Sweet Joes with a Kick
Brown the beef with the minced onion and garlic, add remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer on low for 10 min. Serve on Dinner Rolls for awesomeness!
Seasoned Tomato Soup from Sauce
Combine all ingredients in a saucepan, bring to a boil, then reduce heat to med-low and simmer for about 10-20 min. I just simmer the whole time I am making Grilled Italian Mozzarella and Tomato Sandwiches and it works out great.
Taco Sauce
powderCombine ingredients together in a pot and heat on low until it begins to bubble and is thoroughly incorporated. Serve on tacos, nachos, Mexican pizzas or whatever you wish 🙂
Don’t you love those days when you haven’t made it to the grocery store yet and your inventory is running kinda low. You go to the pantry to see what you have the ingredients to make and of course you need 1-2 more ingredients to make ANYTHING that you normally fix. Although, some may see this as a perfect excuse to get creative and wing it. For some reason *cough cough*, this happens to us a lot (ok, the real reason is ….I hate strongly dislike grocery shopping)
BBQ Bean Chili (no, it isn’t your imagination, you DO see the word BBQ on my blog a lot)
For frying beef:
Add all above ingredients to a deep skillet or other large pot and cook on medium heat until meat is thoroughly cooked, lightly drain and return to skillet or pot. (if you aren’t eating clean grass fed meat, drain completely)
For the rest:
Add second list of ingredients, stir until combined, cover and simmer on low for 1 hour stirring occasionally
serves 4-5
Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
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Combine all ingredients (excluding chicken and noodles) in crock pot and turn on high while you cook your chicken. While chicken is cooling, prepare your noodles. Add chicken, broth and noodles to crock pot and cook on high for approx. 2 hours or until flavors are well incorporated and veggies are tender.
Seasoned Sausage Balls (HGN Style)
Combine all ingredients and mix thoroughly until all ingredients are incorporated entirely and it is all sticking together…. yes, this will require your hands so remove your jewelry and scrub up ;). Pinch off enough to roll into 1-1 1/2 inch balls and place on cookie sheet. Bake in 350º oven for 20 minutes or until cooked thoroughly and a nice browning has taken place. Yields approximately 85-90 sausage balls, so adjust recipe to the size you need or freeze the extra for quick breakfasts or snacks. My kids like them with ranch dressing, my bbq (you can buy that here) or maple syrup, I like them plain. ENJOY!
Tuna Salad with Garlic, Onion and Parsley
I told you I was a huge BBQ junky, I meant it really. Yes, I did serve my sirloin steak with BBQ sauce (hubby being a meat love ate his without the BBQ, so feel free to do the same).
Sirloin Steak w/ BBQ sauce
)Preheat oven to 375º. Place steak on cookie sheet. Pour Worcestershire and garlic powder over steak and bake in oven for about 50 min or until desired done-ness flipping about every 10 min after the first 20. Remove from oven, cut into serving sized pieces for your family, pour bbq sauce over top of steak.
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| I served mine with broccoli slaw and mashed potatoes. |
This is so easy, why in the world have I been buying the expensive organic ketchups when I could just make it? yeah, I don’t know either.
Ketchup
Combine all ingredients in a kettle on the stove, heat on low and whisk until it starts to bubble.
Reduce heat and simmer for 20 min. Remove from heat and let cool. Chill before serving, store in sealed container in the refrigerator.
Homemaker Gone Natural 