Taco Soup

Tastiness for the cold in ya :)

What you need:

1 lb hamburger (or ground turkey)

1/4 c chopped

1 can red kidney beans

1 can of tomatoes with liquid

1 can of corn with liquid

1 can tomato sauce

1 package taco seasoning (if you don't have taco seasoning, see my post about how to make your own)

What to do:

Brown the hamburger with the onion. I always add a little garlic powder because that's how we roll at Mrs. B's. Make sure to add salt and pepper to taste. Drain the hamburger. Now, I am a less is more when it comes to doing dishes, so I brown my hamburger in the same pot i'm going to make my soup in :) Add everything else to the pot. Stir will to make sure the seasoning gets evenly mixed in. Cover and let it simmer on low heat for about 30 mins and woot woot! You gots yourself some tasty as soup :) I always serve with cheese, tortilla chips and sour cream. When you put in the cheese and sour cream, it taste alot like Chili's tortilla soup :)

Easiest Lasagna EVER

"Lasagna"

I'm all about cheap and easy. There's days when I really want to make an effort and create a masterpiece for the fam, but most of the time...eh, no. Both Josh and Stevey are huge "red" sauce fans. Stevey has discovered the tastiness of tomatoes. I've been craving Olive Garden "Tour De Italy" and since I can't have that...

What you'll need:

1 lb hamburger
1 medium onion, diced (or you can used dried onion)
1 TB garlic powder
salt & pepper
1 jar spaghetti sauce
1 16 oz container of small curd cottage cheese
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1 package of oven ready lasagna noodles

Preheat oven at 375 degrees. Spray a 9*13 baking pan with non-stick spray. Brown the hamburger with the onion, garlic powder and salt and pepper to taste. I also use roughly a tsp of oregano, but that's just me :) Drain and mix spaghetti sauce with hamburger. Heat. Pour roughly 1/4 c of sauce mixture into bottom of pan. Layer noodles and then sauce and cottage cheese. Repeat until your top is a layer of noodles. Pour remaining sauce onto noodles. Cover with foil and bake for 20 mins. Remove foil, top with cheese and bake until cheese is melted. :) Yummy stuff dude :)

Poor Man's Stroganoff

"Stroganoff"
I am a HUGE fan of Stroganoff. I've usually seen it made with flank steak or cubed stew meat. I can't always find this tasty cuts of meat for cheap, so I improvised.

What you'll need:

1 lb hamburger
1 medium onion, diced
2 cans of cream of mushroom soup
1 16 oz container of sour cream
milk
1 package of egg noodles

Brown hamburger and onions. Drain.

Boil egg noodles. Drain and rinse.

In separate bowl, combine soup and sour cream. Add one soup can of milk. Mix well. Mix with hamburger. Slowly mix with egg noodles. Heat thoroughly. Add salt and pepper to taste :)
**if you'd like, you can also add fresh mushrooms to the hamburger when it's close to being done.**