Stockpile Recipe – Steak, Chicken and Seafood Meals

As I was thinking about what to write up for this week’s stockpile recipes, I mentally went through the meals we had last week. Most of them were from the stockpile. We had caramelized scallops and garlic shrimp one day, baked chicken breast with onions, green peppers and Yancy Fancy Buffalo wing cheese melted on top, a crockpot beef shoulder roast and steak umms. We had quite a few leftovers from some of these meals, but with the kid back for three weeks we did a lot of “sacrificing to the night gods” as my husband calls it. When it is just hubby and me we can make a meal and have leftovers for 3-4 days until the rest is food-savered and frozen. With the kid around we are lucky to have leftovers for lunch the next day.

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Seafood Meal

Super easy and all from my stockpile:

Scallops – heat frying pan on stove with a tablespoon of vegetable or olive oil until hot. Add completely defrosted scallops to pan. Cook on one side for 3-4 minutes. Turn over and cook the other side 3-4 minutes. These will be done. If you like well done scallops, cook an extra 2 minutes per side.

Shrimp – melt 3 tablespoons butter in frying pan on stove. Add completely defrosted, cooked shrimp to pan. Heat until warm, top with garlic powder. Cook time is under 5 minutes.

To this we added yellow rice and snow peas that we had frozen from last year’s csa

Total prep and cooking time for this meal was 25 minutes, and that was due to the rice!

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Chicken meal

Chicken w/peppers, onions and cheese – The chicken breasts had been in the freezer for almost a year and I knew they had to be prepared in such a way as to disguise any signs of age. It turns out it was not necessary, but you never know! The peppers and onions has been sauteed and frozen, again from last year’s csa. The Yancy Fancy was from a deal a few week’s ago at a small grocer. They had them on sale for $2.46 and I had found 50¢ coupons at my local P&C store making the 8 oz of pretty nice cheese $1.46.

To prepare I baked the chicken for 30 minutes in a 350º oven inside a sprayed 13″ x 9 ” pan. At 30 minutes I pulled out the chicken and smothered it with the peppers and onions. I put it back in the oven for an additional 15 minutes. Meanwhile, I grated 5 oz oz of the cheese. When the timer went off, I topped the chicken with the grated cheese and returned it to the oven for 5 additional minutes to allow the cheese to melt.

Accompanying this was yellow rice (I could serve rice every day in this house and no one would tire of it!), and steamfresh broccoli. I think peas would have been a better choice personally, but then I’d have been eating a bag of peas all by myself. Peas are not a favorite in this household. *sigh*

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Beef Meal

Hubby threw (he’d probably prefer I said gently placed and perfectly positioned ) into a crockpot a 3# beef shoulder roast Saturday evening. He cut up potatoes, cut up fresh carrots put them in the crockpot and added two cups of beef broth. He let cook overnight on warm. Sunday morning he added mushrooms, an 8oz container of Heluva Good French onion chip dip and turned the crockpot to low. The meal was ready at 12:30. The gravy was weak so he thickened with a little Wondra.

Once again, an excellent meal honey!

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