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Weeknight Spinach Lasagna Skillet

January 12, 2015 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 9 Comments

Welp, I couldn't not include a skillet lasagna recipe in this month's 31 Days of Skillet Dinner series. So here it is. I adore lasagna. While my mom isn't known for her skills in the kitchen, she can make a mean lasagna! I adore her lasagna. I adore any lasagna. I should clarify...I adore the taste of lasagna. The pasta with the flavorful tomato sauce and richness and tang … [Read more...]

Chorizo Rice Skillet Dinner

January 11, 2015 by Jenn K Leave a Comment

Chorizo Rice Skillet Dinner from 5DollarDinners.com

Chorizo. I recently revealed my love for chorizo. I love it in breakfast tacos, frittatas and skillet dinners too. The chorizo brings such a wonderful depth of flavor any dish, including this rice skillet dinner! This particular recipe has your meat, your carbs and your veggies all cooked together...making it a 'one dish dinner' and one of my favorites for filling up … [Read more...]

Asian Chicken Skillet

January 10, 2015 by Jenn K Leave a Comment

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

January 9, 2015 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 9 Comments

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

January 8, 2015 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

Dilled Tomato Sauce over Rice and White Beans | 5DollarDinners.com

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

January 8, 2015 by Jenn K 3 Comments

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

January 7, 2015 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 5 Comments

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

January 7, 2015 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

Breakfast Chorizo Frittata | 5DollarDinners.com

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

January 6, 2015 by Jenn K Leave a Comment

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

January 5, 2015 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 7 Comments

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...]

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