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Philidelphia Cooking Creme

No, this is not soup.  Creamy chicken and noodles is just that, chicken breasts and egg noodles cooked in a creamy sauce.  It’s simple, it’s filling, and it tastes good.  I had all the ingredients to make this Creamy Chicken Florentine but when I went to search for the red peppers, they were nowhere to… [Continue Reading]

Easy, Creamy Chicken Enchiladas

Easy Creamy Chicken Enchiladas

Every since I started meal planning, I have been coming up with really easy, budget friendly recipes like these creamy chicken enchiladas.  I have only been cooking one big meal a day, the 5 O’Clock meal, these days, the only meal that we are all together for. And remember, it’s proven that having a meal… [Continue Reading]

Quick & Easy Ham and Cheese Calzone

Ham and Cheese Calzones

Quick and easy; that seems to be our food motto these days.  With Church & school functions, work, and sports, making a ham and cheese calzone is just one of the easy recipes I’ve been cooking up lately.    It’s a meal that to grab and go which we frequently do with basketball season in full… [Continue Reading]

14 Hours Later, Slow Cooked Short Ribs Were Devoured

slow cooked ribs

Slow Cooked Ribs…mmmmm, sounds heavenly huh?  Well, my guys thought so!  I watched them devour these ‘fattier than I’d like ribs’ that took 14 hours to cook, while I happily savored every moment of my taters. I’m making every effort to make my crockpot feel loved.  I’ve always used it for the basics like beans… [Continue Reading]

French’s Crunchy Onion Chicken

French's Crunchy Onion Chicken

With basketball season in full bloom, dinner starts to become much later in the evening, and that means finding easy meal solutions to get the family fed before it’s already time to hit the hay.  We often look for recipes via the Internet, cookbooks, and our friends but don’t forget about the back of products… [Continue Reading]

Barbacoa Using Cacheta de Res

Barbacoa

In honor of National Hispanic Month, I decided to make Barbacoa.   When I googled some Barbacoa recipes, I noticed that almost of them used butt roast but that isn’t how we make it.   We use Cacheta de Res, aka, Beef Cheeks and this is the only way I’ve known how to make it.  And in… [Continue Reading]

Grilled Flank Steak with Lime

grilled flank steak

A while back Walmart flew me to Bentonville (their headquarters) to create some easy meal solutions.  They filmed a few of us Walmart Moms buying ingredients and making our recipes and today, I have both the recipe and video for you; Grilled Flank Steak with Lime. Warning: I’m terrible on video. I need a new… [Continue Reading]

Asparagus Frittata

Asparagus Frittata

This recipe was submitted by Rachel S for May’s Food Challenge. If you have a recipe with eggs in it, you can enter too! Check it out ’cause there’s a great prize! Thanks Rachel for entering! INGREDIENTS: 8 Eggs Shredding Mozzarella Cheese Asparagus Onions Butter Salt/Pepper (I followed a recipe I found here: http://www.musingsofahousewife.com/2011/05/asparagus-frittata.html –… [Continue Reading]

Buttery Shrimp Scampi with Linguine

Cooking030

Republishing from May 1, 2008. Thought I’d bring back a few old ones….. Just because we get our beef free doesn’t mean we don’t splurge on some shrimp scampi every now and then!  My family (except me) LOVES, LOVES shrimp.  This is a super FAST meal to make, in fact, I would put it in the 30-minute category,… [Continue Reading]

Meal Solutions: Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo

Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo

Another round of Meal Solutions! This week’s ingredient list was very budget friendly and tasted delicious!  I have to admit, I have rarely used Fettuccine so I was excited to for this week.  If you are needing a fast meal, holy cow is this fast y’all!!!  All it takes is boiling the pasta and the… [Continue Reading]

Meal Solutions: Minestrone Soup

minestrone soup

Meal Solutions time!  These week, we had Minestrone soup and it was delicious!  This is very easy to prepare and takes under 30 minutes!  There are still some cool days left before the hot summer gets here so get you some warm soup while you can! This weeks Meal Solution food items from Walmart are:… [Continue Reading]

Meal Solutions: Chicken and Rice, with Tortillas

chicken and rice

The Meal Solution is very budget friendly this week!  With grocery prices on the rise, we are definitely cutting back on elaborate meals.  Please share your ideas as well. I know that we all could use them! INGREDIENTS are: GV Instant Brown Rice 14oz GV Chicken Broth 14.5oz GV Diced Tomatoes 14.5oz GV Whole Kernel… [Continue Reading]

Chicken Fried or Pan Fried, How Do You Cook It?

pan fried steak

Did you even know there’s a different between Chicken Fried Steak and Pan Fried Steak?  Well, there is.  Chicken Fried Steak uses an egg and milk batter, along with flour.  Pan fried only uses flour.  Which one do you prefer? I did Chicken Fried Steak a long time ago but when I started cooking for… [Continue Reading]