Picky Family.... Dinner Ideas?!
I am looking for crock pot meals preferably!. (less time making dinner is better) I need any recipes, crock pot or not, for a picky family!. It seems like we have to make the same things over and over again!. The family likes chicken mostly, but will eat beef and pork!. We are not a fan of Mexican!. Besides the normal taco or burrito!. They like simple!. Nothing with a ton of ingredients!. No Alfredo sauces or tomato sauces!. Just very simple and delicious!. I know it's not a lot to go on but I can't name everything the kids don't like!. So just try to make it simple!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
Let your kids pick out the ingredients they don't like!. The adults shouldn't be punished to eat plain b/c the kids are picky!.
Burgundy Beef Tips, Slow Cooker
Prep: 10 min!., Cook: 4 hr!.
Yield: Makes 6 servings
2 pounds beef sirloin tips, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 (8-oz!.) package sliced fresh baby portobello mushrooms or your favorite sliced mushrooms
1 (10 3/4-oz!.) can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup dry red wine
1 (1-oz!.) envelope dry onion soup mix
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1!. Stir together beef tips and remaining ingredients in a lightly greased 5-qt!. slow cooker!.
2!. Cover and cook on HIGH 4 hours or until beef is tender, stirring once after 2 hours!. Serve the beef tips over hot cooked egg noodles or rice tossed with parsley!.
Note: Though we love the hands-off advantage of the slow cooker, this recipe works better when you can stay close by to stir it occasionally!. Stirring prevents sticking and distributes ingredients evenly!.
--Southern Living, DECEMBER 2007
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Easy Cheesy Crockpot Potatoes
These cheesy hash browns are sure to please your whole family!
1 (2 lb) bag frozen hash browns
? cup sour cream
10 oz shredded cheddar
4 oz shredded Monterey jack cheese
? cup butter or margarine
? cup chopped onions
1 can cream of chicken soup
Paprika, optional
Mix all ingredients in big bowl, saving part of cheddar to sprinkle on top!. Cook in slow cooker about 4-5 hours on low!. Then sprinkle remaining cheese and paprika, if desired, on top!.
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Pulled Pork BBQ in Slow Cooker
3 pounds fresh pork shoulder, well trimmed
3 Tbsp!. BBQ or Grill Seasoning
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 tsp!. worcestershire sauce
1 tsp!. ground mustard
1!. Place trimmed pork in 4-quart slow cooker!.
2!. Mix barbecue seasoning, ketchup, vinegar, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, and ground mustard until blended!. Pour over pork!.
3!. Cook 8 hours on LOW or 4 hours on HIGH!. Remove pork from slow cooker!.
4!. Shred pork, using 2 forks!. Return pork to slow cooker, mix and heat with sauce before serving!.
--McCormick
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Easy Crockpot Turkey Breast
1 whole turkey breast, thawed
? cup of Water (yep, that's all you need!)
1 Packet of Ranch Dressing Mix
1 Packet of Italian Dressing Mix
1 Packet of Turkey or Chicken Gravy Mix
Put breast in crockpot, pour water around the base!. Sprinkle all 3 dry seasoning packets over roast!. Cover and cook for 6-7 hours on low!. Remove to cutting board and let sit 15 minutes; slice thinly across the grain (electric knife works best)!. It makes great tasting gravy, too!.
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Pork Chop & Potato Dinner
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
6 pork loin chops with bone
Salt and pepper to taste
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
1 can mushroom, drained and chopped
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
1/4 cup chicken broth (or use mushroom juice)
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
6 thin-skinned potatoes, unpeeled, cut into thin slices
1 onion, sliced
chopped parsley
Heat butter and oil in large skillet!. Season both sides of pork chops with S&P and brown pork chops on both sides!. Set aside!.
Combine soup, mushrooms, mustard, chicken broth, garlic, salt, basil and pepper in slow cooker!. Add potatoes and onion, stirring to coat!.
Place pork chops on top of potato mixture!. Cover and cook on Low 8 to 10 hours or on High 4 to 5 hours!. Sprinkle with parsley to garnish, if desired!.
--Recipe Zaar
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Burgundy Beef Tips, Slow Cooker
Prep: 10 min!., Cook: 4 hr!.
Yield: Makes 6 servings
2 pounds beef sirloin tips, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 (8-oz!.) package sliced fresh baby portobello mushrooms or your favorite sliced mushrooms
1 (10 3/4-oz!.) can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup dry red wine
1 (1-oz!.) envelope dry onion soup mix
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1!. Stir together beef tips and remaining ingredients in a lightly greased 5-qt!. slow cooker!.
2!. Cover and cook on HIGH 4 hours or until beef is tender, stirring once after 2 hours!. Serve the beef tips over hot cooked egg noodles or rice tossed with parsley!.
Note: Though we love the hands-off advantage of the slow cooker, this recipe works better when you can stay close by to stir it occasionally!. Stirring prevents sticking and distributes ingredients evenly!.
--Southern Living, DECEMBER 2007
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Easy Cheesy Crockpot Potatoes
These cheesy hash browns are sure to please your whole family!
1 (2 lb) bag frozen hash browns
? cup sour cream
10 oz shredded cheddar
4 oz shredded Monterey jack cheese
? cup butter or margarine
? cup chopped onions
1 can cream of chicken soup
Paprika, optional
Mix all ingredients in big bowl, saving part of cheddar to sprinkle on top!. Cook in slow cooker about 4-5 hours on low!. Then sprinkle remaining cheese and paprika, if desired, on top!.
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Pulled Pork BBQ in Slow Cooker
3 pounds fresh pork shoulder, well trimmed
3 Tbsp!. BBQ or Grill Seasoning
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 tsp!. worcestershire sauce
1 tsp!. ground mustard
1!. Place trimmed pork in 4-quart slow cooker!.
2!. Mix barbecue seasoning, ketchup, vinegar, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, and ground mustard until blended!. Pour over pork!.
3!. Cook 8 hours on LOW or 4 hours on HIGH!. Remove pork from slow cooker!.
4!. Shred pork, using 2 forks!. Return pork to slow cooker, mix and heat with sauce before serving!.
--McCormick
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Easy Crockpot Turkey Breast
1 whole turkey breast, thawed
? cup of Water (yep, that's all you need!)
1 Packet of Ranch Dressing Mix
1 Packet of Italian Dressing Mix
1 Packet of Turkey or Chicken Gravy Mix
Put breast in crockpot, pour water around the base!. Sprinkle all 3 dry seasoning packets over roast!. Cover and cook for 6-7 hours on low!. Remove to cutting board and let sit 15 minutes; slice thinly across the grain (electric knife works best)!. It makes great tasting gravy, too!.
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Pork Chop & Potato Dinner
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
6 pork loin chops with bone
Salt and pepper to taste
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
1 can mushroom, drained and chopped
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
1/4 cup chicken broth (or use mushroom juice)
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
6 thin-skinned potatoes, unpeeled, cut into thin slices
1 onion, sliced
chopped parsley
Heat butter and oil in large skillet!. Season both sides of pork chops with S&P and brown pork chops on both sides!. Set aside!.
Combine soup, mushrooms, mustard, chicken broth, garlic, salt, basil and pepper in slow cooker!. Add potatoes and onion, stirring to coat!.
Place pork chops on top of potato mixture!. Cover and cook on Low 8 to 10 hours or on High 4 to 5 hours!. Sprinkle with parsley to garnish, if desired!.
--Recipe Zaar
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One of my favorite crock pot recipes!.
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 can cream soup (which ever your family eats)
1 cup sour cream
Put it all in a crock pot and cook on low heat for 6 hours!. Serve over rice!.
My family is very picky too!. One other meal everyone likes is BBQ ribs!. I get beef ribs and stick them in the crock pot cover with BBQ sauce and cook on low heat!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 can cream soup (which ever your family eats)
1 cup sour cream
Put it all in a crock pot and cook on low heat for 6 hours!. Serve over rice!.
My family is very picky too!. One other meal everyone likes is BBQ ribs!. I get beef ribs and stick them in the crock pot cover with BBQ sauce and cook on low heat!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
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Creamy Chicken Recipe (FOR THE CROCKPOT)
Vegetables Choose your favourite mix of vegetables from:-
Frozen - these cook up just fine, will be soft but still seem to hold together!.
Canned - same as frozen!. Though tin peas really loose their color and go a grey sort of color!.
Pre-Cut - fresh, pre-cut from the super-market (for when feeling lazy)!.
Fresh - cut into about 1 inch square pieces!. Feel free to prepare the night before!.
Meat Legs (drumsticks), wings, maryland pieces!. Even breast or thigh, if you don't like bones!.
2?–3?lb (1–1?kg) this will serve 4 – 6!.
Flavouring Your favourite flavour of tin soup!. Use the ‘Cream of !.!.!.’ type soups!. Our favourite is cream of corn!.
Alternatively use one of those ‘Simmer Sauces’ – the ones you use for stir fry’s!. We have found that the no name brand ones (which I don’t like in stir fry’s), work well and; they are cheap!. Try ‘Honey Mustard’ – my favourite!.
Optional Extras Crushed garlic and/or ginger - teaspoon or two!.
Herbs - best put in during last hour of cooking- teaspoon or two!.
Salt and Pepper - added at end - to taste!.
DIRECTIONS Chuck the Vegies in first, put the chicken on top, pour in the soup and pop on the lid!. That’s it!. Nothing else!.
Do not add any water, the enclosed slow cooking will retain heaps!.
Add any of the optional extras!.
Cook for about 3–4 hours on high OR 6-8 hours on low!.
Crock Pot Pork Roast Recipe
Pork Roasting Piece IMPORTANT Choose a piece of pork that is going to fit in the pot!.
The cut does not really seem to matter!. Leg, shoulder or whatever will do!.
Vegetables Put vegetables in the Crock Pot first!. Cut into inch size pieces!. Choose any vegetable you would normally roast!. They will not be crispy but soft and take on the flavour of the meat!.
Optional Extras We generally add something else to enhance the pork flavour!. However you don't have to add anything if you don’t want!.
Ideas
# 1
1 tablespoons butter mixed with 1 teaspoon of ground sage - and rub over raw meat!.
# 2
1 tablespoons butter mixed with 1 teaspoon of ginger - and rub over raw meat!.
DIRECTIONS Place vegetables (if cooking) in first then put the meat in the pot - rub on butter and extras if required!. And that’s it!. Nothing else to do or add!.
Cook for about 4–6 hours on high OR 8–10 hours on low!.
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Vegetables Choose your favourite mix of vegetables from:-
Frozen - these cook up just fine, will be soft but still seem to hold together!.
Canned - same as frozen!. Though tin peas really loose their color and go a grey sort of color!.
Pre-Cut - fresh, pre-cut from the super-market (for when feeling lazy)!.
Fresh - cut into about 1 inch square pieces!. Feel free to prepare the night before!.
Meat Legs (drumsticks), wings, maryland pieces!. Even breast or thigh, if you don't like bones!.
2?–3?lb (1–1?kg) this will serve 4 – 6!.
Flavouring Your favourite flavour of tin soup!. Use the ‘Cream of !.!.!.’ type soups!. Our favourite is cream of corn!.
Alternatively use one of those ‘Simmer Sauces’ – the ones you use for stir fry’s!. We have found that the no name brand ones (which I don’t like in stir fry’s), work well and; they are cheap!. Try ‘Honey Mustard’ – my favourite!.
Optional Extras Crushed garlic and/or ginger - teaspoon or two!.
Herbs - best put in during last hour of cooking- teaspoon or two!.
Salt and Pepper - added at end - to taste!.
DIRECTIONS Chuck the Vegies in first, put the chicken on top, pour in the soup and pop on the lid!. That’s it!. Nothing else!.
Do not add any water, the enclosed slow cooking will retain heaps!.
Add any of the optional extras!.
Cook for about 3–4 hours on high OR 6-8 hours on low!.
Crock Pot Pork Roast Recipe
Pork Roasting Piece IMPORTANT Choose a piece of pork that is going to fit in the pot!.
The cut does not really seem to matter!. Leg, shoulder or whatever will do!.
Vegetables Put vegetables in the Crock Pot first!. Cut into inch size pieces!. Choose any vegetable you would normally roast!. They will not be crispy but soft and take on the flavour of the meat!.
Optional Extras We generally add something else to enhance the pork flavour!. However you don't have to add anything if you don’t want!.
Ideas
# 1
1 tablespoons butter mixed with 1 teaspoon of ground sage - and rub over raw meat!.
# 2
1 tablespoons butter mixed with 1 teaspoon of ginger - and rub over raw meat!.
DIRECTIONS Place vegetables (if cooking) in first then put the meat in the pot - rub on butter and extras if required!. And that’s it!. Nothing else to do or add!.
Cook for about 4–6 hours on high OR 8–10 hours on low!.
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