Try this easy Beef Wellington with Roasted Ranch-Parmesan Potatoes recipe for a romantic meal for your loved one. They say the quickest way to a man or woman’s heart is through their bellies! This meal will have them loving you more and more with each bite. Impress and dazzle your date with good hearty food with a lot of flavors and have them come back for more!

 

Roasted Ranch Potatoes:

• 1/4 cup of olive oil
• 8 oz Parmesan cheese, shredded
• 1 package of Ranch dressing mix
• 1 lbs of Red potatoes

 

Preheat oven to 450°F.

Place potatoes in a resealable plastic bag and add oil, seal bag.

Toss to coat, add salad dressing mix and Parmesan cheese and toss again until coated really well.

Bake in an ungreased baking pan for 35 minutes or until potatoes are brown and crisp.

Garnish with chives and extra Parmesan cheese

 

 

Beef Wellington:

 

For that extra mile, try this drizzled on top of your Beef Wellington.

Burgundy Wine Sauce:

 

 

 

 

Many families get into the same routine about what they want to fix for dinners day in and day

out. If you are like me, you want something different to eat! Taco Casserole is a favorite dish in

my home and it has loads of flavor that is not lacking. So, now you will be able to have an idea

and a great dish for supper!

Taco Casserole:

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1/2 cup chopped green pepper
• 1/2 cup chopped  sweet onion
• 1 envelope taco seasoning
• 1/2 jar salsa
• 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) Mexican diced tomatoes, drained
  
• 6 flour tortillas (8 inches)
• 1 can (16 ounces) re-fried beans
• 6 cups shredded Mexican cheese blend or Colby Jack shredded cheese
  
• sour cream (for an extra bonus)
• sliced black olives (optional)

 

 

In a large skillet, cook the beef, green peppers and onions over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Add water and taco seasoning; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 2 minutes. Stir in black beans,salsa and tomatoes. Simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes or until the mixture thickens.

Place two tortillas in a greased 13×9-in. baking dish. Spread with half of the re-fried beans and beef mixture; sprinkle with 1 cup cheese or until the layer is covered. Repeat with other layers. Top with remaining tortillas and cheese.

Cover and bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until heated through and cheese is melted and bubbly brown.

 

Taco Casserole will fill the bellies of your family with a classic with a twist. Try this next time you are wanting something different and see what a hit this is! I hope you enjoy this meal!

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Cheese Burgers and Bacon Wrapped Asparagus

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Do you ever just want something quite traditional but different all in the same meal? I did last night and ended up eating Blue Cheese Burgers and Bacon Wrapped Asparagus and man, they were good. You had your sinful delight with the bacon wrapped around healthy green vegetables, and the hamburger was to die for!

 

Bacon Wrapped Asparagus:

• Bake for a total time of 20-25 minutes, or until the bacon is crisp.
• Serve immediately.
• 1 bunch asparagus (20 stalks)
• 10 pieces of center cut bacon
• a shake of black pepper

*Any quantity is fine, you just want to make sure you have half as many whole strips of bacon as you do asparagus.

 

• Wash asparagus and pat dry. Trim off the woody stem – usually the bottom 2 inches.
• Slice strips of bacon down the center, so you have two long, thin pieces.
• Wrap the bacon around the asparagus and place on a foil or Silpat lined baking sheet.
• Place the baking sheet in the oven (with the oven rack on the upper-middle slot), then turn it on to 400 degrees. The bacon wrapped asparagus should be in the oven during the preheat phase

(recipe is from Lovely Little Kitchen)

Blue Cheese Burgers:

• 2 eggs
• 1tbsp pepper
• 2 lb ground chuck
• Italian Bread Panko Crumbs (add enough crumbs until you like the consistency of the patty)
  
• 1 tbsp Oregano
• Blue Cheese crumbles (any brand you like)
• McCormick Grill Mates: Sauce mix-ins: Sweet Mesquite and Caramelized Onion
• 1 tsp to 2 tsp of garlic, minced

 

In a large mixing bowl add your ground chuck, eggs, seasonings, and bread crumbs. Add Blue Cheese crumbles and mix well. Break off big fist-sized chunks of the hamburger mixture and press them into rough patties against your work surface with the palm of your hand. Then gently pat the edges into a uniform rounded shape. Whenever you have your hamburger patty formed, make sure you do the simple trick. (To make the simple, just use your fingertips to pat the middle of the patties slightly thinner than the outer edge — maybe a quarter of an inch more shallow, at most.) Cook your burgers in a flat pan over medium heat. The patties should sizzle when you place them on the pan, and when you flip them, you should see a nicely dark, golden-brown sear on the underside.

Hamburger Cooking Times:

• Medium-Rare (red in the middle): 6 minutes total
• Medium (pink in the middle): 7 to 8 minutes total
• Medium-Well (a little of pink still in the middle): 9 minutes total
• Well Done (no pink): 10 minutes total

 

I like to place my hamburger buns in the oven to toast them a bit before I place my condiments on. Adding the condiments, well that depends on the taste of the person making them! I hope you enjoy and eat well!

 

Is one of your family members trying to lose weight or diabetic? Sugar Free Chocolate Chip Cookies are a perfect way to get that sweet tooth under control without throwing everything off whack. They taste so good and they are light and fluffy. You will not be able to really tell they are low in sugar! I hope you enjoy them as much as my family did! This is a bit of heaven on a white platter! Yum!!!

 

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup butter (which is 2 sticks)
• 1/3 cup Splenda brown sugar
• 1/3 cup Splenda granulated sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 1-1 1/3 cups of sugar free chocolate chips (8 oz. pkg)
• 1 cup of chopped nuts (optional)

Heat your oven to 375 degrees. Stir together flour,baking soda and salt. Beat your butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla in a large bowl until creamy. Add your eggs one at a time and beat well. Gradually add your flour mixture while you beat well. Stir in your chocolate chips and nuts, if you desire. Place a tbsp worth of rounded batter onto a  non-greased cookie sheet. Bake for 7-9 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool slightly, remove from the cookies sheet to a wire rack or I use a cooling plate. Cool completely . Makes about 4- 1/2 dozen depending on how big you make your cookies when you drop them on the pan.

These are simple cookies to make for the family or to teach your children how to make cookies.

Simple and delicious, now all I need is a tall glass of milk and a favorite cartoon with my little boy and this, my friends, is a perfect night!  Enjoy everyone!

Banana Bread: A Real Southern Treat

 

Have you ever wanted something sweet but did not know what you wanted? Banana Bread is a real Southern treat for the whole family to enjoy and something to keep your sweet tooth at bay. You can enjoy this morsel straight out of the oven or when it is cool. Any way you decide to eat this dessert is all good. Just a little hint for the people who love breakfast food, here is an idea… Banana Bread French Toast!!! You can not go wrong with that treat, can you?

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Jiffy Baking Mix
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup shortening
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup of very ripe and mashed banana

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Grease a 9×5 loaf pan. Cream sugar and shortening together. Add remaining ingredients. Mix ingredients until well blended. Pour batter into the pan. Bake 50-55 minutes. Cool slightly before removing from pan.

I hope you enjoy this recipe and I will be whipping up more soon! Enjoy!