4 Ingredient Pizza Bake

Kid Favorite!
Here is a new Pinterest recipe we tried today!  It actually tasted good!!!  The kids loved it!  (My oldest told me it tasted like it come from a restaurant...  Not quite, but if she will eat it that is all that matters!)

4-Ingredient Pizza Bake
Betty Crocker

2 pouches (7.5oz each) Bisquick Complete buttermilk biscuit mix
1 cup water
1 jar pizza sauce
1 package sliced pepperoni
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

Heat oven to 375.  Spray 13x9 inch glass dish with cooking spray.  
In medium bowl, stir Bisquick mix and water until soft dough forms. 
Drop half of the dough by spoonfuls evenly in bottom of baking dish.  (dough will not completely cover bottom of dish)
Drizzle about 1 cup pizza sauce over dough.  Arrange 1/2 of the pepperoni slices over sauce. Top with 1 cup of the cheese.  
Repeat layers with remaining dough, sauce, pepperoni, and cheese.
Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.  Cut into squares to serve. 

We did 1/2 pepperoni and 1/2 cheese, due to the picky eater...   However, you could use your favorite toppings instead of pepperoni.  Sausage, green pepper, onion, hamburger, olives would be good too!

We had this with a salad...  This was also an easy recipe to have the kids help!

Million Dollar Spaghetti

This recipe has been all over Pintrest and so I thought I would try it out...  I have a recipe I have used in the past, Spaghetti Pie (one this blog), which is very similar to this recipe.  But I have to say, Million Dollar Spaghetti has it beat!   This recipe does call for cottage cheese, however, you do not taste it.  So those of you who turn up your nose at recipes with cottage cheese, I would still try it.  You will be surprised!

Million Dollar Spaghetti

1 lb of ground beef
1 jar of spaghetti sauce
8 oz of cream cheese
1/4 cup sour cream
1/2 lb cottage cheese
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
1 pkg spaghetti
Grated cheddar cheese (I prefer mozzarella instead...)

Preheat oven to 350.  Boil spaghetti noodles until al dente (firm).  Drain and set aside until ready to assemble.
Combine cream cheese, sour cream, and cottage cheese until will blended.
Brown hamburger and when done, drain well.  Combine hamburger with spaghetti sauce.

Assemble:
Put a few slices of butter into a 9x13 pan and then pour half of your spaghetti on top. (I did not use butter when I made this.)
Take your cream cheese mixture and spread on top of noodles.
Pour the rest of the noodles on top of the cream cheese.  The recipe says to put more slices of butter on these noodles...  I omitted the butter...  This person must be related to Paula Dean!
Pour your spaghetti sauce/hamburger mixture over the noodles.
Put in the oven for 30 minutes.  After 30 minutes, sprinkle the desired amount of grated cheese on top and return to oven for 15 minutes or until cheese is melted.

We had this with garlic toast and green beans.

This would also be a great meal to take to a friend!

Dorito Pie

I think this is one of my new favorite meals.  Super easy to make!  

I need start remembering to take pics of my meals...

Dorito Pie

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Ingredients

• 1 lb. ground beef
• 1 pkg. taco seasoning mix  (I used low sodium)
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 can crescent roll dough
• 1 cup sour cream  
• 1 cup shredded pepper jack cheese  (I used Montery Jack)
• 3 cups crushed Doritos
• 1/4 cup salsa
• 1/2 stick melted butter

Instructions

1. Cook ground beef.
2. Drain and return to the pan.
3. Add the taco seasoning mix and water.
4. Simmer until water has boiled off (around 5 minutes)
5. Separate the crescent dough into triangles
6. Spray a 9" pie dish with nonstick cooking spray
7. Press triangles into pie dish with the points toward the center of the dish.
8. Press seams together to seal
9. Sprinkle 1 - 1/2 cups of the crushed Doritos onto the crescent crust.
10. Spoon ground beef over the top of the corn chips, spreading evenly.
11. Mix sour cream with salsa.
12. Spread sour cream mixture over meat.
13. Cover with the shredded cheese
14. Top with remaining crushed Doritos.
15. Top Doritos with melted butter.
16. Bake at 400 degrees until the crust is golden brown (about 20 minutes)

Taco Pasta Bake

Taco Pasta Bake   www.canadianmomscook.com

Ingredients

1/2 – 3/4 of a bag of large noodle pasta like ziti
approx. 1lb of ground beef
1 pkg/envelope of taco seasoning
1C water
1/2 pkg of cream cheese
1 1/2C shredded cheese (I used marble)

Directions

1. boil pasta until just cooked, drain, run cold water over it

2. brown ground beef

3. mix together taco season and 1C of water, pour over cooked beef and let simmer for about 5 minutes until the liquid has reduced

4. add the 1/2 pkg of cream cheese to the beef mixture, stir until melted and combined, remove from heat

5. put pasta in your casserole dish or pot, mix in 1C of the shredded cheese

6. top pasta and cheese with beef mixture, gently mix until the pasta is coated

7. top with remaining 1/2C of shredded cheese

8. bake at 350 uncovered for approx 30 minutes

We had this with corn on the cob (kids' favorite) and chips and nacho cheese!

Chicken Spaghetti

Chicken Spaghetti   By: Pioneer Woman

2 cups cooked chicken (I just used two chicken breast)

3 cups dried spaghetti broke into 2 inch pieces

2 cups cream of mushroom soup

2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

1/4 cup finely chopped green pepper

1/4 cup finely chopped onion

1 4 oz jar diced pimentos, drained

2 cups chicken broth reserved from pot

1 teaspoon Lawry's seasoned salt

1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper

salt and pepper to taste

1 cup additional shredded cheddar cheese

Preparation Instructions

Cook cook chicken in boiling water. Cook spaghetti in same chicken broth until al dente. Do not overcook. When spaghetti is cooked, combine with remaining ingredients except additional 1 cup sharp cheddar.

Place mixture in casserole pan and top with remaining sharp cheddar. Cover and freeze up to six months, cover and refrigerate up to two days, or bake immediately: 350 degrees for 45 minutes until bubbly. (If the cheese on top starts to get too cooked, cover with foil).

Chicken Noodle Casserole

Chicken Noodle Casserole

Ready in: 1 hour    Servings:6

4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves

6 oz egg noodles

1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup

1 can condensed cream of chicken soup

1 cup sour cream

Salt to taste

Ground pepper to taste

1 cup crumbled buttery round crackers

½ cup butter

(I also add a cup of shredded cheese, whatever I have on hand)

1. Poach chicken in large pot of simmering water.  Cook until no longer pink in center, about 12 minutes.  Remove from pot and set aside.  Bring chicken cooking water to a boil and cook pasta in it.  Drain.  Cut chicken into small pieces and mix with noodles
2. In separate bowl, mix together mushroom soup, chicken soup, and sour cream, (and cheese).  Season with salt and pepper.  Gently stir together cream soups mixture with chicken mixture.  Place in a 2 quart baking dish.
3. Melt butter in a small saucepan, and remove from heat.  Stir in crumbled crackers.  Top casserole with buttery crackers. 
4. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes, until heated through and browned on top. 

***I just mix the soup mixture in the dish I am cooking it in and they add the chicken and noodles and mix in the pan to save on clean up.  I also melt the butter in the microwave…

Savings tip:  We are not a huge meat/chicken eating family.  So when making recipes with large amounts of chicken, I use half of what it calls for, or even sometimes less.

Time saving:  This would also be a great recipe to double and freeze the second one for later.

Picky Eaters!  My three year old is very picky right now.  So last night I made extra noodles and held them out before I mixed all of the noodles together.  I put some butter on them and some Parmesan cheese and she was happy. 

My little helpers:  My five and three year old love to help.  However, there is not always something for them to do...  Last night, my three year old crumbled the crackers in the bag and they both helped with the crescent rolls we had with dinner.  Crescent rolls are one of my kids favorite things.  We have them a lot; they are fairly inexpensive and they can make them on their own.