Kevin's Kitchen: Grilled Cheese

A thyroidectomy requires a life change. That includes changing eating habits. The purpose of Kevin's Kitchen is to help those with no (or little) cooking skills to create great meals.

The phrase "Honey, can you make me a sandwich?" Does not exist in Kevin's Kitchen. So go clean the grease out of your finger nails and brush the lawn clippings off your pants because we are going to construct a manly grilled cheese sandwich.

First thing you have to do is toss an ample helping of butter in the bottom of a pan. Don't use margarin or Pam or Olive oil or anything sissy like that. I don't care if you have one of those cancer causing non stick pans - lob some real good butter in there and warm the pan on a stove.

Next, get some bread. Not some fuccia whole wheat Texas croissant style crap. Just your every day sandwich bread will do. Butter both sides of that bread - and I mean butter it!

Toss that into the pan and grab a slice of cheese. Not a skin goat Milk crumbly gotta slice with a hacksaw cheese. Just a normal slice of American. In fact? Why not toss two slices on it?

Here is the secret - squirt some mustard on the cheese. Not that brown grey poopa fonie bologna crap. Just some every day yellow mustard.

Get one side of the sandwich Golden brown, flip it, get the second side golden brown. Find a beverage and dig in.

Kevin's Kitchen: Instant Potatoes

A thyroidectomy requires a life change. That includes changing eating habits. The purpose of Kevin's Kitchen is to help those with no (or little) cooking skills to create great meals.

Creating great meals means cooking at home. Eating out has been shown to be expensive and often unhealthy as portions are huge, ingredients are unknown to you,  restaurants focus on calorie rich flavors, and diners tend to over eat. It is better to take those traditional classics and make them at home where you can control the ingredients and the portion sizes. Even if the meal isn't at the top of the "healthy list", just making the meal at home instead of eating out can greatly improve your health habits.

God invented instant potatoes for people like me who can't cook. Especially the bacon and cheddar potatoes! These are so easy!

Just boil some water, dump in the potatoes, and stir with a fork. 

And if you aren't very familiar with the complex workings of a stove? They even provide microwave instructions.

Kevin's Kitchen: South of the Border Soup

Your slow cooker is a quick road to dinner heaven!

A thyroidectomy requires a life change. That includes changing eating habits. The purpose of Kevin's Kitchen is to help those with no (or little) cooking skills to create great meals.

It is September, the warm weather is leaving. Sounds like it is time to make some South Of The Border Soup!

 Start with five pounds of diced potatoes.

 Dice up one spanish onion and add it to the potatoes

Next, add two cans of beans, chicken broth, and sharp cheddar cheese.

Mix in Salsa, black pepper, and chili powder. Let this cook on low for 8 hours (or high for 4). 

This South of the Border Soup is going to cure whatever ails you.

Kevin's Kitchen: Pot Pie

A thyroidectomy requires a life change. That includes changing eating habits. The purpose of Kevin's Kitchen is to help those with no (or little) cooking skills to create great meals.

Creating great meals means cooking at home. Eating out has been shown to be expensive and often unhealthy as portions are huge, ingredients are unknown to you,  restaurants focus on calorie rich flavors, and diners tend to over eat. It is better to take those traditional classics and make them at home where you can control the ingredients and the portion sizes. Even if the meal isn't at the top of the "healthy list", just making the meal at home instead of eating out can greatly improve your health habits. 

When I think of easy cooking, I don't think casseroles. Casseroles require planning, measuring, and thinking - and who wants to do that? However, I received a recipe from my cousin for Chicken Pot Pie and had to give it a try. Thinking about a chicken pot pie stuffed with vegetables and lean chicken. I changed the recipe a little to make it easier.

 1. Mix half a bag (2 cups) of Mexican cheese with two cans each of chicken, mixed vegetables, and cream of Chicken soup into a greased backing dish.

2. Put 2 tablespoons of butter over 8 Pillsbury biscuits that you cut into quarters

3. Put the biscuits ontop the mixture

4. Bake at 375 for around 20 minutes (until the biscuits are golden brown, but before they turn black).