Show us your life- Dinner Recipes!

This week on Kelly's Show Us How You Live, she is featuring favorite dinner recipes. You know I love sharing and getting new recipe ideas, so i have to join in! Mr.Pate's absolute favorite dinner here is chicken cordon bleu, but since I dont have it typed into the computer yet you wont be getting that one. So our second favorite recipe is Brown Gravy Pork Chops. These are the most tender, juicy, yummy things ever. I used to not even like pork chops at all, but these things changed my mind! Enjoy or as Julia would say Bon Appetit (i finished the book last night! yay! a post on that later)!

Brown Gravy Pork Chops

3 packets of Brown Gravy mix

4 thick pork chops (w/ or w/o bone)

1. Make the gravy according to directions on packet then pour into crock pot

2. Brown the pork chops in a skillet, until they are no longer pink. (really it is like 'whitening' the pork chops)

3. Place pork chops into the gravy

4. Cook on low 8 hours (or high for 6) then enjoy!

This post is also shared with Crock Pot Wednesdays at Dining with Debbie!

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Crock Pot Wednesdays- Asian Tomato Beef

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This week I am using my crock pot for SnoWhite's Chicken Parm , but since thats not my recipe I thought I would share a favorite that my brother-in-law Dustin is making us tonight! It is from a Campbell's Cookbook (or several I am sure, they repeat alot!), which if you are not the most skilled chef is a great cookbook for you. It is yummy!!!

Asian Tomato Beef

2 cans (10 3/4 oz each) Campbell's Condensed Tomato Soup

1/3 cup soy sauce

1/3 cup vinegar

1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon pepper

1 (3 or 3 1/2 lb) boneless beef round steak, 3/4 inch thick, cut into strips

6 cups broccoli flowerets

8 cups hot cooked rice

1. In slow cooker mix soup, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic powder, pepper and beef. Cover and cook on low 7 to 8 hours or until beef is done.

2. Stir. Arrange broccoli over beef. Cover and cook on high 15 minutes more, or until tender-crisp. Serve over rice.

Serves 8.

Head over to Dining w/Debbie to see what others are cooking in their crock pots. I love me a crock pot!

Crock Pot Wednesdays!

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For this week's Crockpot Wednesday at Dining w/ Debbie, I am sharing one of my favorite crock pot recipes- Chicken and Dumplings! It is super easy and taste great.

4 or 5 Chicken Breasts

2 cans Cream of Chicken 98% Fat Free

1 cup water

1 cup celery

1 cup carrots

pinch of nutmeg

1 or 2 containers refrigerated biscuits

1. Place the chicken in the crockpot.

2. Pour celery and carrots over chicken.

3. Combine the soup, water and nutmeg. Pour over chicken and veggies.

4. Cook on low for 6-8 hours.

5. 30 minutes before done, cut biscuits into quarters and put into crock pot. Stir a few times during the 30 minutes.

6. Serve over mashed potatoes, rice or noodles. Yummy!

Its Mr.Pate's favorite.