Instant Pot Pastas are my new MOST FAVORITE THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD. For now, anyways. Because my other favorite thing in the whole wide world is the Multi-Cooker. I'm beginning to think I have a small kitchen appliance problem. But it's really a "I just need these adorable devices to take care of dinner for me" problem. And they both do an amazing job at that. And … [Read more...]
Asian Beef Lettuce Wraps
Crunch-munch-YUM! We're doing fakeout-takeout at home today! This simple ground beef, cooked in a delicious hoisin-based sauce...with some crunchy veggies...all wrapped up in some large iceburg or Bibb lettuce ---> fabulous and simple weeknight skillet dinner! Did my boys eat this in lettuce wrap? No. They ate this in tortillas and Steve and I enjoyed the lettuce … [Read more...]
Buttery Salmon
I love a simple salmon fillet. Especially one that's dripping in butter and seasoning. Salmon is such a great meal, but it's usually pretty expensive at the store. And often unadvertised, if/when it's on sale. Every time I'm in the store, I buzz by the seafood counter between the produce and meat sections and I always scan the price tags, looking for salmon, cod and … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Citrus Salmon Foil Packs
So flaky, tender and flavorful! We love foil pack meals - they are great for grilling out in the backyard, for baking in the oven on a chilly late winter weeknight, AND in the INSTANT POT. That's right - drop those foil packs into the Instant Pot and let it take care of the cooking for you. Because the way that an electric pressure cooker uses heat and pressure to … [Read more...]
Multi-Cooker Pineapple Chicken
Stir-fry. Ground beef based chili. Slow cooker meals. Stir-fry turned slow cooker meals. Chicken bakes. Roasts. These are just a few of my favorite type of recipe to cook in a multi-cooker. I ADORE the multiple cooking functions (hence, multi-cooker name) and how you can brown ground beef and then turn into chili - all in the same pot. Or brown a roast to seal in all the … [Read more...]
French Onion Chicken
Let's take all the great flavors of French Onion soup and make some chicken......in the slow cooker, shall we?! That's exactly what this recipe is - the chicken slow cooking the day away, soaking up all the amazing flavors of French onion soup - beef stock, Italian seasoning, onions. Then at the end of slow cooking, it's stopped with Swiss and Parm AND mozz. … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Puttanesca Sauce
Y'all. You all. You guys. I generally don't like writing to the "collective" or the $5 Dinners community in general. But this one deserves a Y'ALL. As if I were giving a live cooking workshop and was all - Y'ALL have to add this to your meal plan, like right now. Because Y'ALL. Side note: I got tagged in a FB post this weekend from a couple was in … [Read more...]
Creamy Tortellini Soup
Oh, how I wish I had more of this in my freezer! This soup is DIVINE. It's flavors are magical, as they spend the day melting and marrying together in the slow cooker. The marinara, the fresh basil, the chicken stock. And then the tortellini and the cream. D-I-V-I-N-E. This is the perfect kind of soup to make to help push us through to spring! It's ALMOST … [Read more...]
Dump Dinners Challenge – How Fast Can You Prep 6 Freezer Meals?
You up for some fun in the kitchen?? Like racing kind of fun?! With 4 boys in my house, E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G is a competition. Like, seriously everything. And I'm a bit competitive myself and love a good challenge. In fact, that's how $5 Dinners all started...a challenge to myself to spend $5 or less for a meal for our family. And that's still my challenge to myself, … [Read more...]
10-Minute Lasagna
Fast. Easy. That's my jam when it comes to meals for my family. And this 10-minute lasagna prep fits perfectly into our busy life. I do love a good lasagna and there are some days (usually weekend days!) that I can boil the noodles and let the sauce simmer, simmer, simmer to deepen the flavor and thicken up. But other days, it's this. 10-minute lasagna. It takes 10 … [Read more...]