Recipes

I like a lot of the recipes on kevinandamanda.com. They are easy to make (realistic if your not a complete chef) and always good. These are some of our favorites:

Tom's favorite: Red Beans and Rice

Stacy's favorite: Homestyle Mac and Cheese

Stacy's other favorite: Blondies with Nutella Swirls (like a brownie, but with brown sugar!)

We've also made the homemade tortilla chips to go with my sweet pork for nachos.

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Recipe - Stacy's Famous Phili Clubs (k&hf)

Amazing sandwiches that take hardly any time and everyone LOVES... and since I made these out of the blue I take credit for them by always making sure to call them by their name...

Me: What do you want for dinner?
Tom: Those sandwiches you make.
Me: Say it by their name.
Tom: Not a chance.
Me: Do it.
Tom: Fine "Stacy's famous phili clubs." Now will you just make me a sandwich?

Ok... that might be an exaggeration...

1/2 pound hickory smoked honey turkey deli meat
1/2 pound honey ham deli meat
3 slices of onion (cut in half)
1/2 container mushroom slices
3 1/2 hoagie rolls (1/2 for Ash)
swiss cheese slices

saute the onions and mushrooms.
cut the meat into 1" squares.
add the meat to veggies in pan.
sprinkle with season salt, pepper, and garlic powder

I section this mess into four piles in the pan and throw swiss cheese slices on top of the piles. Then cook until its melted... and put the pile in a hoagie.

You can mayo the hoagie... or add bacon... tom likes his with tomatoes.

Yummy and so easy.

Recipes that have worked for us...

I always struggle with some of the crap I feed Ash. Sometimes he’s hard to feed because he’s picky… and other times it’s because I’m lazy (um… spaghetti-o’s and top ramen are our lunch staples… yikes!).

My cousin Jackie also posted about her cute boy not eating many things. I’ve been meaning to post some good recipes as I find them, but her post prompted me to finally do it. I’ll try to share some I’ve found that Ash likes… and others that Tom likes (my health conscious hubby is sometimes just as hard to feed… )(love ya pumpkin!). I love new recipes… so anyone who wants to reciprocate by blogging or emailing me recipes is awesome.

Below are a bunch of crock pot ones (my Friday favorite).

Recipe - Shredded Cafe Rio Pork (k&hf)

Shredded Café Rio Sweet Pork (kid and hubby friendly)

2-3 pound Pork Roast
1 cup Pace’s salsa (I use medium)
1 cup brown sugar
1 can Dr. Pepper

Mix the salsa, sugar, and dr. pepper in a bowl. Pour 2/3rds in crock pot with pork roast (defrosted if frozen). Cook 6 hours on low. Add remaining sauce and shred pork. Let cook on low for another hour before serving.

These are awesome as nachos… Tom and I’s favorite way to eat it. I also forgot and poured all the sauce in at once and it turned out fine. Ash likes it all by itself.

Recipe - Italian Cheesy Chicken (k&hf)

Italian Cheesy Chicken (kid and hubby friendly)

3 chicken breasts (could probably add more if needed) (frozen is ok)
1 block cream cheese
1 can Cream of Chicken soup
1 packet of dry Italian dressing mix

Mix everything and pour over chicken in crock pot. Cook on low for 6 hours.

I usually use frozen chicken and after 3-4 hours I cut the breasts in 1/4ths.

We eat this over rice. I shred Ash’s chicken so it’s harder for him to pull out and he always eats it!

Recipe - Cheesy Taco Chicken (hf)

Cheesy Taco Chicken (hubby friendly)

3 chicken breasts (frozen is ok)
Packet of taco seasoning
Salsa (I use medium and it’s mildly spicy)
1 block of cream cheese (recipe I got said sour cream, but we like cream cheese better)

Put chicken in crockpot. Sprinkle enough taco seasoning to coat each piece of chicken (about half of packet). Pour salsa over the top of chicken. (uses about a whole bottle of salsa). Cook on low for six hours. (I also cut my frozen chicken in 1/3rds or so after a few hours to make sure chicken cooks through).

Before serving… add the cream cheese to crock pot and stir in.

Shred chicken. I pull out the biggest pieces, scrape off the top and then get some of the inside (with no salsa on it) and set it aside for Ash. I put the rest in a big bowl and shred it. Then I pour the salsa mixture into the bowl of shredded chicken until I’m happy with how much is in there (not using all of it).

Our favorite way to eat this is over rice. In tortillas is also good. I give Ash his plain chicken, shredded cheese and whatever else I can find.

WARNING! This will look pink and nasty, but it really is so yummy!