Two Slow Cooker Meals I’m Planning To Make

Working Woman’s Chicken and Rice with brown rice instead of rice a roni, and green beans

What I like about recipes on FoodGeeks is you can scale the recipes up or down. The chicken and rice recipe originally served 4, I scaled it up to serve 6 so there would be enough for the five [...]

Goulash

My family loves Schwan’s goulash, so I went looking for a recipe so I could make it myself. I found this recipe here – http://www.buzzle.com/articles/goulash-hamburger.html

Goulash with Ground Beef and Elbow Macaroni

INGREDIENTS:

* 1 tablespoon olive oil

* 1 lb. ground beef

* 1 clove garlic, crushed

* 1 onion, minced

* 1 box [...]

Coffee-Braised Pot Roast with Caramelized Onions

Coffee-Braised Pot Roast with Caramelized Onions source: Lifescript “7 Scrumptious Dinners for Dieters”

This recipe is reminiscent of a pot roast made with onion-soup mix, but you won’t miss the excess sodium. Although it’s not the leanest cut of beef, chuck is still our choice for pot roast because it doesn’t dry out during [...]

Italian Style Pot Roast

Italian Style Pot Roast

INGREDIENTS:

3 or 4lb. chuck roast

Large bulb of garlic

Fresh rosemary and thyme

1 whole onion cut into large chunks

Canned diced tomatoes (fire roasted if possible) about 15oz

Whole carrots, scraped clean and cut into large chunks

2/3rds of a bottle of good red wine

1 1/2 cups [...]

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EASY SALSA [...]

Martha Stewart’s Slow Cooker Pot Roast

From marthastewart.com, found through delish. I’ve never seen a pot roast recipe that called for tossing the carrots and onions with a cornstarch/water mixture. I would also add cut up baking potatoes as well.

Martha Stewart’s Slow Cooker Pot Roast:

INGREDIENTS: 1 tablespoon(s) cornstarch 8 medium carrots, cut into thirds 2 medium onions, each cut [...]

Cheese & Burger Society T-shirt Giveaway, 5 Winners

You might think it’s a burger with cheese, but if you ask the Wisconson Milk Marketing Board, there’s a REASON that it’s called a cheeseburger and not a burger-with-cheese. The cheese makes the cheeseburger what it is!

On their new microsite Cheese and Burger, the WMMB has 30 burger “concepts” in a format that is [...]

This Week’s Menu 07/27/09

Having just got back from BlogHer yesterday afternoon, I want the easiest meals I can make this week.Plus, my husband gets paid on Wednesday so for tonight and tomorrow it’s whatever I can find in the freezer and pantry.  Here’s what I’m planning:

Monday- Slow Cooker boneless skinless chicken breast with barbecue sauce, steamed broccoli [...]

Savory Grilled Steak

My husband requested steak for Father’s Day, so this is the recipe I’m using:

1/2 cup A.1. Original Steak Sauce 1/2 cup KRAFT Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing 2 small cloves garlic, minced 1 tsp. dried oregano leaves 2 beef rib-eye steaks (1 lb.)

MIX all ingredients except steaks; reserve 1/4 cup. Pour remaining steak sauce mixture [...]

Menu Monday May 18

I’m going with tried-and-true recipes this week for chili, spaghetti sauce, and chicken, plus a soup-and-sandwich meal.  For more recipes, check out the home of Menu Plan Monday at I’m an Organizing Junkie.

Monday: Easy Salsa Chili

Tuesday: Chicken Broccoli Rice Divan

Wednesday: Slow Cooker Beefy Spaghetti Sauce (Can’t find the recipe, will post [...]