Instant Pot Mississippi Meatballs

 

Mississippi Meatballs

Ingredients:

- 1 32oz bag frozen meatballs

- 1 packet au jus

- 1 small jar pepperoncini

- 1 packet ranch seasoning or 2-3 tbs of ranch seasoning

- 1 cup beef broth

- 1/2 stick butter, cut into pats

Combine everything in Instant Pot and cook for 30 minutes.

This was okay. Lincoln is 6 weeks old so I needed an easy throw together meal. My family didn't really like it though. It did taste a bit too processed and salty, so I probably wouldn't make it again. I served it with a bagged salad kit and over egg noodles.

Quesaritos

 

Quesaritos

This was just a random clean out the pantry meal. I was able to cook dinner again (yay!) Lincoln was cooperating lol. He likes to be held non stop, and mainly by me. But we've been having Craig give him a formula bottle (he's breastfed) in the evenings so I can do stuff....and it's really working out great. It takes some of the pressure off me and it helps them bond.

This quesarito was just whatever we had already lol. I spread a tortilla with a layer of canned fat free baked beans, a packet of Taco Bell hot sauce, ground beef that I cooked with taco seasoning, chopped onions, sour cream and cheese. Then I grilled it up in a pan and that's it. Super yummy and quick. 

For my quesarito I used a low carb tortilla and fat free cheese. 

I grilled the family's quesarito's with butter, but since mine was lower calorie I used this low calorie butter. It was crazy, instead of melting on the skillet it just evaporated lol. 

Baby tax!

Garlic Parm Wings with Mac & Cheese and Green Beans

 

Garlic Parm Wings with Mac & Cheese and Green Beans

This is the first meal I've cooked since Lincoln was born! He's 5 weeks now. Before tonight we had dinners I had prepped while I was pregnant, and some frozen foods. This was, easy fast and yummy.

I just air fried the wings, added pepper and a smidge of cayenne to the mac & cheese, and the green beans were frozen that I mixed with butter/garlic/salt/pepper.

Here's my little guy, he was born on August 30th.

The MM Sandwich, PW Style

 

The MM Sandwich, PW Style 

I make a sausage/bell pepper/onion hoagie sandwich a lot, and this reminded me of it....but better! I really liked it but next time I'll cut the steak into bite sized pieces instead of strips. I also slightly overcooked the steak but I wanted to make sure there was no pink since I wasn't sure if cubed steak was more related to ground beef or...steak. Ever since our food poisoning incident from medium Red Robin burgers, we make sure ground beef has zero pink.

 Everyone loved this! Besides halving the recipe, the only thing I did differently was we added "cowboy butter" seasoning to the meat. Served with frozen waffle fries. I made half the amount because for 2lbs of cubed steak it was $20, which was insane. But halving the recipe was perfect, it made enough for dinner plus at least 1 night of leftovers, maybe even 2.

Click here for the MM Sandwich, PW Style recipe from Pioneer Woman

Chicken Tikka Masala with Indian Spiced Masala Zucchini

 

Chicken Tikka Masala with Indian Spiced Masala Zucchini

Don't mind the chip in the plate.....it gives it character. 

I made the Chicken Tikka Masala almost exactly as written. The only difference is that I didn't measure how much chicken thighs I used, I just grabbed a few....and I used jarlic instead of cloves and refrigerated squeeze ginger instead of chopping fresh. Oh and I had to use red onion because I was shockingly out of white/yellow.  It's delicious of course because yum!

The Indian Spiced Masala Zucchini I made because we still have so many tomatoes & zucchini from the garden, so I headed to Pinterest to look up "Indian spiced zucchini". I found this recipe that I had all the ingredients for! Well almost, instead of the cumin seeds I just used dried cumin. I also didn't measure the veggies lol. I used 2 tomatoes, half a red onion because I was out of white, and probably 3 cups of zucchini. It was really good too!

I love these flavors and want to make them more often, but Craig's not the hugest fan.....he likes it but not that often. Some homemade naan would of been good to sop up extra sauce..... if I had the energy! I'm due any day and I'm so excited/nervous :) 

Click here for the Easy Chicken Tikka Masala recipe by Damn Delicious

Click here for the Indian Spiced Masala recipe by Tarladalal

Ground Turkey Pita Pockets

 

Ground Turkey Pita Pockets

I had the best intentions for making this as the recipe said to lol. I had planned on just buying a tzatziki sauce because I'm due any day now and even cooking takes it out from me. I bought a pound of ground turkey, and I also had a 1/2 pound of ground beef leftover from making beef stroganoff, so I added that to the ground turkey. Which meant I added more spices too. I normally am not a fan of feta but it really does work with these flavors.

The first issue I had with this dinner is that I could not get the pita's into pockets, probably because I just bought the Walmart brand and they are too thin. So I thought oh well we'll have pita tacos, that's fine. The second issue is when I went to make the pita pockets.....I realized I forgot to order the tzatziki sauce! I was so bummed because I love tzatziki sauce. So instead I spread the pitas with a layer of hummus and a thin layer of garden veggie cream cheese. I also put some ranch on my sons pita pocket. Overall they still were delicious and really fresh tasting, and I'd like to make it again but actual pocket style with tzatziki sauce. Oh yeah and the cucumbers & tomatoes were from Craig's garden!

Click here for the Greek Pita Recipe from Jar of Lemons

Beef Stroganoff & Air Fried Ranch Zucchini

 

Beef Stroganoff & Air Fried Ranch Zucchini

I've made this recipe a million times. It's easy, good and cheap so that's great lol. The zucchini was from the garden that I tossed in EVOO, garlic/pepper/ranch seasoning and air fried at 400 for like 6 minutes. 

Click here for the Beef Stroganoff recipe from BudgetBytes