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In this video, we’re going to show you three cheap and easy dinner recipes that will save you money and make your family happy.
I have a rump roast, planning on making it in a few minutes, going to use this gravy mix with it!!
I make my beef and gravy very similar. I use my chuck roast, 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup and 1 can of French onion soup. I season just with black pepper and garlic powder. The soups have plenty of salt and the canned French onion soup has beef broth in it. I use the can of French onion because the packets of dry onion soup has some sort of spice in it that I do not like. I cannot figure out what it is but have tried several brands and whatever it is they have all had it in it. The gravy is delicious. I save the leftover gravy and any beef if there is any. I add a can of diced tomatoes, a diced onion, some celery and a couple potatoes if I have any and a bag of frozen mixed vegetables. I then add a qt of water with some better than bullion. This turns into a huge pot of vegetable beef soup. The gravy combines with the tomatoes and beef broth turn the leftover gravy into a delicious soup. When my husband asks me to cook a pot roast I know he is really wanting the soup. It is one of his favorites that I make. And the additional ingredients costs less than $3 so it is a cheap meal. It makes enough soup that we usually get 2 meals out of the pot of soup too. So 3 meals from a 3 lb pot roast is making it stretch pretty good. I am an Ambassador for Taste of Home Magazine. I have had about 10 recipes published in it and have won several contests. I have a CopyCat Cafe Rio Bowl, A CopyCat Honey Baked Ham Recipe, I won for a CopyCat KFC Cole Slaw Recipe. I won for a Grilled Potato and Corn Salad and a Thai Salad with Cilantro Lime Dressing. Last month I won first Prize of $500 for a Quick and Easy Pork and Pineapple Main Dish that will be published soon. That one is really delicious. If you are looking for some new ideas, try some of my recipes published in Taste of Home.
what brand of sherry is that?
I have that book!!! I love it!!
Maria you have the best channel so many of your recipes I want to try. I love the fact that you do lots of beans and rice recipes. Thanks for all the work you put into them.
love these dinner ideas, Maria!
Awesome recipes, thanks
love all 3 receipes maria
Looks so delicious very tasty
Taste of Home is how I learned to cook 20+years ago as a new wife! Back in the day they had an online message board on their website. There were so many older women on there and everyone posted family recipes and I would ask questions and it was like having a grama give you tips, tricks and recipes! I still make so many of the recipes I got from them years ago
Here are recipes I use stewed tomatoes in:
Greens and Beans Soup
EVOO or other oil
3 shakes of red pepper flakes
1 large onion, chopped
1 fennel bulb, chopped
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 14.5 oz. can stewed tomatoes
1 teaspoon each basil and oregano (or 2 teaspoons Italian seasonings)
1 15 oz. can cannellini (or navy or great northern) beans, rinsed and drained
½ cup water or more as needed
1 14 oz. can vegetable broth (or use homemade broth)
1 6 oz. pkg. baby spinach, roughly chopped or as-is
1 or 2 large spoonfuls of nutritional yeast
1. Cook onion in a large skillet or pot in some EVOO and with the red pepper flakes until onions are translucent.
2. Add fennel and cook until onions are browned.
3. Clear a space in the pot and add the garlic. Cook until starts to brown.
4. Add tomatoes and seasonings, breaking up tomato pieces with stirring spoon. Cook a while, until tomatoes break down.
5. Add beans and vegetable broth and cook 10 min.
6. Add spinach and nutritional yeast and cook 10 min.
7. Serve with more nutritional yeast and some good bread.
8. If you do not have stewed tomatoes, you may sauté 2 sticks of celery chopped, add canned tomatoes, 1 green pepper chopped, and chopped parsley.
Black Beans and Peppers
1 clove garlic, minced
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 cup chopped red, yellow, or green pepper (or a mixture)
1/2 cup chopped onion
3/4 teaspoon chili powder
1 15 oz. can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 8 oz. can stewed tomatoes, chopped
1 bay leaf
1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1½ teaspoons red wine vinegar
2 cup cooked rice
In a large skillet, sauté garlic in oil over moderately low heat for 1 minute.
Add peppers and onion; increase heat to moderate, and saute until onion
has wilted and pepper are slightly softened, about 5 minutes.
Stir in chili powder, beans, tomatoes, bay leaf and pepper flakes.
Bring to a simmer, cover, and cook until slightly thickened, about 15 minutes.
Add vinegar. Cook 2 minutes longer.
Remove bay leaf and serve over hot rice.
Maria, your meals, while inexpensive, seem very hearty.
It was only from watching these videos that I decided to buy a meat masher…and I live in England and you don't see them in the supermarket for sale.
Looks delicious!
Years ago, before crockpots, My Mom made that exact roast in the oven while we were at church. Low and Slow. My Dad and brothers loved it. Mashed potatoes or rice. I do make Mississippi pot roast. I am not really a beef person but I do LOVE the gravy. Beef does not like me at all. It always looks and smells amazing.
I worked for an eco friendly cleaning company for awhile, we used alcohol for cleaning stoves. Sometimes vinegar with essential oils to get stubborn stuck on food, but worked well!
Great meal ideas. I like the Taste of Home recipes .
I’m with you, why clean if your still cooking🤷♀️
That roast looks delicious! I’m getting out my crockpot
You can buy those meat mashers at the Dollar Tree for $1.25 plus your state tax of course.
Thanks again Maria for sharing another Enjoyable video of Inexpensive Yummy meals!!😋
Easy, delicious meals, thank you!
I love Taste of Home! I remember my mom have those magazines lying around growing up and now I get them for myself! 🥰 Great video! Can’t wait to try some of these out.
Loll…. Julian “ Me Either “ to cute ☺️
My mom subscribed to TOH when it first came out, and I got all her copies. I have about a decades worth, and still love going through them for new recipes to try
Classic crockpot roast recipe, cream of mushroom, onion soup mix, and red wine. Never fails!
I worked with an executive chef that introduced me to Taste of Home. We were always looking for fun appetizers, and got some great recipes from their magazine.
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The roast sounded yummy. I don't make roasts enough. I guess that's what's for dinner. lol
Awesome video thank you for sharing 🙂
I absolutely love Taste of Home recipes! Common and down to earth ingredients in most of their recipes!
Yum 😋❤
Unless everyone can get a chuck roast on clearance …. that's definitely not a cheap meal
That Spanish Rice dish looked so fancy. Gona give that a try.
Btw You deserve 100k subs 🙂 Come on y'all: sub, share, and give all of Maria's videos a big thumbs up!!
Yummy!
Spanish rice like Spain not Mexico. I saw on Google that Spain Spanish people introduced rice to Mexico and that is how spanish rice came to be.
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Meat masher, Same one at dollar tree for $1.25. I have rheumatoid arthritis and this is easy for my hands. I even bought my parents one, they love it!
I have fixed my beef roasts like this for 50 years. If I don’t have the Lipton’s onion soup mix, I won’t make the roast..I buy mine from the bulk bins at Winco. Also, not sure why, when I put the roast in frozen it seems to be more tender. Why???