What are you making for dinner

yeah I am behind the last three days have been long busy ones. I had two funeral since Thursday so no fun and not much cooking.

macaroni and tomatoes
baked hotdogs with cheese

diabetic strawberry dessert..

It's the weekend and time to step past the healthy eating zone for a couple days and make a few fat-laden goodies.

Tonight will be homemade old fashioned Hamburgers and
Crispy onion rings.

Hamburgers (makes about 4-5 hamburgers)

10 oz of sirloin steak tips
9 oz of beef short ribs

In food processor, grind together sirloin steak tips and beef short ribs, using short pulses (about 10-12 in two small batches). If you place the meat, in a single layer, on a dish and freeze it for about 15 minutes it will make the process easier. You may have to remove any pieces of fat or gristle that didn't grind. Pat out the patties don't try to make them rounded, overworked and perfect cause if you do you will make a tough hamburger.

Cook on one side for 3 minutes (use a bit of oil) then turn and cook the other side for one minute. Serve on a toasted bun with all the fixins.

Onion Rings

Cut a firm, large yellow onion into approximately 1/2 in. rings.(Or more if you have a big crew to feed).

Dip in the following batter:

1 1/3 cups all-purpose or rice flour
1 teas. salt
1/4 teas. pepper
1 tablespoon melted butter
2 beaten egg yolks

Add gradually, stirring constantly:
3/4 cup flat beer

allow the batter to rest covered and refrigerated 3-8 hours.

Dip onions in batter and deep fry until golden brown (I always use Peanut Oil for deep frying since it has a higher burning point)

Chocolate cupcakes from the back of Hershey's Cocoa can.

Note: left out one step. Cut sirloin and beef short ribs into one inch chunks before putting them into the freezer (leave space between them) Just in case anyone wants to bother to make a very good hamburger.:-)

Recipe above #6240

Spent the day in Cape with our boys so we went to CiCi's for dinner, it's not mine or my hubby favorite but it's a favorite of our boys though.

What are you making for valentines day.
I am grilling steaks, twiced baked potatoes, broccoli and cheese sauce
Chocolate fondu with fruit and pound cake.
Used 3 hershey bars and 1 can of eagle brand milk for the choc sauce.

Going to Red Lobster or one of the steak houses. We haven't decided yet.

hash brown casserole - new recipe I am trying

bacon

biscuits

guest wrote:

hash brown casserole - new recipe I am trying
bacon
biscuits

please share if it is a good one..

salad..kind of chef salad I made at home
smoked pork chops

diabetic strawberry cake

karen wrote:

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please share if it is a good one..

I'll copy the recipe if you want, but we threw it out. It had cream of chicken soup and sour cream so maybe that was the problem for us.

Just let me know if you want the recipe.

I'm going to make a dish called Taco Casserole. I have 2 slightly different recipes for this. Both from those little cooking magazines you buy at the news stands. One Pillsbury and the other Betty Crocker.

Pillsbury:

1 lb. lean ground beef
1 can (15-16) oz. chili beans in sauce, undrained
1 can (8oz) tomato sauce
1 pkg.(1.25)oz. taco seasoning mix
2 cups coarsley broken tortilla chips
8 med. green onions, sliced (1/2 cup)
1 med tomato chopped (3/4) cup
1 cup shredded Cheddar or Monterey Jack cheese (4oz)
additional tortilla chips if desired

Heat over to 350. Cook beef over med high heat until throughly cooked, drain. Stir in beans, tomato sauce, and taco seasoning mix. Reduce heat to med. heat to boiling, stirring occasionally.

In ungreased 1 1/2 to 2 qt. casserole, place tortilly chips. Top evenly with beef mixture, Srpinkle with onions, tomato, and cheese.

Bake uncovered 20 to 30 min. or until hot and bubbly. Arrange additional tortilla chips around the edge of casserole.

We have had this before and really liked it.

Here is the other one.

Betty Crocker:

Taco Casserole

1 lb. lean ground beef
1 can, 16oz. chili beans in sauce, undrained
1 can, 8 oz. tomato sauce
2 tablespoons of taco or picante sauce or salsa
2 to 4 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
2 cups coarsely broken tortilla chips
8 med. green onions, sliced (1/2 cup)
1 med,. tomato, chipped (3/4 cup)
1 cup shredded cheddar or monterey jack cheese

Heat oven to 350. Cook beef till done, drain. Reduce heat to med. Return beef to skillet, stir in beans, tomato sauce, taco sauce, chili powder, and garlic powder. Heat to boiling over med. heat, stirring occasionally.

Place tortilla chips in a ungreased 1 1/2 qt. casserole. top with beef mixture, sprinkle with green onions, tomato, and cheese.

Bake uncovered 20 to 30 min. or until hot and bubbly. Arrange additional tortilla chips around the edge of casserole if desired.

4 servings

45 grams of carb per serving, 595 calories

We have not tried this one. Really similar though.

ground chuck burgers with onion sliced and cooked with it the last few minutes
homemade fries

diabetic dessert

I am training this week for a part time job so beel slacking on cooking and logging on here

I just made a great cake - here is the recipe:

In a bowl blend the following with a mixer:
2 mashed bananas
1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 cup plain yogurt( or sour cream)
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

Blend in on low speed
1 box of either yellow or white cake mix.
Mix until blended.

Stir in 2/3 cup choclolate chips

Pour into a bundt pan - sprayed with Pam.

I made a strussel topping using
1/2 flour
1 cup Oats
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 brown sugar
6 tbl cold butter
Put in food processor and process until crumbly,

Pour on top of cake before you bake it;
Bake 350 for 45 minutes until done
Cool
Turn out onto a plate.

Glaze:
2 cups Powdered sugar
a little water until mixed well and thin enough to drizzle over cooled cake.

It is so good.

OOPS
The flour and brown sugar are 1/2 cup each. sorry I forgot to put in the word cup.

Does anyone know how to make very thin tortilla chips like the Mexican restaurants serve and good salsa at home? Than you!

Dad, cake sounds delicious.
We had family over for dinner so I cooked up a big pot of spaghetti & meatballs, salad & garlic toast.
Dessert
Strawberry Shortcake
Unsweet/Sweet Tea fresh slices of lemon
Kool-aid with fresh slices of oranges

Fried gizzards, catfish and tilapia. Cole island and hush puppies.

It was. My wife and kids LOVED it. I had made the strussel and put it in the freezer for later use - it came in handy and sure made the cake so much better. When you turn it out the strussel is on the bottom but you still get the flavor.
You can taste the Banana flavor, the vanilla flavor, the chocolate chip and the strussel flavor seperately - but then it just melds together into one taste as yo u eat it.

Dad I saved that cake recipe am gonna try it...thanks for sharing.

catfish
hushpuppies
I went to Moorehouse to Front Street Market they have great fish on Fridays, you can get plates and eat there but we only get the fish and hushpuppies, they were so good..

on a budget wrote:

Does anyone know how to make very thin tortilla chips like the Mexican restaurants serve and good salsa at home? Than you!

I haven't made them, but any recipe I remember seeing calls for cutting up flour or corn tortillas and baking or frying them. Have you tried on line?

Tonight, salad, homemade spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread.