Amazing!
3lb boneless beef roast
1/4 lb. fresh mushrooms (I use more because I love them)
1 cup water
.75 oz. envelope dry brown gravy mix
.7 oz. envelope dry Italian salad dressing mix (I use good seasons)
1. Place roast in slow cooker
2. Top with mushrooms
3. Combine water, gravy mix, and dressing mix in a small bowl. Pour over roast and mushrooms.
4. Cover and cook on high for 1 hour and then on low 6-8 hours.
I make mashed potatoes for the side and use the juices to make gravy! This is my favorite meal :D
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Beef Roast with Peppers!
Beef Roast with Tomatoes, Onions, and Peppers
4 - 5lb roast (cut in half if needed to fit in the crock pot
2 - 14.5oz. cans Mexican - style stewed tomatoes, not drained. (I use mexican style because I can't find anything that says "stewed")
16 oz jar salsa, your choice of mild med or hot (I use a corn and black bean red salsa - Meijer gold label)
2 - 3 med onions cut into chunks
1-2 green or red bell peppers sliced
Directions:
1. Brown roast on all sides in a non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Place in slow cooker.
2. Combine tomatoes and salsa in a bowl. Spoon over meat in slow cooker. Arrange onion around meat.
3. Cover and cook on low 8 to 10 hours or until meat is tender but not dry. (I cook it for 8 hours)
4. Add pepper slices 1 hour before serving, pushing them down into the sauce.
5. Remove meat from slow cooker and allow to rest 10 minutes before slicing. Place slices on serving platter and top with vegetables and sauce.
6. Serve with yellow rice.
This dish is really good as described above, but the best part is the left overs! The next day, shred what ever meat is leftover and drain the excess sauce into a measuring cup. after the meat is shredded and placed with the vegetables (minus the sauce) only add enough of the sauce to make everything "wet" but not dripping all over. Then you have TACO MEAT! yum :) I have used red, yellow, orange, and red pepper. My favorite combo is orange and red vs the green and red. But that's just me. We have it with hard shell and soft shell. Sour cream, chives, and yellow rice.
4 - 5lb roast (cut in half if needed to fit in the crock pot
2 - 14.5oz. cans Mexican - style stewed tomatoes, not drained. (I use mexican style because I can't find anything that says "stewed")
16 oz jar salsa, your choice of mild med or hot (I use a corn and black bean red salsa - Meijer gold label)
2 - 3 med onions cut into chunks
1-2 green or red bell peppers sliced
Directions:
1. Brown roast on all sides in a non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Place in slow cooker.
2. Combine tomatoes and salsa in a bowl. Spoon over meat in slow cooker. Arrange onion around meat.
3. Cover and cook on low 8 to 10 hours or until meat is tender but not dry. (I cook it for 8 hours)
4. Add pepper slices 1 hour before serving, pushing them down into the sauce.
5. Remove meat from slow cooker and allow to rest 10 minutes before slicing. Place slices on serving platter and top with vegetables and sauce.
6. Serve with yellow rice.
This dish is really good as described above, but the best part is the left overs! The next day, shred what ever meat is leftover and drain the excess sauce into a measuring cup. after the meat is shredded and placed with the vegetables (minus the sauce) only add enough of the sauce to make everything "wet" but not dripping all over. Then you have TACO MEAT! yum :) I have used red, yellow, orange, and red pepper. My favorite combo is orange and red vs the green and red. But that's just me. We have it with hard shell and soft shell. Sour cream, chives, and yellow rice.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Spinach Dip!
It is so simple and amazing, I'll be making some tomorrow morning!
One package of Knorr Vegetable recipe mix (find it in the soup isle)
One package of frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
1 container of sour cream (16oz)
1 cup of mayo
one can of water chestnuts drained and chopped
3 chopped green onions (optional)
(this recipe is on the back of the Knorr package!)
Mix everything very well. Chill in the fridge for about 2 hours.
Serve with pumpernickel bread. I break the bread apart for an appetizer or slice the bread and eat it as a sandwich!
One package of Knorr Vegetable recipe mix (find it in the soup isle)
One package of frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
1 container of sour cream (16oz)
1 cup of mayo
one can of water chestnuts drained and chopped
3 chopped green onions (optional)
(this recipe is on the back of the Knorr package!)
Mix everything very well. Chill in the fridge for about 2 hours.
Serve with pumpernickel bread. I break the bread apart for an appetizer or slice the bread and eat it as a sandwich!
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Rumaki
Here is my favorite appetizer recipe!
Rumaki
Bacon package (2 packages for more than 10 people)
2 cans of Sliced water chestnuts (4 if making a double batch)
tooth picks
Topping: (Add all of the ingredients into a sauce pan, heat and stir well.)
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 Tbs. yellow mustard
1/2 cup Catalina dressing
1 Tbs butter
400 degrees until bacon is crispy.
Cut bacon strips in half. Wrap each half around 1 or 2 water chestnut slices. Place in the bottom of a 13 x 9 cake pan. (or add a wire rack into the pan so the grease can drip down) One package of bacon and 2 cans of chestnuts will fill the bottom of one cake pan.
While baking - remove grease drippings (with a turkey baster) so that the bacon can get crispy, and drizzle topping over each rumaki every 10-15 minutes. Total baking time is about 45 minutes, depending on how often you remove the bacon grease. If the grease is left in the pan, the cooking time will double because the bacon will take longer to get crispy. Add tooth picks after removing the rumaki and placing on a platter. Or you can place a cup of toothpicks next to the platter for your guests to use.
Yummy!
Rumaki
Bacon package (2 packages for more than 10 people)
2 cans of Sliced water chestnuts (4 if making a double batch)
tooth picks
Topping: (Add all of the ingredients into a sauce pan, heat and stir well.)
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 Tbs. yellow mustard
1/2 cup Catalina dressing
1 Tbs butter
400 degrees until bacon is crispy.
Cut bacon strips in half. Wrap each half around 1 or 2 water chestnut slices. Place in the bottom of a 13 x 9 cake pan. (or add a wire rack into the pan so the grease can drip down) One package of bacon and 2 cans of chestnuts will fill the bottom of one cake pan.
While baking - remove grease drippings (with a turkey baster) so that the bacon can get crispy, and drizzle topping over each rumaki every 10-15 minutes. Total baking time is about 45 minutes, depending on how often you remove the bacon grease. If the grease is left in the pan, the cooking time will double because the bacon will take longer to get crispy. Add tooth picks after removing the rumaki and placing on a platter. Or you can place a cup of toothpicks next to the platter for your guests to use.
Yummy!
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Mr. Cy turns 4!
This cake was a LOT of fun to make! Simple double layer with chocolate frosting in the middle. White frosting to cover it all. I used frosting tips for all of the decorating (other than the cars and candles). Cy loved it and I'm very pleased with the final product. If there was ONE thing I would change, I should have saved some white frosting for the dotted lines down the middle of the track!! Whoops, lesson learned.
Simple start |
After all the frosting was added |
Final product with toy cars and candles added! |
Extra view |
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Vera Hazel- her baby shower :)
Stayed up till the weeee hours of the night working on just the "frame" of this cake! I spent another few hours this morning, finishing it up for the 2pm party. I would like to note that the picture of the cake taken in the fridge around noon, has purple trim around the baby shoes, a purple V, and purple icing around the circle of the monogram. However, the picture taken at the baby shower shows all of these things as BLUE! What?? I'm not sure why, and it's not the camera, but the icing actually changed color! I wasn't too happy, considering that baby Vera is indeed a girl, and purple is a girls favorite color! (next to diamond) :) take care!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Hannah's Fairy Cake!
Update! I found the final pictures that I took of Hannah's cake, it is a tad blurry but at least it shows the finished bottom :) Enjoy!
What little girl doesn't love Tinkerbell and all her friends? I got this idea off Google and it turned out great! Here are two pictures although neither show the finished product! I can't find the final photo shots :-/ I ordered the fairy friends online and spent again, over 5 hours on this cake! It was a hit :)
What little girl doesn't love Tinkerbell and all her friends? I got this idea off Google and it turned out great! Here are two pictures although neither show the finished product! I can't find the final photo shots :-/ I ordered the fairy friends online and spent again, over 5 hours on this cake! It was a hit :)
Castle Cake
Helen turns 2! I spent a very long time (over 5 hours) making Helen's second birthday cake! Yes I'll admit, the structure of the castle is a set that I purchased, but they came undecorated! I was very meticulous when decorating the structure and the actual cake part. Lots of fun!
Farm Cakes (Pictures to the left)
March 2010 I made the set of farm cakes for my niece's first Birthday Party. :) The party was held at my mom's "Pig Farm" (although she also had cows, horses, goats, chickens, and turkeys) so that's where the inspiration came from, along with some cake image searches on Google. These cakes were a lot of fun to make! :) I made the large farm for the whole family to enjoy and the mini-piggy farm just for the birthday girl! She loved it!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Hen & Chicks Cake
I made this cake, in March 2011, for my Aunt's surprise birthday party. The theme was "hens and chicks."What's great about this cake are all the 'extras' that I was able to incorporate. The peeps and eggs were available because it was close to Easter! Perfect :) There are also some worms and a little pile of "hen food", which is just chopped peanuts. I used fondant for the head and tail and loads of cake dowels to hold them in place! Fondant is heavy!
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