Picnic Delight Spaghetti

If your in the mood for spaghetti but don't want to dirty up lots of pots and pans then try this recipe out. It has been in our family for a very long time. Its a nice twist on your regular spaghetti.

Picnic Delight Spaghetti

1 pound ground beef
1/4 C. onion (chopped)
1 tsp. Salt
1/2 tsp. Pepper
1 tsp. Chili Powder
2 T. BBQ Sauce
1/4 C. Ketchup
2 (14 oz. each) cans of Chef Boyardee spaghetti in tomato sauce

Brown beef with onions, salt and pepper and chili powder. Drain and place back into skillet. Add remaining ingredients. Cook on low for 15 min.


Serves 6  -  219 Calories per serving

Using up your fresh produce from the garden

A friend told me she was putting a lot of her garden produce in her crockpot for supper so I thought I'd do the same! Everything was FRESH from my mom's garden! Thanks mom :)

Depending on what your family size is you can determine how many veggies you need. What I did was peel and cut up red potatoes in cubes, washed and snapped my green beans, cut up a fresh onion and placed ham slices on top. I added a cup or so of water and seasoned it up with some salt and pepper. Turned the slow cooker on for 4-5 hours on high or until everything was tender. It was pretty good and healthy :)

Dinner Rolls for the bread machine

These dinner rolls are very easy to make and they taste just like you worked hard kneading the dough but the bread machine did it for you!! My mom gave me this recipe.  I made mine a little bigger and used them as buns instead of rolls.

Dinner Rolls (using bread machine)

2/3 C. Milk
4 T. Butter
1 Egg
1 tsp. Salt
2 1/4 C. Flour
1/4 C. Sugar
1 pkg. Yeast

Melt butter and add milk, egg and salt. Heat to luke warm in microwave then put into bread machine pan. Sift together flour and sugar and put on top of liquid. Make a dent and add yeast. Start bread machine for dough cycle. Remove and shape into rolls and let rise until doubled in size. Bake for 15 min at 375 degrees.

Been busy making pickles!!

Its been awhile since the last entry. I have a few recipes to share that I just haven't had time to get put on here. My kids have taken over my computer and I'm soooo ready for school to start in a few weeks! I made Lime pickles this week and they turned out pretty good! Below are pictures of the long process. You can find the recipe on the back of a pickling lime package.

Soaking the cucumbers in lime overnight!

Giving the filled jars a bath :)

 Finished Product!!

Cheeseburger Pasta

I got this out of my Healthy Cooking magazine, it was really good. If your tired of the same old tomato sauce over pasta, try this! 

Cheeseburger Pasta
1 1/2 cups uncooked whole wheat penne pasta
3/4 pound lean ground beef
2 T finely chopped onion
1 can (14 1/2 oz) no salt added - diced tomatoes
2 T dill or sweet pickle relish
2 T prepared mustard
2 T ketchup
1 tsp. steak seasoning
1/4 tsp seasoned salt
3/4 cup shredded reduced fat cheddar cheese
chopped green onions, optional

1. Cook pasta according to pkg. directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Drain pasta; add to meat mixture.

2. Stir in tomatoes, relish, mustard, ketchup, steak seasoning and seasoned salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered for 5 minutes.

3. Sprinkle with cheese. Remove from the heat; cover and let stand until cheese is melted. Garnish with green onions if desired.

Nutritional Info:

1 1/2 cups equals 391 calories, 12 g fat, 759 sodium, 4 g fiber