All your favorite Asian flavors cooked together in this simple Asian Chicken skillet dinner! Please note that you're cooking the rice with the other ingredients in this dinner, so you'll want to use a variety of rice that cooks up in about 20 minutes. If you are a brown rice fanatic and only cook with it, then you'll need to pre-cook the brown rice and adjust the liquid called … [Read more...]
Sweet Potato & Chicken Sausage Hash
If only my stomach were a little larger. Because if it were, I would have tried to eat this entire skillet. All by myself. This Sweet Potato Chicken Sausage Hash is a phenomenal combination of sweetness, heartiness and warmth. It's a great, simple meal that will warm your tummy on these FRIGID COLD DAYS. {And yes, it's totally okay to stand over the skillet to keep … [Read more...]
Dilled Tomato Sauce over Rice & White Beans
How does your family feel about tomato sauce? I mean, we all know pasta is the greatest thing since sliced bread. But the love of the sauce is important here. Because this recipe is a Mediterranean twist on tomato sauce and is served over rice. A couple of tricks to make this recipe super easy for you: If your family isn't particularly fond of the tough skin on grape … [Read more...]
Spinach & Bacon Frittata
We're a week into the 31 Days of Skillet Dinner recipes and I'm wondering if you've seen a method to my Skillet Dinner madness yet? There a few different 'concepts' for skillet cooking...there's the pasta and meat concept. There's the breakfast in a skillet concept. There's the chicken and rice concept. The stir-fry way of skillet-ing. And there's also the frittata … [Read more...]
Creamy Ranch Chicken Skillet Dinner
So this is seriously, slamming delicious. Like, gourmet restaurant delicious. I'm not sure if it's the homemade 'cream of mushroom' sauce {photo tutorial below} or the homemade ranch dressing mix. It's probably the combination of the ranch and mushroom flavors, all cream-ified together. Whatever it is, it's slamming delicious. Like Ka-Bam. Slam. Jam. Delicious. My … [Read more...]
Chorizo Frittata
Love me some chorizo! It's my favorite kind of breakfast taco to order from our nearby jalisco. (A jalisco is a type of Tex-Mex restaurant here in San Antonio, specializing in food made from the Jalisco region in Mexico.) There's one about 10 minutes from our house that has the very.best.breakfast.tacos.ever. We don't go out for breakfast very often (once every 2 months … [Read more...]
Salsa, Black Bean and Beef Skillet Dinner
We are throwing way back to 2010 for this skillet dinner recipe my friend. Beef + Black Beans + Salsa + Rice = simple, crazy cheap, yet delicious meal. And the recipe says to serve corn on the side, but you could get wild and toss it into the skillet! (One less dish to wash!) Hope you enjoy this super simple 'pantry staples' dinner that you might even be able to make … [Read more...]
20 Meals from ANY GROCERY STORE – Slow Cooker Freezer Packs, 2nd Edition
Happy New Year friend! The 6th plan is another 'Slow Cooker Freezer Pack' plan with a set of brand new recipes. I have pulled together a fantastic list of recipes for this newest plan and they can all be assembled into packs that you can freeze and quickly thaw and dump into the slow cooker. You've got dinner under control when you've got these goodies stashed in the … [Read more...]
Ham & Potatoes Saute with Baked Eggs
Brinner, Brinner, Ham and Hashbrowns for Brinner! (Or weekend breakfast works too!) Check out this super scrumptious and fantabulous breakfast skillet idea. It's sauteed potatoes and peppers (either fresh or frozen Potatoes O'Brien blend) plus some ham and eggs. You could even get crazy during Dr. Seuss's birthday week and add some diced avocado on top for a 'green eggs … [Read more...]
Skillet Macaroni with Swiss Chard
Don't think your family will eat chard? Then they haven't tried this skillet macaroni yet. (Seriously, you have to make them try it. Or if you think they will adamantly refuse, you can substitute spinach for the chard. And if they refuse that, then I can't help! ;) ) But I find masking it in a delicious pasta, topped with some Parmesan, shouldn't garner too many complaints. … [Read more...]