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Chicken Pot Pie
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Chicken Pot Pie

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This recipe is extremely quick and simple. Bonus, it tastes amazing!

I found this recipe one day a while back when I was trying to find a quick simple supper idea. I came across this recipe and knew right away I had to make it. I love chicken pot pie but I usually don’t have pie crust around and hate how long it usually takes to make a full sized regular chicken pot pie. The thing I love most about this recipe is that you can do single servings and it stores very nicely in the fridge. Plus, it has biscuits and I love biscuits. One of my favorite cooking hacks is buying rotisserie chicken from the deli part of the grocery store and deboning it and freezing the meat for a different day. Another freezer hack I use all the time is always having chopped onions in the freezer. (I’ll do another blog post at a later time talking about all my freezer hacks)

Here’s what you need and how to make it.

Ingredients needed
  • Your favorite biscuits
  • 2 cups of shredded rotisserie chicken (or just shredded chicken breasts)
  • 1 1/2 cups chicken stock
  • 1 cup milk (whole is better but I didn’t have any so I used 2% and half & half)
  • 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons poultry seasoning
  • 1 chopped small onion (one of my hacks, I used my chopped frozen onions)
  • 1 bag of frozen mixed vegetables of your liking
  • 3 tablespoons of butter
  • 2 tablespoons of parsley

Directions to goodness

  1. Prepare your biscuits according to package.
  2. In a large mason jar, shake together chicken stock, milk, flour, and poultry seasoning. Add your butter and onions to a large (must be large) saucepan over medium heat and cook until soften, roughly 2 to 3 minutes. Slowly whisk in your milk and mixture and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and let simmer until thickened, roughly 6 to 8 minutes.
  3. Add in your chicken, frozen veggies, and parsley and cook until it is all heated through.
  4. Time to serve. Serve in a bowl with as much salt and pepper your heart desires and top it with a biscuit.

If you give this a try, let me know how you like it!

With love,

Victoria

Food

Snacks: Healthy Edition

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I don’t just eat 3 meals a day and call it good. I would be extremely miserable if I did! If you have been following me on Instagram for while, you knowI have at least 2 snack breaks throughout my day. I usually like to keep my snacks light and healthy. I love to have a serving of veggies, fruit, and either a protein or carb. Some of the things I always try to keep on hand would be cucumbers, carrots, peppers, grapes, blueberries, strawberries. My new favorite form of carb has been either sweet potato chips or rice cake crisps! I just follow the serving size and they are both amazing!! For a protein I will try to have some sort of lunch meat or sometimes beef sticks! I really try to not complicate my snacks because it’s hard enough trying to plan out meals and what to make.

It does not need to get complicated. Just starting with one fruit, one vegetable, one protein, and one carb prepped and easy to grab and go will help with your planning all together! When I get home from the grocery store, the first thing I do, before I even put anything in the fridge, is sort out my fruits and veggies into proper serving sizes into ziplock baggies. Then they get put into my crispers and are ready for a quick grab and go! Of course hydrate, hydrate, hydrate! Drink that water!!

Make it short, make it sweet! Let me know if this was helpful!

With love,

Victoria

Food

My favorite go-to breakfasts

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Overnight oats!
Breakfast quesadillas!

I have a couple of my absolute favorite go-to breakfast meals. My absolute favorites are breakfast quesadillas and overnight oats.

I found a recipe for breakfast quesadillas when I was in college and started making them during my time there. They are a super easy quick simple breakfast that you can make your own anyway you want. Even putting them together and getting them prepped for the freezer is simple, a little time consuming, but still simple and easy!

  • Brown up one pound of breakfast or Italian sausage
  • Crack your eggs into a bowl and whisk, add how many ever eggs you want!
  • Once your meat is browned, drain it and get your eggs cooking
  • Once eggs have made a good start in cooking, add your meat back in
  • Cook eggs all the way through and set aside
  • I like to have bacon with these so I usually do two pounds of bacon (LEFTOVERS!!)
  • Get your tortillas ready to stuff
  • Start your assembly line of egg mixture, bacon, and cheese
  • Close them up and fry ’em until browned
  • Wrap in tinfoil and freeze
  • Reheating- unwrap tinfoil and wrap in a paper towel, microwave for 2 minutes- ENJOY!

My second favorite is overnight oats. I love how you can make them your own and make different variations each day if you wanted to! My favorites include pumpkin pie, blueberry, and apple cinnamon. The options are endless! I have now gotten into adding a scoop of cheesecake jello and WOW does that add to it! My other favorite ingredient to add is chia seeds. One thing I have been trying to focus more on lately is gut health, and what foods are awesome for your gut. (I’m sure that will be a whole blog post in itself one day) After some googling, chia seeds are actually a very good probiotic, packs a lot of fiber, and tons of other great health benefits! Flax seeds are also another favorite that have great health benefits. I also like to add in some nuts, my all time favorite nut are my Missourian raised pecans. (shoutout to my Missouri family!) Pecans are actually counted as a healthy fat, plus they’re super delicious!

  • Get your jar or container ready
  • Add your oats and what other dry ingredients you want to add (nuts, seeds, powders)
  • Add some milk and stir
  • Add in fruit
  • Refrigerate overnight and enjoy in the morning!

If you try either of these quick breakfasts, let me know how it goes!

With love,

Victoria