Spaghetti Soup

Spaghetti Soup

Ingredients

• 1 lb Hamburger Meat
• 1 Small Onion
• 1 Can Rotel
• 1 Can Tomato Paste
• 2 cups Beef Broth
• 1 pkg Spaghetti Noodles

Cooking Directions

1. Cut up a small onion and add it to a skillet with your hamburger meat.
2. In a large pan boil water, add broken spaghetti noodles into thirds (small pieces)
3. Drain noodles and add back to pan.
4. To the pan add beef broth, Rotel, tomato paste, and cooked hamburger meat with onions.
5. Mix and allow to simmer 10 mins.

My family really enjoyed this one, but my favorite was using the leftovers the next day for a quick dinner. I added a can of corn and chopped green olives to change it up a bit. 

Tortilla Bowls...Not so easy

Turn your muffin pan upside down, spray with cooking spray and Bake for 10 min at 375 degrees.

I saw the above photo somewhere floating around the internet. I just knew I had to try it. So I went out and bought tortilla and all the fixings to make taco salad, but when I started to make these bowls. I found out that I only had a 6 muffin pan and this cool trick requires a large size one. I went ahead and tired it.

They did not turn out like I hoped.

The two on the right are from placing them on the back side of my very small muffin pan. The two on the left are from laying them on top of my bunt cake pan center. I found out that I really didn't like the way they turned out. I will experiment with this more in the future.

What have you tried? Did it turn out as planned? Better? Worse? What would you have done differently?

Sausage and Cheese Waffles

Waffles are a new favorite around our house since I learned how to use my new Waffle Stix Maker. This morning I wanted to try something a little different. I was thinking wouldn't it be nice to have an all in one type breakfast. So what I decided to do was add sausage and cheese to my waffle mix. That's it. It's that simple. And they turned out so good. 

Easy Sausage and Cheese Waffles

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups Easy waffle dry mix
• 1 Egg
• 1 cup Milk
• 3 tbsp Vegetable Oil
• 1/2 cup Crumbled Sausage
• 1/2 cup Shredded Cheese

Cooking Directions

1. Mix all ingredients together. Cook and enjoy.

My whole family loved these. I plan to make sausage and cheese waffles more often.

Lazy tip: I used precook sausage links and just chopped them up small. Also I didn't have shredded cheese so I just used sliced cheese cut into pieces. Use what you have. 

Easy make ahead Waffle Mix

I recently purchased a waffle stick maker at a yard sale, I have never made waffles before so I was completely new to the world of waffle making. However I have come to learn that in most cases waffle mix is the same as pancake mix.

 

I like to make my mix in bulk so that it's faster for me later.

Here is the mix I use I store mine in a large glass jar that use to hold pickles.

Bulk Waffle Mix

6 cups of all purpuse flour
3/8 cup sugar
1/4 cup baking powder
2 tsp salt

Mix dry ingredients together and place in reusable container.

Wet ingredients:

1 egg
1 cup Milk
3 tbsp Vegetable Oil

Directions:

Place 1 1/2 cups of dry ingredients in a bowl and add wet ingredients. 
Mix well. 
Cook and enjoy.  

Tip if you like a little more flavor you can add a little cinnamon to the dry ingredients before adding the wet.
Again you can also use this recipe for pancakes.

Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti

This is a favorite around my house. I make this at least 2 or 3 times a month. I change it up a bit from time to time but the basic recipe is just as good. 

Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti 

• 1 can Rotel
• 2 cooked chicken breasts shredded or chopped.
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup
• 1 pack of spaghetti noodles (any pasta is good)
• 1/4 brick of Velveeta 

1. Cook noodles as directed, cook chicken and chop or shred it up. 
2. Place chicken in a large pot. 
3. Add cheese to the pot in small cubes so that it is easier to melt. 
4. Add can of cream of mushroom soup and Rotel. 
5. Once cheese is melted and ingredients are hot, combine with spaghetti and serve. 

A few things I like to add or sub:


Add:

• Mushrooms
• Peas

Sub:

• Cream of mushroom soup with cream of chicken soup
• Velveeta for always save cheese.
• spaghetti noodles with bowtie noodles
• Rotel with always save green chilies and tomatoes.

Quick noodles with pork sausage and veggies

Yesterday I created a fast meal with what I had, which wasn't much, but the family really enjoyed it. I know a food blog isn't the same without photos, I promise I'm working on it. I seem to never have a camera or phone around when I need it. Any way here is the recipe.

Quick noodles with pork sausage and veggies

• Frozen veggies 
• 1 family size box of ranch bacon pasta salad 
• 1 roll of pork bacon sausage  (this was on sale at Reasors)

1. Fix pasta salad as directed. 
2. Heat frozen veggies as directed. 
3. Cook pork sausage. 
4. Combine together and you're done.

Pancakes from scratch

This morning I ran out of breakfast food, so I thought. I only had 3 eggs left in the refrigerator and there is 3 of us this morning. However I didn't have any bread or other side items to make a complete meal, so I decided to make pancakes from scratch. They turned out pretty darn good.

Pancakes from scratch

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 tsp backing powder
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 2 tbsp butter (melted)

1. Add all dry ingredients to a bowl and mix.
2. In a different bowl whisk together eggs and milk.
3. Add the eggs and milk mixture to the dry ingredients until smooth.
4. Stir the melted butter into the mixture.
5. Cook and serve.

This mixture made around 7 or 8 pancakes for my family. Which was far more then we needed.

*Tip - If mixture is too thick add a little more milk.

I could never get pancakes right until one day my sister made me some and they were excellent. I asked her how she did it and she told me the trick was to wait patiently before turning, and to have a hot pan. Pour batter into the hot pan and wait till the mix starts to set up and bubble. once it's bubbling all over then it should be time to flip.

Ever since then, I do pretty good with my pancakes. Thanks sis!