Good chili is hard to come by...unless your a member of my family. Everyone in my family makes AWESOME chili! This is my Moms recipe. Throw it in the crock pot or in a big soup pot and let it simmer all day! Make sure that there's also fresh cornbread to go along with it! Don't worry I'll share some of my cornbread secrets too!

Moms Chili

1/2 pound Hamburger, cooked
1/2 pound sausage, cooked {the ground breakfast sausage, this is where you can add in some spice if you'd like with spicy sausage!...
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I found this recipe at $5 Dinners. It's seriously addicting...the site and the recipe! Who doesn't like good, cheap, meals?

The first time I made it I didn't know that my husband had made dinner plans with friends and it was already in the oven. I pulled it out and HAD TO taste it! I seriously couldn't stop. He tasted it and couldn't stop! We tried throwing our spoon in the sink to get rid of it, only to grab another one out of the drawer. It would even be good as a dip with tortilla chips! I...
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I found this recipe on allrecipes.com. I needed a big amount of mashed potatoes and saw this one...with over 700 reviews and 4 1/2 stars I was thinking they must be good! I made them for Christmas and they were beyond amazing! Enough to feed a crowd, easy and once they are cooked and in the slow cooker your job is done! No reheating, no getting dried out..just serve and enjoy!! They really don't even need gravy. And I LOVE gravy on my mashed potatoes!

Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes ...
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I wish I remembered where I found this recipe. All I can tell you is on the internet...somewhere! The "sauce" is what makes it different. Its a sweet and tangy combo that will grab a picky eaters attention! My son scarfed it down at 2, and still loves it almost 4 years later! My husband likes it too, I even like it and I have never been much of a meatloaf fan!

Meatloaf

Meatloaf

1 Pound Ground Beef
1 Egg
1/2 Cup Milk
1/2 Cup Bread Crumbs
Salt & Pepper, to taste
Worcestershire Sauce, to taste

Sauce

1 T...
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This will have you coming back for more...until its all gone! Biscuits and gravy is one of my favorite breakfast foods, and I'm not really a breakfast person! This recipe is easy, fast, filling & cheap, what more could you ask for? There's enough gravy that you can pile it on and there's still some for everybody else!

Sausage Biscuits & Gravy

1 Pound Breakfast Sausage {not links}
1/4 Cup All Purpose Flour
2 Cups Milk
Salt & Pepper, to taste
8 Prepared Biscuits

1. Crumble and cook sausage in a larg...
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If you haven't had Sweet Potato Casserole you haven't lived! It amazes me the foods that I grew up eating that my husband goes NUTS over! Well this is one of those recipes. He's seriously asked me to make this at random...more than once. He obviously isn't the cook because he thinks I just snap my fingers and this pretty little dish appears. It's time consuming, and can be messy, but its SOOOOOOOOOOO worth it! And if you're on a diet, just keep moving...or don't eat anything else with it!

Swe...
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This recipe is a favorite in our house! We had it more times in one summer than I probably want to count. It's delicious and not your typical fried fish. I'm sure any white fish would work well with this recipe, as long as it is a pretty firm fish. If you have people in your house that are anything like my husband, keep an eye on the cooked pieces because mine tend to disappear!

Honey Fried Halibut

1 Egg
1 Tablespoon Honey {I use more}
1 Cup Saltine Crackers, crushed (but not too crushed) {I've ...
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If you've ever been to a get together in the south you have seen Deviled Eggs. You know, the eggs cut in half, piled high with a yellow concoction & "red stuff" sprinkled on top that every man, woman and child can't stop eating!

I got this recipe from a cooking forum that I belonged to a long time ago. The lady was from Louisiana and this recipe is pretty close to the same thing my mom and grandma always made.

It took me awhile to figure out how to make perfectly cooked hard boiled eggs. I fou...
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Believe it or not I firmly believe that cooking IS easy!

I have always been in the kitchen in one way or another..making meatballs with my dad, grilled cheese & ramen noodles were my specialties at my grandmas. Eventually my interests grew and grew, now I like to try all kinds of new stuff!

What makes cooking easy?
1. If you can read, you can cook!
That's really the biggest part! Get a recipe {even hard ones} and read it...all of it...first! Then as you move to each step, read it again, and t...
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