I have put the following in pitas:
King Ranch Casserole - just have to make it less soupy than normal
Ham & Apple Salad
Chicken & Apple Salad
Lasagna - just make with less noodles and a thicker sauce than normal
Flour Tortillas: (and they are so much better if you heat the tortillas on a griddle on both sides until they puff before you stuff them.)
Roast & Caramelized Onions - recipe below
Shepherd's Pie
Taco Meat with Blackened Corn & Cheese
Chicken & Rice Casserole
My Ham Salad and my Chicken Salad and my Roast Tacos seem to be big hits. Here is as close to a recipe as I can get.
Ham
Salad
Make
First: Combine most of a regular size jar of Mayo / add Dijon mustard and some
honey to taste
1 fully cooked spiral cut ham chopped into bite size chunks
3
Red Delicious apples chopped into small pieces / bathe the apples in the mayo
combo to prevent browning
¼
cup chopped pecans / bathe chunks in the mayo mix to prevent turning brown
2
- 3 stalks celery chopped small
Shredded
cheese of choice – medium size bag (I prefer sharp cheddar for this)
Combine
everything in large bowl, removing the apples from the mayo mix by hand, then
add mayo mix to desired consistency for your spread.
Chicken
Salad
Shred
1 whole cooked chicken (boiled or baked, your choice) (If you want a twist on it, rub the chicken down with yellow curry powder and bake it. If you remove the skin you will need to add a little curry to the final mix.)
Add
fruit of 1 pomegranate (or one small container of the fruit)
Maybe
even add grapes if you like
Instead
of Mayo mixture use bottled Kroger poppy seed dressing – might not take a full
bottle
Chop
apple and keep in poppy seed mix to prevent turning brown
Combine
all ingredients in large bowl, removing the apples from poppy seed mix by hand,
then use poppy seed dressing as needed for desired consistency. (I have
flavored my poppy seed dressing with orange extract – 1 tbsp per bottle)
Roast
Tacos
One
large cheap roast.
Cook
in 225 degree oven for two hours sitting in beef broth – about 1” of liquid /
do not cover
Remove
from oven and chop into large chunks
Cook
on medium low heat on stove top in rest of the carton of beef broth, 3 – 4 tbsp
of Kitchen Bouquet and about 2 Tbsp of Worchester sauce / cover and let it
simmer 2 hours and stir every now and then. If your liquid looks like it is
cooking away, adds small amounts. You don’t want this to be runny.
Caramelize
onions in butter.
When
meat is done, shred it, put one full stick of real, unsalted butter in it to melt while shredding and add onions.
This
will load roughly 28 tacos loaded thin, or 15 loaded generously.
My
apologies for those cooking for 2 or 5. I can only cook for 20-30. King's Hawaiin Rolls are also good to use, but I try to make these an easy-to-hold one-hand meal. They are usually eating on the run between tables.
And Here is the Biggie Everyone Wants:
Micro
Gala Apple Confections
2 tubes crescent rolls
In a large bowl or the pot you are going to cook the
mixture in combine:
1 ½ tsp. cinnamon
1/8 cup water
¼ cup white sugar
¼ cup brown sugar (pack the cup) can be dark or light
Cut and add to the sugar mixture:
4 medium size Gala or Granny Smith apples / quarter
the apples, remove core and seeds, cut in small bite sized pieces, remove skin
or leave on as you prefer / as you cut the pieces roll them around in the
cinnamon sugar mixture in the bowl to prevent them from turning brown
Then Add:
½ stick unsalted real butter
Cook on medium heat until apples are soft
Next Add:
½ cup chopped pecans
1 Tbsp dark Karo syrup
1 Tbsp flour
Mix well and turn off heat
Add 2 oz. cream cheese and stir until it totally blends
in
Let mixture cool before you put on pastry dough
Put a good tablespoon or more in a crescent roll and
roll up
I dress the last rolled tip with Craisens or a whole
pecan
Dust raw pastry with more cinnamon and sugar
Bake as recommended on crescent tube
