This is my third recipe in the Weeknight Wins by Sauté Express^® Sauté Starter Blogger Challenge from Land O’Lakes. In case you missed my first two, you can check them out HERE and HERE. Four other food bloggers and I have been posting about super easy weeknight meals. Don’t forget to go to our PINTEREST BOARD and pin your favorite recipe each week. We have fun prize packs every week too!

I might have just lost my mind.

Lemme tell you a true story.

Picture this…..

6:30 am and no coffee.

I have a headache.

Hovering over my dog who has a cold, making sure he eats some food so I can shove his antibiotics down his throat.

Twittling his pill in my fingers, just waiting, for him to take a few bites.

Did I mention I had not had my coffee yet and had a headache.

Walked myself over the the cabinet.

Poured myself some water.

AND. TOOK. MY. DOGS. PILL.

I put my dogs pill in my mouth and swallowed.

Like all the way down into my stomach.

Seriously, did you get that?

Me, a human with no body fur to speak off, took my dogs pill.

I stood there in shock, wondering if I had the nerve to make myself puke.

I decided I didn’t want to stick a toothbrush down my throat at 6:30 in the morning and prayed the pill would make me sick.

I obviously survived my little momentary lapse of reasoning, it was just an antibiotic.

You know you have some serious issues when your takes a dogs medication.

For real, my kids have stollen my brain and obviously what little bit I have left does not function without caffeine.

Sooooo, needless to say life has been a bit crazy around here.

I have been relying on my little slow cooker for some dinner time sanity.

Kinda strange as much as I use my slow cooker I don’t have more recipes here..

I am sure all of you have an awesome slow cooker recipe, right?

Crock-Pot is having it first ever nationwide search for the Ultimate Crock-Pot Crock Star.
Who ever shows the savviest slow cooker smarts will win a guest appearance on the Cooking Channel!!!!
All you have to do is upload your original recipe with a photo or video of yourself in action on www.CrockStars.com now through Oct 31st.
You can also win other fabulous prizes in the month of “Crocktober” by visiting Crock-Pots Facebook Page.

Here are a few Slow cooker Meals from me and around the web…

Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Sandwiches - Me

Slow Cooker Pork Chops - Me

From around the Web

Shredded Tex-Mex Crock-Pot Chicken – GoodLifeeats.com

Slow Cooker Chicken Caesar Sandwiches- Thegirlwhoateeveryhing.com

Crock-Pot Beef Carnitas – EatLiveRun.com

Ultimate Beef Stroganoff  - Melskitchencafe.com

Slow Cooker Nutella Crunch Cheesecake - Snappygourmet.com

Slow Cooker Apple Crumble – Howsweeteats.com

~ The Hungry Housewife

Zero Food Styling here folks….Zero

What you see is what you get.

Straight off the grill.

Kids were in the pool..it was hot outside grilling and all I wanted to do was eat.

See not pretty, but they sure were tasty.

Kabobs are the ultimate grilling food. It’s a dinner all on 1 stick.

I was just missing some carbs. I bet some baby potatoes would be pretty tasty.

I threw these together based on what I had in the house and for the protein I used Johnsonville Beer Brats.

Have you had them? Oh myyyy, they are bursting with flavor. So yum.

Not much of a recipe here. I did want to add a little zing to the veggies. So I tossed them in some Italian dressing for 15 or so minutes.

Because of my utter laziness and lack of creativity, these are certainly not going to win me the James Beard award or anything nor will they win me the Johnsonville Kabob Creations Contest but they won over my taste buds!

Do you have a tantalizing Kabob recipe? Hurry up and enter the Johnsonville Kabob Creations contest for your chance at winning one of two large Big Green Egg grill packages and a years supply of Johnsonville Sausage!!!
Pretty sweet. I sooooooooo am dying for a Big Green Egg! To enter and read all about the contest click here. 

~ The Hungry Housewife

Cuban Sandwiches are HUGE here in Tampa. Most of the country has probably never even heard of them.  It’s a mighty fine sandwich with roast Cuban pork, ham, swiss cheese, pickles, mayo and mustard on Cuban Bread, then the bread is brushed with butter and the sandwich is pressed thin. IT.IS.AMAZING

Johnsonville has a new “burger” line out. When I saw the Chorizo flavor, I instantly thought of making a Cuban Burger.
If you like the flavor of Chorizo, you will love these.

They have other flavors as well, Bratwurst Patties,Italian Sausage Patties and Cheddar Bratwurst. They are also super convenient because you can make one or all 6, it’s up to you.

Oh, and if you think you can make a winning burger with one of the new patties, you could win $10,000 in the “Johnsonville  No Ordinary Burger Contest”. Hurry, you have until July 3rd to enter.

**I was provided with product from Johnsonville..All opinions are 100% mine**

~ The Hungry Housewife

Sometimes you just need to fry something. It’s a necessary evil.
Sure frying isn’t good for you, well neither is picking your nose, but I see people do that all the time. We will call it even.

I needed to get my brain working overtime because I wanted to created a recipe for the Johnsonville Wake Up To Johnsonville Photo Recipe Contest.

My husband might have had a little influence on this one. He always comes up with some whacked out food ideas. He wanted these on a stick, but the sausage links are just too thin for that, so I decided on the balls.

They are mighty tasty, mighty tasty indeed! Certainly not your everyday breakfast meal, but they sure are a nice delight every once in a while….you know, when you need a little oil in your life.

You can enter the Johnsonville Wake Up To Johnsonville Contest too.
Go to their Facebook Page, upload your Johnsonville Sausage Breakfast creation and you will be entered for the grand prize of an 11 piece set of professional cookware from ScanPan and a years supply of Johnsonville Sausage. Hurry, Contest ends May 13th!

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~ The Hungry Housewife