Fabulous Fifty-Cent Find: Progresso Recipe Starters

Fabulous Fifty-Cent Find: Progresso Recipe Starters

                It is no secret that I love Dollar Tree. I wouldn’t be surprised if it evens out that I do about 1/3 of my shopping there. The Dollar Tree in Florence just for a refrigerator section, and that made me even happier to shop there. When it comes to snack and items for lunch boxes, grocery stores can add up bad. But the Dollar Tree offers a good variety for a busy and frugal family.

                This past week I was excited for a new find at Dollar Tree, Progresso Recipe Starters. These bad boys were only 50 cents to boot. I got two of each flavor and smiled all the way to the register. I’ve only used one of them so far, but it worked great! I’ll share what I did down below. Oh, and an additional note. The cans have a box top so you can make some money for your children’s school too!

Creamy Roasted Garlic Round Steak with Fire Roasted Vegetables

Ingredients:

2 cups  Schwan’s #797 Fire Roasted Vegetable Blend

2          Quarter Pound Round Steaks

1 can    Progresso Recipe Starters in Creamy Roasted Garlic

Directions:

            Place vegetables in the bottom of an oven safe pan. Cover with steaks. Embed steaks to be even with vegetables. Pour Progresso sauce over steaks and vegetables. Cook on 400 degrees for 30 minutes.

The steak was tender and the vegetables had a great balance of flavor. Most of the recipes on Progresso's site use chicken with this sauce, but I wanted to try something a little different.

Have you used Recipe Starters? Let me know how it went!

Cast Iron Cooking: Louisiana Steak

 Cast Iron Cooking: Louisiana Steak

Ingredients:

1            Medium onion, slivered

4oz.       Mushrooms, cut to preference

3            Medium Red Potatoes, diced to ½ inch cubes

½ cup    Lawry’s Steakand Chop marinade

2 tbsp.   Cajun seasoning (I use Stonemill Essentials)

1 lb.       T-bone steak (I'm lucky since my cows are home grown in the backyard)

2 tsp.     Salt and Pepper

                                           

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Cut onions, mushrooms, and potatoes. Place in medium skillet on medium heat for 10 minutes.

   

   Cooking Potato Mix on Stove-top

2.  While cooking, coat the bottom of a cast iron skillet with Lowry’s. Use Cajun seasoning as a rub on steaks. Place steak on marinade. Cover steaks and the rest of skillet with potato mixture.  Add salt and pepper to top.
3. Bake in oven for 20 minutes for medium steak.
4. Enjoy!

*Lawry’s Steak and Chop marinade is the best store bought stuff I have ever had. I like to make my own marinades, but I love to use this whenever I don’t have the time to whip up my own. Plus, it is a BOGO at Publix quite often.

*Make sure your potatoes begin to soften a little while they are on the stove-top. Cutting them small enough should eliminate the worry of a too crunchy potato.