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White Bean Soup and OAMGS

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We are back! Back home and back to school. The month of August has been spent everywhere but home. The kids and I have been back and forth between grandparents house, and home, with my husband kind of stuck mostly here at home alone, he did however have a week-long vacation which we spent at his childhood home in North Carolina.

Considering I slept on the floor I enjoyed myself a ton, my mother in law did 95% of all the cooking and cleaning so I pretty much got a break from my daily hustle and bustle back here VA. I genuinely enjoyed the time we got to spend with our parents, and whats even better I got to use my mama’s fully loaded kitchen which is almost twice the size of mine with a dutch oven ( I’m working on getting one), with a fully stocked pantry, and deep freezer. I literally could go shopping daily for what I wanted to eat that night.

If I had the space I would totally buy a deep freezer. With all that said I still missed home and our  normal routine. So the kids are back in school and I’m back to my kitchen, and because I would love some kitchen upgrades I have put myself on a challenge, a budget challenge a OAMGS challenge ( Once a Month Grocery Shopping). Considering I go to the grocery store AT LEAST four times in  a week or over 16 times in a month this is the biggest challenge I would have completed in a while. All those extra dollars will go to my new appliances and flooring.  I will work all month on making budget friendly meals and post the ones that were worthy.

Next month I will replicate and give you the break down in cost. This month I’ll try to estimate. I am a cheap skate enthusiast, I have always wanted to be one of those incredibly cheap or should I say resourceful people who save and pays off their house in like 5 years , without any debt. I really am hoping I’m cut out for this! So onto the recipe…this will be the first budget meal of the challenge that is post and share worthy. The children loved it and so did the hubs, it’s Wheat free (did I mention I’ve tested as having a wheat allergy, I’ll discuss that later) and pretty healthy….light on the hips and light on the pockets!

1 lb ground chicken

2 Tablespoons Bobs Red Mill Gluten Free All Purpose baking flour

2~15.5 oz Bush’s White Northern Beans

1/2~ Onion Chopped

2~ Cloves of Garlic Chopped

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1 cup milk

3 Cups water

1 Teaspoon Cumin

1 Tablespoon Chicken Base

 

In a stock pot heat olive oil. Add and Saute onions and garlic.

Add ground chicken and cook through until you see no more pink. Season with some salt pepper and the cumin.

Add flour and get a roux going with the onions garlic and chicken add your chicken base. Mix well.

Now add your cans of beans, water and milk. Put top on pot and let cook for about an hour and a half on medium high heat.

Watch and stir in between.

Serve warm and sprinkle with cheddar cheese and top it off with a little sour cream.

Corn Beef Hash

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Want something different for breakfast? 

You don’t know what to do with that can of corned beef?  

Here’s a delicious and simple recipe that will make you forget the meat came from a can. 

Serve with eggs and toast. This is an easy and delicious breakfast, brunch or whenever you like to eat it.

 

Corned Beef and Hash
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Ingredients
  1. 12 oz can corned beef
  2. 4-5 medium white potatoes cut into cubes
  3. 2 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil.
  4. 1/2 onion chopped
  5. 1 clove garlic
Instructions
  1. Chop and clean potatoes. Emerge them in a bowl of salt water.
  2. Let potatoes sit in salt water for 15 minutes.
  3. Add olive oil to hot pan and sauté onions and garlic.
  4. Drain potatoes. Add potatoes to sautéed onions and garlic.
  5. Allow potatoes to brown on the bottom of the pan, tossing periodically.
  6. Drain can of corned beef, crumble up into pan.
  7. Toss everything together.
  8. Place top on pan turn heat to low and simmer until potatoes are tender.
  9. Salt and pepper to taste
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7 Ingredient Meatloaf with Ritz Crackers

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Well of course you can’t be an American mom with a food blog and leave out meatloaf. Am I overjoyed with writing about meatloaf, not really, it requires minimum imagination and creativity, but that makes it perfect when your mind is fried and exhausted from life.

Meatloaf may not be my fave but I do find that meatloaf is a child pleasing meat, and when it comes to pleasing a child my hands are full with Miss Picky Elle, my three year old, she eats every crumb of my meatloaf off her plate, never-mind the potatoes and green stuff (veggies) left behind, she will quickly ask for seconds “more meat please”, as she said tonight.

If you’re going to make meatloaf for a simple and easy meal the ingredients should be as simple and easy.

Well this one certainly is, not a whole lot of stuff, bells or whistles just the simple kitchen staples, while still satisfying a more mature palette, meaning I enjoy it as well, and satisfy a more immature one, (as in my Elle).

So to wrap it up

I make meatloaf to avoid the baby drama…keep the peace at your tabletop and make some tonight, and tell me what you think.

What you’ll need…

1 lb. Ground Beef

1 Pack of Ritz Crackers crushed

1 Teaspoon garlic salt (I use one with parsley mixed in)

2 Eggs

1 Teaspoon ground sage

¾ cup Ketchup separated

2 Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce separated

Using the Ritz Crackers eliminates the need for salt!

Pre heat oven to 350ᴼ

Mix ground beef, crushed crackers, garlic salt, eggs, ground sage, ½ cup ketchup, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce.

Incorporate well; don’t be afraid to use those fingers.

After getting everything well incorporated put into a meatloaf dish, or you can simply form the mix into a loaf if you don’t have a loaf pan available.

Wash your hands. Bake in oven at 350° about 30 minutes covered in tin foil. 

With the additional 1 Tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce and ½ cup ketchup mix together.

After 30 minutes put the sauce on top of meatloaf and put back in oven on 400ᴼ for about 10-15 more minutes.

Watch it! You can tell it’s done when the sides are getting a deep brown crust, oh how I enjoy that crust. 

Click here for a delicious side dish of  garlic mashed poatoes!

7 Ingredient Meatloaf with Ritz Crakers
An easy pleasing classic meatloaf, made with Ritz crackers which add a buttery taste!
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Ingredients
  1. 1 lb. Ground Beef
  2. 1 Pack of Ritz Crackers crushed
  3. 1 Teaspoon garlic salt (I use one with parsley mixed in)
  4. 2 Eggs
  5. 1 Teaspoon ground sage
  6. ¾ cup Ketchup separated
  7. 2 Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce separated
Instructions
  1. Mix ground beef, crushed crackers, garlic salt, eggs, ground sage, ½ cup ketchup, and 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce.
  2. After getting everything incorporated put into a meatloaf dish.
  3. Wash your hands.
  4. Bake in oven at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes uncovered.
  5. Mix the additional 1 Tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce and ½ cup ketchup mix together.
  6. After 30 minutes put the sauce on top of meatloaf.
  7. Turn oven up to 400ᴼ and bake10-15 more minutes.
Notes
  1. If you decide to add any other seasoning go easy on the salt as the crackers already add a fair amount.
Adapted from My Mama
Adapted from My Mama
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