I Can Cook!

If you have never heard of Homemade Gourmet, it is a direct sales company that sells pantry staple food seasonings. I am sure it could be described better but that is how I see it. You buy from them a package of dry seasoning mix, and then you just add the meat, dairy or veggies that it needs to finish. They have lots of yummy desserts, side dishes, drinks (yes big kid drinks too...) breads and of course, entrees. I just completed one of their "4 Meals in 4 Minutes" packages and it was super easy! If you know me at all, you know I am far from a kitchen diva. I don't like to cook or clean. I really don't know why Rick keeps me around. I do cut the grass so I am not totally worthless. Anyway, the 4 meals in 4 minutes claims you can put together 4 meals in 4 minutes. So, I gave it a try...

Here are my ingredients. Nothing fancy, I didn't have to buy much at all. The 4 containers in the middle are the seasonings I bought from Homemade Gourmet.


For the record, note the time.



Here is the finished product. I decided to make them all chicken because that is the only meat Millie likes but I could have used the same menu and used steaks or pork chops. There are 3 pounds of chicken in each bag AND they are ready to put in the freezer!


Note the finish time. And I had already cleaned up and the kitchen was neat.



So, it took a little longer than 4 minutes BUT each of those will feed us for 2 meals so really, I made 8 meals in 16 minutes. You really can not beat that. The other great thing was I only dirtied 4 dishes, that is all. 1 knife for opening the chicken, 1 spoon rest, a measuring cup for the chicken broth and a spoon to get the cream of chicken soup out of the can. To finish cooking these meals, you can either grill the meat, bake it in the oven or plop it in the slow cooker.

If you are interested in trying any of this out, just let me know. I will be hosting a party at the end of the month or first of next month and you can order all you want.