Ninja System: Buffalo Chicken Linguine

Recipe and pictures by Wendy Copper :)

Buffalo chicken linguine 
Boneless chicken (i had patties i had to use up lol)
2-3 cups chicken broth
Sliced onions (wasnt in recipe, i added them extra)
Celery salt
Garlic
1 packet of dry ranch dressing
1/2 c buffalo sauce (1/4 cup while cooking...and 1/4 c to mix with shredded chicken after)
8 oz cream cheese
1 cup shredded cheddar
Linguine pasta
Place chicken, 2 cups broth, onions, spices, 1/4 c buffalo sauce, dry ranch dressing pack in crock pot. Place cream cheese on top,..and shredded cheddar on top of that. Cook high 4 hrs, or low 8 hrs.
Remove chicken and shread. Add remaing 1/4 c buffalo sauce to chicken.
Turn crock to high, place pasta in crock,..(add additional broth if needed), place chicken on top of pasta...cook until pasta is done..
This sauce was reeeal good if you like buffalo flavor stuff..

Burton Lunchbox: Healthier Chicken and Pasta

Recipe and picture by Shannon E. Green :)

Another easy, healthy & low sodium lunchbox meal. (The only salt used was what was in the stock & what was used when I cooked the chicken.) 

Approx 1 c Chicken stock
Handful pasta
Garlic
Onion
Grape tomatoes
Mini peppers
Asparagus
Chicken
Approx 1 c spinach
pepper to taste

Line lunchbox with crockpot liner & place stock & pasta in the bottom. Then add all veggies (except spinach) & chicken. Cook about 35 minutes. Add spinach. Once wilted, serve. Enjoy.

Ninja System: Sausage Soup

Recipe and pictures by Wendy Copper :)

Sausage soup
Fry sausage, diced onion and garlic.
Next add 1 large can of peeled whole tomatoes. (I broke them up by hand)
1 can cannellini beans, undrained
1can chicken broth (add more if needed when you add pasta)
Carrot sticks (any cut up carrot works)
Diced zucchini. (I added that halfway through cooking time)
Few chicken broth cubes
At end of cooking i added a bag of fresh spinach
Turn crockpot to high and add a cup or so of your favorite pasta. Cook until done.

Ninja System: Lasagna Caprese Roll Ups

Recipe and picture by Michael Wright and Vanessa Pellegrino :)

Here's the recipe. All my wife did different is use fresh mozzarella instead of shredded. 

Caprese Lasagna Roll Ups -
loaded with Mozzarella, fresh tomatoes and fresh basil!

Ingredients

8 lasagna noodles, uncooked
14 oz freshly shredded, low-moisture part skim Mozzarella cheese, divided
3/4 cup Ricotta cheese
1 large egg white
1/3 cup freshly, finely shredded Parmesan cheese (about 1 1/4 oz)
freshly ground black pepper
3 - 4 medium Roma tomatoes, thinly sliced (about 1/6 inch thick slices)
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil, plus more for garnish
1 cup marinara sauce, recipe follows
Simple Marinara Sauce
2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup finely chopped yellow onion
2 cloves garlic finely minced
1 (28 oz) can crushed tomatoes
salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook pasta according to directions listed on package to al dente. Drain pasta (DO NOT rinse with water) and align lasagna noodles in a single layer on a large sheet of parchment or wax paper.

For filling, in a large mixing bowl, whisk together ricotta cheese and egg white until well blended. Stir in Parmesan cheese. Mix in 12 oz. of the Mozzarella cheese and season with black pepper to taste (I wouldn't recommend seasoning with salt just because the cheeses already have plenty of salt).

Place 1/4 cup of the cheese mixture over each lasagna noodle and spread into an even layer, going from one end of the lasagna to the other. Align 4 thin tomato slices over cheese mixture then sprinkle fresh basil over top. Snugly roll lasagna noodles to opposite end. Spread about 1/4 cup pasta sauce in the bottom of an 11 x 7 inch baking dish. Align lasagna roll ups, seam side down in dish. Top each roll up with about 2 Tbsp of the pasta sauce (covering edges of pasta so they don't dry out while baking). Sprinkle top with remaining 2 oz. shredded Mozzarella. Bake in preheated oven 30 minutes. Remove from oven, plate pasta and garnish with plenty of basil ribbons. Serve warm.

Ninja System: Pesto Pasta With Shrimp

Recipe and pictures by Wendy Copper :)

1 box bow tie pasta, cooked , rinsed,drained and cooled. (Pasta was cooked in Ninja)
1 lb medium cooked shrimp
Grape/cherry tomatoes
Cucumbers, sliced
1 8 oz jar of classic pesto sauce
1/2 cup mayo
salt/pepper to taste
Cook pasta, set aside. Mix together pesto and mayo in separate bowl. Combine everything together and chill and serve.
Very yummy if you like shrimp and pesto flavor

Ninja System: Gluten Free Mac and Cheese with Mahi

Recipe and picture by Jennifer Black Cordero :)

Bought some mahi steaks, cut them up and seared them with old Bay seasoning. Used aldi's gluten free Mac and cheese. All cooked in the ninja.

Slow Cooker/Ninja: Ranch Pesto Chicken

Recipe and pictures by Wendy Copper :)

(Crockpot/Ninja or lunchbox) Ranch Pesto Chicken with carrots and parmesan noodles. Doesn't look pretty, but tastes good. 
Chicken breasts or thighs
1 8oz jar pesto
1 ranch (dry) salad dressing packet
1/2cup chicken broth (or water and a chicken bouillon cube)
Mix ingredients together and pour over chicken.
Slow cook for 6-8 hours on low
Serve over pasta or rice..

Slow Cooker & Skillet: Beef Stroganoff

Recipe and picture by Mary Odumcunliffe :)

* The Big Red Café*
Beef Stroganoff
1/2 pound beef stew meat
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 can mushroom soup
1jar mushrooms
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cups hot Noddles or rice

Directions
In a 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 quart crock pot mix beef onion soup mushrooms and pepper cover and cook on low 8-10 hours or until meat is tender stir in sour cream and serve on Noddles or rice. It was awesome.

The noodles were made in the skillet.

Slow Cooker: Pasta With Chicken

Recipe and picture by Tammy Adcock Welch :)

Tonight I basically cooked 2 different dinners. I can't eat many carbs so I grilled a chicken breast for myself. Hubby doesn't like chicken any way other than fried but was willing to try something different, so I made him chicken spaghetti. 

Recipe:
2-3 chicken breasts boiled in chicken broth in crockpot , when they are done add a can of cream of chicken soup and a can of cream of mushroom soup. Heat till the soups are boiling and starting to thicken, then add spaghetti (or whatever pasta you have) I had fettuccine. Cook 30-45 minutes till pasta is done. Put on serving plate add grated cheese and enjoy.

Burton Lunchbox: Pasta Au Gratin

Recipe by Apryl Edwards :)

Pasta Au Gratin... the man named it, another one of my hey lets throw all this together and cook it! 
1can chk
1can sliced new potatoes
1pack velvetta jalapeno chs
1/2 bag bowtie pasta.
Cook in lunchbox cooker for about 1 1/2.. then top it off with some shredded cheddar. And bam Supper time!! Hope yall enjoy.

Slow Cooker: Cheese Tortellini and Italian Sausage

Recipe and picture by Bernadette Nicholson Richards :)

Crock pot cheese tortellini and sausage

1 (19oz) bag of frozen cheese tortellini
1 bag fresh spinach
2 (14.5oz) cans diced Italian style tomatoes, drained
1 (8oz) cream cheese, softened and cut into chunks
1 lb sausage (I used Johnsonville Italian sausage links)
2-4c chicken broth (start with 2 & add as needed..I used about 3)

Brown the sausage (if using links..slice into coins).
Place all ingredients into the crock pot. Mix well. Cover and cook on low 4-6hrs. Serves 3-4

Ninja System: Spaghetti and Meat Balls

Recipe and picture by Dave Spies :)

Very easy, I use a 1/2 box of noodles, 1 jar of sauce and 10-15 meat balls along with 2 cups of water. Put all that into a cooking bag and cook @300 deg for 25 minutes. You're cooking everything at once.

Skillet: Tortellini With Sausage and Spinach

Recipe and picture by Jodi Lynn Buswell :)

I make the sausage first with all veggies , remove it from pan and you can just leave the grease and add water let boil and then drain almost all of water and add cream cheese and frozen spinach and meat and veggies let all simmer on warm for 5-7 mins.

Product Suggestion: Pasta Bottle

Recommended by Tamara Wilkie :)

You put the pasta in and pour hot water and some salt and let sit 10 minutes .... fresh pasta gets a bit sticky so I don't do it longer than that.... haven't tried dry pasta yet

Burton Lunchbox: Spicy Italian Sausage Lasagna

Recipe and pictures by Steve McFarlin :)

Before and after Lasagna with spicy Italian Sausage. It only takes an hour or so in a lunch box oven. Use no boil lasagna pasta, Ragu, ricota and six cheese Italian shredded cheese and Johnsonville Italian Sausage removed from the casing. Start with a little ragu in the bottom of a foil loaf pan. Just enough to cover the bottom. Then pasta more sauce ricota and cheese them sausage. Repeat until pan is full. Bake for an hour or so. You'll thank me later.

Burton: Macaroni And Cheese

Recipe by Emeralde Khrysteele - thanks Emeralde!



Burton mac and cheese.
Aluminum loaf pan
Foil
Dry macaroni
Cheese sauce
Meat and/or veggie of choice

Spray pan with cooking spray. Pour in macaroni, cheese sauce, meat and/or veggies. Mix well. Cover with foil. About 1 1/2 hr cook time, or til you can smell it. Yes, no water is added. The moisture in the cheese sauce and the steam created by covering will give enough moisture to cook the macaroni!This was an experiment that turned out well, and not into glop! Lol!