Show us your Life ~ Dinner Recipes

This week I am going to be taking part in Show us your life. You can click on the banner and it will take you to the host. Kelly over at Kelly's Korner host a weekly Show us your Life! This weeks is dinner recipes!

I couldn't be more excited! I love to share recipes, and cooking is by far one of my favorite things to do! I am sharing a recipe, that I have shared before here, a long while back, but it is trully a favorite of ours! It has been an instant favorite to everyone who has tried them. Enjoy!

The best Chicken Enchiladas

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (Flattened and grilled with fajita seasonings and black pepper), cubed

1 8oz block cream cheese, softened

2 teaspoon dried onion

1 tsp garlic powder

1 - 2 tsp fajita seasoning

1/2 tsp black pepper

1 cup of mozzarella cheese

8 - 12 flour tortillas, room temperature

2 cans of cream of chicken soup

2 cups of sour cream (16 oz container)

1 cup milk

1 can of Ro-tel tomatoes with green chilies

2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese

In a large mixing bowl, mix together well, cream cheese, dried onions, garlic powder, fajita seasoning, and pepper. Stir in the cubed chicken and mozzarella cheese.In another large mixing bowl, combine soup, sour cream, milk, and ro-tel. Mix until smooth and blended.Spray large baking dish (i use the large pyrex) with non stick cooking spray. Then spread a little of the soup mixture over the bottom. About 1/2 cup or so. Just enough to lightly cover the bottom. Roll enchiladas with chicken mixture and lay in baking dish seam down. When all are in the pan, top with soup mixture. Bake in 350 preheated oven. (uncovered) Bake for about 40 minutes. Remove and top with cheddar cheese, place back in the oven and cook for about 10 to 15 minutes. Until the Cheese is nice and bubbly!

This is the only way hubby will eat chicken enchiladas now! They are really wonderful!

Hope yall enjoy! Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs and Blessings,

Slow Cooking Thursday ~ Crock Pot White Chicken Chilli

I'm back to doing my slow Cooking Thursdays! As always, please click on the banner and it will take you to the Host's blog, Diary of a Stay at Home Mom. You will be delighted you did, as you will find more great slow cooking recipes.

Crock Pot White Chicken Chilli

1 pound navy beans, soaked

1 medium onion, chopped

3 cloves garlic, pressed

8 ounces chopped green chiles

2 teaspoons ground cumin

1 teaspoon oregano

1 1/2 teaspoons cayenne pepper

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast halves

14 ounces chicken broth

1 cup water

Put beans in medium pan and cover with water. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and allow to simmer 20 minutes. Discard water. Cut chicken into 1-inch pieces and brown if desired. Put all ingredients in crock-pot. Stir to mix thoroughly. Cover and cook on low 10-12 hours or high 5-6 hours.

Hope you enjoy this hearty recipe! I thought it as a great way to kick off for fall!

Hugs and Blessings,

Slow Cooking Thursday ~ Bacon Ranch Crockpot Chicken

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Bacon Ranch Crockpot Chicken

4 - 6 slices of cooked bacon, crumbled
1 -2 cloves of garlic, pressed
1 package of Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing mix
1 can of cream of chicken soup
1 cup sour cream
4 boneless skinless chicken breast
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 - 1 cup grated cheddar cheese


Place chicken in the crock pot, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Mix the soup, sour cream, and ranch dressing mix together. Stir in the garlic and bacon. Pour over chicken. Cook 4 - 6 hours on high or until chicken is cooked through. At the last 15 to 20 minutes before serving, top with grated cheddar cheese.

Hope yall enjoy!

Hugs and Blessings,

Crock Pot Spaghetti

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Crock Pot Spaghetti


2 lbs lean ground meat, seasoned, browned, and drained
2 (26 oz) Jars of Spaghetti Sauce (your favorite brand and flavor, we use Prego Italian Sauage or meat, and then a herbal and garlic flavor normal)
1/2 medium onion, chopped
2 - 3 garlic cloves, pressed or chopped
1 tsp pepper
1/2 to 1 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups of broken up spaghetti (break into quartered pieces)
1 pkg of grated parmessan cheese



Cook your meat with Itallian seasoing and a clove of garlic. Brown and drain. Add to crock pot. Add sauce, onion, garlic, and salt and pepper to crock pot. Stir all together. Add in spaghetti pieces and stir again. Cook on low for about 6 hours. About 15 minutes before time to serve, stir in the cheese.



Hope yall enjoy!



Hugs and Blessings,

Shredded Beef Tacos

Yeah, using firefox, I am able to post again! Still no long with Internet Explorer. It has been crazy! Now I'm sure I'll be around to chat your ears off, or is that type so much your eyes need a break. Either way, I'm so glad to be back!

Please Check out Sandra over at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom, for more great Slow Cooking recipes!

Shredded Beef Taco
1 1/2 to 2 lb. beef roast
1 medium onion
2 cloves of garlic, pressed or minced
2 cups of water
1 package/ envelope of taco seasoning
Shells or tortillas of your choice
toppings of your choice, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, olives, sour cream and salsa

Place roast in the bottom of the crock pot. Press garlic on the meat, or spread the minced garlic on. Slice onions and place over the roast. Mix taco seasoning and water together. Pour over meat. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours. When roast is done and tender, remove from crock pot and fork shredd. Place in a bowl for serving. Serve with the tortillas or shells of your choice and with the toppings of your choice.

Hope yall enjoy!

Hugs and Blessings,

Crock Pot BBQ Chicken

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Simple Crock Pot BBQ Chicken
3 - 4 boneless skinless chicken breast.
1 regular size bottle of bbq sauce (our choice is KC Master Piece or Sweet Baby Rays)
1 cup of water
1 - 2 garlic cloves, pressed or 1 tsp garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste
2 tsp of McCormick's Grill Mates (For Chicken) Roast Garlic and Herb

Place chicken in crock pot. Cover with 3/4 bottle of BBQ Sauce, then add the cup of water to the BBQ Sauce left in the bottle. Shake it up good, and pour it on the chicken. (This will keep it from becoming way to thick of the sauce). Add in your seasoning and stir. Cook on high for 6 - 7 hours, or until chicken if completely done.

This is so simple and yet full of flavor. We do this lots when we are in a hurry. I Just adapted mom's BBQ Chicken from when I was a child to make it in the crockpot. We actually had it last night for dinner with some cheesey potatoes and fresh fruit. Hope yall enjoy!

Hugs and Blessings,

Slow Cooking Thursday ~ Potatoes n Sausage

Whew, I almost missed another Slow Cooking Thursday! It was a crazy day. Just super busy. Anyway, you can click on the picture and be taken over to our host, Sandra's, for many great SCT recipes!

Potatoes n Sausage

2 lbs smoked sausage, cut into 1 1/2 to 2 inch pieces
1 1/2 - 2 lbs small red potatoes, quartered
1 8oz block of cream cheese, softened
3 green onions, chopped (including the green tops)
1 envelope of Ranch Dressing mix
1 can of cream of chicken soup (regular size)

Put sausage and then the potatoes into the crock pot. Mix the cream cheese, onion, ranch dressing mix, and soup all together in a bowl. Then pour over the potatoes. Cook for about 6 hours on low.

Hope you enjoy!

Hugs and Blessings,

Slow Cooking Thursday Chicken Tacos

Happy Slow Cooking Thursday to all of you! Please click on the SCT banner to be taken over to Sandra's @ Diary of a Stay at Home Mom. She is the wonderful host for SCT and you will find more great recipes.


Chicken Tacos

3 - 4 boneless skinless Chicken Breast
1 small onion, sliced
1 can of Rotel
1 pkg mild taco seasoning
1 cup chicken broth

Put in crock pot and cook on low about 8 hours. Remove Chicken to a platter and shred. Laddle a little bit juice mixture over chicken. Serve with either crispy taco shells or tortillas. Garnish with lettuce, tomato, cheese, sour cream and salsa.

We love this. Everyone eats it. It's great if you are having a Mexican Dinner with severeal different dishes for your guest to choice from. Hope you enjoy!

Hugs and Blessings,

Crock Pot BBQ Sandwiches

Thank you, Sandra, for hosting Slow Cooking Thursday! I love it! As I really love cooking with my crockpot! (you can click on the picture or her name to be taken there and find many more awesome crock pot recipes.)

BBQ Sandwiches

3 lb beef roast
1 pkg of Onion Soup Mix
2 - 3 cloves of garlic, chopped, or pressed
1 tsp ground black pepper
2 cups of water
1 bottle of bbq sauce (any kind you like)

Put your roast in the crockpot and top with onion soup mix, garlic, and pepper. Top with water. Cook on low for about 8 or 9 hours. Remove and shredd meat. Return shredded meat to the crockpot and pour in your favorite bbq sauce. (We use KC Masterpiece of Sweet Baby Rays). Stir all together and mix well. Turn crockpot up to high and heat for 45 minutes to an hour. Serve on buns with pickles and onions.

We love this version, when we are not making a brisket. It's always a nice easy meal and goes great with potatoe salad.

Hugs and Blessings,

SCT ~ Cheeseburger Sandwiches

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Simple Cheeseburger Sandwiches

1 1/2 lb of lean ground beef
1 clove of garlic, pressed
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
1/4 tsp salt
8 oz of velvetta cheese (grated or cubed)
2 tbsp of milk
1 small onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, pressed

Brown ground beef with 1 clove of garlic, black pepper, and salt. Add a bit of water, if you need to the meat while cooking it. Cook until no longer pink. Pour into the crock pot and add cheese, milk, onion and 2 more garlic cloves. Cook on low for 6 to 7 hours. Serve on buns with condiments of choice. (mustard, ketchup, mayo, pickles, tomatoes, and sliced onions).



They are really good and went with the theme of dinners here this week. Grilled burgers one night, and chopped beef sandwiches (from our left over brisket) one night. Hope yall enjoy these!

Hugs and Blessings,

SCT Cheesy Ham and Potatoes

Welcome to another Slow Cooking Thursday. You may click on the banner above and be taken over to, Sandra's, and there you will find many awesome crock pot recipes.

Cheesy Ham and Potatoes

1 (28oz -32oz) bag of frozen hashbrown cubes
1 small onion, diced
1/2 green bell pepper, diced
ground black pepper, to taste
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 1/2 lbs of ham (cube or slice up)
1/2 cup water
1 (8 oz) bag of grated Velveeta cheese
1 can of evaporated milk

Break up the hash browns in the bag and pour into the crockpot. Add in the onion, bell pepper, black pepper, and garlic. Stir it all up. Add in the ham, and stir again. Add water and cook on high for 4 hours. Add milk and grated cheese. Stir really well. Cook for about 30 minutes. Enjoy!

I thought this would be a great recipe to share, as many have left over ham from Easter Dinner and are looking for something different to do with it. It is really yummy!

Hugs and Blessings,

Barbecue Crock Pot Ribs

Barbecue Crock Pot Ribs

4 - 5 lbs of pork spareribs
1 1/2 cups bottled barbecue sauce (you choice of brand and flavor, we use KC Masterpiece or sweet baby ray's)
1/4 c. brown sugar
1 Tbsp Worchestershire sauce
1/2 tsp liquid smoke
1 tsp garlic powder

Cut ribs apart. (we leave in sections of about 3). Boil 15 minutes. Pat dry and place in the crock pot. Mix all remaining ingredients, and pour over the ribs. Cook on low for 10 hours.



These are really yummy!!! This is one of the 2 versions we use a lot for our ribs. Hope you enjoy!

And always please click on the Slow Cooking Thursday banner, it will take you to Sandra's, where you will have many more awesome slow cooking recipes!

Hugs and Blessings,

All Day Brisket

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All Day Brisket
3 -4 lb lean beef brisket, trim and discard excessive fat
1 medium onion, sliced
1 tsp black pepper
1 TBS liquid smoke
1 small bottle of italian dressing

Place brisket and onion in the crock pot. Sprinkle with pepper. Pour italian dressing over brisket. Drizzle the liquid smoke on top. Place lid on and cook on low for 12 hours.

Serve with bbq sauce of your choice. As this is truly the part that each family has their own favorite bbq sauce.

Hugs and Blessings,

Garlic Lime Chicken

Garlic Lime Crockpot Chicken

4- 6 boneless chicken breast

1/2 soy sauce

1/3 c. lime juice

1 1/2 TBsp Worcestershie sauce

3 garlice cloves, pressed

1/2 tsp dry mustard

1 tsp ground pepper

Put chicken in crockpot. In a bowl mix all remaining ingrediendts and pour over chicken. Cover and cook on High 4 -6 hours or on low 6 - 8 hours.

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Hugs and Blessings

Mom's Crock Pot Roast

Mom's Crock Pot Roast

4 cups of water
3 pouches of brown gravy mix
1 pouch of onion soup mix
6 small potatoes, quartered
6 medium carrots, cut in to 2 inch pieces
3 - 4 lb roast

In a sauce pan mix water and gravy and cook until it smooth and together. Place roast in crock pot, and pour onion soup over. Top with potatoes and carrots. Cover all with brown gravy and cook on low for 8 to 9 hours, or until it's fork tender. If you want to cook on high, you can lessen time to 4 to 5 hours on high.

Hugs and Blessings,

SCT ~ Crockpot Spanish Rice

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Crockpot Spanish Rice

2 lbs. ground beef

1 medium onion, chopped

1 green pepper, chopped

1 (28-oz.) can diced or stewed tomatoes

1 (16-oz.) can tomato sauce

2 tsp. chili powder (or to taste)

2 tsp. seasoned salt (to taste)

1 TBSP Worcestershire sauce

2 cups uncooked rice

grated Monterey Jack or Cheddar Cheese (optional)

Brown ground beef in skillet and drain off fat. Put browned beef and the rest of the ingredients except the cheese in a crockpot. Stir thoroughly. Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours or on HIGH for 3 hours. Sprinkle with grated cheese before serving, if desired.

Hugs and Blessings

The BEST Enchiladas

Happy Tuesday! Hope you had a great day! Our day was good. We ran to town, picked up a few things we needed. Then just spent the day here at home.

For dinner though, I made the BEST Creamy Chicken Enchiladas ever!

This is my recipe. I have changed and adopted it to fit us, and came out with the best results ever!


Patty's BEST Creamy Chicken Enchiladas

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (Flattened and grilled with fajita seasonings and black pepper), cubed

1 8oz block cream cheese, softened
2 teaspoon dried onion
1 tsp garlic powder
1 - 2 tsp fajita seasoning
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 cup of mozzarella cheese



8 - 12 flour tortillas, room temperature



2 cans of cream of chicken soup
2 cups of sour cream (16 oz container)
1 cup milk
1 can of Ro-tel tomatoes with green chilies
2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese



In a large mixing bowl, mix together well, cream cheese, dried onions, garlic powder, fajita seasoning, and pepper. Stir in the cubed chicken and mozzarella cheese.



In another large mixing bowl, combine soup, sour cream, milk, and ro-tel. Mix until smooth and blended.



Spray large baking dish (i use the large pyrex) with non stick cooking spray. Then spread a little of the soup mixture over the bottom. About 1/2 cup or so. Just enough to lightly cover the bottom.



Roll enchiladas with chicken mixture and lay in baking dish seam down. When all are in the pan, top with soup mixture. Bake in 350 preheated oven. (uncovered) Bake for about 40 minutes. Remove and top with cheddar cheese, place back in the oven and cook for about 10 to 15 minutes.

I tell you these have soared to the top of our list, as a favorite meal! Hubby isn't a huge fan of chicken enchiladas, and says these are the BEST ever! He asked if they could move to a favorite dish of his!

Hope you enjoy them!

Hope everyone has a wonderful night! Sweet Dreams!!

Hugs and Blessings,

SCT ~ Santa Fe Chicken Soup

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Santa Fe Chicken Soup



4 boneless chicken breasts, cooked with taco seasoning, and shredded
1 small onion, diced
1 can of whole kernel corn, undrained
1 can of pinto beans, undrained
1 (14 - 15 oz) can of petite diced tomatoes, undrained
1 can of Ro-tel, undrained
3/4 lb of velveeta cheese, cubed
1/2 c milk



Put all in crock pot. Stir together well. Cover and cook on low for about 4 hours, until cheese melted. Stir occasionally. Try not ot let it boil, if you need turn it down to keep warm.





Hugs and Blessings,

Not your usual Sunday Dinner

Sunday Dinner started out as a treat that is simple and we love, but don't have very often! Then the next thing I knew was we had done it all! OH MY! There was just too much friend food. We hardly ever eat fried food so it was way overboard. As a family favorite, we have homemade beer battered (we use light and have even used non alcoholic beer) corn dogs. We usually have these with some baked beans, maybe some coleslaw and fries. Every once in awhile we have onion rings too, but this is even more rare. The last time we fixed it was a year and half ago (all three of them). Well so we decided to have some deep fried pickles and corndogs. As I started i thought I'd make hubby some onion rings, as they are his favorite. Well then he decided to try to do it up (after watching deep fried paradise on the travel channel the other day). He made battered and deep fried potatoes. I wasn't very impressed. But I did love the corn dogs and pickles! The girls loved the corn dogs and of course Lil E loved the pickles too!

To make the batter
1 12 oz can of beer
1 - 1 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp salt

We have used this batter for deep friend mushrooms too.

Now it's time to get back to our healthier choices. We have decided we have 1 full splurge like this a week. Not just meaning fried, but un healthy foods. I know one night we are having Salad with grilled chicken this week. And crock pot fajitas too. Other than that I am not sure what we will have yet. I'm not much of a menu planner. I'm sure you already know that though.

Hope you and yours had a wonderful Sunday!

Hugs and Blessings,

SCT ~ Taco Soup

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Taco Soup

1 lb lean ground beef

1 onion, chopped

2 cloves of garlic minced or pressed

1 envelope of dry ranch dressing mix

1 envelope of taco seasosning

2 cans of Ro-Tel, undrained

1 can of petite tomatoes, undrained

2 cans of Ranch Style beans, undrained

1 can of pinto beans, undrained

optional 1 can of black beans or kidney beans (omit one can of Ranch Style beans)

1 can of whole kernel corn, drained

3 cups of water

Brown the beef with the, onion, garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Drain any grease off the meat and pour into crock pot. Add the remaining ingredients and stir well. Cover and cook on low for 4 - 6 hours. Serve over tortilla chips and topped with grated cheese. Also may top with sour cream. We also enjoy this served with corn bread too, instead of the chips.

Soup while cooking......

A bowl all ready to be enjoyed!

Hugs and Blessings,