Hoppa's favorite Chicken wraps, (version 2)

One of the problems with my original recipe, was that some times the chicken wrap fell apart.
Then one day while finishing the last touches on this recipe I thought of Philly Cream Cheese!

This version, is probably not as healthy as my original, but it is sooo good!
Here is what I did on this recipe:

I seasoned and boiled a couple boneless chicken breasts, keeping the water level high enough, to cover them, then when they are done, flake them up in the broth.

Next I took a box of Minute Wild Rice traditional flavor, added it and the seasoning to the broth and chicken, with a diced fresh jalapeño. ( if you want it less spicy, make sure you don't get seeds or the white pulp in it, just the outer green )

Cook that til the rice is fluffy/done. Mix in another fresh diced jalapeño, and some raw fresh diced sweet onion. Also nice to add here, but not necessary is a few diced up, sun dried tomatoes. While you are stirring in these ingrediants, and the shredded chicken into your rice, add in about 4 tablespoons of Philly cream cheese. Let this mixture cool down, til it could no longer melt cheese, then take some shredded Italian cheeses, ( Mozzarella, Parmesan, etc.. ) and stir them in, you should have a minxture now, that is sticking together from the Philly cream cheese, and the loose grated Italian cheeses. Optional, some diced fine pepperoni is nice in this dish also, and optionally diced fresh garlic. At this point, fine dice some fresh raw spinach, and stir in this mixture as well, not only is it pretty, but its probably the only healthy thing you are gonna get in this rich mixture!
Then take several burrito wrap shells ( flour ) and warm them on the skillet
put the mixture, in the shell, wrap them up and serve!

You can creatively substitute the Philly Cream cheese with a nice sweet onion teriyaki sauce and replace the sun dried tomatoes with both sunflower seeds and pistachios to give this chicken wrap a more oriental flavour. It Still won't be any more healthier for you!

Easy cream of chicken soup

This soup takes not much more time that opening a can, so I like it, and it is home made.

Get a couple frozen raw chicken pieces, (I prefer boneless breast of chicken tenders and usually about 4)
Get a cooking pot, put the chicken in, and fill it up with water ( about an inch from the top so it doesn't boil over )
Season the water with some seasoning salt, some garlic powder, and some onion powder.
(you can add in cayenne too if you want it spicy )
Boil til the chicken pieces are cooked, take the chicken pieces out of the water to cool on a plate.

Now take your broth, and in it you can add in other nice things like small diced potato, or some dried rice, or broccoli, keep the water boiling and cook your taters/rice/broccoli ( if you added them) til done.
Now, take your cooled chicken, and ( wash your hands well first ) then Squish it up, til its all broken apart and shredded, then set it aside.
In a skillet, add in some butter, ( about half stick, or so ) melt it down and add in some flour, and toast the flour making a rue.
Semi dangerous part coming up here; Your hot rue, and your hot boiling broth, needs to be added together so I suggest a long wooden spoon, wear oven mitts and don't stand over your pot. Take your skillet and the wooden spoon, scrape into the pot of broth, the rue, and stir stir stir!
Let the pot of broth begin to thicken all nice and bubbly, you can add in a small amount of milk or soy milk, into it now to make it creamier.
Add in your shredded chicken, stir, and you can serve as is, or, turn the burner off, and add in half a cup or so of frozen peas.
They will brighten up the soup and make it pretty, and make it good.

Make a nice sandwich to go with it, and there ya go!

Stuffed Biscuits

This is a nice and simple recipe. My sister first introduced me to this trick ( which I am sure is older than the hills )
What ya need is some nice bread dough, or, some frozen (raw dough) dinner rolls.

Preheat your oven, to 200 degrees. arrange on a biscuit pan 9x12,( I prefer glass they clean so much easier ) butter ( or olive oil ) your pan, put the frozen biscuits on it, and in the oven, boil a pan of warm water and place in there too, turn off the oven, and let rise about half hour to 40 minutes.
Now, normally you let em rise longer but, you want these pliable.

Take a clean workspace, butter it or oil it ( I use a plate for this ) with your hands press out the ball of dough into a round 4 to 5 inch circle.
Put your filling in it, then bring up the sides pinching as you go, and closing off the goodies you put inside. place the pinched side down back in your baking pan and arrange them equal distance apart.
Turn oven up to 350 degrees, bake for about 20 minutes til the tops are a golden brown.

For the fillings:
Pizza biscuit:
use 2 slices of pepperoni, arranged in a pyramid inside your rolled out dough, a teaspoon of Pizza sauce ( home made is best, but store bought works fine too ) then a pinch of Italian, or mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle garlic powder over the tops of the biscuits as you remove the biscuits from the oven, and butter lightly, once the garlic powder is on them, put them in the oven for another minute or two to barely tan the garlic powder roasting it slightly. dried minced garlic works nice too.

Hamburger biscuit:
make meatballs, from ground beef, onions garlic powder, cooked rice, and dry oats. Season the meat with seasoning salt, and bake until done. Cool, then place a meatball on the dough, a pinch of cheese, and close up the dough around them.

Chicken and Rice biscuit:
Take about 3 chicken breast tenders ( raw and unseasoned ) put them in a skillet, cover with water, and begin boiling on high heat. Season with salt, pepper, Garlic powder, onion powder, and a dash of lemon juice. turn the chicken, to boil it completely. keep adding water as necessary because you will want a lot of broth.
When the chicken is done, take it from the water, and drain and cool.
Add in rice, and wild-rice and cook until done.
Cool the rice completely ( while you are prepping your frozen dough is always a good time for the rice to cook ) Dice or shred your chicken completely. Mix into cooled rice, add in shredded cheese and tiny fine diced fresh broccoli (that is optional) Make a ball of this mixture and place in the center of your dough.
Once baked, butter, sprinkle on garlic powder, and optionally roasted sesame seeds.

Thanks Giving Biscuits:
This is so simple!
Dice turkey, mix in with left over stuffing. make stuffing balls, put in the dough pinch them closed and bake!

Sweet rolls:
There are many things you can do here, pie fillings, or jams, or fresh berries. or even just cinnamon and sugar ( for cinnamon rolls).
For jams and pie fillings, put a teaspoon full in the center of the dough, close them off, put in your well buttered pan ( yes butter for this for sure ) pinched side down, sprinkle the tops with nutmeg or cinnamon or leave plain.
For Fresh berries, put the berries in the center of the dough, a teaspoon of sugar over the top of them pinch closed, pinched side down in the well buttered pan. Definitely make sure yoru sweet rolls are in a glass pan, as the jams fillings and berry juices will leak out the bottom and make them into sticky buns.

butter the tops if you like, as well, and possibly sprinkle sugar atop them and put back inthe oven another couple minutes to let it glaze a bit.


If you want, you can also take flakey biscuit dough, and do the same thing, for the sweet rolls,
this makes them more 'pie like' as they are good and flakey!

Another option for the flakey dough biscuit, is to let them rise in your pan, then press down in the center of each one, and backe they turn into cups, which you can fill with many nice things.

One good option for the cups, is mixing together, diced chicken, cream of chicken soup consentrate. diced ( steamed broccoli carrots and potatoes ) vegetables, frozen fresh peas.
Stir this all up together with a nice cheese, fill the prebaked cups, put back in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes with a tinfoil top so you dont burn the prebaked shells.
Optionally you can heat the mixture and ladel them in to the biscuit cups also, withotu the need to bake again.


There are so many nice things you can do, with these nice snack or picnic type biscuits.
If you are going on a road trip, a hike, or just want goodies for a gathering, these really are simple to make and easy to handle without a lot of mess.