Beef & Salsa Skillet from Bisquick

Beef and Salsa Skillet
We made this a while back for dinner and it was so incredibly easy and good! 4 thumbs up!

1 lb lean (at least 80%) ground beef
1 jar (16 oz) Old El Paso® Thick 'n Chunky salsa (2 cups)
1 can (15 oz) Progresso® dark red kidney beans, undrained
1 can (7 oz) Green Giant® Niblets® whole kernel corn, undrained
1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 1/2 cups Original Bisquick® mix
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup shredded Colby-Monterey Jack cheese (2 oz), if desired
1.In 12-inch skillet, cook beef over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until brown; drain. Stir in salsa, beans, corn, tomato sauce and 1 teaspoon of the chili powder. Heat to boiling; reduce heat to low.
2.In medium bowl, stir Bisquick mix, remaining 1 teaspoon chili powder and the water until soft dough forms. Drop dough by 6 spoonfuls onto simmering beef mixture.
3.Cook uncovered 10 minutes. Cover; cook 8 minutes longer. Sprinkle with cheese. Cover; cook about 2 minutes or until cheese is melted.

Great Fall dinner last night

So yesterday before work I grabbed the crockpot and just kinda threw something together- and you know what it was really good!

Apple and Onion Bratwurst.

1 pacakge Johnsonville Brats - the raw ones (mine were frozen)
2 onions sliced thin
4 small apples sliced thin
2 T dried cranberries
1 tsp. chili powder
2 tsp. garlic powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 bottles of beer
1/2 cup apple juice.

combine everything in the crockpot. Cook on low all day (mine was about 9 hours).
The sausages come out Very tender and sweet - not drippy greasy like you'd get on a grill. so just be prepared for that.

I served with some frozen peas and spetzle. The spetzle was a nice side with it and the onions. Mashed potatoes would have been great as well.

On the Food Blog Bandwagon

So, I am a huge food blog person - I love to read them, oogle over the pictures, dream of making the foods (and sometime I do) - as my friend at work says, "Food Blogs should be called Food Porn".

However, it discourages me because all of these cool blogs I read, I swear these girls have more hours in the day than I do - and I want their clock. These meals they make, things they bake, what the do in the kitchen each day just shocks me. How do they find time to do those things AND work?

So, I hemmed and hawed and finally decided I'd give the food blog a shot - since I post all of our food stuff on adventures-of-the-hesslers.blogspot.com - but it's going to be different.

Adam and I are busy people. We both work, we have tons we do around the house, Adam has poker nights, I work nights/weekends atleast once a week, I'm training for my Avon Walk, we're busy people. See we are reality - we don't have 2 hours to spend cooking dinner - meals in our house are what's in the freezer and let's make it tasty.

So hence the name of the blog - realistic eats. We cook in real time, with real shopping lists (we shop once a week - no runs to the market for special items), with real foods we have on hand and no crazy ingredients (for the most part). Anything we do, you'll be able to do.

So enjoy our realistic eats!