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Main Dishes
Crockpot Pickled Roast
Put an inexpensive beef roast into a crockpot, add a large quartered onion, pour in about a cup or more to taste of pickle juice (leftover juice from a jar of pickles, pickled vegetables, or jalepenos), pepper to taste, and water. Don't add salt as the pickle juice contains enough already. Cook as you normally would. Nooo, it doesn't taste like pickles but does have a slight different taste and the pickle juice helps tenderize the beef. It's may favorite winter comfort dish.
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Orange Chicken
Flashback to the 70's! Lay chicken pieces in a greased baking dish, in a single layer. Mix together an envelope of Onion Soup Mix and a 6 oz. container of frozen concentrated orange juice (not reconstituted). Pour over chicken and bake until chicken is done.
After chicken is done, I usually use the pan juices as a gravy for mashed potatoes. ************************************************** ************************************************** ********** Roast
1 pack of onion soup
1 can cream of mushroom
Put in the crockpot and cook for 8 hours. ************************************************** ************************************************** ******** I put a pork roast in the crock pot and dump a can of rotel and a can of diced chilies over it and cook it on low all day until it shreds easily. Serve it with tortillas, sour cream and avocados. Delicious! ************************************************** ************************************************** ********** chicken i saw this on an episode of frugal gourmet a long time ago.put chicken in a crockpot,pieces or just breasts whatever you want. put in cut up green and red peppers,a couple tomatoes,salt ,pepper,garlic and a tablespoon of peanut butter crunchy is better.let it go a long time stir every couple hours.it was called african chicken on the show.it is good with rice.it makes like a rich creamy gravy somewhat tangy Potato Burgers
Grate a raw potato into ground beef before forming into patties.
Cook as usual.
Very juicy and tasty! ************************************************** ************************************************** *********** Cover bottom of 8x8 pan with cooked and drained ground hambuger, add on can of drained corn, small can of tomato sauce, and cover with mashed potatoes. Bake until heated through. You can make this up the day before. I usually serve it with a salad for an easy meal.
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Cook pork chops in skillet, add 1 can crream of mushroom soup and simmer. Use the mushroom soup as gravy.
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Easiest Broccoli Cheese soup
heat
1 can cream of Broccoli soup
1 can milk
velveta cheese to taste (the more cheese the better)
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My orange chicken "cheat" lol...
Put chicken in a baking pan, pour a whole jar of orange marmalade over the chicken and cook til done and "sticky". GREAT orange chicken and so easy!
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Easy Meatball Subs...
Mix burger with bread crumbs and egg, form into balls.
Add meatballs to jar spagheti sauce in a big pot. Cook on low for 30 min. til meatballs are cooked. Put on sub rolls and top with mozzerella cheese. I serve with a garden salad.
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My Mom's
brown 1 lb hamburg (sometimes she used pre-cooked chicken)in a skillet & drain grease
add sliced squash (she used to use yellow & zucini?)
sliced potatoes
can of stewed tomatos
jar of sauce
Simmer until potatoes and squash are cooked.
Can add other vegetables (fresh or frozen)in the last few minutes of cooking.
This was a great big hit in our family. Mom used to make this with the fresh vegetables from the garden. My kids, who usually turn their noses up to vegetables, really love it.
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Boston Burgers....it's a cross between chili and sloppy joes:
1 lb. ground chuck
1 large can baked beans (we like Bush's Original Baked Beans)
1 can (15 oz) tomato sauce
1 envelope chili seasoning
Brown and drain the ground chuck, add the other ingredients and simmer. Serve over open hamburger buns, sprinkle with shredded cheese.
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Garlic Chicken
1 1/2 lbs Chicken breasts cut into strips
flour
butter
1 HEAD of garlic, remove skin and chop up
2 cans chicken boullion or eqivalent to 2 Cups
Add about 1/4 C butter to pan and on med heat LIGHTLY brown garlic. Remove garlic from pan.
Add more butter, about 1/2 C and while it's melting, flour each chicken strip and add to the pan. Cook till done, lightly brown on both sides, remove chicken strips as they become done.
When all chicken is done, add back all pieces of chicken and the chicken broth. Stir well scraping bottom of pan. Bring to boil, then drop heat to low till the flour on the browned chicken thickens the bouillon into a gravy.
Serve over rice or potatoes.
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Marinated flank steak
Mix 1 bottle of Italian dressing with 2 Tblspns of soy sauce. Marinate a flank steak in it overnight. Broil until brown on the outside and light pink in the middle.
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Italian sausage and peppers:
1 to 1 1/2 lbs of mild or hot italian sausage (fresh, in casing)
Put in bowl ( I used tupperware stack cooker large bowl) and either:#1 add 1 inch water, or #2, stack the colendar in (no water needed this way) cover, and cook on high for 7-8 minutes.
Drain water/and/or fat.
Slice sausgages into 4-6 inch slices. Put back into bowl.
Slice and add 2 green peppers (or add other colored peppers, I use whatever is on sale!)
Slice and add one large or two medium onions.
Finally, open and pour one 10 oz can of stewed tomatoes on top of everything.
Cover and cook for 15 minutes on high.
This is even BETTER than when I used to do it stove top style, all day long, with tomato paste and a bunch of seasonings, etc.
Today, to add to it, I used gonella bread buns, and I laid a slice of mozzarella cheese into the bun before I filled it with my sausage, peppers, onions and tomatos.
IT WAS THE MOST TENDER, TASTY sausage we've ever eaten! The skin even melted in your mouth!
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Clam Linguine
Just get a can of chopped clams..Mix together with linguine(1/2-1lb), oil to coat pasta and add chopped onions (you can saute them or put them in as is depending on your tastes)..Top with parsley flakes for color..simple, but it must be the textures together which always makes it taste good..Add a little garllic toast on the side..Dish tastes better right after it is cooked..
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