Ultimate Chicken Fingers

2/3 cup Original Bisquick® mix

1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese

1/2 teaspoon salt or Garlic salt

1/2 teaspoon paprika

3 boneless skinless chicken breast halves, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch strips (I used skinless, boneless chicken thighs)

1 egg, slightly beaten

3 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted

 

Heat oven to 450ºF. Line cookie sheet with foil; spray with cooking spray.

1. Mix Bisquick mix, cheese, salt and paprika in 1-gallon resealable plastic food-storage bag. Dip half the chicken strips into egg; place in bag of Bisquick mixture. Seal bag; shake to coat. Place chicken on cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining chicken. Drizzle butter over chicken.
2. Bake 12 to 14 minutes, turning after 6 minutes with pancake turner, until no longer pink in center.

Makes 4 servings

No Meat Nachos

 

No Meat Nachos

Tortilla corn chips
1 can sliced olives
1 can kidney beans
1 can sliced jalapenos
Cheddar Cheese, shredded
salsa (optional)

Layer your chips with olives, kidney beans, jalapenos and cheddar over everything.

Pop in the microwave for around a minute

Garnish with salsa.

Veggie Recipe: Pasta Salad

One of my friends requested a vegetarian recipe. This is one of my favorites. As a non-vegetarian, I use pepperoni in mine. I love this stuff! Got the recipe from another friend, and it’s always a crowd pleaser!

Pasta Salad

1 box colored rotini pasta
1 green pepper
1 red onion
1 tomato
1 can black olives
Mozzarella Cheese, shredded (optional)
Pepperoni (optional)
Italian or Ranch dressing

1. Cook pasta, drain, and place in mixing bowl to cool.
2. Dice peppers, tomato and onions.
3. Slice olives.
4. If using, cut pepperoni slices in half
5. Mix veggies (and pepperoni) in with pasta.
6. Serve with cheese and dressing on side so it does not get soggy in salad.

Recipe Posts

I love to cook, so I decided to post a recipe a day (or week) or whenever I get to it…lol Here is today’s recipe:

Light Chicken Cordon Bleu

• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 4 slices nonfat Swiss cheese
• 4 slices smoked turkey ham
• 1/2 cup bread crumbs
• 1 egg white
• 1/4 milk
• Salt
• pepper
• onion powder
• garlic powder
• Chicken broth in a spray bottle

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Pound the chicken breasts until they are tender and flattened. Place a slice of a cheese and one slice of a ham on one side of each pounded breast.

Fold the other side over, press the edges together to seal and coat the chicken in bread crumbs.

In a small bowl, mix the milk, egg white and seasonings to taste.

Dip the breaded chicken in the egg white mixture and dip again in the bread crumbs.

Place the chicken on foil-covered cookie sheet and spray with broth.

Bake for about 20 minutes.

Clarification on Dr. King Quote

http://studentactivism.net/2011/05/03/mlk-obl-quote/

Poster Board Presentation

Below is my finished poster presentation for my student teaching. Yay, I’m done!

Bin Laden

I was at a loss for words last night upon hearing the news. Then today, I expressed to my niece how I felt, and when I came home tonight, a friend had the following quote on her FB. THIS is the loss for words I was having last night:

“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness:only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate:only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Student Compliment

I received this for Valentine’s Day from one of my students. It’s so nice to know I am not lame.

The Windmill

One of the assignments I gave my class was to bring in an object that somehow symbolized their culture, heritage, ancestry, family tradition, something that shaped them growing up, etc. I always like to do the creative work along with the students, so I brought in my grandmother’s windmill music box, and the following poem resulted.

The Windmill

By Heidi M. Bauer

Blocked out the pain
the music

Blocked out the smoke
the music

Blocked out the criticism
the music

Blocked out the servitude
the music

Blocked out his voice
the music

As the spinning blades
cut through the terror

Grandma kept all the boxes
lined up in a row

Dusted and polished
and on display

Not like the secrets
that lurked underneath the notes

Filled with cobwebs
a cobweb of lies

Blocked out the nightmare
the music survives

Let me clean off this dust…

Hi everyone. It’s been quite awhile since I used this blog, but I am going to try and update it more regularly. I have new poems to add as well. I haven’t been writing as much as I should, but I do have some.