What's for Dinner!? - Akron,OH

Ooooh! Go to www.supercook.com!! It's exactly the site you need :) You type in the ingredients you have and it gives you recipes you can make with what you have. The more ingredients you have, the more options it gives you. It will ask if you have more, too. If you type in ground beef, cheese, etc it will start asking if you have...pasta, onion, garlic, corn,etc - you can say yes to as much of it as you want (and you have). It's great for these times when you are at the end of the week and before payday --soooooo understand THAT one! Or, if you don't feel like running out for extra ingredients.
Good luck!!

I would do breakfast for dinner. Slice the Italian sausage lengthwise & fry it up until brown & crispy. Drain on paper towels. In the same pan (for the flavor) make cheese omelettes & serve with the sausage & toast w/ butter. Ta-da!!!

Well, dinner doesn't have to be fancy :) If that's what I had, I would make:

Sauteed chicken breast (seasoned with Adobo, or Lawry's, or just S&P), white rice and green beans.

You could also make hamburger patties instead of chicken.

Or maybe you could fashion an Italian-style meatloaf out of the beef and sausage and serve with noodles? I guess it just depends on how creative you want to get.

Good luck!

Meatloaf! I was going to say with mashed potatos and grean beans, but you didn't say you had potatos. Maybe the rice with it!?

throw some chicken breast in the oven in a glass dish with a slice of butter on it and some seasoning, bake them. sautee some green beans and make a pot of rice.

I would use the chicken, corn, and rice. Cut up the chicken and cook it with the corn. Do you have salsa? If so add it and maybe even the garbanzo's (although this is usually good with black beans). Serve with rice on the side or under. You could also make like a white chile with the chicken, corn, and garbanzo beans. Use the cheese to top either meal.

Brown the hamburger, throw in the green bean WITH the juice and top with 2 cans of chicken gumbo soup....serve with a side of instant mash potatoes..its a poor mans version of sheppards pie.

Otherwise I would could cook the chicken, throw in the corn, with rice and butter, can of cream of "something" soup and seasonings.

Lastly, cook the sausage, cut it up into little pieces, Cook noodles, throw in spaghetti sauce, top with cheese and bake for 350 til cheese is bubbly...service a side of the buttered bread

YEAH I just gave you 3 meals :):)

Well you could make egg casserole. My husband likes to make this but I find it rather bland. All you do is tear up some bread (6 to 8 slices) and put it in the bottom of a baking dish. Put the cooked sausage on top. Add cheese (and usually mushrooms or peppers or onions but you don't have them so no big deal) on top. Beat eggs and milk (about 1.5 cups milk and 5 or 6 eggs). Add salt and pepper. Pour on top of bread and meat. Bake at 350 for 30 to 40 minutes until brown.

Hi MommyCakes---Here's a great recipe that my MIL made for my husband. The recipe calls for round or chuck cut into slices, but she would always use ground beef. I would definitely get some brown rice to have as a staple...so much healthier, but the white rice would be fine.
Enjoy !

Beef and Green Beans, Chinese Style

1 clove garlic
1/2 small onion
1/2 lb beef (ground, round or chuck sliced thin)
1 T oil (or less)
2 pkgs frozen cut green beans
1 t salt
1/2 C beef bullion
1 T cornstarch
1 T soy sauce
1/4 C water
Mince the garlic and onion. Cut beef into thin, small slices. Place oil and salt in hot skillet; add beef, garlic and onion. Saute, stirring constantly, until meat is browned. Add frozen beans and bullion, cook over low heat 10 minutes.

Combine cornstarch, soy sauce and cold water. Stir into meat mixture and cook until liquid thickens, stirring constantly. Serve with rice. Makes 4 servings, about 175 calories each.

Note: I always start with browning the gr beef first then adding the onion and garlic. Drain the liquid and go from there. Be sure to NOT overcook the beans. It can happen quickly.

We don't eat much meat at our house any longer so the next recipe doesn't happen much cuz we don't eat big chunks of meat...usually eating it only in soups or stews. Too much meat leads to diseases so check out www.pcrm.org if you are interested in knowing more. So if I ever made these chicken breasts again, our family of 4 would be sharing 1 lb. of chicken.

With the chicken breasts, I would take and crush corn flakes or something similar. You could also use seasoned bread crumbs. Season as desired. I then took mayonnaise and spread it all over the chicken. Roll the chicken in the crumbs and bake in a 325 degree oven until juices run clear.

Corn is very yummy when 'roasted' on the stove. Take a pan at med high heat. Put a small bit of oil in the pan to keep from sticking. You can add small amounts of water while cooking if it starts to cook. Add some finely cut red pepper to saute slightly, cumin and maybe some cayenne pepper to kick it up a notch. Let the corn brown before adding remaining ingredients. Stir in some cut green onions just before removing from heat. Rally pretty.

I also go to these websites when I have no idea of what to prepare for dinner. www.vegetariantimes.com and www.eatingwell.com. Putting chicken in the search box will get way too many hits, but put garbanzo beans in, or any other smaller ingredient and you can narrow your search that way.

Good luck. Feel free to contact me for more ideas. D.

Sorry if you already heard about this, but: Go to supercook.com!

I learned of this site when I read about someone asking the same question as you. You pop in what you have on hand and it gives you different recipes!

Hope it helps!

I would make kid mush my kids love it, hubby eats it. Its 1lb ground beef browned. 1 cup corn cooked and 1 cup rice cooked mix together season to taste.

I'm making Thai Peanut noodles (rice kind) and chicken!!! I love anything all things Thia

hmm I would probably make pasta fagioli (sp) my MIL used to make, saute italian sausage in a bit of oil, add some garlic or onion (if you have it) a tomato or 2 tbsp of tomato paste, celery or celery salt(if using celery, use the leaves too!), add garbanzo beans, water, add pasta (or rice) and cook as a soup. sounds a bit weird, but its delicious, it can be made soupy or cooked down with less water to be "dry"
or.. choose a meat, saute, add the green beans (and corn if you like), cook rice, add butter, mix it all up, add grated mozzarella & bake it as a casserole

I go to www.kraftfoods.com and put in the ingredients I have. They list recipes with those ingredients.

meat loaf...you can use the eggs and cheese for that....

side of corn

since you have rice - do rice as the starch instead of the mashed potatoes