Our house gets ridiculously hot in the summer – it faces west, so it is burning up between 4-9 pm. I’ve decided to use the crockpot more because it emits much less heat than the oven or stove, and also because it’s so much easier to toss stuff into a crockpot!
I made this tonight and [...]
Archive for the ‘comfort food’ Category
3 Jul
Slow-Cooker Tex-Mex Chicken
23 Jun
Honey-Mustard BBQ Chicken Sandwiches
We needed something quick and easy to eat (since I am having a root canal Wednesday, I can’t eat too many things). This was *very* good! We’ll probably make it again on our vacation next month.
Honey Mustard BBQ Chicken Sandwiches
3 lb. rotisserie chicken
1 1/2 cups bottle BBQ sauce – basically a whole bottle (I used [...]
27 May
Chicken and Rotini Soup
This recipe came from a small cookbook I received in the mail from the American Heart Association called Love Your Heart.
Chicken & Rotini Soup
Vegetable Oil Spray
8 oz. boneless, skinless chicken breasts, fat trimmed, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
2 (14 or 14.5 oz) cans fat-free, low-sodium chicken broth
1 medium red bell pepper, thinly sliced and cut [...]
11 Apr
My chicken salad experiment
Every once in a while, we will have potlucks at work. Mainly because all we do at work is talk about food and new recipes, etc. – and it’s always healthy stuff (ha). I signed up to make chicken salad, originally thinking I would just go to Costco and get the best chicken salad ever [...]
4 Feb
Beef Tortilla Casserole
I will admit – I have been super lazy this week (sick dog, general laziness, you know how it is) but this looked really good to me. This is in no way healthy, and I don’t even want to know how much sodium I am about to digest, but it sure smells good in the [...]
13 Jan
Pizza Casserole
My sister makes this all the time, so I decided to give it a shot last night. It did not disappoint! I believe it is 6 WW points per serving (of course, you could probably make it healthier or less healthy if you wanted to). Kevin wants to make a BBQ Chicken Pizza Casserole next. [...]
28 Oct
Chicken Pie
Sounds kinda gross, right? It isn’t pretty, and it’s REALLY not healthy, but it is SO so tasty. I found this recipe in Trisha Yearwood’s cookbook (her cookbook reminded me a LOT of Paula Deen’s books), and it is a definite keeper. It’s almost like chicken and dumplings, but easier!
It didn’t set up like I [...]
2 Sep
I love pork.
This morning, Kevin mentioned one of the recipes I had starred in my Google Reader (if you are my friend, you are no doubt inundated with starred items from me – ha!) and I asked him if he wanted to have it for dinner tonight since I had nothing planned. Of course he said yes, [...]
22 Jul
Mini Meat Loaves
Mini Meat Loaves
1/2 cup ketchup
1 1/2 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
1 lb. ground sirloin
3/4 cup finely chopped onion
1/4 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. dried oregano
1/8 tsp. black pepper
1 large egg, lightly beaten
Cooking spray
1. Preheat the oven to 400°.
2. Combine ketchup and mustard, stirring well with a whisk. Reserve 2 1/2 Tbsp. ketchup mixture. Combine remaining ketchup [...]
29 Mar
Creamy Hash Browns
Creamy Hash Browns
1 package (2 lbs) frozen cubed hash brown potatoes
2 cups (8 oz) cubed or shredded Velveeta
2 cups (16 oz) sour cream
1 can condensed cream of celery soup, undiluted
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
1 lb. sliced bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 large onion, chopped
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
1/4 tsp. pepper
Place potatoes in [...]
