Sunday Suppers - Weekly Planning

Sunday Suppers - Baking

Chicken Strips

Chicken Thighs

Tilapia Fillets

String Beans

Roasted Potatoes & Butternut Squash

This meal needs no introduction. Let's pre-heat dat oven and get cookin' hot stuff. 

Ingredients

Onions

String Beans

Potatoes

Butternut Squash

Garlic

Peppers

Seasonings

Roasting dishes

Baking sheets

Olive oil

All your meats: Chicken tenderloins, chicken thighs, tilapia fillets

Directions:

1.  First season your meats. 

I like to season my meats before freezing or storing them in the fridge. This gives my meats marinated flavor and texture. Get creative, go crazy to this. Not to mention, it saves time when you're ready to cook. 

2. Spread your foil, or since I ran out, use parchment paper. End result still has great flavor and texture. 

3. Divide your meats evenly however you choose. Try to keep them separate if possible, so as not to blend all those distinct flavors into one. 

4. Once all the meats are in place, WASH YOUR HANDS. Then, proceed to slice, dice, and chop your veggies.

5. Season generously with season blends of your choice, and moisten with olive oil. Olive oil is your roasting, baking, basting, bbf (best buds forever)! Trust me. 

(Remember season salts, season alls, and various pre-packages seasoned blends hide quite a bit of salt, sodium and preservatives. Try to create your own spice blends whenever possible. However,there is nothing wrong with sparingly keeping and using your go-to's and time savers.  Everything in moderation. 

6. Evenly distribute your vegetables.

(This time, I let the string beans hang out with the bbq chicken thighs. On another baking sheet, I let the potatoes and butternut squash get to know each other.) 

7. Tuck everyone into the warm oven. Cooking times will vary.  (For me the chicken strips and tilapia finished first. The root vegetables were pulled out last. )

8. You're all set. Dinner for tonight and meals for the week. 

Pre-seasoned meats. Marinate in your own creativity

Snug as a bug in a rug

Meals for the week

(Pictured but not in the recipe, steak, red beans and brown rice....coming soon)

Homemade Triple Crunch Chicken Nuggets

Homemade Triple Crunch Chicken Nuggets

(Serves 4 or more)

My homemade chicken nuggets are super crunchy and delicious.  Baked or fried you can gladly say bye bye to fast food or frozen nuggets. Introduce to your family to the new nuggets on the block. 

Ingredients: 

Mixing bowls 

Cutting board

Aluminum foil

Skillet and vegetable oil for frying

or

Baking sheet and olive oil for baking

Clean sandwich or plastic bag

2 Pre-seasoned or marinated chicken breasts

Whole wheat crackers

Plain Panko Bread Crumbs

Kraft Grafted Parmesean Cheese 

(The one in the green bottle used most often for pizza or spaghetti)

Flour

2-4 Large Brown Eggs

Directions: 

1.Prepare the weapons!

(Set up your dredging station, put foil on baking sheet or add oil to skillet)

2. Steam it up, little darling (Bob Marley)

(Preheat oven for baking or warm oil for frying)

3. Slice and Dice

(Cut chicken breasts into cubes - sizes will vary...be not alarmed)

4. If you're using pre-seasoned or marinated meats - go you

If not, sprinkle sprinkle on your favorite blend of seasonings

5. Get crackin

(Crack and whisk all eggs)

6. Just beat it (Lil M.J)

(Place whole wheat crackers in a plastic bag and beat them to crumbs)

7. Roll up those sleeves, it's dredge time

In one bowl, put your flour. In the bowl "next to it" (Lupe Fiasco), add Panko bread crumbs, whole wheat cracker crumbs and the grated Parmesean. Use your hands to blend. Fun right!

9. Now, let's get messy 

Take a few pieces of chicken and coat in the flour, then the egg wash, then the bread crumb-cracker-panko mixture

10. Run dat back

(Repeat)

11. Now real gentle and easy like Sunday morning, lay them down

(Place evenly over baking sheet, leaving enough room to avoid overcrowding.)

or 

11. Drop it low girl, drop it, drop it low (Ester Dean)

(Drop in oil to fry.  Small batches, to avoid overcrowding)

12.  Pancake 

(No not pancakes for real, just flip the chicken halfway through cooking. Like you would a pancake, get it? No!...dats cool. I'll be corny all by myself)

 13. Bakers, after about 30-35 minutes remove nuggets & sprinkle with Parmesan cheese 

(DO NOT question the cheese, please!)

14.  Just keep frying, just keep frying (Finding Nemo)

(If you're frying your nuggets, fry them in batches. Just a few of them, at a time)

15. As you collect them from "the FIYAAAA" (Chaka Khan)

(remove nuggets from oil and drain on paper towels)

16. Let it snowwww, let it snowwwwwww (This goes without saying!)

Sprinkle with Parmesean cheese, immediately

17. Bon Apetit

Dredging station, with meats I seasoned before freezing

Always use flax seed, chia seeds, natural herbs with your seasonings

My sous chef dredging up the hotness

Baked

Fried

Side piece

Plated homemade nuggets, green peas, and sassy sauteed carrots

I'm ready for my close up

Baked and just as crunchy yummy

Soundtrack:
Bob Marley - Stir it Up

Micheal Jackson - Beat it

Lupe Fiasco - Next to it
The Commodores Easy
Ester Dean - Drop it low ft Chris Brown
Just Keep Swimming - Dory
Chaka Khan - Through the fire
Frozen - Let it snow