Mini scalloped potatoe thingies

Last night we made these awesome mini scalloped potatoe thingies.
You need a muffin pan
Clean some potatoes.  Put them in ziploc baggies and microwave them for about 10 minutes.  (not completely done but still firm).  Take a stick of butter and cut off thin little pats and put one in the bottom of each muffin hole.  Slice the potatoes about 1/8-1/4 inch thich and put one slice on top of each butter pat.
Salt and pepper maybe some garlic powder if you like.  Then sprinkle some diced up cooked ham, grated cheese, and some diced green onions.  Add another potatoe slice, salt, pepper, ham, green onions, cheese and put another pat of butter.  Then top off with a tsp of half and half on each muffin cup.  Bake at 400F for 20 minutes.

Very good.  Kind of like little mini single serving size heart attacks.  But they taste very good.  Guaranteed to make your cholesterol go up by at least 20 points.

Beef Fajitas

Ok so last night we made fajitas

We took a flank steak (way over priced for the cut of meat) about 6 bucks a pound
Marinated it overnight in olive oil, cilantro, lime juice, and chipotle peppers mixed up in a blender.  (I just kind of eyeballed it didn't measure)  Next time will need a food processor because the chipotle peppers didn't really blend in.
Then put the whole flank steak on the grill for 5 minutes a side (not long enough) had high heat but didn't even come close to cooking it through.  Paige of course yelled about the pink content of my meat so I cut it up and then cooked it on the stove for a few more minutes.  Cut up bell peppers and onions and fry them in some olive oil. then put in some tortillas (shredded cheese, sour cream, hot sauce etc.)  I also put some garlic salt on mine because they lacked a little flavour.  But they were very good and the kids loved them except for Jenna who refuses to eat meat (a vegan at 4,.........you got to be kidding me.......must get that from Paige's side of the family)

Chicken Parmesan ala Hank

Well tonight went pretty well.  Everyone ate it.  Not to bad if I say so myself.

What I did was take 4 chicken titties and slice them in half to make them thinner.
Then I had a plate with flour on it, a plate with bread crumbs on it, and a bowl with 2 eggs and a little milk in it.  I sprinkled some sea salt and Emerils Essence on the chicken (both sides) and started pre heating the oven to 400 degrees (make sure your rack is near the top of the oven second slot down from the top).  Also started heating some olive oil (2-3 tbsp) in a pan and boiling water for the pasta.
Then coated the chicken 2 at a time with flour, egg wash, then bread crumbs and put the smooth side down in the olive oil.  Cooked for about 3-4 minutes until browned then flipped and browned the other side.  Then I put them in a big glass baking dish.  Once all the chicked were browned on both sides and in the baking dish.  I spooned some Prego sauce on them.  Then sprinkled some parmesan and topped it off with mozzerella cheese.  About this time the water was boiling so I started the spaghetti.  And started warming the rest of the sauce.  I generally add a couple of tbsps of sugar and some minced garlic to the sauce (we like garlic and a sweeter sauce in this house) The chicken then go into the oven for about 4 minutes until the cheese was melted.  Then set the oven to broil until the cheese was bubbling and starting to turn golden and browned a little.  Then pull the chicken out plate up the spaghetti and chicken and serve.
I have to say tonight I shoulda been on Iron Chef.  I kicked butt.