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Balogreene If you like endives, this is fussy, but wonderful.
Chicken with Endives
Ingredients
1 slice white bread
butter
4 whole chicken breasts, skinned and boned
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
2 water
2 medium Belgium endives, cut length-wise in half
2 Tablespoons capers
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 cup shredded Swiss Cheese
Directions
With hands, tear bread slice into very small pieces. In 12 inch skillet over medium heat, heat 2 tablespoons butter and bread crumbs until crumbs are golden brown, stirring frequently; spoon buttered crumbs into small bowl, set aside.
Wipe skillet clean.
Spread chicken breasts open. Arrange breasts in same skillet; add lemon juice, salt, 1/2 cup water, and 2 tablespoons butter; heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low; cover skillet and simmer 10 minutes.
Add endives, cut side down; cover and continue cooking 5 minutes longer, or until chicken and endives are fork tender. With slotted spoon remove chicken breasts to warm platter, top each with a pice of endive, cut side down. Sprinkle breasts and endives with capers; keep warm.
In cup with fork, stir flour and 2 tablespoons water until blended. Gradually stir flour mixture into hot liquid remaining in skillet. Over medium heat, cook until mixture is slightly thickened and boils, stirring constantly.
Remove skillet from heat, stir in cheese until melted.
Pour cheese mixture over chicken. Top with buttered crumbs.
June 13 at 18:31 EST .
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Balogreene My mom made this in the 70s, before endives became popular. She found jack or mozzarella cheese also worked, cause some of us didn't like Swiss.
June 13 at 18:33 EST .
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Balogreene Robin, I finally made Paul Newman's Favorite Salad. It is wonderful. I love the flavor of the Bibb lettuce and the endives.
It's funny, I don't do a lot of grocery shopping, my sister who is disabled does it. So, I gave her my list, she said man, she couldn't find Bibb lettuce, or endives. I looked up Bibb lettuce on line and found out is Boston/Bibb/Butterhead lettuce. The endives, I finally found them this weekend at Trader Joe's. I don't know why our other stores didn't have them, I've gotten them there before.
But, a wonderfully flavorful salad, unlike Romaine or iceberg lettuce, and the nuttiness of the endives, just adds to it.
June 10 at 18:46 EST .
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Robin Benzle Glad to hear you liked it! I'm a big fan of endive and sometimes just throw a few slices on a plate, douse them in lemon and a drizzle of olive oil and salt and pepper.
June 12 at 12:44 EST .
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Robin Benzle This Chow Time show is my recipe for Cabernet Cake with Mocha-Mascarpone Frosting. Cake so moist you can pick it up with the back of a fork - and insanely good frosting. Perfect for a wine-lover:
http://www.robinbenzle.com/recipevideosdetail.asp?ID=242
 June 8 at 14:34 EST .
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Escaped commieny Hey Robin, I thought it was Charleston pickled shrimp weekend, now how am I going to decide?
June 8 at 19:54 EST .
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Robin Benzle I'd go for both!
June 9 at 06:51 EST .
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Balogreene Chia, Cacao, & Banana Overnight Oats
Ingredients
1 cup almond milk (or your choice )
¼ cup regular oats
1 teaspoon cacao powder
2 Tbsp. chia seeds
½ teaspoon cinnamon
Tiny pinch of kosher salt
¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 Tbsp. walnuts, chopped
1 ripe banana, sliced
½ teaspoon maple syrup (optional )
Directions
1. ) Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl and make sure the oats are evenly coated (cacao powder, chia seeds, oats, salt, cinnamon, walnuts ).
2. ) Add in the almond milk and vanilla extract and whisk until there are no more clumps. Mix in the sliced banana and stir. Place in the fridge for at least one hour – overnight is ideal!
3. ) Wake up in the morning, sprinkle extra cinnamon and the maple syrup on top, stir and enjoy.
Tips:
This is very filling so this can be 2 small servings.
You can top with any of your favorite fruits or nut butters for added flavor. You can substitute any nut for the walnuts.
You can leave the cacao powder out if you don’t prefer a chocolate flavor in the morning.
I'll let you know tomorrow.
June 5 at 19:03 EST .
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Balogreene I really liked it, but it is filling.
June 7 at 20:30 EST .
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Balogreene Cucumber-Yogurt Soup with Pepperoncini
Ingredients
1 pound cucumbers—peeled, seeded and coarsely chopped, plus cucumber spears for serving
10 small pepperoncini—4 stemmed, seeded and chopped, plus ¼ cup of liquid from the jar
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons chopped dill
1 cup plain whole-milk yogurt
1 cup buttermilk
¼ teaspoon ground cumin
Salt
Directions
In a blender, puree the chopped cucumbers with the chopped pepperoncini, the pickling liquid, 2 tablespoons of the dill, the yogurt and buttermilk until very smooth. Stir in the cumin and the remaining dill and season with salt. Refrigerate until chilled, about 30 minutes.
Ladle the soup into 6 bowls. Serve each bowl with a whole pepperoncini and cucumber spears on the side.
Okay, I thought I had pepperoncini, I didn't so I used green chili's. Mine is picante. But, you taste the dill and the cucumber. It is delicious.
June 5 at 18:56 EST .
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Balogreene Banana Bread Chia Seeds Mini-Loafs
Ingredients
¼ c. whole wheat flour
1 c. all-purpose flour
½ c. sugar
¼ c. brown sugar
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. cinnamon
¼ tsp. salt
1 tbsp. chia seeds
1 egg
1½ ripe bananas, smashed
¼ c. canola oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees and spray two mini loaf pans with cooking spray. Beat sugars, egg, oil and vanilla extract in a large bowl. Once sugar mixture is combined, beat in bananas. In a separate bowl, combine flours, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Slowly beat flour mixture into sugar mixture. Beat in chia seeds. Pour batter into two loaf pans. Bake for approximately 40 minutes, until the tops of the loaves are light brown.
I was too tired to get the mini loaf pans, so I made mini-muffins and watched the time closely. They are great!!!
June 5 at 18:41 EST .
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BirdsNest Not really a recipe more like a tip. I don't know how many of you eat Swiss Chard, but our plants are rocking. We have eaten it nearly every day for 3 weeks. The other day I cooked some and decided to use the liquid to cook rice in. Medium grain rice, 1 cup and 2 cups liquid(did not have enough Swiss chard liquid so I added water and a tiny bit of salt ). I cook rice in the microwave in a large plastic mixing bowl covered with plastic wrap. The rice was amazing. Tried it with spinach water, good, but we both liked the Swiss Chard version best. That way you are not tossing out the liquid from the greens and getting all the nutrition.
June 5 at 09:35 EST .
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Balogreene Over the last four or five weeks, I"ve had 2 days off and worked 56.5 hours of overtime. Tonite I have to cook, I have to do a chia seed banana bread, a chia seed chocolate oatmeal, a spinach and cheese gratin, maybe an apple french onion soup. I'm still waiting to do the Robin Benzle/Paul Newman salad, but haven't easily found the Bibb lettuce and endives. Oh, and I'm doing a Peperoncin-yogurt, cucumber soup. I'll report later.
June 4 at 18:13 EST .
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Surfhut Sheesh, Balogreene! Why do you have to cook all of that tonight? End of a big project?
June 4 at 20:33 EST .
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Balogreene I didn't make it Surf. I made the banana bread, and the peperoncini yogurt soup. I'm still exhausted. Gonna post the recipes.
June 5 at 18:36 EST .
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Balogreene Oh, I bought the makings on one of my days off, and it's going to go bad if I don't cook it.
June 5 at 18:37 EST .
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Balogreene On Health and Diet, I asked about Chia Seeds. Thanks EC for a wonderful link, to an inexpensive source. Here's my recipe. I love the flavors, but it is a really soupy "pudding".
Mango Coconut pudding:
½ cup lite coconut milk
½ cup unsweetened almond milk
¾ cup fresh ripe champagne mango, diced
2 tbsp chia seeds
1 tbsp sweetened shredded coconut
4-6 drops Nu-Naturals liquid stevia (or sugar/honey to taste )
Combine all ingredients in a large container. Mix well and close container. Refrigerate overnight or at least 5-6 hours.
Divide into 2 bowls or glass dishes and serve.
Okay, in my house it's about 4 servings. And it is kinda runny, but it is great. I used everything as they said, except honey for the sweetener.
June 2 at 22:06 EST .
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BirdsNest Are we sharing that link???
June 3 at 09:44 EST .
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