Hamburger Rolls

These were one of my favorite things that we used to eat at school lunch when I was in high school. Good ole' Piute High! Definitely a comfort food.

Hamburger Rolls

Use this roll recipe to make your dough. You can use any roll recipe that you have. This is just the one that I use and love. TRIED AND TRUE!

Brown 1 lb. of hamburger. Season it with dried onions, salt, pepper, cilantro, whatever floats your boat. Drain your hamburger and add 2 cups of cheese to it. Mix well.

Roll the dough out 1/2 inch thick. Sprinkle with hamburger mixture. Roll up and cut the dough just as you would cinnamon rolls. About 1 inch thick slices. Place in greased 13x9 pan. I had some left over meat, so I sprinkled it on the top of the buns. Let rise for about 20 minutes. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

You can serve this with a cream sauce, cream of mushroom soup or brown gravy. My family prefers the brown gravy.

You can do many variations of this recipe. You could do different combinations on the filling. I know people who do tuna as the filling. Blah! But my husband and I were discussing this and we think shredded chicken and cheese would be great also, served with chicken gravy.

Homemade Chicken Fried Steak

When I was growing up, I worked as a waitress in this little cafe, Hoover's. It had been around since the 1920's and it was the coolest place to work. The secret to their success was homemade chicken fried steak and this to die for hamburger sauce! I will have to share that one of these day's. It was heavenly!

Anyway, I can't stand to order chicken fried steak at a restaurant because I hate those yucky frozen, deep-fried patties! GAG ME! But this, is one of those things I make when I am looking for comfort food. And they are pretty easy.

Cube Steak, enough for your family

eggs

bread crumbs, I use stuffing

seasonings and lot's of butter

Take your cube steak and tenderize it by pounding it out with a meat mallet. Take your eggs and whip them for an egg coating. Dip steak in egg and then cover in bread crumbs. Fry your steaks in a pan that is heavily coated in butter. Before you flip each steak, put more butter down or you will burn your steak.

Cook thoroughly and enjoy! Don't make this alot because it is defiently not healthy, but it's sure delicious!

Sloppy Joe's

I love Sloppy Joe's. They are seriously one of the easiest things to make. Especially for big family functions or church functions. And, I'm not a
Mamwhich kinda gal. I like the homemade kind. Super easy and you probably have all the ingredients on hand to make it.
Sloppy Joe's
2 lb. ground beef
onion, chopped
salt, pepper and garlic powder to taste
1/4 cup ketchup
1 tsp. mustard
4 Tbsp. brown sugar
1 Tbsp. barbecue sauce
1 Tbsp. Apple Cider vinegar
2 small cans of tomato sauce

Season hamburger meat and brown with onions. I also like to throw in some dehydrated peppers with mine. Drain grease. Add remaining ingredients and simmer for 10 minutes.

This is a good recipe to play around this. It's the base I use when I make mine, but sometimes we leave the BBQ sauce out and sometimes we don't use as much brown sugar. Just modify it to fit the taste of your family.

Pizza Casserole

Pizza Casserole:

3 cups elbow macaroni cooked and drained

1 lb. hamburger, cooked and seasoned

1 jar spaghettie sauce

1 cup sliced pepperoni

2 cups cheese

Sliced olives (optional)

Mix everything together. Place in 9x13 pan and and bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly.

That's What I Call A Quick Dinner

Quick and easy dinner we have at our house from time to time.
Ready for this??
Fritos, cheese, chili, and Tortillas!
Heat up the chili, put it all on a flour tortilla. Wrap it up...and WALA! You are ready for dinner!

Dinner in a Pumpkin

This is a tradition I started for my family last year and they loved it so much that I figured I would do it again and post it on the blog. I got this recipe from my awesome friend Mindy. She is such a super mom and I love her to pieces. Thanks so much Mindy for letting me put this on here! You totally rock!

Ingredients:
1 (10-12 inch) pumpkin
3 c. cooked rice
1 lb. browned hamburger
1/4 c. soy sauce
1/4-1/2 c. brown sugar
1 can of mushrooms (we use fresh but whatever you prefer)
1 can cream soup (chicken, celery, or mushroom whatever you prefer)
1 1/2 c. chopped celery
1 Tbsp. butter
1 c. onion (chopped)
(we also add a can of corn but that is optional)

Brown hamburger. Cook rice according to pkg. directions. Saute celery and onion in butter. Stir all ingredients together and place in cleaned pumpkin. Put pumpkin 'lid' on top. Place on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 1-1 1/2 hours. When serving, scrape cooked pumpkin off sides to eat, too. I like to top it with cheese and Mindy tops hers with Sour Cream.

The Greatest Sweet and Sour Meatballs

2 lb. ground beef
1 C. rolled oats
2 eggs, slightly beaten
2/3 c onion, or 1/4 dehydrated onion
1 1/2 t salt
1 1/2 t. Worchestershire sauce
2/3 C milk
1 C brown sugar
1/2 C. vinegar
2 t prepared mustard
1/2 C bbq sauce
2 t Worcestershire sauce

Combine beef, oats, eggs, onion, salt, 1 1/2 t worcestershire, and milk. Form into balls about 1 1/2 in. in diameter. Place in 9 X13 dish in a single layer. In a bowl, combine brown sugar, vinegar, mustard, bbq sauce, and 2 t Worcestershire sauce; pour over meatballs. Bake at 350 for 30 min. Serve over rice. (I like to double the sauce amount so I can use it as sauce on the rice as well).

Crock-Pot Cream Cheese Chicken

This was so good! My husband and my kids loved it. I got the recipe from a little mini cook-book my ward did about a year ago when we had a crock pot class. So thanks to Debbie for sharing it!

3 lbs. chicken breasts/ tenders - whatever you want to use!

1 (2/3 ounce) package Italian Salad Dressing Mix

4 Tbsp. melted butter, divided

1 small onion, chopped

1 garlic clove, chopped

1 can cream of chicken soup

8 oz. cream cheese

1/2 cup chicken broth

Place chicken pieces in crock pot and sprinkle with Italian seasoning. Drizzle 2 tbsp. of melted butter over the top. Cook on low for 4-6 hours.

Melt 2 tbsp. butter in sauce pan and saute onion and garlic. Add Cream of chicken soup, cream cheese, and chicken broth. Stir until smooth.

Add this mixture to the crock-pot and cook on low for an additional hour. Serve with rice or noodles.

Quesadilla's

These are my new obsession lately. CJane had a tasty little video of her singing her heart out and making Quesadilla's and my first thought was "I wish she lived here, so we could be friends!" My second thought was, "I must have Quesadilla's." We've eaten them several day's in the last week. All sort's of yummy combinations.

This one is a yummy chicken and pepper jack cheese combination! Add some yummy slices of avocado (it wasn't quite ripe enough to make guacamole with) and this salsa and you have, YUMMY!!

Courtney's post got me thinking of all sorts of combo's. She mentions a refried bean, pepper jack and guacamole quesadilla, which attributed for the above picture. She also did black bean, sauteed mushroom and sharp cheese one! I need to make some more!!!

If you use the uncooked tortilla's from Costco, you get a yummier tortilla!! I use this spray on my griddle to lessen the fat. Tastes like butter, but with zero calories! I use it on pretty much everything, just so ya know!

Happy eating!!

Beef Noodle Casserole

My family isn't one for casseroles typically, but they sure loved this one! Next time I may double it.

1 C noodles uncooked

1 lb. ground beef

1/4 c onion, chopped

1/2 c cheese, shredded

1 16 oz can corn ( I used left over corn on the cob)

2 t chili powder

1 t salt

1/8 t pepper

1 8 oz can tomato sauce ( I used tomato soup)

1/4 c. water

Boil noodles for 10 minutes or until soft;drain well. Brown ground beef with onion. Add all remaining ingredients, including noodles, and place in a 2-quart casserole dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

Beef Tips and Gravy

Super easy and way yummy!!

3 lbs. stew beef, cubed
15 oz can tomato sauce
2 c. water
1.35 pkg. onion soup mix
1.3 C. instant tapioca, uncooked
1 to 2 t. beef boullion granuales
cooked egg noodles

Place beef in a slow cooker. Combine remaining ingredients except noodles;poor over beef. Cover and cook on low setting for 8 to 10 hours, or on high setting for 5 to 6 hours. Serve over cooked noodles.

Bajo Tacos to Die For

Once again another recipe I tried from Haylees Food (located on our sidebar). I am telling ya, she is a genius.

1 lb chicken
1 pkg taco seasoning
3 onions
1 t olive oil
1T brown sugar
Corn Tortillas
Cilantro
Cheese

Cook and shred the chicken. Add taco seasonings. Cut onions into thin slices (rings) and caramelize over medium heat with the olive oil and brown sugar. Layer tacos on warm tortillas with chicken, onions, cheese, and cilantro.

My family loved this. The only thing I will do differently next time is garnish it with some homemade guacamole, sourcream, and salsa.

Easy Crockpot Chick'n Dumplings

2 cans cream of chicken soup
2 cans chicken broth
1/2 onion, chopped
1 lb boneless, skinless Chicken breasts
10 refrigerated biscuits, quartered

Combine the first three ingredients in the slow cooker. Add the chicken; cover and cook on high for 4-5 hours. During the last hour of cooking, remove chicken and shred using 2 forks; return to the crock-pot. Add biscuit pieces to chicken mixture; stir to coat. Cover and cook on high for one hour.

I served it with bread and butter and fried zucchini.

Swiss Crockpot Chicken

HEAVENLY! DIVINE! MOUTHWATERING! SIMPLE and so agianst my diet, but well worth a few extra situps!

I found this recipe via, My Crazy Life! It is full of great recipes and she makes them in cute printables that are super fun! I have had it for probably 6 months just waiting for me to try it and it is a new family favorite!! It's so good.

4-6 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
6 slices of swiss cheese
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can chicken broth
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup melted butter
1 pkg Stove Top Stuffing
salt & pepper to taste

Place chicken breast in crockpot and season with salt and pepper. Layer swiss cheese on top of chicken. Mix soup, broth and milk together. Pour on top of chicken. Top with Stove Top and drizzle melted butter over the top. Cook on low for 5 to 7 hours.

Slow Cooker Spaghetti and Meatballs

We loved this and it was so easy. We just served it with Garlic Bread and a salad.

1 lb cooked frozen meatballs, thawed

1 onion chopped

26 oz jar spaghetti sauce

1 1/2 c water

8 oz spaghetti, uncooked and broken into 3 inch pieces

Combine meatballs, spaghetti sauce, onion and water in a slow cooker. Cover and cook on low setting for 6 to 8 hours. Stir well; add broken spaghetti. Increase to high setting; cover and cook for an additional hour, stirring once during cooking. Serve sprinkled with Parmesan cheese.

Pizza on the Grill

We made pizza on the grill this week! It was so good! You just make up your pizza crust and place it on very well oiled cookie sheet. I put tinfoil down first. It makes less clean up. I preheated the grill for about 10 minutes and then turned it down to low and baked my pizza for about 2o minutes. It was awesome. I didn't have to heat up my house to enjoy a family favorite. This is one of those great things to do in the summer. I love to cook outside and keep my house cool. Especially as we are getting close to 100 and it gets up to 115 where we live! HOT, HOT, HOT!!!!



Before cooking

About 20 minutes later. Hot and yummy pizza and not heat in my house!! The only thing, is that the crust is a tad bit crunchier than if you had cooked it in the oven, so you have to watch it to make sure it doesn't burn.

I made my very own healthy pizza on a whole wheat,Italian flavored, flatbread! Super yummy and diet friendly, but be careful because it will burn if you leave it in to long. You just have to melt the cheese really.

Next time I'm getting poppa Murphey's! YUM!! And I don't think you can get much easier than that!

Easy Chicken Dinner

Barbecue Chicken:

Take 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts and place in a 9 x 13 pan. Smother in Barbecue sauce. Cover pan with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Take chicken out and sprinkle your choice of Colby or mozzarella cheese on top. Replace foil and place chicken back in the oven just until cheese is melted! Super yummy and easy!

Super Yummy Dinner

Easy Sweet Carrots
Honey Chicken (from Simplify Supper)
*I know the picture of the chicken isn't very good but the lighting in my dining room is terrible. I promise it is so much better than what it looks! The carrots are like carrot candy, seriously, I have never seen my kids devour carrots so fast.

Easy Sweet Carrots

3 C baby carrots

1 T butter

1/4 C brown sugar

Cook carrots in boiling water about 15 minutes or until very soft. Drain into colander. Add butter and brown sugar to pan and cook over low until melted and well combined. Return carrots to pan and stir until carrots are well coated.

Honey Chicken

4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts

1/2 C butter

1 C honey

1/4 dijon mustard

2 T curry powder

Line chicken breasts in casserole dish. Melt remaining ingredients in saucepan. Pour sauce over chicken. Cover and bake at 350 for 60 minutes. Remove cover and bake another 30 minutes.

Sour Cream and Salsa Chicken

This is one of those food items that is hard to get a good picture of, but it is one of my very favorite meals. I love crock pots!!

Sour Cream and Salsa Chicken

4 boneless skinless chicken breast-cut in half

1 pkg. taco seasoning
1 c. salsa
¼ cup sour cream
Shredded cheddar cheese

Spray crock pot with Pam, add chicken, sprinkle with taco seasoning and top with salsa. Cook on low for 4-6 hours or high 1 ½ hours to 2 ½ hours. Add sour cream and sprinkle with cheese. Stir until mixed and shred chicken with a fork. Serve with tortillas & Spanish rice. Also awesome on taco salad or quesadillas.

My very favorite way to eat it is to put inside a flour tortilla with tons of fresh spinach and just a touch of ranch dressing. However, I leave out the sour cream when I plan to do this.

We also eat these as a chicken breast. We just leave the sour cream out. So yummy!

Sweet and Sour Chicken

Man! This was so good last week for our Sunday meal that I had to share it. The only thing I would do differently next time is marinate it over night. Delicious

2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 T balsamic vinegar
Juice of 1/2 a lime
Juice of 1/2 a lemon
1/3 C light brown sugar
2 T dijon mustard
1/3 C honey
1 t salt
1/2 t black pepper
4 T olive oil
2 whole chicken breasts, cut in half (skinless, boneless)
Italian Parsley

In a shallow bowl, whisk together the garlic, vinegar, lime and lemon juices, brown sugar, mustard, honey, and salt and pepper. Whisk in the olive oil. Divide the sauce into half. Reserve one half for basting and add the chicken to the other half, turning it to coat it. (this is where I would marinate it over night)
Grill the chicken for 4-5 minutes on each side, or until the juices run clear. During the last minute of grilling, baste the chicken with the remaining sauce. Garnish with parsley. Easy as that. Enjoy