Creamy Chicken Basil

Creamy Chicken Basil

Ingredients:

3 boneless chicken breasts

1/2 C water

1 tsp Better Than Bouillon (can substitute regular bouillon)

1 can cream of chicken soup

8 oz cream cheese

2 T Italian seasoning

1/8 C fresh basil, ribboned

Instructions:

Cook the chicken, water and bouillon in the crockpot on high for about 4 hours. Take the chicken out.  Dump in the cream of chicken soup, cream cheese and Italian seasoning. Stir all the ingredients together. Shred the chicken and put it into the sauce.  Cook for one more hour.  Just before serving, stir in the basil ribbons. Serve over rice.

Lemon Zucchini Bread

Lemon Zucchini Bread

I actually made this bread with yellow squash to make it look more "lemony" but you can use zucchini instead!

Ingredients for the bread:

4 eggs

1 C oil

2 C sugar

2 C zucchini or yellow squash, grated

1 lemon
2 tsp poppy seeds

3 C flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 325°

Grease and lightly flour two bread pans

Beat eggs, then add oil and sugar.  Mix well.  Add in squash and lemon.  Add flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and mix. Pour into bread pans and bake for 1 hour (10 minutes less if using convection oven.) Loosen from pan 20 minutes after it comes out of the oven.

Ingredients for glaze:

2 T butter, softened

1 lemon

2 C powdered sugar

About 1/8 C milk

Juice and zest one lemon. Beat butter.  Add a little powdered sugar at a time. Add all the lemon juice.  Add 2 tsp lemon zest. Add enough milk to make a smooth glaze.  Pour glaze over cooled bread. Sprinkle a little zest over the top.