Chicken and Wild Rice with Mushrooms

Tonights dinner is a take on a different crock-pot meal I made a few weeks ago. This one I am adding a can of mushrooms and cream of onion soup instead of the other, to see if it will be even tastier. This was delicious last time I made it. I'm hoping for another good meal. As it's almost 3pm and I'm finally putting it in the crock-pot. It's been a slow summer day, and with it being summer, I don't want to heat the house with the oven and stove. The slow cooker is my friend in the summer more I think than any other time of year. Do you ever feel that way? What is your favorite time of year to use the slow cooker?

Ingredients:
1 can cream of onion soup
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can sweet corn (drained)
1 6.5 oz can of mushrooms (drained)
1 14oz can of chicken broth
6 oz while rice mix (I used the organic Harvest Medley from Costco)
1 italian dressing dry mix
1 -12 oz bag of frozen crinkle cut carrots
8 chicken tenders (boneless, skinless)

Directions:
Add everything to the slow cooker - cook on high 3-4 hours or low 6-8 hours until rice is tender and chicken is cooked.

It's just dump and stir, set and forget it.

Easy dinner and delicious.

Beef Roast with vegetables

Today is sunday, and I like to make something extra special for dinner. I know we are to rest from our labors, but we still need to eat. I like to cook a bigger meal on Sundays than the other days of the week, so I can use part of the meal in another meal later. Tonights meal is beef roast with potatoes, carrots and onions. Any leftovers I can use at part of a beef stew, later in the week. Or as lunch for Monday. Leftovers. :) here is what I did this week for my Beef roast.

Ingredients:

1 large beef roast 3-5lbs

1 onion - Quartered

9 red potatoes (left whole) and pierced

9 carrots (peeled, and cut in half)

2 pkg beef gravy mix & 2 cups cold water for the gravy

Salt and pepper rub

1/4 cup olive oil

Remove beef from pkg. Use generously salt and pepper rubbed on the outside of the whole roast. Heat skillet and olive oil till very HOT. Place the roast in the skillet, brown on all sides. Remove once all sides are browned. In a roasting pan, place the potatoes in the bottom of the roasting pan, the cut onion and carrots. Mix the gravy pkgs and pour on top of the potatoes, onions and carrots in the pan. Then place the browned beef on top of that. Cover and cook low and slow for 6-8 hours. Oven 250F. Or you can place these in a crock pot on high for 4 hours, or low for 8 hours.

Beef should come out nice and juicy. Browning the beef helps keep the moisture in the beef.