My refrigerator is slowly dying and I again needed an emergency dinner so I turned to my trust crock pot. I LOVE my crock pot! I had frozen stew beef and needed to make something so the easiest way for me to cook is my crock pot. Ingredients: 1 1/2 lbs. stew beef well-trimmed 1…
Month: September 2012
Cheesy Ranch Potato and Chicken Casserole
So the chicken I have been planning on using in fried chicken is still frozen after 3 days. Time for a new refrigerator. But, in the meantime I still have to feed my family. I decided to put together what I had on hand into a casserole and hope for the best. Ingredients: 1…
Paula Deen’s – Bobby’s Goulash
There is a story for this recipe as there almost always seems to be. I had planned on making Buttermilk fried chicken tonight but when I went to take the chicken out of the refrigerator it was still frozen solid! After two days of “thawing” in the refrigerator I couldn’t even break the chicken into…
Creamy Pizza Margherita
I freely admit that I am a sucker for the grocery store easy meal preparation stations. The reason I bought the ingredients for this recipe was that it was an easy dinner and the smell of basil wafting through the store was too hard to resist the temptation not to buy the ingredients and make…
Chicken Stuffed with Ricotta, Tomato, Spinach and Basil
As with many of my recipes I found the basis for this one on Pinterest. Now mine turned out looking nothing like the one on Pinterest but it was DELICIOUS! I started with the recipe on Fortheloveofcooking.net Ingredients: 1 small container ricotta cheese Large handful of baby spinach, chopped Large handful of grape tomatoes, diced…
French Toast Casserole
I had half a loaf of Italian Bread leftover from last night’s dinner that I needed to use before it turned stale so I found a recipe for French Toast Casserole on-line that looked good. I started with this recipe for French Toast Casserole and then modified it according to the suggestions in the comments…
Croque Monsieur
This was a hard meal to get a really good picture of as the top was all white with cheesy cream sauce. My children were especially fearful of this dish until I told them it was a toasted ham and cheese with cheese sauce on top. They were all for it after that….
Crock Pot Jambalya
This is not in any way “real” Jambalaya. This is my creation with what I had on hand to make a Jambalya-esque meal. I am trying to use as many ingredients in my cooking as I can find in my pantry without having to go by new spices and ingredients. Ingredients: Chicken Andouille Sausage –…
Ham and Egg Cups
Dinner on Thursdays has become breakfast for dinner. I found this recipe in a Rachel Ray magazine although it is not a Rachel Ray recipe. Ingredients: 1 dozen slices of deli Virginia Baked Ham 1 dozen eggs diced green pepper, red pepper and onion (about 2/3 cup total) 1/2 cup of shredded Parmesan cheese…
Crockpot Pulled Pork
This is not the best picture of dinner but it was amazing! It was a perfect back to school week dinner. Ingredients: One Pork Loin – mine was 3 1/2 lbs. One Can of Coke 1-2 Bottles of Sweet Baby Ray’s Honey barbeque Sauce Directions: I put a pork loin in the crock pot on…
St. Bernard Hot Dogs
So with back to school and dance classes starting time is getting stretched thin again. Last night we made a take on one of our favorite hot dogs from a restaurant back home, The St. Bernard. The picture is not very good but they were yummy! Ingredients: Your favorite brand of hot dogs Hot dog…
What Happened? Life…
I started out the year with the best intentions. Then as sometimes happens life decided to get in the way. We got married at the end of May which was expected. What was not expected was the amount of preparation just prior to the ceremony and reception. I thought I could get away with maybe…
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