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How To Make Chicken Corn Chowder

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Long, long ago when the fishermen for a village returned home after a fishing trip, they would find the community caldron or cooking pot, which was quite large and they would each place a portion of their catch into the cook pot or caldron. After each submitted his portion to the pot, other ingredients from the garden and spice cabinet would be tossed in and combined as well while cooking.

The result of this combination in the cook pot was called chowder. Truly, way back then the community was enjoying some really good things to eat. You can experience the same feelings of satisfaction with your own family when you learn how to make chicken corn chowder at home.

Recipe for Chicken Corn Chowder

What You Need

  • 2 Tablespoons virgin olive oil
  • 1 Tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 1 large chopped sweet onion
  • 1 seeded, chopped red bell pepper
  • 4 medium cubed red potatoes
  • 3 minced garlic cloves
  • 4 Tablespoons flour
  • 2 cups chicken broth
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1/8 teaspoon thyme
  • 1/8 teaspoon sage
  • 1 can cream style corn 15 ounce
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • 1 ½ cups cooked boneless skinless chicken breast

How to Make It

You can use leftover chicken to make this recipe or you can cook the chicken you plan to use for this recipe first and allow it to cool to the touch. Set aside until needed.

Using a large saucepan or Dutch oven you will add the virgin olive oil, butter, or margarine over a medium heat setting. After melting the oils together add the chopped sweet onion, the seeded, chopped red bell pepper, and the cubed red potatoes. Saute for about 5 minutes and then add the mince garlic cloves.

Gradually stir in the flour, chicken broth, salt, cayenne pepper, thyme, and sage. Bring to a boil for about 2 minutes and then reduce the heat. Cover with a lid and allow the mixture to simmer over a low heat setting until the potatoes become tender.

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Planning Balanced Meals – What You Probably Don’t Know

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Any weight loss program easily falters when the whole family isn’t involved. This is especially true when the family member who cooks the food is used to preparing delicious concoctions without regard to serving sizes or the number of calories his or her buttered steak laid on the table has. When the aroma begins the waft into all the rooms of the house, it’s going to take one really strong iron-willed individual to resist the urge to dive in.

However, family meals don’t have to be a torture for one member who is on a serious diet to shed the fat off. It can be a great time for every member to be healthier even if not everyone is trying to lose weight. Preparing healthy meals can benefit ever member of the family by increasing overall energy levels and strengthening the immune systems.

First off, if you’re the cook in the family, you must learn other methods of cooking than frying. Roasting, baking, grilling, broiling, boiling and steaming are healthy ways of cooking food. Meat, when roasted, baked or grilled, is better than when it is fried. Choose the lean meat portions and always cut off any excess fat. Chicken, too, must be cooked in healthier ways and while fried chicken patties and chicken fingers are delicious, they don’t have a place in the table of a family seeking to eat a healthy meal. Chicken skin must also be removed since it contains a high amount of cholesterol. Where turkey is concerned, you can save on calories by cooking the stuffing separately so that fat from the turkey does not “join” the stuffing. Of course, going easy on the butter helps in lessening the calorie count, too.

Instead of casseroles or the usual macaroni-and-cheese on the dinner table, why don’t your try serving steamed vegetables? If this seems too bland for your taste, you can sauté them in a little butter and sprinkle with herbs and spices. If no one in your family is allergic to soy, you can try to learn how to prepare soy-based recipes to substitute for meat. Moreover, if the kids want a pasta dinner, make the sauce from fresh tomatoes as much as possible. In the mornings, try to limit bacon or hotdogs from the menu and replace them with eggs and lean meat alternatives.

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Chicken Salad Recipes: How To Make An Oriental Chicken Salad

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If you are ever in the mood for eating Chinese, but you do not want to get out and go to a restaurant, you can learn how to make all sorts of great tasting oriental food. For instance, here is a delicious recipe for oriental chicken salad that you and your family might enjoy making and eating. If you have a craving for chicken and various types of oriental flavorings and ingredients, you will enjoy this type of salad you can make at home for yourself. After getting the meat and vegetables ready for cooking, it only takes a few minutes to complete the dish and have it ready to eat.

Recipe for Oriental Chicken Salad

What You Need

  • 2 thinly sliced boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • 2 pints chick broth
  • 1 chopped fresh ginger 2 inch
  • 4 diced garlic cloves
  • 3 shallots
  • 1 star anise
  • 2 baby bok choy
  • 12 thinly sliced snow peas
  • 1 ½ cup bean shoots
  • 1 small thinly sliced red bell pepper
  • 6 baby corn shoots
  • 1 medium grated carrot
  • 1 package fine egg noodles 8 ounce
  • 2 Tablespoons light soy
  • 2 Tablespoons kecap manis
  • 1 Tablespoon Chinese cooking wine
  • 2 thinly sliced red chili peppers
  • ½ cup shredded coriander leaves

How to Make It

Before preparing this recipe you will need to rinse the vegetables, remove any veins and seeds and then chop, dice or slice the vegetables separately and then set aside until needed.

Combine the baby bok choy, thinly sliced snow peas, bean shoots, thinly sliced red bell pepper, baby corn shoots, and grated carrot in a large serving bowl and toss. Add enough cold ice water to cover the vegetables and then set aside until needed.

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Chicken Salad Recipes: Creamy Chicken Mousse Salad

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With the summer months closing in on us fast and we all know just how fast the year passes away before the weather becomes cold once more; many people are trying to find some great tasting meal planning ideas. Whether they are cooking for a large or small family or they want to create a tasty and economical dish for a potluck dinner or a BBQ, chicken salad recipes are some of the easiest to make.

For instance, if you are in the mood for a creamy, spicy, and delicious salad to serve at home or at a social gathering, you might want to learn how to make this creamy chicken mousse salad recipe. It is refreshing and provides you and your family with a healthy eating choice anytime of the year.

Recipe for Creamy Chicken Mousse Salad

What You Need

  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 2 minced garlic cloves
  • ½ cup minced celery
  • 3 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
  • 1 envelope unflavored gelatin mix
  • ¼ cup water
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1 lettuce head
  • 1 can cooked early green peas
  • 1 can cooked cubed new potatoes

How to Make It

Using a double boiler over hot but not boiling water you will add the egg yolks and beat.

Using a large saucepan, add the chicken broth and bring to a slow boil over a medium heat. Add the minced garlic cloves and minced celery. Stir and then add the boneless skinless chicken breast halves. Spoon some of the liquid over the meat. Cook until done. Remove from saucepan heat. Allow the mixture to slightly cool. Season the mixture with the salt, paprika, and hot pepper sauce. Remove meat from the saucepan and then cut it up into pieces of about ¼ to ½ inch squares. Set aside until needed.

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Chicken Salad Recipes: How To Make Lemon Chicken Pasta Salad

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Everyone has been waiting for the cooler weather to move along and make way for all the great warmer weather of the summer. Along with summer will come various outdoor and indoor activities and fun things to do. One of the most popular things to do, whether you are indoors, or outdoors is to eat great tasting foods and beverages.

It is during this time of the year that more and more individuals and families are pulling the grill out of storage and making all sorts of BBQ foods. Everyone likes to use easy to make recipes and some of the easiest recipes you can make are chicken salads. For instance, you can make this salad to serve your family and friends in hardly any time at all because you will be using canned chicken breasts. However, you can always replace the canned chicken for some leftover grilled chicken if you have any, or you can grill some chicken especially to make this salad.

Adapting Grilled Chicken Recipes

In fact, you can adjust this recipe if you like to include any type of meat, vegetable or even fresh fruits when you make a salad. With this dish you will use lemon flavored yogurt. However, if you like, you can always use a different flavor of yogurt if it suits you better. The same applies to the different types of herbs and spices you might also want to add or substitute while you are adjusting this recipe or any other type of recipe.

With summertime just around the corner, you will want to find some new and different types of dishes to serve your family along with some of your own family favorite recipes. Prepare your salads and other dishes so that you and your family get the most satisfaction out of mealtime.

Recipe for Lemon Chicken Pasta Salad

What You Need

  • 1 cup lemon flavored yogurt
  • 1/3 cup mayonnaise
  • 2 teaspoons lemon juice
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon poppy seeds
  • 2 ½ cup uncooked bow tie pasta noodles
  • 1 can drained, flaked chunk chicken breast 10 ounce
  • 1 can drained mandarin oranges
  • ½ cup chopped green onion
  • ½ cup diced celery

How to Make It

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