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I’m not really a turkey person, I will eat it on thanksgiving and that’s about it. Until I made these Mediterranean Turkey Breasts that is! Ground turkey is a whole different thing, it’s the turkey taste that I’m not really a fan of but this is amazing! We ate it with some homemade mashed potatoes and turkey gravy. I think my main problem with turkey is that I always get so sleepy after I eat it!
Anyway, this recipe was really simple to make and made awesome leftover sandwiches! (Like Turkey usually does!)
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  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. In a medium bowl whisk to combine: lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, mustard, and oregano
  3. Put your Turkey into a gallon sized Ziploc bag and add marinade
  4. Let sit for at least an hour, overnight is best!
  5. Bake for 45-60 minutes or until Turkey is done
  6. Serve with a yummy side dish!
  7. Enjoy!
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Chinese Chicken Salad

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It’s warming up outside! And you know what that means, less soup, more salad! And this Chinese Chicken Salad is our first salad of the season!

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Chinese Chicken Salad is my second favorite salad (Chicken Caesar Salad is the only one that beats it!) And this super simple recipe will put it into your top 5 also! I prefer the easy way when it comes to the dressing, getting the right proportions of oil and vinegar isn’t easy. Plus the sodium content isn’t that much higher in the pre-made stuff!
When I was planning this salad I discovered Wonton Accents… They are like croutons, but made out of delicious crispy wontons! They aren’t a necessary thing, but they certainly make a nice addition! (I especially like the wasabi ginger flavored ones, I could eat them like chips!)
I marinated the chicken overnight in about 1 cup of the dressing, and cooked it on the stove earlier in the day (hooray for weekends off!) the full head of cabbage was way too much for for 2 people, so unless you’re cooking for a 4-6 member family I would use less. It doesn’t keep very well, the ramen absorbs the liquids and the cabbage gets too soft for my taste!
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  1. I would highly recommend making the chicken either the night before or earlier in the day, otherwise the chicken will be too hot and will wilt the salad!
  2. In a crock pot or in a pan on the stove put your chicken and add 1 cup of the dressing, 1/2 cup of water and the garlic
  3. Cook on high until chicken is done
  4. Shred chicken and allow it to cool in the liquid
  5. Slice your cabbage into thin strips
  6. Break the Ramen into small pieces, set aside the seasoning packets
  7. Take the shredded Chicken out of the liquid and add to a large bowl along with the Cabbage
  8. Mix the Ramen Seasoning packets into the juices from the Chicken
  9. Add the Remainder of the ingredients to the large bowl and mix thoroughly
  10. Add more dressing as needed
  11. Enjoy!
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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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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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Crock Pot Mongolian Beef

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So as the hubby puts it all the time I had a very food-sheltered life before I met him. My family didn’t have a very diverse taste in food when I was growing up, and then when I first moved away from home I was… Hmmm.. How to put this. Really broke. Yeah. So my diet pretty much consisted of Top Ramen and rice, which I really don’t like. Anyway, back on track, so I had never in my life had Mongolian Beef and when I saw a recipe for it on Pinterest I asked the hubby what it was and he decided on the spot that we were going to make it so that I could try it. And it was really amazing! The meat wasn’t tough like I thought it would be, and the sauce was the perfect combination of sweet and sour. Enjoy!

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  1. Coat your steak with cornstarch and let rest
  2. Take the back of your knife and peel your piece of ginger and mince
  3. Turn Crock pot on High
  4. Mince Garlic and add into crock along with chopped green onion and ginger ( I used more garlic, than stated, use as much or as little as you want)
  5. Add in soy sauce, water, sugar, and oil
  6. Stir to combine
  7. Add in stir fry beef
  8. Let cook on high for 4 hours or until tender.
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Crock Pot Pizza Casserole

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I have been seeing this recipe everywhere! I’m really glad the hubby and I made it, because it really was delicious!

 

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So the coolest part about this recipe is that you don’t have to pre-cook the noodles! You just mix everything together and pop it in the Crock Pot and in a few hours easy, tasty dinner! Hubby was a little worried when I made the first Crock Pot pasta dish, he was worried that the pasta might not cook or that the starch might make the food taste off but he ended up loving it! The melty cheese on the top was delicious, and I hate overcooked pepperoni and the Crock Pot didn’t burn the edges of the pepperoni and that made it even tastier! Yum!

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  1. Mix ground beef, Italian sausage, onion, uncooked pasta, sauce and garlic salt in a large bowl and pour mix into crock pot
  2. Spread half of cheese evenly over top and lay pepperoni all over the top, sprinkle olives over pepperoni and pour the rest of the cheese over the top
  3. Add water as needed to make sure the noodles cook
  4. Cook on low until the noodles are cooked and the cheese is melted.
  5. 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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Crockpot Pad Thai

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I had never had Pad Thai in my life until the hubby’s sister came to visit for Thanksgiving and she and her husband took us out for, you guessed it, Pad Thai! I loved it, but it wasn’t the cheapest and Dan and I don’t go out to dinner very often so I decided to find a recipe that we could try and make ourselves! I found a lot of recipes and none of them had all of the things that I wanted so I did what I always do and I took my favorite things from 3 or 4 recipes and smashed them all together and I got this recipe from it! I have a big place in my heart for Zucchini and onions, they add so much to everything you put them in! In the end the hubby liked this dinner more than I did, so he ate all of the leftovers, but that was good because it worries me that he doesn’t ever eat lunch!
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  1. Cut chicken breasts into strips.
  2. Place the chicken breast strips, zucchini and onions into a slow cooker.
  3. Pour in the chicken broth, lime and soy sauce,
  4. Add cumin, garlic and red pepper.
  5. Stir to blend, then cover and cook on Low for 5 hours.
  6. Blend well. Stir the sauce back into the slow cooker, and place the lid on the pot.
  7. Cook on high for an additional 15-30 minutes.
  8. Put medium pot of water on to boil.
  9. Once boiling add noodles, once noodles are tender, drain them and portion out.
  10. Add pad Thai on top of noodles.
  11. Top with green onions and peanuts or cilantro if you want!
  12. Enjoy!
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Steak Chili

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We went freezer meal crazy awhile back, and one of the things we made was Mongolian Beef, but we had extra steak so we stuck it in the freezer, where it lay forgotten for about a month.. And then one Sunday I had a craving for Chili but didn’t want to go to the grocery store (lazy, lazy, lazy Sunday) and then my wonderful husband remembered the extra steak! So we took it and dumped all of the veggies and beans we had in the fridge/cupboard into the Crock Pot and a few hours later we had some amazing chili! There is nothing in the world I would rather do on a chilly Sunday evening than watch a movie and eat something nice and warm!

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Steak Chili Recipe
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  1. Add all ingredients to your crock pot and cook on high for 6 hours or on low for 8
  2. Take the steak out and chop into small chunks and add back into the crock pot
  3. Spoon into bowls and enjoy with some cheese and sour cream on top!
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