September Monthly Cooking

Tomorrow is the big shopping day. I have my list complete and my recipes ready and my organic produce order has been submitted. We are buying over 25 pounds of meat and lots of produce. The best thing about this month is that everything is crock-pot friendly. My sister said she wanted more crock-pot recipes because they make her house smell so good and I delivered. 

All the recipes I used come from Once a Month Mom website. OAMM is a great website that has several menu options for your big day of freezer cooking and they charge a small fee to use the complete menu. My sister says I am a picky eater so I have a hard time picking just one menu, so it’s easier if I make my own. Plus, she did not need 30 meals this month and I like to cook a few times a week so we didn’t need a full month of meals. The menus on the site give you breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals too. It’s a great site, if you have never taken a look at it you should hop on over there.

After my sister said I am a picky eater, I gave it some thought and discovered that she may be right. BUT since I cut out high fructose corn syrup, artificial sugar, gluten, and processed food, my blood pressure has dropped and my pulse has too. I have reduced my medicines a lot and I am hoping that I can quit taking blood pressure medicine all together. 

Here's the meals we will be preparing with a link to the recipe. If you want, I can e-mail you the shopping list too. After we prepare everything I will let everyone know how it goes.

Korean Shredded Beef Tacos Double Korean Tacos

            Thaw. Put into slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hrs.

            Serve over warm tortillas, baked sweet potatoes, rice, or rice noodles

Taco Soup Double Taco Soup

        Thaw. Put in slow cooker on low 4-6 hrs or high 2-3 hrs.

        Serve with grilled cheese sandwiches or over tortilla chips and offer sour cream and shredded cheese to top it with.

Pizza Soup Double Pizza Soup

        Thaw. Put in slow cooker low 4-6 hrs. Thirty minutes before serving add pasta and turn on high. Allow pasta to soften.

            Serve topped with Mozzarella cheese, croutons or with Garlic Cheese Texas Toast.

Potato Soup Double  Potato Soup

        Thaw. Place in Slow cooker about 6 hours. About 1 hr. before serving add cream cheese and stir every 10-15 minutes until well blended.

            Serve with cheese and bacon on top.

Honey Chicken quadruple Honey Chicken

        Thaw. Put in slow cooker on low about 4 hours. About 1 hour before serving stir in frozen broccoli or green peas to make a complete meal.

            Serve over rice, quinoa, mashed sweet potatoes, or cauliflower puree

Thai Curry with Beef Brisket triple Thai Curry with beef brisket

            Thaw. Place in crock pot making sure vegetable are on the bottom. Cook on low 8-10 hours or high 4-6 hrs.

            Serve over rice.

Sweet and Sour meatballs triple Sweet and sour meatballs

        Thaw pineapple mixture bag only. In slow cooker, place meatballs (still frozen) on bottom. Cover with THAWED pineapple mixture. Cover and cook on high for about 4 hours. After 4 hours, put content of pepper packet into the slow cooker and cook another hour.

Serve over rice or quinoa.

Buffalo Chicken double Slow Cooked Buffalo Chicken

        Thaw. Place contents of bag in slow cooker and cook on low 6-7 hrs or until meat easily shreds with two forks.

            Serve over hamburger buns, baked potatoes, nachos, tortillas, rice, or noodles.