Weeknight Meals

[WeezyBengal]

(01-27-2016, 02:28 PM)fredtoast Wrote: By "weeknight" I guess you mean quick and easy with no rice or long baking times.  In that case I would recommend breakfast for an evening meal once and a while.  

I also suggest that you use a slow cooker.  It takes just a little prep time in the morning, but you can come home to beans, soup, or a tender stewed roast.

I don't use mine much because I am usually just cooking for one.  But when I had a family I would use it on a regular basis.  I was raised on country cooking where a meal might consist of just pinto beans, cornbread, and fried potatoes.  My parents always had a freezer full of beef, but they still liked old fashioned meals that did not include meat.  especially in the summer when they had fresh garden vegetables.  They were not doing it to be vegetarians.  That was just the food they were raised on.  My mom made a crock pot full of pintos probably once a week.

She has made a couple of slow cooker meals and they were pretty good. Need to look more into the slow cooker stuff for sure.