MamaGrizzly

My family LOVES mashed potatos - and they love REAL mashed potatos - you know - peel the potatos, boil them, mash them with butter and milk?  Well, when I make them, I try to make a lot but when I have LEFTOVER mashed potatos, this recipe is an awesome use of the leftovers! 

INGREDIENTS

• ground beef, cooked and drained
• can condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
• frozen chopped broccoli, thawed
• egg
• shredded Cheddar cheese
• hot homemade mashed potatoes

In a bowl, mix up the beef, soup, broccoli, and egg.  Stir in some cheese. Place in a greased pyrex dish.  In a bowl, combine potatoes with about a cup of cheese and mix well. Spread over the meat mixture. Bake, uncovered, at 350 for about 30 minutes or until lightly browned.

• Pasta (preferably WHEAT rotini)
• Chicken (2-3 breastfs)
• Frozen vegetables (I use peas and corn) you want very SMALL veggies - thawed
• Campbells Cream of mushroom soup (family size)
• Parmesan cheese
• milk

Still running on some Tulipgirl’s inspiration to write down recipes on my blog - YUMMY Enchiladas

Ingredients:

• chicken (2-3 chicken breasts)
• 1 can corn
• 1 can black beans
• 1 jar (LARGE) pimentos - diced
• yogurt (I use the fat free plain yogurt)
• LARGE tortillas - I use the wheat tortillas if I can get them
• Monterrey Jack cheese - i like the “spicey” with jalapenos

Cut up the chicken into small bite size pieces.  Cook in frying pan and season with chili powder or your favorite “SPICEY” seasoning.  In a colander, pour in the corn, black beans, and pimentos and drain.  Place in a bowl with the cooked chicken.  Combine the yogurt into the mixture to the desired “mix”. You can put some cheese into the mixture as well.  Put the mixture into the tortillas - I use the LaRGE tortillas and fill them to the max and then place them in a glass baking dish.  Cover and bake at 400 for 30 minutes.  Remove the cover and sprinkle grated cheese on top for another 5-8 minutes and then serve!

I like to serve it with chopped scallions and quartered cherry tomatos on top.  ENJOY!

NOTE:  This is an AWESOME make-ahead recipe.  I made this recipe this weekend and did all but bake in the oven.  I prepped everything on Sunday and then cooked it on a Tuesday.!

• Pasta - preferably whole wheat (any type of small pasta - rotini, bow tie
• cucumbers - chopped (I leave the skin on) sliced and quartered
• carrots - chopped
• cherry tomatoes - cut in half
• scallions - chopped
• Your favorite Greek or Balsamic Vinagrette dressing (Kraft makes an AWESOME Greek dressing)

• brocoli - chopped
• black olives- cut in half

This is a delicious cereal with milk or just a snack.   

6 cups oatmeal (regular oatmeal)
1.5 cups chopped pecans
2/3 cup wheat germ
1 cup sunflower seeds
2 cups sweetened coconut (optional)

combine the above ingredients in a bowl and mix well

1 cup butter
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup light brown sugar

melt butter and combine with honey and sugar

pour over the dry mixture and combine so that it is all “wet”  (I actually had to double the “wet” ingredients.  )

Pour mixture into 2 pans and spread out evenly.  Place one rack in the oven at the bottom of the oven and the other at the top of the oven.  Place one pan at the top and the other at the botttom and bake at 350 for about 50-60 minutes stirring often and swapping the dishes about half way through. 

When cereal is done, (it will be brown and crispy), place it on waxed paper and spread it out and let it cool.  Sprinkle on raisins or dried cranberries (or your favorite dried fruit). 

Refrigerate when done.  It keeps in the freezer for up to 6 months.

I won’t even PRETEND that there is anything healthy about this.  But it’s QUICK - and DELICIOUS!

You need:
2 - 16-18 ounce cans off your favorite pie filling (I love the apple pie filling)
1 package WHITE cake mix
1 cup melted butter

In a glass pyrex dish, dump in the pie filling and spread it out evenly.  Dump on the white cake mix - even it out as much as possible.l  Next pour the melted butter all over the white cake mix and try to get it spread out as evenly as possible ;

Place in the oven at 350 degrees for about 35 minutes.

Serve hot!!  YUM!