons’ college tuition.

Have you tried using Cinnamon Swirl Bread when you make French Toast? And do you add a little shot of vanilla? Mmm, so good.

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The Easiest Chocolate Fudge Recipe

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This Easiest Chocolate Fudge recipe is for real. I’ve never made an easier fudge recipe! (And you’ll love that these ingredients are REAL!)

You may notice that this Chocolate Fudge recipe looks strangely similar to our Chocolate Fudge Pie recipe. That’s because it is the exact same recipe minus the pie crust.

What can I say? One recipe always turns into another around here! It something works well for one recipe, it often makes sense that it will work well with a few minor adaptations. So it is with this Easiest Chocolate Fudge recipe.

When I first made the pie variety, I poured a little extra pie filling into a dish without a crust. It cut into pieces just like fudge, tasted amazing just like fudge, and so here we are with a recipe for the Easiest Chocolate Fudge.

Food really isn’t as hard as we like to think that it is. (This Simple Real Food Recipes Cookbook proves it. If you don’t already have it, you need it!! This will save you so much time and energy while you feed your family great meals!)

I figured you might need this fudge recipe this Valentine’s day as you make special treats for your special people. Use any chocolate chips you like best – milk chocolate, dark chocolate, bittersweet chocolate. So delicious!

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The Easiest Chocolate Fudge Recipe
 
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Serves: 40
Ingredients
  • 10-ounces chocolate chips
  • 4 Tablespoons butter
  • 2 cups heavy whipping cream
Instructions
  1. In a small saucepan, melt the chocolate chips and butter together.
  2. Once melted, whip the chocolate mixture and the cream with beaters or in a high power blender (like a Blendtec) until smooth and thick.
  3. Pour mixture into a 9x9 inch pan.
  4. Chill for at least two hours before cutting and serving.

Chocolate Hint:

Do yourself a favor and order any of the Cocoa Powders, Chocolate Chips, or Chocolate Chunks from Olive Nation. (And use the code home to get 20% off!) I can’t tell you what a wonderful difference these cocoa powders and chocolate chips have made in my chocolate recipes. The quality is MUCH better, and they do not cost more than I was spending on the lesser varieties.

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Easiest Chocolate Fudge Pie Recipe

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Your holiday season is about to get so much better! Introducing: Easiest Chocolate Fudge Pie!

The idea for this Chocolate Fudge Pie just came to me. The ingredients involved can’t help but be amazing together.

See, I had a baked pie crust sitting empty on my countertop begging to be filled. There seemed no other option but to fill it with something chocolate. College students would be joining us for lunch that day, and I already had Pumpkin Pies prepared.

Basically, I threw these ingredients together and hoped for the best. Hesitantly (but kind of selfishly, because I wanted some, ha!) I didn’t add extra sugar after I melted the chocolate chips. Would it be sweet enough for college kids to enjoy? We were heading to church soon so there wasn’t much time for me to contemplate.

Melt the chocolate and butter, whip in the cream (with the ease of my beautiful Blendtec), pour it into the shell, slide it into the fridge to chill for lunch.

OH MY CHOCOLATELY GOODNESS.

The college students raved about it! Apparently it was plenty sweet enough for them (even though not only did I not add extra sugar, I also used dark chocolate – who knew?!).

Truly, I don’t think there’s a pie recipe that’s as easy as this one. Certainly not one that turns out something so fudgy and rich. You will LOVE this Chocolate Fudge Pie. I highly recommend adding it to your holiday dessert table!

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Easiest Chocolate Fudge Pie Recipe
 
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Serves: 1 pie
Ingredients
  • 10-ounces chocolate chips
  • 4 Tablespoons butter
  • 2 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 9-inch pie crust
Instructions
  1. In a small saucepan, melt the chocolate chips and butter together.
  2. Once melted, whip the chocolate mixture and the cream with beaters or in a high power blender (like a Blendtec) until smooth and thick.
  3. Pour mixture into a prepared pie crust.
  4. Chill for at least two hours before serving.

Need some pie crust recipes?

Chocolate Hint:

Do yourself a favor and order any of the Cocoa Powders, Chocolate Chips, or Chocolate Chunks from Olive Nation. (And use the code home to get 20% off!) I can’t tell you what a wonderful difference these cocoa powders and chocolate chips have made in my chocolate recipes. The quality is MUCH better, and they do not cost more than I was spending on the lesser varieties.

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Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Bread

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Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Bread is a huge hit!

One of my favorite things to do is to text my college-age son and tell him to invite friends to eat lunch with us on Sunday after church. So here’s how this works:

  1. Justus texts friends to invite them for lunch, then he tells his friends to invite friends too.
  2. His friends invite friends, and they are welcome to invite others too.
  3. We never know who is going to show up for lunch, and it is always a blast!

Often I’ll be in the kitchen putting the final touches on the meal while college kids pour into the living room. I walk out to greet them and get to be surprised every time by who was able to come!

I am often asked, “But how do you know how much food to make?”

Well, I don’t. ;) But God does. There’s always plenty, and I can always pull more from the pantry or freezer to stretch out each meal. In addition, if I’ve made lots and lots of food and not many are able to come for the day, that means we have extra food to share with sick or struggling friends throughout the week.

What does all this have to do with Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Bread?

I recently served this fun bread on a Sunday afternoon to our college guests along with Taco Soup and a buffet full of sides. This bread was gone within minutes! The chocolate chips are the main attraction, but if you ask me, the cream cheese is the most valuable player in this recipe. You’ve got to try it!

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Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Bread
 
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Serves: 1 large loaf
Ingredients
  • ½ cup melted butter
  • 8-ounces softened cream cheese
  • ½ cup sucanat or raw sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 2 cups whole grain flour (I use freshly ground soft white wheat)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon sea salt
  • ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. In a large mixing bowl or in a powerful blender (like a Blendtec), whip together butter, cream cheese, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and milk.
  2. Add flour, baking powder, and salt.
  3. Fold in chocolate chips.
  4. Pour batter into a well-buttered 9" loaf pan.
  5. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Tip: How about making batches of this bread to give as gifts this holiday season?

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Easy Whole Grain Cherry Muffins

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Why have I not thought to make Cherry Muffins before?

I was inspired a few weeks ago after helping out at our church’s monthly food bank distribution.

It’s one of my favorite days of the month, by the way. Well over 100 families are served, and they get to pick up lots and lots of food to help meet their grocery needs for the month. I’ve loved taking as many of our boys as are available each time. Yes, even the little boys. Brayden stays with a big brother and helps transport boxes of food in wagons. Boy Babe hangs out with me. Without even trying, he makes all the people waiting in line smile. Then they often start telling me about their kids and grandkids. It’s fantastic.

As a perk, after all the community has been served, if there are any food leftovers we volunteers can go through the line and take what we can use. In August, there were huge bags of dried cherries available. I snatched one right up with the idea to make trail mix. But then I got the idea to try these Whole Grain Cherry Muffins.

Not too shabby of an idea if I do say so myself.

I love that we can take a basic muffin recipe and add so many different add-ins. Fruit, nuts, chocolate chips – so many great options! Find a huge list of other muffin recipes here, many of which are simple tweaks to the recipe below.

For this particular recipe, I added a hand full of dried cherries, then a splash of lemon juice to make them extra tart and flavorful!

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Easy Whole Grain Cherry Muffins
 
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Serves: 9-12
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups whole grain flour (I use freshly ground soft white wheat.)
  • ⅓ cup sugar (sucanat, brown sugar, honey, whatever your preference)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 egg
  • ¾ cup milk
  • ¼ cup sour cream
  • ¼ cup melted coconut oil
  • 2 Tablespoons lemon juice
  • ½ cup dried cherries
Instructions
  1. Mix dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
  2. Add egg, milk, sour cream, coconut oil, and lemon juice.
  3. Stir well, then fold in dried cherries.
  4. Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups.
  5. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 18-22 minutes or until muffins are golden brown.

**Do you have our Simple Mixes to Save the Day eBook yet? Grab it so you can save time and energy by using the Muffin Mix for this recipe!! I LOVE having these mixes on hand!!!

Simply exchange the dry ingredients in this recipe for 2 cups of Muffin Mix. :)

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How to Make Easy Fruit Cobbler

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Hopefully, we’ve all been taking advantage of summer and fall to pick and preserve all the fresh fruit we can get our hands on. Now let’s learn about how to make Easy Fruit Cobbler!

Almost 12 years into sharing recipes here with you, I am shocked that I have yet to post our favorite fruit cobbler recipe! This is, hands down, Matt’s favorite dessert. And who am I kidding? Sometimes we make it and eat it for breakfast. It’s fruit and bread, am I right?

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In our experience, with the exception of melons and citrus, just about any fruits will work. Our favorites are:

  • Peach (our favorite, favorite!)
  • Strawberry
  • Raspberry
  • Blueberry
  • Boysenberry (Matt’s favorite since he grew up in California – but we don’t have access to these berries in Nebraska!)
  • Blackberry
  • Apple
  • Pear
  • Cherry

You can buy fresh or frozen fruit at the store or farmer’s market to use in these cobblers. Our favorite and most economical option is to use whatever fruit we’ve been blessed to pick and preserve. We grab peaches or berries that we’ve frozen during the summer and quickly make an Easy Fruit Cobbler to enjoy!

Use as much or as little sugar as you prefer. Through the years, I’ve cut the sugar content down in this recipe (so we can eat it for breakfast, you know?). And of course, I use freshly ground wheat flour. So our cobblers are made with whole grains, healthy fats, and amazing fruit!

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I love that using whole grains in dessert and treat recipes takes them up a notch on the healthy scale! Yes, these are still sweet treats to be eaten in moderation. But when we cut down the sugar content, use whole grains, and use all wholesome, real food ingredients – we’ve got ourselves a dessert that is actually nourishing!

Easy Fruit Cobbler

How to Make Easy Fruit Cobbler
 
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Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • TOPPING:
  • 1 cup whole grain flour (I use freshly ground soft white wheat)
  • 2 Tablespoons brown sugar or sucanat
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ cup melted butter
  • 1 egg
  • 3 Tablespoons milk
  • FRUIT:
  • 6 cups fresh or frozen fruit, washed and sliced if needed
  • ¼-1/2 cup brown sugar or sucanat, depending on your taste
Instructions
  1. In a medium saucepan, cook fruit and sugar until soft and syrupy.
  2. Pour fruit mixture into a 9x9 inch baking dish.
  3. Mix together topping ingredients, beginning with dry ingredients first.
  4. Add melted butter, egg, and milk until well combined.
  5. Spoon mounds of topping over the fruit filling in the baking dish.
  6. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 20-25 minutes or until cobbler is bubbly and topping is golden brown.
  7. Serve as-is, or topped with ice cream or milk

If you prefer a crunchy topping instead of a cake topping, try this awesome Fruit Crisp Recipe instead!

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Simple Hearty Bean Casserole (How to cheat and make this FAST!)

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This Simple Hearty Bean Casserole is a family favorite, and if you follow these simple make-ahead tricks, you can have it on the table super quickly!

First, let’s talk about the beauty of prepping Homemade Bacon Bits ahead of time. And while we’re at it, let’s be reminded about cooking several pounds of hamburger meat ahead of time.

If you do these two things, you will have so many quick meal options at your fingertips!!

For this Simple Hearty Bean Casserole, I’ve found that if I have the bacon bits and the hamburger meat already prepped all I have to do is stir them into a couple cans of beans and we have a meal. This is so easy and good!

Yes, you can soak and make your beans from scratch. This is a great money saver! During this season in my life, I’ve found that it is incredibly helpful to have a case of Baked Beans on hand for easy meal prep. Maybe someday I’ll get back to soaking and cooking beans. ;)

This is my favorite brand of Baked Beans.

This recipe is perfect for a family who loves their protein. Beans, bacon, and hamburger all in one bowl? Yah. Add a side salad and some fresh fruit and the meal is complete!

How to make Simple Hearty Bean Casserole:

I just want you to know how easy this is, especially if you have your meat prepped ahead.

  1. Open two cans of beans and put them into a large cooking pot.
  2. Dump in some cooked bacon bits.
  3. Dump in some cooked hamburger meat.
  4. Squeeze in some ketchup.
  5. Shake in some dry minced onion.
  6. Heat until bubbly (5 minutes).
  7. Serve and eat!

Do you see? Do you see how easy this is and how wonderful it can be to have these foods prepped or purchased and waiting to make a great meal for your family?

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And now, we’ll pretend that this is an actual recipe.

Simple Hearty Bean Casserole (How to cheat and make this FAST!)
 
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Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • 1 pound hamburger meat
  • ½ pound bacon
  • 2 Tablespoons dry minced onion
  • 3 Tablespoons ketchup
  • 2 15-ounce cans of Baked Beans
Instructions
  1. Cook hamburger meat, bacon, and onion together in a large pot.
  2. Drain excess grease if necessary.
  3. Stir beans and ketchup into cooked meat.
  4. Heat until bubbly.
  5. Serve and eat!

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Homemade Vanilla Pudding Recipe

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Want a Vanilla Pudding Recipe that you can make from scratch? But you’re afraid it will be too difficult? Check this out!

We shared this recipe years ago here at Heavenly Homemakers. But as delicious and simple as it is, I felt it was worth another share. A tried and true recipe like this one that we’ve made at our house for years and years is worth a repeat!

Homemade Vanilla Pudding is fantastic comfort food, and with its eggs and milk, it also offers nourishment. Eat it warm right off the stove, or let it chill so you can eat it cold.

Want to take it to go?

Check out our fun post that describes How to Make Your Own Pudding Cups!

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Homemade Vanilla Pudding Recipe
 
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Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • 2½ cups milk
  • 3 egg yolks
  • ¼-1/2 cup real maple syrup
  • 4 Tablespoons arrowroot powder or cornstarch
  • ¼ teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
  1. In a medium saucepan, whisk together milk, egg yolks, maple syrup, arrowroot powder, and salt.
  2. Cook over medium heat, whisking/stirring CONSTANTLY until pudding begins to thicken.
  3. Stir over the heat for about 15 more seconds.
  4. Remove immediately from the heat, and continue to stir until pudding is creamy.
  5. Add vanilla and continue to stir until mixed.
  6. Pour into serving dishes and serve warm, or chill for two hours and serve cold.

Want your pudding more or less sweet? Adjust the amount of maple syrup in the recipe to your family’s preference!

It goes without saying that topping your Homemade Vanilla Pudding with fresh fruit it an additional wonderful and nourishing idea.

Want more homemade pudding recipes?

I’ll be updating our Chocolate Pudding Recipe next. And stay tuned for an awesome Pudding Parfait in a Jar idea coming soon too!

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“Just Dump Some Sauce on Some Chicken!”

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Frustrated about food, overwhelmed about feeding your family healthy meals, always feel like getting take out instead of cooking? And then are you feeling guilty that this is how you feel day after day? Ok then. I’m about to give you some simple cooking instructions that will change your life: “Just dump some sauce on some chicken.”

Where there is chicken and there is sauce, there is dinner. I know. Profound. No matter if you have boneless chicken, chicken legs, or a whole chicken. Grab you some chicken, grab you some sauce, and “Just dump some sauce on some chicken!”

Just dump some sauce on some chicken…

What kind of sauce, you ask? It matters not. I have been known to use salad dressing out of my fridge, or Teriyaki sauce, or Bbq sauce, or salsa, or anything in a jar or bottle that looks like it might possibly taste good on chicken. Sometimes I mix two or more sauces, which is possibly weird but always tasty. And as an added bonus, this helps me clear out random half-empty bottles hanging out at the back of my fridge.

This is about to become your stress-free go-to meal phrase.

Say it with me: “Just dump some sauce on some chicken!”

  • Not sure what to make tonight? “Just dump some sauce on some chicken!”
  • Tempted to go out to eat…again? “Just dump some sauce on some chicken!”
  • Hate cooking and use that as an excuse to eat poorly? No more. “Just dump some sauce on some chicken!”

Find you some chicken. Get out some sauce. Pour it right on and let it cook while you do something else you enjoy. THIS HAS TO BE THE EASIEST MEAL EVER.

I so badly want everyone to understand this. Making real, good food for our family does not have to be difficult. When all you have to do is open a package of chicken and pour on some sauce – wouldn’t you agree with me that cooking good food really can be easy?

Also? Chicken cooked in sauce tastes incredibly good.

Let me walk you through this step by step

The Crock Pot Chicken/Sauce Meal:

  1. Get a package of boneless chicken, chicken legs, or a whole chicken out of the fridge or freezer.
  2. Put the chicken into a crock pot.
  3. Get out whatever sauce you have available. Barbecue. Italian Dressing. Sweet and Sour. Teriyaki. A mixture of this and that because you are collecting all the mostly empty bottles of sauce out of the fridge.
  4. Dump the sauce onto the chicken. (There’s no exact amount. “Just dump some sauce on some chicken!”)
  5. Put the lid on the crock pot.
  6. Cook the chicken on “low” for 6-8 hours. (A whole chicken may require 10 hours on low.)
  7. Eat the chicken.

The Oven Baked Chicken/Sauce Meal:

Shorter on time? Do this instead:

  1. Get a package of boneless chicken, chicken legs, or a whole chicken out of the fridge. (Thawed meat is best for this method.)
  2. Put the chicken into a 9×13 inch pan.
  3. Get out whatever sauce you have available.
  4. Dump the sauce onto the chicken. (There’s no exact amount. “Just dump some sauce on some chicken!”)
  5. Slide the pan into the oven and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes for boneless chicken, 50 minutes for chicken legs, or 1 1/2 hours.
  6. Eat the chicken.

What should you serve with your chicken?

Well that depends on how much time you have, what you have on hand, and what your energy level is.

If you have time to work ahead, I’d suggest making this incredible Stick of Butter Rice. Or these Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes.

Beyond that, I encourage you to pick a fruit and a veggie or three. Perhaps:

But if you don’t want to or have time to prepare or cook anything to go with your chicken, serve it with something like:

  • Sliced apples
  • Oranges
  • Canned pineapple
  • Baby carrots
  • Fresh berries

And if you need something more to round out your meal, you could grab something like this out of your fridge:

  • Cottage cheese
  • Sliced cheese
  • Bread and butter
  • Pickles
  • Olives

There now. You needed a meal for your family. You didn’t have time to cook. You needed a quick solution.

“Just dump some sauce on some chicken!”

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