Saucy Apricot Chicken ~ Slow Cooker

Saucy Apricot Chicken

4-6 boneless skinless Chicken breast

1 (12oz-15oz) jar Apricot preserves

1 pkg or 1/4 C dry onion soup mix

Place all items in Crock pot (slow cooker)

cook on low 4 1/2 - 5 hours.

Serve with rice or on rolls.

I added 1 cup of small veggies to the rice and then topped it with some of the remaining sauce in the cooker, was amazing!

Chicken Enchiladas

Chicken Enchiladas

4-6 chicken breasts, cooked and sliced
1 16 oz jar of salsa
4 C. grated cheese
1 can cheddar cheese soup
2 C. non fat Greek plain yogurt (sour cream, low fat or fat free can be used as well. I prefer the yogurt)
1 pkg Tortillas

addition optional toppings, more grated cheese, olives, and green onions.
Serve over rice cooked with Sazon seasoning, or with a side salad.

Mix soup, salsa & yogurt (or sour cream). Spoon 1/4 C. of mix into bottom of 9 x 13 in pan and spread evenly.
Place bite sized bits of chicken into tortilla shells. Along with grated cheese, olives and 1/8 C. sauce.
Roll up and set into baking pan.
Top with remaining sauce and sprinkle with cheese.
Cover with tinfoil and bake at 350 for 40 minutes.
Sprinkle with chopped green onion as garnish.

This is my husbands favorite dish. This is what I call the out of trouble dinner.

 assemble ingredients and check to make sure everything is fresh and ready.

This shows the bottom covered with sauce as well as the first rolled up and finished enchilada

 

This time I added sliced olives to the chicken 

 

add some cheese and sauce

 

Bake, sprinkle with extra cheese if you want 

I went for it!

Serve immediately with rice! 

I got the original recipe from my BFF. Its a favorite of her hubby's family.

This can also be frozen (precooked) in a tinfoil pan for once a month cooking or for giving away to a family in mourning, baby or sickness.

Coke Chicken

Coke Chicken 

2 lbs. Chicken Tenders
1 can Coca Cola
12 oz. Ketchup
1 lb. Baby Carrots
2 lb. smal red potatoes cut into thick chunks (halves or quarters)

Mis all ingredients together. Place into 1 gallon freezer bags & freeze (if saving for camping or once a month cooking). Unthaw.

To grill - wrap in tin foil (heavy duty - double the foil) place on grill cook for 40 minutes - turning over midway.

Dutch oven - Place chicken & veggies in Dutch oven. Mix coke & ketchup and pour over the top. 12 coals on top and 12 on bottom.
cook for an hour or until chicken is done and veggies are tender.

Slow Cooker - dump frozen bag or after mixing into slow cooker. Cook on low 8-10 hours. High 4-6.

For cooking once a month double recipe and make two batches. I took this camping and quadrupled the recipe since we were going to have such a large group.

 Super simple to assemble & freeze, easy to cook and great to taste!

Another camping and once a month cooking favorite!

I love how versatile this recipe is - can be cooked so many different ways! 

I am sure it can also be done on the stove top or in a dutch in the oven!

Camp Sub's

These are amazing!

Roast Turkey & Swiss Sub

1 French Loaf
1 pd Roast Turkey
6-9 slices of Swiss Cheese
3 Tbsp. Dijon Mustard
2 Tbsp. Butter

Other optional toppings, sweet peppers, onion, pickles, and anything else that you want that cooks well. I would avoid avocado, lettuce & tomato. They don't freeze well or grill well (after being frozen).

Melt butter, combine butter and mustard. Slather on cut bread.
Add cheese & meat.
Wrap in Foil.
If freezing also wrap in freezable cling wrap.
Unthaw.
Toss on the grill for 20 minutes, turning over in the middle to fully melt cheese.

Ham & Swiss Sub

1 French Loaf
1 pd Sliced Ham
6-9 slices of Swiss Cheese
3 Tbsp. Dijon Mustard
2 Tbsp. Butter

Other optional toppings, sweet peppers, onion, pickles, and anything else that you want that cooks well. I would avoid avocado, lettuce & tomato. They don't freeze well or grill well (after being frozen).


Melt butter, combine butter and mustard. Slather on cut bread.
Add cheese & meat.
Wrap in Foil.
If freezing also wrap in freezable cling wrap.
Unthaw.
Toss on the grill for 20 minutes, turning over in the middle to fully melt cheese.

 Assemble ingredients

Love this stuff! Works amazing when you need to freeze odd shaped items!

The end product was amazing this is most definitely a Camping recipe favorite!

Teriyaki Fajitas

Teriyaki Fajitas

1 pd steak cooked and cut into thin strips (I bought them pre-pkg from the store)
1 onion cut thin
1 pepper cut thin
1/2 bottle of Teriyaki sauce
sliced provolone cheese
tortillas

Add first 4 ingredients to a gallon freezer bag, shake and marinate at least an hour.
Cook ingredients on high heat until cooked thoroughly.
lay in middle of tortilla add cheese, fold, serve!
Easy and yummy!
Add cooked rice on the side or inside if desired.

Double recipe, freeze. Needs to be unfrozen before cooking, can be pan grilled, foil grilled or flame grilled.
Would make a good take and go camping recipe as well! 

BBQ & Southwest Tacos

Now I found this recipe originally on Pinterest titled Callies Soft Tacos. However, I modified it AND it wasn't quit correct on a few points. Thus I will be correcting it and not linking to the original.

Southwest Soft Tacos

5-6 frozen chicken breasts
1 can enchilada sauce
1 pkg taco seasoning
2 cups corn (I prefer frozen)
4 cups cooked rice
2 cups mexican shredded cheese

Place chicken, enchilada sauce & seasoning in crockpot. Cover. Cook on high 4 hours. 

Pull the chicken out - shred it - re-add back into sauce in crockpot along with corn & cook 30 minutes more. (more photos to follow)

Add cooked rice and stir together.

In medium soft shelled burritos, add some cheese and a few scoopfuls of southwest mix.

Roll up, I fold in two side slightly and roll the rest up and over.

 

Serve immediately with a side salad or wrap in either foil or press n' seal wrap, place in gallon freezer bags and freeze for quick lunches.

 

Using medium soft burritos I was able to make 30 (I used only 5 lg chicken breasts)

 

 

BBQ Soft Tacos

5-6 frozen chicken breasts (2-3 pds pork)

1 bottle of honey BBQ sauce (or flavor of choice)

3 Cups cooked rice

2 Cups mexican shredded cheese

Place chicken & sauce in crockepot, cover, cook on high 4 hours. (low up to 8 if you need it to cook while working same for recipe above). Remove chicken from crockpot - shred, return to crock pot and cook 1/2 hour more. 

Add cooked rice, stir together.

Add mix & cheese to soft tacos and roll up.

 

Serve immediately with side salad or wrap and freeze for later.

Using medium soft burritos I was able to make 30 tacos.

 after shredding

after adding in corn

My husband loves both of them and has been eating them for lunches from frozen

It took me two days of making one large batch of each and will feed him lunches for a month!

(working on the theory of 2 burritos a day)

Breakfast, Egg Sandwich & Fridge Oatmeal

Or as I like to call this blog... Breakfast his & hers.
Breakfast, the most important meal of the day.
It sets the tone.
What I have personally found out is that if I have a breakfast prepped and ready I eat less and am less hungry.
Why?
If you wake up hungry and start searching for food, no matter what you find & eat, your brain still thinks its partially hungry. Its still searching for food - a different sort of hunger, worse really as it sticks with you.

For a few months now I have been pre-making my hubbies breakfasts, simple, filling and ready to go items that can be frozen.
Namely Breakfast Burritos. He loves them, but after 4 months he wanted a different taste.
Unfortunately the french toast didn't turn out well - it was too dry and too hard to eat on the go.

My Breakfast Shake is still very yummy but not something I can make every day - especially when the kids eating half of my ingredients (darn the fact that my kids love healthy foods! LOL).

Make ahead healthy Egg McMuffins that can be frozen. Here is the original recipe including Weight Watcher points 6  & 7.
Next time I will make these following the healthy ingredients - this time my hungry hubby went shopping and bought these less then stellar ingredients. Tastes great but it isn't even close to the weight watcher points.

This is no cook over night refrigerator oatmeal - very popular right now on Pinterest. I personally love it!
I will add a few pointers though - the fruit needs to be whole or cut in half, chopping it too fine or using mango or pineapple can cause it to ferment OVERNIGHT. I am not talking about yummy fermentation, I'm talking bitter bubbly yucky throw away fermentation.
Also buying Chia - you can find this in health stores. It comes in both canisters and sold in bulk where you bag and tag your own - much cheaper this way and I will vow - this is not cheap stuff but it does go far.
I have also started adding chia to my shakes.

These have been great! He gets his filling healthier meals and we will be doing both the burritos & the McMuffins for hubby. Have fun!

Breakfast Freezer style

Two in a half hours and I have breakfast for my husband for a whole month!

First up French Toast - eggs, vanilla, cinnamon - dash of salt and sliced bread of your choosing.
Dip, dip other side, cook and voila! French toast.
Make it in large quantities and freeze the extra! Can be heated on the frozen cycle of your toaster! Very simple and yummy!

Next up Breakfast burritos - mine change each and every time I make them and depend on the food at hand.
This time I used hashbrowns, sausage, eggs, peppers, salt and pepper, cheese & tortillas.
Cook it all up, chop it up, fill, wrap and then wrap in tinfoil to hold the shape.
Unfreeze the night before, microwave 1-2 minutes. If you unfreeze in the fridge the night before they won't even be chewy!
Delicious easy way to have breakfast ready on the go - Better then fast food burritos!

Cooking for once a month does not have to been done all in one day. If you know you love the food and it freezes well make double and freeze the excess. When you get into the habit you will continually be eating or cooking for/from the freezer.
Pairing the food with a side salad, fruits and veggies, as well as whole grain breads and you will be eating healthier, smarter and on budget!

Freezer Breakfast Burritos

Assemble all your ingredients - plan out what flavors you want cook up the basic's.
          
I choose bacon, sausage, eggs, beans, corn, red onion, cheese, hashbrowns & tortillas

I dump everything into slightly warm tortilla shells - keeping the meats separate.

Wrap, fold tightly into tinfoil add to freezer bags and freeze.

One at a time, pull out either defrost the night before or use the defrost setting on the microwave before, microwaving on high 1-2 min.

I packaged the bacon burritos & sausage burritos into two different gallon freezer bags

You can use any breakfast foods you like as long as its not fresh veggies ;)

great for once a month cooking!