Red Beef Special

a.k.a. Beef & Veggies over Rice

Ingredients:

1 lb. ground beef

Steam in the Bag Frozen Veggies (the mix is your choice)
2 boxes rice (any flavor, I prefer beef, Mexican or dirty rice)
1 large can of tomato sauce
¼ cup ketchup
2T sugar
2tsp. black pepper
2tsp. red pepper
Dash of salt

Instructions (totally easy!) 

   1. Using a skillet, brown the ground beef over medium heat. Chop the beef until fine and make sure to drain ALL GREASE from the beef (cuts down in fat & heartburn!)

2.      2. While the beef is cooking, prepare the 2 boxes of rice in accordance with the directions. Cover and leave on low heat once cooked.

3.      3.  Leaving the drained beef in the skillet, mix in the can of tomato sauce, ketchup, sugar, red pepper, black pepper and salt; lower heat to a low medium & simmer until heated through.

4.      4. Steam the vegetables by following the directions on the package; once steamed add the veggies to the tomato sauce and beef mixture

5.      5. Cover and heat thoroughly on medium heat; once heated all the way through turn to low heat and stir every so often.

   6. Serve by scooping rice onto a plate or bowl and topping with tomato, beef and veggie mix. Enjoy!

Fireman's Casserole

This dinner is so easy even my sister could make it! BTW That is saying A LOT!


I cook for a large home so I use a larger version of this casserole. It is best to teach from experience so this recipe will yield 6-8 servings.

Ingredients:

2-3 lbs of cooked ground beef (or ground chuck)
2 cans of sweet peas
2 cans of yellow corn
2 cans of cream of mushroom OR 2 cans of cream of chicken, celery, ect
1 large bag of tator tots
1 large bag of shredded cheese (any kind you like: cheddar, pepperjack for spice, mexican, ect)

Kitchen Items needed:

Skillet
13" x 9" casserole dish
Can opener

This recipe is so easy! You can leave out the sweet peas and even the corn it will still be a great dish to serve. You can also cut the recipe is half and make in a 9" by 9" casserole dish instead.

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.

Cook the beef by scattering and shredding it in the hot skillet. Break the beef up as much as you can for easy spreading and coverage in the casserole dish. Once the beef has been fully cooked turn off the heat and drain the grease from the beef.

Take the large casserole  dish and spread the beef evenly on the bottom of the dish.

Then use your can opener to open the canned corn and peas. It doesn't matter how you layer the peas and corn. Just pour them evenly, feel free to mix them or layer them, it doesn't matter.

Open the soup and spread it over the beef, corn & peas.

Take your bag of tator tots and line them evenly over the top of the casserole.

Then put your casserole into the oven.

Read the tator tots package to see how long to cook your casserole. NOTE: The tator tots are the only thing that has to cook because the other ingredients are simply warming up.

Check your dish often and when the tator tots are almost all the way browned start spreading the cheese evenly on the top of your dish.

Once the cheese is fully melted you are ready to eat!