Oven-fried Chicken Chimichangas

Meat mixture:

3/4 cup salsa or picante sauce
1 tsp. cumin
1/2 tsp. oregano, crushed
1 1/2 cups cooked chicken
1 cup cheddar cheese
2 green onions, chopped (1/4 cup)


Serving day:
1/2 cup butter (or olive oil)
Tortillas

Mix all ingredients and freeze in ziploc bag.

On serving day: defrost meat mixture and tortillas. Melt butter. Place about 1/4 cup of chicken mixture in center of tortilla. Fold up and place seam down on baking sheet. Brush with melted butter or olive oil. Bake 400 degrees for 25 minutes (until golden).

Simple BBQ Ribs

2 1/2 lbs. country style ribs
1 T. garlic powder
1 tsp. black pepper
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 onion
1 cup barbeque sauce (or more)

Place ribs in a large pot with enough water to cover. Season with garlic powder, pepper, and soy sauce. Add quartered onion. Bring water to boil and simmer until ribs are tender (45 minutes to 1 hour). Cover and let soak in water for an hour or so. Put cooled ribs in ziploc bag with enough barbeque sauce to coat well. Freeze. (Works well with chicken too-just shorten the simmer time.)

To cook from frozen: defrost overnight in the fridge and grill (using additional BBQ sauce, if desired).

July Meals Kelly

Tangy Ranch Chicken
2/3 cup Ranch dressing
1/3 cup mustard
3 tbsp. brown sugar
8 chicken strips
Mix dressing, mustard and sugar, reserve. Heat 1 tbsp. oil in nonstick skillet. Saute chicken until browned, about 10 min. Stir in reserved sauce. Cook, stirring, 3 min until chicken is glazed. Serve with a pasta salad.
http://www.frenchs.com/recipe/tangy-ranch-grilled-chicken-RE1743.html

Kalua Pork Haystacks
3 lb pork roast
1 c brown sugar
1 c Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp powdered ginger
1 tsp salt
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp garlic powder
2 Tb dried minced onions

Cook all ingredients in a crock pot on low all day (abt 8 hours). One hour before serving, remove roast and shred it. Dump out all cooking juices and place shredded pork back into crockpot and add...
1 c brown sugar
1 c red enchilada sauce

Serving day:Thaw and heat through. You may want to add more liquid. Serve over favorite rice and dress like you would Hawaiian haystacks OR
You can also make it a little mexican by making this cilantro rice to go with it.
Cilantro Lime Rice
3 c water
3 c Minute rice
4 cubes chicken bouillon
4 tsp garlic, minced
1 Tb canola oil
2 Tb fresh lime juice
1/2 bunch of cilantro
1/2 onion
1 can green chilies

Blend cilantro, onion, and chilies in food processor. Bring water to boil and add all ingredients, simmer covered for 30 minutes or until rice is cooked. You can substitute regular rice, just adjust the water to rice ratio accordingly.