Easy Lasagna

This is the easiest recipe for lasagna I've ever seen. Don't worry about pre-cooking the noodles; they soften up in the oven.

Ingredients:

• uncooked lasagna noodles
• 24 oz. cottage cheese
• 1 pound hamburger (or wild game burger ... I just made this with ground venison), cooked and drained
  
• 26 oz. spaghetti sauce
• grated cheese (I prefer mozzarella and a little bit of parmesan)

Directions:
Layer the noodles, cottage cheese, burger, sauce and cheese in a 9x13 pan. Repeat until the pan is full. Cover pan tightly with aluminum foil and bake at 350 for 1 hour. Remove foil and continue to bake for 15 minutes. Remove and enjoy!

Stuffed Peppers

These seriously were delicious and only 290 calories. 


Ingredients
- 6 large bell peppers (any color)
- 1 pound ground beef (we substitute ground turkey, cause I am a freak like that, makes it less fatty)
- 2 tablespoon chopped onion
- 1 cup cooked rice
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 clove of garlic, finely chopped
- 1  15 oz can of tomato sauce (I think next time we will use a little more than this)
- 3/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (we may have used more than this but if so it wasn't much)


Directions
- Cut the stem out of the peppers and clean membrane and seeds out.  Rinse. 
- Cook peppers in enough boiling water to cover them for 5 minutes and then drain
- Cook the beef and the onion in a skillet over medium heat for 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally until beef is brown, drain.
- Stir in the rice, salt, garlic, and 1 cup of the tomato sauce, and cook until it is hot.
- Stuff peppers in the beef mixture, and place in a casserole dish.
-Pour the remaining tomato sauce over the stuffed peppers
- Cover and bake for 45 minutes, and then uncover and bake for 15 more minutes, or until peppers are tender. 
-Sprinkle with cheese.


Seriously these are delicious, and super filling!  If you use extra tomato sauce I would recommend adding it to the beef and rice mixture just to give it more  of a sauce taste, but still good without it too.

Personal Pizza's

We enjoy pizza at our house, but not everyone enjoys the same delicious toppings. We would normally just use a loaf of french bread as our crust, but Ryker can't seem to get his mouth open that wide.

Rhoades Rolls -Texas size ones (the frozen dough balls)

pizza sauce (you can buy some tomato sauce and season it or already seasoned stuff)

mozzarella cheese, shredded

toppings

-sausage - cook it on the stove in a skillet to put on your pizza. We use Sage Jimmy Dean I think.

-pepperoni

-ham - sometimes we use lunch meat cut into pieces

-pineapple

-green peppers

-mushrooms

-anything that tickles your fancy! Be creative!

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Thaw the dough balls and work them out into circles for the crust. Place them on a greased cookie sheet. After you have as many as will fit, usually 6, put them in the oven for about 7-10 minutes until the crusts start to get golden spots on them. Pull them out and put on the toppings! Sauce, then meats, then cheese last (sometimes we will put a little bit of cheese on the sauce and melt it in the oven before we put the rest of the toppings on. We like cheese at our house!) After applying the toppings, put the pizza back into the oven for another 7-10 minutes until the cheese is bubbly and getting golden spots on the top.

Creamy Macaroni and Cheese With Chicken

We love macaroni and cheese at our house. We were excited to find another homemade recipe that makes me feel like my family is getting a little more nutrition than Kraft provides. I halfed the recipe and cooked it in an 8"x8" baking pan and it was perfect for the 3 of us.

1 lb cooked and seasoned chicken (how I did mine below)

2 10 3/4 oz cans Cheddar Cheese Soup

1 c. sour cream

16 oz pkg. elbow macaroni (this is about 2 cups of uncooked pasta. I always do overflowing cups)

2 c. shredded Cheddar cheese

12 round buttery crackers, crushed (we used Club crackers. . .worked awesome!)

2 T. butter, melted

Mix soup and sour cream together until well blended. Toss cooked macaroni and chicken in soup mixture then spread in a buttered 13"x9" baking pan. Cover with cheese. Mix crushed crackers with melted butter and sprinkle on top. Bake, uncovered, at 375 degrees for 20 minutes, until bubbly and golden. Serves 8.

Chicken - cut the chicken into bite sized pieces and cook in a skillet. Season to taste with seasoning salt, garlic powder, onion powder, pepper.

Cake Cookies

I can still remember the first time I ever had these and makes me smile :)


Ingredients
1 box of cake (I use confetti cake, never had it with any other flavor)
1/3 cup of oil
2 eggs
1 container of frosting (your choice, I have confetti to go with my cake mix)


Directions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Combine cake, oil, and eggs
- Spoon onto baking sheet (I am not going to tell you how big you want your cookies, make them as big as you like)
- Bake 6-10 minutes
- Let cool, Frost bottom side and fit together like an oreo

These seriously are delicious and kids will LOVE them!

Easy Chicken Pot Pie

This takes like 5 minutes to prepare and is super tasty!


Ingredients
2 cups cut up chicken
1 - 10 oz frozen mixed vegetables package (thaw)
1 1/4 cup milk
1 envelop of Lipton Golden Onion Soup Mix
1 Pie crust (Since they are in the freezer section sold in packs of two I used two)

Directions
- Preheat oven to 400
- In a 9 inch pie plate combine chicken and veggies and set aside (If you are using 2 pie crusts put the pie crust down in the pie plate and then combine chicken and veggies in crust)
- In Saucepan bring milk and soup mix to boil, cook 1 minute
- Stir into chicken mixture
-Top with the pie crust
- Press Pastry around edges to seal
- With a knife make small slits on top of crust
- Back uncovered 35 minutes or until golden (I put my pie pan on a cookie sheet just in case it spilled over while cooked I wouldn't have a mess in my oven)

Savory Chicken with Biscuits

If you like chicken and biscuits this is the recipe for you!  Heavenly!

Ingredients
2 T. Olive oil
1 lb. Chicken Breast cut into 1 inch pieces
1 medium onion chopped (we used a white onion)
1 cup thinly sliced carrots
1 cup thinly sliced celery
1 envelope Lipton Golden Onion Soup Mix
1 cup of milk
1 pkg. buttermilk biscuits


Directions
- Preheat the oven to 400
- In 12 inch skillet heat the olive oil and cook the chicken
- Stir in onion, carrots, and celery
- Stir in Soup Mix, blended with milk
- Bring to a boil, and cook 1 minute
- Put in 2 qt casserole dish
- Arrange the biscuits on top
- Bake 10 minutes or until the biscuits are golden

This was really good, and I will definitely be making it and freezing it once we get closer to school starting!

Easy Chicken Bake

As you already know I love Easy, so when the title of this was Easy I was all over it!

Ingredients
1 - 6 oz pkg. chicken stuffing mix (we use stove top)
1 1/2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast cut into 1 inch pieces
1 - 10 3/4 oz can of cream of chicken soup
1/3 cup Sour Cream
1 - 16 oz pkg. frozen mixed vegetables, thawed and drained (or if they are in season fresh veggies work well)


Directions
-Preheat oven to 400
- Prepare stuffing as directed on the pkg. and set aside
- In 9x13 baking dish mix chicken, soup, sour cream, and vegetables
- Top with stuffing
- Bake 30 minutes or until chicken is cooked

This turned out freaking delicious!  Next time I will add some 1 inch cubes of mozzarella cheese in there as well to give it a little cheese taste.