Hawaiin chicken

Here is another slow cooker dish. It is also a freezer meal that you can have ready in an instant. I did a relief society activity on freezer / slow cooker meals a while back and this is one of the recipes that the teacher provided. It is simple and delicious. You will need the following

2-3 chicken breasts

1/2 cup white sugar

1/2 cup vinegar

3 garlic cloves, minced

2T soy sauce

1/2 can of large pineapple chunks

1/2 cup of pineapple juice (from can)

place all in a freezer bag and freeze.

To cook thaw out the bag in the refrig the night before

place into the slow cooker and cook on low for 6-7 hours

shred and serve over rice.

 You do not have to freeze it if you don't want to.

I also add the whole can of pineapple since we like to have more.

I don't know where she got this recipe so I can't give credit to that person or book.

I hope you like these ideas. I will try to write about other things as well; as I play catch up on what is happening in our lives.  I sometimes get overwhelmed but I keep moving forward and doing the best I can to keep up.

Until I write again hope you have a great day.

Recipe #5

It has been a while since I made this so here it goes on remembering.

This is a spicy pork chop recipe that I got from the cookbook called Fix-It and Forgot-It.

Yes another slow cooker recipe. Like I said yesterday I use my slow cooker a lot even though I am a stay at home mom. It is funny because I am hardly home, I am almost always gone doing something.

To make this recipe you will need

4 frozen pork chops or more to feed your family

1 cup of Italian salad dressing

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup prepared spicy mustard

1. Place pork chops in slow cooker.

2.Mix remaining 3 ingredients together in a bowl. Pour over chops

3. Cover and cook on Low 6-8 hours, or until meat is tender but not dry.

I don't know if you can tell but mine was falling off the bones. Again I just made peas and carrots. The pasta salad I just added frozen broccoli and added Italian dressing to it.

It was a fast and simple dinner.

If you want you can substitute with chicken.

Recipe 3 and 4

This blog will have two recipes. I am trying to play catch up on what I promised to write.

The first one is Tangy Chicken Legs. I got this recipe out of the book Fix-it and Forget-it. It is a slow-cooker recipe. I use my slow-cooker about two times a week.  The second recipe is the scalloped potatoes from the Betty Crocker Cookbook.

Tangy Chicken Legs

8 chicken legs

1/3 cup soy sauce

2/3 cup packed brown sugar

scant 1/8 tsp. ground ginger

1/4 cup water

1. Place chicken in slow cooker.

2. Combine remaining ingredients in a bowl and spoon over chicken.

3. Cover and cook on Low 4-5 hours, or until chicken is tender but not dry.

I let mine cook longer and just kept it warm until dinner time.

Scalloped potatoes

6 medium potatoes

3 T butter

3 T flour

1 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. pepper

2 1/2 cups  milk

1 small onion ( I used dried minced onions)

1T butter

Cut the potatoes into thin slices. Heat 3 T of butter in saucepan over low heat until melted. Stir in flour, salt, and pepper. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth and bubbly; remove from heat. Stir in milk. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Arrange potatoes in greased 2-qt casserole in 3 layers, topping each of the first 2 layers with 1/2 of the onion and 1/3 of the white sauce. Top with remaining potatoes and sauce. Dot with 1 T butter. Cover and bake in 325 degree oven 40 minutes or in 350 degree oven 30 minutes. Uncover and bake until potatoes are tender, 60 to 70 minutes longer. Let stand 5 to 10 minutes before serving.

Okay I did make some changes on the potatoes. I didn't precook my potatoes before slicing like the book says and I used dried onions instead. Otherwise I did follow the directions. I did have to cook them longer for two reasons. One my potatoes weren't precooked and I am at a higher altitude, so cooking takes a little longer. We like these better than the boxed stuff.

The vegetables were frozen peas and carrots from the store.

I hope this helps with ideas to fix for dinner. If you want you can add a recipe in the comment section for us to try. We like trying new recipes.