Salisbury Steak Bake

Do you like Salisbury Steak? We do. Sure it's a little old fashioned and yeah it takes some time to make and just maybe you think your Salisbury Steak is missing something ...No worries we got you covered!

Our Salisbury Steak Bake has all the deliciousness of the original, neatly packaged in a baking pan and made better with a golden gooey crust of cheese. Yes this is the Salisbury steak of your dreams.

 The Recipe for Salisbury Steak Bake is really simple - you'll need
 1 lb cooked ground beef, drained 1 sweet onion cooked with the aforementioned ground beef
 Dozen cleaned sliced and sauteed mini portobello mushrooms also sauteed with ground beef
4 cups mashed potatoes made how you like ( we love Yukon gold potatoes ourselves)
1 pack of french onion soup mix
1 cup water
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/2 cup sour cream
1 cup cheddar cheese
Salt and pepper to taste

 Cook up your ground beef, onion and mushrooms, drain and set aside. Add your french onion soup pack and water in the pan, warm slowly add cornstarch whisking When soup mix has thickened add sour cream and stir. Add back ground beef mixture stir Place into a baking dish (we like a deep 8 x8 square) Place prepared mashed potatoes on top in a crust - press gently Sprinkle cheese on top. Place in an oven at 375 ( 350 toaster oven) Bake for 20-25 minutes Remove and allow to set 10 minutes

Serve with a salad and sauteed green beans

Enjoy Y'all !

UN- Stuffed Peppers

UN Stuffed Peppers are peppers for lazy people, or hungry people because they seem to take a lot less time than the stuffed and baked variety.  Fortunately all the deliciousness of Stuffed Peppers remains so really, unless you are a visual eater ( I think that's skinny people's secret) you wont mind one bit that your rice and  beef isn't neatly packed into your Pepper receptacles.  You also won't mind that it takes at least a half an hour less to make your UN Stuffed peppers  or that this is an easy clean up , one skillet meal  - yeah you won't mind any of it .

UN Stuffed Pepper Recipe 

If you have a favorite stuffed pepper recipe make it , if you need a stuffed pepper recipe than make mine.  Un stuffing your pepper is as easy as it sounds but if you need a little hand holding in the kitchen read on for my super secret way to UN stuff a pepper ..*wink, wink*

Stuffed Pepper Ingredients
1 lb 92/8 ground beef
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
2 tablespoons sea salt
1/4 cup reduced sodium Worcester sauce
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 large yellow onion chopped
2 tablespoons Italian Seasoning
1 cup Cherry tomatoes
2 Yellow Peppers cleaned and sliced 1/8 inch thick
1 cup beef broth
2 heaping tablespoons flour
2 cups uncooked rice  (prepare via package directions)

UN Stuffed Pepper Instructions

• Cook your Rice according to package instructions 
• Over medium -High flame Take your ground beef,  1/2 the salt and the olive oil and cook your meat half way add your Worcester sauce , garlic and onion and continue cooking until meat is done. 
• Next add Peppers, Tomatoes, Italian Seasoning , rest of salt -  mix and simmer covered 5 minutes or until tomatoes and peppers soften.  
• Gently smash the cherry tomatoes a bit while shielding your eyes and any exposed skin from the infernal juices that may be projected at your sensitive ocular area ( been there done that ) stir and recover another few minutes until peppers are good and tender.
• Pour broth into the pan and deglaze it . 
• Sprinkle the flour on top and stir until it is all incorporated and the sauce thickens.
  
  We love cheese in out house so we served it with some Italian Blended cheese on top - totally optional ! 

Serve over Rice

Enjoy Y'all !

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Peanut Butter Chicken Surprise

Most Americans cringe at the thought of peanut butter on meat - seriously I did too.  I remember being 6 years old in a restaurant in NYC circa 1979 , or maybe 80  across from my mom's one and only "fancy friend" who brought us to a cool Thai restaurant to try this new  "Chicken Satay" thing. Peanut Butter Chicken - Surprise !

When the peanutbuttery Chicken entered my unsuspecting  mouth and my brain sputtered to the recognition that BOTH chicken and Peanuts had entered my mouth simultaneously it was promptly rejected - aka spat across table at said fancy friend.  Who, on God's green earth would EVER put peanut butter and meat on the same plate , WHO !

30 years later I am a bit more open to different food combinations.  While I think I will always prefer my Peanut Butter slathered in Jelly on white bread with a glass of cold milk , this Peanut Butter Chicken ain't half bad.  I will give you one word of warning, don't spring the Peanut butter - chicken combo on unsuspecting children.  I tried it on my 6 year old and it also was rejected , violently . In fact his face twisted into shapes it had never before attempted and the look of What the HELL did you do that to me for actually made me feel a little guilty and proud - he's just like the 6 year old version of his mom

Peanut Butter Chicken Recipe

8 chicken thighs - boneless skinless
1/3 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1/3 cup milk ( or coconut milk)
1 roll of Ritz Crackers crushed
Salt
2 teaspoons Curry Powder

Place Egg, milk, curry powder and peanut butter in a blender and blend well .  Pour into a shallow bowl
Place Crushed Ritz in a different shallow bowl
salt  Chicken thighs to taste then dredge through peanut butter sauce then Ritz Cracker crumbs
place in a 375 degree oven for 35-45 minutes or until chicken is done

It's really no harder to make than any other breaded chicken.  Serve it with some Siracha if you like it spicy and Jasmine rice for a Thai style dinner

Enjoy Y'all !

Easy Pot Roast - aka REALLY Easy Pot Roast

Pot roasts are delicious, I think this is something we can all agree on ( unless you're a vegetarian and even then you just MIGHT be drooling a little remembering succulent pot roasts from days of yore)  I mean if loving a fall apart tender beef  roast dripping in flavorful au jus is wrong then I DON'T WANNA be RIGHT! To me Pot Roast is pretty easy to make, but when I get a hankering for that beefy crack I don't want to chop and prep, wait 8 hours for slow cooker pot roast, no SIR , I want my EASY Pot Roast and I want it NOW  ( ok 1.5 hours from now I'm not a miracle worker) .  Ladies and Gentlemen I introduce you to the

Easy Pot Roast Recipe

You need 3 things for this baby to come together Beef, Onion Soup Mix and Water  - BOOM!
Now I threw in some baby carrots because it took me literally 32.3 seconds to do it ( I clocked it) and who wouldn't want to give some tender baby carrots a swim in  a beef drippings/onion soup hybrid liquid then shove those poor infant  tubers into your mouth when they have sufficiently softened and adsorbed that divine juice concoction, who ? I also sprinkled some parsley on top, mostly because it looked nice...but really you JUST need the 3 aforementioned ingredients for pot roast perfection.

For this easy Pot roast to cook right I like to relentlessly stab at it with a knife, mostly to let the onion soup mix penetrate the meat .  Because it's EASY we aren't marinating it over night or endlessly and slowly cooking it in the 'ol crock pot , so we need to up the onion delivery method.

I preheated the oven to 350 degrees and let my, just shy of 2lb Easy Pot Roast cook away.

Now if you want to add a couple minutes to the process chop up some potatoes , parsnip ( my PERSONAL favorite) and maybe add some more onion to the mix.

I know a lot of people like it put plainly so here it is
Ingredients
2 lb Beef roast
1 packet onion soup mix
1 cup water

Pre-heat oven to 350
knife the living daylights out of your roast
mix water and soup mix , pour over roast

after 1 hour test for doneness with a thermometer ( the kind that goes in the oven , some of you also need me to be REALLY specific about these things, you know who you are)


Don't over cook it ! 

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