Sunday, December 20, 2009

Does anyone have any good recipes to cook for dinner?

I need a recipe to cook for dinner. Do you have any good supper recipe recommendations? Please submit if you have?Does anyone have any good recipes to cook for dinner?
Stroganoff Casserole With Spinach





6 oz. medium egg noodles, cooked


10 oz. package frozen chopped spinach


2 T. unsalted butter or margarine


8 oz. package fresh sliced white mushrooms


1 lb. lean ground beef chuck


1 C. fresh or frozen chopped onion (about 1 medium-large yellow onion)


1 small clove of garlic, minced


1/2 t. dried marjoram


1/4 t. dried thyme


1/2 C. tomato sauce


1/2 cup part-skim ricotta cheese


Half an 8 oz. brick of light cream cheese


salt and pepper, to taste


1/2 C. freshly grated Parmesan cheese or coarsely shredded Cheddar





Preheat oven to 350掳F. Butter shallow 2 1/2-quart casserole dish (about 12 x 8 inches) and set aside. Prepare noodles according to package directions; drain well. Start thawing frozen spinach in microwave.





Meanwhile, melt butter in large, heavy skillet over moderately high heat; add mushrooms, ground beef, onion, garlic, marjoram and thyme. Cook, stirring and breaking up chunks of meat, until meat is no longer pink, about 10 minutes.





Reduce heat to low, stir in tomato sauce and cook 1-2 minutes. Add ricotta cheese, cream cheese and spinach (squeezed of all moisture) and cook, stirring, just until cream cheese melts. Add salt and pepper, to taste. Fold in cooked noodles.





Spread evenly in casserole dish and sprinkle with Parmesan or Cheddar. Bake, uncovered, until bubbly, about 20-30 minutes. Serve at once.





Serves: 6.Does anyone have any good recipes to cook for dinner?
depends on how much money you have to spend or how many people are eating with you.


if you're feeling a bit flush and its only a couple of you, i'd try:





a monkfish fillet, rolled in thyme leaves and then cut in half.


put one fillet on top of the other, fat end to thin end. then lay out some strips of parma ham so they overlap. put the monkfish on the ham and wrap it tightly. if you know how to bind it with string, do that, if not, a couple of well places cocktail sticks will do the trick.


pop that in the fridge to cool down.





now, make some dauphinoise potatoes, slice your waxy potatoes on a mandolin if you have one if not use a thin serrated blade knife to slice very thin slices along with a small white onion and a clove of garlic, heat about half a pint of milk and cream (1/4 pint of each) in a saucepan, add the slices of potato one at a time so they don't stick and leave that to simmer for 10 minutes or so. season to taste.


pop that in the oven for an hour on a medium heat.





pour a glass of gutsy red wine, or port if you have any into a saucepan and add some beef stock, one cube if you have it or about half a pint if you have proper stock (nobody really ever has beef stock lying around)


reduce that by more than half.





when your potatoes are 30 minutes away from being done, take the monkfish out of the fridge.





when your potatoes are 10-15 minutes away from being done, move them to the bottom of the oven and crank up the heat.


pop the monk fish in the hot oven for about 13 mins (sometimes more, depending on your oven)





when the fish is done, serve the potatoes on the centre of the plate, slice the monkfish and pop that on top and drizzle the wine and stock reduction around the outside of the plate.





AMAZING





if your doing it on the cheap and you want something as showy and easy as hell to cook.








bang a slab of pork belly (rubbed with salt, pepper and olive oil)skin side up into a large casserole dish and put that in the oven on full whack for half an hour.


after half an hour, pour a pint of chicken stock, a 1/4 of a bottle of light soy sauce, 3 massive spoons of honey, a big glug of balsamic vingar, 3 cloves of whole garlic, a chopped celery, 2 shallots sliced lengthways, 1 roughly chopped carrot, 2 bay leaves and a knob of butter into the dish.


put in the oven and reduce the heat to about 150 degrees c. leave in the oven for 3 hours.


remove the skin and throw it away, unless you like eating soft pig skin, then tuck in.


in the dish, because its too fiddly to take it out, use a knife to slice the pork belly into manageable chunks. take out the bay leaves and put the dish back in the oven





cook some new potatoes (preferably jerseys because they're in season now) cover them with butter and parsley, then serve the two together.


a big slice of pork belly with some new potatoes and the random vegetables dotted around, either that or you could make some buttery mash.





hope this helps, if not for your dinner party. try the pork belly one night. its really cheap to make and it falls apart in your mouth.





enjoy
This is also very good warmed up.





Texas Hash





1 lb ground beef


1 chopped onion


bell pepper (optional)


1 c water


1 c rice (uncooked)


1 16 oz can tomatoes (juice %26amp; all)


2 t. salt


1/2 t pepper


1 t chili powder


1/4 t garlic powder (or chopped dried garlic)





Brown ground beef, onion and pepper. Add spices.


Add remaining ingredients. Pour into casserole dish. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake 10 more minutes.





I serve it with garlic toast.

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