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Rachel, Jax, Stephanie - Recipes please
Rachel - chalupas
Jax - crock pot chicken pot pie
Stephanie - mac and cheese w/ ground beef and red peppers
Thanks!
Re: Rachel, Jax, Stephanie - Recipes please
I'm hoping the crock pot chicken pot pie is less work than Mom's stovetop plus baking chicken pot pie...
Chalupas are our lazy meal. Only slightly more work than a sandwich.
I use either already cooked black beans (I buy them dry, then cook with salt and minced garlic) or canned black beans. Simmer until hot, then mash them up. (Fresh beans take so much longer to get squishy enough.) Mom always used canned refried beans.
Spread on a tostada, then add toppings: lettuce, tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, cheese, diced chicken (if there are leftovers in the fridge), salsa, guacamole, sour cream...anything really!
Here's my shortcut version of the spicy mac & cheese
The real recipe has you make the cheese sauce from scratch, but I don't have time for that. I used boxed mac & cheese that comes with the sauce.
I browned ground beef and added chopped onion (I always have bags of frozen chopped onion on hand), and fresh chopped red pepper. Saute for 5 minutes or so. Add salt, pepper, 1 teaspoon of paprkira, 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne. Add beef mixture to the prepared mac & cheese. It's an easy week night meal.
So the Chix pot pie crockpot is my super duper lazy attempt. Not the one I do from scratch and it def doesn't taste AS good, but still does the trick
2 cans of condensed cream of chicken soup- low sodium/healthy request by campbells is what I use.
1 cup celery chopped
1 bag of baby carrots
1 med onion chopped
1 lb b/s chix breast diced into cubes
kosher salt- to taste, about 1 tbsp while cooking
about 1 tsp garlic powder (eye ball it)
1 tsp black pepper (eye ball it)
frozen peas- about a cup
Literally throw everything but peas in crockpot for 5-6 hours on high. the last hour add the peas.
Serve with biscuits...done...
Thanks so much, ladies!
Rachel, do you have to do anything with the tostada, heat it up at all?