Chicken and Rice Night is about to get an upgrade in flavor! If you love chicken and rice casseroles, here's a popular one made in the Instant Pot! Here's a pictorial for you... Cut chicken into bite size pieces and saute with oil, garlic and onion. Add the rice and stock. Pressure cook. Fluff the rice and chicken, after it's been pressure … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Ravioli
LOVE LOVE LOVE this one! This is going to become our new "Sunday Supper" - after church meal, I think! It cooks in 4 hours in the slow cooker (5 hours, if cooking from frozen!), so I can start it in the morning when I'm making my coffee and it's ready by the time we get home from church. Or... You can make it in the afternoon, or on a weekend when you don't have enough … [Read more...]
Skillet Rigatoni and Sausage Recipe
We love skillet meals around the Chase household. They're hearty, filling, and super quick (and mindless!) to prepare on busy weeknights. While many of my favorite skillet meals are made all in the same skillet, this one the pasta is cooked separately and tossed in after the meat-tomato-cream sauce is prepared. This recipe is easy to adapt - you could sub jarred marinara for … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken Tacos
This shredded chicken is so simple, yet soooooooooooo gooooooooooooood. (Sorry, sometimes I get carried away with letters, and other times with punctuation. If you only knew how many !!!!'s I've deleted in almost 10 years of blogging online. Like for reals, my friends are always teasing me. But I'm just a happy person, and I like to communicate my happy with !!!!s. Because … [Read more...]
Feeding Your Family Without Heating Your Home
With the oppressive summer heat, you may find yourself wondering how to feed your family without making the situation worse in your home. If you have no air conditioning this can be vital, and if you do you still risk making your unit work harder than it truly needs to. It doesn't take long into a hot summer to get sick of sandwiches and need to find a bit of verity for your … [Read more...]
Coconut Lime Chicken Skillet
This chicken was GONE. It flew right out of the skillet, right onto our dinner plates and right into all the bellies! I actually made a double portion of what's below because I knew my boys would love this - because they love curries, and this is basically a tamed down curry with focus on the lime and the coconut, and less on the kick and spice that comes from curry … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice
You wanna make that amazing "chipotle rice" in your Instant Pot? Here's how... I've taken our Instant Pot Sticky Rice recipe and given it the Chipotle twist and the result is, wellllll...you can see for yourself. You can almost taste it, can't ya! With this cooking method, we are going to "toast the rice" and then "shock the rice" and then "pressure cook the … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Chicken & Sausage Alfredo
If you've ever wondered how you transform a pasta skillet meal into an Instant Pot skillet meal, this is how. Read the directions closely...especially the part about how much liquid is needed! ENJOY! Instant Pot Chicken & Sausage Alfredo Creamy and full of flavor! 2 large boneless chicken breasts2 links smoked pre-cooked sausage1 Tbsp olive oil1 … [Read more...]
Salmon & Asparagus Foil Packs
Before you get all "but salmon isn't a $5 Dinner" on me...hear me out... This is one of our newer MyFreezEasy recipes and I wanted to share it hear because it's so simple, yet so delicious! It's an "herb compound butter" that melts all over the salmon in the foil pack and the asparagus steams inside the pack while the salmon is cooking. It's a magical foil-pack meal and I … [Read more...]
31 Days of 5-Ingredient Meals
REPOST: This is a repost onto the blog of the super popular 31 Days of 5-Ingredient Meals series. I've been giddy excited to share these recipes in this month's series with you because..... I'm busy. I need quick and simple meals. I need easy to make meals. I need meals without a ton of crazy ingredients. I need new ideas. I'm stuck in a dinner … [Read more...]