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Monday, September 16, 2013

October Menu

October Menu


1 - Chicken, Potatoes & Green Bean Dinner

3 - Stuffed Bell Pepper Casserole w/Garlic Bread

8 - Chicken Spaghetti w/Salad

10 - Homemade Beef Stew w/Rice

15 - Chicken & Spinach Lasagna w/Salad

17 - Pork Chop and Potato Dinner

22 - Chicken White Chili w/cornbread

24 - Meatball Stroganoff w/Creamed Peas

29 - Chicken and Black Bean Burritos w/Yellow Rice

31 - Baked Chili Cheese Hotdogs w/Tater Tot Side Dish





Pumpkin Sheet Cake

Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies

Apple Dumplings

Chocolate or Vanilla Sheet Cake

Decorated Sugar Cookies, fall assortment



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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Sunday Night Dinner - New Recipe

Sunday night dinners around here are pretty simple and easy.  I am trying to get everything ready for the week ahead and I like to keep it simple and easy.  This new recipe I tried was just that!

Spaghetti Stuffed Garlic Bread


I found this recipe on Pinterest (of course) and I surprisingly had all the ingredients, so I thought I would give it a try.  Use whatever cheese you have on hand.  The original recipe called for mozzarella cheese cut in cubes, but I had shredded and it worked fine.  While it turned out good, and everyone liked it, which is the most important thing.  There are a couple of changes I will do when I make this again.  

1.  I am going to give the dough a good sprinkling of garlic powder before I put the filling in.

2.  In the last few minutes of baking brush bread with some garlic butter and sprinkle with parmesan cheese.  

Give it a try!  The original recipe can be found here.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Roast with Carrots, Potatoes & Onions

Made one of my husband's favorite meals tonight.  A simple roast with carrots, potatoes and onions.  So easy to prepare and fix and so yummy.  Makes you house smell wonderful!



The recipe is so easy.  Take a beef roast and add salt, pepper, garlic powder.  With a little oil in the pan, sear the meat really well on both sides.  Put your roast in pan and add cut potatoes, carrots and onions.  I like to add a gravy mix packet, a little water (1/4 cup), salt & pepper, 2 whole peeled garlic cloves and a few tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce.  Cover with foil and bake 300 for 4-5 hours.  

Sometimes I will change it up and add a Lipton Onion Soup mix packet or different herbs such as thyme and rosemary.  Honestly, you don't have to add anything but salt & pepper and it would still be good.

If you have left-overs from your roast, turn it into stew.  In a pot put your roast, 1 can of diced tomatoes, leftover carrots & potatoes and a can of peas.  2 cups of water and a brown gravy packet. Cook on simmer for a few hours and serve over rice.

On the rare occasion, I will even have stew left over.  I take that and make homemade vegetable soup. Just add more water and more veggies like green beans, corn, and whatever vegetables you need to use up.  Bring to a boil and let simmer for a couple of hours.  During the last 30 minutes add a handful of macaroni.  

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Broccoli, Chicken & Rice Casserole

Made one of my daughter's favorite meals tonight.  Chicken with broccoli, cheese and rice.


What makes this so tasty is the buttery Ritz Cracker crumb topping.  I make this same recipe for our traditional Christmas dinner, but I leave out the chicken, rice & sour cream., its just "broccoli casserole".

This is the recipe I follow:

2-3 C cooked chicken
2 cups cooked rice
1 pkg frozen broccoli, boiled and drained.
2 C cheddar cheese (divided)
1 can cream of celery or cream of mushroom soup.
1/2 C mayo
1 egg
1/2 C finely chopped onion (optional)
1/4 sour cream
Salt & pepper to taste
Lowry's season salt to taste
1 "sleeve" of Ritz crackers crushed and mixed with 1 T melted butter

Mix all ingredients together except 1 C cheese and Ritz crackers.  Pour into a 9x13 prepared pan. Top with remaining 1 C cheese and Ritz cracker crumbs.  Bake 350 for 30 minutes.




Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Stuffed Bell Pepper Casserole

Every other Wednesday night I bring food to our mom's bible study at church on Wednesday nights.  I love to try to recipes on these nights because I have lots of taste-testers.  Tonight I tried a new recipe called "Stuffed Bell Pepper Casserole".


To me, this tasted exactly like a stuffed bell pepper.  I normally do not put corn in my stuffed bell peppers, but it was good in this dish.

If you would like to make it, the recipe can be found here.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Chicken Alfredo

I had a request for Chicken Alfredo, so it was my first meal of September.



I used Pioneer Woman's recipe, but added a few touches of my own.  I added some garlic & herbed butter to the regular stick of butter. I also added a little sprinkle of garlic powder.


If you are on a low-fat diet, this is not for you!  But it is very tasty and it's ok to splurge every now and then!  Gotta enjoy life while you can. 

The recipe I used can be found here.


Sunday, September 1, 2013

New Recipe Review - Easy Chicken Dinner

If you are on Pinterest, you probably have seen this recipe floating around.  It looked so simple and good, I just had to try it.

You can see on the chicken where
 my pats of butter were :)



I thought this recipe would be great to try on a Sunday.  After church we are usually famished.  We normally eat at home and we don't want to wait around to have something prepared.  This recipe  seemed like a good one to prepare before church, put in the oven, and program the oven to bake and when we got home dinner would be ready!  Boy was I right!  When I walked in, my house never smelled so good!  We couldn't wait to try it.

The chicken was very tender and moist. I used two forks to split the breasts apart.  The potatoes were perfectly cooked, as well as the green beans.  

The original recipe can be found here.

But in a nutshell here is the recipe.

Chicken, Green Beans & Potatoes

In a 9x13 dish place green beans on one side, chicken breasts down middle and cut up potatoes on the other side.

Top with pats of butter and a package of dry Italian seasoning.  Cover with foil and bake 1hr on 350.

Before
After

It's so easy!

This will be on the menu in October!