Jenny Approved Hamburger Spinach Tomato Pasta One Dish Meal Recipes

JENNY-APPROVED HAMBURGER-SPINACH-TOMATO-PASTA ONE DISH MEAL

Steps:

• Put a pot of water on to boil.
• Brown the ground beef with the chopped onions and garlic.
• Add pasta to boiling water -- cook as long as advised by box directions.
• Put frozen spinach and shredded carrots into a microwave-safe bowl and zap (cook in the microwave) for 7 minutes (stir at about 4 minutes).
• Add both cans of tomatoes to cooked meat, stir, and simmer for a few minutes.
• Add spinach and carrots to the meat mixture, stir, and simmer for a few minutes.
• Drain pasta and place in a HUGE serving dish.
• Put meat and veggie mixture into the HUGE serving dish and mix thoroughly with the pasta.
• Serve hot.

CHEESEBURGER PASTA

Steps:

• Cook beef in skillet until browned.
• Pour off fat.
• Add soups, water and pasta.
• Heat to a boil.
• Cover, and cook over medium heat 10 minute or until done, stirring often.

GINGERBREAD CARAMEL CORN

Steps:

• Divide popped popcorn equally between 1 lightly buttered 13x9 baking pan.
• Combine salt, butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, molasses, ginger and cinnamon in a large heavy saucepan.
• Heat over medium heat till mixture comes to a full boil.
• Boil for 5 minutes, stirring frequently, remove from heat.
• Add baking soda, it will foam up -- stir well.
• Pour over popcorn in prepared pans and toss to combine well.
• Bake at 250* for one hour, stirring every 15 minutes.till popcorn is crisp --.
• Cool completely, and store in an airtight container.

PICNIC PASTA SALAD -- ONE DISH MEAL

Steps:

• Mix all salad ingredients together in a large bowl.
• Whisk dressing ingredients together until smooth and well-blended.
• Toss salad ingredients with dressing until well-blended.
• Let sit, refrigerated, at least 4-6 hours, preferably overnight.
• Note: Additional vegetables can be added substituted if desired. Frozen broccoli florets or chopped cucumber are particularly good. But if you add a lot of extra veggies you might need an extra half batch of dressing.
• Note: It is not necessary to thaw the frozen veggies if making it the night before.
• Note: Fresh beans, snapped to size, can be used raw for a crisper texture or they can be blanched and cooled first.

CROCK POT CHICKEN BREAST IN POBLANO CREAM

Steps:

• Season chicken breast with salt and pepper.
• Place onion, garlic, poblano and chicken breast in crock pot.
• Mix together broth, adobe sauce and cumin; pour over chicken.
• Cover and cook on low for 3 hours.
• Meanwhile, dice cream cheese and allow to come to room temperature.
• After cooking for three hours, ladle into a small bowl approximately 1/2 cup of hot broth from crock pot.
• Whisk in the cream cheese.
• When well incorporated, add cream cheese mixture to crock pot; stirring well.
• Cover and cook on low for an additional 1 1/2 hours (or until done).
• Serve over rice or noodles.
• Garnish with fresh parmesan cheese.

BELL PEPPER, KIDNEY BEANS, AND MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• In a 12" pan, saute garlic in oil for 1 minute.
• Add mushrooms and saute until golden brown.
• Remove mushrooms from pan, add bell pepper and saute until cooked but still firm.
• Combine mushrooms, salt, and kidney beans with bell pepper in pan.
• Bring mixture to a boil, simmer briefly, then serve.

CARDAMOM BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• whisk together dry ingredients, except sugar in a bowl.
• In a large bowl, beat together sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla, until fluffy.
• Reduce speed and beat in flour mixture.
• Roll into two 12-inch logs.
• Wrap in plastic and refrigerate 1 hour.
• preheat oven to 350.
• Slice into 1/4-inch slices and bake on ungreased cookie sheets 10-12 minutes.
• Cool on sheets 3 minutes, then move to racks.