Amilee's Adventures in Cooking

I just moved out of my parent's house recently and now I have to cook for myself. So, I'm making recipes and learning how to cook as I go.

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BBQ Chicken

I’ve been busy at work lately. Feeling super lazy. Haven’t really been cooking until tonight.

Tonight I made Crock Pot BBQ Chicken!

Ingredients: 5 Chicken Legs (with or without skin) 1 Bottle of Sweet Baby Rays BBQ Sauce Original 1/2 Bottle Texas Pete 2 tablespoons Grape Jelly 4 tablespoons Ketchup pinch of salt and pepper

This recipe is really easy to make. I would say before starting make sure that your chicken is defrosted. Probably makes life easier.

TO cook, add in your chicken legs into the crock pot. I left them skin on cause I like it but you can cut it off if you prefer. All you have to do is add the entire bottle of bbq sauce, add 1/2 bottle of texas pete (or more if you prefer more heat), 2 tablespoons of grape jelly, 4 tablespoons of ketchup. and a pinch of salt and pepper.

I cooked it for two hours on high in the crock pot but I’m sure you could do 4-5 on low. Overall, this chicken turned out very tender and delicious. Maybe next time I’ll add a tad more texas pete just because once it cooked, the spice cooked down a little more than I thought it would. Still, so delicious and I have leftovers for lunch tomorrow!

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Crock Pot BBQ Cocktail Sausages

New recipe! Now, these cocktail sausages would have been a hit with my family today had they not spilled all over my car floorboard this morning as I was going to drop them off with my mom before I went to work. I’m glad I tasted one when I cooked them. So, I didn’t get a picture but I’m sure you know what they look like. (If not, google it)

Ingredients: 1 28oz package of cocktail sausages 1 bottle of Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce 4 tablespoons of grape jelly 4 tablespoons of ketchup 1 pinch of salt 1 pinch of pepper

First dump the entire bottle of bbq sauce into the crock pot and add the four tablespoons of grape jelly and add four tablespoons of ketchup. Throw a pinch of salt and a pinch of pepper into the crock pot as well. Stir together and add in the cocktail sausages. Cook on high for 2 ½ hours or on low for about 5- 6 hours.

Before they became inedible laying all over my car floorboard, I did get a lick of the sauce and snagged a sausage. I really enjoyed the flavor it was bbq with a little bit of a kick.

They would have been at hit at my aunt’s house tonight but, alas, a tragedy.

I hope if you make some, you get to eat them!!

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Amilee’s Crock Pot Chili

I created this recipe after my mom and I went to a yard sale on Saturday down the street from the house I’m renting and acquired a crock pot for two dollars! YES! TWO DOLLARS. And it’s a really nice crock pot. I’m surprised they let it go so cheap.

I decided, “Hey, I’m going to use this crock pot,” and I thought chili would be an easy start to my cooking adventures. I’m not big on cooking but now that I’m living alone and I have to cook for myself most of the time, I should learn, right? I went to the store and tried to decide what I needed for my chili and after about thirty minutes just looking around the store, this is what I came up with for Amilee’s First Crock Pot Chili. (Cute recipe name right?)

Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef or ground turkey

1 can reduced sodium black beans

1 can chick peas

1 can corn

1 can diced tomatoes with green chilis

2 8oz cans of tomato sauce

½ chopped onion

1 packet McCormicks chili season mix

1 bag tortilla chips

First thing you’ll need to do once you’re ready to make this chili is to brown the ground beef or ground turkey. You really only need to cook the meat until it’s a little bit brown and you can see no pink. It will cook the rest of the way in the crock pot. Once the meat is cooked, drain the grease and add it right into the bottom of the crock pot. Drain and wash your chick peas to get any extra sodium juice out and add them to the crock pot. Add your can of black beans, corn, diced tomatoes with green chilis, tomato sauce, and chopped onion. Pour in the packet of McCormick’s chili season mix right on top. Stir the entire mixture together and set your crock pot on low setting. Cook for 6 to 8 hours. I like to stir it every so often mostly because I want to check out how it smells (and hope it tastes as good as it smells! Usually, I can’t help but sneak a taste.)

Serves 4 people or something similar.

I eat my chili with tortilla chips. You can place your tortilla chips on the plate and add your chili right to the top of them or crush them up and mix right into your chili.

Either way you eat it, it’s delicious! I couldn’t stop dipping my chips in the chili before it was completely done. It’s really good.

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Gonna work on this a little bit later so I can change things I need to change and correct so I will be able to give you the best blog I can! Until then... Eat some chili!

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My chili I made today. I can't wait to have it for lunch tomorrow.