Crock Pot Melt in Your Mouth Cube Steak and Gravy

1 lb. cube steak (about 4 pieces) or round steak
3 (3/4 ounce) envelopes beef gravy or mushroom gravy (beef, mushroom beef, herbed beef, mushroom...mix and match to your liking)
3 cups water
1 onion, sliced (optional)
sliced mushrooms (optional)

1. Place the meat in the bottom of your crockpot.
2. On stovetop, bring water and gravy packet mix to a boil; whisk until smooth and pour over meat in crockpot.
3. If you are adding onions and/or mushrooms, add them also.
4. Cook, on low for 8 hours.

Real comfort food done plain and simple. This usual tough cut of meat will melt in your mouth after slow cooking all day.
Serve with mashed potatoes, veggie and rolls.

Mom's Meatloaf

2 pounds ground round steak
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups bread crumbs
...3/4 cup ketchup
1/2 cup warm water
1 package Lipton’s onion soup mix

Beat thoroughly. Put into loaf pan, cover with two strips bacon if you like that flavor. Pour over all one 8-ounce can tomato sauce. Bake one hour at 350 degrees. Serves six.See More

Pull-apart Bread

2 Cups warm water

1/2 Cups sugar

1 pkg. rapid rise yeast

2 eggs, beaten

4 Tablespoons crisco shortening, melted

1 Tablespoon salt

6 Cups flour

Mix sugar w9ith water. Add yeast. Beat in eggs using a electric mixer. Sift 3 cups flour and add to yeast mixture. Add shortening and salt. Add remaining flour to form stiff dough. Let rise till doubled in size, punch down. Roll out on floured counter to about 1/2 inch thick. Cut into circles (I use a glass). Now I use a bundt pan I cover in butter. Now take each circle and dip in melted butter and stand on its side to form a circle in the pan. Let rise and cook at 350 till top is nice and brown. I serve this at all holidays and birthdays! If you want and I do this now I add all this to my bread machine that I put on dough and let it do the work. If you want with the dough you can make the pull apart bread of cinnamon rolls. After you have it rolled out don't cut circles just add melted butter on top then 1 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup granulated sugar, cinnamon, pecans and raisins if you want roll into a log and cut into 1/2 inch pieces dip into butter and let rise (9x13) pan. Let double in size and bake till browned. Icing: 1/2 cup melted butter 2 cups powered sugar or more 1 tsp. vanilla and a little milk if needed.(It will be thin) Enjoy!

Chicken for Chicken and Dumplings

1 hen cut up or pieces you like with skin

3-4 260z. Swanson Cooking Stock (Chicken)

1 large onion chopped

3 Tablespoons of oil to brown chicken and onion

Enough flour to coat chicken pieces

Salt and Pepper to taste

In large stock pot add oil and seasoned and flour chicken pieces cook till chicken is browned, add onion and cook till tender. Now add your cooking stock and cook till chicken is done. Remove chicken from stock and cool. Add dumplings one at a time stirring so that they don't stick. Add more cooking stock if needed. Add deboned chicken back to cooked dumplings. Enjoy!

Nannie Budro's Dumplings

2 cups flour

1 tsp. salt

1/2 cup milk

1/3 cup Crisco shortening

1 egg

Mix flour, shortening, and salt together until it looks like meal. Add egg, and milk stir with fork till all is mixed. Use 1/2 dough to roll out on board-real thin, cut with knife in strips, then cut across the strips into small pieces until all has been cut. Add to the chicken which has been cooked ahead of the dumplings. Add just a few at the time to the chicken broth and stir lightly at each addition.