easy cooking for 2 nights

[Kitchen Witch]

It was dang-blasted HOT yesterday - so I made a large bowl of macaroni salad (with onions, carrots, sliced pickles, eggs, celery, etc.) enough for 2 days.

Yesterday I skillet-fried chicken thighs - lightly "breaded" and served with a side salad.


Today was the remaining macaroni salad and my version of McD's fish filet done panini style. My version doesn't include a greasy bun with a 1/4 of a fish patty on one side of the bun and an half slice of cheese on the other half of the bun topped with a smidgen of tartar sauce. My version is a HEALTHY portion of breaded haddock (that just hangs over the sides of the large bun), oven baked, topped with 2 - 3 slices of American cheese, slathered with tartar sauce, lettuce, tomato on a hoagie roll toasted in my George Forman grill. Vidalia onion and tomato salad.

[lvdkeyes]

Isn't the George Forman the best thing ever?

[Kitchen Witch]

There is so much you can do with them. I have a lot of appliances - there are some people in my life that reel that if it is a kitchen "thing" and has a plug - I'll love it. I don't have a microwave (don't believe in them) and I've even warmed leftover pizza on George. I've made toast, grilled cheese, meats, veggies - even eggs. Give me an appliance and I'll test it to death.

[lvdkeyes]

Eggs??? How did you do that?

[Kitchen Witch]

Make sure the legs are even (no slant forward), spray or butter (I butter), scramble my egg(s) and cook. I don't put the cover down on eggs. I've made fake omelets this way - chopped ham, onions, etc. scrambled with eggs and poured on and flipped around. I call them fake because when I do them in the skillet or on the grill they look like omelets - George's ridges can be tricky and they don't look like omelets on the dish. but a slice of ham on one side and a scrambled egg on the other side (not with the cover down) still leaves room for a slice of bread to be toasted at the same time.

If I want over easy or fried eggs - I just break the eggs into the buttered wells of my sandwich maker. One egg per buttered or sprayed well - close and cook. I make great breakfast "doughnuts" this way as well.

[lvdkeyes]

The omelet must look very "fancy". I don't have a sandwich maker, but doing eggs in one sounds like a good idea.

[Kitchen Witch]

I love playing with the sandwich maker - I make little cakes, donuts, taters, eggs, desserts, pancake triangles, absolutely anything goes with one. I have an Xpress 101 that is just like the sandwich maker - except it has 2 deeper and bigger wells instead of 8 little ones.

[lvdkeyes]

I will have to look to see what is available here.

[Kitchen Witch]

Here the sandwich makers are really cheap - the Xpress 101 I had to order from TV. But there are sites that sell stuff "as seen on TV" and sometimes they are cheaper than ordering from the boob tube.