Showing posts with label Easy Meal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easy Meal. Show all posts

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Cheesy Chicken and Rice Casserole

Cheesy Chicken and Rice Casserole

Posted by Thursday, September 10, 2020

Looking for a quick dinner idea? Cheesy chicken and rice is the perfect casserole for the busy family during the week.  I love these simple ingredients! Comfort food at its finest for everyone in the family. 

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How are you adjusting to the kids being back in school? Have you found your new normal?  

Are you smarter than a fifth grader? How many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches have you made so far? My pantry seems to run of out snacks before mid-week.

Coming home from work, nothing is better than preparing an easy meal, from start to finish for the family.  If you are lucky, you might have some leftovers. 

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I love this casserole, and it makes plenty of leftovers. Kids are taking more meals to school now, so I need all the help I can get! 




How to make Cheesy Chicken and Rice Casserole


Cheesy Chicken and Rice Casserole

RECIPE
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3 cups cooked chicken breasts
3 cups cooked rice
1 tsp minced garlic
4 tablespoons butter
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/4 cup flour
2 cups chicken stock
4 cups grated cheese/divided


Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Lightly grease 9 x 13 casserole dish with spray

In a large pan, melt butter and stir in minced garlic.  Cook over medium heat for 30 seconds.  Add flour, garlic salt, pepper, garlic powder, and whisk to combine.  Add in chicken stock and whisk until sauce boils and thickens. 

Add shredded cheese and stir until melted.  

Add cooked rice and cooked shredded chicken breast.

Pour into 9x13 pan and top with additional cheese and bake for 20 minutes.


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Tips on making Cheesy Chicken and Rice Casserole

  • I loved using Marble Jack shredded cheese, but use your favorite
  • Add your favorite vegetables, like peas or brocolli.
  • Use a rotisseri chicken and shred, this will cut down cooking and prepping time.

This post is sponsored by the Glass Barn, Indiana Soybean and Corn Farmers, but all thoughts and opinions are my own. 








 
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Crystal Kellner
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Thursday, April 09, 2020

Ham Loaf

Ham Loaf

Posted by Thursday, April 09, 2020

Family recipes are most treasured.  They involve a tattered recipe card and many memories.  My grandma would make Ham Loaf for many family gatherings. Celebrating Easter and Christmas as a family, sometimes there is leftover ham.  This is a perfect pork recipe for leftover ham.


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Farming is a very essential industry, especially this time of the year.  I am sure you have seen farmers working in the field in the past week.  They are anxiously preparing the soil, discing, applying anhydrous ammonia, getting ready to plant.  This year will be business as usual for farmers, they will go to work every day and make sure this year's crop is planted on time.  Farmers faced many hardships last year, with a very wet spring.  They hope for drier conditions, and a larger window of opportunity to plant.  

 Since my kids are now home for the remaining of the school year, they are spending more time on the farm with their grandfather.  Today they  ran outside extra early to meet one of the guys my husband use to work with at the fertilizer plant. He was delivering tanks to a field right behind our house. It had been a few years since Charlie had seen my kids, and he said they had really grown! My daughter and son have spent time learning how to operate the tractor, and discing and helping when needed.

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Not only are traditional farmers very busy, but so are pork producers.  Pork production is Indiana's top third commodity. There are more than 3,000 pork farmers in Indiana, and produces over 4 million hogs a year.  Pork producers are focused to raise safe and nutritious pork the grocery store shelves.  I will confess my favorite cut of pork is bacon.   Our family can consume a pound of bacon so fast on Saturday mornings!  As a 4-H family that raises show hogs, we care for our pigs, spoil them, and even feed them special treats like marshmallows or jelly beans!

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The sauce bakes into the ham loaf, and there was plenty of sauce left over in the pan.  You can use a loaf pan, or a larger pan, and just form the pork into a loaf form.  


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I love seeing recipes with my grandmothers handwriting.  I asked mom to send me a picture of the recipe.  To me, it looks well used, old, and I am now curious who Martha McMahon is.  I don't think grandma missed cooking many meals for her husband and son who worked on the farm every day for lunch.  Grandma Patty only had her recipe box to turn to for recipe ideas, now we have so many more resources to discover new recipes.




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If you have leftover ham, the best way to grind it, is to grind it up in a food processor.  Our family is used to preparing large meatloaf's, so I made this ham loaf bigger for our family of five. You can adjust as needed for your family.  We always make sure to have left overs.



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PRINTABLE RECIPE

HAM LOAF Ingredients For Ham Loaf

½ lb. ground pork
1 lb ground ham
½ cup milk
1 ½ cups Corn Flakes
SAUCE
¾ cup brown sugar
½ tsp dry mustard
½ cup Cider Vinegar
¼ cup Water

How to Make Ham Loaf


  1.  Mix ground pork, ground ham, milk and corn flakes and form into a loaf.
  2. Place loaf in a casserole dish or loaf pan, leaving room for the sauce
  3. Mix the ingredients for the sauce in a pan over medium heat. 
  4. Heat on stove until mixture thickens and sugar completely dissolves.
  5. Pour mixture over ham loaf and bake at 350 for one hour.
  6. Internal temperature should read 160 degrees.




Chasing Saturday Pork recipes we love:
Instant Pot Bacon Ranch Potatoes
Crock Pot Pork Carnitas
Crock Pot Pulled Pork
Crock Pot Cowboy Casserole
Grilled Pork Chops
Fried Pork Chops
Crock Pot Shoups Pork BBQ Sliders
Pressure Cooker BBQ Pork Ribs
Cheesy Ham Hashbrown Casserole


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This post is sponsored by Indiana Pork but all thoughts and opinions are my own.


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Crystal Kellner
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Sunday, September 01, 2019

Instant Pot Lasagna Soup

Instant Pot Lasagna Soup

Posted by Sunday, September 01, 2019
I love using the Instant Pot for easy soup recipes. We can make our favorite soups faster and works great with our busy schedules.  Instant Pot Lasagna Soup takes one of our favorite meals, and turns it into a soup everyone enjoys!


The kids and husband loved this recipe.  It is faster than baking lasagna and having the same great flavors. 


I used bow tie pasta for this recipe.  It would be awesome to find the small lasagna noodles for this soup, but cue the song, "Just a small-town girl".  I couldn't find them anywhere.  I have also read not to use the large lasagna noodles and break them up, they turn out too mushy.



Load up whatever type of cheese you want!  I love mozzarella cheese with Italian dishes.  Keep the lid on for a few minutes after you add the cheese, it will melt quickly.  Then serve immediately.



This is great that this soup only takes four minutes in the Instant Pot, and you can brown the hamburger on saute mode on the Instant Pot.  Don't dirty more pans than you have to! 


INSTANT POT LASAGNA SOUP
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INGREDIENTS for INSTANT POT LASAGNA SOUP
1 pound ground beef
1 small onion diced
2 cloves minced garlic
1 jar prego spaghetti sauce
3 cups water
4 cups dry noodles
1 cup shredded mozzarella
1 ½ cups cottage cheese
½ tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
DIRECTIONS FOR INSTANT POT LASAGNA SOUP


1. Use saute function on Instant Pot, add ground beef, onion, garlic, and salt & pepper.
2. When the meat is fully cooked, add your favorite spaghetti sauce.
3. Add your noodles on top of the meat and sauce.  Do not stir.
4. Add water. Do not mix.  Make sure all of the noodles are under the water.
5. Seal Instant Pot Lid.  Set timer to 4 minutes on high pressure. 
6. When 4 minutes are up, quick release Instant Pot and remove the lid.
7. Stir in cottage cheese.
8. Top with mozzarella cheese
9. Place lid on to keep heat in to melt the cheese
10. Serve immediately. 




This post is sponsored by the Glass Barn, Indiana Soybean and Corn Farmers but all thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Goulash

Goulash

Posted by Sunday, September 01, 2019
Every family has their list of simple hamburger meals. I’m sharing one with you that is so simple, and you only need a few ingredients.   Goulash. I hoped I spelled it right! 
Sometimes Goulash is our go-to when we realize we are out of spaghetti noodles!! Always keep macaroni noodles around for emergencies! If we aren't making Goulash, we are making Instant Pot Macaroni and Cheese.

We love using our own stewed tomatoes for this recipe. If you do not have stewed tomatoes, use your favorite tomato sauce, or stewed tomatoes from the store.




Now that my kids are getting bigger, and busy with sports.  It takes a lot of food to feed them. We always prepare meals with two pounds of beef.  If we are lucky, we have leftovers. Sometimes. 



GOULASH
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INGREDIENTS FOR GOULASH
2 pounds hamburger
1 tsp salt & pepper
1 small onion diced
1 box elbow macaroni
2 jars of your favorite sauce, we use stewed tomatoes
HOW TO MAKE GOULASH

  1. Boil water in a large pot with a lid.
  2. Brown Hamburger, diced onion, salt and pepper in a large skillet with a lid
  3. Drain grease from hamburger if needed and return to skillet.
  4. Cook pasta, drain and rinse.
  5. Add stewed tomatoes to the cooked ground beef, and stir in cooked pasta.  
TIPS FOR GOULASH
  • I only use half of the box of macaroni. I cook the entire box and store the cooked macaroni in the refrigerator for another meal.  

Serve with Parmesan Cheese or shredded cheese.




 This post is sponsored by the Glass Barn, Indiana Soybean and Corn Farmers but all thoughts and opinions are my own.


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Crystal Kellner
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