MEAL MAGIC

To me the whole point of the Ambassador program is to try new products and share the ones that work well.  Some products excite me more than others.  Reynolds is one of those brands that I can happily endorse.  From childhood I can recall that pink and blue box of Reynolds foil in my G'ma's kitchen.  My mother wasn't much of a cook and tended to shop by price rather than value, but even she had her Reynolds foil.  I was led astray as a young woman and bought store brands but soon realized the error of my ways and came back to Reynolds.

So I was excited to use  their Heavy Duty Foil to make up packets for fajitas, one contained the sliced, marinated meat and the other held the vegetables.  It was too cold to grill the day I made them so I used my oven.  This has to be one of the easiest meals I ever cooked and there was nothing to clean up!  I can imagine working moms assembling their packets and storing them in the fridge, ready to cook for a quick but complete dinner.  Then just tossing the used foil.  The recipe can be found here:

http://tempuri.org?link=new

The Non Stick Foil made pizza and sausage rolls so easy too.  I have never been comfortable doing pizza on the grill but the foil allayed my qualms and worked perfectly.  Their recipe is here:

http://tempuri.org?link=new

I have made sausage rolls before but not as easily as with the Non Stick Foil.  They will be made much more frequently with my new "trick" for making them.  Recipe is here:

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/238500/homemade-spinach-pizza-rolls/

Anytime I can find a short cut or a better way to do make meals simpler I am excited and I hope you are too.

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AHA!

Don't you just love it when someone shows you multiple uses for things you have always used just one way?  After I finish smacking myself for not thinking of at least some of them I feel like I have gotten a gift.  That is what happened this month with our sponsor, Reynolds Kitchens®.

They are not all about aluminum foil anymore, they make all sorts of nifty time savers for the kitchen, from waxed paper to crockpot liners.  But the one that impressed me the most and gave me an AHA! moment is their baking parchment, which I already used as a pan liner for baking.  If you visit their site www.reynoldskitchens.com you will learn some timesaving tricks too.

But the one that will be used most often in my kitchen is the new parchment sheets.  They are the size of a full sheet pan and lay flat immediately.  I no longer will flour my counter and have a mess to clean up.  Just open a sheet and roll pie crusts, knead bread or biscuits, even roll meatballs.  But my AHA! came when I realized that with a sheet of parchment and a few staples, I had made a custom size bread bag, perfect for transporting or keeping homemade bread.  No condensation forms like in plastic bags but the bread is protected from drying out.  Perfect!  My smaller aha! came when I removed the loaf of rye from the oven and realized the bottom crust was as crisp as the top without returning it to the oven, it had been baked on a parchment lined pan.  This will change my bread baking for sure.

There was fun there too.  We made great sugar cookies.  http://allrecipes.com/recipe/karens-rolled-sugar-cookies/detail.aspx

  

And an amazing snack mix

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/ashley-and-whitneys-popcorn-and-pretzel-sweet-snack-mix/detail.aspx

    

So, hustle on down to the store and avail yourself of this great time saver!

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I am an Allrecipes Allstar Brand Ambassador (a voluntary position) and I’m not compensated for my work with Allrecipes.com. 

Products received from advertisers are only used for experienced-based reviews by BigShotsMom. The reviews, content and opinions expressed in this blog are the sole opinions of BigShotsMom.