Feeding the Family when you're TOO POOPED TO POP!

Hanna60978 · January 2009

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Anonymous · January 2009

Look in the Walmart bakery department. The one here has all kinds of different breads like that.

MargaretB · January 2009

Here's one I use for chicken tortilla soup:

4 - 5 cooked, boneless, skinless chicken breast halves or 1 rotisserie chicken, shredded (about 6 cups)
3 cans (14 oz. each) reduced sodium chicken broth
2 cans (10 oz. each) mild red or green enchilada sauce
1 can (12 oz.) evaporated milk (I used fat free)
2 cups matchstick or shredded carrots (I didn't have carrots so used about 3/4 cup frozen tricolor bell peppers chopped)
1 cup uncooked rice
1-1/2 tsp ground cumin
2 cups frozen whole kernel corn, thawed
1-1/2 cups crushed tortilla chips
Optional: cheese cilantro, sliced green onion, sour cream, guacamole, etc.

Combine broth, enchilada sauce, evaporated milk, carrots, rice and cumin in large saucepan. Cook over medium high heat until simmering. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 or 20 min, until rice is tender; stir occasionally. Add chicken and corn, stir well. Heat until corn and chicken are warmed.

Spoon into serving bowls, top with tortilla chips and/or assorted optional items.

I served with cornbread. If it thickens the next day, thin with chicken broth.

Diane, I think Trader Joe's has the no boil lasagne noodles too.

EWB · January 2009

Maria- no local store here has them, I get from bread bakery- just call each week w/how many I want and pu the next day.

spar2 · January 2009

Here is a quick meal

fried hamburger patties, drain grease, add 1 can french onion soup (campbells) simmer while you fix instant mashed potatoes and salad. The onion soup makes a wonderful gravy for the potatoes

Here is another

Line a pan with jar spg. sauce

layer with oven ready lasagna

put in one layer of cottage cheese

sprinkle with parmisian cheese when you get the last layer add

cup of shredded cheddar cheese on top cover with aluminun foil and bake about an hour at 375

spar2 · January 2009

Here is another quickie for veg people. line pan with spg sauce, slice squash, oinion, potatoes, eggplant if you like, sprinkle with parmisian cheese and cover with that paper your place on top and bake until veges are tender.

Another quickie is take a large can of pork n beans, add pieces of white meat chicken in and add barbaque sauce to taste and cut up oinion and green pepper bake an hour at 375. Wonderful.

Nico1012 · January 2009

Nico

abinneb · January 2009

Hey Nico!

Yes - I'm in Lincoln! Are you too?? Wow!! So few Nebraskans here - at least as far as we know! The LeQuartier bakery is absolutely FABULOUS! One is on 70th & O street the other is on Pine Lake across from SouthPointe.

Hey - PM me if you want - I'd LOVE to meet you!

Amy

jerseymaria · January 2009

ok i just tried this pot roast thing. seared a chuck roast and put in crock pot over peeled and quartered potatoes. sprinkled top with lipton onion soup mix and added 1 cup of water. also surrounded roast with cut carrots and onion. does that sound ok...or will i get boiled beef?

Anonymous · January 2009

Sounds like you will get a tender, moist and flavorful roast to me.

sue_blue · January 2009

Nico and Amy, I'm in Nebraska, too. Just an hour down the road in Aurora. My daughter lives in Lincoln and we are headed there this afternoon. I may have to go search out your French bakery, sounds wonderful. If you gals decide to meet, I would love to meet you, too. Sue

Anonymous · January 2009

Maria -- can't believe that you have never made a pot roast before!! I think it will turn out fantastic.

I live to make some gravy (use the package) or my grandma just used to pour the package in the crock pot, got lots of flavor!!

jerseymaria · January 2009

nope, my hub likes his beef dripping blood practically. but he will eat stew which is thoroughly cooked beef cubes so go figure. but i was talking more that i used the crock pot for a beef dish...it smells good, we'll see later Tongue out

marshakb · January 2009

Cheap and easy----Black beans and rice

1 pkg Vigo yellow rice (.69)

1 can black beans (.75)

Boil 1 and 1/4 cup water. Add 1 tablespoon olive oil and rice. Boil and stir one minute, add drained black beans. Cover and simmer 20 minutes. I make this when having tacos or burritos.

For a really cheap meal, I just make it and add a salad and crusty garlic bread.

EWB · January 2009

Marsha- that sounds so good and so incredible easy!

2new1s · February 2009

Having lunchmeat sanwiches tonight! Nice & easy!

abinneb · February 2009

Hey Jenni - How are you doing?

Amy

2new1s · February 2009

Oh I am 8 days from my surgery!!!!!!!!!!! Yikes.

PSK07 · February 2009

Margaret - the chicken tortilla soup was a huge success.

I sauteed a chopped onion and 2 chopped peppers (red & yellow) and then added the liquids. No carrots. It was very thick, so I cut it with more broth.

Hoping, hoping, hoping that my girls left some for me!

thank you!!

jerseymaria · February 2009

another silly question. have country style ribs in crock pot with barbeque sauce. smells wonderful. i know ribs are a fatty cut of meat but should i expect any sauce coming out of all that grease when i take the ribs out?

Anonymous · February 2009

I'm not sure I undertand the question, Maria.

Anonymous · February 2009

When I cook the ribs with barbeque to make sandwiches (sp), I usually remove the meat from the crockpot after its cooked and shred it with a fork in a bowl. Then put the meat on a hamburger bun and top with some additional barbeque sauce (not what it was cooked in) and top with some coleslaw (a southern thing).

Anonymous · February 2009

Maria, how did the country style ribs turn out for you?

jerseymaria · February 2009

to be honest, i was so sick to my stomach i had no dinner last night. the meat certainly fell right off the bones but oh so much grease. hub said it was ok. i don't think i would try again unless i could put a rack or something to keep the ribs out of the grease. sure smelled good, though.

Anonymous · February 2009

ah...I use the boneless ribs.

Anonymous · February 2009

Maria,

When I do ribs like that I boil them first....then cut away as much as the fat as I can, then dump them into the crock pot for the day...

I generally boil the ribs when I buy them, then freeze them for later use....

I HATE FAT AND GREASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nasty stuff!!!!!!

I use bone in or boneless....whichever is on the best sale...

Anonymous · February 2009

That's a good tip, Jpann. How long do I need to boil them?

Anonymous · February 2009

Hmmmm, I just dump them into a pot and add enough water to cover them....I would guess I probably boil them about 30 mintues....but be sure your in the kitchen cause the fat makes them boil over easy.....BELIEVE me, it does a number on the stove and is hard to clean up....but it gets all that yukky fat/grease off them and leaves them nice an tender. I then freeze them for later use....I have also used these ribs in bbq sauce in the regular oven and they work well there too.

The other hint I will give is to use a wooden spoon....lay it across the boiling pot and use it to prop the lid so steam can release.....dont know what this does but it stops things from boiling over....I use it when doing any boiling and have only had the ribs boil over but it might have been that I had them on too high. But I use it when I cook oatmeal, rice, really anything that might boil over and it seems to work.

Jule

Mary-Lou · February 2009

Sit and watch them cook while you teach them.... That's what I did, same with laundry. I taught both of my sons to cook , clean and also laundry . At 13 I no longer did their laundry. I was raising husbands not sons....

((((HUGS))))) And I wish you the best. And rest when you can.

2new1s · February 2009

Mary-Lou ~ I am right with you for the teaching the sons household things. My oldest son is 16, he does his own laundry, loads the dishwasher and cleans his own bathroom! I am not saying that he does those things well but, hey he's learning. Basically I told him "You pee on the seat, you clean it up!" I don't think I ever see pee on the seat anymore! Laughing Sorry if it's TMI.

By the way for dinner tonight I am doing frozen pizzas! LAZY-LAZY-DAY!

Feeding the Family when you're TOO POOPED TO POP!

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