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!

Cheese Tortellini and Sausage

The crock pot is in full force around here.  I have been busy painting and getting things done.  I really don't want to stop and take the time to make dinner or another mess!  The crock pot is so easy!  Here is a great meal I came across on Pinterest.  I highly recommend it!  

Cheese Tortellini and Sausage

1 (19oz) bag frozen cheese tortellini
1lb sausage (I used Italian)
1 bag fresh spinach
2 cans Italian style diced tomatoes
2 cans low-fat chicken broth (I used low sodium)
1 (8oz) cream cheese, cut into cubes

1.  Brown the sausage in a skillet on the stove top until cooked and crumbled. Drain. 
2.  Add the sausage and remaining ingredients to a 6 quart slow cooker.  Stir to combine.
3.  Cook on Low for 5 hours, stirring twice during cook time.

We had this with garlic bread!  

Mozzarella Stuffed Meatloaf Minis

Now that we have moved and school is about to start up again, I thought I better start preparing meals instead of hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill every night!!  There isn't anything wrong with grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, but you can tell when summer is coming to an end because I am now getting tired of them!  
So here is a new recipe my family loved last night!  I wish I would have taken a pic but they were gone before I thought about it...  
I am not a fan of meatloaf, but this one is a winner!


Mozzerella Stuffed Meatloaf Minis
From: centslessmeals.com

1lb ground beef
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup breadcrumbs 
1/4 cup worcestershire sauce
1/3 cup ranch dressing
1 onion, diced
1lb mozzarella, cubed
muffin tin
salt and pepper to taste

1. Mix all ingredients except mozzarella in large bowl.
2. Once mixed, create a ball of meat mixture and press a cube of mozzarella into it.
3. Cover with equal amounts of meat mixture.
4. Reapeat until all meat is used up. (you want the balls to fit into a muffin pan)
5. Place mini meatloafs into greased muffin pan.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-35 minutes or until baked through.

Pepperoni Pizza Lasagna Roll-ups

Pepperoni Pizza Lasagna Roll-ups

www.iheartnaptime.net

Ingredients

1 jar pasta sauce

12 lasagna noodles, cooked according to the package directions

pepperoni, about 48 slices

2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

I also used 1 container ricotta, was not part of the original recipe

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Instructions

1.   Preheat your oven to 375 degrees and spread a small amount of pasta sauce in the bottom of a baking dish (pie plate, cake pan... doesn't matter).

2.   Lay all of your lasagna noodles out on your cutting board or counter top. (I spread the ricotta on first) and then, spread around 2 tablespoons of sauce on each noodle, all over one side. Repeat with the other noodles. Sprinkle half the cheese on top of the sauce. Place four pepperonis on each noodle, on top of the cheese.

3.   Starting at one end of the noodle roll it up like a cinnamon roll or jelly roll. Place the rolled noodle in the baking dish with the end of the noodle on the bottom so they don't flap open. Repeat with remaining noodles.

4.   Once all of the noodles are rolled up, use the rest of the sauce to cover the noodles. Top with the remaining cheese and bake for 20 to 25 minutes until everything is hot and bubble and the cheese is melted. Let the dish cool for 3-5 minutes before serving hot.

Creamy Italian Chicken (Slow Cooker Meal)

Creamy Italian Chicken  (SC)

2lbs boneless, skinless, chicken breast

¼ cup butter, melted

8oz container cream cheese and chives, softened

10oz can condensed golden cream of mushroom soup

0.7 oz package Italian dressing mix

½  cup water

Cut chicken breasts into strips and place into crock pot.  In a medium bowl, combine melted butter, softened cream cheese, soup, Italian dressing mix and water and stir unitl blended.  Pour over chicken in crock pot.   Cook on low for 6-8 hours.

We eat this over noodles and serve with some kind of bread and veggie.

Baked Penne

Baked Penne

½ lb extra-lean ground beef or Italian sausage

½ cup chopped onions

½ cup green peppers (omit if you wish)

1 jar (24oz) spaghetti sauce

1 tub Philadelphia Italian Cheese and Herb cooking cream, divided

1 cup shredded Mozzarella cheese divided

3 cups cooked penne pasta

Heat oven to 350

Brown Meat with vegetables in large nonstick skillet.  Stir in spaghetti sauce, ¾ cup cooking crème, and ½ cup mozzarella; cook and stir 2-3 minutes or until mozzarella is melted.  Add pasta, mix lightly.  Spoon into 2qt casserole dish; top with remaining cooking crème and mozzarella.  Cover.  Bake 20 minutes or until heated through.  Uncover after 15 minutes.

We had this with green beans and garlic bread.  This recipe is very easy and the kids like it. 

Italian Sausage and Peppers

This too is a meal I grew up with. 

5 Italian sausage links (we prefer mild)
buns (we are using hot dog ones today)
jar of roasted red peppers, sliced up (keep the juice)

Grill the Italian sausage on the grill.  Grill on medium/low for about 15-20 minutes. While grilling, place the roasted red peppers on the stove with the juice it they came in.  Cook on low-medium.  Once sausage is grilled.  Place in bun and top with peppers. 

This is the easy way to do the peppers.  My grandmother doctors them up and makes them even better.  I will share that recipe the next time we make this meal!

We had this with cooked broccoli and cheese rice and clementines. 

Beef Ravioli Soup

Beef Ravioli Soup

1 c sliced celery

½ c chopped onion

1 c sliced carrots

2T vegetable oil

4c beef broth

1/8 pepper

¼ t crushed red pepper flakes

1 (15 oz) beef ravioli

¼ c chopped parsley

Grated parmesan cheese

In large kettle, sauté celery, onion, and carrots in oil for 3 mintues; add broth and seasonings.  Bring to a boil.  Reduce heat, simmer, covered about 15 minutes or until vegetables are tender.  Stir in ravioli and heat through.  Garnish with parsley and parmesan cheese.

Fettucci Alfredo

Fettuccini Alfredo

2 stick butter

3 ½ cup heavy cream

1 c fresh grated Parmesan cheese

1 pkg Fettuccini

Boil fettuccini until cooked.  Drain well.

Melt butter in large sauce pan.

Put fettuccini in butter and toss.

Add cream and cheese.

Stir over med/low heat for 10 minutes uncovered.

Cover to make thicker, leave uncovered if it is good.

Remember it will thicken up while waiting to be served.

I like to sprinkle some Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning and  grated Parmesan on my serving to top it off. 

Tonight I ended up using whole grain linguine instead, since it was all I had around the house... 

We had garlic bread and strawberries to go with it!

This recipe is often requested when I bring a dish to places.  I cook it and put in a crockpot to take with me.

Spaghetti Pie

Spaghetti Pie

2 jars spaghetti sauce 

1 pkg. spaghetti

1 lb ground beef

1 lb Italian sausage

1 c sliced olives  (optional)

Cheese Layer:

1 (8oz) pkg. cream cheese

1 Tbsp butter

3 Tbsp milk

4 Tbsp Parmesan cheese

A couple of dashes of garlic powder to taste

Topping:

2 c Mozzarella cheese

Brown ground beef and sausage and cook spaghetti.  Add 1 ½ jars of spaghetti sauce and olives to meat mixture.  Pour spaghetti into sauce and mix.  Put ½ of spaghetti mixture in 9x13 inch pan.  Spread cheese mixture over spaghetti.  Put remaining spaghetti mixture over cheese layer and top with remaining sauce.  Sprinkle Mozzarella cheese over top.  Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes.

I usually split this recipe in half because it makes too much the four of us.  However, you could freeze the other half and have it another night!

Tonight I am serving it with green beans and garlic bread.  When I serve green beans, I like to use fresh, but tonight I am doing can.  I rinse the green beans and heat them.  Then I sprinkle a little garlic powder and spray butter on them.  (My husband keeps his blood pressure under control with diet and this is why I rinse and use only garlic powder and spray)

I use whole grain pasta and I use Hunts Garlic and Herb pasta sauce in a can.  We have family who work for Conagra, therefore we try to support them as often as we can.  You can aways use fat free cheeses while making this. 

Enjoy!