August 18, 2011

Fast and Easy One-Dish Meals

This is a re-post...sort of.   Since we're having a new baby soon and school is starting back up I thought I would share some of our favorite go-to quick dishes.  And since fall is coming soon these are just the ticket for a lovely fall meal.  Enjoy!

A lot of my meals can be made into one dish meals.  I'll list the link with the name so just click on the name of the dish to take you to the recipe.  I'll also share any ideas that I have to go with those recipes.

Simple Roast  To go along with this you can put some red potatoes and green beans in the crock pot with it.


Creamy Chicken and Stuffing  Add some raw green beans to the crock pot in with the chicken.  Make some of these (Smashed Potatoes) to go along with it.  Use this tip for the potatoes.

Cheesy Hashbrown Potatoes  Like it says in the post, add chopped up ham or chicken to make it a main dish.  Steam some veggies and you have a meal!


Easy Cheesy Bean Dip  Stir in some ground beef and serve with Mexican rice, beans, sour cream and salsa (use some good veggie filled salsa!) and you have a meal!

Chicken Pot Pie is great all by itself!  It takes a bit of work, but if you make a few at one time, eat one and freeze the rest you are all set for a few more meals!

Easy Peasy Chops This dish is a another one where you can do the smashed potatoes (see above) and steam some veggies and you're all set.


Creamy Chicken and Noodle Casserole  Add some cooked mixed veggies to this and you have a one meal dish!  Serve with some yummy rolls!

Chicken Burritoes You can make a few batches of these, bake them and then freeze the leftovers for another meal!  Serve with rice, beans, salsa and sour cream.

Rigatoni Casserole This dish has meat, veggies (assuming you use a good sauce), carbs (*smile*)...the total package!  Pop some garlic bread in the oven and you're all set!

Chili Serve with crackers and corn bread!

Chicken Tetrazzini Again, like the chicken and noodles...add veggies!  Serve with bread!

Duggar's Taco Soup

Easy Beef and Noodles  Serve with rolls!

Pioneer Beef Stew  Serve with rolls!  (Do you see a bread trend here? LOL!)

I hope those help!  I'm searching for some more great crock-pot one dish meals for our family since we have a few more busy days this fall.  I have a Gooseberry Patch cookbook that I'm perusing now!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here's a crock pot dish you might like. Jenny Eldred

Garden Chicken Dinner
1 c. baby carrots
1 sm. onion chopped
½ c. celery chopped
2 c. cut green beans
4 bs chicken breasts
4 sm. red potatoes quartered
2 c. hot water
2 chicken bouillon cubes
Thyme
Basil
Pepper

Combing everything in a crock pot and cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4.

sweetybird09 said...

Hi I found your blog from Homestead Revivals blog...I was wanting to talk about reducing the dryer usage, and what I do is I have a folding laundry dryer, I use that in addition to my outside line, I hang my husbands jeans out and in the early evening just before the sun goes down I just throw them in the dryer for like 10 mins and they soften up, just like you said about the towels, I love hanging out clothes.

PS thanks for these great casserole recipes

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Carmen at Old House Homestead said...

Thanks Jenny for the recipe! : )

Sweetybird...love your tip! Kind of the reverse of what I do, but I think it would work better your way! I'll have to give it a try! Thanks and welcome! : )

Southern Dime said...

Thanks for the recipes! We also have a new baby coming soon.. These will come in handy!

Carmen at Old House Homestead said...

You're welcome! Congratulations to you and your family!

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