Are you a home chef trying to feed your family organic meals...without burning a hole in your wallet? What if I gave you a tool to make 10 Freezer-Friendly Organic Dinners (4 servings each!) for $102...that you can have in the freezer in less than 1 hour, hands on time? Let me introduce you to my new organics meal plan… Hey hi my fellow home chef who is trying to … [Read more...]
Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
I love a great bowl of chicken noodle soup. And not just when I'm not feeling well. (Although, it certainly does make me feel better when I'm under the weather.) Now that we're coming up on the winter months, I'll be getting a 'stash' of onions, celery and carrots into the freezer so that I'll have them handy when I need to make another round of this delicious-wonder-pot. … [Read more...]
Dutch Oven Beef Stew
I prefer to make stew in the slow cooker. The slow cooker does a wonderful job of softening the meat as it slow cooks. BUT. There are just some mornings when I don't have my act together and I can't get the slow cooker going...at the same time as packing 4 lunches and getting my little circus of testosterone out the door on time. I end up making stew in the Dutch oven … [Read more...]
Chicken & Dumplings
Can we talk about the word dumplings for a second? Why dumplings? I mean I get it...you're dumping in a dollop of dough into a bubbling pot of soup. But the 'dump' part of that has a bit of a negative ring to it. I'm thinking that these guys are having a branding crisis and need to be 'rebranded' to DARLINGS. Don't you agree??? DARLINGS, not dumplings. Because … [Read more...]
Chicken Enchilada Chili
I really don't like to call any particular meal a 'favorite' because I just love all food. Well, most foods. But if I had a list of absolute favorites, this would rank in the top 10 for sure. Likely the top 5. But definitely the top 10. I love it because it's so budget friendly. It's so tasty. It's so filling (this is crucial criteria when you are feeding 4 hungry boys!). … [Read more...]
Negra Modelo Black Bean and Beef Soup
Remember last week how I told you that the white wine combined with the beef stock makes for a much richer and flavorful French Onion Soup? Well, this week we're turning to beer...specifically Negra Modelo beer. You don't need much and can absolutely substitute with beef broth. BUT...just like the French Onion Soup, the beer brings up the flavors and makes for a … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Chili Mac
This is one of our favorite meals. All the kids enjoy it...and I love that I can make a big batch and freezer ahead too. AND...it's a slow cooker meal. I need you to read the recipe closely so you get the pasta in at the right time. Do NOT add the pasta in at the beginning when slow cooking. It will literally turn into a pile of mush. (Ick.) So...read on, learn how to … [Read more...]
Loaded Baked Potato Soup
If I was asked what kind of soup I'd like to drown myself in, it would be this right here. Really, no one will ever ask me what kind of soup I would want to drown in. But if they did, I would say this. This is lick the bowl clean kind of good. It's thick, it's rich, it's creamy. It's drown-yourself-in-it worthy. What makes this so delicious is that you cook the … [Read more...]
Chicken and Wild Rice Soup
As a kid, my mom would escape the San Antonio heat and take all of us up to northern Minnesota where she grew up and were her family had a small lake cabin. We would stay for weeks and weeks, playing in the cooler than TX summer sun and having all kinds of fun with our cousins and family. It's in northern MN where I fell in love with wild rice. My grandma used to make an … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup
There's a reason I've included this slow cooker recipe for Chicken Tortilla Soup in TWO meal plans using ingredients from Costco! It's because it's awesome. So tasty and easy! Win-win. And, it's freezer friendly, so whip up a double batch so you can enjoy one now and freeze one for a later date. Oh - and don't forget to read my tips on the link below to see how I … [Read more...]