15 Minute Cheap Meal (or How I Moved in and our First Meal)

(edit: I was too tired to take photo, but am sure will make again, and I think I should mention that this idea/recipe is from my "Aunt" Chelsey. Her ramen salads are the best! Served cold or hot)

Yaaaay! Yay yay yay!!! We finally have our apartment! Got our stuff moved in and Logan's parents went back to Missouri (we miss them, but are happy to be able to be on our own). Its been quite hectic and stressful getting our first apartment as 3 young adults (and I'm not even 20 yet).  My mother unloaded many...(use-full?) items upon our small living space. His parents were very nice though and bought us many needed items.

Anyways, our first dinner was on the cheap and the quick, as my feet were very sore. Take some left over chicken or fry up some boneless chicken and as we do not have a stock pan, I used the frying pan to also cook the ramen by adding water and the noodles with a few kernels of corn and green beans. Drain in pasta bowl, return to pan to fry noodles for a minute, and add seasoning packet. Takes less than 15 minutes, yet quite delicious and fairly healthy.

Satisfying enough for their tummies and quick enough to get me off my sore, sore, sooorree, tired feet.

Chicken Dirty Rice

First off the list, I had a friend coming over and my Mother and I were hungry, so try to come up with something quick and easy. The results were pretty good. Quickly looked through the freezer, found frozen boneless chicken and rice in the pantry with a plethora of spices.

Ingredients:
 Frozen chicken, Olive Oil, Instant Rice, Various Seasonings (I think these were garlic salt, pepper, Taco, and Chili, because I was in mood for spice!)

Fry up the chicken in the pan with seasonings, make sure it is white all the way through, don't want to get salmonella poisoning! I was trying to be quick and make the rice in the microwave, but made a mistake (I said I was crazy!) I had put a quart of water for the 3 cups of rice because I was looking for a quart bowl. My mind got ahead of me! But so I poured off the excess water and put the rice in the same pan with the chicken and seasonings, browning it slightly and making a good quick meal in less than 10 minutes! Threw a "steam in the bag" vegetables and you have everything but milk and fruit, which can be made up for in dessert.

Thanks for reading my first post and seeing right off the bat that I am crazy! More to come!