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As the winter months roll along, and we contemplate the shedding of our ‘winter layer’ in preparations for the spring, we should just sit back and enjoy the fact that there is something to be said about a belly full of wholesome, warm and delicious comfort food from the Crockpot! The time is perfect to cozy up by the fire with a warm bowl of your favorite pot roast, onion soup, pork shoulder, beef stew, white chicken chili, Texas chili, tortilla soup, vegetable soup, chicken & dumplings, and the list goes on and on.

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If your main goal is creating mouth watering, tender, fall off the bone meat, then a slow cooker crockpot might be the very thing you need in the kitchen. And, it just so happens that most of the best meats for the crockpot are also the most inexpensive ones to purchase. Meats such as beef chuck, rump roast, and pork shoulder are all easy on the wallet, and taste incredible the longer you cook them.

Crockpots also do a tremendous job of saving energy, as opposed to stove tops or conventional oven cooking. Slow cookers do a great job of keeping the overall temperature of the kitchen from becoming unbearable as well. The benefits using a crockpot are endless!

Another great facet of slow cookers, that we tend to overlook, is the idea that some foods just simply taste better the next day after the ingredients have meddled with one another. This mingling of flavors can make for a savory and hearty meal. For example, chili, once it has settled after a day or so, becomes thicker and more robust over time, making it perfect for scooping up with some nice warm and salty tortilla chips.

Lastly, and most importantly, a major benefit of wow’ing the family with a slow cooker masterpiece is the minimal accumulation of dishes parading and teasing the you after the consumption of said masterpiece has taken place. These small victories, such as lightening the dish load, make all the difference when feeding the hungry and the impatient. There is no greater disheartening of the spirit, like that of staring down at a daunting sink full of unsympathetic dishes. Dishes, the fruitless byproduct of the laborious efforts made by the YOU, the chef! Show those dishes who’s the boss, and cut to the chase with savory, easy peasy, little to no mess, make your tummy smile crockpot awesomeness! Send us a letter or submit your comments to: feedback@ simply55.com We love hearing from you! Here at Simply 55+ we appreciate your feedback, positive or negative, to improve our publication at simply55.

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From The Staff

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Creamy Ranch Pork Chops

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Spaghetti Meat Sauce

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Pulled Pork

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Chili, Cornbread & Blueberry Delight

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Beef Stew

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Representative Jacky Rosen

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Missing Treasure In The Nevada Desert

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Guess what? The slow cooker is back!! How I missed my faithful friend!! In this month’s edition of Cooking with Martha, I have found a most delicious pork chop recipe you must try!!! The entire Home Improvement & Lifestyle 4 servings made were eaten that very evening, it was extremely tasty. As usual when cooking meat Simplywere Savers in the slow cooker, in this case the pork chops, so tender, the meat fell away from the bone and just thinking about it right now is making Feedback my mouth water!

Ranch in my opinion makes everything taste better and is always a favorite in my household so when I came across this recipe for Slow Cooker Creamy Ranch Pork Chops on Lauren Allen’s blog at Of TastesBetterFromScratch.com, I couldn’t wait to try it out. Now you can REALLY make this Calendar Events entirely from scratch if you want to make homemade cream of mushroom and cream of chicken Calendar Of Events soups, just visit her website for those recipes. I may try that in the future…if you do, let us know how that turns out! For this batch I just went ahead and used canned soups.

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Ingredients 4-6 Pork Chops (I lightly seasoned with Garlic Salt and Pepper) 1 (10.5 oz) can cream mushroom soup (or homemade) 1 (10.5 oz) can cream chicken soup (or homemade) 1 cup milk 2 chicken bullion cubes, crushed (or 2 tsp bullion paste) 2 Tbsp dried parsley 1/2 tsp dried dill 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp onion powder 1/2 tsp dried basil 1/2 tsp pepper

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Instructions

Spray your slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray and place pork chops on the bottom.

Mix together the remaining ingredients and pour over the pork chops. Cook on LOW for 6-7 hours or on HIGH for 3-4 hours.

We served with the creamy pork chop goodness with homemade mashed potatoes and asparagus.

Like I said before the pork chops were devoured completely that night, and it was only my son, my husband and myself… So whip up a batch of these yummy pork chops and let us know what you think!

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Some of my earliest memories are of my mom making her spaghetti sauce, pretty much every week – slow cooking it on Home the stove.

It was a&staple in our home, and in my memory, I imagine Improvement Lifestyle that I can still smell that fragrant aroma, which warms my heart.

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Nowadays, my husband usually combines a jarFeedback of our favorite spaghetti sauce along with some browned hamburger meat and then calls it good. I however, do not… I think the success of a really good spaghetti sauce is to let it cook slowly, among other things. I’m excited to share with you this delicious crock-pot spaghetti meat sauce recipe, which is like my moms, but with a few tweaks Calendar Of and Events here there.

Calendar Of Events Ingredients 1 lb Ground Beef (or ground turkey) 1 lb Italian Sausage, casings removed (or turkey Italian Sausage) Remembering Nevada 1 cup minced Onion 1 tbsp minced Garlic 1 bell pepper Happy Holidays 45 oz diced tomatoes, drained 24 oz Tomato Sauce 2 Bay Leaves 1 tsp Oregano 2 tsp Basil Salt and Pepper to taste 1. Crumble and brown ground beef and sausage, along with onion and garlic.

2. Drain excess fat.

3. Place meat mixture into slow cooker.

4. Add remaining ingredients.

5. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.

6. Serve over your favorite pasta

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The days are getting longer and heating up – you don’t want to do the same by using your stove and oven during the Home hottest part of the& Lifestyle Improvement day, now do you? It’s time to start barbecuing Savers outdoors and, a favorite of mine, utilizing Simply the crock-pot. My husband is the king of the grill, Feedback I don’t even know how to get it started – but the crock-pot, now that I can handle! We use our crock-pot year round and it is definitely has but I wanted to expand my culinary skills with produced many great meals.

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Calendar Of Events As usual, Pinterest was my go to source when Slow Cooker Pulled Pork (spice rub from Cooks searching for great recipes, years past we had Illustrated) used a store bought spice packet (never again) for our pulled pork crock pot extravaganza, Remembering Nevada INGREDIENTS Spice Rub: 1 tablespoon ground black pepper 1-2 teaspoons cayenne pepper 2 tablespoons chili powder 2 tablespoons ground cumin 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar 1 tablespoon dried oregano 4 tablespoons paprika 2 tablespoons table salt 1 tablespoon granulated sugar 1 tablespoon ground white pepper 1 (6-8 pound) bone-in pork shoulder ½ teaspoon liquid smoke (optional) 2 cups barbecue sauce

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Step 2.

Massage spice rub into meat. Wrap tightly in double layer of plastic wrap; refrigerate for at least 3 hours. (For stronger flavor, the roast can be refrigerated for up to 3 days – this batch went in the fridge on Saturday night and cooked on Financial Monday.)

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Place shredded meat back in slow cooker liner; toss with 1 cup barbecue sauce, and heat on low for 30-60 minutes, until hot. Serve with additional barbecue sauce.

We decided to do pulled pork sandwiches pared with my husband’s fried potatoes side dish so we piled the pulled pork on hoagie rolls and dug in. It was DELICIOUS – so flavorful and tender! This recipe received 4 thumbs up from my husband and myself – it was easy to put together and you can’t beat the ease of cooking in the crock-pot. Try it and enjoy! +

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With the temperatures falling, I love coming home to something warm and hearty at the end of the Homeday Improvement Lifestyle is delicious crockpot chili and homemade day – I know it’s been a great when that&something cornbread. I found this chili recipe on theSimply Country Cook’s blog; this blog is amazing…you should Savers check it out! She has a lot of southern recipes, which I’m looking forward to trying. The cornbread Feedback recipe we will be making is one my Mom always made for years and years – it’s the recipe right off of the box of Albers® Yellow Corn Meal. And for dessert, lets make something sweet to melt in your mouth, Blueberry Delight! This is a southern recipe a family friend passed along to me from her grandmother. Fair warning, once served, everyone will ask you to make it again and again, so Calendar Of Events be prepared!

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Ingredients 1 lb. ground beef 1 stalk celery, finely chopped ½ yellow onion, finely chopped 1 tsp. cumin 1 ½ tbsp. chili powder ½ tbsp. garlic, minced 1 (15oz) can petite-diced tomatoes 1 (15oz) can tomato sauce 1 (15oz) can dark red kidney beans 1 (15oz) can beef broth 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce salt and pepper to taste

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Optional Toppings: Shredded cheddar cheese, chopped red onions and sour cream.

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In a sautĂŠ pan, brown and crumble ground beef with celery, onion and garlic over medium high heat (until meat is completely brown and vegetables are tender). Drain excess grease and pour beef mixture into your Crock Pot. Open cans of tomatoes, tomato sauce, kidney beans (do not rinse or drain), beef broth and dump those into your crock-pot. Add chili powder, cumin, and Worcestershire sauce and mix thoroughly. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cover with lid and cook on low for 4-6 hours (the longer, the better). Taste before serving and add more salt and pepper as necessary. Serve with toppings. Enjoy!!

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Albers® Cornbread Ingredients: 1 cup Albers® Yellow Corn Meal 1 cup all-purpose flour ¼ cup granulated sugar 1 tbsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1 cup milk 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 large egg, lightly beaten

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1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Grease your baking dish.

Simply Savers 2. Combine meal, flour, sugar, baking power Feedback and salt in medium bowl. Combine milk, oil and egg in a small bowl; mix well. Add milk mixture to flour mixture; stir just until blended. Pour into prepared dish.

3. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Serve Calendar Of Events Warm.

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Blueberry Delight Ingredients: Crust: 1 cup flour 1 tbsp. powdered sugar 1 stick + 1tbsp butter Topping 11 oz. cream cheese 1 cup powdered sugar Dream Whip® 1 can blueberry pie filling Mix together 1 cup flour, 1 tbsp. powdered sugar and 1 stick + 1 tbsp. butter. Press into 13 X 9 pan, bake at 350°F 10-13 minutes until golden brown.

Separately prepare 1 package of Dream Whip® according to directions on the package. In a medium bowl mix 11 oz. cream cheese and 1 cup powdered sugar. Once well combined, fold Dream whip into cream cheese mixture and mix until smooth.

Pour cream cheese mixture onto cooled crust, top with blueberry pie filling, refrigerate for 1 hour prior to serving. Enjoy! +

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Temperatures are dropping, I swear it was 80 degrees one day and two days later it was in the 60s. I don’t mind that as much when I can make some yummy comfort food and snuggle in with Home Improvement & Lifestyle my husband to watch a movie!!! A hearty beef stew sounded perfect to me and better yet, I can Simply Savers make it in my BELOVED CROCK-POT.

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After a long day of chores, this was such a treat! Served over white rice, this recipe got two thumbs way up from me!!

Calendar Of Events Calendar Of Events 2 pounds beef stew meat, cut into 1-inch cubes 1/4 cup all-purpose flour Remembering Nevada Season to taste with Salt & Pepper 2 clove garlic, minced Happy Holidays 1 bay leaf 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 onion, chopped 1 1/2 cups beef broth 4 potatoes, diced 5 carrots, sliced 1 stalk celery, chopped optional if you like-4 tablespoons tomato paste

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Directions 1. Place meat in slow cooker.

4. Cover, and cook on Low setting for 6 to 8 hours, or on High setting for 4 to 6 hours.

2. In a small bowl mix together the flour, salt, Financial and pepper; pour over meat, and stir to coat meat with flour mixture.

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For dessert, I found this super easy recipe for Apple Crisp, that after testing it on my family, they demanded it be added to our Thanksgiving dessert list!! Let me tell you, it is super simple to put together and tastes fabulous!!

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Effective Representation Means Home Improvement & Lifestyle Simply Savers Protecting Taxpayers Feedback

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Calendar Of Events Calendar Of Events I firmly believe that an effective representative In addition to helping secure federal dollars Nevada is able to help constituents get theRemembering services for my constituents, I am also proud to have they need while being a careful steward of returned more than $250,000 in unspent hard-earned taxpayer money. Whether it’s administrative funds from my office’s operating Happy Holidays ensuring our veterans and seniors receive budget to the Treasury Department. I will the benefits they deserve, or helping Nevada always look for smart and fiscally responsible families who risk foreclosure, I’m proud to ways to protect taxpayer dollars from going to work hard every day for my constituents. waste.

After a year of hard work and determination, my district staff in Las Vegas was able to I am serious about my commitment to our successfully return $724,387 in owed funds seniors, and I will fight every day to protect to constituents -- with $718,987 of that total the benefits you have earned and depend. awarded to veterans.

Should you ever need assistance with Social Security or help with Medicare, veterans While many of the cases handled by my district benefits, or wish to express support or concern office in Las Vegas have involved the VA, my on any given issue, please don’t hesitate to staff also regularly works with other federal contact my district office in Las Vegas at agencies to help navigate the Social Security 702-963-9500 or my Washington, D.C. office Administration and assist with problems with at 202-225-3252. I also encourage you to visit Medicare and Medicaid. I am proud of the work my website at Rosen.house.gov to contact me my staff has done this year for people who via email. I am here to serve you. + count on us to be their advocate.

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The Nevada desert has a special allure. There is a sense of beauty in land dominated by rocks, cactus and wildlife.

Indeed, the mystique of the land is mystifying especially in the outlying areas far from the glitz and glitter of Las Vegas. On any evening, the desert lends a sense of freedom with a clear view of the stars at night.

No hubbub, no traffic jams and brown stucco houses piled on one another. You can run, you can walk and most of all, you can meditate in a desert paradise.

Tucked away in open land 185 miles north of Las Vegas lies a tiny town called Goldfield, which is midway between Beatty to the south and Tonopah to the north.

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The town of Goldfield north of Las Vegas was hit by a bad flood Sept. 18, 1913.

More than 100 years ago, Goldfield was a hotbed for mining, the promised land for those willing to bring their picks, shovels and for new adventure and the possibility of a big payday.

The boom year for Goldfield was in 1906 when more than $11 million in gold was mined and the population exploded to 20,000, far more than the current count of about 280.

A cloudburst typical of the summer months brought the town to a standstill while causing about $100,000 in damage more than a century ago. You can still feel the devastation and if you listen closely, you can also hear a voice saying “There’s gold in them thar hills.”

As the story goes, three safes filled with gold were carried away by the flood waters. The gold

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has yet to found and history buffs are trying to find the cache that was swept away.

The desert offers a level of peace and quiet, and considering there is an untold value still buried near Goldfield, the spot has become a popular gathering area for enthusiasts who leave Las Vegas on a Friday afternoon for a weekend in the promised land.

One of those who heads north on U.S. Highway 95 to search for gold is a former Las Vegas chef who now sells vehicles for Friendly Ford in Las Vegas. He and other friends stop at Las Vegas car dealer Jim Marsh’s historic Santa Fe Saloon in Goldfield.

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Native Las Vegan, Sal Ortiz, 56, is among many who still search for three safes with gold swept away more than 100 years ago in Goldfield between Beatty and Tonopah. The flood wiped out the town Sept. 18, 2013 just as the population had grown to more than 20,000.

Sal Ortiz, 56, who admits that a very quiet area is screaming with history. “Once you get into Goldfield, there is a service road east of the town before you get to a dry wash bed.”

From the Santa Fe, the group heads east toward what is called “The bottom wash.”

About ten miles down the wash is where the gold should be waiting all these years later.

Once the group settles down at their new desert camp, it’s time to relax. Sooner or later, conversation turns to the lost gold.

“Who knows what it’d be worth now?” Ortiz wonders. “One safe is said to be six foot by Not That Old And Loving It!

10 foot wide. It could be worth millions at this point. The safes weigh tons.”

In the meantime, the Bureau of Land Management recently removed restrictions on land in the area opening up even more acreage to explore. And as word spreads about the desert version of Megabucks, the Santa Fe Saloon and other surrounding businesses embraced the gold fever.

“We mark our spots with our GPS’s,” explained Ortiz, a native Las Vegas who graduated from Bonanza High School in 1978, “This is a very serious endeavor and we hunt all over.

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Happy Holidays Goldfield also survived two fires. The first was “However, the story of the lost safes remains one of the hottest topics for a bunch of old prospectors like us. We’re known as the new old prospectors.”

According to Ortiz, nobody knows for sure about the overall value.

“You’d really have to dig down a long way to find it,” Ortiz said. “It should be down about 40-50 feet.”

March 4, 1905 when a gas lamp exploded. The second fire took place sometime later.

Laurel Arnold is the manager of the saloon, the motel, the public laundry mat and anything else that needs attention. She is a native of northern Idaho.

“I work the bar four days a week, although I’m on call seven days a week, 24 hours a day,” said Arnold, who has lived in Goldfield since 1988. “There are so many awesome stories here.”

And the value?

“Oh, it’s now worth millions,” Ortiz said. “If we ever find it, you can rest assured that we’d never have to work another day.”

Ortiz said he has made friends out in the middle of nowhere.

“They love it out there,” he said. “We have seen people there from Arizona, North Carolina, Utah and as far away as Connecticut.

It’s a great experience that generates endless stories.”

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Arnold said she has only heard of one missing safe, although the Las Vegas treasure hunters swear there are three. Either way, the history lives on especially at the Santa Fe Saloon.

“In fact, Virgil Earp, the brother of Wyatt Earp, was the deputy sheriff in Goldfield. I love living in a small town. When you walk into the Santa Fe Saloon, you are looking at a mini-museum.

The bar will be 111 years old in July.”

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