Easy Recipe: Slow Cooker Meatballs

Mar 30 | Recipes

Looking for a delicious recipe that won’t heat up your house this week? Give these slow cooker meatballs a try!  These slow cooker meatballs are a family favourite around here!  Everyone enjoys them!  They’re really versatile. We like ours cooked in either BBQ Sauce or Sweet & Sour. I’m sure a tomato sauce would also be fantastic. I usually make a giant batch then divide them up into bags to freeze for later.

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Slow Cooker Meatballs
These meatballs are really versatile. We like ours cooked in either BBQ Sauce or Sweet & Sour. I'm sure a tomato sauce would also be fantastic. I usually make a giant batch then divide them up into bags to freeze.
Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 pounds ground beef
  • 1 egg
  • 1/3 cup oatmeal or breadcrumbs
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 1/2 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 Tbsp dried parsley
  • 1/3 cup milk
Instructions
  1. Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl.
  2. Shape into small meatballs, about 1 inch. (at this point, you can place them on a baking sheet and freeze, or cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate up to 24 hours before using).
  3. Place the meatballs in the slow cooker.
  4. Pour your sauce of choice over top. (We like BBQ or Sweet & Sour)
  5. Cook on low for 6 hours.
  6. Serve over rice or pasta.

Easy Recipe – Pesto Pepperoni Pizza

Mar 27 | Recipes

Here’s my really simple recipe for Pesto Pepperoni Pizza that would be great for lunch or a really quick dinner!

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Pesto Pepperoni Pizza
This is a great customizable recipe that you can change up to suit everyone in your family!
Ingredients
  • Greek style pitas
  • 1 can of pizza sauce
  • 4 Tbsp Pesto sauce
  • Sliced Pepperoni chicken is also tasty
  • Green peppers or whatever vegetables you fancy
  • Cheese mozzarella, cheddar, etc.
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. In a bowl, mix the can of pizza sauce with the 4 tablespoons of pesto sauce.
  3. Chop up your choice of vegetables and shred the cheese, set aside.
  4. Place the pitas on a cookie sheet, spread the pizza pesto sauce all over, then layer the pepperoni, vegetables and cheese to your satisfaction.
  5. Bake in the oven until cheese is melted.
  6. I like to broil the pizzas for a little bit to get the cheese a bit crispier.
  7. Enjoy!

Delicious Bran Muffins Recipe

Mar 23 | Recipes

This is an easy, no-fuss recipe for the best bran muffins you’ll ever eat! Full of chocolate but still really healthy!

This is an easy, no-fuss recipe for the best bran muffins you'll ever eat! Full of chocolate but still really healthy!

Delicious Bran Muffins

I love, love making this Bran muffin recipe and then sticking the muffins in the freezer for easy snacking or for throwing in my husband’s lunch! This recipe is also quite adaptable to your specific tastes. I often replace the all-purpose flour for whole wheat flour. While the chocolate chips can easily be switched out for blueberries, raisins or even cranberries.

This is an easy, no-fuss recipe for the best bran muffins you'll ever eat! Full of chocolate but still really healthy!
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Bran Muffins
Ingredients
  • 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup wheat bran
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips or raisins, dried cranberries
  • 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk
  • 1/3 cooking oil
  • 3 Tbsp molasses
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
  2. In a large bowl, combine all dry ingredients, mix.
  3. Add remaining ingredients, beat with a spoon until just mixed.
  4. Fill greased muffin cups 3/4 full.
  5. Bake in preheated oven for 20 - 25 minutes.
  6. Let stand 5 minutes.
Recipe Notes

To make sour milk, add milk to 1 Tbsp vinegar to measure 1 cup.

My Great Big List of Freezer Cooking Meals/Starters

Mar 22 | Menu Planning, Recipes

When I was planning my freezer cooking meals, I loved finding lists on other websites of what others have made for the freezer with success.

So, I thought I’d share my own list of everything that I made!  The list includes completed meals, meal starters and snacks.

What are you favourite foods to freeze?

Easy Recipe – Dill Cream Cheese Chicken Packs

Feb 29 | Recipes

Thanks to a Kraft promotion last year, I had a coupon for a free container of Philadelphia dill cream cheese.  Usually the only cream cheese I buy around here is plain old cream cheese so I had to figure out a way to use this new flavoured cream cheese.

I had seen these chicken cream cheese packs on my travels around the web in the past so I thought I’d create something like that!  They actually turned out to be quite tasty!

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Dill Cream Cheese Chicken Packs
Ingredients
  • 2 cups cooked chicken chopped, shredded
  • 1 container of Dill Cream Cheese you could also just add some dried dill to plain cream cheese
  • 2 Tbsp milk
  • 2 packages of refrigerated crescent rolls
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Celsius.
  2. In a bowl, combine the chicken, cream cheese and milk. Mix well.
  3. Unroll the crescent rolls. Each tube will have 4 rectangles of dough with a diagonal perforation.
  4. Press dough along each perforation so the rectangle halves will not separate.
  5. Place about 1/4 cup of the chicken mixture into the centre of each rectangle
  6. Fold the crescent rolls over the filling, and pinch the edges to seal.
  7. Place the packs on a baking sheet then bake for about 20 minutes.

Super simple!  I think these would even freeze well.  Either completely made or if you freeze the chicken mixture on its own.

Let me know what you think if you make them!