Chicken Primavera

Chicken Primavera

You will need 1 recipe of Garlic Cream Sauce

which includes:

Olive oil

1 T flour
1/2 t minced garlic
1/2 cup white wine
1/3 cup frozen chopped spinach
2 cups half and half
1 to 1-1/2 cups shredded Parmesan (not the stuff in the shaker)


3-4 skinless boneless chicken breasts
olive oil
salt and pepper
1/2 onion
1/2 green pepper
1/2 yellow pepper
6 ounces of your favorite cooked pasta (I used Tinkyada brand Penne for our GF version)
1 cup Italian blend cheese or mozzarella

Cut chicken breast so they are even thickness and take the tips off. Save the extra bits for another dish.

Add to a bowl with a little bit of olive oil, salt, and pepper.  Coat evenly and then grill.  Cut into chunks.

Dice or chop your veggies and saute in a little bit of olive oil, salt, and pepper until they are soft.  You can use other favorite veggies like zucchini and yellow squash, broccoli.  Ideas are unlimited.  If  your kids don't like those then dice them finer.  I am not a fan of zucchini or the squash but I can tolerate them cut small. :)

Mix together your cooked pasta, cooked chicken chunks and veggies and the sauce.

Spread into a baking dish and

cover with cheese.  Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees or until cheese is brown and dish is bubbly hot.

** Don't see the green?  No worries its not your eyes, I didn't have any spinach in the freezer to use last night. Another note...I used 8 oz pasta and the pasta soaked up too much sauce and was a little drier than I like. So either use more sauce/milk or use less pasta. I am currently freezing the 2nd recipe I made and will let you know how it turns out!

English Muffin Toasting Bread

This is a no knead bread that is easy to make.  Tastes great warm when the crust is all crunchy and the inside is warm and moist.  This bread is highly addictive and if you think you can't keep out of it only make 1 loaf! not 2 as the recipe makes.

English Muffin Toasting Bread

4-1/2 to 5 cups flour (or Brown Rice Flour Mix  plus 3/4 teaspoon Xantham Gum for gluten free version)
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 Tablespoons active dry yeast
1 Tablespoon sugar or honey
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup warm water
2 cups warm milk (or rice milk or other dairy free milks)

Mix 3 cups flour, soda, salt, and yeast.

Add sugar or honey, water, and milk.

Mix well. Should be like pancake/waffle batter.

Slowly add 1-1/2 to 2 cups of flour until dough is fairly stiff but sticky. It's still scoopable but not pourable exactly.

Scoop into two greased 4x8 non-stick bread pans. 

Spread out evenly and

let rise covered for 30-45 minutes.

Bake 30 minutes at 375 degrees.  Remove bread from pans immediately and brush all sides with butter.

Don't slice right away as it is very soft on the inside.  Give it 5-10 minutes.  Inside of bread will be full of air pockets resembling English muffins.  Serve with more butter and/or jam.

This picture is the gluten/dairy free version and wasn't as holey. 

Gluten Free Brown Rice Flour Mix

6 cups Brown rice flour (extra fine ground)
2 cup Potato Starch (not potato flour)
1 cup Tapioca flour

Mix and keep in plastic container ready to scoop and use.