Crockpot meal - Sweet Potatoes and Chicken

Easy crock-pot (or slow cooker recipe) I adapted from a Better Homes and Garden's 5 - ingredient Slow cooker booklet.

Ingredients:
- sliced sweet potatoes
- sliced onions
- chicken thighs (I got mine frozen and with no preservatives or hormones at Trader Joe's)
- honey mustard dressing (I did not have so I mixed honey and spicy brown mustard)
- rosemary (to mix in the dressing)

Just layer the sweet potatoes and onions and then the chicken, top with dressing, turn the crock pot on and your done. Dinner's will be waiting for you:)

We're at church on Wednesday nights so that's my crock pot meal. Everyone seemed to like this so we'll do it again.

Make it again - Mom

Just wanted to share this with you. I made "Dirty Risotto" from "Giada's Family Dinners" and my nine year old claims that I'm such a great cook and wants me to make it again tomorrow!

I'll show pics later, have to download.

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"Meal for a Steal" on Rachel Ray

Told you I'd keep you updated on Rachel Ray's saving tips.

She added a new segment called "Meal for a Steal" and today the recipe was "Birds Nests with Chicken and Broccoli" with a total cost of ingredients being $7.14.

I'd say that's quite a steal. I wish I could eat broccoli (we don't mix well since child #2) but my kids eat broccoli so even better.

Garden Fresh Salsa!!!

This is by far my favorite salsa. I got the recipe from my friend's husband, who is from Mexico.

I'm going to list the ingredients but not amounts because the fun part is you can add more or less of things depending on your tastes or even how much you have.

Ingredients:
tomato (great way to use up those garden tomatoes)
avocado
onion (I used red but have done with white etc.)
chopped garlic (mine comes from a jar)
jalapeno pepper (or substitute - I used a small amount of hot chili pepper from my garden)
cilantro
salt
lime juice (I've made this with both a little lime and a lot and it's great both ways)

Just chop it all up, mix and enjoy!

My Kids Ate It

Last night I served up a dish adapted from a recipe from Everyday FOOD. It was basically just chicken, sauteed with asparagus and portobello mushrooms, then mixed with pasta (whole grain).

The recipe called for button mushrooms but I found portabellos at ALDIs and was phsyched to use them. I also added a little white wine for flavor and to get up the bits on the bottom of the pan from sauteeing which added some nice flavor, a little salt and pepper and it was done.

Simple meal that every one of my kids ate, minus the mushrooms, though they each tasted them and my nine year old discovered he liked them. My five year old asked for seconds and my seven year old (the pickiest) cleared his bowl (minus mushrooms) with less complaining then usual and in record time!