Lasagna Soup

I found a recipe on Pinterest the other day and it looked good but included some things I knew my family wouldn't care for like onions and green peppers, and excluded things that I thought would be really tasty like minced garlic and ricotta cheese. :) So here is my twist on this tasty recipe! 

Lasagna Soup

1 1/2 lb ground beef or turkey

1 clove of garlic, minced

2 large cans of tomato sauce (mine were 29 oz. each)

1 can diced tomatoes

1/2 cup Ricotta cheese

1 tsp.Italian seasoning

1/2 cup Cheddar cheese

1/2 lb. lasagna noodles, broken into pieces 

2 1/2 cups chicken broth

For garnish: 

Mozarella cheese

garlic or Italian croutons

Preheat a large pot or dutch oven to med-high and brown your ground beef, salt, pepper, and minced garlic together. Drain excess grease and return to pot. 

Add your diced tomatoes, both cans of tomato sauce, Italian seasoning, chicken broth, and your lasagna noodles to the pot and mix it all together. 

Cover and simmer on med-low for approximately 1 hour. 

Add your Ricotta cheese and mix together well. 

Cover and resume simmering for another 1/2 hour or until your noodles are as tender as you prefer them. 

Add your cheddar cheese and mix together until melted throughout and remove from heat. 

Ladle soup out into bowls and top with mozzarella cheese and croutons to your liking. 

That's it! Easy as that! :) 

Jackie's Salisbury Steak

• 1 1/2 lb. ground chuck
• 1 can Campbell's French Onion soup
• 1 packet of Lipton's Onion Soup Mix
• 1 can Cream of Mushroom soup 
• 1/2 cup bread crumbs
• 1 egg 
• 1 TBSP All purpose flour
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 TBSP Worcestershire sauce
• 4 oz. fresh mushrooms
• salt & pepper

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. 

In a large bowl mix ground beef, 1/4 cup of French Onion soup, bread crumbs, egg, salt & pepper. Shape into oval patties, and brown both sides in a large skillet.

Place into a oven safe casserole dish, and set aside. 

SAUCE: 

Mix together the remaining French Onion soup, packet of Onion Soup Mix, cream of mushroom soup,  flour, ketchup, water, and Worcestershire sauce. Stir until well blended and pour over steaks. 

In 1/2 olive oil, 1/2 butter, saute your mushrooms until soft, and then mix into the top of the sauce. 

Bake in the oven for 45 minutes, and serve with mashed potatoes and whatever else you like. 

Sloppy Grilled Cheese

I found this recipe on Pinterest (thanks Kellie!) and it needed all this stuff that don't really like, such as green and red peppers. So, I took the idea and made my own. 

It only took about 20 minutes to make and the kids didn't leave 1 crumb on their plates, HAHA

Sloppy Grilled Cheese

1 can of Manwich Sloppy Joe Sauce

1 lb. ground chuck

1/2 an onion, chopped

shredded sharp cheddar cheese

sliced bread

butter or margarine

First, brown up your ground chuck with the chopped onion. 

Prepare Manwich with the beef as it says on the can (I only used about 2/3 of the can so it wouldn't be so messy)

Set to the side.

Heat your pan on medium high, and while it's heating up butter all of your bread. 

Put your bread in the hot pan (if it's not sizzling, then you put it on too early) 

 Put on 2 TBSP of cheese, 3 TBSP of Sloppy Joe meat, and then 2 more TBSP of cheese. Top with another slice of bread. 

Fry in the pan until both sides are golden brown, and 

VIOLA!!!!! 

You've got yourself a super easy, super tasty recipe for Sloppy Grilled Cheeses! 

Italian Mozzarella Stuffed Meatloaf

This is my husbands favorite recipe. He requests it on a monthly basis, and I make it quite often! :) It's very easy to make, and super, super yummy. We usually serve it with a salad and garlic bread. 

Ingredients: 

2 lb ground chuck

1 egg

1 jar of spaghetti sauce 

1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese

2/3 cup of bread crumbs

salt 

pepper

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. 

Mix together 1/3 cup of the jarred spaghetti sauce, ground chuck, salt & pepper (I didn't put much, since hubby has hypertension), the egg, and bread crumbs. 

Smush together with clean hands until well blended. 

Lay flat in a casserole dish, but make sure there are no holes in the meat as you flatten. Holes will cause the cheese to leak out and harden.

sprinkle 1 cup of cheese down the middle of the meat. 

Press in the ends and roll up like you would a jelly roll.

(You can use THIS picture as reference on how to roll it) 

Shape into a loaf and top with 1/2 of the left over sauce. 

Bake in the oven for 40 minutes, then take out and drain off grease. Top with remaining spaghetti sauce, and cheese. 

Bake for 30 more minutes, and then it's DONE! :) 

Beth's Chili

I had a craving for some chili, so I went online to look for recipes. Well, they were demanding all kinds of ingredients and almost made me give up. So here's a easy recipe that only needs a few ingredients, but tastes delicious. This is for a stove top chili, but I think it will work in a crock pot or slow cooker. This makes roughly 12 servings.

Ingredients:

2 pounds lean hamburger
48 ounces of tomato sauce
1 whole vidalia onion
2 whole green peppers
2 cans of red kidney beans
1 can of pinto beans
1 clove of fresh garlic (you only need 3 bulbs of it)
2 tablespoons of crushed red pepper
2 packets of chili seasoning

Directions

Brown the hamburger and drain the grease.
Chop onion and add to pot.
Remove seeds from green peppers and chop. Add to pot.
Drain the kidney and pinto beans and add to pot.
Finely chop the 3 bulbs of garlic and add to pot.
Add the tomato sauce.
Add the burger.
Add the crushed red pepper and the chili seasoning. Stir until well blended.
Get it to a boil. Then simmer with a lid for 6-8 hours stirring occasionally.
DO NOT WORRY. IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S NOT ENOUGH SAUCE AT FIRST, BUT THERE IS.

Now this isn't a spicy chili. You can add more kick to it if your family enjoys a spicy chili. Or cut out the crushed red pepper if you want a really mild chili. This is a medium chili.

Serve steaming hot with shredded cheese, sour cream, chives, and oyster crackers if you wish! Nothing is better to curl up with than a nice big hot bowl of delicious chili!