Chili Cornbread Bake Recipe

Chili Cornbread Bake 

One of my favorite dishes is this Chili Cornbread Bake. I first discovered it as a quick boxed meal, but I knew I needed to try my hand at making it homemade. Plus, the box just didn't make a large enough serving to feed our whole family. Cornbread has always been a huge favorite of mine and who doesn't like chili? 

This is such a simple, yet delicious dish to make. You probably already have at least half of the ingredients in your home. You can use either chili seasoning packets or if you make your own chili seasoning feel free to go completely from scratch with it. 

 *All ingredients are not pictured above.*

 

Brown and drain ground beef. Then add in chili seasoning, tomato sauce and diced tomatoes. 

 

Simmer for 5-10 minutes. Allowing the chili flavor to cook into the meat and the sauce will also thicken up a little bit. 

 

 Pour meat into a 13 x 9 baking dish.

Add a layer of shredded cheddar cheese to your liking. 

 

Evenly pour cornbread over cheese layer. 

Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Use a toothpick to check cornbread to make sure it is cooked through. 

 

Enjoy the delicious Chili Cornbread Bake! The bake itself is rather heavy on the stomach.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 can of tomato sauce
• 1 can of diced tomatoes
• 1 pk chili seasoning
• 1-2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
• 2 boxes cornbread mix

Directions:

1. Brown and drain ground beef. 

2. Stir in chili seasoning, tomato sauce and diced tomatoes. Let simmer 5-10 minutes or until sauce has thickened. 

3. Make cornbread according to package instructions.  

4. Preheat oven according to cornbread cooking directions. Jiffy cooks at 400 degrees. 

5. Pour chili meat into a 13 x 9 baking dish. Layer shredded cheese over meat. Then evenly pour cornbread mix over cheese layer. 

6. Bake according to cornbread instructions. I baked mine for about 30 minutes. 

 

   

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Pizza Pockets Recipe

Pizza Pockets 

Not sure how or why, but Dan decided to give this a try and had no clue how it would turn out. I also had no idea what he was making until he brought me a plate of them. I always do the cooking so I will admit, I was a tad nervous about what he was making.  However, these are definitely tasty and I'm glad he went out on a limb and gave them a shot. I will take more and better pics next time we make them. After Dan made the first batch we were still hungry (the can had fallen out of the fridge the day prior so we lost two biscuits) so we used our second can of biscuits and he didn't hear me when I said I wanted to take step by step pictures so this is all I was able to get for now. 

Ingredients:

1 can of your choice of biscuits (we used buttermilk and flaky, both tasted great)

1 jar of pizza sauce (or make your own)

1 cup of shredded pizza cheese

toppings or rather stuffings of choice - we used Canadian Bacon, pepperoni and black olives

Directions:

1. You want to cut your biscuits in half as if you were slicing open a roll to make a sandwich. Do not cut all the way through. I found that cutting with a butter knife was easier than a steak knife, but if you have a sharp, smooth blade that would work as well. I gently let it rest in my palm and gently gripped the top after cutting it and then slowly and carefully cut through. Lay open on baking sheet. 

2. Spoon about a teaspoon of pizza sauce on the bottom of each "pocket"/biscuit, you can put sauce on the top of the pocket as well if you'd like. I don't care for a lot of sauce so I just brushed a little bit on, less than a teaspoon.

3. Add your toppings of choice. Then add cheese to your liking. 

4. Fold top of pocket closed and press edges together to "seal" your stuffings inside. One of ours had a small hole, I didn't cut it with the top thick enough to stretch over the stuffings. 

You can add more sauce and cheese to the outside top of the pocket if you'd like.

5. Bake according to biscuit directions.  

 
Next time I am making these with the kids so I'm sure my updated pictures will be rather messy, but hopefully they will be better than whats above. These would be great to make on a busy night or weekend when you are hungry and have to feed the family, but you don't have time for a sit down dinner. Especially if you don't use a lot of sauce! I honestly had nothing fall or squirt out of mine. 

What is your favorite pizza topping. Do you like easy "on the go food"?

Harvestland All Natural Poulrty & Pork Products Review!

Disclosure: I received product coupons to purchase the below products in exchange for my honest review. All opinions and experiences are my own and may differ from those of your own. 

Harvestland Purely All Natural Poultry & Pork

At Harvestland they know that it is important to bring fresh, wholesome food to your table. You can feel good about the food you serve your family with Harvestland brand because they believe that all families deserve to eat well. They have an appreciation for healthy, wholesome foods as food lovers themselves. They have longed for more natural choices and a more authentic connection to our food. However, they also understood the challenges of managing a family budget. Out of that desire, the HARVESTLAND® brand was born in the rich farmland of western Kentucky. They joined with select farm families who shared their vision. Together they abandoned the common practices of administering antibiotics to livestock and adding animal by-products to feed. 



HARVESTLAND® has since grown to include no-antibiotics-ever chicken, turkey and pork. Their chicken is USDA-certified organic. While their operations are now in more states, they still work with select farm families who understand that respect for animals and the land goes hand-in-hand with healthy eating. 

          

No Antibiotics Ever

Fed All-Vegetarian Diet With No Animal By-Products

Raised Cage Free

 

Havestland All Natural Chicken Drumsticks
We received product coupons to purchase Harvestland products in order to conduct our honest review. We also received some recipe cards, a magnetic kitchen timer and copper measuring cups. We chose Harvestland All Natural Fresh Chicken Drumsticks.

Our local grocery store only carried or only had in stock a few Harvestland products. They had mainly these drumsticks, a couple packages of boneless skinless chicken breasts and a couple packages of ground chicken. Next time I am at the grocery store I will be checking the freezer section to see if I can find the grilled boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Those would be amazing for salads and/or quick chicken tacos. 

With the drumsticks I made my own version of Harvestland's Easy Chicken and Brown Rice recipe. Click here for their recipe. It really is a simple recipe, perfect if you are new to making homemade meals from scratch or if you just don't have the time to make something that uses 20 different pots and pans. This recipe is a ONE skillet/pan job! 

Here is my version of the Easy Chicken and White Rice.
All I had on hand was the drumsticks of course, sweet corn(would have been better with regular corn), white rice, olive oil, water, adobo and sazon. I seasoned my drumsticks with a mixture of sazon and adobo, making sure to rub the seasoning up and under the skin flaps. I heated up the olive oil while seasoning my drumsticks.  Then my pan was ready for them. 

Such a beautiful color and amazing smell while these were cooking! I was very pleased that the bone marrow did not squirt out of these like other types of drumsticks I've bought and made. It just grosses me out and my daughter as well. So that was a huge plus! The drumsticks cooked up very nicely and I did not have any trouble fully cooking them. I'm a freak about chicken not being even the slightest pink except right along the bone. I removed one to cut it open and check the center color and it was perfect. 

Since I didn't have green or red peppers, an onion or garlic, I skipped step 2 on Harvestland's recipe and jumped straight to the last task. For step 3, I realized that I didn't have any chicken broth!! Oh, no!! I had, cream of chicken, but no broth and I knew the cream of chicken would be too thick and give it a totally different taste and texture so I just opted to use water. After all we're doing step 3 in the same pan as step 1 so there is some flavor left in the pan from the chicken having been cooked. So, I added my water, sweet corn and rice. I made 2 cups of rice so I added 2 cups of water. Ezio loves rice so I figured I was better off making more rather then not having enough for him to mow down. After I had all of that in the pan and mixed up I sort of gently patted the rice to make a nice flat bed for the chicken and laid them on top. 

Looks good doesn't it? Oh, you should have smelled it!! You let it all cook for about 12-15 minutes on medium-low heat. I let mine cook for 12 minutes as I had already fully cooked the chicken through and my rice was actually 5 minute rice, not 10 minute rice. The sweet corn was frozen and 12 minutes was enough time for that to thaw and warm up as well. 

Now, time to enjoy! Like I said above, it would have been so much better had I had regular corn instead of the sweet corn. The chicken was amazing! 

Look how JUICY it is! I took my chicken off the bone and cut it up into my rice. Jedilynn didn't have any of the rice, she wasn't a fan of the sweet corn either, but she did eat 4 drumsticks! Last time I made none organic drumsticks she didn't even want one. I guess these looked more appealing and also had better flavor. I was very excited that she chose to eat these drumsticks, she's never been big on meat, poultry, etc. 

We were very pleased with these Harvestland All Natural Fresh Chicken Drumsticks. I would definitely buy them again! That's saying a lot seeing as how I've been "chicken" to try organic/all natural meats until now. I am very thankful for this opportunity from Harvestland to have done so. I honestly couldn't tell the difference by taste so much... like they say, "It tastes like Chicken!", but I could definitely tell in the way it cooked up, there were no gross trails of blood from veins or anything of that sort and that's what usually turns me off from eating drumsticks or any chicken on the bone. 

Thank you so much to HARVESTLAND!!!! 

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Super EASY Chicken, Broccoli & Rice Dinner Recipe!

Chicken, Broccoli & Rice Dish (NOT soup)

As a mom of three children, who of course are all very active and are continuously GO, GO, GO! I know how important it is to be able to make a healthy meal, but also having the need for something quick and that doesn't require an hour or so of time for preparing and cooking the meal. This is why I figured I'd share some of my quick recipes with you. We all have different tastes and you can substitute some ingredients to better suit your diet and/or taste buds. 

This is seriously so easy! If you haven't really cooked from scratch, but would like to start here is a great starting meal. You only need FOUR simple ingredients! 

1. Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
2. Broccoli (frozen or fresh will work, I used fresh)
3. Rice (I used white, but you could use brown or wild rice, etc)
4. 1 can of Cream of Chicken or Mushroom Soup OR Chicken Broth 
5. Seasoning of your choice for chicken. I used Adobo. 

For the ingredients I honestly just used what I had at home, I didn't really plan this meal out. I had boneless, skinless chicken breasts, fresh broccoli, white rice (minute rice!) and I would have preferred cream of chicken soup, but I only had chicken broth. I added the chicken broth for a little more flavor, but you could probably even leave it out. As for the seasoning, just season your chicken as you normally do. Sometimes I season my chicken with Lawry's Seasoning Salt. You could use an Italian Blend seasoning, Greek, whatever your taste buds water for. For this chicken I used Adobo and would have also used some Sazon if I had any. 

Lets Get Cooking! 

Boil the water for your rice, BUT! Substitute 1/2 cup of water with 1/2 cup of cream of chicken/mushroom OR chicken broth. While waiting for it to boil, prepare your broccoli (see below). Then cook your rice as directed. 

Dice up your broccoli! I just cut the branches or "baby trees" off of the stalk, the bigger baby trees I cut in half. Boil your broccoli in water with 1-2 tbsp of butter (depending on amount of broccoli), you may also salt the water. Cover the broccoli as it boils to help steam it and soften it quicker. If you have a steamer then use that, I don't have one. 

Grill your chicken! All I do is "grill" the chicken on my stove in my grill pan (ridged bottom, pretty neat pan). I don't grill my chicken in oil or butter. I just place it in the pan, season it, let it cook, flip and season again then flip back and forth a few times till cooked through. You can cook your chicken in oil or butter if you wish. Once your chicken is cooked through, remove it from the pan. While your pan is still hot CAREFULLY poor the rest of your chicken broth in the pan and scrape the bottom of the pan. Set aside. 

Once everything is cooked, "assemble" your meal! 

Spoon your rice onto/into your dish, then lay a piece of chicken on top of the rice. Spoon the chicken broth from the pan on top of the chicken and rice. Then add some broccoli on top. 

Enjoy! 

Honestly, I think this meal only took about 15 mins. The broccoli took the longest to cook at about 15 minutes to get it nice and soft, if you have a steamer or buy frozen broccoli in a steamer bag it'll only take about 5-7 minutes! The rice only took 5 minutes as I used Minute Rice and the chicken takes roughly 5 minutes. So if you follow the steps above and have everything going at about the same time it shouldn't take long at all. 

My 8 year old and I loved it! My 3 year old only ate the rice and my 4 year old is the picky eater/texture aversion so he always has his own "meal".

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