RECIPE FOR I DON'T CARE RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Take a 9 x 13 baking dish and spray with cooking spray. Have a piece of aluminum foil ready to cover your baking dish also sprayed with cooking spray.
• Slice your onion ... I cut mine in half and then slice ... just throw the half slices all over the bottom of the dish (onions become a bed so that the chicken does not stick to the dish), add mushrooms and carrots.
• Take the Zesty Italian Dressing pour 3 or 4 Tbsp into baking dish. Then add the minced garlic, Worcestershire sauce and liquid smoke to the dressing. Shake it all up together and mix well.
• Rinse and pat dry the chicken breasts and place on top of onions in the baking dish. Place your bay leaves in the dish. Pour the Zesty Italian Dressing mixture over the top of the Chicken.
• Take your aluminum foil and cover your baking dish. Place the dish in the oven and bake for 30 to 45 minutes depending on the thickness of the chicken breasts ... you can substitute thighs if you prefer.

Steps:

• combine the broth, 1/5 cup of butter, and 1/4 of the pint of half and half in a medium sized pot, season with the salt, pepper, and basil and bring to a boil once the mixture is at a rolling boil lower the heat to a simmer and add the rice and set a timer to cook the rice for 18-20 minutes (try not to cook all of the liquid out) once the rice has been on for approximately 10 minutes it is a good time to start cooking the meat, for ground meat brow the meat in a regular skillet, for chicken it I prefer to sauté it in either olive oil or portabella mushroom oil on a medium high heat, again season the meat with salt, pepper, and basil once the meat is mostly cooked add about half of the cheese and another 1/4 if the pint of half and half and lower the heat to simmer and mix these ingredients together until the cheese is slightly melted by then the rice should be just about done when the cheese is melted and blended with the meat combine this mixture with the rice while stirring in the rest of the cheese and the rest of the half and half until evenly blended. to make a larger amount recipe can be doubled ore tripled, it does not work as well if you do more than double or triple though.