Sweet and Sour Chicken

So I'm in love with Pinterest.  Its a great website that you can pin anything and everything you like to.   I have been looking for recipes to add to our menu.  We decided to try  Sweet and Sour Chicken.

*Note: if you like extra sauce, double the sauce ingredients – pour half over the chicken and follow the baking directions in the recipe and pour the other half in a small saucepan. Cook the sauce on the stove top at a simmer for 8-10 minutes until it reduces and thickens. Serve it on the side of the chicken.
*Serves 4-6
Chicken:
3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Salt and pepper
1 cup cornstarch
2 eggs, beaten*  I used 3
1/4 cup canola oil or vegetable oil
1 Gallon Ziploc bag.

Cut boneless chicken breasts into chunks. Season with salt and pepper. Dip chicken in cornstarch and then in egg. * I took all of it and shook it up in a gallon Ziploc bag.  Poured the contents in a large bowl then dipped them in the egg.

Fry in a little oil until brown but not cooked through.

 Place in a single layer in a baking dish. Mix sauce ingredients (below) together and pour over chicken.

Sauce
¾ cup sugar
4 tablespoons ketchup
½ cup vinegar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon garlic salt

Bake for one hour at 325 degrees. Turn chicken every 15 minutes so it is evenly coated with the sauce. Serve over rice.
This was so yummy!  

Yummy Potato Wedges !

So my friend brought these  potato wedges to church.  They were so yummy !  She was nice enough to tell me how. Now we have made them and I'll pass the recipe to you.

Ingredients:

2 Tbs Olive Oil

Salt

Season all

Potatoes

Large Zip Lock Bag

Non stick Spray

Preheat oven to  400 degrees

Slice your potatoes into wedges. We have allot because we are using them for lunch and dinner.

Then you pour "eye amount" probably 2 Tbsp of Salt and Season all for a big patch.

Place in the large bag with the potatoes.  Pour 2 Tbsp of Olive Oil over the potatoes.  Close the bag and shake  it all up.

Spray a baking sheet with non stick spray and pour the wedges on to it. In the oven they go for 20 minutes. Take them our flip and shake them. Then in the oven for another 20 mins.

* We add cheese or bacon and then put them back in the oven til all is melted together.

Enjoy!

Auntie Annes Pretzels

My children love and I mean LOVE pretzels.  Auntie Annes is the best, but we only have one located at the mall.  I dislike the mall so I decided to find the recipe.  We found a great one on the web

Auntie Annes Copy Recipe
Ready in: 30-60 minutes Difficulty: 4 (1=easiest :: hardest=5)
Serves/Makes: 12

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cup warm water
1 1/8 teaspoon active dry yeast
*2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/8 teaspoon salt1 cup bread flour
3 cups regular flour
2 cups warm water
2 tablespoons baking soda
to taste coarse salt
*4 tablespoons butter (melted

PREPARATION:

Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve. Add sugar, salt and stir to dissolve; add flour and knead dough until smooth and elastic. Let rise at least 1/2 hour.

While dough is rising, prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 Tbsp baking soda. Be certain to stir often. After dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and roll into a long rope* (about 1/2 inch or less thick) and shape. Dip pretzel in soda solution and place on greased baking sheet. Allow pretzels to rise again. Bake in 450 degrees F oven for about 10 minutes or until golden. Brush with melted butter and enjoy!

Toppings: after you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt. Or for Auntie Anne's famous Cinnamon Sugar, try melting a stick of butter in a shallow bowl (big enough to fit the entire pretzel) and in another shallow bowl make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Dip the pretzel into the butter, coating both sides generously. Then dip again into the cinnamon mixture. Enjoy!


* Now we tweaked the recipe a bit.  A view had put some suggestions and we took them. They turned out great .  We added 4 Tbs of brown sugar to the mix plus 3 Tbs of melted butter. Then you'll still need the 4 Tbs of butter to put over the pretzels once they are out of the oven.

Also try to roll them out probably a little bigger than a pencil. We thought we had rolled ours out small and they still puffed up big.  We will be using this recipe often.