Ladies
A lady from church is on bed rest after having hernia surgery, she is also 20 weeks pregnant and has an 18 month old. I'm to bring her dinner tomorrow and after being gone all day today I was too late in emailing my request and lost out on Italian and Mexican, now I have no idea what to bring her since I usually cook either a big batch of manacotti or shredded taco's for this.
Her only request is no onions.
Any suggestions????????
MANY THANKS
Roast w/ bag salad and rolls, or bread. EASY! Spray a baking pan, put in beef roast, add cut up potatoes around the sides, add 2 cans of drained sliced carrots, add 1 can of drain whole kernel corn, (you can leave out the onion), add a family size can of cream of mushroom soup (spread over the top, cover w/ foil and cook at 350 for about 4 hrs or until the meat falls apart. YUMMY everytime.
Chicken spaghetti:
bake and shred 3 (or how ever many you want) chicken breasts. Cook spaghetti. Combine 16 oz. velveeta (chopped up), 1 bell pepper (chopped), 1 med. onion (chopped)(of course, optional), and 1 can of cream of mushroom soup and 1 can of cream of chicken soup. Mix this mixture with the shredded chicken and spaghetti. bake at 350 for 45min-1 hour, uncovered. The last 5 minutes, sprinkle with shredded cheese and finish baking.
Sooo yummy and lasts for several meals. This also freezes well.
What doing baked chicken. What you do is take chicken (you can do all breasts or a whole chicken taken apart) put it in a casserole dish, take Zesty Italian dressing and spread over the chicken then take parmesian cheese and sprinkle it over the chicken. Cook on 400 degrees for 1 hour or until chicken is cooked. You can serve with any other vegetable and salad. It comes out delicious and easy and quick.
Hope this helps.
Unless she is on a special diet, tacos or manicotti should be wonderful. Here is a favorite of my children, that is easy on the stomach. We prepare egg noodles or even spaghetti according to package directions. We use either cooked or canned chicken, chopped up or shredded. Tuna is good, too, if you prefer. Mix a can of cream of mushroom soup, the chicken, and even some grated cheese if you desire, in with the cooked and drained noodles. It's inexpensive, stomach friendly, and makes a lot.
pot roast is very easy and you can even get seasoning packets at the store if you don't know what spices you would like to use. I do mine in the crockpot. Just put in the potatoes with the seasoned meat on top (so it doesn't stick to the bottom) and at least one cup of liquid. You can use beef broth, tomato soup, water, etc. Cook on low for 7-8 hours or high for 5-6 hours. You can add other veggies like carrots or green beans also. ( Don't add the green beans until the last hour or two). Then all you have to do is make some gravy. Good luck.
Quiche or a pot pie are both easy and work well for a family dinner. Add a salad and some cookies you are good to go. Another option if you don't want to cook is picking up a dinner at Boston Market or Honey baked ham company. A good family meal for a good bargain. These were some of the things I received when I was on bedrest they worked out really well!
BTW, its a lovely thing you are doing...God bless you.
I usually take fajitas to someone. You can buy the meat that is already seasoned at HEB and all the rest of the fixings are real easy to do.
Also, meatloaf is always a good choice!
I hope this helps and good luck!
It's pretty eay to make a big pot of chicken and dumplings and the 18 month old would enjoy them too.
Why don't you do a breakfast meal? If she's on bedrest, I'm sure she'd love a great big breakfast that she wouldn't have the time to make! Or, if that's not a good time for a meal I'd make chili. It's inexpensive, easy to make and tastes even better the 2nd day as left-overs. Add some corn bread to it and she's all set!
If it were me, I would love a wonderful giant fruit salad, or a huge veggie salad with chicken.
When I was out on maternity leave, someone brought chicken parmesean. It was good comfort food, and I thought it was fussy, but when I got the recipe, it was easy. It used shake and bake Chicken Parmesean mix. You bake chicken tenders per instructions, cook pasta (angel hair is sometimes different from regular spagetti. In a large throw away baking dish, layer chicken, cover with spagetti sauce and Italian blend cheese. Bake until the cheese has melted. Take Pasta in one dish, chicken in another, throw a bag salad and dressing together, bread sticks, cream puffs for dessert,and something to drink. I was given paper plates, napkins, utensils, everything, so that when the meal was over, there were no dishes to do or return.
Other meals I enjoyed were Chicken and rice, a good pot roast with potatoes, Tortellini with a salad, and Taco Soup.
If she likes fish, baked salmon with fresh green beans and potatoes is yummy. I've got an excellent recipe if you would like to have it. I made it for a group of women(12) in my Bible study once and they all went crazy over it. It looks pretty, tastes good, and healthy for you. It's got lemon slices on top and it looks so pretty....and I'm not a cook. It's called Pesto Salmon!
T.,
Chicken casserole is a really quick and easy meal. It has chicken, sour cream, cream of chicken soup, chicken broth and breadcrumbs. I usually make it for new moms or people who need meals at church. It's super easy ~ breadcrumbs on bottom of casserole dish, boil and then shred chicken, mix sour cream, cream of chicken soup and chicken broth together and pour over chicken, then sprinkle with breadcrumbs on top. In oven for 45 minutes. Just email me if that sounds like something you'd like to try and I'll email you the exact recipe.
Good luck!
D.
