Slow Cooker Chili

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 pound ground turkey -or beef
2  cans chopped tomatoes
1 can corn
2 cans kidney beans, drained
1 can black beans, drained
1/2 medium onion, chopped
1 tablespoon chili powder
1/2 tablespoon garlic powder
1/2 tablespoon ground cumin
1 pinch ground black pepper
1 pinch ground allspice
salt to taste

Directions:
-Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Place ground meat in the skillet, and cook until evenly brown; drain.
-Coat the inside of a slow cooker with cooking spray, and mix in turkey, tomato soup, kidney beans, black beans and onion. Season with chili powder, garlic powder, cumin, black pepper, allspice and salt.
-Cover, and cook 8 hours on Low or 4 hours on High.

Tortilla Soup

Ingredients:
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
1/4 tsp minced garlic
2 14 oz cans or 4c chicken broth
2 14 oz cans stewed tomatoes, chopped, with liquid
1 c salsa
2 tbs cilantro
1c sweet corn

Extras:
onions, grated cheese, avacodas, chips, tortillias, sour cream, anything you would put in a taco


Directions:
-Cook and shred chicken
-put all ingredients (not extras) into crockpot
-Cover and cook on high for 4-6 hours or low for 8-10
-serve in bowls with extras on top

Macaroni and Cheese

Ingredients:2 cups Macaroni
2 Tbsp margarine/butter
¼ cup flour
2 cup milk
salt
pepper
1 cup shredded cheese
16 slices cheese



Directions:-Cook macaroni as directed.
-Melt margarine in sauce pan,
-add flour, mix well,
-add milk, stir until thickened.
-Add shredded cheese. Stir until melted.
-Salt and Pepper to taste.
-Mix cheese sauce and macaroni.
-Spray a 9x13 pan.
-Layer macaroni then 8 cheese slices.
-Next layer, than last 8 cheese slices.
-Bake at 350 for 30 mins. or cheese is melted.

BBQ Ribs

INGREIDENTS:
rack of ribs
1 bottle of bbq sauce

DIRECTIONS:
Cut ribs into 2 or 3 rib sections - put in large pot, fill with water and put on slow boil for 2 hours - pre heat oven to 350. - Drain ribs and put on cookie sheet - cover in sauce - cover with foil - bake for 30 min - turn ribs and add sauce - bake 30 more min - last 15 min uncover and add more sauce if needed.

Tuna Pasta

INGREDIENTS: pasta
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can tuna

DIRECTIONS:
cook pasta - drain - add soup and drained tuna - mix and serve

Easy Chicken Pot Pie

Ingredients:
2 frozen pie shells
1can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 C. milk
1 bag frozen mixed vegetables
2 C. cooked chopped chicken
1 tsp. minced garlic
1 small onion
Coarse ground black pepper, to taste


Preparation:Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Take pie shells out of freezer, separate, lay one pie shell flat, leaving the other in the pie pan, and thaw for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, defrost frozen veggies in microwave; chop and sautee onion. Mix chicken, defrosted veggies, sauteed onion, garlic, soup and milk in large mixing bowl. Pour into pie shell; top with flattened pie shell. Pinch edges together and poke holes in top crust. Bake for about 30-40 minutes or until crusts are done.

Anything Goes Un-pizza

INGREDIENTS:
2 cans of pre-made crescents/croissants
1 can of chicken
assorted chopped veggies;
mushrooms, tomatoes, broccoli, onions, peppers, olives
1 pkg. cream cheese
1/2 c - 1c grated cheese

DIRECTIONS:
mix everything but croissants in a bowl. Unroll four croissants on cookie sheet to form square. Attach the rest of the croissants from widest part of croissant out. When finished it should look like a star. Pile cheese, veggie, chicken mix on top. Carefully pull tip of croissant into center of mixture. Bake at 375 for 20 to 25 minutes.

Fry Bread

Ingredients:
2 c. flour
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
3 tbs. shortning
1/3 c. milk
2/3 c. to 3/4 c. warm water

Directions:
Combine the ingredients and slowly add enough warm water to form dough. On a lightly floured surface, knead dough until it is smooth, soft, and not sticky. Cover and let rest 1 hour. Shape into small balls and pat into flat circles about 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Set aside.
In a skillet, heat 1/2 inch. vegetable oil. Brown dough circles on each side and drain on paper towels.

Serving Options:
*Serve with taco meat, chile beans and all of your other taco toppings for Indian Tacos.
-or-
*Serve with butter and jam
-or-
*Serve with butter and cinnamon and sugar

Lemon Chicken

Ingredients:

Chicken:
4 Chicken Breasts
1-2 c. flour
salt and pepper to taste
vegetable oil

Lemon Sauce:
1 1/2 c. water
1/2 c. lemon juice
3 1/2 tbs. brown sugar
3 tbs. honey
2 tsp. chicken bouillon
1/2 tsp ginger
3 tbs. cornstarch

Directions:

Chicken:
Add pepper and salt to flour. Put flour into zip lock bag. Slice chicken into strips. Place chicken into bag and shake until chicken is chicken is coated.
heat vegetable oil in pan, when hot, fry chicken until golden brown.

Lemon Sauce:
Mix all ingredients and heat in pan over medium heat. Stir well so it doesn't clump. Takes about 5 min. to thicken.

Serve over rice with chicken and sauce on top.

Inside-Out Ravioli

preheat= 350
cook time= 30min.

Ingredients:
1 lb. ground beef
1/2 c. chopped onion
1 tsp. garlic
10 oz. frozen chopped spinach
1 jar spaghetti sauce
1 can mushrooms
8 oz. tomato sauce
6 oz. tomato paste
1/2 tsp salt
dash pepper
2 c. macaroni cooked and drained
1 c. grated cheese
1/2 c. bread crumbs
2 beaten eggs
1/4 c. veg oil

Directions:
Cook macaroni. Cook spinach, drain saving liquid, add water to make 1 cup. Brown ground beef, onion, and garlic.
Add spinach liquid and next five ingredients. Simmer for about 10 min.
Mix spinach, macaroni , and rest of ingredents. Spread into 13x9 in. pan. Top with meat sauce. Cook

Creamy Cheesy Crockpot Chicken

Cook Time: 3 or 4 hours on high

Ingredients:

4 chicken breasts
1/4 c. water ( I think this needs more water)
1 pkg cream cheese
1 can cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup
salt and pepper to taste
Italian seasonings

Directions:
Put 1/4 c. water in to crockpot. Place in Chicken breasts ( do not need to be thawed). Add salt, pepper, and seasonings. Cook 1 hour on high. After 1 hour cut chicken breasts in half. Add cream cheese and soup. mix .Cook for remaining time
Serve over rice.

Italian Meat Loaf

Preheat oven= 350
Cook time= 1 hour

Ingredients:

Meat Mixture:
1/2 c. cracker crumbs
1 & 1/2 lbs. ground beef
6 oz. tomato paste (2/3 c.)
2 eggs
1/2 c. chopped onion
1/4 c. chopped green pepper
3/4 tsp salt
dash of pepper

Middle Mixture:
1/2 c. cracker crumbs
12 oz. cottage cheese (1 1/2 c.)
3 oz. chopped mushrooms (1/2 c.)
1 tbsp parsley
1/4 tsp oregano

Directions:
Mix meat mixture together. Pat half of mixture into 8x8x2 pan.
Mix middle mixture together. Spread on top of meat.
Top with the rest of the meat mixture.
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