German Spaetzels!

Here's one way to cook them:

-1 bag pre-made spaetzels
-1 onion
-1 cup shredded cheese (Italian mix)
-Fresh ground pepper

-Boil water and add Spaetzels.
-Chop up onion in bigish chunks and fry it separately.
-Cook until spaetzels are fully cooked....
-Drain pasta thoroughly.
-Add cheese and onion. Top with pepper.

Serve with keilbasa and some nice green beans. Mmmm... Tasty heritage.

Broccoli with garlic sauce

Here it is!

-3 Broccoli crowns
-1/2 cup olive oil
-1/4 cup Parmesan Cheese
-8 cloves of garlic
-Angel Hair Pasta

1) Heat up the oil and chop up the garlic to fry. I like to press a couple cloves to mix with the sauce.
2) Start cooking pasta
3) Chop up broccoli crowns and cook them in the pan. Cover the pan, keeping it on a low temperature.
4) Once both the broccoli and the pasta are thoroughly cooked, mix it all up. Make sure everything is well mixed before adding the Parmesan Cheese.
5) Enjoy!


Next time: Cheezy German Spaetzels!

mmm.... Apple pie....

Apple pie is a bit of work, but not hard to construct. Here's a recipe.... and it is super quick if you can get someone to prep the ingredients for you.

Crust:

2 1/2 cups white flour
2 tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup melted
5 tbsp. cold vegetable shortening
8 tbsp. water

Mix all this together and knead it until it looks like it should. Separate 1/3 of the dough and set it aside. With the remainder, roll it out and put it in a pie pan. I like to spray the pie pan with nonstick spray just incase.

Filling:

2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Pinch of salt
10 apples, peeled and chopped
1/4 cup margarine mealted.

Preheat oven to 425. Mix all this stuff together and then put it in the pie pan. Then roll out the remaining dough and put it on top. Pinch the sides together and seal it all in. If you're having trouble, steal excess dough from other ends to seal it all off. The dough should be fairly malleable, so this should be no problem. Be sure to poke holes in the middle of the crust.... I make smiley faces.

Some people like to put alluminum foil over the crust.... that's effort. If you do it like I do, you can get this biznatch cooked in about 40 minutes or until the crust is golden brown. Stabbing the middle can determine if the middle's cooked enough. The apples should be mushy and the knife should go through no problem.

Tomorrow: my husband's favorite dish... after I took it over. Broccoli in garlic sauce. So easy, HE INVENTED IT.

Easy Italian Chicken.

-Chicken breast (thawed)
-Italian dressing

1) Take a fork and stab chicken all over.
2) Coat chicken breasts in Italian Dresing in glass bake pan
3) Marinate (if you have time)
4) Cook at 350 degrees until chicken browns lightly. You can recoat chicken in dressing if you need to. Chicken should NOT be pink in middle.

Serve with veggies and rice.

It's cheap and easy and tastes really good.

Dinner tonight!

I'm test-driving this... and it turned out awesome.

-2 cans of condensed cream of celery (cream of mushroom also works, but I hate mushrooms) soup
-1/2 box of pasta, cooked
-1/2 cup milk (I use soymilk, but regular will work too)
-5 stalks of celery
-some leftover mixed veggies (you can mix and match what you want for veggies)
-14oz keilbasa link, cooked
-Breadcrumbs

Steps:
-Mix your celery soup, milk, veggies and meat.
-Spread it evenly in a 4-5 quart glass baking dish
-Sprinkle breadcrumbs on top
-cook on 400 degrees for 20-40 minutes (until breadcrumbs brown)
-Eat that.

Boo-yah.

Economy sucking?

Here's a trick that is filling, tasty AND cheap.

My SUPER tomato mac and cheese!

-1 box of mac and cheese
-1/4 cup of butter
-1/4 cup of milk
-1 can of condensed tomato soup
-basil
-Pepper

Steps:
-Make Mac and cheese as directed
-Add can of tomato soup and heat
-Add spices as preferred.

This so soooo filling and so tasty. It's really good for the budget busting college student.

My Amazingly Awesome Grilled Cheese

I am officially releasing the official way that Grilled Cheese BLT's need to be made. All of them. For the sake of the triple bypass.

-2 bread slices
-Mayo
-Fresh ground pepper
-Butter
-Lettuce
-Tomato
-Bacon
-American/Cheddar/Montey Jack Cheese (I prefer all of the above).

The Howto:
-Preheat frying pan with nonstick spray.
-Butter one slice of bread and stick it butter-size down on the pan.
-Add Mayo and pepper on the slice. Then sliced tomato, lettuce, bacon and cheese. Then top it off with the top piece of bread, buttered with the butter side up. Flip that before it cooks too long.
-Let it cook, then flip it once more.
-Keep process going until both sides are a nice, crisp light golden brown.

-Enjoy that stuff.

I am a huge fan of mayo, pepper and tomatoes all next to each other. It's so amazing.... The fresher the tomatoes, the better the taste.