This video demonstrates three simple dinner recipes perfect for cooking for two people: Chicken Caesar Wraps (air-fried chicken with bagged Caesar salad kit), One Skillet Chicken Parmesan Pasta (chicken tenderloins with pasta and cheese), and Ground Beef Gravy and Potatoes (beef gravy over mashed potatoes). All recipes can be prepared in 30 minutes or less with minimal cleanup, making them ideal for busy weeknights when cooking for just two people.
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Three dinners, just two people, 30 minutes or less. No complicated ingredients, no sink full of dishes, just simple, satisfying meals that make week nights easier. The question is, which one will earn a spot in your dinner rotation? Hey y'all, I'm Mandy and this is Mandy in the making. Tonight it is just Steven and myself and like it is most nights quite honestly. And tonight we are having very simple air fried chicken Caesar wraps.
You'll see. Very, very simple. And then we've also got some sweet potato fries.
I'm going to throw those in the air fryer as well. So, very quick dinner.
I've got a pack of chicken tenderloins that I've been thawing. We're not going to use all of the chicken tenderloins tonight. We'll use them tomorrow night as well for another dinner for two. But let's get started. So, I'm just going to pat these dry. Okay. So, I'm just going to drizzle them with a little bit of this palmetto olive oil. Um, the Tuscan herb infused. Just a tiny little bit. It does not need much. And I'll kind of spread it out on there.
>> Oh my goodness.
>> Blessing.
>> Stop.
>> Hi. I'm going to pick out some uh seasonings to put on this chicken.
Baby girl, what is it?
>> Maggie Moo is talking. I'm going to do this buttery steakhouse just because I've really been enjoying it. And honestly, we don't have to season the chicken that much, but I don't want it to be completely bland. So, I'm just going to sprinkle a little bit of this on there. Do you use your air fryer a lot? If you are cooking for two, I highly recommend you getting an air fryer. Really, really do. I love my air fryer because it does more than just air fry. Air fryer can be your best friend when you're making small portions especially.
Okay, that is ready for the air fryer basket. Okay, so I'm going to do our uh chicken on the top. And y'all know I love this thing because it's basically like having a double oven. We don't need this whole bag tonight because it's just me and Stephen. So, I'll just save these for another night. But let's pop these in the bottom. Okay, so I was able to set my top to a certain temperature to air fry for a certain time and my bottom at a different one. I'm going to just hit cook now and it'll all finish at the same time. So, we're making these as like chicken Caesar wraps. Let me tell you, the easiest way to do that is to get one of these bagged salad kits. I even leave the the croutons in because why not? Um, we're probably going to add extra parmesan because I have some extra, but it also has the Caesar dressing. But before you mix it all up, let me show you what to do. It's like digging for a prize in here. Pull out this pack and then just dump the rest of this into a bowl. Okay, so this pack, like I mentioned, has croutons.
We are going to throw those in there. It also has some Parmesan cheese. We'll toss that in there. Then it has the Caesar dressing. Before we toss it in that, let me grab our wraps. And just so that we make sure we get plenty of that Caesar dressing on each wrap, I'm going to put a little bit of the Caesar dressing here in the middle. We're going to spread it out. I have this cute little spatula that a sweet subscriber sent me. That just makes sure that we get plenty of that. And then, like I mentioned, I don't know that that Parmesan cheese is enough. So, let me grab my Parmesan cheese and we're going to add a little bit here. There we go.
All right, one down. Let me put that on a plate and we'll do the other one. Now, one other thing that we're going to do before we mix this around is we're going to make a little addition. I've got a red onion and we're just going to add a few slices, very thin slices of red onion. You could add tomatoes. You can add whatever you want, honestly. Avocado would probably be good. So, I'm just going to break this up and add it to our wrap. We love some red onion in this house. We're done with the wraps for now. Let's mix up the rest of our salad mix. And you know, if you have romaine lettuce and you already have some Caesar dressing, you don't have to buy the pack like this, but we don't keep Caesar dressing on hand. So, this is just a more convenient way than me buying a whole thing of Caesar dressing and it probably going bad because we don't use it very often. So, that's nice and coated. It's ready. But now, we're just waiting on our chicken. We have about five more minutes and all of that will be done. And then we will slice the chicken up, add it to our wraps, and then top it with our Caesar salad.
Dinner is done. We're going to let that cool for just a second before I cut it open.
Sir, there we go. And then I'm also going to check on my fries. Our fries are done, too. So, I'm going to set those here.
We're just going to chop this up into bite-sized pieces. These are nice and juicy. Oh my goodness.
Smells so good. Okay, let me grab a plate with a wrap.
And we're going to put half of this chicken on one. We are loading this bad boy up. Plenty of protein. Top it with our salad. Now, the trick is rolling this thing so it doesn't fall apart cuz I kind of packed it on there. There we go. All right, let me cut it in half.
Make it easier to manage. Here we go.
Uhoh, I have stuff falling out.
Sounds like a personal problem.
There you go. So, let me grab some fries, too. That looks delicious. And as Stephen would say, that looks fit to eat. Now, you need to be careful when you're picking it up cuz it's liable to fall apart.
>> Liable.
>> Liable.
>> We ain't going to hold it liable. We're just going to eat it.
>> Looks good.
>> I told you.
>> Little bit of foliage.
>> Uh-huh. I told you.
>> Don't tell nobody else.
>> Just might want to pinch that end.
>> Paint it. Is that a uh That's a Caesar salad wrap.
>> It is. It is. Chicken.
>> That looks good. Smells good.
>> Let's get into this Caesar salad wrap.
Mhm.
Oh yeah, that's good.
It's crunchy.
>> Well, it's got Well, yeah, it's got >> got a little crouton action going.
>> Got croutons in there and then, you know, that that crunchy rub >> cedar dressing.
>> Mhm. Chicken is nice and >> not dry.
>> Not dry.
>> Excellent.
>> Very good. This is really good. This is definitely lives up to its name. Yeah, >> for sure.
>> And it's packed with protein.
>> And I love Caesar salad.
>> Yes, that's his favorite.
>> Love it.
>> If we're out at a restaurant, chances are he's ordering a Caesar salad instead of a regular salad.
>> Look at them bad boys. Little bit of >> sweet tater fry.
Oh yeah, those are good.
>> Mags.
>> Mhm.
>> Mags, >> what are you doing little girl?
>> I hear her talking.
>> All right. Good dinner for two.
>> Mhm.
>> Good job, babe.
>> Oh, stretch it.
>> You knew I wanted something light anyway.
>> I know. I did, too. So, this worked good.
>> My eyes are watering. Do you do you see I have a tear?
>> Well, I didn't I didn't think it was that bad.
I don't know why my eyes are burning all of a sudden and they're literally just pouring water. I'm not sure. I don't know what happened. Aside from that, this makes me think of the um McDonald's snack wraps.
>> Mhm.
>> From back in the day, which they've brought them back, but I don't think they brought a Caesar one back. Um but I used to love those.
But that's what this reminds me of. It's so good.
>> Yeah. Light, fresh, >> drop.
>> Little pop of that uh Caesar dressing there is nice touch, sweetheart.
>> Very good dinner for two.
>> Mhm.
>> Thank you, sweetheart.
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>> All right, >> let's go cook another meal. Hello. It is the next day. I'm going to make us a quick and easy lunch for two, but it's it would be great for dinner. I'm just making it for lunch just because of my filming schedule, but this one would be a great one for dinner. We're making a chicken parm pasta for two. It's going to take hardly any time at all. Let's do it. Okay, so I told you yesterday I was using four I think I used four of the chicken tenderloins yesterday. Today I'm going to use the other four. Um, and then we're just going to do a little arts and crafts with our kitchen uh shears. But I'm going to just cube up these chicken tenderloins. You can use chicken breast. You can use chicken thighs, whatever you got on hand. So, I'm just going to chop this up and then we will season it.
All right. So, I've got a little bit of Italian dressing here. We're going to just put some of that on here. Not a whole lot. Just going to give it a little bit of extra flavor. And then a little bit of salt and pepper. I do have my skillet over on the stove top heating to medium high. We're going to take this over there and cook this in just a second. Okay, this recipe reminds me of my red macaroni uh that I make with ground beef. It's very, very similar concept, but obviously we're using chicken and doing different cheeses, but you'll see what I'm saying if you know what I'm talking about. If you've ever made my red macaroni, it's a lot of people call it goulash. Same thing, but kind of the same concept here. I don't know if you heard that sizzle, but we've got our chicken started. I'm going to kind of spread it out here into an even layer. And we're going to let that start to cook. We just need to just cook this through. It should only take, I don't know, 5 minutes or so. I'm also going to add just a little more Italian seasonings just because I really like that flavor.
While I'm letting that chicken cook, I'm going to um shred or grate some Parmesan cheese. Okay, that should be enough.
Okay, it's been several minutes. I'm going to stir these around. It doesn't have much longer to go before we add in our other ingredients. It smells so good, just the chicken itself. So, I'm not going to be using this entire jar of marinara sauce because obviously it's just me and Stephen eating. And I'm not really trying for leftovers here. So, I might use a little less than half of this. But, we're going to put in this equal amounts of this and water. And now, let's add in our water. And we want this to come up to a boil because we're going to be adding our noodles directly in here. You can use whatever noodles you want. With my red macaroni, obviously I use elbow macaroni, but we have some medium shells on hand, like part of a box. So, that's what I'm going to use today. I'm eyeballing this. I really don't know how much I just added. That should be about right. I'm just going to kind of douse that in there. And let's let this come up to a boil, a boil. And then we'll cover it. Let it simmer for like 15 minutes just to soften all that pasta up. Then we'll top it with cheese. And that's it, y'all. This is an easy one.
And I used my large skillet today. I could have used my medium skillet. I didn't really have to have this large of a skillet, but it's just habit to grab this one. Okay, so it's come up to that boil, which is what I wanted. So, what we're going to do is pop the lid on it, and we're going to turn it down to like medium low. And let's set a timer for 15 minutes. I'll probably come in here about halfway through and stir it. Just kind of check on it, see if it needs more water or anything. So, I just wanted to tell you, I came in here about halfway through and stirred it. And when I looked at it, the sauce to me looked a little weak. So, I went in and added a little more marinara sauce. So, in my opinion, go more like however much marinara sauce you put, put about 3/4 of that in water in there. So, does that make sense? You know what I'm saying?
So, if you put a cup of marinara sauce, put 3/4 of a cup of water. Don't do half and half or don't do equal amounts because I just feel like it thinned it out just a little too much for my liking. It's up to you. But um so I added just a little more like a/4 cup of marinara sauce just to make it more marinara. See how it's looking right now? It did not look quite that marinaraish before I added that in. I should have shown you, but I was just acting on instinct and I just did it and then I thought, "Oh, I should have grabbed the camera." But we're there. It says we have a minute left. So at this point, let's start adding the cheese. So I did grate some of that Parmesan cheese. So, I'm going to put that all over the top.
Because this is chicken parm, you can't go without the parm. You don't need a lot because you're also going to go in with some mozzarella. I always use the creamy melt because it melts the best.
Mozzarella notoriously does not melt that great. So, get this creamy melt.
You'll be glad you did. And it doesn't have to be a big thick layer. It can be if you want it to be, but it doesn't have to be. Okay, let's pop the lid back on and let that just melt down.
I'm going to turn it all the way to low.
It was on like medium low before. And give it just another couple of minutes.
>> I'm so excited cuz I'm hungry.
>> I'm hungry, too. My stomach is growling, >> man. This looks good. I can smell it all the way back in my office.
>> I'm good. But what did you tell me it smelled like when you first came in here?
>> First of all, it hit me and I was like, that's something Asian.
>> He said, I smell something Asian. I was like, incorrect. You know what's funny?
I went swimming today for my workout, >> right?
>> And chlorine.
>> Yeah.
>> Cuz I haven't showered yet.
>> Yeah.
>> Chlorine can mess with your >> smell.
>> Smell.
>> Yeah, of course it can.
>> It really can. So maybe that's what it was.
>> Maybe. So cuz you came in here and you said it smelled Asian. I was like, what part of this smells Asian?
So there's that.
>> Yeah, I got the smell wrong.
>> Well, hopefully you don't get the taste wrong.
>> I hope not.
>> All right, let's see. Yeah. We don't want this to taste like chicken dery, do we? That >> be a bad sign.
>> Is that good?
>> Yes. Much better. I like this better than the um macaroni. You know why?
>> Why?
>> Because when you chew down on those shells >> Yeah.
>> the marinara sauce just bursts in your mouth >> when you bite down on that.
>> Okay. So, maybe we should start doing red macaroni with shells. Yeah.
>> Okay.
>> We should do that for sure.
>> The chicken is a nice touch, too. A little protein.
>> Yeah.
>> I just love it. Lots of cheese in here, too, I think.
>> Parm and mozzarella.
>> Yep. I get my calcium.
>> All right, y'all. This is a simple dinner for two or lunch for two like us.
Is it red macaroniish >> but with chicken?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Okay. Which is what I figured it would be. Yeah. Oh, the seasonings are really good in here.
>> Okay, good.
>> You must have added some additional or something.
>> I did.
You know how I do.
>> Great job.
>> Thanks.
>> The cheese be cheesing.
>> Mhm. Talk to me.
>> Chicken parm.
>> Yeah.
>> M. That's good.
>> Mhm.
>> Wow. You know what too? If you have chicken sausage on hand, you could do chicken sausage with this, too.
>> Oh, yeah. That would be good.
>> Mhm. Absolutely. This is a really easy one. And my red macaroni is a great one for two, too. I for two, too. I'll link that below.
>> You know, I bet you could put Italian sausage in this, too.
>> Mhm.
>> I bet you could.
>> It would be stupendous.
>> Another day, another dinner for two.
It's just me and Stephen here. I am not feeling my greatest. I went for a long run yesterday and I messed up my hips somehow. So, I want something very easy, warm, comforting because it has been rainy for days. It's This is going to take like 20 minutes. This is just a really simple like beef and gravy over top of mashed potatoes. I'm going the easy route and I'm using Idaho and mashed potatoes just because it's quick and easy. And the beef gravy like there's nothing to it. You probably have all of these ingredients already on hand. So, you can make this tonight.
I've got our large skillet heated to medium high. I'm adding a pound of ground beef. So, for this dinner, think about sausage, gravy, and biscuits.
We're doing kind of the same thing, but we're doing more of a dinner recipe.
We're going to do the beef gravy over mashed potatoes instead of biscuits.
While that's cooking, I'm just going to add a little bit of salt and pepper.
Okay, we're going to let that hang out for quite a few minutes. And when I say you probably have all these ingredients on hand, I mean it. We just need some flour, some dub sauce, a little bit of butter, some beef broth, some minced garlic. You could chop up some onion and put that in there, you know, along with the beef, but I'm just going the easy route today and using minced onion. So, this is pretty much done. We are going to soak up some of this excess grease though with a paper towel. All right, I'm going to throw this butter in there.
You only need about 2 tablespoons. I just had three tablespoons left of this one stick, so I'm just throwing it all in there. Why not? We're going to let that melt. Okay, while that is melting, let's throw in some garlic. However much you want. I'm going to do like a big maybe like a tablespoon. And then that minced onion. I'm going to throw that in there, too. And I know we added some pepper earlier, but let's add some more pepper for our gravy. Now, to make our gravy, we need something to thicken it up. So, we're going to use some flour.
You don't need a lot. A couple of tablespoons.
That's probably one.
There we go. All right. Let's stir that around.
All right, so that's been cooking for about a minute.
Now, let's slowly just add in our beef broth. We need a couple of cups of beef broth.
Okay, that was one cup. And let's add another cup. This is about 3/4 of a cup.
I'm just going to I'm going to eyeball this. This is personal preference as to kind of how you want how thick you want your gravy, thick or thin. All right, I'm going to let that come back up to a bubble. I'm also going to add in some dub sauce at this point. It's going to give it some good flavor. Okay, I'm not going to go with two cups of the beef broth. I only did like a cup and a half.
We're going to let it simmer for about 5 minutes. Make sure it gets good and thick. All right, we're going to give this a couple more minutes. I just tasted it. I'm going to add just a little more salt and let that hang out. And let's start our mashed potatoes. All we need is two cups of water. I do it on high for about two to two and 1/2 minutes. All right.
This is kind of how I like my gravy.
It's pretty thick.
You can thin yours out if you want to, but I did go outside and grab some parsley from our parsley plant just to kind of make it look a little fancier, you know. So, we've got dinner in about 20 minutes. It doesn't get much better than that. And we will we definitely have leftovers, but this is a really great one to have leftovers of because I can just make another pack of potatoes and just warm this through and we've got dinner tomorrow as well or lunch or whatever. Doesn't look so bland now, does it? You ready to eat?
>> I am. This looks good.
>> It does look good.
>> It's very comforting, >> which is wonderful because we've got so much rain.
>> We do.
Oh, wow. That's good.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. I love the flavor of that gravy.
>> Yeah, it's got some dub sauce in there.
Can you tell?
>> Yeah, it's got some rich flavor in there.
>> Good. It's got some butter in there.
>> Kind of threw me off because, you know, you don't you don't really see a lot of seasonings in there, >> right?
>> But now I can see like maybe some garlic and >> Yeah, there's minced onion. Garlic.
>> Onion. Yeah, >> that's really good, man.
>> Hit the spot.
>> That hits the spot, baby doll.
>> All right. Good.
>> Good job.
>> Yeah. Easy, easy dinner.
That is incredible.
Look how simple that looks.
>> I mean, >> it's so simple and so delicious.
>> It's all you need is meat and potatoes.
>> I love that. That gravy is so good. You did a good job.
>> Thank you, >> man.
>> I mean, I like that better than the brown gravy that we normally put on mashed potatoes.
>> That right there.
>> Mhm.
>> Yes.
>> Tons of flavor. It's got a better taste to it.
>> It does. That's good.
>> Job, babe.
>> Thanks.
>> Done.
>> Du n done.
>> I tell you what, that's good stuff.
>> It is good.
>> Good to the last bite.
That is good. If I was hungry, I'd be in there right now getting me some more.
But I'm going I'm going back off.
Slow down.
>> That's right. But it is a go- backer for sure.
>> Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
>> Yeah. So, there you have it. Three meals that are perfect for two people. If you enjoyed this video and you want me to make more dinner for two videos, then don't forget to give this a thumbs up and leave me a comment below. Another thing I've noticed is a lot of you are not subscribed. You're watching my videos, but you aren't subscribed. So, hit that subscribe button before you forget. And lastly, if I have not convinced you yet, I don't know what else to do, but you need to check out Sousie. You can scan this QR code right here or you can check the description box below. Click that link. You can try Sousie in your home risk-free for 100 days. You are going to love it. That does it for me today. I'll see you next week. Bye y'all.
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