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Welcome to Cancel Your Reservation. This is a collection of recipes that I have cooked or baked and want to share with you.

First - let me say, I do not like to cook. I don't get a relaxing feeling while chopping veggies, or strolling the aisles of the grocery store. I would much rather make a dinner reservation and eat out with my husband and enjoy being waited on, and relaxing at the end of the day. But lets be real, eating out all the time gets expensive, and its not the best for the waistline or our health, even though there are many healthy alternatives available now when eating out.

So, with that being said, I get in the kitchen after work and cook. I don't like it, I'd much rather clean up and do dishes after the meal than prepare the meal. The kitchen isn't my favorite room of the house. To give you some background, I burn things when I am cooking. ALOT. I can't tell you how many times I have set the fire alarm off in my house. I also burn myself while cooking, not on purpose, but I'm clumsy in the kitchen - and messy. So, if you are like me, and like to eat out, more than you like to cook, please read over these recipes and try them! Just get in your kitchen - even if it is a few nights a week. The recipes are easy to prepare, and they taste good! They just might make you cancel your reservation - and eat in! Not all of the time of course, who are we kidding :) - but more often.

Just a note, I did not come up with these recipes - no - I don't have that gift that some people are blessed with that allows them to come up with amazing recipes and flavors that compliment each other. Sources for the recipes will be noted.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Chicken, Broccoli & Rice Casserole

I got a new job!! My training starts at the end of August and while the position is going to be part time, so I will have plenty of time to fix dinner every night, the training will be full time for 6 weeks M-F, so this means I won't be getting home until dinner time for 6 weeks. So in order to prevent my husband and I from eating fast food for 6 weeks, I decided I was going to try to stock our freezer with "freezer friendly" meals so we can de-thaw them overnight in the refrigerator and then when we come home from work, we can just put the entree in the oven and bake while we work out or just veg out. I made my first trip to the grocery store today for this project and this afternoon I made our first "freezer friendly" meal. I stocked up on disposable/freezable  8 x 8 casserole dishes and cooked 15 chicken breasts and cut into cubes for my prep work for the next day as I make more meals. It is so relieving to me that we will have dinner during the week already made and it will be healthy too! My husband is happy about this too, saying it will relieve alot of stress from both of us. Here is the recipe for the first "freezer friendly" meal I tackled. 

Chicken, Broccoli & Rice Casserole


Ingredients:
1 bag of frozen broccoli florets
2 cups of cooked, cubed chicken breasts
1 can of cream of broccoli soup
1 can of cream of chicken soup
1 can cheese soup
2 bags of instant white rice, cooked according to directions on box
2 8x8 disposable/freezable casserole dishes

In each casserole dish, put 1/2 bag of frozen broccoli florets, 1 cup of cooked chicken, 1/2 can of cream of broccoli soup, 1/2 can cream of chicken soup, 1/2 can of cheese soup, 1 bag of cooked white rice and salt and pepper to taste. Mix all of the ingredients together. Cover tightly with foil, label, and place in freezer.

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