Chili Saturday

Quote of the day..."Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." -Allen Saunders

The menu I had planned for today was Jason's Almost-Famous Chili/ Chili Dogs for lunch and Oven-Fried Chicken Chimichangas for dinner however plans change...Saturday was a very lazy day around our house. We spent the morning finding our living room from all the awesome Christmas gifts we had received and doing a little cleaning around the house. We did enjoy Jason's Almost-Famous Chili for lunch which led to nap time for everyone at our house then both the Kansas City Chiefs and the K-State men's basketball team played this afternoon so all activity halted while those two games were happening.

Jason's Almost-Famous Chili

There is no way Jason would ever let me share his "Almost Famous" recipe with you but here is a picture for you to enjoy!

Like I said I had planned to have Oven-Fried Chicken Chimichangas for dinner however the Chiefs game didn't get over until after 7:00 pm and I had already made plans to go look at an elliptical I was wanting to buy following the game so dinner didn't go as planned. Once we got home from all of that it was after 8:00 pm so I had left over General Tso's Chinese from last night, Hubby had chili dogs and K had plain hot-dogs. Everything I had for the Chimichangas will still be good for a while so I'm sure we will find a time to have them or they will be included in next weeks meal plan.

On a positive note I did get this beauty tonight! I'm so excited to have an elliptical at home that I can use whenever I feel like getting a quick workout done. I had no idea how long the recovery was for a complete ACL reconstruction but I am quickly learning! Since my surgery at the end of September I have only been able to go to Physical Therapy and do nothing else however as of the first of December I have been cleared to workout on the elliptical! The doctor said the elliptical would be the only exercising I can do until at least April so this will be my new best friend!

Sloppy Joe Cups

I'm starting my first week back at meal planning off with a quick easy recipe since I was going to the store then coming straight home to make dinner. I didn't want anything too complicated and not too big of a mess. 

Sloppy Joe Cups

Time:
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: roughly 15 minutes

What you will need:
1 can biscuits- I use Grands! Homestyle refrigerated buttermilk biscuits
1 lb hamburger-I use 93/7 
1 can (14.5 oz) Sloppy Joe Mix
Shredded Cheddar Cheese (you will not need a lot, it is just enough to sprinkle on the top of the cups)

Direction
1. Heat oven to whatever the biscuits call it to be
2. Brown hamburger then drain grease and put it back on the stove
3. Add Sloppy Joe mix to hambuger
4. While the Sloppy Joe mix is simmering open the biscuits and place one in each hole of a muffin tin. You will need to push the dough down in and make a hollow place in the middle of each biscuit.
5. Spoon less than one tablespoon of meat into each biscuit then top with cheese.
6. Cook per the instructions on the biscuit roll-Mine called for 13-17 minutes so I did 15 and it was perfect

ENJOY!

This is what the biscuits should look like in the muffin tin

Like I said there really isn't a lot of room for meet so it is less than a table spoon of meat in each cup 

 Again, not a ton of cheese goes on each once just because there isn't a lot 

of room but a little bit goes a long way with these cups. 

Final product!

 

Thoughts:
I originally got this recipe from my mother-in-law and we have been eating these for a few year at our house so of course we love them! One thing to know is that you will have enough left over Sloppy Joe mix to have a few sandwiches or if you want to use all the meat you will need to buy two or three can of biscuits. This would be a great meal of you were feeding lots of people but didn't want to make a huge mess in your kitchen. Hubby usually eats four and I will always eat two or if we are not having any sides I will typically eat three so if that helps with planning!