Salad Dressing Chicken

Ingredients

- 1 to 2 servings of rice (white or brown)
- 1 boneless chicken breast
- 1/2 of an onion (optional)
- 2 Tbsp. Italian salad dressing (or whatever flavor dressing you prefer)

 Directions:

- Follow directions for rice and begin cooking it. (This will be the longest part, so it's best to go ahead and get the rice cooking.)

- Cut up defrosted chicken breast into cubed, bite-size pieces.
- Chop up the onion into small pieces as well.

- Combine chicken and onion in frying pan on medium heat.
- Add 2 Tbsp. of salad dressing. (Italian or Caesar works really well for this recipe.)
- Once chicken is cooked through, you can brown the outside of it by increasing heat. (It's up to you.)

At this point, you can add frozen corn or green beans or peppers (pretty much whatever you want) to the chicken and onion combination on the stove. (I didn't do it for this go-around, but it's always a nice touch.)
Once vegetables are cooked through, you're done!

Serve chicken mixture on top of rice. Enjoy!
Yields about 2 servings. 

If you choose not to put vegetables into the chicken-rice combination, they always make for a great side dish. My favorite side vegetable? Steamed broccoli!

Mystery Muffins

Ingredients

- ½ cup all-purpose flour

- ½ cup sugar

- 2 tsp. baking powder

- ½ tsp. salt

- 1 egg

- ½ cup milk

- ¼ cup oil

- Chocolate chips (or m&ms, bananas, blueberries, etc. or whatever you want- this is the mystery part of the muffin)

Directions:
Stir together sugar, egg, milk and oil.

In a separate bowl, mix together flour, salt and baking powder.

Then add flour mixture to sugar mixture and stir.

(A fork works great for stirring!)

             


                                     And then the BEST part of all... Add the mystery ingredient!

(In this case, it's chocolate chips.)

                                                     Pour batter into greased or lined muffin pan.

       

           Cook at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes.    

 Yield: approximately 1 dozen

These are super easy AND they taste great! I personally love the "mystery" part- you can add anything you want to spruce them up. The recipe makes a dozen, so you can share with your roomates too. (But only if you want to- I don't blame you for keeping the goodness to yourself.)

Italian Meatball Soup

Ingredients:
-2 cans of Italian seasoned stewed tomatoes
-1 can of french cut green beans
-1 can of whole kernel corn
-3 cups of beef broth. Beef bouillon cubes
-White onion
-Italian flavored meatballs- 26 oz. bag

Directions:
Cut up half of the onion into medium size pieces (or to your preference). Drain juices from the cans of corn and green beans. Mix together onion, corn and green beans in the crockpot. Add both cans of stewed tomatoes and mix together. Add half of the 26 oz. bag of meatballs. Follow directions for beef bouillon cubes to make 3 cups of beef broth. Add 3 cups of beef broth and mix it all together.

Cook for 4 hours on low or 2 hours on high.
(Cooking time may vary- dependent upon the size of the onions.)
Yields 6 servings

This is a super easy recipe and actually pretty cost effective as well. You spend a little bit for the meatballs, but it evens out with all the other ingredients being lower in price.

Another upside to this recipe? You have leftover meatballs and bouillon cubes to make another pot! So all you need is some more vegetables, which are reasonably well-priced.

Definitely worth it!