1-Chicken Burritos-I got this from my sister in law-Keith and I love it! Plus we get 2 dinners and 2 lunches out of it-win win!
I cook the chicken with a jar of salsa in the crockpot first on low for 6-ish hours. Once it is done I shred it. I use large flour tortillas...the 8 count ones and put a little less than 1/3 cup of the chicken mixture with some shredded cheese and roll them and tuck like a burrito. 8 burritos make a full 9x13 pan (Please spray with pam or grease!) 6 across the top and 2 along the bottom sideways.
Topping: Mix 2 blocks of cream cheese, 1 can of cream of chicken soup, a few spoonfuls of sour cream and a jar of rotel in a sauce pan. Mix until smooth under medium/high heat. It bubbles up fast so you need to keep stirring. Once it is done pour over the burritos in the pan and then add shredded cheese on top. Bake at 375 covered until bubbly and the bottoms are light brown. Usually 30ish minutes. That's it. Super easy.
2-Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli-I use this Recipe and I triple it, we like a lot of alfredo! I add chicken baked in the oven with olive oil and some seasonings (it depends on the day what I season it with!) I add cooked broccoli from those steam in the microwave packs to it and we have a salad with it and sometimes garlic bread.
3-Breaded Pork Chops-these are your basic pork chops dipped in egg/milk and then in bread crumbs, baked! Nothing special! The kids love them...Keith hates them! Sometimes I'll make a "sauce" with something I have in the pantry-its different every time!
4-crockpot BBQ chicken-again, basic! Throw chicken in the crockpot with bottled BBQ sauce! We have these with mashed potatoes and green beans.
5-Chicken Nuggets-my mom has been making these since I was a kid-not sure where the recipe came from! We always have these with mashed potatoes, corn and gravy!
6-Enchiladas-I don't know where this came from, its another that my mom has been making for years.
Brown ground meat and then add taco seasoning. (packet or here is the recipe I use to make my own). Pour some enchilada sauce in the bottle of a 9x12 baking dish. Take tortillas and fill with some of the meat, add grated cheese, roll up and put in dish. Fill them all till the pan is full. Pour enchilada sauce over the top and bake covered with foil for 20-30 minutes. Uncover and top with more cheese and pop back in the oven till melted. We have this with beans, avocado and this rice recipe (I don'd add the onion)
7-Pot Roast-Tyler's favorite meal....I love it too!! I use this Recipe, but I make it in the oven at 300 in my cast iron dutch oven. I also add a can of golden mushroom in addition to the cream of mushroom soup because we think it needs the extra gravy! You can use packet onion soup or use this recipe for onion soup mix
8-Bacon Wrapped Chicken-the is my all time favorite meal! If I have have to have one last meal, it will be this one!!! As with any recipe-I change it up a bit! I do one can cream of mushroom and one can cream of chicken. I also do more bacon...of course I do more bacon!! I also just barely cook the bacon, so when I wrap it, its still pretty raw. You can either buy the thin sliced chicken breasts or just take regular ones and cut in half then pound thin. I have also made these ahead of time and frozen. You can either freeze the entire thing with the sauce added or just the stuffed wrapped chicken. Just thaw the night before and then bake.
9-Chicken Fried Rice-My mother in law gave me this recipe which I have changed to my liking!
Cook rice-we do white, but I am sure you could do brown. Brown chunks of chicken with onion in olive oil. When its done add some soy sauce to the pan. In a separate pan scramble some eggs. When the rice is done, add the cooked chicken, frozen peas and carrots and the egg. Mix (the hot rice will defrost the peas/carrots) Add more soy if you need. Sometimes I will leave the chicken out and make this generals tso's chicken. It doesn't really taste like the real thing, but its still really good!
10-Lasagna-This is soooooo good! It is very time consuming though! I follow the recipe except I do 1 pound ground meat and 1 pound sausage. I also make the sauce the night before and then the actual lasagna the next day because I like to let the sauce simmer all day! For the noodles I just fill my big spaghetti pot with HOT tap water, put the noodles in, cover and let it sit for 20-30 minutes. I don't actually cook them before. Oh, and don't use the no boil fast ones...they disintegrate when its cooked and its gross!
11-Taco Pie Super easy and we always have leftovers. We have it with sour cream, salsa and avocado.
12-Dr Pepper Pulled Pork-I make this in the cast iron dutch oven at 300 all day! I also only add 1/3-1/2 can of chipotle peppers so its not too spicy for the kids. I keep the liquid after its strained from the other stuff and after the meat is shredded I add most of it back in to keep it moist. I also add 1/2 a bottle of bottled BBQ sauce after its shredded too. It makes a ton, so we freeze it.
12-Spaghetti-we have this every Monday! The first Monday I will make up all 4 Mondays worth and freeze it in meal portions. I buy the cheapest spaghetti sauce ($0.89 for kroger brand!) and then add lots of spices to it. To the ground meat I also had sausage chunks.
13-Black Chicken as Tyler calls it! Basically just breaded chicken pan fried in olive oil! I make some kind of sauce for it too.
I would love to know how you tweek these for your family!!
