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Slow Cooker Ziti

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Slow cooker meals are convenient and an important option as the fall busyness begins. Slow cooker ziti is one of my favorite recipes. This recipe makes lots of servings and is very filling! This recipe makes 10-12 adult sized servings. When I made this dish, I cooked everything in the slow cooker, and I cooked everything on high. Once I added the noodles and broth, my slow cooker only needed to cook for 20 minutes before the noodles were Al dente. And, once I added the cheese and let it melt for about 5 minutes, the noodles were perfectly done. You can easily make this recipe vegetarian by adding eggplant instead of meat, veggie broth or water instead of beef broth, and a cheese substitute instead of mozzarella.

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What You Will Need

  • 1 Lb Ground Beef
  • 1 Diced Onion (1 Cup)
  • 1 Tbsp Garlic Powder
  • 1/2 Tbsp Basil
  • 1/2 Tbsp Oregano
  • 1 Jar Spaghetti Sauce
  • 1 can (14.5 oz) of Diced Tomatoes
  • 1 Box (16 oz) of Ziti or Penne Pasta
  • 2 1/2 Cups Beef Broth
  • 1 Cup Shredded Mozzarella
  • Large Slow Cooker

Directions

  1. Brown your burger quickly in a skillet, or by placing in your slow cooker on high and stirring occasionally for 30 minutes. Place in slow cooker. Add onion, spices, spaghetti sauce, and diced tomatoes.
  2. Cook on low for 4-6 hours, or on high for 2-3 hours.
  3. Add beef broth and pasta about 30 minutes before serving. Make pasta as submerged as possible and cook on high. Taste pasta firmness after 15 minutes, and again every 5 minutes until desired texture is reached. Top with cheese and cover for 5 minutes to melt the cheese. Serve, but wait 10 minutes before eating, very hot!
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Tuna Croquettes

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Tuna Croquettes is an easy and flavorful dish. Simply mix the ingredients together, coat in crumb, and fry. The tuna flavor is very prominent, and and the onion compliments it. Because it is fried, too little seasoning will be covered by the frying process, so add a bit more spice than you think you’ll need. These would also be delicious on a sandwich with lettuce and mayo, or you can have them plain with tartar or even just ketchup. For this recipe I made eight croquettes, but you could also make six larger croquettes. We had two croquettes as one serving.

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What You Will Need

  • 2 Slices of bread, cut into small cubes
  • 1 Cup Italian bread crumbs
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1/4 Cup Diced Onion
  • 2 Cans of Tuna in water, strained
  • 1 Cup oil
  • Large Frying Pan/Dutch Oven
  • Spatula

Directions

  1. In a side bowl, mix together cubed bread, egg, onion, and tuna. Pour the bread crumbs onto a plate. Place your Large Frying Pan/Dutch Oven over medium low heat. Add your oil and heat until oil is hot but not rippling.
  2. Split the tuna mixture into 8 parts. Form each into a patty. Coat each patty with crumbs on both sides. Place the patties into the oil and cook on each side for 2-3 minutes. Cook the patties in 2 batches.
  3. Place patties on a paper towel lined plate before serving to collect excess grease before serving.
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Kielbasa Curry Fried Rice

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As the weather begins to cool down, nothing is more comforting than a warm meal. Fried rice is a great way to use leftover rice and there are so many ways to make it, that there is no reason to get tired of the flavor! For this recipe I used up what I had left of a green pepper, then added just under 1/2 a bag of chopped and frozen peppers and onion. I also used 1/3 of a very large zucchini and I can say I now enjoy the flavor and consistency a lot more than before. I also sliced my kielbasa without removing the casing. If you are serving someone who may have a hard time chewing, you will want to remove the casing, if not, the kielbasa is only harder to chew and the flavor is no different. This recipe made many servings! It made 5-6 Adult sized servings.

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What You Will Need

  • 3 Tbsp Oil
  • 1 13 Oz Package of Kielbasa, Sliced (opt. remove casing)
  • 1 cup sliced peppers
  • 1 cup diced onion
  • 1 cup diced Zucchini
  • 3-4 cups cooked rice
  • 1 cup beef broth
  • 1 Tbsp Curry Powder
  • 1/2 Tbsp Turmeric powder
  • 2 tsp Garlic powder
  • 2 tsp paprika
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 2 tsp ground cayenne pepper
  • Wok/Large Dutch Oven

Directions

  1. Prepare your ingredients. Heat wok/dutch oven over medium heat. Add oil.
  2. Once hot, add zucchini, peppers, and onion, and cook until heated through. Add kielbasa and spices. Coat everything with seasoning and cook Kielbasa until heated through, 3-4 minutes.
  3. Add rice and broth. Cook for another 4-5 minutes until everything is incorporated and heated through. Let cook 5 minutes before serving.
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New Fire Pit and Tilapia Foil Packet Dinner

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We had an old fire pit in our backyard that was here when we bought the house this summer. It had minor rust, but it was still good enough to use. We left it out this winter, and to no surprise, most of the bowl had rusted out. We did one fire earlier this summer, but we lost not only ash out the bottom of the fire pit, but flaming coals as well! It was decided we needed to do something to update it. My In-law’s family has unlimited supply of oil barrels, and that was our source. First, we cut off the bottom 2 feet of the barrel using an angle grinder. We smoothed out the edge to make it less hazardous. Second, we disassembled the old fire pit. I really liked the mosaic ring, so my husband used the ring to hold the legs together as a rim, and welded it to the barrel to prevent our cover from falling in. He drilled several drainage holes in the bottom and air holes down the sides, we washed it out, put it in place, then added the stone ring. For our first fire it did very well. A barrel is pretty big for a fire pit, so if you plan to do the same, be sure to keep the fire small and contained. This fire pit also got extremely hot. The metal barrel was over 700 F, and the ground around it reached over 350 F with just 2 hours of use.

We cooked our packets over this fire pit. The grate we have is an old shelf from an oven, and was unphased after being licked by the flames. 15 minutes was long enough over our fire, but with even a smaller fire, 20 minutes should be more than enough. Everything was delicious, and there were no complaints. This recipe makes 2 packets, enough for 2 adult sized servings.

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What You Will Need

  • 2 Potatoes, cleaned and diced
  • 1 Medium Onion, halved and sliced
  • 1/2 Green Pepper, sliced
  • 2 Garlic cloves, peeled and minced
  • 4 Tbsp Oil
  • 2 Tilapia fillets
  • 2 Tbsp Italian Seasoning
  • 2 Aluminum foil segments

Directions

  1. Place pieces of foil on the counter. Add Potatoes. onion, pepper, garlic, and oil evenly between foil pieces. Add tilapia on top. Add Italian seasoning, then seal up foil packet. (Optional) Add extra foil for extra strength.
  2. Build a nice large fire. Place grate over fire. Adjust fire so flames don’t touch the grate. Carefully, add packets over fire. Cook for 15 minutes. Move grate if fire jumps up to touch foil consistently, or if fire goes out under a packet.
  3. Transfer to a thick plate. Carefully open packets, and let cool for 5 minutes before eating.
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Eggplant Parmesan

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This was me first time having and cooking with eggplant. When I was looking at recipes that use eggplant, I was surprised to find many people use eggplant in place of a protein like chicken or beef. I decided to make eggplant parmesan because it was one of the first recipes to pop into my head for eggplant. This recipe can easily be made vegetarian by swapping out cheese for vegan cheese, egg for an egg replacement, and using a natural oil like canola (what I used) or coconut. With this dish, I made homemade sauce. I added 1/3 of a very large zucchini and 1 large cucumber. Because these are both sweeter veggies, I added some salt and it came out tasting amazing and looking beautiful with speckles of green. I also added some red pepper flakes for spice, and same paprika for smokey flavor. Finally, I added the sauce at the end. I altered that for the recipe since I noticed after that many people like to bake it with the sauce. I chose not to though thinking the crispy crust was more important then having a gooey cheese on top. Either way, you can’t mess up this recipe! Makes 5-7 adult sized servings.

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What You Will Need

  • 1 Medium Eggplant
  • 2 sandwich bags
  • 1 pie plate
  • 3/4 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
  • 1 Egg
  • 1/2 cup Flour
  • 1/2 cup Mozzarella shredded
  • 1/2 cup Spaghetti sauce
  • 1 cup oil
  • Large Dutch Oven
  • 9 X13 baking dish

Directions

  1. Slice off the top and bottom of your eggplant and discard. Slice remaining eggplant into 1/4 inch slices.
  2. Add flour to one sandwich bag, add parmesan to the second. Crack your egg into the pie plate, add 2 Tbsp water, then beat with a fork until smooth. Add the oil to a dutch oven, and heat over medium heat until oil ripples.
  3. One-Two pieces at a time, coat the eggplant slices with flour, then egg, then parmesan. Then, set aside. Repeat for all remaining slices.
  4. Heat oven to 350 F.
  5. Add slices carefully to oil. Cook on each side for 2 minutes. Then transfer directly to the baking dish.
  6. Top each slice with 1 Tbsp sauce and a generous pinch of mozzarella. Add to oven and bake for 20 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes before serving.
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