My camera battery is dead :( I started charging it after last week's post and it still isn't charged. *sigh* Looks like it's time to get a new battery. So you will have to settle for my description of the prep (really wasn't much) and the ingredients. Sorry :(
The players: 1 box of Ancient Harvest Quinoa, 6 chicken breasts(2 lbs), 1 pound of (12 oz fresh, 4 oz frozen) green beans, 1 15-oz can of whole berry cranberry sauce, 1/4 cup of Vogue Cuisine GF Onion Soup Base, 1/4 tsp of Smoked Paprika, and 1/4 tsp of freshly ground black pepper.
Oh and since the recipe suggested using either pork or chicken, I decided to prep and make dinner for tonight and prep dinner for another night. The recipe site actually wrote the recipes for prepping and freezing. I just didn't feel like prepping it last night, so I made one today and prepped one for another night. I prepped the second one with 2 lbs of pork tenderloin (instead of chicken breasts) in the freezer.
At the advice of the recipe author, I label the freezer bag first. (Good thing they said that as the first instruction, because labeling the filled bag would be pretty dang tough) What was my label? "Cranberry, Green bean, pork tenderloin 2-18-15," of course. I place the green beans in the bag first, then the onion soup mix, then the cranberry sauce, and the pork tenderloins last. That way the meat will go in the crock pot first. I will need to get a bag of green beans (fresh or frozen) before I make the tenderloin meal. I only had 1 12-oz bag of fresh beans today, so I added in approximately 4 oz of frozen green beans to today's chicken dinner, resulting in 4 oz less in the bag of frozen green beans intended for the pork meal.
Speaking of which...things that drive me a little nuts- when a recipe calls for ingredients in amounts that don't match the amounts sold in stores. Spices, flour, sugar, oils, and flavorings of any kind are the only things that are ok to not match ;) *shrug*
Darnit! I forgot to get all the air out of the pork dinner bag....be right back. Ok. now we wait 4 hours. The recipe said 4-6 hours for chicken. I set the timer for 5 hours, but I had to get myself some lunch before I sat back down....so we wait...
*more hold music. different station this time, I promise* While we wait, I work on my other endeavor at Red's Stitch Niche
*BEEEEP* BEEEEEP *BEEEEP* Hrmmm - doesn't smell like much....it should smell awesome. Time to see how I did or what I need to tweak for next time......
*hold music*
Ok, so apparently I put the quinoa on the wrong layer. silly me. it needed water to cook...i put it on top of the green beans...so they were the top layer. next time i will put the quinoa between the chicken and the cranberry sauce.
Pretty darn good, except for the crunchy quinoa. "Tastes like Thanksgiving dinner," says BGS. SCORE!! For for those us lucky enough to live near a Capriotti's, it tastes a bit like a Bobbie®. Double Score!
The chicken had little flavor and was a tiny bit dry. So I think the next I make this meal the layers will be chicken on the bottom, 1/4 cup unsalted broth, soup mix, then quinoa, then cranberry sauce, then green beans.
I apologize in advance if Capriotti's is copyrighted or registered by the subshop and I didn't note it here. I searched the website and couldn't find out anything. If someone knows the proper notation, please let me know and I will correct this post.
The players: 1 box of Ancient Harvest Quinoa, 6 chicken breasts(2 lbs), 1 pound of (12 oz fresh, 4 oz frozen) green beans, 1 15-oz can of whole berry cranberry sauce, 1/4 cup of Vogue Cuisine GF Onion Soup Base, 1/4 tsp of Smoked Paprika, and 1/4 tsp of freshly ground black pepper.
Oh and since the recipe suggested using either pork or chicken, I decided to prep and make dinner for tonight and prep dinner for another night. The recipe site actually wrote the recipes for prepping and freezing. I just didn't feel like prepping it last night, so I made one today and prepped one for another night. I prepped the second one with 2 lbs of pork tenderloin (instead of chicken breasts) in the freezer.
At the advice of the recipe author, I label the freezer bag first. (Good thing they said that as the first instruction, because labeling the filled bag would be pretty dang tough) What was my label? "Cranberry, Green bean, pork tenderloin 2-18-15," of course. I place the green beans in the bag first, then the onion soup mix, then the cranberry sauce, and the pork tenderloins last. That way the meat will go in the crock pot first. I will need to get a bag of green beans (fresh or frozen) before I make the tenderloin meal. I only had 1 12-oz bag of fresh beans today, so I added in approximately 4 oz of frozen green beans to today's chicken dinner, resulting in 4 oz less in the bag of frozen green beans intended for the pork meal.
Speaking of which...things that drive me a little nuts- when a recipe calls for ingredients in amounts that don't match the amounts sold in stores. Spices, flour, sugar, oils, and flavorings of any kind are the only things that are ok to not match ;) *shrug*
Darnit! I forgot to get all the air out of the pork dinner bag....be right back. Ok. now we wait 4 hours. The recipe said 4-6 hours for chicken. I set the timer for 5 hours, but I had to get myself some lunch before I sat back down....so we wait...
*more hold music. different station this time, I promise* While we wait, I work on my other endeavor at Red's Stitch Niche
*BEEEEP* BEEEEEP *BEEEEP* Hrmmm - doesn't smell like much....it should smell awesome. Time to see how I did or what I need to tweak for next time......
*hold music*
Ok, so apparently I put the quinoa on the wrong layer. silly me. it needed water to cook...i put it on top of the green beans...so they were the top layer. next time i will put the quinoa between the chicken and the cranberry sauce.
Pretty darn good, except for the crunchy quinoa. "Tastes like Thanksgiving dinner," says BGS. SCORE!! For for those us lucky enough to live near a Capriotti's, it tastes a bit like a Bobbie®. Double Score!
The chicken had little flavor and was a tiny bit dry. So I think the next I make this meal the layers will be chicken on the bottom, 1/4 cup unsalted broth, soup mix, then quinoa, then cranberry sauce, then green beans.
I apologize in advance if Capriotti's is copyrighted or registered by the subshop and I didn't note it here. I searched the website and couldn't find out anything. If someone knows the proper notation, please let me know and I will correct this post.
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