Sunday, December 8, 2013

Snowy Day 2 ish week food prep

So, I decided I wanted to prep a bunch of meals at once.

The recipes, with a few variations of ingredients:
Beef Stew - Crockpot
Chili - Stovetop
Chicken Chile - Stovetop
Meatballs - Oven (Bison)
Blueberry Pork Breakfast Sausage - Oven
Chicken Thighs - Oven

The method:

I needed to go to the store for a few ingredients, so I prepped the Beef Stew in the Crockpot first, then set it on low.  It'll go for 10 ish hours.

Then:
Chopped onions and garlic for Chili and Chile and put in a bowl.
Chopped sweet potatoes for C&C, put in a separate bowl.
Chopped bell peppers, zucchini, and celery for Chili, put in a separate bowl.

Heat up olive oil in a pot, cook half of onions/garlic for Chili.
Add 1 lb. ground beef.
Add spices.

When meet is brown, heat up olive oil in another pot for Chile.
Add onions/garlic.  After 5 minutes, add sweet potatoes to Chile.
Keep checking in on Chili to make sure it's OK.
Add peppers/zucs/celery to Chili

Open cans of tomatoes for Chili, chicken for Chile, and green chiles. Drain.
Chop Chiles.
Add tomatoes and sweet potatoes to Chili.  Bring to a boil, then simmer for an hour.
Add chiles, cumin, salt, and pepper to Chile.

Add broth to the chile.  Bring to a boil, simmer for 20 min.  Add chicken, long enough to warm it up.

Clear off counter area.

Heat oven to 425 F.

In a large pan, lined with foil, place chicken thighs.  Salt and pepper both sides.  Drizzle with olive oil, add rosemary on top.  Put in oven.

Immediately make breakfast sausages and put in oven with chicken.

Make meatballs.  In 20-22 minutes, pull out the breakfast sausages and put meatballs in oven.
Cook for 20-25 minutes.

Pull both meatballs and chicken out of the oven.

Cool everything off, package, and freeze!

Scooter

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