Sausage Potato Bake

We’re breaking out the crockpot again. Unfortunately, after a failed attempt at making crockpot monkey bread this past weekend, we are down one since the burnt concoction is impossible to get out of the crock. Believe it or not…I burnt something in the slow cooker.

I left last night’s dinner to Jon, who managed to not fail miserably at slow cooking. Unfortunately, we both failed at picture taking and so have no tasty images to dish up to everyone. But I do have a recipe to share:

Sausage Potato Bake

Jon didn’t seem too thrilled with it at first, at least not with the theory of it. But I thought it tasted great and he ended up liking it too. I even ended up buying the vegetable soup with the letter noodles, so that made if fun too. We used smoked sausage and canned potatoes we had in the cabinet which were surprisingly good. I ended up bringing some to work with me for lunch, though it’s now been designated to tomorrow’s lunch due to an unplanned pizza delivery bought by one of my co-workers.

Chicken Quesadilla and Fiesta Rice

Because he had the afternoon off, Jon decided to do the cooking tonight. He always seems to get the more complicated recipes, but hopefully that'll start being more even the more we cook.

The recipe we used can be found here: at AllRecipes.

We tweaked it just a little bit by adding taco seasoning to the quesadilla. I don't even like fiesta rice but this was delicious. The plan for the next go round with this recipe is to use medium salsa instead of mild and a little more seasoning.

Definitely an A rated meal!

Two Nights of Simplicity

Things have been crazy around here lately, so we decided to play it low key for a couple days with two really simple meals. Last night was sloppy joes, straight out of the can. I've found all kinds of sloppy joe recipes on the 'net, but I'm pretty sure that for me, sloppy joes will always taste the best from Manwich.

This first picture is my version of the sloppy joe dinner, complete with frozen french fries and ketchup. See how neat and tidy I am?

My boyfriend, on the other hand, really likes to do it up sloppy:

What we have here is two open faced sloppy joes, topped with mustard and french fries. Right behind it is a mustard/Frank's Hot Sauce mixture for fry dippage.

Tonight's fare was even simpler. We went with the fries again and I drew on one of my childhood favorites: hot roast beef and cheddar sandwiches.

This used to be one of my favorite meals and is very simple. The sandwices consist of deli roast beef and cheedar cheese from the dairy department. After baking the fries, I lowered the temp from 450 to 350 degrees and put the sandwiches open faced into the oven for about 5 minutes, until the cheese was melted. It looks a little plastic in this pic but it was delicous. Jon ate his with some generic Miracle Whip and I ate mine topped with zesty italian dressing.

Tomorrow we're getting experimental in the kitchen again, and hopefully I'll be back with something good.

Swiss Chicken Casserole

So I fell pretty behind in my quest to keep a food blog, but c'est la vie...it's the way of the world. Lately we've been cooking more and I've decided to get back into blogging and so I wanted to update this one as well. I'll be honest, the BF has been cooking more lately, so not all of these recipes will be mine. Take this one for example...I'll take credit for the planning, but he gets all the props for fixing.

I know it looks like a mess on the place, but this was absolutely delicious. The recipe can be found at http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Swiss-Chicken-Casserole-II/Detail.aspx. I don't even think he tweaked it much. We used eight chicken tenderloins and reduced fat soup.

The corn was leftovers from last night's dinner and the recipe wasn't all that expensive and so will be x-posted to http://frugalandhappy.blogspot.com/ with a listing of the how much everything cost.

Because of the roommate situation, we don't often enjoy romantic or comfortable meals. This one was spent in the living room in front of some re-run of CSI: New York. Unfortunately, after living with a law student, I can no longer enjoy this show because reality has ruined it for me. But the meal was good and it was probably better that I focused on the food rather than the TV.