Welcome to the weekend, my friends! Instead of sharing Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals with you this year (and potentially buying all sorts of things I don’t even need!), I’m hoping you’ll join me in helping feed the hungry this holiday season.

How many families could we feed if we work together to donate what we can? For every dollar donated through Feeding America 10 meals are provided – TEN meals, my friends, that is no small thing. We are all in the presence of hunger, seen or unseen, and even a dollar or two can make a difference. If we hit our goal of $50,000, together we will provide 500,000 meals!

Today, I’m grateful for a fridge filled with leftovers and praying that together we will be able to help feed as many families as possible through the holiday season. Barefeet In The Kitchen will match all donations made to Feeding America through this link, up to $25,000. 

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: What Does Hunger Mean To You? I shared a bit of my own story and my gratefulness for charity food boxes while growing up. The gift of food is something I will never take for granted.

Leftover turkey? Creamy turkey green chile soup is loaded to the brim with chunks of leftover turkey and roasted green chile. 

And this leftover turkey pot pie takes the remaining turkey and makes excellent use of it. It has become one of our favorite recipes for using up those leftovers.

Leftover ham? Savory ham meatballs are coated in a thick, sticky, sweet and sour glaze and then baked in the oven until piping hot and irresistible. You know those foods that stick in your memory? These ham balls are one of those recipes.

With a rich ham flavor and a balanced combination of potatoes, leeks, and split peas, this slow cooker ham and split pea soup is a very pleasant surprise.

Tender bites of steak, spicy sausage, five different varieties of beans, tomatoes, and green chili add up to an irresistible steak chili that is a family favorite all winter long. Does anything smell better in the fall than a spicy pot of chili simmering on the stove?

Butter braised cabbage seasoned perfectly with salt and pepper is one of the simplest yet tastiest side dishes you can make. I could happily make and ea

I know we all scream for ice cream, but Ice Cream Nachos scream “Party!” Waffle cone chips topped with ice cream and your favorite sundae toppings are a guaranteed hit.

Ice Cream Nachos

As soon as my brother mentioned his idea for ice cream nachos, I immediately began dreaming about them. I’m here to tell you that ice cream nachos delivered everything that I imagined!

This is a very loose “recipe,” friends. You’ll need the following ingredients and they can all be adjusted to your tastes:

Waffle cones + ice cream + all of your favorite toppings

Dessert Nachos

It’s no secret here that I love ice cream. In fact, I have more than 140+ ice cream recipes here, any of which would be perfect for our nachos.

This is the perfect recipe to tailor to your personal tastes and what you have on hand. I’ve made nachos with all the traditional ice cream flavors for a banana split, but you can go as wild with it as you like.

I’m thinking about doing the next batch of ice cream nachos with peanut butter ice cream, spicy dark chocolate, and caramel ice cream. You could do a chocolate lover’s dream nachos using chocolate waffle cones, chocolate ice cream, hot fudge sauce, and chocolate whipped cream!

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BEST Traeger Smoked Prime Rib

It’s a Traeger Smoked Prime Rib Recipe and you’re going to go nuts! A juicy, perfectly cooked and the most crazy flavorful prime rib you will ever make!

The recipe that has sealed the deal for me on prime rib forever. You guys, our classic prime rib went crazy on the blog two years ago, but let me tell you, this is the only prime rib I plan to make for the rest of my life. It’s flavor is absolutely unreal and it’s so much easier than you’d think! And you only need 7 ingredients!!

You often think of prime rib being served around Christmas, which it should be, but I’ve been making this all year long! It is so easy and turns out perfectly every time! It impresses guests but also gets devoured by my children. That means it’s a winner!

How to Choose a Prime Rib?

When you head into your butcher to purchase the prime rib, definitely ask for a bone-in roast. Leaving the bones in provides so much flavor and the bones are pretty much a built-in roasting rack for the roast as it smokes. You’ll also have the option to choose chuck end or loin end. Go with chuck end for the best cut of meat!

If you have the budget, buy a prime grade prime rib roast. There are three levels of quality (grade of beef) you can buy in a prime rib – prime, choice or select. We always go with prime or choice, but if money is tight, a select-grade roast will still turn out amazing!

What Cut of Meat is Prime Rib?

Prime rib is also known as standing rib roast. A prime rib is a cut of beef from the primal rib, one of the nine cuts of beef. While the entire rib section comprises ribs six through twelve, a standing rib roast may contain anywhere from two to seven ribs, just depending on what you buy and how much roast you want.

Ingredients for Smoked Prime Rib

It doesn’t take many ingredients to make this prime rib recipe. Prime rib is so dang good, it doesn’t take much! Here is what you will need…

• Prime Rib: bone-in and 6-8 pounds
• Kosher Salt: adds flavor
• Black Pepper: freshly cracked, adds flavor
• Dijon Mustard: used to create a paste to rub all over the meat
• Worcestershire Sauce: adds flavor and richness
• Garlic Cloves: adds flavor
• Rosemary: fresh, chopped, adds fresh flavor

The measurements for all these ingredients are listed in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Smoke Prime Rib?

Prep

Prime rib is an expensive cut of meat, so you want to make sure you do it right. Doing it right starts with prepping the meat correctly. Take your bone-in prime rib, and use a sharp knife to cut diagonally into the fat pad and then rotate and cut diagonally in the opposite direction so that you make a diamond pattern.

Rub the Ko

One Skillet Ground Beef Enchilada Casserole [+Video]

Nothing is better than a large skillet piled high with saucy meat, flour tortillas, and gooey cheese. This one-skillet ground beef enchilada casserole is perfect for family dinner!

Easy Ground Beef Enchilada Casserole

Stop the bus. Hold the phone. Wait right there, missy. I’m about to introduce you to your new favorite family dinner recipe and the best part is, I froze it and it totally worked so it’s also a freezer meal.

For a little while, Cade lived in Arizona where there’s a lot of Mexican-inspired foods, so I thought for sure he’d have some good recipes or a love of Mexican food when we got married, but he didn’t really. I mean, he loved to eat Mexican but he was more drawn to southern or Italian recipes.

The longer we’ve been married the more he has been pulled back over to Mexican food and this one-skillet ground beef enchilada casserole is for sure one of his new favorites.

Cooking with Cast Iron

Our good friend from Country Cleaver wrote a new cookbook called, Cast Iron Gourmet, and if you haven’t gotten it yet, you pretty much should. There’s a strawberry chocolate panini that is calling my name.

Oh!! And the pesto-and-mozzarella-stuffed dinner rolls look like melty cheese, nuggets of awesomeness.

There’s everything from breakfast and sides to main dishes and desserts and I’m not kidding, I suddenly want to buy every cast iron skillet in every size and color.

If you haven’t cooked with cast iron before, well first of all you should stop reading this and buy our favorite Lodge Cast Iron skillet off of Amazon and get on that because the flavor and even cooking will sell you for life. But also, Megan covers everything you’ll need to know about it so you’ll never have any questions about what you’re doing.

Blast, I got off subject. Let’s chat more about this ground beef enchilada casserole, shall we?

Ground Beef Enchilada Casserole Ingredients

This Mexican casserole with tortillas is a cinch to make and requires very few ingredients. Here’s what all we used in this ground beef enchilada casserole recipe:

• Ground Beef: We like to get 80/20 or 85/15 for maximum flavor.
• Taco Seasoning: Make your own or grab your favorite store brand.
• Yellow Onion: adds flavor and texture
• Cremini Mushrooms: adds flavor
• Red Enchilada Sauce: Las Palmas is

Tender bites of steak, spicy sausage, five different varieties of beans, tomatoes, and green chili add up to an irresistible steak chili that is a family favorite all winter long.

Start the chili in the morning and let it simmer though the day for a dinner that will have everyone smiling. Does anything smell better in the fall than a spicy pot of chili simmering on the stove?

Once upon a time, probably 15+ years ago now, my friend Shannon brought a huge pot of chili to a party – and that chili was absolutely perfect. I’d been making chili for years and mine was never bad, but it was also never amazing.

I ate two huge servings of her chili and then pestered her for the recipe. Lucky for all of us, she was sweet enough to send it to me. I could not believe that our chili recipes were virtually identical save for one ingredient.

Chili with Ranch Style Beans

That one ingredient though? It made the difference between an “okay” chili recipe and a chili that can knock your socks off. The ingredient is the Ranch Style Beans!

This chili makes me so happy. It makes me grin when I smell it throughout the house and I look forward to dinner all day long. Whether I make it on the stove or in the slow cooker, the smell of chili simmering brings so much joy and comfort to my day.

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