What happened to the 5x5x5 challenge?

Dear Tiffany,


(And anyone else reading this)


In case you were wondering what happened to the 5x5x5 challenge, here it is: I moved twice in two months.  That's a lot of work!  And now I'm living at home, where I am not the boss of the kitchen or the meal plan, nor do I need to cook every night (because there are 4 adults living here to split the cooking duties, yay!)  Will I still be food-blogging?  Yes.  And once I'm settled in, I'll try to get up at least 2-3 posts per week, but they might be scarce until I finish unpacking.  So this challenge will be more like a 5x3x8 challenge (if I get 3 in per week).  But 5x5x5 was so much cooler...now I think it needs a new name.  Any suggestions?


Talk to you soon!


love,
Joy

#24: Slow-Cooker Ribs 2

Hi Tiffany!


This recipe will be first of my 5 ingredient recipes- for the 5x5x5 challenge.  I've already shared one way to do ribs in the crock pot (your basic barbecue ribs), but here's another.  Today I did most of the moving out of my old apartment.  I wanted to make dinner for my helping hands,  and since it was going to be a crazy, tiring, long day, a simple crock pot recipe sounded perfect.  It helped that country style pork ribs were $1.99/lb at Safeway.

The Basics:
Prep time: About 5 minutes, then in the crockpot all day.
Good for leftovers: yes!
cost: depends on what kind of meat and how much.  Slow cooking makes even the cheap cuts of meat tender, so go ahead and go for the cheap on this one.
servings: 4-8


The ingredients:

beef or pork ribs- as much as you want.  just make sure it will fit in your crockpot

1 onion, chopped

1 can beer (a regular sized can if you're doing about 4 servings, or one of the big pint cans for a larger crowd

dried thyme

salt

The Process: Oh, by the way.  While today's recipe has 5 ingredients including salt, I've decided that since you are always going to have salt/pepper in your house, salt/black pepper won't count toward the 5 ingredient limit.

Layer the meat in the crock pot.  On top of each layer, sprinkle salt and thyme.  Add chopped onion and beer.  Cook on low for 8 hours, or on high for 4.  Remove from liquid to serve.

Each person will want to salt to taste.  I hadn't unpacked the salt yet when we ate, so ours was a little less salty than I would have preferred, but the meat was very tender and had a good flavor.  It would be great to add garlic to this one too.


Enjoy!  There are leftovers if you want some tomorrow.


love,
Joy

5 Ingredient Recipes!

Dear Tiffany,


Hi!  As I go through my 5x5x5 recipe challenge, I'll be listing the recipe links here as well so they'll all be in one place.


Right now, before the challenge, I'll list the ones that are already up (these won't count towards the challenge).


Honey -Baked Beans
Minister's Delight (dessert)
Crockpot BBQ Ribs (technically this is 6, but I just didn't count the pepper, ahha!)
Easy Shrimp
Slow Cooker Apple Cider
One-dish-wonder Slow Cooker Roast Chicken and Baked Potatoes
Spinach Egg Salad
15 Bean Soup
Slow Cooker Ribs 2


More to come as we go through the challenge!


-Joy

5 x 5x 5 for July

Dear Tiffany,


When were talking last week, you said you were going to actually try to make the baked beans because you thought it was simple enough for you.  Now, I know for a fact that you can make every recipe on my blog, BUT I could see that some of them could be a little intimidating for you, which is how you continue to resort to the frozen dinner section of Target.


Since this blog is for you, I'm going to try something new: For July (and, ok, it goes into the beginning of August), I'm going to do a 5 x 5 x 5 recipe challenge.  (Hopefully I don't go too nuts between this and my regular challenge blog!)  The Challenge: 5 weeks, 5 recipes per week, and...5 ingredients per recipe.  I'll cook through them and share with you!


I knew you'd like that one.  I'm not going  to re-post any recipes I've already done on here, so today I'll just make a list of all the recipes that are already up that have 5 or less ingredients, and then I'll add to that list as we go through the challenge. You can expect the new recipes to start coming up early next week or maybe even this weekend.


My challenge to you: will  you commit to trying out at least one of these recipes per week?  Or more if you like?  I think you'll have fun with it!  (will anyone else commit?  Let me know on the Breakfast at Tiffany's forum here)  Let me know on my forum if there are any recipes you'd like me to cover in the next month!


I'm excited!


-Joy