Round Two "I need Help with Dinner"

Okay. At long last. I (with the help from my wonderful husband) have narrowed down the 58 recipes I received upon entry into my "I need Help with Dinner" contest to 37. I gave the 17 pages of print-outs to JB. I thought he would just glance at them and give me a little feedback. But he took his job quite seriously and really helped me pick which ones would be good and not-so-good.

The following 37 recipes (listed in random order) have reached round two. Congratulations!

1. Nameless Hotdog recipe
2. Roast and beans in crockpot (multiple recipes given -- going to try one)
3. Cheese potato soup
4. Tuna cakes (this recipe included Mayo which has eggs in it but we are going to find an alternative since the recipe looked so good)
5. Tortellini & spinach
6. Slow-cooked Southwest Chicken
7. Crockpot pulled pork sandwiches
8. Mexican lasagna
9. Salsa chicken
10. Butternut squash casserole
11. Chicken stroganoff
12. Sweet ham and yams
13. Hot beef sandwiches (although we'd like to find an alternative to the sugar included in this recipe)
14. Grandma Farlow's salad
15. Honey mustard chicken
16. Roasted lemon chicken
17. Chicken enchiladas
18. Beef burgundy
19. Cheeseburger bacon casserole
20. Meatloaf muffins with bbq sauce
21. Tortizzas
22. Taco soup
23. Slow cooker chicken and stuffing
24. Easy chicken casserole
25. Catalina Chicken (although we are looking for an "all natural alternative to the bottle of dressing)
26. Cornflake chicken with garlic and rosemary potatoes
27. Goolash American chop suey
28. Slow cooker chicken and stuffing
29. Spaghetti pie
30. Poppy seed chicken
31. Chicken, Carrots, and potatoes (again, with dressing alternative possibility)
32. Classic herb chicken
33. Tater tot casserole
34. Easy chicken casserole
35. Kid's favorite chili
36. Baked spaghetti
37. Oriental-broccoli-chicken-stuff

Please don't be upset if we didn't choose your recipe! :) Recipes were mostly eliminated based on having an ingredient we try not to use (corn starch for instance) or just being too advanced for our boys (JB said he would love the fish tacos for himself but not for them.) Soups and chilis were often left out (although we tried a few) simply due to difficulty for the boys to eat them at their age. The recipes themselves still looked fabulous! There honestly wasn't a thing on here that didn't look good to me!

Also, I reserve the right to widdle this down farther if I change my mind about a recipe later. But for now, these are where I am going to get started.

I am not sure how I am going to pick which recipes I will cook first. I will probably base my ordering on variety (i.e. I won't pick 5 chicken recipes right off the bat) and ease of cooking them.

I then plan to give the recipe a rating of 0-5 stars with the help of the handsome and incredibly appreciative men who make up the rest of my household. (Scrubs included.)

I will then take all the 5 and possibly 4 star recipes and enter them into my final round. I wasn't planning on having a final round, but I think I am going to need it with all these entries. For the final round, I am considering enlisting some of you out there to help me judge. But it'll be, probably two months, until I get that far.

I will let you know when I try a recipe and how it goes. I may even include some photos depending on how ambitious I am and how peaceful the house currently is. This will take awhile. I doubt I'll cook a recipe every single night. But a few a week at least.

So . . . let the contest begin.