French Dip Sliders

Whenever I got to meet up with friends for lunch, we'd go to Applebees for their lunch specials. They had these little french dip sliders as one of their options and they were sooo good. I thought I'd try to come up with a recipe that was like them, but one that I could make at home.

You'll need:
King's Hawaiian Original Sweet Hawaiian Dinner Rolls 12 ct
12 slices of roast beef
6 slices of swiss cheese
Au Jus gravy mix packet (or can create from scratch)

You can use any other small slider size roll, if there's a different one you like. I like using the sweet hawaiian rolls because it adds a little more flavor with the sweetness. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Split the rolls in half, try to keep both parts attached. Fold up a piece of roast beef and set on slider. Rip a piece of cheese in half and lay on top the roast beef. Do this for all rolls. Stick in oven for 10-15 minutes or until cheese is melted and rolls are slightly toasted, take out of oven and put top of roll over the cheese, completing the slider. While they are in the oven, you can either make an au jus sauce from scratch or do what I did and buy a packet of the seasonings and follow the directions on the packet to make the gravy. Serve it in a little bowl along side the sliders so you can dip the mini sandwiches in it.

Herb and Citrus Oven Roasted Chicken

  

I stumbled across this recipe on Pinterest one day and it looked pretty good, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

 http://www.thecomfortofcooking.com/2013/04/herb-and-citrus-oven-roasted-chicken.html#comment-23885 is where I got the original recipe from. Feel free to take a look at it.

Before      After

I changed a few things from the original recipe, so I will put what used on here.

1/4 cup olive oil
4 cloves of garlic,chopped
2 tbsp sugar
1 whole lemon, half juiced and half sliced
3 whole oranges, one and a half juiced and one and a half sliced
1 tbsp Italian seasoning
1/2 tsp paprika
1 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
10-12 pieces (about 4 1/2 lbs.) boneless skinless chicken thighs or chicken breasts cut in half
1 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
1 tbsp dried rosemary


Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix together olive oil, garlic, sugar, lemon juice, orange juice, Italian seasoning, paprika, onion powder, red pepper flakes, and salt and pepper. If you plan on marinating the chicken, now is the time to put the mixture and chicken in a ziploc bag and put into the refrigerator. I marinated the chicken overnight to make sure it was as flavorful as possible. If not marinating, then move to the next step. Place chicken in a single layer in a 13x9 baking dish. Pour olive oil mixture all over chicken, turning pieces to coat all sides. Arrange slices of lemon, orange and onion around and under the chicken. Sprinkle all over generously with rosemary, salt and pepper.
Cook for 30-35 minutes until the juices run clear.

*I tried eating the oranges after and didn't think they tasted good at all, but the chicken was delicious.