Okay, so I am supposed to post some recipes we like which is ridiculously hard for me at the moment to do this because on Monday I started doing a "diet game" with some friends from church. I'm doing weight watchers points and exercising my butt off! I hope to lose a few baby pounds, although I am back to where I started before Kylie but I need to lose some of that as well! Hopefully I can stick with it, but it's hard when I'm reading all the recipes from some of my college friends and they sound delicious!
Here's a list of some of our faves:
1)Gumbo
2)homemade pizza
3)spaghetti
4)chicken lasagna
5)crock-pot chicken
6)stuffed shells with meat
7)spicy potato soup
8)vegetable beef stew
9)stromboli sandwhiches
10)chili
11)pork chop and potato bake
12)cheeseburger soup
13)White chili(with ground turkey or chicken)
14)beef stroganoff
15)roast with carrots and potatoes
16)Chicken and pasta salad with homemade dressing
17)chicken pot pie
18)chicken enchiladas
19)grape salad
20)scotch-a-roos
Here's a few recipes you might not have:
1)Pork chop and potato bake
6 pork chops(boneless work best)
vegetable oil
seasoned salt
1/2 c milk
1/2 c sour cream
1/4 t pepper
1 bag (24oz) frozen potatoes(we like o'brien style which has onions and peppers)
1 can cr. celery soup
1 c shredded cheddar cheese
1 lg. can fried onion rings
Brown pork chops in oil. Sprinkle chops with seasoned salt and set aside. Stir milk, sour cream, pepper, soup, 1/2 c of cheese, and 1/2 the onion rings into potatoes. Spoon potato mixture into a greased 9x13 dish. Arrange pork chops over potato mixture. cover and bake 90 min. @350. Top with remaining cheese and onions and bake uncovered for an additional 5 min.
2)Stomboli sandwhiches
1 lb. hamburger
1 tbsp chopped onion
1/2 c. tomato sauce
2 tbsp parmesean cheese
1/4 tsp fennel seed
1/2 c ketchup
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/8 tsp oregano
6 Kaiser rolls
6 slices mozzerella cheese
Brown hamburger and onion; add tomoto sauce and ketchup, parm cheese and seasonings. Cook for 20 min. Split kaiser rools and brush garlic spread on top of buns: 2tbsp softened butter blended with 1/4 tspn garlic powder and 1/2 tspn paprika. Put meat mixture on bottom of rolls over the garlic spread; top w/ slice of cheese and then top the roll. Wrap in foil and heat in 350 degree oven for 15 min.
3)Spicy potato soup
1 lb. ground beef, cooked and drained
4 c cubed, peeled potatoes
1 sm. onion
3 cans(8oz.each) tomato sauce
4 c. water
2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp pepper
12/-1 tsp tobasco sauce
Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 1 hour or until potatoes are tender and soup has thickened.
4)Grape Salad
1 1/2 lb. green grapes
1 1/2 lb. red grapes
Wash and dry really really well(the water from washing the grapes will water down the mixture)
Mix:
8 oz. cream cheese
1 c sour cream
1/2 c white sugar
1 t vanilla
Fold in grapes and put in 9x13 dish.
Mix together:
1 c brown sugar
3/4 c broken pecans
Sprinkle over grape mixture, refridgerate. Can make the night before!
5)Gumbo
Ingredients: Zattaran's mix in a box
1 lb. chicken
1 lb. skinless smoked sausage
cut up, frozen, unbreaded okra
Cook chicken first. Boil sausage alone; strain and rinse. Boil okra last, rinse well. Add 1 1/2 cups more water than box says. Follow directions on box adding okra the last 2 or 3 min.
Serve over rice with garlic bread.
