• 2 slices bread
• 2 Tbsp. butter
• 1 slice ham
• 2 slices cheese

Butter one side of each piece of bread. Place small skillet over medium heat and place a piece of bread butter side down in it. Place a piece of cheese, a piece of ham, and then a piece of cheese on top of the bread. Put the second piece of bread, butter side up, on top. Leave on first side for about a minute, or until browned, then flip and brown the other side.

• 3 pounds ground beef
• 1 small onion (chopped)
• salt and pepper to taste
• 2 cups ketchup
• 2 Tbsp. BBQ sauce
• 3 Tbsp. honey
• 3 tsp. Garlic powder
• 3/4 of a small can of diced tomatoes

Cook beef in large skillet with onion and salt and pepper. Once beef is throughly cooked and browned mix all other ingredients in. Spread on buns and enjoy.

• 1 Teaspoon Seasoned Salt
• 1 Teaspoon Garlic Salt
• 1 Tablespoon Onion Salt
• *A Pinch of pepper
• 1 lb Hamburger Meat^

Mix all of the seasonings together in a bowl. Add the mixture when your one pound of meet is cooked, stir in well and enjoy.

*Add as much pepper as you would like, you do not have to add any. || ^ You may also use ground chicken meat.

2 cans Cream of Chicken Soup
2 packages frozen mixed vegetables (thawed)
2 cups chicken (cooked, cubed)
1 cup chicken broth combined with 2 tablespoons flour
2Â pie shells

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix soup, veggies, chicken and broth mixture. Pour soup mixture into pie shell and cover with 2nd pie shell. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until crust is golden.

• 1/2 cup romano cheese
• 1/2 bread crumbs
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup marinara sauce
• 1/2 tsp saltÂ
• 2 lbs. ground chicken

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line 13x9inch pan with foil and spray with non-stick cooking spray.  In large bowl combine romano, bread crumbs, egg, 1/2 cup marinara, and 1/2 tsp salt. Add chicken and mix just until combined. Shape into loaf in center of pan, spread remaining marinara over top. Bake 1 hour or until meat is cooked well.

• 6 lbs. pork spareribs (separated)
• 1 (28-ounce) can chunky tomato sauce
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

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Put the spareribs in the bottom of a slow cooker. In medium bowl, whisk together all remaining ingredients. Pour mixture over spareribs. Cover, then cook on low for 6-8 hours.

• 1 48 oz jar pinto beans
• 1 pound hamburger
• 1Â large onion
• 1 head lettuce
• 3 large tomatoes
• 1 8 oz package shredded colby jack cheese
• 1 8 oz package shredded mexican cheese
• 1 bag tortilla chips

Cook hamburger in large skillet with chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, salt, and pepper to taste. Add onion (chopped in big pieces) to large cooking pot. Cover bottom of cooking pot with chili powder, garlic powder, cumin, salt, and pepper. Pour beans into pot and cover, simmering for 25 minutes. When beans are through cooking, smash until they resemble refried beans. Transfer beans to casserole pan, top with hamburger, then cover with both packages of shredded cheese. Bake at 350 degrees until cheese is melted. When done top with lettuce and tomato and eat with tortilla chips.

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My Squash Sweet Treat in the Crockpot recipe will make your family wonder why you didn’t cook like this before! We’ve all had stews, casseroles, soups, and more in the crockpot. I like to add all kinds of vegetables and spices to liven it up a bit – but one thing I had never tried before today was squash! I had a big butternut squash and a bunch of other veggies to use up, and the crockpot just happenned to come to mind. So this is what I did…

I took about a pound of turkey cutlets, potatoes, other misc veggies, and an entire butternut squash and then cooked them together for 3 hours! I took the squash out when it was all over, and put it in a bowl and mashed it up with butter – but guess what?! The rest of the stuff in the crockpot took on the sweet squash flavor! I have to say it was truly delicious. if you want to do the same here are the ingredients that you’ll need:

• 1 medium butternut squash peeled and cut into 4-5″ pieces
• 6 medium potatoes chopped roughly
• 1 large onion mined
• 1 med red and 1 med green pepper minced
• 2 banana pepper chopped
• 4 medium carrots quartered and sliced
• 2 fresh garlic cloves chopped
• 1 lb fresh turkey cutlets
• About 1 qt of fat free chicken broth
• salt and pepper to taste
• 2 tbsp italian spices

Basically – you chop it up, put it in, add the broth, turn on the crockpot to 350 degrees, and go do something else for 3 hours!  Then take the squash pieces out with a slotted spoon in a separate dish, and mash with butter.  Tonight I took out the potatoes and veggies in one bowl, and put the meat in another.  I have to say – I’ve cooked a lot of good things in the crockpot before, but this stuff really took the cake!  Do you have a favorite crockpot recipe?

This Loose Meat Sandwich Recipe will be a surprise to you if you haven’t had one before, because it seems like it would be so much like a sloppy joe, or hamburger – but it’s not! I loose meat sandwich is a sloppy joe WITHOUT the sauce, a hamburger that’s “LOOSE”, etc. Although the actual inventor of the loose meat sandwich is debated, it’s roots that trace back to rural IOWA are not. I can only imagine that this sandwich recipe was created because somebody wanted to actually taste the meat, without a tomato base, but cook it in a way (in a diner) where you could cook mass quantities of it in batches without having to make it to order like a burger. In any event – try this recipe, and you will probably be as shocked as I was how good it is (as simple are the recipe is). I didn’t even want to make it, and my oldest son wouldn’t shut up until I did…now I want to make it again!

Ingredients for loose meat sandwich:

• 1 lb GOOD ground chuck (not cheap hamburger)
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 medium onion chopped
• 1 tbsp vinegar
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsb yellow mustard
• water to cover the meat

You want a heavy skillet, cast iron is best.  Cheap pan = bad recipe.  Put a little salt in the bottom of the pan, add the ground beef – cook on med-high heat.  Add the onion once it’s about half cooked.  Chop meat up with a spatula finely.  When fully cooked, drain meat in a strainer in sink (don’t rinse), then place back in pan on low heat.  Add your vinegar, sugar, mustard, and just enough water to cover the meat – and cook 15-20 minutes by simmering, until the water has cooked away, but DO NOT cook so long that meat sticks to the pan or the liquid is complely gone.

Traditionally these are to be served on steamed buns, or at least lightly toasted in the oven.  You eat them with the meat alone on the bun and some mustard – and it’s sheer BLASPHEMY to add ketchup (or cheese)!  Trust me, try this recipe one time, and you will love it!

My Chicken Noodle Sausage Soup recipe is so tasty – you may never make Chicken Noodle soup the same way again! Chicken broth is sooooo good anyway, and homemade chicken noodle has been a favorite of mine since I was young and my mom made it for me, or my grandma made it with her signature dumplings! I think if you make this for your family that they will ask for it all the time!

Here’s the ingredients you’ll need for this recipe:

• About 1.5 lbs of boneless skinless chicken
• 2 or 3 brat size links of mild sweet turkey italian sausage
• 3-4 carrots cut into round slices about 1/8″ thick
• About 1 lb wide egg noodles
• 4 stalks celery chopped
• 3-4 cloves garlic freshly chopped
• 1/2 large onion chopped
• 1 can chicken broth
• 1/2 large green pepper chopped
• 4 tsp Italian Seasonings
• salt and pepper to taste
• 2 tsp Cumin
• 2 tsp onion powder (not salt)
• 2 tsp garlic powder (not salt)
• 1 cup fresh grated parmesan cheese

This recipe is pretty easy in my opinion. Drizzle some extra virgin olive oil in a large skillet, turn the heat on med-high and add the chicken. Fill 4 quart stockpot 3/4 full with water and place on burner on high heat to boil. I sprinkle some lemon pepper on my chicken while it cooks 5-7 minutes on the first side. Then I start chopping up the veggies and add them to the pot of boiling water, and all the seasonings as well. Then I go back to the skillet and flip my chicken over, and then take my turkey sausage and squeze it out over the chicken. Then I start to chop up the chicken roughly with my spatula – the same as you would chop up ground beef for tacos. Trust me, as the chicke starts to cook it’s not hard to break it up into bite sized pieces with the spatula.

So you’ve got all the veggies and spices in the pot of water and the chicken sausage in the skillet. Once the chicken mixture is about 80% cooked, dump the entire skillet into the water pot, and simmer with the lid off at least an hour (I prefer 90 minutes). When you serve this, liberally sprinkle the freshly grated parmesan cheese over the top and voila! one of the more tasty meals you’ll have!