Category: Meat

Fast and Delicious “Lasagna”

Published on by Tracie12 Comments

This is an easy and fast way to make a “lasagna”.  Hayden won’t touch spaghetti – he’s a fettuccine guy – but he will eat lasagna.  Liv barely weighs 100 pounds, but can eat her weight in any kind of pasta.  Denton, as he says, will eat anything.  So I consider this recipe an all around success.

Start with a pound of your favorite pasta and boil for 8 minutes.  I had half of a box of rigatoni and 8 ounces of this supergrain pasta that I mixed.  It was delicious.  And you can’t beat the price!

Yummy.

Next, get out your favorite spaghetti sauce.  I love Classico.  It has the most luscious taste.  And I can get it for $1.50 a jar on sale at Kroger.   I found these on closeout for $1.34, woohoo!

Mix the pasta, and sauce….

Add in the cottage cheese…..

Mix it all together.

Top it with some shredded cheese and bake until bubbly.  I always turn on the broiler for the last 2 or 3 minutes to make the cheese have some crispy edges, YUM!

lasagna

We always have this with my homemade garlic bread.  It was worth every single second of the 30 minutes it took to put it all together.  Try it and let me know what you think.

Here’s the handy dandy recipe.

Fast and Delicious “Lasagna”

Print Recipe

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb pasta
  • 1 24 ounce jar of spaghetti sauce
  • 1 24 ounce container of cottage cheese you could also use Ricotta
  • 2 cups shredded cheese

Instructions
 

  • Boil the pasta in salted water for 8 minutes.
  • Combine the pasta, sauce and cottage cheese in a baking pan.
  • Top with shredded cheese and bake at 400* for 20 minutes or until bubbly. Note: I always turn on the broiler for the last 2 to 3 minutes to make the cheese have some crispy edges!
  • Enjoy!

Best 10 Ingredient Chili Recipe

Published on by Tracie11 Comments

IMG_0008I love simple and easy recipes at my house.  I don’t think anyone will ever accuse me of wanting or needing to spend hours perfecting a recipe.  But I do want the food that I spend that time preparing to taste great.  This is one of those recipes!

  • 1 to 2 pounds of ground beef, chicken, pork or turkey – your choice or mix and match! (I usually go with less meat!)
  • 28 ounce can of whole or crushed tomatoes ( I like to use whole and jujsh them with my hand blender)
  • 15 ounce can of dark red kidney beans
  • 15 ounce can of great northern beans
  • 1 large green pepper, chopped
  • 1 large onion, diced
  • 1 TBSP salt
  • 1 heaping TBSP chili powder
  • 1 heaping TBSP garlic powder
  • 2 TBSP Molasses
  • 1 can of water (from the tomatoes can)

IMG_9994I keep browned ground beef and pork in my freezer for days when I am in a hurry, which is most days.

IMG_0003You can soak dried beans overnight (3/4 cup of dried for 1 can) and use them instead of canned!

IMG_0006

IMG_0005

IMG_0008Brown your meat of choice and drain.

Now, here you have a choice.  You can add the rest of the ingredients (except the molasses) to whatever pot you browned your meat in and continue on the stove top for a few hours which is wonderful.  Or you can add the rest of the ingredients (except the molasses) to a slow cooker and set it to high for 4 hours / low for 8 hours and walk away.  Also wonderful!  Today is a slow cooker day at my house.

After everything has cooked for a few hours or 8, add the molasses and stir, and dig in.

Either way, its delicious.  YUM!

Best 10 Ingredient Chili recipe

Print Recipe

Ingredients
  

  • 1 to 2 pounds of ground beef chicken, pork or turkey - your choice or mix and match! (I usually go with less meat!)
  • 28 ounce can of whole or crushed tomatoes I like to use whole and jujsh them with my hand blender
  • 15 ounce can of dark red kidney beans
  • 15 ounce can of great northern beans
  • 1 large green pepper chopped
  • 1 large onion diced
  • 1 TBSP salt
  • 1 heaping TBSP chili powder
  • 1 heaping TBSP garlic powder
  • 2 TBSP Molasses
  • 1 can of water from the tomatoes can

Instructions
 

  • Brown and drain meat.
  • Combine everything EXCEPT the molasses in your pot.
  • Cook for 3 hours on stovetop on low-medium, or 8 hours on low in slow-cooker.
  • Add the molasses and serve!

 

Save

Save

Save

Effortless and Delicious Oven Roasted Chicken Wings

Published on by Tracie2 Comments

We LOVE wings at our house.  We have them at least once a month.  In fact, we are having them tonight.  We love them crispy as all get out, but I don’t want to stand and deep fry them all the time.  So I came up with this “recipe”.  Enjoy!

Preheat your oven to 425*.

I like to elevate the wings on a rack on my largest sheet pan.  It helps to “fry” the wings to perfection. 

I keep it super simple.  Salt and pepper on both sides of the wings.  Bake for 25 minutes and flip the wings, bake for another 25 minutes.  Slather the wings with your favorite sauce (Denton likes them hot/Hayden likes them with Sweet Baby Ray’s spicy barbecue/I like them all!) and bake them for another 5 minutes.

And eat!  These are so good.  Here’s the handy dandy printable recipe.

Effortless and Delicious Oven Roasted Chicken Wings

Print Recipe

Ingredients
  

  • Chicken wings I usually do four to five pounds
  • Wing sauce Barbeque sauce, or just plain Frank's Red Hot with butter
  • Salt and Pepper

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 425*
  • Place your wings on a rack on your sheet pan.
  • Salt and pepper both sides of your wings.
  • Bake for 25 minutes and flip your wings.
  • Bake for another 25 minutes and slather with your favorite sauce.
  • Bake for another 5 minutes.
  • Serve!!