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Chicken and Wild Rice Soup with Pearled Onions

December 13, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 10 Comments

My December "clear out the pantry" challenge continues.  Tonight in the form of Chicken and Wild Rice Soup with Pearled Onions. I pulled a whole chicken from the freezer and cooked it in the slow cooker on Saturday.  My plan was to then use half the cooked and shredded chicken for this soup, and the rest for BBQ chicken sandwiches for lunch yesterday.  I also saved the broth … [Read more...]

Beef and Mushroom Kebabs

July 26, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 17 Comments

I made these the other night...I made an extra trip to the store to get the ingredients needed for this morning's news segment...and spotted some $.99 whole mushrooms. I see them often for $.99 in the mark down basket in the produce section. I found more this morning...sliced this time. I don't typically buy extra food when I'm getting food for news segments, but I couldn't … [Read more...]

Grilled Mushroom Burgers

May 18, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 6 Comments

Grilled Mushrooms and Onions atop a Grilled Burger. Yes, please! Drizzle a little steak sauce over the top. Scrumdidily-umptious! Prep the mushrooms and onions. Toss onions and mushrooms with the marsala cooking wine.  Grill alongside the burgers, or saute in a skillet while the burgers are cooking. Once cooked, season with salt and pepper to … [Read more...]

Mushroom Barley Soup

January 5, 2010 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 43 Comments

  UPDATED with cooking time! Oops!!! When I saw mushrooms marked down at the store...I took advantage...and I made this soup!  That night. I found (and slightly modified) the recipe in the Smuckers Family Favorite Recipes booklet. Scrum-didli-umptious! Mushroom Barley Soup Hearty and delicious! 2 Tbsp butter or margarine1 small … [Read more...]

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