Beef Stew in a slow cooker

Ingredients
1 to two pounds of stew meat
16 ounce container or can of beef broth
4 chopped inch thick and peeled carrots
4 chopped and peeled potatoes 2 inches thick
3 celery stalks chopped inch thick
1 chopped onion 1/4 inch thick
1 fresh corn stalk peeled and break (cut) in half to fit in crockpot
1 cup of peas
1/2 cup of flour
1 tablespoon of minced jarred garlic
1 teaspoon salt
1teaspoon pepper

Preparation
Place meat in crockpot, potatoes, carrots, celery in this order.
Then add all of the above and mix

Add frozen peas an hour before serving

If consistency is not thick enough add another 1/2 cup of flour
1 hour before serving.

Cook for 8 hours on low.


Serves 4-6

Summer Pasta

This recipe is from Andrea one of Chat Me More's Followers.


Ingredients:
1 pound to 1 1/2 of penne pasta
2 cups of grape tomatoes
1 1/2 cup of toasted pine nuts
2 cups of olive oil
1 container of feta cheese
8 chopped leaves of fresh basil
2 tablespoons of roasted garlic powder
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of pepper

Preparation
- boil pasta to preference
 - drain and add all the above ingredients
- mix well and put in the refrigerator over night


This dish can also be served hot.

Serve 4-6

Stuffed Green Peppers

This Recipe is from of one of Chat Me More's Followers (Stephani)


Stuffed Green Peppers

Ingredients: 
1 Tablespoon butter
4 Green bell peppers
1 1/2 pounds ground sirloin
1/2 pound ground sausage (hot, mild, your choice)
1 small white onion, diced fine
Oregano, Seasoned Pepper and Fennel Seed [optional] to taste
6 Roma tomatoes
2 teaspoons of crushed garlic or 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
6 ounces of fresh Feta cheese, crumbled
1/2 cup grated parmesan or romano cheese
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (optional)

Spray casserole dish with PAM. Cook ground sirloin and sausage at low to medium heat, stirring often. Once meat is cooked through, drain thoroughly. Add all butter, onions, garlic, oregano, seasoned pepper, fennel seed and 3/4 of tomatoes. Simmer over low heat approximately 20 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Cut off tops of all peppers, remove inner seeds and membranes and wash thoroughly. Fill all peppers with meat mixture, alternating with a layer of feta and parmesan cheeses. Place peppers into a casserole dish, side by side, adding the remaining tomatoes to the dish (around and under the peppers so they cook up and into the peppers.) [Alternatively, you can cut peppers in half vertically and stuff each half, making serving easier and speeding bake-time.]

Add any remaining mixture around the peppers and sprinkle all remaining feta and parmesan cheeses on top. Add shredded mozzarella cheese if desired for a hint of extra flavor.

Bake at 350°F for approximately 30 minutes or until browned and bubbly as desired. 

Makes 4 stuffed peppers (or 8 half-peppers.) 5 net grams of carbohydrate per serving.

Springtime Pasta by Chat Me More

Ingredients
5-6 Sweet Italian sausage links
3 large boneless chicken breast
1 to 1 1/2 pounds of bowtie or penne pasta
2 lemons
1 onion
1/2 cup of olive oil
1 tablespoon of minced jarred garlic
1/2 green squash
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of black or white pepper

Preparation
Cut chicken and sausage an inch thick and cook together in a pan with olive oil, cook until
 the sausage is no longer pink. Simultaneously start boiling water for the pasta.
When water boils add pasta and add 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
Dice onion and cook with the chicken and sausage until onion is transparent.
Add garlic and grate in the squash (with or without the skin)
Squeeze lemons in the pan and mix all ingredients.
Drain pasta (about 7 minutes of cooking, cook until one's preference) and set aside back into pot.
Sprinkle salt and pepper in pan and toss with pasta.

Optional Parmesan cheese, Chat Me More did not use the cheese
for this recipe.


Serve 4-6


This dish will become one of your favorites. 


If you grate vegetables into every dish kids will not be aware
 and they will get the nutrition from the veggies. 

Chat Me More's Burrito

Ingredients
3-4 pounds of ground beef or turkey
8 ounce can of mild salsa
1 package of dry taco mix
1 can of rinsed kidney beans
1 onion chopped
1 teaspoon of minced jarred garlic
1 teaspoon of tomato paste
1/2 cup of water
8 flour tortillas
1 cup of shredded Mexican cheese
Preparation
Brown meat then add chopped onion cook until onion is transparent.
Add the can of salsa, taco mix, kidney beans, garlic, tomato paste and water.
Mix and cook for 10 minutes.
Place a tablespoon of meat mixture in the middle each of your tortillas and then roll.
Place the rolled ends on the bottom and the top of the burrito should be flat with no opens ends.
Repeat until all is rolled and place into a casserole dish and pour the left over meat on top
of the burritos.
Add cheese and cook for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted.

 Serves 4-6


This recipe has been voted the number recipe at Chat Me More.......

Potato Salad

Ingredients
10 peeled and cut in half potatoes
1/4 cup of mustard
1/2 cup of mayonnaise
4 bacon strips cooked and then diced
2 celery starks diced
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of black or white pepper

Preparation
Cook peeled cut potatoes in a pot of water (water should cover the potatoes) cook until soft, but still firm.
Rinse potatoes in cold water then cut potatoes an inch thick.
Add mayonnaise and mustard add more if needed this is based on personal preference.
Mix potatoes add salt, pepper and bacon.


Refrigerate over night or for at least  3 hours.


Remember to keep the salad cold or chilled mayonnaise does spoil quickly.
Keeping it on a tray of ice will do just fine when entertaining.


This recipe will feed a party of 10 as a side dish. 

Citrus Chicken In a Bag

A complete meal in one:


Ingredients
5-6 pounds of a whole chicken
1 cooking bag
2 lemons
1 orange
1/2 cup of flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon of smoked paprika

Preparation
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
Clean chicken throughly inside and out.
Put flour in bag and put into a roasting pan.
Place chicken in bag.
Sprinkle salt, pepper and paprika on top of chicken.
Squeeze lemons and orange on top of chicken and then place
squeezed lemons and orange inside the chicken.
Close bag with tie that comes with the bag and put a slit on top of the bag.
Cook for 1 hour to 1 1/2 cut into center of the chicken and make
sure there is no pink.

This meal was created for anyone to make in just a few steps.
Chat Me More is aware of the hectic schedules that many families
endure. Chat Me More will have a new complete meal in one monthly.


Watch the cooking videos by clicking on the links.
http://www.youtube.com/user/contactchatmemore#p/a/u/1/ju-tC1aLBwo
Part II video
http://www.youtube.com/user/contactchatmemore#p/a/u/0/sMzg6-6RRo4