StillTasty: Your Ultimate Shelf Life Guide - Save Money, Eat Better, Help The Environment

StillTasty: Your Ultimate Shelf Life Guide - Save Money, Eat Better, Help The Environment

Here is a great site to help you get a better idea on the shelf life of items. Though I always recommend a thorough examination of anything questionable. (Smell, Texture, Visual Inspection, etc)

Never Fail Bread

This video & Recipe comes from www.indorecipe.com

5 - 6 cups bread flour

1 heaping tbsp active dry yeast + 1 scant tbsp active dry yeast

2 cups lukewarm water

1 tsp salt

4 heaping tbsps vegetable oil

8 tbsps sugar

Preparation:

Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water, let stand until foamy. Meanwhile in a separate bowl, mix sugar and bread flour well.

When water mixture already foamy, mix in salt and oil, mix well. Mix in flour one cup at a time.

Knead dough on a floured surface. Place in an oil greased bowl, turn dough to coat. Cover with damp towel, place in a warm place for an hour or until doubled in size. Punch down dough.

Divide in half. Knead each for a bit and shape to loaves, place in loaf pans, let rest for another half hour. Loaves will rise in size again.

Bake at 350 F for 30 minutes.

Notes:

you can also dissolve the sugar in the lukewarm water before dissolving the yeast, either way is fine. If you don't have bread flour, mix half wheat flour and half all purpose flour, this would work as well.

Pizza Hut Style Pizza Dough

Pizza Hut Style Pizza Dough.

1 1/3 cups water
2 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp cornmeal
3 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder
1 1/2 tsp yeast

Add ingredients to bread machine, according to manufacturer's settings, and run dough setting. After the machine beeps, roll out the dough. Recipe makes enough dough for two 9x13" or into two medium pizzas or a large pizza and an order of breadsticks. Bake the crust with a drizzle of olive oil on it at 450 degrees for ten minutes. Remove the crust and add sauce and toppings. If making breadsticks, add your breadsticks at this time. Place into the oven for another ten to fifteen minutes or until golden and bubbly. Enjoy

To make a slightly fluffier crust, after you roll out and place on the sheet you are going to bake it on, cover and let rise for 20-40 minutes.

Found this Recipe at: The Mother Load: Frugal Momma's Test Kitchen: Pizza Dough- Take Six - The MomAdvice.com Blog

Spicy Skillet Chicken Recipe from Betty Crocker

Ooh this one looks super good, can’t wait to try it.

Prep Time: 25 min
Total Time: 25 min
Makes: 4 servings

• 1 to 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 1 1/4 lb)
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 can (15 oz) Progresso® black beans, drained, rinsed
• 1 can (11 oz) Green Giant® Mexicorn® whole kernel corn with red and green peppers, undrained
• 1/3 cup Old El Paso® Thick 'n Chunky salsa
• 2 cups hot cooked rice

1. In small bowl, mix chili powder, salt and pepper; sprinkle evenly over both sides of chicken breasts.

2. In 10-inch nonstick skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add chicken; cook 8 to 10 minutes, turning once, until juice of chicken is clear when center of thickest part is cut (170°F).

3. Stir in beans, corn and salsa. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer 3 to 5 minutes or until vegetables are hot. Serve with rice.

1 Serving: Calories 510 (Calories from Fat 80); Total Fat 9g (Saturated Fat 2g, Trans Fat 0g);Cholesterol 85mg; Sodium 1070mg; Total Carbohydrate 63g (Dietary Fiber 11g, Sugars 5g); Protein43g Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 6%; Vitamin C 4%; Calcium 8%; Iron 25% Exchanges: 3 1/2Starch; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Vegetable; 4 1/2

Deboning A Whole Chicken.

I'll be the first to admit, I have no idea on how to cut up a whole chicken. While I could all ways call my cousin the Butcher, driving that far to get a chicken cut up isn’t exactly an option. So I stumbled across this helpful little video.

 

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