Meat Loaf- Easy and Simple

What you will need:

1-2 lbs ground beef (for 2 people I use 1lb and have leftovers)
1 envelope Lipton Onion Soup Mix
2 eggs
1/3 cup ketchup
3/4 cup water
1 cup bread crumbs
1/2 cup pulp from vegetable juicing (optional but adds a lot of flavor and gives you something to do with the pulp from juicing)
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Beat the eggs then mix all of the other ingredients in a large bowl. Place in a 13X9 baking dish and bake for 1 hour.

Chipotle Roast

You will need:
1-2 lbs of roast
1 envelope of Grill Mates Chipotle Seasoning

Heat the oven to 350. Marinate the roast in the Chipotle seasoning per instructions on back of envelope. Place the roast on a cookie sheet covered with aluminum foil. Pour some of the leftover marinade over the roast. Cook for about 25-40 minutes. I would recommend starting to check the inside of the roast after about 20 minutes to make sure it does not get over cooked.

*** If you are able to marinade the meat ahead of time, I would recommend doing so for a few hours before. Trust me, it is still delicious even if you cannot do this.

I served this dish with a side of sauteed mushrooms and onions.

Creamy Chicken Casserole

This is seriously one of the easiest and most delicious chicken casseroles I have ever made.

Ingredients
~ 4 chicken breasts cooked and cut up
(or whatever is needed for your family)
8 ounces of sour cream (I usually get the low fat or fat free)
1 can of cream of chicken soup
1 package of Ritz crackers
1 stick of butter or margarine (melted)
Poppy seeds

Combine the chicken, sour cream, and cream of chicken soup. Pour into casserole dish. Crush up the crackers and combine with margarine and poppy seeds. Sprinkle over top of the chicken mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Chicken tacos in the crock pot

I work everyday. I leave my house about 7:00-7:15 and get home about 5:45-6:00. I am not complaining, but it makes crock pot cooking hard. Well, GOOD NEWS, if you work like I do, you can still make this recipe. I usually put it all together the night before or in the morning before I leave for work.

Ingredients:
Chicken (I usually use 3 breasts for 2 of us)
1 jar of salsa
1 taco seasoning packet
taco shells

Optional Ingredients (this is what you want to put on your taco!). Below is what I like
avocado or guacamole
cheese
tomatoes
jalapeno
onion

Place the chicken, salsa and taco seasoning in the crock pot. If you would like to cook on low, cook for about 4-6 hours. I cook it on high for about 2 hours. Once the chicken is cooked, it should shred easily wich a fork. You can use the chicken for quesadillas, enchiladas, burritos, tacos, etc. Use the leftovers for taco soup!

CrockPot Roast Beef

Crockpot Roast Beef- SO easy!

This was sent to me by my friend Marissa Joyce. She is published in her church COOKBOOK!



1 Beef Roast- like a pound or so.
1 Can Cream of Mushroom
1 Envelope Dry Onion Soup Mix

Spray the Crockpot with Pam and put the roast in. Stir together cream of mushroom and onion soup
mix, spread over roast. Put on Low all day. Yum. Great with Mashed Potatoes. You can also stick 4 or
so red potatoes in the crockpot with the roast- at the end of the day they will be cooked! Voila- dinner
AND sides!

Taco Casserole

1 1/2 cups rice
1 pound ground beef
1 tomato
1 onion
1 jalapeno
cilantro
taco seasoning packet
2 cups cheese
1 avocado
sour cream

Hear the oven to 350.

Cook the rice. cook the ground beef according to the directions on the taco seasoning packet. chop up the tomato, onion, jalapeno, cilantro and avocado. Place avocado to the side.

In a casserole dish, combine the rice, beef, tomato, jalapeno, cilantro and cheese. Place in oven for 10-15 minutes.

Serve with avocado and sour cream as a garnish.

Mushroom Stroganoff

This is my take from a recipe I heard on the Food Network. I start watching these cooking shows and get so into them, I forget to write down the recipes so I end up making an Emily Fox version of them.

1 bag of egg noodles
4-5 portabello mushrooms
Green onions
12 ounces Beef broth
1 tablespoon flour
salt and pepper
8 ounces sour cream
2-4 ounces of cheese (feta, goat, Gorgonzola, etc)

Cook the egg noodles per the directions on the back of the bag.

Slice up the portabello mushrooms and place in a frying pan with butter. Cook the mushrooms down until they are really soft and appear almost burnt. Add in almost all of the green onions and some salt and pepper. Then add the flour and stir in the beef broth. Stir occasionally until the sauce thickens up.

Stir in the noodles with the mushrooms and then add sour cream and cheese. 

Place the rest of the green onions in the mixture and serve!

Taco Chili

Hey friends, Abbey here.  I wanted to share this recipe with you.  It's one of our favorites.  One of the many reasons I like it, is that I don't have to remember to take the chicken out of the freezer the night before AND it's a crock pot recipe.  You should know how much I'm obsessed with my crockpot by now {grin}.

Taco Chili:
1 onion, chopped.
1 16oz can of the following:

• black beans
• kidney beans
• diced tomatoes (rotel)

1 can of corn (or corn salsa)

1 can of tomatoe sauce

1 tbs of cumin AND chili powder

1 package of taco seasoning

1/4 cup of cilantro

Sides:  Corn bread or rice

Throw all the indregients in the crockpot (except the cilantro and chicken).  Stir and then place chicken on top of everything.  Cook on high for 4 hours.  30 minutes before serving, removed chicken and chop (I put it in the food processor), put back into crockpot and stir it in.  At this time, you will add in the cilantro.

*this could easily be a vegetarian dish, just don't add the chicken!!

Serve over corn bread.  I have served it over jasmine rice, but the corn bread is just better!  Don't forget the sour cream :)

Serves 4 adults.

Enjoy!

Trader Joe's quick dinner

Hey friends, Abbey here.  I wanted to share this super quick, cheap and easy meal.  It made me want to have it again the next night and the next.  But I refrained because when I do that, my hubby gets mad.  Boo.

Here we go:
~Trader Joe's goodies~
Frozen veggie burgers
Frozen Sweet Potatoes
Frozen organic broccoli
Flat burger buns

I steamed the broccoli, baked the fries according to the package (well, a little longer because we like them crispy) and I cooked the patties on our griddle.  I buttered the buns and thew them on the griddle also.  It was so cheap and somewhat healthy.  Of course we added pickles and mustard and ketchup.  The tomatoes I had went bad, but that was the plan to have them with the burgers.

I really need to start taking pictures for you guys!!

Enjoy.