Crock Pot: Day 5 ~ Chili

This is another easy crock pot dinner. I made an all meat chili to be served over homemade mac 'n' cheese (or rather pasta & cheese being I am using ziti today) for a wonderful chili mac dinner.

The ingredients:

-2 lbs ground beef (or another ground meat)
-Rotel (I use 1 can per pound of beef, so 2 today)
-Tastefully Simple Wahoo! Chili (link to purchase this spice...only available till 3.11.12)
-Tastefully Simple Onion Onion (link to purchase this spice)
-Tastefully Simple Garlic Garlic (link to purchase this spice)
-seasonings

The spices

Put beef in the crock pot and turn it on high and brown meat in the bottom of the crock pot, stirring occasionally to get all the meat cooked equally. I am using frozen beef so it will take about 2 hours.

Beef in the crock pot with the spices

After the beef it browned turn crock pot to low and add Rotel, garlic, onion and seasonings. For today's chili, the seasonings I am using are: chili powder, Tastefully Simple Garlic Garlic, Tastefully Simple Onion Onion and Tastefully Simple's Wahoo Chili seasoning. This is my first time using Wahoo Chili seasoning and it was a wonderful blend of savory seasonings.

This all meat chili is a wonderful topping on pasta and cheese.

I also roasted some broccoli in the oven as a topper to the meal. Roasted broccoli is a family favorite in our house.

To make roasted broccoli:

You need:
-Olive Oil

-Kosher Salt

-Broccoli Florets

Roasted Broccoli

Break up the broccoli in small bits (the smaller the better) onto a cookie sheet. Drizzle olive oil and sprinkle salt over the broccoli and toss (I use my hands). Pop into the oven at 325˚ for 40-50 minutes or until the broccoli browns and crisps. Serve on top of the pasta and chili.

Broken up broccoli on the cookie sheet

Dinner...cheesy pasta, meat chili and roasted broccoli