Slow Cooker Sausage and Cabbage

So the move is over, and the nesting has begun. So what do you do when you're time is limited and filled with things other than cooking? You take out your crockpot, dump your ingredients and forget about it until the timer goes off. Which is exactly my plan, so now I have time to hang those pictures, fill those book shelves and wash those jackets. So seize the day and stop worrying about getting dinner on the table, it's fall and your crockpot is here to help you out.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup chicken broth
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp brown mustard
• 1/2 small cabbage head cored and cut into wedges
• 1 kielbasa sausage link cut into 4th's and put to the side
• 1 medium onion sliced thinly

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Directions:

1. In a crock pot combine all ingredients except for sausage. And cook on low for 7 hours or high for 3 1/2.
2. After cook time add sausage and cook for another 30-60 minutes.
3. Serve!

Happy Eatings Everyone!!!

Cheesey Spaghetti and Broccoli

I know it's been two weeks since my last post, the move is still in process and taking up most of my time. This also means that my fridge and pantry shelves are dwindling in supplies and my options are very slim, but that has never stopped me before. So I found a recipe for a veggie bake online, but didn't have the right noodles so I decided to turn it into a basic spaghetti, taking the sauce in the recipe and thickening it and doing it stove top instead. It was really easy and super tasty.

Cheesey Spaghetti and Broccoli

Ingredients:

• 2 cups broccoli
• 1 cup peas
• 1/2 diced onion
• 3/4 cup shredded cheese
• 1 can condensed cream of celery
• 1 1/2 cups of milk
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• salt and pepper to taste
• 8 oz spaghetti noodles

Instructions:

1. Boil noodles according to package instructions.
2. In a sauce pan combine all other ingredient and stir until thick.
3. Serve!

Alright I know it's not all clean eating over here right now, but good is good! Happy Eatings Everyone!

The Easiest Crab Soup On Earth

I get cravings for very few things, pad see ew, bacon, and crab. But besides that I usually crave an easy recipe, don't you? There's nothing better than coming home and knowing its not going to be another hour of work in the kitchen, prepping, chopping, washing, sauteing, ect. An easy recipe that only require tossing everything into a pot and then waiting for 30 minutes, 30 minutes that can be used to put your feet up and catch up on OITNB. So here you are all of you hard workers, an easy, put your feet up recipe.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups heavy whipping cream
• 6 tbsp butter
• 1 lb crab or imitation crab meat
• 2 cups milk
• salt and pepper 
• 1 tbsp garlic powder

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Directions:

1. In a large sauce pan stir in all of your ingredients.
2. Bring to a boil.
3. Turn down the heat and cover for 30 minutes. 
4. Serve!

Happy Eatings Everyone! Please remember to take some time for yourself every once and while, we forget to do that so often. 

Creamy Broccoli and Chicken

My days have consisted of packing, planning and Star Trek. C'mon Kirk give me something that packs my house up for me! I am sure he would if he were real and knew how much I needed it. Anyway, I am taking a break from all this planning and packing to watch more and to get something in the oven, with the rains finally back and dealing with moving to a new city, I've been craving comfort food. So let me ignore the boxes and give you delicious recipe to enjoy. Engage:

Creamy Broccoli and Chicken

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup chopped green onion
• 1 can cream of mushroom
• 1.5 lbs chicken breast
• 2 cups chopped and steamed broccoli
• 1/2 stick butter
• 2 cloves garlic
• salt and pepper

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Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Salt and pepper your chicken breast and place them in a baking dish.
3. Sprinkle green onions and garlic on top of chicken and dollop butter evenly over each breast.
4. Then top with your steamed broccoli.
5. Pour cream of mushroom over the top evenly.
6. Bake for 45 minutes.
7. Serve!

Happy Eatings Everyone!

Andes Mint Chocolate Cookies

Baking has never been my forte, mainly because I don't have a sweet tooth and don't need to bring out my baking sweets skills.  The husband on the other hand has many sweet teeth, so I feel compelled to make him some treats. These tasted almost like mint chocolate chip ice cream, so soft, so chewy, so good! Enough of the talking, let's get down and minty.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 box chocolate cake mix
• andes chocolates

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Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Mix them all up except for the chocolates
3. Dollop cookie dough with a spoon 3 inches apart on a greased cookie sheet
4. Bake for 10-12 minutes
5. Place andes chocolate on top immediately after baking and spread around.
6. Serve!

So good. So easy. Happy eatings Everyone!

Fast and Easy Salmon

If there is one seafood that I crave more than any other it's salmon, beautiful pink and diverse salmon. I had de thawed a pound of salmon filets the night before but found I had very little time to actually prep a fancy meal, but sometimes beauty lies in simplicity and time can't hold me back from making simplicity delicious. So here is a short and quick recipe that turned out so good and only took 15 minutes!

Simplistic Salmon

Ingredients:

• 1 lb salmon filets
• 1/8 tsp sea salt
• 1/8 tsp fresh ground pepper
• 1 1/2 tsp rosemary
• 2 cloves garlic roughly chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Prep salmon with all of the spices and spread your garlic evenly over your filets.
3. Usually cooking salmon in parchment paper and on a cookie sheet makes it look prettier but I had no parchment paper and both of my cookie sheets were on the dishwasher. So I used a glass dish.
4. Bake for 12 minutes. 
5. Serve!

Voila! Enjoy this quick and tasty dish! Happy Eatings Everyone! And enjoy some Neil Diamond, my cooking companion for the past two nights:

Thai Pizza

In a perfect world Thai food and Italian food walk hand in hand with almost anything. But alas this is an imperfect, twisted world that decides keeping the two apart is the best idea. The loop hole in all of this is of course pizza. One of the most easily manipulated foods on the planet, pizza doesn't contribute to the segregation of our favorite cuisines, instead it offers up the white flag and allows pretty much any cuisine flavors or influences onto it's doughy land. So here we are, an easy, delicious and perfectly fused Thai Pizza.

Ingredients for Sauce:

• 2 tbsp peanut butter
• 2 tbsp sesame oil
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1tbsp brown sugar
• 1tsp sesame seeds

Ingredients for Pizza:

• handful of basil
• 1 tbsp of olive oil
• 1 1/2 cup spinach
• handful of peanuts
• 1 cup of red bell pepper
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 pizza dough (pre-cooked)

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large sauce pan heat up oil and sauté your spinach, basil, pepper and garlic.
3. Spread sauce on pizza dough and spread around your pan ingredients over the dough.
4. Bake for 10-15 minutes.
5. Serve!

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Your dough can be made at home or bought at the store, I made my own and pre baked it for about 15-20 minutes! Happy Eatings Everyone!