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Easy Slow Cooker Beans

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Easy Slow Cooker Beans how to cook dried beans in your slow cooker the best recipe.  Quick to prep and great taste and must try dry bean slow cooker recipe.  So my latest obsession in cooking has been beans.  I have been cooking dried beans and enjoying them all week aas sides, on salads or as a main course.  I cook them on Monday,  will I start soaking the night before.  They are super simple and very good for you.  Making them from scratch you avoid the sodium found in caned beans.

Easy Slow Cooker Beans

  • 1 chopped onion 1 bay leaf
  • 1 lb of dried beans
  • 1 tbls of oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon of cumin
  • 1 tbls of salt, 1/4 of pepper
  • 1 tbls of hot sauce
  • 2 garlic cloves smashed
  • 1 1/2 cups of vegetable stock,
  • optional 3-4 slices of bacon chopped
  1. The night before place beans in a large bowl pick out any bad beans , cover with water  an allow to sit over night
  2. In the morning rinse beans with water and place in a cover pot on the stove, cover with clean water- bring to a boil and cook for 15 minutes. drain and rinse with cool water.  This cooks off any bacteria or toxins
  3. in a slow cooker place 1 chopped onion 1 bay leaf, beans, 1 tbls of oil, 1/4 teaspoon of cumin, 1 tbls of salt, 1/4 of pepper, 1 tbls of hot sauce, 2 garlic cloves smashed,  beans, 1 1/2 cups of vegetable stock, (optional 3-4 slices of bacon chopped)
  4. Cooks for 8 hours on low easy bean recipe

Here is a printable version of Easy Slow Cooker Beans

This weeks meal planning:

  • Monday Ribs and potatoes
  • Tuesday Chicken noodle soup (snow)
  • Wednesday is ash Wednesday so homemade bread in a bag–  I make 9 loaves for church dinner and a pot my seafood chowder for the church super
  • Thursday; Pork chops, and sour kraut
  • Friday Dinner for 3 my daughter choice

Have a great week an have fun making beans

I am linking up to Organizing Junkies Menu Plan Monday

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Cooking

How to cook the Perfect Ribeye steak

How to cook the steak.  So My husband loves steak.. We don’t eat it much for health reasons and cost.  So this week I splurged,  and the steaks were 40% off at the store.   Mushroom Rub makes these steaks amazing.   So I am sharing it with you,  caramelized,  dark, crusty meat,  with the tender buttery inside  the perfect steak at home. Lets say I am still dreaming about it my rib eye.    This recipe less costly version and adapted from Mario Batalis Ribeye how to cook a steak

In the past I have found steaks to be intimidating to purchase.  To spend so much money and what if I screw it up.  also how do I know it is a good tender cut.   I like a ribeye because they have great marbling (the white fat specks in the meat)  the more marbling you have the tender the cut,  that does not dry out,  the flat melts into the meat.   I love the bone in because dogs like it.steak

The secret is Mushroom Rubbed Steak  : I easily found shiitake Mushrooms at my local Asian market but you can find them at the grocery store.  They were a $2.00 for a bag I only used 1/2 a bag aout 6-7 mushrooms are enough for this recipe.  (grind in a coffee mill or in a Nutribullet like I did) Do break into into smaller pieces when gindingrib_eye_001 (103 of 6)rib_eye_001 (104 of 6)

Ingredients for the perfect Steak

Mushroom Rubbed Steak

  • 3- 1 1/2- 2  pound thick steaks (I like the bone in)
  • 1/4 cup of red cooking wine

RUB:

  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup  dried ground  Shiitake mushrooms..(dried 7 mushrooms)
  • 1 teaspoon cumin

How to cook a Rib Eye Steak

  1. The night before generously salt the steaks leave uncovered in the refrigeratorSteak with dry rub
  2. 1 hour before cooking remove from the cold plate and put rub on steak both sides and push it in to steakrib_eye_001 (105 of 6),
  3. Allow the steaks to come to room temp w/ rub before placing on grill
  4. Turn on Grill on high
  5. Before placing steaks on the grill splash on Red wine vinegar on up side
  6. Place on grill
  7. 3 min high – 4 min med  each side (Thick steaks close the grill.) (7 min each side for med rare)
  8.  Allow the steaks to rest 15 min before eating  (rest will allow the steak to relax and take the juice back in it also will allow the meat to cook slower as it cools down. how to cook a steak

Here is a printable version of Mushroom rubbed steak How to cook steak

I loved cooking these steaks it was better eating them.  The Rib eye is yummy flavorful,  buttery texture, and tender.   I hope you will try this recipe and surprise your self on how amazing it is.

Enjoy your family will love it!

 

Cooking, Giveaways

How to get your husband to make dinner – Hillshire Farm Giveaway

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cheesy rice and hillshire farms sausageHow to get your husband to make dinner with Hillshire Farms Sausage

I ask my husband to make dinner, because I was going out to my Moms group.  Now my husband grew up in a casserole family,  which is means when he does cook most of his meals are made in one pot / dish.   He was making dinner for himself and 2 kids.

So he looks in the freezer and finds the 2 packages Hillshire Farms Sausages.  Note: I am suppose to create a recipe with them, write a blog post and then do a giveaway.  At the time I was still working  on the post in my head.

Well he was so helpful, he took the Hillshire farms and made dinner.. (there goes my blog post..)  When I called to check he said he was using both packages..

I said  “honey.. there for a tasty tues blog post”..

He said “Too late.. they are defrosted and I am using them”

He said “I will take pictures for your post”…(he is not me with a camera.. But I love him because he tried.. he could have cleaned of the stove before the pictures)

sausage in a package

Husbands Cheese Rice and Sausage Dinner

Serves 8 people : He was making dinner for himself and 2 kids.

He wanted to add a can of tomatoes but worried the kids would not eaten it. (My advice ADD the Tomatoes or serve with a tomatoes) or add any vegetable broccoli would have been yummy.. What is it with men and veggies or lack their of?

I say to myself   ” Just be happy he is cooking, and don’t criticize”

His directions

  1. Make rice as directed- 2 cups of rice with 4 cups of  water-  cook thoroughly
  2. Mix rice,  (veggies if you choose) and soup in large glass pan
  3. cook 15 minutes
  4. Lay Hillshire Farm Sausage on top
  5. cook 10 minutes  sprinkle with cheese

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I was very yummy! I has some when I returned home and we had left overs for the next few days.   The sausage was amazing,  I would love to use it in a Potato and Sausage soup.. (now I think of a recipe- me slapping head)

The Hillshire Farm sausage  has No artificial Color, Flavor or by products.

Hillshire Farm Giveaway

So want your man to cook?   Have some Hillshire Farm on hand so your hubby can make dinner.  Here is your chance to win 3 coupons for package of Hillshire farm Gourmet sausage. (that is 3 meats or 1 1/2 depending who is cooking. (est. value $18 ) Giveaway ends : Oct 9th Midnight est.

  1. Simple entry:   Leave a comment below telling me What you want to be doing so your husband can cook dinner?
  2. Tweet if you want let me know below:  How to get your husband to cook and win @HillshireFarms sausage form @Babypop https://superexhausted.com/?p=3345
  3. Like My FB Page Superexhausted– let me know below you did.

Disclosure:  I did receive coupons for this blog post 2 to keep and 3 to giveaway.