From my kitcken to yours..

I a made these last night, and I love them:) I got this recipe off of the Rachel Ray show months back and have been eating them ever since! and with spring time around the corner, and summer getting closer burgers will become more a staple in our house!

So lets call them Franks hot sauce chicken burgers;)

So sautee up some carrots, celery and onion in some olive oil and butter. Make sure they are really small pieces.

Once they are nice and soft, but not carmelized, transfer them to a bowl with the ground chicken. Add your seasoning of choice. I threw in some montreal spice, and some salt and pepper. Mix it up and make into nice size patties. Fry them up in a frying pan for a few minutes on each side. once they are brown on both sides remove them from the pan and add some more butter about a tbsp, and some franks hot sauce to the pan. Let it simmer for a minute and than add the burgers back to the pan, flipping them once until they are fully cooked through! If you love franks you will love these! If you don't love franks I think you could totally due this with a bbq sauce or whatever other sauce you love on your chicken burgers..terriyaki maybe??

add whatever you want on your bun and you are good to go!

One trick that i have been doing lately to one, tighten the budget, two eat less meat and three make more food..is to add a lot more veggies to things. So I used a lot of veggies in this mix and ended up getting a good 7 burgers out of it. Also with stirfrying, we have been trying to eat more organic meat and its expensive! so usually, for a stirfry I would get a pound of steak..or about two small striplion steaks, and it would cost about $7ish bucks. Where as now It still costs about $7, but I get probably, 2/3 the amount of meat. so I replace that other 1/3 with tons more veggies. Still filling for my hard working man, healthier and as cheap as possible with the new eating route we are trying to pursue!

Anyways, I have a few more recipes that I will be back to share, as I try and do one new one a week, and I have discovered a few goodies recently!

Happy monday..I am off to work!

Yummy Banana Crumb Muffins

So this is Friday's post but I am writting it tonight as my peanut is sound asleep...ahh:) Sweet sleeping baby*grin*

Anyways, I made these this afternoon..I think I set a record for taking the longest to make these suckers in between holding a baby and breastfeeding:) but I got them done!! Thanks to my mom helping out with the babe;)

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups of Flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 tsp of baking powder
1/2tsp of salt
3 bananas mashed
3/4 cups of white sugar
1egg slightly beaten
1/3 cup of butter melted
1/3 cup of brown sugar
2tbsp of all purpose flour
1/8tsp of cinnamon
1 tbsp of butter


Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

1. in a large bowl mix together 1 1/2 cups of flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl beat together bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter. Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture just until moistened. spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.

2. In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, 2tbsp flour and cinnamon. Cut in 1tsbp of butter until mixture resemebles coarse cornmeal. Sprinkle topping over muffins.

3. Bake in preheated oven for 18-20min, until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean!

So easy and so yummy. Also, FYI for anyone who is trying to watch their wheat...not weight..I used Spelt flour and they tast delicious! You can get it any health food store and is a great alternative for anyone who has a wheat sensitivity!