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Chicken with Cream Sauce

Embrace cream. Really. Try it. The jar is cold, but it feels good to make nice with your cream. It does such wonderful stuff: it makes ice cream; it makes BUTTER; it tastes good in coffee, and it makes THIS…Chicken with Cream Sauce. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Hug it. I dare you.

I’m really enjoying this Cooking Through Stacy’s Stash and making new recipes for y’all to try out. It challenges me in the kitchen…but every day is a challenge for me in the kitchen. I do dumb stuff daily, so I’m a challenge in myself. Oops? Does this paragraph even make any sense? [Read more…]

Crock Pot Lentil Burrito Bowls

Y’all have requested more lentil recipes…and I can understand why. Lentils are just stinkin’ delicious…pun intended? Ha, ha! Beans, beans, the magical fruit! The more you eat the more you…uh, yeah. I digress.

I only have two lentil recipes posted on this site: Buttered Lentils and Lentil Vegetable Soup. Those are both delicious. We love beans around here…and if everyone eats them, any negative effects are cancelled. Can I get a witness?! [Read more…]

Crock Pot Southwest Chicken and Rice Chowder

The first time I ate Southwest Chicken Chowder, I’m pretty sure I cried because it was so wonderful.

I’m not usually this dramatic about my dinner, but at the time, I was three days post-partum with my second son, exhausted, weepy, and starving. And this yummy chowder was a gift from my friend, Kate, who knows that bringing dinner to a new mom is about #3 on the list of “Nicest Things You Can Do for Anyone.”

I have made this many times since then. I don’t always shed tears of joy eating it, but almost. I love that this dish is yummy and allergy-friendly, as we manage multiple food allergies. It’s perfect for rainy days, cold days, hot days, basically any day you need dinner. Which here, is every day. We do not skip dinner. [Read more…]

Baked Chicken Salad

When I was younger, I was stupid and didn’t like chicken salad. Silly how dumb you are about food when you’re little – makes me want to go back and smack myself. Look how many years I WASTED without chicken salad. Past Stacy was dumb. Present Stacy is still dumb sometimes, but dumb with chicken salad – which isn’t nearly as bad. [Read more…]

Chicken Italiano

When I see a recipe that calls for “cream of yadda-yadda” I always take that as a personal challenge. It’s like that recipe says “Hey…hey, Stacy! Think you can conquer me?! I was made for casseroles, so think again, sista!” Then, of course I have to make the recipe without the soup and then say “Booya” at least 4 times during dinner.

I love Italian food – I think I must be part Italian. I love Mexican food too…and Asian food. I’m Italimexian. Yep, that’s me. Country Italimexian. [Read more…]

Crock Pot Red Chicken with Spinach

I dreamt this recipe up in my sleep. Actually, I probably wasn’t asleep. It was probably 3:30am and I was nursing. I do a lot of thinking while I nurse – and reading. But it’s hard to read in the dark, so I think about food instead.

This is a take off an Italian dish that my roommate Niki used to make in college – except it involved beef….and cream cheese. So, yeah – maybe this is way different, but still it’s where the idea started. Does anyone else’s thoughts start in one place and end up somewhere else? Kinda like thinking about doing laundry and then ending up organizing under the kitchen sink instead? [Read more…]

Barbecue Chicken Dinner Packets

Guest post by Meredith Kimelblatt.

We interrupt my usual Friday crock pot recipes to bring you another quick and easy dish from Meredith Kimelblatt of Ready Set Eat.

If you think of spring the prime season for fresh produce and salads, you’re completely right. But the warmer weather indicates something else too; the beginning of grilling season! As soon as it gets nice outside, cookout foods come right back into season, making spring the perfect time to whip out the grill and cook outside.

Grills are great for a few reasons: not only do they add amazing flavor to whatever you throw on them, but grilling is also one of the healthiest cooking methods out there. As opposed to pan frying, sautéing or deep frying, you don’t need loads of oil or butter to cook most meals on the grill. Many grilled recipes call for marinades, too, meaning you won’t have to add as many extras to chicken or steak since your meat will already be packed with flavor!

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10 Recipes You Must Try – Take 2

The post I wrote for you guys called 10 Recipes You MUST Try was very popular. You enjoyed me sharing some tasty recipes with y’all…and you asked me for more. So, here ya go: a few more recipes that I’ve made that were top notch – so much so that I’ve made them multiple times. And if you know me, you know that if I make something more than once, it must mean it kicks butt!

So, here we go! Sit back and get your pinning button ready…make sure to add these to your Plan to Eat schedule and Pinterest boards ASAP.
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Crock Pot Creamy Turkey and Quinoa

Remember that kickin’ awesome recipe I posted for Jerked Beef Stew? I said that I thought it was totally awesome, but Barry was just “okay” with it? Well, now the tables have turned. I was just “okay” with this dish but he LOVED IT!!!

I have a love/hate relationship with ground turkey, like I told you in the Sausage Patties post. I like ground turkey in some stuff and in other stuff it gives me the gag reflex. I hate the smell of it cooking. And I’ve discovered that I can tolerate the 93/7 fat but NOT the 85/15. I think this possibly stemmed from a bad experience I had with morning sickness when I was pregnant with Andy. Turkey trauma. [Read more…]

Crock Pot Jerked Beef Stew

I’m gonna be honest – this is gonna be a quick post…because after all, aren’t you mostly here for the recipe? At 7 months old, we’re still struggling to find a routine for Andy – mainly, he won’t sleep. Naps are like 30 minutes and he’s up a lot during the night. Mama tired, y’all. Any minute now he’s going to wake up…so, let’s do this thing.

I love tender chunks of beef. So, Beef Stew ranks pretty high in my book…but I like to defer for normal recipes and try new things. Barry thinks I should just leave good food alone, but I can’t help it. I always think, “I wonder how this would taste with yadda-yadda?” Sometimes it tastes great – sometimes it tastes like doo-doo and we end up eating a sandwich. [Read more…]