Lazy Hotdog Casserole

 

Last time we saw our friends, Gary and Georgia, Georgia told me about this delicious casserole she made. She said she basically put mashed potatoes in the bottom of the casserole dish, added chopped up hotdogs to the top and then added cheese to the top of that and put it in the oven until it’s hot. So here’s Georgia’s casserole that I made tonight! Everyone loved it! I named it “lazy“ because I used frozen premade mashed potatoes, but you could always use homemade ones. Let me know what you think!

Lazy Hotdog Casserole 

Ingredients:

2 packs of hotdogs

1 Family Size Bob Evans Original Mashed Potatoes

2+ cups shredded cheese

Roasted garlic and herb dry seasoning

Avocado oil (or any cooking oil you have)

1 frozen steamable bag of peas (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°

2. Slice hotdogs into small round bites. Add into frying pan with some Avocado oil. Sprinkle generously with roasted garlic and herb seasoning. Stir occasionally on medium low to high heat until hotdogs are browned.

3. While hotdogs are cooking, add mashed potatoes to the bottom of a 9 x 13 baking dish. Spread the potatoes evenly on the bottom of the dish. You do not need to preheat the potatoes! They don’t even have to be thawed all the way, just enough to be able to cover the bottom.

4. Once the hotdogs are brown, spread them evenly on top of the mashed potatoes. 

5. Cover the top of the hotdogs with the cheese. Measure the cheese amount with your heart!

6. Bake in the oven for approximately 20 to 25 minutes until the cheese is melted and it’s hot in the middle.

Notes: For this recipe, you can either use homemade mashed potatoes or premade from the store. You can also use any kind of hotdog or sausage flavor as well as any cheese flavors. I believe I used Colby Jack or Mexican blend. You could also experiment with the different seasonings. My adult kids don’t like peas, but if your family does, I think you could add the peas between the mashed potatoes and hotdogs and it would be delicious! I just served the peas on the side with butter and the same roasted garlic and herb seasoning I used on the hotdogs.

IP Chicken and canned Biscuits

 

Instant Pot Chicken and canned biscuits

RECIPE USING RAW CHICKEN:

3 cups chicken broth (or water)

Two cans cream of chicken soup

Two thick raw chicken breasts

1 can jumbo biscuits

 salt, pepper, thyme, basil

Add chicken, broth/water, soup and seasonings into pot. Do not stir. 

Cook on high pressure for 20 minutes. (If chicken is frozen add 5 min)

5 mins NR then quick release

Open pot, shred chicken to chunks 

Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces

Mix into pot

High pressure 3 minutes. QR

RECIPE FOR COOKED CHICKEN:

2 cooked chicken breasts chopped 

3c water

3 chicken bullion cubes 

2 cans cream of chicken soup 

Basil, thyme, parsley, salt and pepper

1 can of 8 biscuits, each cut into 4’s

Add water and bullion cubes to pot

Dump in chopped chicken 

Dump in both cans of soup

DO NOT STIR

Sprinkle seasonings on top of soup

DO NOT STIR

Cook on high 6 min, quick release

Open lid and dump in biscuits. 

STIR

Reset lid and cook for 3 min and quick release.

Add cooked peas if you like.

Faith’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

When I got my KitchenAid mixer I tried a lot of chocolate chip cookie recipes  I ended up just doing my own and I have to say, it’s my favorite!!! I hope you think so too.  ❤️

🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪

Faith’s Chocolate Chip Cookie

Ingredients

- 1/2 cup softened butter

- 1 cup sugar

- 1 egg beaten

- 1 teaspoon vanilla

- 1 3/4 cups flour

- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

- 3/4 cup mini dark chocolate chips

Instructions

- Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl (or KitchenAid mixer) cream together butter and sugar, add egg and beat until creamy, add vanilla.

- In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.

- To the large bowl add 1/3 at a time the flour mixture, mixing with a wooden spoon (or KitchenAid mixer).

- Add chocolate chips. Mix.

- Use cookie scoop to shape into balls and place on cookie sheets and bake for approximately 15-20 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire rack to cool. Enjoy!

- ***Easy to double!!!

Pepper Steak (freezer meal)

My mom used to make this and it was one of my favorites! Now I make it and surprisingly the kids love it too! But only when I chop the veggies very small. LOL

1# lean hamburger
3 green bell peppers
1-2 onions
4 packets brown gravy mix (or 4 cans)
1 large tsp of minced garlic
pink salt and pepper to taste
Italian seasoning to taste

4 c minute rice
4 c water

1. Bring 4 c water to boil. Remove from heat and stir in rice. Cover with lid. 
2. Chop veggies. Brown hamburger and veggies in large pan. Add garlic and seasonings. Cook until meat is no longer pink and veggies are almost soft.
3. In measuring cup, add 4 cups water. Add 4 packets of gravy, whisk to blend. (add more gravy if you like it really runny like I do). Add to meat. Stir.
4. Cook on low until gravy is thick and veggies are soft.
5. Serve over cooked rice.

(Make double or more and put meat mixture into aluminum container, seal and freeze. Thaw and heat and then serve over rice.)

Easy Cake Mix Banana Bread

Although I have a wonderful recipe from my church friend Miriam Smith, I wanted to find a super easy one since we seem to let our banana's go bad all the time and I don't want to waste them. And I'm all about quick and easy recipes. So I came across this recipe that uses a box cake mix. My daughter wanted chocolate chips in it but I didn't have any so I compromised and used chocolate cake mix. Needless to say, it wasn't the same, it was ok but the one with the yellow cake mix was the best between the two. The chocolate one on the right in the picture is the one I poked with the knife to see if they were ready so that's why it looks like it fell.

Ingredients

2-3 bananas (I used 2 but 3 would probably taste better)
1 box cake mix (I made 2 batches and used yellow and chocolate but heard Butter Pecan is really good)
1 stick of butter
2 large eggs
cinnamon sugar - optional (I sprinkled this on the top of the yellow, just to see what would happen)

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350.
2. Mash bananas in the bottom of a bowl while melting butter in the microwave for about 30 seconds. 3. Pour melted butter in with the bananas and stir.
4. Dump the cake mix on top of banana mixture to cover it. Make a little hole in the cake mix and crack the 2 eggs into the hole. If the butter is very hot, you don't want the eggs to scramble so maybe let it cool off a little.
5. Then mix the eggs and cake mix into the bananas and butter. I just used a spoon and didn't over mix it.
6. Pour into a sprayed/buttered loaf pan.
7. Bake for 30-40 minutes. Stick a knife in the middle at 30 minutes. If it comes out clean it's done. If it has batter on it, cook for another few minutes.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT remove the bread from the pan until it's cooled off or it WILL crumble!!!

UPDATE: I had a piece of the chocolate bread right out of the fridge with butter on it and it was WAY better cold the next day so take that for what its worth. =0)

Amry's Favorite Chicken and Rice

This is Amry's favorite chicken and rice dinner and it only takes about 15 minutes...especially if you use canned chicken. We all like it, but not as much as her. And she likes it REALLY dry. I would like it better if it were creamier, so if you like it like that, add another cup or more of water. I usually double the recipe when I make it since she likes to have it for breakfast. =0)

Ingredients
· 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
·  1 pound diced chicken breast (or 1 large can cooked)
· 1 10 3/4 ounce can Campbell's® Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup (Regular or 98% Fat Free)
· 1 cup water
· 1/4 teaspoon paprika
· 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
· 2 cups uncooked instant white rice

Directions

1. Heat the oil in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook for 10 minutes or until well browned. Remove the chicken from the skillet. 

2. Stir the soup, water , paprika and black pepper in the skillet and heat to a boil. Stir in the rice. Reduce the heat to low. Return the chicken to the skillet. Cover and cook for 5 minutes or until the chicken is cooked though. For a creamier dish, decrease the rice to 1 1/2 cups or add more water. 

You can also use Campbell's® Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup instead of the Cream of Chicken.

Hamburger Pepper Steak

This is a family favorite and easy enough to make.  ESPECIALLY if you have pre-cooked hamburger in the freezer. I just browned 5# with salt, pepper and some minced garlic. Then I put it in sandwich baggies to keep in the freezer and use as needed. Saves so much time! We always laugh when I say I'm making pepper steak for dinner because every.single.time my daughter says, "I hate pepper steak!" And I say, "no you don't". And then she will have 2 or more bowls full and we all laugh. =0)

Ingredients

2# hamburger or turkey burger
2 green bell peppers
1 or 2 large onions
4-6 packets of dry brown gravy
salt and pepper to taste
Italian seasoning to taste
1 tsp heaping of minced garlic
4 cups Minute Rice, cooked as directed

While hamburger is browning with garlic, chop green peppers and onions and add them to the hamburger. Cook it until it's done. Mix 4 packets of gravy with water as directed and add to hamburger mixture. Add salt, pepper and Italian seasoning to taste. Bring to a boil then turn to low and simmer for a few minutes. Serve over cooked rice. Serves 4-6.

Creamy Crock Pot Corn

I make this corn for all of our big potlucks and parties.  I just made it with our Easter ham and everyone raves about it every time.  It's beyond easy and will become a family favorite!!!

 

CREAMY CROCK POT CORN

4 cans of whole kernel corn

1 stick of butter
1 block of cream cheese
4 packets of splenda (optional)
salt and pepper to taste

Place stick of butter and cream cheese in the bottom of a crock pot.  Turn on LOW.  Drain 4 cans of corn and add to crock pot.  Sprinkle Splenda packets on top and add some salt and pepper.  Cook on low for 3-4 hours. Stir after the butter and cream cheese melts.  Can easily be doubled for large parties/potlucks.





Easter dinner!