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One Skillet Sausage and Rice

- Meaghan Penrod

One Skillet Sausage and Rice

Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • One package chicken sausage sliced (Andouille is best).  I got mine from Aldi!
  • 2 tbs tomato paste
  • 2 cups brown or white rice
  • 1 carton chicken broth or stock
  • 1/2 cup frozen peas
  • 1/2 cup frozen mixed peppers (fresh are fine too!)
  • 1 onion (diced)
  • 1/3 cup frozen corn
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tbs Old Bay seasoning
  • 1 tsp tumeric (optional: for color)
  • 1 tsp salt (more to taste)
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • Oil for skillet (any oil works!)

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Cast Iron Skillet Roasted Chicken and Potatoes

- Meaghan Penrod

So last week when I went to the store, they had whole chickens buy one get TWO free! I decided not to wonder “why on earth are they tryin’ to get rid of these birds so fast…?” and instead thought “what a fantastic deal! I’ll take three!” Save that money, ya know.

So usually when I do this, I make the whole chicken in the crock-pot.  It’s easy and I can just do it in the morning and come home to a tender, fully cooked chicken! However, on the day that I actually wanted to make the chicken, morning Meaghan did not remember to do the crock-pot part at all…mornings are hard.  But I got home relatively early that day, so I decided to just try my hand at roasting it in the oven!  I figured my cast iron would work perfectly for this…which then made me realize that I could probably also just cook potatoes in there too…YAS.

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