Cornish Hens and Birthday Yens
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Comments (15)This recipe I have served to company for many years. Not only is it fork tender, but your home will smell delish while it's in the oven! Sharon's Swiss Steak-serves 4-6 ********************* 8-10 pieces of cubed steak meat 2 cans Campbell's french onion soup flour salt & pepper ** Lay waxed paper on your countertop. Place the meat on the paper & sprinkle 1 Tbs flour over each piece. Season with pepper & lightly with salt. Using the edge of a saucer, lightly pound the flour into the meat-using a twisting motion of your wrist. Flip meat over & repeat. In a large frying pan-add oil to cover bottom of pan-heat till hot, then sear the meat for 1 min on each side. Have a 13x9 baking pan near the pan so you can transfer the steaks to the pan the minute they are seared. Place 1/2 can of the onion soup in bottom of pan before placing seared meat in the 13x9. Stagger the pieces in the pan-pour the remaining 1 and 1/2 cans of the soup over the meat. Cover with foil and bake at 350° for 60 min until fork tender. Remove foil & bake for 10 more minutes. I usually put baked potatoes in the oven at the same time. The au jus is delightful on the potatoes at serving! If you want two entrees-may I suggest Roast Cornish Hens? (which would go in the oven earlier-then nuke to reheat if not enough room for both meats in the oven.)..this is also a no fuss and they roast to a crispy, golden brown! Roast Cornish Hens ****************** Choose the smaller frozen hens (around 1 lb or less) that you can find-allow a good half day to thaw. Rinse the birds & dry w/paper toweling. Spray shallow baking pan & place hens on the pan. Season w/salt & pepper-inside & out. In a bowl place 1 stick of butter, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 2 Tbs minced onion and 1 Tbs paprika. Mix together then reserve 1/2 the mixture to baste the birds with. Using your hands-rub each bird with the mixture. Cover with foil and roast at 350° for 45 min. then remove foil for another 30-45 min...basting every 15 min.with remaining mixture....See More- 7 years ago
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Well, here they are cooking in the oven.
Meanwhile, I had a fun day out with two of my theatre family members. We went to various used furniture/antique/secondhand stores (first stop was a salvage yard), to find some materials for the theatre (crown molding was the big find today). I saw a spinning wheel at the last stop I wanted, but it was missing a lot of parts and there was no price tag. Our last stop was to get ice cream at a local dairy. They got cones (with HUGE scoops), and I had a very delicious strawberry milkshake. Lunch was KFC, which I haven't had in a long time (and ours in town has been replaced by Taco Bell).
Tomorrow's the big day. Mum has the decorations and balloons up. Today was a win. Tomorrow will be, too. :) I thank you all for the early birthday wishes and kind words. :)
I'll let you know how these hens turned out. They sure smell good in the oven right now.
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It's going back in the oven. Meat thermometer's reading 150. It also looks like this. :/ This is at the leg/thigh.
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The result. This was one meaty hen! My nephew will have extra white meat to go along with his when he comes over again tomorrow or the day after.
I also had waffle cut fries from the deep fryer (Wal-Mart frozen ones) to go with it. Not a bad pairing.
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Dig in y'all! Mother picked out the colors. I do like the orange. The white and yellow together reminds me of deviled eggs LOL.
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