Feb 22 | Recipes
Connie over at Smockity Frocks is hosting a What’s in Your Crockpot? link-up today! And I just found out about it but I thought I would participate anyways! This week we’ll be having BBQ Beef in the crockpot so I’ll be posting that recipe! It’s one of our favourites.
Barbecue Beef: 2 lbs beef stew meat (I buy the cheapest cut of meat since it will be really tender when it's done cooking!) 1 cup ketchup 1/4 cup water 1 package onion soup mix or 3 Tbsp 1/4 cup brown sugar 1 1/2 tsp prepared mustard 1/4 cup vinegar 2 cups celery, diced Place beef in the bottom of the crock pot. Mix the remaining ingredients in a bowl. Pour over the beef. Cook on low for 6 - 8 hours or high for 4 - 5 hours. Serve over rice or mashed potatoes. Of course, I'll add more veggies on the side or a salad.
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2
lbs
beef stew meat
I buy the cheapest cut of meat since it will be really tender when it's done cooking!
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1
cup
ketchup
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1/4
cup
water
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1
package onion soup mix or 3 Tbsp
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1/4
cup
brown sugar
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1 1/2
tsp
prepared mustard
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1/4
cup
vinegar
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2
cups
celery
diced
Place beef in the bottom of the crock pot.
Mix the remaining ingredients in a bowl. Pour over the beef.
Cook on low for 6 - 8 hours or on high for 4 - 5 hours.
Serve over rice or mashed potatoes with veggies and/or a salad.
Dec 24 | Recipes
I was asked again to bring a cheesecake for Christmas dinner this year. They must be tasty or something! Since I think it’s pretty delicious myself, possibly the World’s Best Cheesecake recipe, I thought you might want the recipe as well. I like to top it with my homemade raspberry sauce. Mmmmm 🙂
I found this recipe typing in ‘World’s Best Cheesecake’ in Google, and I must admit, it is fabulous! Apparently, it’s a version of the original Lindy’s cheesecake which goes all the way back to 1921!
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My tips:
- Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature.
- A big mixer is very useful since it’s pretty thick
- Firstly, I beat the cream cheese then I beat after adding each additional ingredient
- Do not open the oven at all during the cooking and cooling process
Dec 21 | Menu Planning, Recipes
It’s Christmas week! Probably the busiest week of my year! This past weekend I attended 4 parties. Two on Saturday night alone! The week up to Friday is also looking pretty busy. But you know, it’s all fun stuff and I get to visit with friends and family. That makes it all worthwhile, I think!
With all the busyness of the season, I only have to account for 2 dinners as we’ll be out the for the rest of them!
Tuesday: Out for my Dad’s birthday (I’m bringing birthday cake)
Wednesday: I’ll be in Vancouver picking up my brother!!!
Friday: Christmas Dinner! (I’m bringing cheesecake!)
For the two meals I do have to prepare, I’ve left them really simple as you can see! If you would like to see what others have planned this week, check out
I’m an Organizing Junkie!
Dec 7 | Menu Planning, Recipes
So, are you all getting into the Christmas spirit yet? I’ve decorated our home but the weather has been uncharacteristically cold and unsnowy for this time of the year. Snow just makes Christmas, in my opinion!
I think we did pretty well last week at cleaning out our freezer. Most of the meals or leftovers I froze have been eaten up. I even found a cherry pie I baked as a treat one night! Plenty of room for some Holiday baking now!
I guess this week, I’m actually going to make meals from scratch. At least I enjoy cooking…most of the time! Here’s what I’m thinking for this week:
Tuesday: Dinner Party out!!
This week’s meals are bit more time consuming, but I’m sure my husband will really appreciate it! After all, I haven’t made anything that isn’t from the freezer in a while! If you need a bit more inspiration for your menus check out the links at
I’m an Organizing Junkie!
Nov 30 | Menu Planning, Recipes
Well, here we are, on the last day of November! December is upon us as well as the holiday season! My favourite time of the year. It’s this week that I’ll start decking the halls around our home and start putting together my Christmas baking list!
Since this week is going to be a bit crazy around our house and the fact that our freezer is full of meals that need to be eaten, I’ve deemed this the ‘eat from the pantry week’! I really have to clean out our freezer!
So here’s what I think I have in our freezer that I’ll be applying to the menu this week:
Monday: Sloppy Joe Calzones
Thursday: Broccoli and Chicken Pie (not from the freezer)
I would also like to invite you all back each day this week for some special features I’m having all week long! Some features to help you out with the Christmas season!
Nov 23 | Menu Planning, Recipes
Hello again! Well, I think I have some menu changes to make now that I’m not working. I always took leftover dinners for lunches while I was working, but now I’m at home all day so I have to remember to make less dinner each night! I ended up throwing out some pasta because I got a little carried away when I was making it! I’ll learn eventually. So this week I’m factoring some leftovers for dinner. Makes it a lot easier on me anyways!
Monday: Out for dinner (Hubby’s birthday!!)
Tuesday: Pepperoni Pesto Pizzas (read the comments for the recipe)
Wednesday: Peanut Chicken Pasta
Thursday: Beef Fajitas
Friday: Leftover Pasta or Fajitas
Well it’s looking like a pretty easy week meal wise! Again, if you would like to see more menus, visit I’m an Organizing Junkie!
