With the recent stress that life has thrown our way, I've really been slacking on cooking meals. Cereal, sandwiches, pizza and dinners out have become the norm. I promised myself that I'd do better this week so here are the recipes that made the list. Next week, we'll focus on healthier meals, but baby steps people.
Italian Sausage Pasta
Boil a box of fettuccine or linguini. Drain.
Add EVOO to a frying pan. Cut a package of Italian sausages into small chunks. (I remove the skin too) and brown these.
When 3/4 cooked. Add half of a small chopped onion and 2 sliced bell peppers (red, orange or yellow taste best, but green works) and finish cooking. Add a large spoon of chopped garlic.
Pour contents of skillet over pasta. Sprinkle with fresh, grated parmesan cheese. Enjoy!
French Onion Chicken and "Baked" Potatoes
Cook 4 large chicken breasts on high in a crockpot for 3 hours. Drain water from chicken, chop or shred into small pieces and return to crock pot.
Mix together one can of French onion soup and a cup of reduced fat sour and dump into crock pot. Cook on high for an hour.
In separate crockpot, cook potatoes. Wash and dry them, stab them, wrap them in foil and cook on high until soft. (Approx 4-6 hours)
*Note: We didn't love this chicken recipe. Keith thinks it would taste better on beef.
Crockpot Sloppy Joes and French fries
Monday night I browned ground beef and onions and stored that in one container and in another container combined the following ingredients:
1/2 cup water
1 8 oz can tomato sauce
1/2 cup ketchup
1 cup BBQ sauce
1/4 brown sugar
4 TBSP yellow mustard
4 TBSP apple cider vinegar
A healthy dash of Franks hot sauce
Tuesday morning it all got dumped in the crockpot and cooked for 8 hours on low.
Oven baked French fries completed the meal.
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