Main Dish Recipes

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Main Dish Recipes

[Guardian Angel]

Chicken Squares

3 oz Cream Cheese softened
3 Tbls butter
2 cups cooked cubed chicken or two 5 oz cans boned chicken
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
2 tbls milk
1 tbls chopped chives or onion
1 tbls chopped pimento
8 oz can crescent rolls
3/4 cup croutons crushed

Preheat oven to 350
In medium bowl, blend cream cheese and 2 Tbls butter (reserve 1 Tbls) until smooth. Add chicken, salt, pepper, milk, chives, and pimentoes and mix well. Seperate crescent dough into 4 rectangles. Press perforations to seal. Spoon 1/2 cup meat mixture into center of each rectangle. Pull 4 corners of dough to top center of chicken mixture. Twist slightly and seal edges. Brush tops with reserved butter. Dip in crumbs. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
 
 

[Guardian Angel]

City Chicken Legs

Veal Steaks (thin)
Pork Steaks (thin)
eggs
Italian Bread Crumbs
wooden skewers


Alternate veal and pork strips on wooden skewers accordion style.  Dip in beaten eggs then roll in Italian bread crumbs.  Fry in oil until bread crumbs are brown.  Salt and pepper while frying.  Place in baking dish - cover with mushroom soup.  Bake 45 minutes - one hour.

[Guardian Angel]

Corned Beef Brisket

3-4 lbs corned beef briskit
2 med onions sliced
2 cloves garlic minced
6 whole cloves

Place corned beef in dutch oven, barely covering with hot water.  Add seasonings.  Cover and simmer about 1 hour per pound of meat or until fork tender.  Remove meat from liquid. 

Add:
6 medium potatoes
6 small carrots
Bring to boil and cook for 10 minutes.  Add 6 wedges of cabbage, cook another 20 minutes

To carve Corned Beef-cut across the grain.
 
   
 
 

[Guardian Angel]

Red Beans and Rice

Measure the following ingredients into a crock pot:

4 Cans Red Beans
1/3 of a medium onion, diced
1 clove garlic chopped
1 Bay Leaf
3 strips Bacon fried and crumbled.  ( You may use equal amount of real bacon bits.)
2 1/2 Tbls. Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp Black pepper
1/3 tsp Tabasco sauce
pinch of Thyme

Cook on high for 1 hour then turn to low and cook another 2 hours or longer.  Last hour add 1 pkg smoked sausage (I use Cajun flavored) cut into slices.

Serve on a bed of rice with buttered corn bread and a green salad.
 

[Guardian Angel]

5 Hour Beef Stew

2 lbs lean stew beef (do not brown)
6 medium potatoes quartered
1 package Baby cut carrots
1 large onion sliced and ringed
3 cups water
1 envelope Mc Cormick Beef Stew seasoning.
Put all ingredients in medium dutch oven.  Bake at 250 for 5 hours.  Thicken if desired with flour.

Serve with cole slaw and hot Biscuits

 

[Guardian Angel]

Busy Day Pork Chops

8 medium pork chops
1 Box any flavor Stove Top Stuffing
1 Can cream soup (chicken, mushroom, or celery)
1/2 cup water
1 can whole kernel corn, do not drain.

In 8x8 baking dish, arrange 4 pork chops on bottom of pan.  Mix together Stove Top, soup, water, and corn.  Pour over chops and top with remaining 4 chops.  cover with foil and bake at 325 for 45 minutes.  Remove foil and bake another 30 minutes.  Serve with hot rolls and salad.  for those who do not like Stove Top, substitute your own dressing recipe and omit the soup and water.

Variations:  Substitute skinned, boned chicken breasts for chops.
 

[Guardian Angel]

Pop Up Pizza Casserole

1 1/2 lb ground chuck
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped green pepper
1 clove garlic, minced
1 1.5 oz envelope spaghetti sauce mix
1/2 tsp dried oregano, crushed
1 15 oz can tomato sauce
1/2 cup water
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1 Tbls cooking oil
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

In large skillet, cook ground chuck until brown drain off fat.  Stir in onion, pepper, garlic, spaghetti sauce mix and oregano.  Add tomato sauce and water.  Cook and stir until mixture comes to boiling; reduce heat.  Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.

In medium bowl beat milk, eggs and oil with an electric mixer on medium speed for 1 minute.  Add flour and salt, beat 2 minutes more.  Transfer hot beef mixture to an ungreased 13x9 baking pan.  Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.  Pour egg mixture evenly over top.  Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.  Bake in 400 oven for 25-30 minutes or until puffed and golden brown.  Serve immediately
 
 

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Sloppy Joe Pie

1 lb ground chuck
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 can tomato sauce
1 can whole kernel corn
1/4 cup water
1 envelope sloppy joe seasoning
1 can refrigerated biscuits
2 Tbls milk
1/3 cup corn meal
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, divided.

In a skillet brown beef with onion and drain.  Stir in tomato sauce, corn, water and sloppy joe seasoning, cook over medium heat until bubbly.  Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes; remove from heat and set aside.  Separate biscuits and roll or flatten each to a 3 1/2 inch circle.  Dip both sides into the milk and then in the corn meal.   Place 7 biscuits around the sides and 3 in the bottom of an ungreased 9" pie pan.  Press biscuits together to form a crust leaving a scalloped edge around rim.  Sprinkle with 1/2 cup cheese.  Spoon meat mixture over cheese.  Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes or until crust is deep golden brown.  Sprinkle with remaining cheese.  Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.
 
 

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Bubble Pizza

1 1/2 lbs ground chuck
1 can pizza sauce
2 tubes buttermilk biscuits
1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese.

In a skillet brown the beef; drain.  Stir in pizza sauce.  Quarter the biscuits, place in greased 13x9 baking dish.  Top with the beef mixture.  Bake uncovered, at 400 for 20-25 minutes.  Sprinkle with cheeses.  Bake 5-10 minutes longer or until cheese is melted.  Let stand for 5-10 minutes before serving.
 

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Stuffed Green Peppers

1  lb ground chuck
1/3 cup finely chopped onion
1 can tomato sauce, divided
1/4 cups water
3 Tbls grated Parmesan cheese, divided
1 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/2 cup uncooked instant rice
4 medium green peppers

Crumble beef into a 1 1/2  qt microwaveable bowl; add onion.  Cover and microwave on HIGH for 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 minutes or until meat is browned; drain.  Stir in 1 1/2cups tomato sauce, water, q Tbls of Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper.  Cover and microwave on HIGH for 2 1/2  to 3 1/2 minutes.  Stir in rice, cover and let stand for 5 minutes.  Remove tops and seeds from the peppers;  cut in half lengthwise.  Stuff with meat mixture, place in an ungreased microwave safe shallow 3 qt or 13x9 baking dish.  Spoon remaining tomato sauce over peppers; sprinkle with remaining cheese.  Cover and microwave on HIGH for 10-12 minutes or until peppers are tender.  Let stand for 5 minutes before serving. 

[Guardian Angel]

Beef Roast with Brown Potatoes and Carrots

In a medium Dutch Oven:

4-5# Rump Roast
8-10 potatoes, peeled and quartered
1-2 lb bag baby carrots
1 can Campbells French onion soup
2 cans water

Bake in 350 oven 2 1/2 - 3 hours or until potatoes and carrots are tender.

Serve with Tossed salad and hot rolls.

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Goulash

Brown 1# bacon, cut into small pieces, in a large skillet with 1 large onion diced.  Drain and set aside.

1 pkg elbow macaroni cooked and drained.
1 large can Diced tomatoes with juice

Add to Bacon onion mixture and simmer for about 10 minutes. 

This can also be made with ground chuck instead of bacon.....however the bacon is what I remember mom using and it is sooooo good.
 

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[Guardian Angel]

Spaghetti Sauce

1 lb ground chuck, browned and drained.
1 medium onion diced
1 can Hunts chunky vegetable Spaghetti sauce
1 can Italian style tomato sauce
1 can Italian style tomato paste
1 can Italian style diced tomatoes
1 can chopped black olives
1 jar( small) green salad olives, drained.
1 can mushrooms, sliced and drained.

Add all ingredients to crock pot and cook slowly all day long.  Serve over spaghetti noodles with a garden salad and garlic bread.