French Bread Pizza

Ingredients:
Loaf of french bread
1 8 oz. can of salted tomato sauce (you can do spaghetti sauce but believe it or not, the tomato sauce tastes better)
Cheese
Pepperoni

Cut the french bread in half lengthwise. Add the can of tomato sauce to both halves. Add the cheese and pepperoni and whatever other ingredients you would like to add. Cook at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes or until the pepperonis look crispy.

Tostadas

Tostada Shells
Ingredients:
1 - 1 1/2 cups of oil (enough to deep fry the tortillas in)
Corn tortillas

In a very small skillet, heat up the oil on med-high heat. You can test the oil to see if it is hot enough by sticking a small part of one of the tortillas in the oil. If it starts to bubble when you put the tortilla in, it is hot enough. With tongs, put the tortilla in the hot oil and lightly press the middle down. Leave it in the oil for about 10 seconds and then flip over and repeat. When the tortilla looks like ones in the picture above, take it out and dab it dry with a paper towel. Viola! You have a tostada shell!

Refried Beans:
2 cans of refried beans
3 tbsp. of margarine
1/5 cup of milk
salt
garlic salt

Put margarine in warm pan. Add the beans and mix until warm. Add the milk and mix well. Salt and garlic to taste.

As for the rest of the tostada....add whatever ingredients you like on your tostadas and enjoy!

Chili Over Chips

This one is SO fast and easy! It's really good and the best dinner to make when you don't have much time.

1/2 lb ground beef
1 8oz can of tomato sauce
1 15oz can of Hormel chili with beans
Tortilla chips
Shredded cheese

Brown the ground beef, drain then add the can of tomato sauce. Add a little bit of water and then add the can of chili. Cook until hot and pour over tortilla chips. Top it off with shredded cheese and anything else that might taste good with it :o).

Breaded Chicken Casserole

I absolutely love this one! It has so much flavor and you don't even have to use any seasonings! You will really like this one!

3 Chicken breasts
1 26oz can cream of chicken
1 1/2 Cups of shredded cheese
5 Slices of bread
1/2 - 1 Cup of butter or margarine melted

Boil and shred chicken. Put chicken in a casserole dish, add cream of chicken and mix until well blended. Spread cheese over the top. Put bread in blender and blend to crumbs and put on top of the casserole. Pour the melted butter evenly over the bread crumbs. Cook at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Chicken Bacon Sandwich

This one is one of my favorites! I love anything with bacon in it. You don't have to use the lemon pepper marinade for the chicken. You can use any kind of marinade you like but I chose lemon pepper because it's my favorite for this sandwich.

Chicken
Lemon pepper marinade
Provolone cheese
Bacon
Hamburger buns

Marinade chicken. Cook bacon. Cook chicken on George Foreman 6 minutes on each side & put cheese on while chicken is still hot and let it melt.

Meat Loaf

Meat Loaf is my husbands absolute favorite dish and I think I have finally found the right ingredients so that it is one of mine too. I hope you like it!

2 1/2 lbs ground beef
1 tsp Oregano
1 tsp Parsley
1/2 tsp Basil
2 Eggs
1 8oz can of tomato sauce
1/4 Cup oats
Ketchup

In a medium sized bowl mix all ingredients together except the ketchup. Mix well and put mixture into a greased bread pan. Add a thin layer of Ketchup on top and cook at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. Drain grease and serve it up!

Scalloped Potatoes

Homemade scalloped potatoes are probably my husbands favorite thing EVER to eat. I love this recipe because because you can use the microwave for most of the cooking so you don't have to over stuff your oven!


5 Medium potatoes
5 1/2 Tbsp. margarine or butter
1 Cup of milk
1 Cup of water
1 Cup shredded cheese
Salt
Pepper
Garlic salt

Peel & clean the potatoes. Leave the potato whole and cut length wise as thin as you can, so you have thin oval shaped pieces. You will do 3 different layers of potatoes. In an 8x8 casserole dish, between each layer of potatoes put 1 1/2 tbsp of butter, salt, garlic salt & pepper to taste. Remember, potatoes need a LOT of seasoning so don't be afraid to put a lot on! Add milk & water. Cover loosely and cook in microwave for 11 minutes. Take out and mix gently and put back in microwave for another 11 minutes. Add cheese and cook in oven at 350 degrees 8-10 minutes or until cheese is golden brown. Enjoy!