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Ship Wreck Casserole – Vintage Recipe

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on October 13, 2010

This Vintage Recipe caught me by surprise. I didn’t think it was going to “work”…but it did! At least we thought it did…

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Slow Cooker Curried Coconut Chicken – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on October 4, 2010

Take just 4 minutes to load your slow cooker and a few hours later your house will smell like a Thai restaurant…

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Stuffed Green Chile Chicken

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 18, 2010

So I grabbed some green chilies a few weeks ago when I was stocking up (and going over-budget, sigh!)…and I had plans to make a green chile chicken in the slow cooker…but decided to pound out the chicken and roll it around the green chilies instead.  I paired this with brown rice, corn kernels and [...]

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Scampi Tilapia – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 2, 2010

I dug some tilapia fillets out of the freezer. I bounced out to the garden to pick some fresh parsley from the garden, thinking I was going to do the same old Lemon-Dill Tilapia thing (that’s my fall back for when I’m feeling uninspired)…but of course, I opened the fridge to grab the lemon juice…and [...]

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Double Bean Stuffed Green Peppers

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 27, 2010

Thought I’d replace the traditional beef in Stuffed Green Peppers with some black and red kidney beans instead.  And I’m glad I did!  The “filling” is so delicious and fresh…and it be great rolled up in a tortilla for lunch. (That’s what I’ll be having for lunch tomorrow.) Ingredients 1 cup brown rice ($.40) 1 [...]

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Beef and Mushroom Kebabs – $5 Dinner Challenge

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 26, 2010

I made these the other night…I made an extra trip to the store to get the ingredients needed for this morning’s news segment…and spotted some $.99 whole mushrooms.  I see them often for $.99 in the mark down basket in the produce section. I found more this morning…sliced this time. I don’t typically buy extra [...]

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Stuffed Poblano Peppers

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on July 7, 2010

(Sorry about the funny photos this week…I posted them from our desktop and it does weird things to them?!) Here’s what I love about this recipe. You can make a ton of the “filling” and use it so many different ways! The recipe for the filling that I will post below will easily stretch into [...]

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Teriyaki Chicken Kebabs

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on June 8, 2010

Twitter knows everything. It even knows what you’re having for dinner tonight. (Well, only if you ask.) It really does. It’s never let me down. A recent tweet of mine: “Looking for a dinner idea for tonight that involves chicken and a grill…anyone?” And I liked Carrie‘s idea best. Teriyaki Chicken Kebabs it is! Would [...]

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Repurposing: Brown Rice

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on June 2, 2010

Brown rice. It’s my preferred rice.  We have white rice on occasion, usually when I’m running behind and forget to start the brown rice in time to cook (it takes at least 45 minutes to cook.) But I have found that I only like brown rice “fresh.”  Therefore, I typically don’t make “extra”, unless I’m [...]

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Grilled Balsamic Chicken

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on May 26, 2010

So it’s almost 90 today here in Ohio. I’m sure it’s some sort of heat record. And if it’s not it should be. It’s making me tired. And cranky. And the bazillion little cottonwood seeds drifting through the air, and some other pollen are wrecking havoc on my allergies.  (I just took a Benadryl, so if [...]

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