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It’s Tasty Tidbits Tuesday and the crock pot is OUT – Summer must be over!
I have to say this is REALLY a delicious meal and economical as well. I believe you can make this for less than $3.00 per serving.
1 pkg (about 1 1/2 lbs) chuck roast, cut into 1″ cubes
Flour to dust beef cubes
2 TBSP Olive Oil
1 pkg of soup vegetables (16 oz) cut up
Salt and Pepper
1 carton (can) of beef stock (32 oz)
1 can (14.5 oz) of Italian style diced tomatoes
1 pkg or jar (24 oz) of seasoned tomato sauce
1/2 cup of Ditalini pasta
1 can (15.5 oz) garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
1 pkg (6oz) baby spinach
Dust beef with flour. Heat oil on Medium-High in large skillet or braising pan till oil fairly smokes. Add beef and brown till all sides are paper bag brown.
Transfer beef to slow cooker, don’t discard pan drippings; Season with salt and pepper. Cook stirring, 3 minutes. Add to slow cooker.
Add stock, tomatoes and sauce to slow cooker. Cover, cook 4 1/2 – 6 hours on HIGH.
or 8-10 hours on LOW.
Add pasta and beans 30 minutes before end of cooking on HIGH, or 45 minutes if you are cooking on LOW.
Add spinach to slow cooker; Stir to blend well. Allow spinach to lightly wilt about 2 minutes.
Recipe courtesy of Wegman’s MENU magazine
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It is sooooo good. Thanks for stopping by again.
This sound really good! Pbenjay I have a cooking group on FB call “What Sha Cooking” http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=100981263293737
It is a group that everyone share their own photos with ingredients. Each month I have a theme game to inspire and motivate. If interested to join and share please read the “Discussions” tab for all the rules and information of the game.
For bloggers who are in the group I always let them know it is best to place photos in the photo album and put the direct blog page link stating directions and ingredients are here. Because only placing the blog links on the page a person can not be referred back to it and the wall is like a news feed…it will eventually be hidden. So when a photo is added in the album it is like a book mark/reference:)
I mentioned this to many bloggers who have joined and only one person have place her photo in the album with the blog link.
Hi Lora,
I most definitely will look into this group. When it gets closer to the holidays OR beginning now with Halloween, if you do a blog about the celebrations in Germany I will link your blog to my posts about the holidays.
lol, okay I wrote a blog about the holiday already: http://startingoveringermany.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/i-cant-wait/
Hey there! We are so glad to hear you enjoy this recipe 🙂 PERFECT for the colder Fall weather!
Wow, am I ever glad I credited the recipe. You see I had to leave out your brand items because I ONLY get to go to Wegman’s when I am at our shore house. there is none in NYC and I don’t know where all my readers are. I LOVE the store in Neptune and LOVE the recipe magazine. You will see more of them posted here because I make many of them.
We are glad to hear you love the Neptune store! We cant wait to read more 🙂
Ah, I remember this one.
I have a question for people who do not have a slow cooker. I am interested to make this one of these days in the cold winter month. For a person who is cooking on the stove what is the timing difference compare to a slow cooker?
That’s a good question Lora. I hope somebody answers here.