Beef


Dutch Oven Pulled Beef with Onions – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on February 6, 2012

This is one of those “oops…I forgot to start the slow cooker” meals! I had the roast, I had planned to slow cook the roast. (This is the meal I was intending to make!) But I forgot to put my slow cooker on the counter the night before…so I completely forgot to get our dinner [...]

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Chili with Cheddar Biscuits {Smitten Kitchen}

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on January 27, 2012

Genius photo. Genius concept. Genius recipe from Smitten Kitchen. Beef Chili with Cheddar Biscuits  

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Baked Chili-Cheese Dogs {On the Woodside}

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on January 26, 2012

Photo Credit: On the Woodside I don’t eat hot dogs very often, but when I do…it’s like this… Baked Chili-Cheese Dogs

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It’s Chili Week!!!

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on January 25, 2012

It’s a half-week theme week this week! Theme: CHILI It’s cold out. My heart and my tummy are craving comfort food. Warm comfort food. Cozy, warm, comfort food. Cozy, warm, delicious comfort food. And that food is chili. There are probably 12,238 ways to make chili. It seems like the kind of meal that you [...]

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I’ve shared 2 recipes that are perfect for your winter meal plan over on SCJohnson.com recently! Beef Roast with Winter Vegetables Tortellini Soup Bon Appetit!

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Thai Beef Cabbage Roll Bake – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on January 9, 2012

The timing was perfect, the sales were perfect…and the ingredients in my pantry seemed to leap out at me as I was working up meal ideas and plans for this month.  I remember Alea’s Cabbage Rolls from last year, and I’d be wanting to try something similar. Cabbage rolls (and lettuce wraps) work wonderfully for [...]

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This year’s “Taste Test, Breakstone’s Battle of the Kitchen Bloggers” is almost over. Almost! But don’t worry…there is still plenty of time to enter to win the weekly cash prizes…as the last round of voting happens in these final 2 weeks of the battle. You might think…3 recipes all using Breakstone’s sour cream…in the same [...]

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Can I tell you a secret!? Promise not to tell anyone. Will you pinky swear?! Because if you’ll pinky swear, then I’ll tell you. Ok…come here, because I’ll only whisper it. Ready. Shhh. I really don’t like turkey. Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone, K?! Yes. It’s true. I sorta like turkey. But not really. But I [...]

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This quick and easy recipe was inspired by mushy salad greens. I had plans to make taco salad and had already started browning the hamburger when I pulled the lettuce out of the refrigerator and discovered it had turned. I didn’t have a lot of time to come up with a new dinner plan. I surveyed the cupboards [...]

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Cheesesteak Sloppy Joes – Friday Night Bite

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on September 30, 2011

There was a lot of buzz at the start of 2011 about “your word for the year”…and if I had to pick a word then, and a word now, I’d say simplicity. I’ve been reading the book Abundant Simplicity, and in doing so, thinking alot about our time in the Dominican Republic, the slower pace [...]

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