The Best Chicken Chopped Cheese
When you are craving a cheesesteak but only have chicken, make this recipe. This sandwich is like a cross between a chicken cheesesteak & a …
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When you are craving a cheesesteak but only have chicken, make this recipe. This sandwich is like a cross between a chicken cheesesteak & a …
The key to really good biscuits is keeping the ingredients cold. The butter, flour, and buttermilk should all be cold. Like really cold. I put the butter in the freezer an hour before making the biscuit dough. The butter shouldn’t be frozen but it should be very cold. After, measuring out the flour I use my cheese grater to grate the butter to make it easier to incorporate into the flour. I used a fork to mix the butter into the flour mixture.
I made this dish with a creamy, garlic- tomato sauce, using high quality grits by a Black Owned Brand called Southern Queen, wild caught shrimp with the tails on, and fresh grated Parmigiano Reggiano. This dish was so good and proved once again that high quality ingredients and time always yields the best food!
Might call this “using what we got to make what we want” series because these nachos are just that. Between gas prices and food prices, we are using leftovers any way we can to make sure we aren’t wasting food. You can make these using any protein and toppings of your choice. Make the cheese sauce and fresh chips and you have an amazing snack or meal in under 30 minutes!
Before I had jerk chicken, bbq chicken was my favorite. Then I had jerk chicken and it replaced bbq chicken.
Apparently, pasta salad gets a bad wrap. It’s not quite a salad and not quite a pasta dish but when made correctly it is the …