What's for supper???....Soup Beans, Fried Potatoes and Cornbread.

 What's for supper?  Richard asked for soup beans so I just popped open a jar and heated them up!  So fast and easy when you can them.

 Richard likes soup beans, fried potatoes, and cornbread crumbled up in a big bowl with some diced onion mixed in. 

 This is such a quick mean for me to fix when I already have the pinto beans canned and the cornbread in the freezer.  Basically all that I have to do is warm the stuff up and fry some potatoes.

 I usually just eat the beans and cornbread but he like fried potatoes so that's why I didn't fix a lot of them.  He also likes them crispy so they are in the process for frying here.

 The beans get so thick in the jar that you have to "rake" them out with a spoon.  I add a little water to thin them a little.  I love having them in the pantry. 

 So that's what we had for dinner and I didn't have to work for hours preparing it. 

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What's for supper?....Crock Pot Chicken and Gravy

 What's for supper?  This is Richard's plate...Crock Pot Chicken & Gravy, mashed potatoes and buttermilk cornbread from the freezer.  He decided that he wanted the gravy on his mashed potatoes instead of over his chicken.  The chicken was cook in the gravy all day in the crock pot. 

 This chicken is the chicken & gravy that I put in the freezer meals a few days ago.  Myself, I like boneless, skinless chicken breast but Richard doesn't care and I bought these chicken leg quarters 10lbs for $3.90.   Here is the link to the Chicken & Gravy Freezer Meals.

 A few weeks ago I picked up another big 8lb bag of Pinto Beans.  I can these 4lbs at a time.  4lbs will make 7 quarts of canned soup beans.  So this big bag will make 14 quarts!!!  I paid $7.42 for 8lbs so that will come out to .54 cents a quart!!!!  Of course, I will add some bacon so that will cost a little more. :)  Gotta have bacon!!!!

 So I split the bag and will work with 4lbs at a time since my canner only holds 7 quarts.  I have "looked" and rinsed these well and will let them soak overnight and get started canning them tomorrow.  :)

 More photos tomorrow of the process! 

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What's for supper?....Yummy Chicken/Broccoli Casserole

 What's for supper???  Well we had Chicken Broccoli Casserole. 

 This was one of the freezer meals that I recently made.  You can see that post here.

 This was the chicken mixture that I was using when I made the freezer meals.  Just shredded chicken breast frozen broccoli, cream of mushroom soup, and rice.  Once I spread the mixture in the pan, I topped it with cheese.  It is very yummy!!!

 The ease of these freezer meals they just go from freezer to oven since everything is already cook all you need to do is heat it up and melt the cheese! 

I simply served this with homemade buttermilk biscuits that I store in the freezer.  All I had to do to the biscuits was pop them in the microwave for 1 minute.  I'll do a post on the homemade biscuits soon.

This was so creamy and tasty, Richard absolutely loved it!  It's a good thing that he liked it because he is having the rest of it for leftovers.  

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Sweet & Spicy Molasses Pork Chops...Crockpot Meal

 Supper last night was an EASY meal with very little effort at all.  Andrew wasn't going to be home for dinner and Hunter and I ate at mom's so that just left Richard when he got home from work.  Here is what he had...

 I started with this...

- 2 pack of thick cut boneless chops (marked down to $3.19)

- Package of Chili's Slow Cooker Sauce, Sweet& Spicy Molasses

- 3 small potatoes (not pictured) cut in chunks with the skins left on

- Maybe 1/3 cup of corn.  You can use canned corn but I just used a handful of my dehydrated corn and rehydrated it.

I dumped the meat and the sauce in the small crockpot and cooked on high for 4 hours.  At the 3 hour point I added the cubed potatoes.  After 4 hours it was ready to serve.  I sprinkled a little corn over the top of it.  4 hours on HIGH or 6 hours on LOW.

 Here's my big jar of dehydrated corn.  I'll post more on that later.  I love having this on hand and it will last for years being dehydrated.

 This is hubby's plate!  Since everyone else had already ate, I just dumped it all in his plate.  LOL!  This is the first time that I had tried the sauce pack and he said it was a "winner".   You can see the steam coming from his plate as I had just got it out of the crock pot.

Extremely fast and easy.  Probably 5 minutes prep time and 4 hours in the crockpot on HIGH or 6 hours on LOW.

A yummy meal with very little effort.  I also think this would be great served over mashed potatoes.

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A big ole pot of Chili....recipe

 A couple of days ago I decided to make a big pot of chili.  It is getting that time of year but actually we could eat it all year long.  I raided the pantry and freezer...this is what I started with...

 Chili Recipe

2 lbs of lean ground beef ( I used 96/4).  ($7.18 marked down)

2 large cans of tomato juice (.99 each from the pantry)

2 cans of diced tomatoes (.49 each from the pantry)

3 cans of dark chili beans (.49 each from the pantry)

3 cans of light chili beans (.49 each from the pantry)

1 green bell pepper, chopped (from the freezer out of our garden)

1 jalapeno, chopped (from the freezer out of our garden)

1 large onion (out of the garden)

chili powder, to taste

minced garlic, to taste

red pepper seeds, to taste

Brown, drain and rinse ground beef.  Drain the cans of beans and rinse.  Add all of the ingredients and cook until done.

This made a big pot of chili so I decided to can part of it.  I ended up canning 8 pints of chili.  I could have done more but I didn't feel like digging out more jars.  This also freezes really well if you don't want to can it.

I had more left in the pot, which was hard to get a good photo because of the steam.  With the remaining chili in the pot we had it for supper and also supper the next day. 

 A good filling, hearty meal that "sticks to your ribs"  :) I absolutely love chili!!!!!  Occasionally I will even eat it for breakfast.  :)

YUM!!!!!

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