The Best of Momma Chef

Protein Pancake

2012-02-12T09:26:00.001-06:00

Yum!

http://fitnessista.com/2010/05/the-perfect-protein-pancake/

I used wheat flour instead of baking mix and added almonds. :-)

Skip the banana and syrup in the final recipe and you have a high protein low sugar breakfast. I'd add berries to the top instead of a banana if you are diabetic or watching sugars.

Mexican Corn Dip

2011-10-09T13:03:00.001-05:00

Well.... Hello. Long time, no new recipes. It is fall again and time to start cooking. :) Enjoy this gem:

Eat this deliciousness with tortilla chips.

3 cans whole corn, drained
1 cup sour cream
3/4 mayonnaise
1 ts cumin
1/2 ts black pepper
1 can rotel, drained
2-3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 cup chopped green onions
1/3 cup green chiles
A bag or two of your favorite tortilla chips

Mix all ingredients together, cover and chill.

Warning: Do not bring this dip to dinner parties unless you want a thousand people asking for the recipe!!!

Artisan Bread

2011-02-12T13:32:00.000-06:00

Have any of you ever heard of Artisan Bread in 5 minutes A Day???

I won one of there new cook books... Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes A Day.

I got the book and made the Whole Wheat Brown Rice Artisan Bread. Can I just tell you that it is amazing?? And amazingly easy!!!! The chewiest yummiest artisan bread I have ever made.

You have to go get the book! It ROCKS!

I want to create some of my own recipes based off of it. So stay tuned!!!

First Sewing Tutorial EVER!!!

2011-02-01T11:07:00.000-06:00

Hi Ya'll. Been a while since I posted.

Sorry for the lack of love lately.

THIS should make up for it:

It's a receipt clutch...

No more messy purse full of wadded up receipts. Organize them now... before you are kick yourself next year during tax time...

---as I now am....{sigh}

This is my first sewing tutorial... and I saved it especially for

Happy Homemaker and Momma.

Go to her blog and get to sewing!!!

Much Love,

:) Sheena

PS. Thank you Kelly-Jo for hosting my tutorial! Love ya girl!

Low Carb: Chicken Bake

2011-01-24T21:10:00.000-06:00

For the my peeps who are low-carbing it, here is one for you!

Low Carb Italian Chicken Bake

3-4 chicken breast
2 tbsp oil (I used coconut oil)
1 can Italian diced tomatoes
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
1 ts garlic powder
1/4 cup chopped onions
1/2 cup mozzarella cheese

Preheat over to 425.

Brown chicken breast in oil with onions.

Place chicken and onions and oil/juices into baking dish.

Mix tomatoes, garlic and vinegar. Spoon on to chicken.

Sprinkle with Parmesan and mozzarella cheese.

Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes.

Remove foil and let bake for 10 more minutes or until cheese is slightly brown and chicken is thoroughly cooked.

We served it with some steamed broccoli. This is a great low carb alternative to the breaded chicken parmesan. It is really easy and satisfies the craving for Italian that often get neglected when going low carb.

Now if only I could get my baby to eat this!!! But that's a story for another day.... Soon.

- Sheena

Time to Eat Healthier

2011-01-20T19:10:00.001-06:00

Whoa!

I didn't realize I had gotten so fat! Those 5 lbs I gained over the holidays are really showing.

Bye bye cookies and cake.... For now!

- Sheena

Refreshing!!!

2011-01-20T17:31:00.000-06:00

The diet I am on is very restrictive. I needed something refreshing and this slush fit the bill perfectly! Here you go all you New Year's weight losers!

Raspberry Lemon Slush

1/4 cup lemon juice
10 ice cubes
8 frozen raspberries (or any berry)
3/4 cup cold water
3 packets of Truvia (stevia no cal sweetener)

Blend and enjoy! I sure love my Magic Bullet. 10 seconds away from pure bliss.

Too bad I can't top this with some whipped cream! Well soon enough. In a little while I get to transition to low carb and no so many restrictions!!!

- Sheena

Tick Tock

2011-01-17T17:05:00.000-06:00

Lookie what I made with my Silhouette and some vinyl!

(my mother in law posing... It's HER new clock! Above her stairs)

Some other recent vinyl decor projects:

In the laundry room!

Rub a Dub Dub in the bathroom complete with some random bubbles.

Did I ever tell you how much a love my Silhouette!?

Best purchase EVER!!! :)

Wedding Headbands

2011-01-15T20:34:00.000-06:00

Headbands for the kiddos in the wedding are done. I love them. I think I need to make me one!!!

Check me out... Me in my scrubs rockin' the headband! (Don't judge!)

I think I am in love with making fabric rosettes! So easy and so pretty! Why in the world did I wait so long before I made these?

- Sheena

Invitation Station

2011-01-15T14:23:00.000-06:00

My craft room has turned into the invitation station!

My sis in law is getting remarried next month. She lost her first husband a year and a half ago to a terminal illness. I am so happy she has found love again!!! Companionship is a huge part of life and I am glad that she now has someone to spent the rest of this life with! Congrats to Mary and Nick!!!

We are scrambling to get invitations made and in the mail, along with all the other wedding planning things.

I PicNik-ed some cute photos together and we printed the at Sam's Club. If you haven't used picnik.com you are missing out!!!

Invitation printed on vellum and tied with a bow! Her colors are purple and orange.

And check out these cute headband in the making:

My very first fabric rosettes! They will match the girls' dresses perfectly!

PS. Momma Chef is on a diet. Must lose the holiday bloat to fit into a cute outfit for the wedding... So I can't promise I will be baking up any fun recipes... Too temping to eat!!! Carbs are my Achilles' heel.

Cooking up LOVE!

2011-01-13T14:12:00.003-06:00

I have been seeing all these cute Valentine's Day crafts all over the bloggy world lately and figured it was about time to make a few to decorate my house!

Thank goodness for my Silhouette. It makes crafty 100x's easier!

Looky!!!

My mom got me this cute display board from Creative Memories a couple years ago. It has been greatly "under-used". I vow to change it atleast for each season/holiday this year. The coolest part about it, you make a scrapbook page and stick it on with the little magnets, when it is ready to change it you save the page and put it in your scrapbook!!! I love that!

I love this picture! She is such a daddy's girl and my husband loves it. I don't think he would know what to do if we had boys!

Using my Silhouette, I used the following shapes and font:

3d poppy

heart 1028

font: AR DARLING

And THIS little beauty!!! It is an upcycled pickle jar!!! A while back I won a bloggy giveaway and got some Krylon Looking Glass Paint from Take the Side Street (which is a fabulous blog so go check it out). I just got my paint and made me a faux mercury glass hurricane. I love it. Go check out Anna's blog for a sweet tutorial on how to do it.

PS. It is a stinky job, but there is always a little stink or pain with beauty, right?

Linked up at:
Fireflies and Jellybeans
The Shabby Chic Cottage
MommasKindaCrafty
Saturday Mornings

8:48pm

2011-01-12T20:55:00.000-06:00

It's 8:48pm.

I am laying in bed watching Olivia with my almost 4 year old.

She just offered to go get me a snack and a drink...

She thinks being a sweetie will let her stay up past her bed time. And obviously it is working.

She is currently in the bathroom filling a mug with water for my drink. Bathroom water. Yum.

Wonder what I am getting for a snack?

She loves me. It's sure nice when she shows it every now and again. I could get really used to being catered to!

Breakfast of Champions!

2011-01-12T09:57:00.000-06:00

Getting my kids and hubby to eat their fruits and veggies can be a daunting task. But not with this!!!

My in-laws gave us the Magic Bullet for Christmas. One thing pops in my head when I see it... SMOOTHIES!!!

Here is my Power Smoothie Recipe:

3/4 cup Light N Fit Vanilla yogurt
1 tbsp flaxseed meal
1/4 cup blueberries, frozen
1/4 cup strawberries, frozen
4-5 baby carrots
Splash of milk

Blend in the magic bullet and VOILÀ!

Breakfast in bed!!!

Daddy Chef: Chimichanga Breakfast Burritos

2011-01-10T11:16:00.001-06:00

Look what my sweet hubby just made me.

A new creation: Breakfast Chimichangas! Complete with some of his Taco Bell sauce stash.

Who wants Daddy Chef to post a recipe tutorial???

Time to Rally!!!!

2011-01-09T15:41:00.000-06:00

Come on Momma Chef Followers!!!!

GO to SATURDAY MORNINGS and vote for it to be Top Blog 2010!!!

Also be sure to leave a comment on the post to enter to win one of the many prizes Dana is offering!!!

Prizes:

Hobby Lobby Gift Card

Joann Fabric Gift Card

Cash

and much more.... go see for yourself!!!

Whole Wheat Crescent Rolls

2011-01-08T08:44:00.000-06:00

Ok, I made these yesterday with some spilt pea soup and ham... The hubby already asked if we can have them again on Sunday (tomorrow)!

Whole Wheat Crescent Rolls

1/2 cup milk, warm
2 eggs
1/4 cup butter, softened
3 cups whole white wheat flour
3 tbsp gluten
3 tbsp sugar
3/4 ts salt
1 1/4 ts yeast
2 tbsp melted butter, set aside.

Mix first 8 ingredients.

Let rise for 90 minutes.

Roll into large rectangle, about 1/3 inch thick.

Using a pizza cutter, cut into triangles. Like cutting 'W's into the dough. They should be long and fairly skinny. I got 9 out of my batch.

Brush melted butter on the triangles.

Starting with the fat side of the triangle roll up into a crescent roll.

Place on greased stone or cookie sheet and let rise for 30-40 minutes.

Bake for 8-10 minutes at 375!

I like to brush a little extra butter on after they bake! Yum!

- Sheena

Whole Wheat Sour Dough Pancakes

2011-01-06T10:29:00.000-06:00

We got to wake up and make these bad boys this morning:

First thing you need to do is go HERE and get your sour dough starter going. That way you can make all the yummy sour dough recipes you want!

Sour Dough Pancakes

1 cup starter
1 cup milk
1 cup whole wheat flour

Mix these ingredients together the night before and let them sit covered on the counter until morning.

In the morning add:

1 egg
2 ts oil
1 ts baking soda
1 ts baking powder
1/2 ts salt
1 tbsp sugar

Mix all together. If you need to add a little more flour to get a good pancake consistency, do it.

Cook batter like you would normal pancakes!!

Slap on the butter, syrup or whatever floats your boat.

Grandma Wolford's Chicken and Rice

2011-01-06T08:50:00.001-06:00

One of my fabulous friends made this dish last night. I was amazed that how easy it was. Plus it is a one pot meal with ingredients that most people have on hand!

Grandma Wolford's Chicken and Rice

1 stick of butter
1 small onion, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 to 1 1/2 lbs of chicken (breasts and thighs)
Salt to taste
1 1/2 cup rice
3 to 4 cups water
Flour for dredging

In a large oven safe pan, melt the butter.

Flour the chicken and brown well in the butter.

Leave chicken in the pan and add rice, celery, onion, salt and water.

Cover with lid or foil and bake at 300 for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Or bake at 200 for 3 hours.

Perfect meal to put in the oven before church and come home to a hot meal all ready to go!

Source: Bair Family!

- Sheena

Wow WoW Giveaway!!!

2011-01-05T21:58:00.000-06:00

Please support my fabulous friend Dana in earning Top Blog and check out her wow WOW WOWser of a GIVEAWAY over at Saturday Mornings .

PS. I am more excited to win the $75 Hobby Lobby gift card than my daughter was when she woke up Christmas morning and saw that Santa brought her a unicorn pillow pet!!!

Now go to Saturday Mornings !!!

Top Blog: Saturday Mornings

2011-01-04T22:22:00.001-06:00

Hi everyone,

Head HERE and help my wonderful bloggy hero Dana win Top Blog!

Dana has the awesome blog Saturday Mornings . It's pretty sweet and definitely worthy of the Top Blog Award!!! So go check it out and vote for her.

She's so cool that even my sweet baby girl was wowed by her blog... See here's proof!

Plus Dana's is doing a sweet riddle giveaway!!! Check it out. I got the answer right!!! But I'm not tellin'!!!

- Sheena

Whole Wheat Sour Dough Bread

2011-01-03T21:14:00.000-06:00

First make a sour dough starter... Whole wheat of course! Yes, making sour dough starter takes time, but you will not be sorry!!! It is worth it!

With the starter you can make yummy bread and yummy sour dough pancakes!!!

Starter:

2 1/2 ts yeast
2 c warm water
2 c whole white wheat flour

Mix all ingredients. Place in glass bowl or plastic bowl. Loosely cover with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 24 hrs. Then stir using a non-metal utensil, like a wooden spoon. Stir daily. Let sit at room temp for approximately 3-4 days. Then use!!!

Whole Wheat Sour Dough Bread

1 1/4 cup starter
3/4 cup warm water
1 3/4 ts salt
3 1/2 cup whole white wheat flour
3 tbsp sugar
1 3/4 ts yeast
4 tbsp vital wheat gluten

Mix all ingredients until it forms a dough.

Cover and let rise for 2 hours.

Punch down and rise for 1 1/2 hours.

Punch down and form into a round loaf let rise for 1 hour.

Preheat over to 460 degrees with a bread pan full of water on the bottom rack to create steam. I use a pizza stone to bake round breads. Place stone in to over to get hot.

Move loaf to hot stone that is sprinkled with corn meal.

Let rise 30 minutes.

Bake at 460 for 20-25 minutes.

- Sheena

Road to Artisan Perfection

2011-01-02T15:12:00.000-06:00

I got a neat artisan bread recipe from my brother-in-law. It calls for making a "Poolish" which is simply an early form of sour dough. I turned the recipe to whole wheat.

It turned out really good with a the perfect chewy crust. It only calls for 3 ingredients! Flour, water and yeast. However, I would like to play some more and do it again adding a little salt and some honey.

Perfected recipe will be up soon!

In the meantime, I made Melba toast out of this loaf! Melba toast for my diet.... Time to pay the price for my holiday over eating. But it was worth it!!!

To make Melba toast:

Slice bread into thin slices.

Place on cookie sheet and bake at 300 for 45minutes to 1 hour. Flipping slices half way.

Should come out like crispy cracker bread for dips or to eat with salad (which is what I am doing).

Here's the Poolish. It is flour, water and yeast. Mixed up in the evening, then you cover it and let it sit out for 12-16 hours to 'brew'!

Stay tuned for the recipe!!

Cooking up A Quilt!

2010-12-26T21:00:00.000-06:00

We have been crazy busy as have you all!

Here's what I have been cooking up:

This quilt top I made in 3 days. It was a Christmas present for my sister in law and nephew. It is made from my brother in laws shirts. He passed away last year from an illness called primary pulmonary hypertension. He left behind my sis in law and their son, who just turned 3. This quilt is very special because it is made from Derek's clothing and will be something tangible for his son to snuggle in.

I am looking for someone to quilt it for me. IDEAS??? Then I will put the binding on... Yellow!

Derek, I miss you. We all miss you. We are taking care of Mary and Jensen this holiday season, giving them the extra love and comfort I know you would want for them.

Biological Warfare!

2010-12-18T09:40:00.001-06:00

Being the lover of baking and food in general, the stomach flu is about the most catastrophic, universally HORRIBLE event that could occur.

Did I mention that I have had it 3 times this past month? Thank you to my children for passing this wonderful experience on to me.

On the brighter side of things.... I haven't gained any weight this holiday season.

This is how I feel: ~~only there need to be some coming out the back too... sorry... too much info.~~

For those of you who didn't know. I didn't go to Culinary School. Unless cooking up bacterial and viral concoctions in included. I have a B.S in Organismal Biology. I love math and science just as much as I love cooking.

Dear Notoviruses:

Please go away. Do NOT come back. I will be killing your.... butts (to put it nicely) with Lysol and I will be having no sympathy. I will the biggest momma bug killin' bad ma ma jama that you have ever seen. Be prepared to be disinfected!!!

Yours truly,

Sheena AKA Momma Chef

PS. If I had an autoclave, I would sterile your butts to kingdom kong.

Tiajuana Trash

2010-12-16T09:47:00.001-06:00

I love the name of this goodie mix!!! It is so fitting! A little sweet, a little spicy and some tortilla chips!

Perfecto!

This recipe comes from the MOPS cookbook from Central Christian MOPS in Wichita, KS.

Tiajuana Trash

2 sticks of butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup light corn syrup

1 ts cinnamon

1 ts cayenne pepper

4 cups Crispix cereal

2 bags microwave popcorn, popped

1 bag bite sized tortilla chips

1 large can mixed nuts.

Bring first 5 ingredients to a boil in a sauce pan.

In the meantime, mix together remaining dry ingredients in extra large bowl. I had to use 2 bowls as it is a LOT of stuff.

Pour wet mix over the dry mix and stir to coat well.

Spread out on 2 greased cookie sheets and bake at 250 for 1 hour.

Store in ziplocks or air tight containers!

NOTE TO SELF: don't just dump the bags of popcorn in. Do it by hand so you don't get all the unpopped kernels in your trash! Or you may break a tooth as you are pigging out on your trash. Oops!