May 2009 Recipes (4)

Slow Cooker Beer Brisket

I'm always getting asked for "Crockpot" recipes. Here's one for a slow cooked brisket that I really like. Just made it on Saturday night for dinner with my son and it was a big hit. It's a little sweet and a little savory, but feel free to adjust the ingredients and make it your own.

SLOW COOKER BEER BRISKET

3 Lbs. beef brisket, trimmed of excess fat

2 onions, sliced

3 dried bay leaves

1 C Guiness Stout

1/2 C Heinz chili… Continue

Added by Kirk Leins on May 19, 2009 at 12:00am — 3 Comments

Warm Salad of Lentils and Walnuts

How to beat the May Gray (or June Gloom for that matter)? Cook up a warm salad of lentils, bacon and toasted walnuts with ingredients from your local Trader Joe’s. The fog is lifting already…

Click here for the recipe from my friend Jill on Conejo Valley Guide.

Added by Conejo Joe on May 14, 2009 at 1:14pm — 1 Comment

Spinach Cheese Pie

Ingredients

1 lb cottage cheese
1 8oz package frozen spinach, thawed & drained
3 eggs
4 tbl melted butter
¹⁄₂ cup shredded sharp cheese. Cheddar? Monterrey? Pont-l'Évêque? Sure.
3 tbl flour
¹⁄₈ tsp Garlic salt
1 unbaked pie crust. It is so easy to make a pie crust. Flour, cold cubed butter, salt, ice water makes a pie crust. There are just three more…

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Added by Brian Sullivan on May 13, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Super-easy, super quick, super-delicious Enchilada Chicken

A brief story...

So, the other day I picked up my son from school and headed for the supermarket to buy that night's groceries. The evening before I'd roasted a chicken and had a more than half of it leftover. Walking the aisles, I started picking up ingredients and put together this impromptu dish. It turned out to be extremely tasty. So good, in fact, that my 4-year old son, Rocco, had seconds. When he asked me what it was called I told him the first thing that came to mind...… Continue

Added by Kirk Leins on May 13, 2009 at 2:00pm — 12 Comments