Beef Stroganoff: How To

Beef Stroganoff: How To

Ingredients:

1- 1 1/2 lb of Stew Beef

2 Tablespoons butter

2 can's Mushrooms sliced (284ml)---you could use fresh that would be about 2 c sliced

1 1/2 c Beef broth

2 Tablesppons ketchup

1 teaspoon salt

1 small clove garlic, fnely choped

1 large onion chopped

2 Tablespoons corn starch

1c sour cream

 Melt buter in skillet over medium/high heat.

Cook beef in butter, stirring occasionally, until brown

Reserve 1/3 c broth. Stir in ramining broth, ketchup, slat into skillet. Heat to boiling, reduce heat. Cover nd simmer about 10 minutes or until beef is tender

Stir in mushrooms and ononCover and simmer for about 5 minuets or until onion is tender.

 Stir remaining cold broth and corn starch together until smooth---it will look like milk

Gradually stir corn starch mixture into beef mixture. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute, reduce heat to low

Stir in sour cream, heat until hot.

 Serve over rice

You could serve this over; toast, rice noodles, egg noodles...etc

Shrimp Stir Fry: How To

If you like your stir fry served over rice or rice noodles make sure you have the rice or noodles timed so that they are nice and hot at the same time that your stir fry is done.

Rice noodles take about 3-5 min and Rice takes about 25 minutes to get done 

Thaw cooked shrimp and take the tail off (if they have tails)

Choose which veggies/fruit you want in your stir fry (the ones you see here are; celery, onion, yellow pepper, pineapple, and broccoli---we also had carrots)

Cut about the same amount of each veggie/fruit (we used about 1 cup of each)

Heat your wok to high/medium heat with oil in it--you will know that it's ready when you place a piece of a veggie in the pan and it sizzles 

The first veggies to go in the pan should be the longest to cook--in this case it was carrots and then broccoli---the veggie is done and ready to add the next is when you smell it---you don't want to over cook the veggies here, you want them crisp

Add your meat last of all

After the stir fry is hot and almost ready to serve add whatever sauce you want---

this time we used sweet and sour sauce 

The finished product--yummy yummy!!!

PIZZA

Thursday, May 28, 2009

PIZZA

This recipe is, easy, cheap, fun and very tasty!!! My husband made up this recipe and I am so glad that he did.

Ingredients
1 large frozen pizza
1 medium onion cut
1 1/2 cup pineapple
1 medium red pepper
5 pieces of Teriyaki chicken (Schwann's)

Recipe
1) preheat the oven to what the pizza box tells you to
2) saute onions and peppers
3) thaw chicken in microwave at aprox 40 sec.
4) cut the chicken into small bite size
5) place all ingredients on the pizza and cook at the specific time that the pizza box says

KILLER DIP

Monday, March 30, 2009
KILLER DIP

The kids and grownups will love this recipe. You can have your children help prepare it too.

Ingredients
1 tub of sour cream
1 envelope of dry Ranch salad dressing
3/4 cups of dehydrated onions
salt and black pepper to taste

Recipe
Combine all ingredients and let sit in the refrigerator for at least an hour---the longer you allow it to sit the better it tastes

Serve with any veggies as a dip or with chips, pretzels, and/or crackers

RANCH MASHED POTATOES

Friday, March 6, 2009

RANCH MASHED POTATOES

Every one that has had this recipe has loved it and asked for my recipe. It's an easy but tasty recipe.

Serves approximately 8-10

Ingredients
6-8 medium potatoes (the ones that I like the best are the Yukon Gold)
1/4 stick of butter
16 once of sour cream
1/4 -1 cup of milk (this is not a precise measurement)
2 packets of Ranch Dressing (dry)

Recipe
1) Cut potatoes into bite size and add to cold pan of water
2) boil the potatoes until they are soft enough for a fork to go threw easily---don't over cook them
3) drain all water from the potatoes
4) mash the potatoes and add to them as mashing butter, sour cream, milk and ranch dressing packets
5) make sure potatoes are well mixed and serve

Personal Note: this recipe goes really nice with the ranch chicken and my husband loves both

RANCH POTATOES (OVEN FRIES)

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

RANCH POTATOES (OVEN FRIES)

This recipe would be a nice one to have the children help with. These potatoes are similar to oven fries and so they are a really good side with grilled meals and the kids will love them. You don't even need to tell them that they are healthy.

Ingredients
1 Ranch Dressing (dry packet)
1 large Ziploc bag
5 medium potatoes
Pam cooking spray

Recipe
1. Preheat over to 350 degrees
2. cut potatoes into bite size
3. place potatoes in a large Ziplock bag with the Ranch Dressing packet. Seal the bag and shake the contents. Make sure all the potatoes get dressing on them.
4. Spray a cooking sheet with Pam. Place the potatoes on the cooking sheet in a single layer.
5. Cook the potatoes for approximately 45 minutes, until lightly browned

RANCH CHICKEN

Friday, February 20, 2009

RANCH CHICKEN

My husband just adores this recipe, secretly I think that this is one of the reasons why he married me.

Ingredients
2 chicken legs with thighs
1 packet of dry ranch dressing
1 large plastic sealed bag

Recipe
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. Place the content of the dry packet of ranch dressing into the large plastic bag
3. Place both chicken legs in the bag with the dressing, seal the bag well
4. Shake the bag well making sure that each piece of chicken is covered
5. Place the chicken in the oven and cook for approximately 45 min-1 hour.
6. The chicken is done when there is no pink and the juices are running clear

GRILLED ITALIAN CHICKEN

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

GRILLED ITALIAN CHICKEN

This recipe is a very nice one for a summer day, it's tasty but not too heavy on the stomach. Every one that has had this meal with me, has absolutely loved it, I hope you do too.

Ingredients
4-6 chicken breasts
1 bottle of Italian salad dressing (I really like using Wegman's Parmesan Italian Salad Dressing)

Recipe
1. Rinse off the chicken breasts
2. Pock holes into the chicken breasts with a fork
3. Place chicken and salad dressing into a large storage bag. Swish the chicken and dressing around making sure that all the chicken has been covered.
4. Place the bag in a medium bowl. Place the bowl into the refrigerator---this will allow the chicken to marinate. You can marinate the chicken as little as one hour, but the longer you marinate it the moister the chicken will be. You may want to marinate it over night.
5. After the chicken has marinated cook the chicken on the grill. Cook the chicken until no pink is showing and all juices are clear running.
6. Serve immediately after done cooking.

Suggested side: My Italian Pasta Salad

CHEAP AND DELICIOUS MEALS

Here's a link to my original blog http://cheapanddeliciousmeals.blogspot.com/


Here's a little hint when getting your home and food storage organized you should always have certain staples in your cupboard/freezer/refrigerator at all times. These staples make meals more tasty and interesting.


Some of the basics that I try to have in my cupboard are; onions, carrots, celery, apples, frozen veggies, frozen hamburger and/or some kind of meat, tuna, pasta, rice, beans, seasoning, condiments, ie. ketchup, Franks Hot Sauce...etc.

BAKED ZITI

MY original link: http://cheapanddeliciousmeals.blogspot.com/2009/05/recipe-exchange-by-shawna-glasscock.html

THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2009

Recipe Exchange by Shawna Glasscock: BAKED ZITI

Ingredients
1lb hamburger or sausage
1 box ziti noodles
1 jar or can pasta sauce
mozzerella cheese


Brown the meat and drain. Boil the noodle till tender and drain. Mix pasta, meat, and pasta sauce. Add some cheese to the mixture (maybe half cup). Pour into casserolle dish. Cover pasta with cheese. Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes till all cheese is melted and just starting to brown.

CHILIGHETTI

My original link: http://cheapanddeliciousmeals.blogspot.com/2009/03/chilighetti.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2009

CHILIGHETTI

This meal is a fast, easy and cheap way to use left overs

Items
1 can of chili (or 2 cups of home made chili)
4 cups of prepared whole wheat spaghetti
cheese for garnishing
hot sauce for taste
** optional: cut up small pieces of onion for garnishing

Prices and places
Chili--food storage
whole wheat spaghetti--Aldis for $1.69
Cheese--given to us from my mother
hot sauce--always in our food storage, because my family loves it

Recipe
1. Mix the spaghetti and chili together in a microwave safe container place chili
2. place mixture in the microwave and cook for 3min and check if warm enough if not continue to heat for 3 more minutes
3. When meal is hot enough serve and allow individuals to place the cheese and hot sauce on their own meal ** optional: cut up small pieces of onion for garnishing

UPSIDE DOWN PEACH CAKE

My original link: http://cheapanddeliciousmeals.blogspot.com/2009/03/upside-down-peach-cake.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2009

UPSIDE DOWN PEACH CAKE

Kid friendly recipe, quick, cheap, easy and delicious.

Ingredients
1 1lb 13oz can of peaches in light syrup
1 vanilla cake mix
garnishing; Cinnamon and cool whip or whipped cream

Places and prices
peaches in our food storage
cake mix food storage, but I'm sure I bought it on sale less than $2 a box

Recipe
1) preheat oven to 350 degrees
2) drain peaches and set a side the liquid and peaches
3) make cake mix using the directions on the box, but use the peach juice instead of water
4) take the peaches and arrange them on the bottom of a pan, covering the entire bottom
5) sprinkle the peaches lightly with cinnamon
6) pour the cake mix over the peaches
7) cook the cake as directed on the box
8) cool cake and flip onto a nice serving plate
9) serve with a little cool whip and sprinkle with cinnamon

SAUSAGE AND WILD RICE SOUP

My original link: http://cheapanddeliciousmeals.blogspot.com/2009/02/sausage-and-wild-rice-soup.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2009

SAUSAGE AND WILD RICE SOUP

Ingredients
8 breakfast sausages link
2 cups of wild rice prepared
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1 can of cream of chicken soup
2 1/2 stalks of celery
1 medium onion
water

Places and Price
1. breakfast sausages link--this was in our freezer and has been for at least 4 months, but originally we bought it from Swann's Home Delivery 32 sausages for approximately $7.75. These sausages hardly have any grease at all, their very high quality, as well as you just saved gas money because you had it delivered to your home.
2. wild rice--food storage
3. cream of mushroom and chicken soup--Aldis for $.49 a can
4. celery--Aldis for $1.69
5. onion---in out cupboard

Recipe
1. cut up onion and celery into small bite size
2. cook sausages until brown in a medium pan---you will be using this pan for the whole recipe
3. While the sausages are cooking empty both cans of soup, put the soup on the side for use later
4. fill both cans up with water--don't throw away the cans yet, they will be used later
5. After the sausages are brown add the water, onion and celery to the pan. Allow the onion and celery to cook until the onions are translucent.
6. After the onion and celery are finished cooking, drain them and the meat from the liquid, but keep the liquid on the side to be used in the soup later
7. place the liquid from step 6 into the cans that the soup came in. Use more water to completely fill up each can.
8. Place the water into the same pan that you've been cooking in. Bring to a boil. Add the soups into the water and whisk briskly until smooth looking---make sure you do not boil the soup, remember this is cream soup.
9. After the soup is smooth looking place the prepared wild rice, meat, celery and onions into the soup. Cook until every thing is nice and hot.

Personal Note: I would not recommend substituting other rice for the wild rice. Wild rice has a very distinctive textured and taste that fits well in this soup

MUSHROOM SOUP WITH A TWIST

My original recipe link: http://cheapanddeliciousmeals.blogspot.com/2009/01/warm-and-yummy-soup.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2009

MUSHROOM SOUP WITH A TWIST

Warm and Yummy Soup

Ingredients
2 cans of mushroom soup (regular size)
1/3 cup of dried onions
black pepper
1/2 ring of polish sausage (we used Turkey sausage)
3 medium potatoes
water

Prices and places
Potatoes buy one and get one free bag for $3.75 (Quality Market)
Mushroom soup
$.59 each (Quality Market)
Dried onions
food storage (LDS bishops storehouse)
Polish Sausage food storage (we had this in the freezer, most likely we got it at Wegman's months ago)

Recipe
1. Clean, peal, and cut potatoes into bite size
2. Cut sausage into small bite size
3. Open soup us and empty soup into a bowl and set aside for later use
4. Fill both soup cans full of water
5. Place water into the medium pot, over high flame
6. Place the dried onion into the pot with the water
7. Place cut up potatoes into the water and onion pot. Allow water to boil. When potatoes are soft, take them out of the water and set aside a bowl to be used later. Leave the water in the pan
8. Place the sausage into the pan of water and let cook for about 15 min---this will flavor the soup nicely. After 15 minutes is done, take meat out of water and place it into the same bowl that you placed the potatoes in.
9. Take the liquid that is left after the meat and potatoes and measure it into the soup cans. Add more water to the cans to add up to 2 full cans of water.
10. Place all the liquid back into the pan that you've been using.
11. Put all the mushroom soup into the pot with the liquid---cook it was the can's recipe dictates.
12. Once the soup is hot, place all the potatoes and meat into the soup pot. Stir it up well and add black pepper for taste

Personal Note: My husband really liked this a lot and so did I---Cheap and Delicious