Cooking Ideas

by desib77 78 Replies latest jw friends

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  Valis

  J. Paul Getty?s Casserole

  1 pound ground chuck

  1 medium yellow onion, chopped

  1 medium green pepper, seeded and chopped

  12 ounces medium wide egg noodles, uncooked

  1 can cream of mushroom soup

  1 can tomato soup

  1 tablespoon vegetable oil

  1 pound American cheese cut in 1/4? cubes

  1 small jar pimentos

  1 (10 ounce) package frozen green peas

  Ripe olives for garnish

  Sage

  Brown meat in vegetable oil in large skillet. Drain excess fat. Push meat to one side and sauté onions until golden brown. Dump meat and onions in large mixing bowl. Add remaining ingredients, except olives. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and a pinch of sage. Turn into a casserole baking dish. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. Garnish with ripe olives.

  It is a good idea to double the recipe and keep some for the next day?s lunch. The original recipe feeds three or four people.

  Goes well with crisp, hot French bread.

  J. Paul Getty was at one time the richest man in the world and this was his favorite meal. He made his money from oil.

  I got this recipe from The Denver Post when I was living in Colorado, but I have made considerable adaptations to it over the years. I won first place in the casserole division with it in the State Fair of Texas Food Contest in 1978. It has since become an all-time favorite. In Vinalhaven, people always make it to take to the families of those who have died.
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  desib77

  Cranberry Chicken

  This one sounds easy.

  Desi (<---- off to get dictionary for other recipe)
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  cruzanheart

  And watch out for the smoke alarms -- I set mine off on a regular basis.

  Spaghetti & meatballs is a good old reliable meal. I make my own meatballs but you don't have to -- the ones they sell at Sam's Club are pretty good, in my opinion. Find a sauce you can both live with, cook the spaghetti for 8 minutes in boiling water, add a bag of salad and you've got dinner. I like Emeril's Roasted Gaaaaahhhlic Pasta Sauce -- it has chunks of garlic and tomatoes in it and is nicely spicy. Big Tex likes it in my seafood stew but not on pasta because it can be kind of runny.

  Get a grill. Yummy food and not too hard once you get the hang of it.

  Buy the marinated pork tenderloins or marinated chicken and cook according to the directions on the cover. Serve with baked potato (400 degrees for one hour -- stab with fork in a couple of places and rub with oil & salt before putting in oven -- turn over to other side after half an hour), salad & token hot vegetable (see Green Giant frozen veggie section in your supermarket).

  Here's the easiest: go to your local Tom Thumb or other supermarket, buy one of their roasted chickens from the Deli Department, add a loaf of their fresh-made French bread and a bag of salad. There's dinner!

  Nina
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  desib77

  J. Paul Getty?s Casserole

  I can do that! yum....
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  desib77

  Get a grill. Yummy food and not too hard once you get the hang of it.

  I have a George Forman grill, (somewhere ) does that count???

  Thanks, Nina....hehe, I think I may print this thread out and just use it as my cookbook Luckily if I do cook something it can last for a couple of meals since it is just the two of us.
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  Valis

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/cookbook.aspx

  And don't forget our cookbooks!

  Sincerely,

  District Overbeer
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  Morgan

  How about an internet site for recipes. I visit http://www.allrecipes.com/. Thousands of recipes here.

  Ummmm, can I supply the link here? If not, let me know.
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  L_A_Big_Dawg

  Desi,

  I couldn't cook, however after I got divorced I began to watch TV Food Network religiously (no pun intended). It was there whatching How to Boil Water, and Good Eats, that I learned the basics of cooking. Now I'm a good cook, and when I had freinds over for a dinner party I got raves about the food (you know they're not lying by how much they eat and the eyes).

  LABD, of the this dawg can cook, class
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  Frannie Banannie

  Lol, desib77! Yall can't live on sweets alone, chere....but fry or broil up some chicken and make a lemon sauce (sweet 'n tart) The secret is just put, say.....1/2 cup butter or margarine in pan to melt.....when melted, add 1/2 cup lemon juice to 1 cup of powdered sugar, blending well, then stir into melted butter....simmer until sauce thickens....make more if you like. Serve with Oriental Fried Rice (you can buy a box at the grocers) and a veggie.

  If yall like TexMex food, try boiling some chicken in water and debone the meat, setting it aside to cool first.....briefly dip corn tortillas in the hot broth just to soften enough to line a greased or buttered casserole dish....Spread deboned chicken meat over bottom of casserole dish....In a mixing bowl, stir together 1 can of Rotel tomatoes, 1 can of cream of chicken soup and 1 can of Ranch Style beans or pinto beans.....pour mixture over chicken, top with Colby/Jack or Monterey Jack cheese and bake in preheated oven at 400 degrees until golden brown and bubbly on top (45 mins to 1 hr)

  For Taco Salad, in hot skillet, brown a pound of lean ground beef or turkey, setting aside to drain and cool on paper towels.....Chop small head of iceberg lettuce for salad and place in large bowl, adding one can of kidney beans (drained first), 1 cup chopped celery, 1 small diced onion (optional), 1 diced beefsteak tomato or 2 smaller ones, diced, 1 cup shredded Jack or Cheddar cheese, 1 bag of Tostitos (broken up/smash the bag first), and one small bottle of Ranch Style Dressing...then toss and eat....Hint: to make it prettier, top with sour cream dollops and sprinkle with sliced ripe olives.

  For easy Chicken 'n Dumplings, in large pot, boil chicken in water, setting aside chicken to debone and cool.....add some instant chicken bouillon to the broth from the chicken, some chopped celery, 1 can of cream of chicken soup....and some poultry seasoning and curry powder (not the hot kind).....in a bowl, mix up a batch of biscuit dough with poultry seasoning in it, using Pioneer or Bisquick biscuit mix....drop by spoonfuls into broth after you bring broth to slow boil (med heat), cover and let simmer (med/low heat) for approx. 20 mins., stirring occasionally so it doesn't form a solid mass on top.

  Hope these help, chere.....they're pretty easy, eh?

  Frannie B
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  desib77

  Hope these help, chere.....they're pretty easy, eh?

  They should be but one of the first problems I will have with them is that I never know how long to cook meat for. I don't know when it is done. I also don't know the difference in baking and broiling. I have always thought the broiling was done in the drawer under the oven but now I'm pretty sure that is just storage.

  I know, I'm pitiful. I should have taken home ec. in high school.