Chicken Pot Pie with Stuffing

We started out with 1 whole chicken that we roasted in the crock-pot with seasoning. This is meal #3 we were able to cook from that 1 chicken:

Ingredients:

2 1/2-3 cups cooked chicken, shredded or chopped
1 (29 oz) can home style mixed vegetables, drained
1 (10 3/4 oz) can cheddar cheese soup
1 onion soup mix packet
1 cup shredded cheddar blend cheese
1 (6 oz) package stuffing, prepared

- Combine cooked chicken, mixed vegetables, cheddar cheese soup, onion soup mix, and shredded cheese.

- Turn into freezer safe/oven safe casserole dish sprayed with cooking spray.

- Top with prepared stuffing mix.




- Cook at 350 degrees F 30-35 minutes, or until heated completely through.

- OR -

- Cover and freeze for up to 3 months before serving. In order to reheat, thaw casserole in refrigerate prior to cooking. *Be careful not to place a frozen glass dish into a heated oven to avoid breakage.*

Stewed UP Spaghetti Sauce

I vaguely remember being asked what meat I wanted taken out of the freezer for today's dinner last night before I fell asleep.

Vaguely.

When I got up this morning I decided that spaghetti sounded really good - and we should have it for dinner. I love it when a plan comes together!

But when I went to get meat out of the freezer, I found that this package of stew beef was already thawing.



The only sensible thing to do was to plan on using it in the spaghetti sauce. And I could cook it in the crock-pot! Now we're talking!!

Time to assemble...




Ingredients:

1 1/2-2 lbs stew beef
1 14 1/2 oz can of diced tomatoes
1 26 1/2 oz can of prepared spaghetti sauce
1/4 cup red cooking wine
1 packet, dry onion soup mix
1 1/2 TBS Italian seasoning
1 TBS minced garlic
1 can of water (use the diced tomato can)

Mix well.

1 tsp sugar sprinkled over the combined ingredients.

(Mom always said to do that, and her advice has always been pretty darn good.)

Cook on low 6-7 hours.

With our Stewed UP Spaghetti sauce we served spaghetti noodles, garlic bread, and a fresh salad.

Long after the noodles were gone, the sauce was a welcome dipping sauce for the remaining garlic bread.



Now the garlic bread is gone too.

Success!!

Crock-Pot Beer Meatballs

Beer Meatballs

1 package frozen meatballs, (we prefer Schwans Italian style)
1 beer
1 onion, diced
1 onion soup mix packet
1/4-1/2 cup brown sugar

*combine in crock-pot, cook on low 4-5 hours*



We enjoy serving this with mashed potatoes. We also enjoy this served over egg noodles, or on sandwiches topped with Swiss cheese slices. The possibilities are endless!