Fast & Easy Meals When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking || Lazy Day Recipes On A Budget

hey besties how's it going welcome back we all have those days where we don't feel like cooking sometimes and you don't even have to be busy you just don't have the gumption to get up and cook dinner we've all been there we have been there and you look at the time and it's like oh my God it's dinner time it happens but I want to show you a couple of go-tos that I like to make for my family when what in the world ring light wanted me to have a little dance party sorry about that that made me lose my train of thought um anyways I'm going to show you some recipes that I make for my family when I just don't feel like cooking because when I'm in those moods I don't have any gumption to do it I don't want to be staying in over a hot stove for a long time I want something that I can get done quick and these that I'm going to show you you can still homem make your family some good meals it's not nothing Frozen that you just throw in the oven it's just really quick easy and they're super tasty I promise so without any further Ado let's get the show on the road Brook stop babbling babbling Brooks my name I swear but here we go turkey smoke smk sausage is my favorite so we're going to be using some of this going to be using a chicken breast not all of this of course just one chicken breast um 2 and 1/2 cups of reduced sodium chicken broth a cup of rice some Cajun seasoning some stewed tomatoes with onion celery and green peppers is this authentic jumbalaya probably not but it's good so let's make it okay I'm going to start dicing up my Meats I'm just going to cut the smok sauce and the coins okay I'm cutting up the chicken breast like right next to the smoked saucers because they are going into that pot together so GH I got to cut off all the I it is storming really bad and my lights keep flickering okay just tosing up my chicken breast I'm going to start with a couple tablespoons of oil I'm using olive oil I'm tossing in the smoked sausage and the chicken together I forgot to show you this earlier but you're going to need onion I'm using easy onion because the kids don't see it if I can get it that's good so if you don't have easy onion and your family likes onion just Dash you up an onion it'll be it'll be good just going to toss in a tiny pinch of salt tiny pinch of pepper I know you're like what bro you love pepper yeah but this calls for just a tiny pinch now we're going to cook this until the chicken is done and has a little bit of Browning on the outside that Browning is flavor I wish there was smell a vision because this smells so good and it's just the onion chicken and smoke saage it's starting to get a little crust on the chicken and on the smoked sausage very lightly golden brown okay you see that that's good those little crunchy bit at the bottom is going to make everything taste even better so what we're going to do is take a cup of rice and we're going to stir this around and let it cook for about 1 to 2 minutes we're going to pour in the stew Tomatoes remember these have onion celery and green peppers in the stew tomatoes and the juice from the stew Tomatoes is going to Del glaze this p [Music] in see nummy now I'm going to add a tablespoon of Cajun seasoning your favorite brand it doesn't matter that's about that's not a tablespoon at all there we go it's about a tablespoon don't let this simmer for about a minute let them flavors mingle together all right now we're going to add two and 1/2 cups of chicken broth now reduced sodium and now I use mason jars to measure I have them everywhere so it's easier okay I'm going to reduce the Heat and let this just cook down and that's it after it Cooks down and that rice is done the whole thing is done and it's done that easy less than 30 minutes and it smells great and there it is I'll plate it up looking gorgeous and I swear y'all this smells amazing how is it a hot why didn't you wait it very good very hot I like it next dinner I make for when I don't feel like cooking this is what we're going to be needing some sharp cheddar cheese I'm making a salad on the side now those days where you just don't feel like cooking having these salad kits really come in handy this one is a baby green salad and it's really big chunks I'm probably going to have to rip this up a bit but it was just like 223 or 253 I I say 253 cuz I can't remember but it's a good way to get the veggies in okay so for the main we have some red potatoes chicken I'm going to use uh maybe two maybe two of these want to have some onions I'm going to keep my seasonings very simple paprika garlic powder onion powder salt pepper and this olive oil this is the coolest little thing of olive oil I cannot remember where I got I think someone sent me this as a gift but ain't that cool so that's our seasonings that we're going to use and forget some real bacon pieces so let's get this going I like to wash my potatoes after I chop them most of the time so I got me a bowl here for that just going to cut these red potatoes up in little tiny P not that one up in little tiny pieces like this very small even with the chopping this is a very very easy quick dinner and it is so good oops I have all of those red potatoes chopped and I'm going to wash them up real quick potatoes are washed cleaned off that cutting board a bit because I did cut dirty potatoes on it and I want to start cutting up the chicken I got to cut all that ick off y'all know I I hate the little icky pieces but they don't go to waste they do go into my veggie broth bag or my chicken broth bag okay and I'm going to cut the chicken up in pieces that are similar to size as that as those potatoes okay yep I'm going to throw these in with the potatoes cuz they're going to cook together I'm going to go ahead and do another chicken breast this one's kind of smaller and everybody has been outside playing so I'm sure they've worked up an appetite today need a little bit of protein to fill them bellies and this this meal makes fantastic leftovers if you're wondering oh it's so good it heats up really well this is one of those that my family has no problem eating the next day they're not too big of fans of leftovers but this is one that it's okay okay let me wash my hands okay we have our chicken and our potatoes diced up real pretty tiny I think I think it tastes better tiny you can cut it in any size you want really want to put some olive oil into this just to make sure everything's coated in a little bit of oil go in with some garlic powder equal parts onion powder I would say I'm doing a tablespoon a piece of these seasonings just season to taste same amount of paprika going to do one big pinch of Sal one big pin of pepper and this is potato so it's going to need a little bit of salt so it doesn't tastes Bland I'm going to go in with four pinches of salt going to mix this up really good I can always tell after I mix it up if I used enough seasonings because it has a color to it that I just know so I might have to add more seasonings after this we'll see but I think I did pretty okay okay I'm going to be honest with you I don't like the color I'm adding a little bit more of the seasonings another sprinkle of paprika another sprinkle of onion powder and another sprinkle of garlic powder it's enough of salt and pepper I just like to have a certain color to this so I know that it's seasoned pretty well okay that looks good to me I like it to look a bit like this in the seasoning category okay make sure your oven is preheated to 375 get you you can use a roasting pan a cassero dish just whatever you got I'm using my gigantic cast iron I like to use this really big pan for this because I can spread it thin meaning it doesn't take forever to [Music] cook okay I'm going to pop this in the oven for about 25 minutes everything is cut up very small so it should cook quickly and it should cook quickly as well because it's a thin layer so I'm going to check this in about 20 25 minutes while that's cooking I'm preparing our salad some of these pieces of cabbage came in like the hugest chunk so I've got to like run my fingers through it to make sure it's some kind of small pieces oh voila I want to put more things in it I'm just kidding do a little sprinkle cheese not much cuz we're going to put cheese on top of those potatoes and chicken just a little pin of bacon just for a little bit of o I'm sorry that was weird my bad it's okay okay to throw in the salad um I'm going to use this tomato I have just to give it a little something something you know let the this in the salad beautiful that salad is done to 1 minute while I'm at it I'm going to go ahead and chop up these green onions they're going to be a little topping on top of that potato chicken Skillet we're making just going to thinly slice all of these up all right it's been 23 minutes exactly and this is what it looks like let's go ahead and give it a toss I started around a bit I'm just going to dump this sharp trear cheese on top and then on top of that I'm going to sprinkle some bacon pieces and I'm going to take this back in the oven for about a minute so we'll melt that cheese and dinner is done less than 30 minutes for the whole thing we have a salad we have our chicken and potato Skillet to go on top of this we have sour cream some ranch if somebody wants Ranch some chopped green onions also Ranch for the salad dinner easy peasy y'all it's doing up close to that oh yeah look at it it's gorgeous it's beautiful hey Kaka what you think about that that actually looks pretty good are you excited yeah we and would you just look at that just look at it how pretty now this is delicious and I ain't even tasted it yet that's just pretty I don't care and this took less than 10 minutes of prep 30 minutes oh my goodness heck yes I will take this on days I don't feel like a cooking all righty my cutie Pato how we feel about it M that's good thanks really really good all right Buttercup oh oh no is it good is it good let's do an up close of it cuz it looks awful perfect PR all righty guys that was two of our favorite recipes I make for when I just don't feel like cooking don't have the energy don't have the want to super easy super simple if you try any of those recipes I hope you love them I hope your family enjoys them and feel free to make them your own add more take something out totally customizable all right guys I love you I will see you next video remember as always be positive and kind and happy and let others be happy don't be raining on nobody's parade I love you guys I'll see you later taters bye

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Length: 19min 12sec (1152 seconds)

Published: Fri May 10 2024