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Old-Fashioned Southern Cornbread

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  1. Preheat your cast iron skillet with bacon drippings in the oven at 400* F. If you don't have a cast iron skillet you can also use a dutch oven or metal cake pan.
  2. While your cast iron heats up, make the batter. Whisk together all dry ingredients and wet ingredients in separate bowls. Melt your 6 tbsp of butter, then add the wet and dry ingredients together.
  3. When your pan and oven are hot, grab it and add your batter to the pan. Spread the batter evenly over the surface
  4. Bake the corn bread for about 20 minutes or until the edges and top start to brown.
  5. Rest your bread in your cast iron and serve warm!
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Don't have buttermilk? For each cup of buttermilk, you can use 1 tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice plus enough milk to measure 1 cup. Stir the ingredients together and let rest for 5 minutes.

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Homemade Jalapeno Black Beans

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These Homemade Jalapeno Black Beans are a very versatile thing to always have ready to eat, you can make a whole bunch and keep them in your freezer and just pull them out and defrost when you need a quick and easy side dish! The reason the recipe calls for so much stuff is that when we make them we make a lot. that way we don’t have to spend 45 minutes making them every time we want some!
The really cool part about this Homemade Jalapeno Black Beans recipe is that you don’t have to eat them just as a side dish, you can add a can of tomatoes and a pound of ground meat and boom you have homemade Chili! Or you can add a little more broth and some shredded chicken and you have spicy chicken soup. These beans are a staple in our little household, and we eat them all the time!
Another really great thing about these is that you can also make them in the crock pot! Just cook up the veggies and dump it all in the Crock Pot and walk away! This truly is a great recipe! Think of all the things you can make these beans into!
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  1. Put your jalapenos, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, onion, garlic and cilantro into your food processor
  2. Process until they are finely minced and mixed together
  3. Put a large pot on the stove and turn up to high heat
  4. Add your olive oil and add the food processed items and cook until soft
  5. Add your drained beans to the pot and stir thoroughly
  6. Add broth and salt and pepper (we used a lot, but that's just us!)
  7. Turn heat down and simmer on low heat for at least 20 minutes
  8. Enjoy!
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Crock Pot Bear Chili

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So last year I happened to get a bear while hunting. We froze a ton of the meat in steaks, and decided this would be a great time to have some unique chili recipe! This chili came out pretty thick, which Taylor and I like about our chili. Our recipe for Crock Pot Bear Chili recipe was a bit spicy because we used Jalapeno black beans along with red beans. We also top our chili off with a fresh ground pepper when we go to serve it. We coupled this chili with our Homemade Cornbread recipe to soak up all the juicy bits at the end of the bowl.  So if you’re looking for a new spin on a classic chili, and can find bear or have some from your own hunt then give this a try. People don’t expect it when you tell them it’s bear they’re eating.

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  1. First cube up all your bear steaks to a uniform size
  2. Add sausage and bear to your crock pot
  3. Add all the cans into your crock pot
  4. Cook on high for 4-6 hours or until the meat has finished cooking
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Spicy Chicken and Red Bean Soup

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I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there is something the Hubby and I make a lot. Soup. Do you want to know a why? It’s because we are in our twenties and don’t make nearly enough money! So what’s the easiest thing to make on a budget? Soup. And the best way to make a soup is to look in your cupboard and grab a bunch of canned food, add some chicken broth/beef broth and some kind of protein.. That’s how this Spicy Chicken and Red Bean Soup came about! We always have at least one onion in the kitchen (usually 2) and I will never cook without Garlic. So this was the equivalent of Kitchen Sink Cookies, but Kitchen Sink Soup!
It turned out pretty fantastic, I think when I make this next (on purpose of course) I will make sure that I just happen to have a fresh jalapeno in the apartment, I think some spice will make this even tastier!
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  1. Place chicken in bottom of crockpot.
  2. Season with salt and pepper.
  3. Add onion, green chilies, beans, garlic and chicken broth.
  4. Cover and cook on Low for 6-8 hours or on High for 4-6 hours.
  5. Shred chicken and return to crockpot!
  6. Serve with shredded cheese, sour cream, and tortilla chips!!
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Spicy Chicken Tomato Soup

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I like tomato soup, but it gets old. Eventually you have to grow up and realize that Campbell’s Tomato Soup isn’t really good for you in any way. It has no real protein and way too much sodium. You might as well just drink a V8, at least those have added vitamins. Anyway, this is my better alternative, my upgraded tomato soup: Spicy Chicken Tomato Soup.
When I first came up with this recipe I thought about using ground beef, but then I thought it would seem too much like a chili and I wanted to keep this as a soup, so I went with chicken.
This was a really good winter night meal, and it made for amazing leftovers for work lunches!
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  1. Combine all ingredients in your crock pot and cook on low for 6-8 hours or on high for 4-6 hours.
  2. Serve by itself or over rice and enjoy!
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Crock Pot Spicy Salsa Chicken Pasta

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This Crock Pot Spicy Salsa Chicken Pasta was amazing delicious because it’s something outside the norm. The hubby and I eat a lot of pasta with tomato sauce, a lot a lot. It’s kind of our favorite meal. So it was nice to have pasta, which we love, but a different kind. Something different was really nice! And the husband really liked it, he ate three helpings!
A shoutout goes out to whoever figured out that that you can cook pasta in a Crock Pot. I mean really, there are so many plus sides to cooking your pasta in the sauce of your dinner. It thickens itself, the pasta is flavorful on it’s own,  it takes a lot less maintenance so multitasking is a possibility. So I can wash up the dishes while the pasta cooks! I’m really glad that it works so well. It makes pasta, and already simple dish, even easier to make!

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  1. Place all ingredients , except the cream cheese and the noodles, into your crock pot and cook on low until chicken is done (4-6 hours)
  2. Pour in your pasta and turn crock pot to high
  3. Once pasta is cooked add your cream cheese and stir briskly to mix.
  4. Add some cheese to garnish, and enjoy!
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Red Beans and Rice

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These Red Beans and Rice were one of hubby’s best dinner ideas. We have made it three or four times now and it tastes better every time!

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Truth be told, I’m not really a rice person at all. I have never been. It makes the hubby sad sometimes because he really likes rice and we don’t ever eat it. But when it comes to these Red Beans and Rice I will eat them all day, every day! So tasty! We made this after we went to Popeye’s for the first time and I discovered a love for red beans and rice.. And Dan said that we couldn’t eat there every night. (He’s no fun!) So I went on Pinterest and found a recipe that sounded delicious and easy. And it was! I really loved it, and it was better than Popeye’s because it was sooooo much cheaper. And there was a lot of leftovers so we had lunch for a week and a second dinner off of it, hooray!

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  1. Check red beans for any small pebbles then rinse thoroughly.
  2. Add beans, water, seasonings, and chicken broth to the crock pot.
  3. Chop the veggies and add to the crock pot.
  4. Next, chop the sausage add to the crock pot when done.
  5. Turn the crock pot on low for 7 hours.
  6. Use cornstarch to thicken
  7. When ready to eat, prepare your rice.
  8. Pour red beans over rice and serve.
  9. Enjoy!
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Cheeseburger Soup

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So like most young and newly married couples Dan and I live in an apartment. Boooooo. I can’t wait until we have enough money set aside to buy a house! One of the reasons I want a house is: apartment living prevents us from owning a grill. I want to make hamburgers every weekend in the summer. And I want to grill chicken instead of having to bake it. Want want want. Anyway, this is the closest I can get to cheeseburgers without making a huge mess in the apartment! (when we make burgers we make them in a pan on the stove and they get too thick and dry out. But anyway, this soup is really, really good! I can’t wait to make it again!

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  1. Place everything, except the cheese into your crock pot
  2. Cook on low for 5-6 hours, add cheese and turn up to high
  3. Enjoy!
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Cock-A-Leekie Soup

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  1. In a large pot over high heat, combine the chicken, water, onion and barley
  2. Bring to a boil, reduce at to low and simmer for one hour
  3. Remove cooked chicken, and chop ino bite sized pieces
  4. Return to the pot
  5. Add the chicken broth, leeks, celery, thyme, parsley, salt, and pepper.
  6. Simmer for 30 minutes or until all vegetables are tender.
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Crock Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup

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Until I made this Crock Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup I had never actually had tortilla soup, and this was a really good choice! As always I took about three different recipes and put them all together into something that sounded amazing! After this sat in the Crock Pot all day our whole apartment smelled amazing! When we made it I decided to use the tomato halves and I still think that I made a fantastic choice. We strained all of the tomatoes out of the Crock Pot and put them into our food processor and added some flour to thicken it up and it was so good! We froze the half that we didn’t eat and ate it the next week and I wish that we had made more because it was fantastic! Please leave comments and suggestions below and enjoy!
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  1. Cut chicken into bite sized pieces
  2. Open all your cans
  3. Pour into crock pot
  4. Set on high for 3-4 hours, on low 5-6 hours your choice!
  5. Serve with tortilla chips and sour cream
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