Cooked Carrots

Peel and chop carrots into 1" pieces
Place them in a glass pan, in a single layer
cover with chicken broth
add rosemary and thyme to taste
Bake at 400 for 1 - 1.5 hours

Crockpot Potatoes

These are only 3 WW points per serving... not bad!

Peel and slice about 1lb potatoes
put in the crockpot with 2 chopped pieces of garlic
1/4 cup water
2 tbsp. butter
lots of Johnny's seasoning salt

Put on low for 4 hours

delish!

Kale Sausage Bean soup

This is an amazing soup:
In a crock pot chop up turkey sausage (I use Jenni-o hot)
Put in the bottom of the crock pot
Add 1 chopped medium onion
2-3 chopped carrots
8 cups water
2 tbsp. chicken bouillon
1 drained can of navy beans
4-6 cups chopped kale
salt and pepper

Let cook on low for about 4 hours and stir. Then cook on low for a few more hours. so good, so good for you!

Cucumber Salad

So refreshing - especially with fresh garden cucumbers and tomatoes!

2-3 chopped cucumbers
2 chopped tomatoes
1/4 fine diced red onion
1-2 oz feta
Feta Dill Lighthouse dressing (you can usually find it under the OPA yogurt dressing)

Cowboy Caviar

This is one of the MOST requested things I bring to a BBQ....

Cowboy Caviar
1 can great northern beans - drained
1 can garbonzo beans - drained
1 can corn - drained
4-5 chopped tomatoes
1/2 Walla walla sweet onion
1-2 jalepeno - chopped
juice of one lime
salt
2-3 chopped avocado
1/2 bunch cilantro chopped

Mix in a large bowl and chill for a few hours before serving.

Stew!

Matt and I have had many conversations about stew. We discuss if it needs more liquid, less potato, baby carrots vs regular potato, etc. These are the things that consume our table.

I think we are there... this is a mix of randomness and taste:
2 lbs. Stew meat
2 cups water
Worcestershire
Clove Garlic
Bay Leaf
1 Onion
Salt
1 Tsp Sugar
Pepper
Carrots (the big ones)
Potato
1 can diced Tomato
1 Beef Bouillon Cube
Basil
Italian Seasoning

Brown meat and onion. Add Water, worcestershire, Garlic, Bay Leaf, Salt, Sugar, Pepper, Bouillon, Italian seasoning. Simmer for 2 hours. Add can of tomato, Potato, Carrot, Basil. Cook on medium heat  for 1 hour.

Taa Daa!

Easy Cheesy!

When you have friends with kiddos coming over for dinner and you want to wow them with "Mac and Cheese for the kids" - toss this together.  It is FABULOUS - and easy:

In a casserole dish mix:
2 cups uncooked noodles
2 cups chopped cheese of your choice
2 cups milk
1 can cream of mushroom soup
2 tbs onion soup mix/any spice mix you like

Cook for 1 hour at 350 - stir at 30 minutes.

DONE!