Garlic Chicken

This one was basically a modification of a recipe in our slow cooker Owner's Guide.

Ingredients:

• 2 sprigs fresh thyme
• 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
• 2 sprigs fresh sage
• 2 sprigs fres Italian parsley
• Toasted French bread slices
• 40 cloves garlic, unpeeled
• 1/4 tsp. black pepper
• 4 pound whole chicken
• 2 stalks celery cut into 3 inch pieces

Directions:

1. Place 1/2 of the spices (except garlic) in the chicken cavity. (I don't use all of those spices for mine)
2. Place celery in bottom of slow cooker
3. Put chicken on top of celery and add garlic around the chicken along with remaining spices.
4. Cook on high 4 hours or low for 8 hours.

To serve, put all on a platter, squeeze garlic out of skins onto French bread and spread with knife.

Cabbage

Cabbage, I have been told, is a great food for those who want to lose weight. In the past 2 weeks, we have had 3-4 cabbage based meals, and I have lost 4 pounds (This was in 2010 and at that point, I was 18.5 pounds down from my highest weight ever - and that was before the cancer treatments).

Ingredients:

• 1/2 lb chicken breakfast sausage
• 5 links of Archer Farms Garlic and Spinach Sausage with no casing
• 1/2 head of cabbage 

Directions:

1. Brown the sausages and cut into 1/2 inch slices
2. Boil the cabbage until it reaches the consistency you prefer
3. Mix and serve

 No seasoning is needed.

Tri-Tip Roast

When I asked the butcher for a tri-tip roast, he asked if I was from California. It seems the only people he met that even knew about a tri-tip were from California. Try it - it is very good.

Ingredients:

• 3-5 pound tri-tip roast
• 2 cups cream of mushroom soup
• 1 packet of dry onion soup mix
• fresh chopped garlic to taste
• 1 1/4 cups water

Directions:

1. Mix the soups and water in slow cooker.
2. Add the roast and coat it well with the soups/water.
3. Add as much garlic as you choose.
4. Cook for 8 hours on low or 4 hours on high.

The juices from the roast mix with the soups to make a delicious gravy.
No other seasoning is necessary (except for the garlic).

December

Tostados, refried beans, nachos
Minute Steaks and soup
Noodles ala Russe
Korean Short Ribs
Sausage casserole
Pork chops with muffin stuffing
Waikiki meatballs
Shepherd's pic
Ragu and spaghetti

November

Fish Steaks with pineapple
Muffin Melt
Stuffed Pork Chops
Sausage and Spanish Rice
Turkey Breast and sweet potatoes
Tostado Pizza
Italian Sausage and cheese
Franks and Corn casserole
Veal Steaks and spaghetti
Cabbage and pinto beans
Chuck Roast in Barbecue sauce

October

Beef Roast
Ham with cabbage pudding
Cincinnati Chili
Beef Steak Pie
No-Peep Chicken
Lobster Quiche
Lobster

September

Teriyaki Chuck Roast, carrot and water chestnuts
Swedish Meatballs, noodles, beets
Chili Spaghetti Bravissimo
Chili-corn on English Muffins
Nachos, Mexicali Hash, refried beans
Sausage Stuffed Spinach
Round Steak
Chinese Steamed Chicken with Green Onions
Curry of Chicken Breast Crepes and cauliflower
Burger Beef Tiara with mixed vegetables
Seafood Newburg