Penne Pasta Casserole With
Cheese
1 pound ground beef
1 chopped onion
14.5 oz can diced tomatoes with basil, garlic, and oregano 6 oz can
tomato paste
12 oz uncooked penne pasta prepare according to package directions
3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Heat Oven To 350 Degrees.
Cook ground beef and onion in skillet until no longer
pink. Drain. Stir in diced tomatoes and tomato paste and 1/2 cup water. Season
to taste, heat through. Coat a 13X9X2 inch baking dish
with cooking spray. Combine cooked pasta with meat tomato mixture and 2 cups
mozzarella cheese. Pour into baking dish, top with remaining cheese. Bake
uncovered for 25 min. or until cheese is melted.
Delicious Served With Garlic Bread.
Makes 6 Servings.*
freezes well
Kat K
For Vicki
A source for
huli huli sauce
From Melody in NJ
Today as I was trying to setup mail on a new
mail program the computer crashed. If you don't see your message posted today
please resend it to me. 3 messages to this
newsletter died in the computer crash. Thank you for your help in this.
Nancy
This is for Maha who is wondering why her chocolate chip cookies always flatten out.
I don't really know the answer to that, but I do know when I add a package of
Jell-O vanilla pudding mix the cookies have more "body" to them. I use
instant-regular or sugar-free-can't really tell any difference in using the
different mixes. Give this a try and see what you think.
Connie in TX
Thanks for the recipes on the Almond Joy
Candy and bars, but the recipe I am looking for is called
Almond Joy Cups, the recipe calls for chocolate cake mix, Lg.
marshmallows, coconut and chocolate chips and you use a mini. muffin pan, I got
most of the directions, except it doesn't say what to do with the chocolate
chips or almonds, this is what I need.
Thanks again, Wanda
Hi Nancy,
This summer, while visiting my husband's family in South Carolina, one of his
aunts prepared a dish for us that I think she called "Venetian
Spaghetti". It was a layered dish with mushrooms, peppers, onions, as
well as the usual spaghetti, sauce, and cheese, and then it was baked in a
casserole dish. Does anyone have a recipe for a similar dish?
Thanks, Vickie, in Texas
Hi there!
I am searching for the old fashion Coney Island hotdog
sauce. I have searched recipe books but haven't come up with anything.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much, Melissa
Hi Nancy:
Looking for a good kisch recipe (misspelled.) I don't know how to get into the
archives.
Thank you all so much. Lucille
Hi Nancy,
The newsletter is fantastic! You do a great job! I can't wait to read it
everyday.
My request is for vinegar pie. My husband's
grandmother used to make this when he was young in Kansas. Nobody in the family
has the recipe and all the ones I can find are like a lemon custard.
The one I am looking for was made with a bottom pie crust and dropped pieces of
crust into the filling before baking.
It is a very old recipe.
Thanks! Lynette in Michigan
This if for Vicki in Texas
Hawaiian Chicken Teriyaki
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup soy sauce
1 clove fresh garlic, chopped
small chunk (3/4") crushed fresh ginger
1 tablespoon sesame oil
2 tablespoons sherry
1/2 bunch green onions, finely chopped
1 tablespoon roasted sesame seeds
12 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
(can be substituted with other pieces of your choice)
Combine all ingredients, except chicken, to make the marinade. Marinate chicken
for 2 to 4 hours. Grill chicken on barbecue until done.
Serves 12
Deanna
Howdy Do from East Texas
I have finally got a copy of a recipe from your website
without getting the whole newsletter. Thank you for giving out that
information on how to do it. I love to cook and try new recipe's and you are the
lady that comes thru with a lot of good recipes. Have a great day.
Mary
This is for the lady that was wondering
about recipes for her baking stones. You don't have
to have specific recipes for the stones, I use mine for anything and everything
that gets baked in my house, well, as long as it's food. They do take a couple
of minutes longer to bake because the stone takes longer to heat than a regular
pan.
TBS in MN
In a recent move, some how I lost my Betty
Crocker cookbook, and it had the best cheesecake recipe in it. it was called
Company Cheesecake, and always turned out great.
This is a favorite of my son, and his birthday is coming up. If anyone out there
can help, I will appreciate it!
thanks, Lois in Kingston, WA
I have included my email address several
times with my message. Just curious why you don't post it with the
message? This is not a complaint just interested in knowing why.
Jenna
Comment
There are several reasons for this. If a member's email address included
in a newsletter on the internet it will generate so much junk and spam mail.
There are people and bots that are paid to go from newsletter group to
newsletter group just to collect current email addresses for junk mail
advertisers. My email address is posted to the newsletter and on an
average day I get over 1700 messages a day (mostly spam). Some members
tell me they have a good support for spam mail. What they probably don't
know is what the spam checker thinks is junk mail may not really be junk mail to
you. (Have you checked your spam mail folder lately. You will be amazed
what is in it. It may have really important mail from friends that you never
even seen.) It mostly uses words as filters and header rules. I am
unable to use any kind of spam checker for email from this newsletter. If
a member sent a recipe that has fruit cocktail in
it would go to junk mail. If an email says I buy
my sweetner at Wal-Mart would be filtered out as well.
This is for Maxine. I was paging through an
old cookbook last night which I had gotten at a used book sale a while back.
This recipe is in there:br>
DRUMSTICKS
1 lb. ground beef
1 egg, well beaten
1/4 c. finely chopped onion
1 tsp. prepared mustard
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
Mix together lightly, then add:
1 tsp. salt
Few grains pepper
Divide meat mixture into 4 portions. Shape each portion around a 6-in. skewer.
Roll each, pressing lightly, in
1/2 c. fine, dry breadcrumbs
Heat in heavy skillet:
3-4 tbsp. oil
Place drumsticks in hot oil & cook over moderate heat, turning to brown all
sides. continue to cook slowly about 15 min., turning occasionally.
Serves 4.
Laura L.
Hi everyone! I'm looking for some good
homemade spaghetti sauce and homemade salsa recipes!
Also, I have a flat-top stove and have had it for the last five years. Not a
problem, but you do need to put some elbow grease into it when cleaning. It's
great for me because I make such a mess when I cook!! Ha! I have found what
works best to clean is one of those flat scotch-brite green scrubbing pad and
some baking soda with just a little bit of water on the scrubbing pad. This
clean really well as the soda helps scrub the stuck-on stuff.
Dayna
Hi Nancy,
Thanks so much for all the work you put into the daily newsletters. I enjoy
reading them each day. Thanks also to Karen in
California for the Huli Huli Chicken recipe. I
can't wait to try it this weekend to see if my kids like it as much as the one
we ate at church. Keep up the good work and have a blessed day!
Vickie in Texas
Its me again Cindy from Ms. I have
downloaded the software from
homecookin. This is the trial version. Does anyone know who I can get my
recipes that are on my hard drive to the program ? I have saved these recipes
from my email and websites to my clipboard and then pasted into word. They are
.doc I have millions of them and to try to redo and put into the program is
going to be so hard. If not this program then does anyone know of a program that
will let me do that and then after that I can move all to what ever program in
another way.
I have searched for such a program and I know there is something out there but I
am just making this hard. I am having trouble with the
homecookin program. Any help appreciated.
Cindy
Comment: I am sorry you are having problems
with the
Home Cookin recipe software. The Home Cookin software
is one of the easiest program and the quickest program for organizing recipes
that I have ever found.
It only takes several steps to put the recipe in the program. If you don't
want take time to cut and paste the Title, Ingredients, and Directions into the
program separately you can create a recipe using informational text option and
cut and paste the entire contents of the recipe at one time.
As I understand it you want just go through all your recipes and instantly
import them instantly into a program. This could create be a disaster
waiting to happen because recipes are not formatted in the same way. (No matter
how careful one has been in inputting them into the file.) One recipe might have
an extra line before the directions in it or it might have an extra space
somewhere in the recipe between ingredients and most programs will have trouble
reading them at one time and being correct in its results.
I tried one program that said it would
import any txt file. It was the biggest mess I ever had in my life.
I positive that I formatted each recipe the same. What I found is at the
beginning of the file (the third recipe of 42,000) there was an extra space
between the amount and the ingredients. Everything beyond that point was
garbage. What the program actually did from the third recipe on is read
the directions as ingredients and the ingredients as instructions.
The end result I deleted the whole program and its all its
contents. (The Garbage In-Garbage Out idea.)
The
Home Cookin trial program only holds 100 recipes. It is a trial
program to try to see if you like it. If you choose to order the CD
version of the software it has 1000s of recipes included in it.
Over the years I have found that you really
get what you pay for especially when it comes to software. There aren't a
lot of free programs that have all the options and support as the that ones you
buy. Support is soooo important in any software program (especially
when you have a problem with the software and need an answer.)
Nancy
Hi Nancy,
I have been following the South Beach eating
plan - more or less now, and I wondered if anyone
had any great low fat recipes for the crock pot (slow cooker),
Thanks for your great contributions.
Margie
Could you tell me how to
caramelized glazed grapes for decorate a cake, or
other things to make a cake look prettier.
MB
Nancy in Va asked about smoothies and how to
make them using
Naturesflavors 0 carb and 0 calorie syrups. I called
Naturesflavors today and talked with them.
There basic recipe from
Naturesflavors:
3 ounces water
3 ounces syrup
6 ounces low fat yogurt
5 ounces ice
Blend together.
I have used their sugar free syrups a lot. They taste great and make tasty
smoothies. If you wanting sugar free they are the best (in my opinion.) I have
tried a lot of others but their is the best tasting for me.
Naturesflavors basic recipe is
4 ounces sugar free syrup
4 ounces water
5 ice cubes
1 tablespoon cream or half and half
Blend together.
My brother, John likes his to include other things. He is one of those skinny
people that can eat anything and never gain an ounce of weight.
He likes the strawberry flavored the best.
His recipe is
4 ounces of sugar free syrup
4 ounces water
5 ice cubes
lots of fresh strawberries
a dip of ice cream
Get Nancy to blend it together and pour it in a glass or plastic cup. (I enjoy
doing it so it works out well when I am in Arizona. Not sure what he does when I
am gone. )
My favorite syrups are the orange, pineapple, strawberry, blackberry and cherry.
I enjoy the banana but it is very strong. A little goes a long long way. I have
tried the following combinations. The total flavoring adds up to 1/2 cup.
The total flavoring adds up to 1/2 cup. Vanilla is less than 1/2 teaspoon
Basic recipe is 1/2 cup syrup, 1/2 cup water, 6 ice cubes
strawberry+banana syrup and throw in a peeled banana to make it thicker
pineapple + orange + 1 tablespoon cream
pineapple + strawberry + fresh strawberries
butter rum + vanilla + 1 Tablespoon cream
chocolate + vanilla + 1 tablespoon cream
pineapple + coconut + 1 tablespoon cream
lemonade (no cream) + 1 teaspoon RealLemon
peach + 1 tablespoon cream
I like to include a small amount of vanilla with the strawberry too.
If you would like more I have them written down and have about 15 more
combinations.
I like to use the Maraschino Cherry flavor
in everything I can think of. It tastes really great. Their peach is
outstanding. Their rootbeer flavoring makes great smoothies too.
Nancy
I have lots of sites for hunting recipes but
yours is THE best!!!
Carolyn
Hi Nancy:
I am new to your site, but can tell it will be one of my favorites! I am looking
for a clone recipe for Cracker Barrel's beef stew, or one similar to it that is
a tomato based stew without the tapioca. I prefer a thin soup type juice rather
than a thicker stew.
Thanks! Linda Peterson
Hi First of all let me say that I have only
been subscribing to your newsletter for a few days and I love it already. I saw
a recipe for Hawaiian Chicken that someone had sent. However, I recently went to
a Chinese restaurant that had a dish called Hawaiian Shrimp. This had a thick
whitish sauce on it that tasted like coconut, had pineapple, along with the
shrimp. Does anyone have a recipe for this type of dish? Thank you!
Delaine in Georgia
Sorry I was so long winded in my
explanations today.
Have a nice day
Nancy Rogers
http://www.nancyskitchen.com
