Category: Lunchbox
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Crockpot / Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Recipe
My youngest loves pulled pork sandwiches and asked that I add them to the menu this week. The pork shoulder was not on sale, but even so, it’s still very cheap per serving. I’ve got a couple of different recipes for pulled pork. This had a less tomato-ey base than I’d hoped for so I’d…
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Tuna Melts on Really Good English Muffins
Bad picture but good tuna melts! A good friend sent me some English Muffins from Wolferman’s for Christmas. We started working together, whoa, something like 23 years ago I think and got along great. Then I quit work for a while to stay home with my kids and we drifted apart but still stayed in…
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Roasted Potatoes & Brussels Sprouts Recipe
Okay, I really had a plan for using my freezer stash but then on the way home from an after-school thing tonight, my youngest reminded me we needed to swing by the grocery store for a key item. Once we were there she started riffing on various dinners we might have tonight. First it was…
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Crispy Chicken Chimichangas
These are adapted from Family Feasts for $75 a Week: A Penny-wise Mom Shares Her Recipe for Cutting Hundreds from Your Monthly Food Bill. She had a recipe for Baked Chicken Enchiladas that looked great and started with raw chicken thighs and a recipe for Baked Chicken Chimichangas that used cooked chicken. I had some…
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Ham, Cheese and Apple Panini Recipe
I made some macaroni and cheese tonight for dinner but felt like we needed a bit more as well, plus I was bringing dinner over to my broken-leg neighbor. I decided on a small panini and brought him some vegetable soup from last night as well. I had some ham and cheddar cheese as the…