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Crock Pot Beef

 

CROCK POT APPLE CIDER STEW 

Ingredients:

1-2 lbs. beef or venison stew meat
8 carrots, sliced thin
6 potatoes, sliced thin
2 apples, chopped
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. thyme
2 tbsp. minced onion
2 c. apple cider

Directions:

1.  Place carrots, potatoes, and apples in crock pot. 

2. Add meat and sprinkle with salt, thyme, and onion.  Pour cider over meat and cover.

3. Cook on low heat 10-12 hours.  Thicken gravy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CROCK POT SMOTHERED STEAK

Ingredients:

1 1/2 lb. round steak, cut in strips
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 green pepper, sliced
1 (1 lb.) can tomatoes
3 tbsp. soy sauce
1/3 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
1 lg. onion, sliced
1 (4 oz.) can mushrooms, drained
1 (10 oz.) pkg. frozen green beans (French style)

Directions:

1.  Put steak strips, flour, salt and pepper in crock pot.  Stir well to coat steak.

2.  Add remaining ingredients.  Cover and cook on low 8 hours (high for 4 hours).  Serve with rice. 

 

 

CROCK POT BEEF POOR BOY


Ingredients:

4 to 5 lb. roast
1 pkg. dry onion soup mix
1 c. water
1 tbsp. Italian seasoning

Directions:

1. Put all in crock pot in the morning.  Cook on "low" all day. 

2. Before making sandwiches, use forks to pull meat apart. 

 

 

CROCK POT CABBAGE ROLLS


Ingredients:

8 or more lg. cabbage leaves
1 lb. ground beef
1 egg, beaten
1 can tomato soup
1/4 tsp. pepper
4 tbsp. onion, chopped
1 c. rice, cooked

Directions:

1.  Pour boiling water over cabbage leaves and let stand for 5 minutes.

2.  Season meat, add onion, rice and beaten egg.  Roll a portion of the filling into each leaf.  Fasten ends with toothpicks.

3.  Place in crock pot and cook on low for 10 to 12 hours.   

 

 

CROCK POT CASSEROLE


Ingredients:

2 lg.-sized potatoes, sliced
2 to 3 med. carrots, sliced
1 (#2) can peas, well drained
3 med. onions, sliced
1 1/2 lbs. ground beef, browned
2 stalks of celery, sliced
10 oz. can tomato soup
10 oz. can water


Directions:

1. Place layers of the vegetables in the order given in crock pot.  Season each layer with salt and pepper.

2. Put the lightly browned ground beef on top of the celery.  Mix the tomato soup with the water and pour over the layers. 

3. Cover and set on low for 6 to 8 hours, stirring occasionally. 

 

 

CROCK POT NO PEEK STEW


Ingredients:

2 lbs. chuck or stew meat, cubed
2 c. potatoes, cut up
2 c. carrots, cut up
2 c. celery, cut up
1 lg. onion
1 c. each frozen green beans, peas, corn
1 can Campbell's tomato soup
1 can water
2 tbsp. Minute Tapioca
1 1/2 tbsp. cornstarch
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. parsley flakes
1 tsp. salt and salt substitute
1 tsp. Lawry's seasoned salt


Directions:

1. Mix all ingredients together in crockpot.  Cover and cook on low for 10 to 12 hours.  

 

 

CROCK POT SOUPER ROAST

Ingredients:

2-3 lb. blade or arm roast
1 env. onion dry soup mix
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 c. red wine
1/2 c. water

Directions:
 
1. Mix onion soup (dry) and mushroom soup to make a thick paste.  Spread both sides of roast with onion, mushroom mixture.

2.  Put in crock pot.  Mix wine and water together and gently pour over roast, turn crock pot on high for 2 hours.

3.  Turn crock pot to low and cook 3 to 5 hours longer.  This makes its own gravy. 

 

 

CROCK POT GRANDMA'S SUPPER

Ingredients:

1 lb. ground chuck
2 lg. onions, diced
3 or 4 med. potatoes
1 qt. milk


Directions:

1.  In crock pot, put layer of ground chuck; layer onion, layer potatoes; add milk. 

2. Cook on high until potatoes are tender, 3 to 4 hours on High

 

 

CROCK POT COMPLETE DINNER

Ingredients:

2 to 3 lbs. cube steak, browned
6 med. potatoes, peeled & sliced
2 (12 oz.) jars Heinz brown gravy


Directions:

1.  Layer meat and potatoes, adding gravy to each layer.  Top with gravy.

2. Cover and cook on low 6 to 8 hours or high 3 to 4 hours.  Season as desired.  Serve with side dish vegetables. 

 

 

CROCK POT STEAK FOR TWO


Ingredients:

Thin round steaks
1 sm. onion
Cream of mushroom soup
Mushrooms

Directions:

1.  In crock pot put 1 can cream of mushroom soup, 1/2 can of water.  Mix together.

2. Cut one small onion, add to soup.  Cut mushrooms in half and add to soup.

3.  Brown meat in skillet.  Put meat in soup in crock pot for 8 hours on low. 

 

 

CROCK POT ENCHILADAS


Ingredients:

1 lb. hamburger
1 onion, chopped
1 sm. can chilies
1 sm. can mild enchilada sauce
1 can golden mushroom soup, undiluted
1 can cheddar cheese soup, undiluted
1 can cream of mushroom soup,   undiluted
1 can cream of celery soup, undiluted
1 lg. pkg. Dorito chips


Directions:

1.  Brown hamburger and chopped onion, pour off grease. 

2. Put all ingredients in crock pot except Dorito chips.  Mix and cook low 4 to 6 hours. 

3. Last 15 minutes before you are ready to eat, add Dorito chips and stir. 

 

 

CROCK POT REUBEN CASSEROLE

Ingredients:

1 (8 oz.) pkg. noodles, cooked
1 can corned beef
3 1/2 c. sauerkraut
6 slices American cheese
16 oz. sour cream
1 (10 1/4 oz.) can cream of chicken   soup
6 slices Swiss cheese

Directions:
 
1. In a buttered quart crock pot, layer half the noodles, half the meat, all the sauerkraut, all the American cheese.

2.  Mix the sour cream and the chicken soup together and layer half of the soup mixture.  Then layer the rest of the noodles, meat, soup mixture and then lastly the Swiss cheese.

3.  Cook on high for 2 hours, so that it bubbles well. 

4. Turn down to low for 1 or 2 hours.  It helps to stir before serving, to mix the layers together some.  

 

 

CROCK POT ROAST


Ingredients:

3 to 4 lb. boneless pot roast
1 c. of "diet" 7-Up
Celery salt
2 bay leaves
2 garlic sections, chopped or sliced

Directions:
 
1.  Wash roast and pat dry with paper towels, place in crock pot, pierce top of roast with fork and sprinkle top with celery salt.

2.  Add bay leaves and garlic, pour DIET 7-Up over all and set crock pot on high for 4 hours, then low 2 hours or put on low for 8 hours. 

3.   Remove roast to platter to cool.  Discard liquid.  Serve with your favorite vegetables, rolls and salad. 

 

 

CROCK POT CHINESE BEEF & PEA PODS


Ingredients:

1 to 1 1/2 lb. family steak, thinly sliced, sm. chunks (works well to freeze it & then cut while partially thawed)
1 can beef consomme soup
1/4 c. soy sauce
1/4 tsp. ground ginger
1 bunch green onions (about 8)
2 tbsp. cornstarch
2 tbsp. water
1 can sliced water chestnuts, drained
1 sm. can bamboo shoots, drained
1 sm. can bean sprouts, drained
1 (7 oz.) pkg. frozen Chinese pea pods, partially thawed

Directions:

1. Combine steak in crock pot with consomme, soy sauce, ginger and onion.  Cover and cook on low for 5 to 7 hours. 

2. Turn control to high.  Stir in cornstarch that has been dissolved in the 2 tablespoons cold water.

3.  Cook on high for 15 minutes or until thickened.

4.  During last 5 minutes of cooking, add water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts and pea pods.  Serve over hot rice. 

 

 

CROCK POT CUBED STEAK AND GRAVY


Ingredients:

2 to 2 1/2 lbs. steak (salted and peppered)
1 pkg. onion gravy mix
1 can cream of mushroom soup
2 c. water
Sm. amount of flour


Directions:

1. Dip steak in flour, fry until brown.  Place in crock pot. 

2. Add water, soup and gravy mix.  Cover and cook on low 6 to 8 hours.  

 

 

 

 



 

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