Dinner's in the oven :)

Well I haven't tried it yet so I can't tell you how good it is, but tonight's dinner is Cheesy Beef and Potato Bake.

Here's what you need...
1lb ground beef
2 packages (5-1/4oz each) au gratin potatoes
4 cups boiling water
1-1/3 cups water
2 teaspoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Cook the ground beef in a medium skillet, drain then layer the bottom of a greased 13x9 pan with the ground beef.

In a separate bowl combine potatoes, seasoning mix, water, milk, butter, salt, seasoned salt and pepper. Pour over the meat. Cover and bake at 400 for 30 minutes.

Sprinkle with cheese, bake for 5 minutes uncovered or until cheese is melted. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving. Serves 8

Correction

If you plan on using the Bubble Pizza recipe instead of using 1lb of ground beef it should be at least a pound and a half, I think 2 pounds would work too. And my personal suggestion would be to use 2 cans of pizza sauce.

Dinner's Done

Tonight's Dinner....Bubble Pizza

1lb ground beef

1 15oz bottle of pizza sauce

2- 12oz tubes of buttermilk bisquits

1-1/2 Cups Mozzarella cheese

1 Cup Cheddar Cheese

Brown the ground beef, drain the fat then stir in the pizza sauce. Cut the unbaked bisquits into quarters and layer the bottom of a greased 13x9 pan with the quartered bisquits. Spread the ground beef and pizza sauce on top. Cook for 20 minutes at 400, sprinkle the cheese on top and pop back in the oven for 5 minutes.

I put mine too low in the oven so the bottom was slightly burnt, but I still got the "this is pretty good" comment. Plus it serves 6-8 so we have lunch for the rest of the week!

New Recipe

Last week I was looking for new recipies online and found one for tatertot casserole which looked pretty good and easy so I thought I would give it a try. I liked it and Luis seems to have fallen in love with it! Plus it's so easy I don't need the instructions to make it again!

Here's what you need...

1lb ground beef

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 can of corn

Tater tots

Cheese (sliced or shredded will work)

Brown the ground beef, drain the fat then stir in the soup. Layer the bottom of a casserole dish with the meat, layer the corn on top, then the tater tots (still frozen) Put in the over for a half hour at 350. I usually move it to the top rack for the last 5 minutes so the tater tots will brown. Then add your cheese on top put back in the over for a couple minutes until it melts!

I just got 2 more casserole type recipes from a co-working, one of which I'll try tonight and let you know how it goes!

Lesson Learned

So most of you know the last couple weeks have been anything but easy for me. First I find out someone got my credit card number and racked up a number of purchases, then they opened a case at a law firm to "repair my credit" although my credit is fine, then someone stole my brand new phone. Oh and don't forget the dumb rent a cop that wrote me a parking ticket, there has been a lot of dumb little things that have happened, but I'm not going to come out of it with out learning something!


Since my credit card was stolen and it took a couple days to get a replacement it forced me to not spend money, and I'm continuing that, I made my first purchase on it last night and that was for gas, every credit card I own has a zero dollar balance. I went grocery shopping Sunday and disciplined myself to not spend a dime all week. I've never carried a balance on my credit card because I think at 21 having credit card debt when I don't have any kids or anything is horrible.


I've also always been a very open and trusting person, but again I've learned even among friends I can't leave my valuables lying around, and not everyone needs to know everything about me.


Yesterday I heared a guy friend of mine who lives in Chicago got out of his night class and was jumped by a couple guys, beat up pretty bad and had everything stolen. I'm pretty leary of walking alone at night, but this was a reminder that it can happen to anyone, just because your a guy walking alone at night doesn't mean someone isn't going to take advantage of you.


Lastly, if I can make it through all of this I can make it through anything.