Mama's in the Kitchen Cooking and Baking

Easy Peasy Biscuits Gather your Ingredients 2¼ Cups Flour 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder 1 Teaspoon Salt 1 Tablespoon Sugar ⅓ cup Shortening or Butter 1 cup Milk 1 Tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice extra flour for the counter Let's get started Pre-heat oven to 400* Spray your cookie sheet with nonstick spray or line with parchment paper set aside Add the lemon juice to the milk mix and set aside, milk will look spoiled that's ok that's what you want you just made buttermilk. In a large bowl add flour, baking powder, salt and sugar mix well. Cut in shortening or butter with two forks it should look like coarse crumbs. Now slowly add half of the milk and mix, then add the remainder of the milk and mix until combined. Sprinkle flour to your countertop and drop your biscuit dough onto the floured surface and kneed about 15-20 times. Pat out flat or roll out with a rolling pin, cut out biscuits with a biscuit cutter or a drinking glass ...

CHICKEN RICE CASSEROLE Gather your Ingredients 8 pieces skinless chicken thighs boiled with skin then take skin off 2 cup Basmati rice 3 tbsp. oil 1 Onion medium diced small 1 cup thinly sliced carrots 4 cups chicken broth 1/2 tsp. poultry seasoning 1 tsp. knorr pollo 1 tsp.  onion powder 1 tsp.  lemon pepper 1 pk. chicken gravy Let's get started Preheat the oven to 4oo* In a large pan over medium-high heat add the oil, carrots, mushrooms, and the onion cook until the onion is translucent. In a large casserole / baking dish and the uncooked rice, all the dry ingredients, and the Chicken broth mix well, now add the cooked veggies mix well. Ok time to add the skinless chicken to the casserole/ baking dish submerge the peices into it and cover the casserole / baking dish with foil and bake for 45 minutes at 400*, pull out an...

Polvorones (Mexican Cinnamon Cookies) 2 cups flour 1/2 cup sugar 1 tsp. baking powder pinch of salt 1/2 cup lard (room temp) 1/2 cup butter (room Temp) 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract 1/2 tsp. almond extract Let's get started In a dry bowl add flour, salt, and baking powder, set aside. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper set aside. Get you standup mixer, to your mixer bowl add butter and lard cream until they are well combined, now add the sugar and extracts, mix well, will look a little broken that's fine. Now add flour mixture and mix for 2 minutes, pour dough mixture onto a dry counter, using your hands work and gather the dough to form a ball, cut in half and refrigerate for at least an hour. Only pull the dough you are going to use leave the rest in the refrigerator. Form small balls of dough (approx. no bigger than 1 inch wide–should be bite size so that you get a minimum of 40 out of the dough) and place them on a cookie sheet. Flour c...

Biscuits & Sausage Gravy Gather your ingredients 1 Pork Sausage Roll 1/4 c flour 1/8 c butter 2 1/2 c milk 1 tsp. salt  1 tsp. pepper biscuits fresh or store bought Let's get started Bake biscuits While the biscuits are baking in a medium pot on medium-high heat cook sausage and crumble with a spatula into small pieces. Once the sausage is cooked through, sprinkle the flour, salt, and black pepper until sausage has a nice coating.  Slowly add your milk, until you've reached your desired consistency.  If you prefer soupier, add more milk. If you like the sauce to be thicker, add less milk.  If you find you have added too much milk, add flour to thicken it up or make a slur by add a little bit of cornstarch and water mix well then add it to the sausage gravy.  Add more salt and pepper to taste if needed. Serve over warm biscuits. Enjoy A little taste of South Texas Comfort Food from yours truly ♡Mama in The Kitchen♡ ☆✿░S...

Calabaza Con Pollo ( Zucchini & Chicken)  Gather your Ingredients 2 lbs chicken breast or any favorite part of the chicken you like, boil & shred or cut in bite-size chunks 3 green zucchini, sliced 1 tomato, diced 1 onion sliced 2 tbsp. cooking oil 1 tbsp. knorr pollo 2 tsp. black pepper 1 tbsp. garlic powder 1 tbsp. cumin 2 c. frozen corn or one (15 ounces) can whole kernel corn 1(8 ounces) can tomato sauce Let's get started  In a pot add chicken and fill with water just enough to cover the chicken, boil until cooked through with no pink, set aside once cool enough to handle shred the chicken. Wash all the vegetables Cut the onion, zucchini into round slices and set aside, if the slices are to big cut slices in half. In a large pot add oil,  onion, zucchini saute until onion is translucent, add shredded or bite-size chicken and cook for about 5 more minutes. Now that the veggies are sauteed with the chicken add the rest of the ingredients, ...

Pizza Chicken Potpie  Gather your Ingredients 1/2 cooked chicken breasts shredded 1 can cream of chicken soup 30 oz. 1 small bag frozen mixed veggies 2 refrigerated pizza dough Let's get started Preheat your oven to 375* In a pot, combine the cooked chicken, frozen veggies, and 1 cup water, cook for about 2 to 3 minutes. Set aside once cooked. If needed slightly grease your muffin tin pan. First flour your counter then open the container of your pizza dough place pizza dough on it and spread it open, flour the pizza dough and roll out, once rolled out place on top of muffin pan and gently press in to make pockets. Evenly spoon the potpie mixture into each pocket, once all pockets are filled take your second rolled out pizza dough and cover the top of the chicken Potpie, gently lift the edges tuck underneath and pinch do this all around the edges. Now make an X in the center of each pocket you made. Place into the oven and bake for abo...

Gather your Ingredients 4 1/4 c. Flour 1/4 c. Malt powder 1/2 c. Powdered milk 2 tbsp. Baking powder 1 1/2 tsp. Salt 1/3 c. Sugar 1 tbsp. Baking soda Let's get started Mix all ingredients above then Put in an airtight container, When ready to use just add 1 cup mix and 3/4 cup water into a bowl, depending on how much batter you put on the griddle will determine how many pancakes you get. Use a griddle that is non-stick. Heat a lightly oiled griddle I put mine to the highest setting 400*, or frying pan over medium-high heat. Pour the batter onto the griddle, brown on one side of the pancake, on the top side you will start to see bubbles forming that means pancake is ready to flip over flip to the other side and let it brown, pull out and butter right away, lightly oil the pan again using a paper towel be careful you don't burn yourself, and repeat. Serve hot smother with more butter if you like lots of butter and syrup or any topping of y...