Recipe Help

Here is a very simple recipe I make about once every 2 weeks because my kids and hubby love it. And I love it because it only takes about 30 minutes total.
Ravioli Bake
1 pound ground beef browned in skillet
1 jar spaghetti sauce
1 pound frozen cheese ravioli(most bags are about 1 pound)
mozzarella cheese

Boil ravioli according to directions on bag and drain water when done. Add browned ground beef and jar of spaghetti sauce to ravioli and put into a 9 x 13 baking pan. Top with mozzarella cheese and bake in the oven at 375 for about 15-20 min. Until cheese is melted and slightly golden. I make frozen garlic bread on the side and serve with salad.

Hi B., I'm a mom of 6 and this recipe is a great hit with all the picky eaters and hubby who wants a meat and potatoes meal. Plus you can look up recipes on kraftfoods.com where this recipe came from. I also get a magazine from them called Food and Family and it is awesome!!

Cheesy Ham and Rice Bake---
2 cups minute rice, uncooked
1 can(103/4oz.)condensed cream of mushroom soup
2 cups of milk
1/4 cup of miracle whip
1pkg. of chopped ham they rec. 16 oz
2 cups frozen peas
1/2 cup shredded chedder cheese
Preheat oven to 425. Mix everything up except the cheese, cover and bake for 20 min. in a casserole baking dish.
Uncover and sprinkle with cheese, bake 10 min. more or until rice is tender and cheese is melted.
Great dish with stuff you already have on hand and CHEAP(my favorites)
M.

I like allrecipes.com too and they have Quick an Easy recipes on there and How To Videos that you can watch to see how to make the recipes. Also if you get a crockpot, there are many easy meals you can make in that. Good luck!

Here is a GREAT website from the magainze "Real Simple". They also have a show on PBS Saturday mornings. It's called "Fake it, Don't Make it". I LOVE IT!

http://food.realsimple.com/realsimple/recipefinder.dyn?ac...

Hi

There is a book called "A man, A Can and a Plan" - it is made to be VERY simple for men/bachelor types. My husband got it from his mother, but it happens that there are several recipes I really like - even the Tuna Pot pie!!
Also consider checking out www.savingdinner.com or the book of the dame name.
or Print your free Menu!
www.savingdinner.com/.../free_dinner_menu.html

My advice is - Keep a good sense of humor!
Best of luck - A. C

Let me think up a couple-

BARBEQUE CHICKEN- Throw chicken breast and/or legs in baking dish, then pour BBQ sauce over them & bake for about 20-30 mins @ about 350 degrees. You can always check your chicken for doneness by pulling back some meat from the bone- if no blood/pink then it is done. Cook some frozen veggies on the stove top to go along.

CHILI- Brown some hamburger & drain, add a couple cans of tomato sauce, pack of Chili Seasoning, chopped onion, can of Kidney beans, black beans, chili beans and if needed a little water or more tomato sauce. Basically- Just add what ever & how much of it you feel, make it as think or thin as you want! Very easy, ready when hot. We love to have ours w/ chips, sour cream & cheese on top!

OK, now I am hungry! I love to cook & love helping those who want to learn. I think I specialize in the word "simple" so if you are ever stuck or trying to think of something new feel free to email me @ ____@____.com- thought of another great one... for lunches

BEANIE WEANIES- Super easy... Cut up some hot dogs into a pot or pan, pour in one or two cans of baked beans & heat... YOU’RE DONE! Sometimes I even add a little ketchup.

Please feel free to email me any time w/ any cooking questions-I could just go on w/ ideas- HA!

This site has some really good recipe ideas and I think it would help you quite a bit. I use it alot.

http://www.allrecipes.com

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Hi B.,

I have a recipe that is simple and cheap...

Chicken and Dumplings

what you need

(1 whole chicken) or (two cans chicken breast chunks and 1 can chicken broth)
4 cans pop up biscuits
chicken boullion cubes (optional)
salt & pepper
A large pot or saucepan

If you use the canned chicken just throw it in with the canned broth, add some water and bring to boil...then do the biscuits (tear into pieces) and when they float to the top you are done...

Boil chicken in large stockpot...
save the broth and debone the chicken, I take a strainer and a large bowl, after I get all the chicken out of the pan and have the bowl of broth I pour the broth in my stockpot and then when the chicken is deboned I throw that in to boil...
Once it is boiling good you pop open the biscuits and tear them into pieces (about four is good) and throw them in the stockpot, I use about four cans....

McCormick Meatloaf seasoning mix....this makes a killer meatloaf...and it has the recipe and variations on the back of the package...I know they sell it at wal-mart

Beans and cornbread
Anyone can do this and I suggest a crockpot for easy cooking, if not you have to remember to add water!

If you like homeade breads Rhodes has rolls and loaves in the freezer dept...just thaw, let it rise and bake!

Breakfast burritos...now that you know how to make scrambled eggs you could add a few things to spice it up, I use sausage, bell pepper, onions, cheddar cheese and picante sauce.

Just a few ideas...happy cooking!

My favorite cookbooks are Ann Byrn and her Doctor books: Cake Mix, Cupcake, Chocolate, and DINNER Doctor books. Her recipes use convinience foods, are fast and easy, and best of all, yummy! I have yet to try a recipe of hers that doesn't work. I cannot recommend her books highly enough. I'm the one my friends and family come to for food help, and she's the one I go to! You can find them just about anywhere: I saw her cupcake book at Lowe's Hardware, heehee! Check your library, too, in case you want to do a trial run before purchase.
Plus, you can email me too, just like everyone else I know does. Sharing recipes makes me feel useful, heh. (____@____.com)
I'm always happy to help in the kitchen!

J.

I love kraftfoods.com and allrecipes.com

http://www.kraftfoods.com

These are wonderful recipes for families. Have and Enjoy!!!!

Cooking is a lot of fun.

Here is a very easy homemade chicken and noodles recipe sure to please. Take a whole chicken or a couple leg quarters cover with water and add 1 small chopped onion and 2 celery stalks chopped. Bring to boil cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes remove just the chicken, once it cools enough for you to take the meat off the bones, chop and throw back in the pan with the broth, onion and celery. add 6 ckicken bullion cubes and bring back to a slow boil. In a bowl put 3 cups all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon salt and 1 large egg. mix and turn out onto a floured board, roll out to 1/4 inch thick, use a pizza cutter to cut strips and drop into boiling pot. stir occassionally and let cook 15 to 20 minutes more, it should thicken some as it cools. My family love the homemade noodles it really hits the spot on a chilly day. good luck, T. k.
p.s. you can add chopped carrots, corn, any vegetable you like.

I know that Tuna Helper is easy and actually pretty good. And Hamburger helper is easy. Another is chicken with mushroom gravy, You take 2 - 3 chicken (boneless breast) and campbells mushroom soup *(mix with milk and water) cook in the oven 1 to 1 1/2 hours (depending on size of chicken) serve over rice.
Also easy meals are the "frozen meals in a bag". you just add meat. they give the directions on the back of the bags. Good luck with your learning to cook. It can be fun.

Also on the food network is Semi-homade with Sanda Lee. She uses already prepared storebought ingredients and adds other ingredients to it to make it something compleatly different.

Go to www.cooks.com, they have great recipes there and you can print them off, I think they have recipes for everything you can think of.

B.,
I recently held a potluck/recipe exchange. Everyone brought their favorite dish and copies of the recipe to exchange. It was a big success and I got a lot great recipe ideas from it. The nice thing about it was, I got to tryout the recipe before making it to see if I would even like it.
M. G.

B., If you get Food Network check out Rachel Ray(shes on from 5-6 at night during the week) her recipes are super easy and her cookbooks(found everywhere including sams/costco) are very easy to follow with lots of 'normal' ingredients!! Give me a week or so( I have 2 just your kids ages) and I'll put together an email for you of easy recipes-I love to cook and bake but have narrowed my montly menu to things that can be done in 30 min max when we get home from work with the boys, i also use my crockpot a ton and will get you some of those recipes- makes it nice to prep food for 10 min and let it do its thing all day then have a hot meal when you walk in the door!! Email me at ____@____.com and remind me to send you recipes, I"ll work on them for you!!

Girl, get yourself a crock pot and go to wally world and check out Banquets crock dinners. the chicken and dumplins are the bomb, the beef stew too, they have several things and they have everything in them to be nutritional

queen

I made up this recipe, I really hope you try it.

Boil 1 whole chicking, or a package of chicken quarters. Season the water with some salt, and pepper, maybe chicken bullion. (or boil it in chicken broth)

Boil untill the meat starts to fall off the bones.

Use a fork and take all the chicken and bones outbut keep the broth.

let chicken and bones cool to the side.

Make Bisquick, like you were going to make biscuts.

roll dough out like making a pie crust. when rolled place it in the bottom of a pie dish.

preheat oven to 350 degrees.

cut chunks of Velveta cheese and place in bottom of pie crust.

remove chicken from the the bones, then cut chicken into small pieces. Place chicken pieces on top of cheese in pie crust.

cut more chunks of cheese and place on top of chicken.

make another pie crust, when rolled, place it on top of pie. and pinch around the sides of pie dish to hold together (like making an apple pie)

poke holes in top of crust. Put in oven.

take left over broth and make gravy with flour or corn starch. (mix flour or cornstarch in a cup with water, pour into sauce pan with broth, stir on medium until thickened)

Make a veggie or potatoes as a side.

pie should be done in roughly a half hour top will be slightly golden.

pour gravy over each slice served, on potatoes if you made them.

Great meal. Very filling, wonderful taste.

Kraftfoods.com easy and simple

Good for you, B.! I use the website kraftfoods.com a lot for simple recipes for weekday meals. They tend to use ingredients that you usually have on hand and are family-oriented. But, they can be as complicated as you want. Good luck!

Hi,
One of the easy sites I use is www.mrbreakfast.com He has some really easy breakfast recipes. I believe he has other recipes for other meals. I think his wife has a site as well. I hope this helps! His Easy Banana Bread recipe is one of my favorites!!
Thanks,
D.

Another crockpot recipe that I have is take 1 whole chicken season with seasoning salt & pepper. Take about 6 pototoes individually wrap the potatoes in foil and then place the potatoes into the bottom of the crockpot then place your whole chicken (breast down) on top of the potatoes. Cook on low for 8 hours in the crockpot. Once again at the end of the day you have a great chicken & potatoes dinner! This is very good the entire family loves it!

I also have a great/easy Italian beef recipe (this can also be made in the crockpot)

And for chicken enchiladas
Chicken baseballs (Great for kids)
Zatarain's Red beans and rice cooked with smoked sausage is also very good and easy. The recipe is on the box.
I have all kind of goodies for the family let me know what you guys like and I can see what I have.

Two cook books I really like are The Joy of cooking (the old one) and Betty Croker. Also a good staple at our house is spegatti.

Boil water I fill up the biggest pot I own
When boiling add noddles
They take about 10 minutes to be reay. Take one out and test it for flavor. We use thin spegatti
Brown 1 pound of meat
Add spegatti sause simmer for till noodles are ready.

Then sevre with veggies I steam mine I put the water amd frozen veggie on the stove when I start cooking.

I also use pisbery breads. Just follow the directions on the package.

Everyone in my home loves Taco Cups
You will need
1 roll of Grands Flaky Layer Biscuits
1 lb of Hamburger Meat
Taco Seasoning
Cheese and Whatever else your family likes on their tacos
Brown the meat and season it .
1/2 the biscuits and flatten them with your hand and put them into a muffin tin. Fill with meat and put in the oven following the biscuit baking directions. Take them out and top them with whatever you want.
Hope this helps!

Hi, B. my name is B. I am new here and just seen your request. I seen there has alreay been alot of responses to your request so I have a very nice easy, less fat cake recipe from weight watchers it is really good and my whole family loves it. Just take any flavor cake mix and 1 diet soda and just mix the 2 together try to stay with dark soda with dark cake and lite soda with lite cake. Mix it toghter and put it a pam sprayed cake pan in the preheated oven for whatever time the box of cake mix calls for. And for the frosting you can just add reg. or you can mix fat free cool wip and 1 little box of fat free pudding mix together and that makes the frosting. Hope you try and like it. If you have any questions about anything just let me know.

I am a mother of 4 ranging from 24 ( he's out of the house) to twins 6 years old. Cooking has NEVER been a gift I was blessed with but....God, in His infinite wisdom, created "Pass Your Plate!!!" I have compared the cost to grocery shopping, including time spent on making a list shopping for all ingredients and then preparation and Pass Your Plate wins with flying colors. It's a new place that has everythng you need to put together entre's and take them home to the freezer!!! The web site is passyourplate.com and it has completely changed my life!!! CHeck it out!

I consider myself a foodie! I am a big fan of the Rachel Ray Cook books- they are easy and most of the recipes are REALLY good! The only drawback is they usually require a LOT of ingridients!
I learned to make a lot of "classic" foods from the Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook. The red and white one.
If you don't want to buy a book- check out the food network's website. They have TONS of recipes that are rated- and the easy rated ones are pretty much fool proof!

Bon A Petit!
-B. P

You an add almost anything to macaroni and cheese. Like tuna, peas and/or carrots or hamburger meat.
Here's an easy casserole dish.
Cook desired amount of rice, mix cream of mushroom soup put in the bottom of a baking pan place seasoneed chicked breasts on top and bake at 350 for 30-45 minutes depending on the amount of chicken in the pan.

try www.cooks.com i find a tons of my recipies on there.

Hello. I can't cook that much either, so I go the www.kraftfoods.com and they have some easy recipes that will be great for you. I love it. Now my kids think that I can actually cook.... :)

You can go to www.debbiescountrycookin.com - there are a lot of good recipes there. I also suggest looking at the boxes of things such as bisquick...I also have tons and tons of recipes...if you are ever looking for something specific, send out a request and you will most likely hear from many - plus me.