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Posted in Chicken, Recipes, slow cooker, Write 31 2016

Cafe’ Rio Chicken (Day 16)

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Welcome to Day 16 of 31 Days of Slow Cooking.

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Yesterday was a beautiful day in Ohio.  I had a hair appointment.  Afterwards we went to the Air Force Museum.  Then we went shopping at Fresh Thyme and Barnes and Nobles.  Later we had a family birthday party.

All in all, it was a great day.

Cafe’ Rio is a Mexican restaurant.  I’ve never been there before.  However, I found this recipe and decided to try it.  It is delicious as the protein for the meal or in a taco with your favorite toppings.

Cafe’ Rio Chicken

Stars of the Recipe:

  • 4 to 6 chicken breasts
  • ½ c. Italian dressing
  • 1 packet of dry Ranch dressing (3 Tbsp.)
  • ½ c. water
  • ½ Tbsp. minced garlic
  • ½ Tbsp. chili powder
  • ½ Tbsp. ground cumin

Steps:

  1. Place chicken in the slow cooker.
  2. In a medium bowl, combine the dressing, ranch dressing, water, garlic, cumin, and chili powder.
  3. Pour over the chicken.
  4. Cook on low for 4 to 6 hours.

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Posted in dinner, Ham, Recipes, slow cooker, Write 31 2016

Coca Cola Ham (Day 14)

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Welcome to Day 14 of 31 Days of Slow Cooking.

Ham is one of those meals that I can make that all the family members will run, skip, or hop to the table when I make it for dinner.

When the Imaginative One turned 13, we had this for his belated birthday dinner.  The Coca Cola helps make a delicious glaze that is unbelievable.  It’s good by itself or as a sandwich.

Coca Cola Ham

Stars of the recipe:

 

  • 4 to 5 lb. sliced ham, fully cooked
  • 1 c. (8 oz.) can of coca cola or Coke
  • ¼ c. brown sugar
  • 2 Tbsp. Dijon mustard or yellow mustard

Steps:

  1. Place ham in the crockpot.
  2. In a small mixing bowl, combine the brown sugar and mustard.
  3. Spread the brown sugar mixture on the ham.
  4. Pour the cola around the ham.
  5. Cook on low for 6 hours.
  6. Enjoy!

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Today I discussed Cast Member’s Name Tags on my 31 Days of Disney.

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Posted in dinner, Recipes, slow cooker, Write 31 2016

Dear Tanya (10/13) and Slow Cooker Meatloaf (Day 13)

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Welcome to Day 13 of 31 Days of Slow Cooking!

I’ve updated my recipe for Young’s Dairy Pumpkin bread/ muffins.

Dearest Tanya,

It’s been a month and a half since your death and since mom has lived with me.  She has found an apartment 3 minutes from my house that she’s going to move in within the next few days.  Her old car broke down so we are selling her car to someone who enjoys fixing up cars for a hobby.  She is going to get a new used car also.  So things are moving forward.

The other day when I was on dismissal duty I saw a perfect Monarch butterfly.  It flew by me and then flew up into the sky.  Was that you saying hi to me?

Do you remember when this song came out in the early 90’s?  I told you this song was about them finding true love in the elevator.  I think you believed me.  If you didn’t believe me, you at least pretended to believe me.

I always will come up with silly things to say.

Oh, a Hurricane came through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.  He’s name was Matthew.  Any who, they actually closed down Walt Disney World last Friday because the prediction was that it was going to be category 4 hurricane that could have done a lot of damage.  Fortunately it was downgraded to a category 3.  Still bad but not as bad as they thought.  My students thought the name of the Hurricane was Jesus, Tacos, Earthquake, or Michael Jackson.  Obviously they don’t pay attention to the news.

I miss you dearly!

Love your annoying sister,
Traci

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Posted in Pork, Recipes, Write 31 2016

Barbecue Pork Chops (Day 12)

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Welcome to Day 12 of 31 Days of Slow Cooking.

So I’ve discovered a cool trick for adding photos to my blog posts.  I’ve always been afraid of using up the limit of storage I’m allowed to have on the blog so I was very sparingly putting photos on the blog.

I can now put them on my Google Photos, right click on the photo and choose the copy the image on the menu, and then paste it into my blog post.

I did that for a few blog posts but then was tired of how I couldn’t resize the photo.  This weekend I realized I could resize the photo manually.  Sweet!  Now I can share more photos without worrying about the amount of storage I’m using.

Here is a photo of Hubby and I when we went to the Goo Goo Dolls back in early August.

This is one of those easy dump and go type recipes.  You can change up the flavor depending on which type of barbecue sauce you use for the pork chops.

Barbecue Pork Chops

Stars of the recipe:

  • 1 & ½ pounds of bone-in pork chops
  • 1 c. barbecue sauce
  • ½ large onion or 1 small onion, diced

Steps:

  1. Place the pork chops in the slow cooker.
  2. Top with diced onions.
  3. Pour barbecue over pork chops.
  4. Cook on high for  3 to 4 hours or on low for 6 to 8 hours.

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Posted in Chicken, chicken 1, Recipes, slow cooker, soup, Soups, Write 31 2016

Chicken Corn Soup (Day 8)

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Welcome to Day 8 of 31 Days of Slow Cooking!

Today we decided to make it a family day.  Unfortunately the Wee One refused to wake up so he stayed home with grandma instead of having fun with us.

We did half of the Donut Trail in a county to the south of us.  While we were on the Donut Trail, we did some other things.

Today I’m going to share some of the photographs that I took while we on the donut trail.

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Posted in Beliefs, Chicken, chicken 1, Recipes, slow cooker, Write 31 2016

Chicken Ranch Tacos (Day 7)

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Welcome to Day 7 of 31 Days of Slow Cooking.  I’m featuring ranch chicken tacos today.

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As you know I’ve been talking about whatever pops into my brain these last few days.  Today is a plea to God.

Dear God,

I know Hurricane Matthew is a given to hit the United States.  I’m just anxious about my friends and family that might be affected by this historic storm.  I’m anxious about the devastation to the area.  Orlando is my “home” and it might be hit.  Charleston, SC is another “home” of mine and it is supposed to be hit.  Please protect those cities and all of the other cities.  Please place your healing hand over the southeast coast.  Please protect over the residents.

In Jesus name,
Traci

Ranch Chicken Tacos

The Wee One loves tacos.  Beef tacos, ground beef tacos, and chicken tacos.  It does not matter.  He loves tacos.

This is another way to change up the taco game.

Ranch Chicken Tacos   

Stars of the Recipe:

  • 2 lbs. Chicken tenderloins
  • 3 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
  • 1 packet of taco seasoning or 2 Tbsp. homemade taco seasoning
  • 1 packet dry Ranch dressing or 3 Tbsp. dry Ranch dressing
  • ¼ c. water

Steps:

  1. Place the chicken tenderloins in the slow cooker.  
  2. In a medium bowl, mix together the remainder of the ingredients.
  3. Pour over the chicken tenderloins.
  4. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
  5. Shred.
  6. Serve on a soft tortilla shell or hard taco shell with your favorite taco toppings.
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Posted in dinner, ground beef, Lunch, Recipes, sandwich, Sandwiches, slow cooker, Write 31 2016

Sloppy Joes (Day 6)

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Welcome to Day 6 of the 31 Days of Slow Cooking.  Today I’m featuring sloppy Joes.

The Imaginative One is a Boy Scout.  For the past year, he’s tried to get all of the requirements done so that he can move up to first class.  On Tuesday night, he met up with an Eagle Scout who helps with the troop to assure he has all the requirements done.  Then once he got home from the meeting, he called the advisor who holds the Board of Review so that he could set up an appointment.  Next Tuesday, he’s going to meet with the advisors so that they could determine if he’s ready to move up to first class.  I’m so proud of him.

We also had his parent teacher conference.  One thing about the Imaginative One is that he is a big reader.  When he crossed over to Boy Scouts in February of 2015, he would read during the majority of the meetings instead of paying attention.  As time passed, he has become more and more social.  Anywho, Hubby was told that the teacher didn’t know if the Imaginative One was paying attention in class because he will socialize at times.  It turns out the class is the English Language Arts class.  One of his Boy Scouts buddies is in that class.  I never thought I would hear that about the Imaginative One.

This is an easy recipe to put together in the slow cooker.  Sloppy Joes are great for lunch or even dinner.

Once you make up a batch, freeze smaller portions so you can have sloppy Joes whenever you don’t feel like cooking.  I did this before the Fourth of July. Then I ended up getting sick on the Fourth.  Luckily I had the sloppy Joes in the freezer so the family still had a delicious meal on the Fourth of July.

Sloppy Joes

Stars of the Recipe:

  • 1 & ½ lbs. Ground beef, browned and drained
  • 1 envelope onion soup mix or ¼ c. homemade onion soup mix
  • 1 c. ketchup
  • 1 c. water
  • 2 Tbsp. packed brown sugar
  • Hamburger buns

Steps:

  1. Combine all ingredients except for buns in the slow cooker.
  2. Cook on low for 4 to 6 hours or 2 to 3 on high.
  3. Serve on buns.
  4. Enjoy!
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