Basil, it's what's for dinner!

[toggleswitch]

1/4 cup olive oil
1.0 cups tomato sauce
1.0 cups water
salt pepper
herbs
garlic

rest of vegetable ingredients are pictured. None mandatory

@ 450*F
20 minutes covered
20 minuted uncovered

Stir once or twice.
Feel free to be flexible with veggies.

 

[toggleswitch]

~People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Or as Oscar Wilde had said:
......should learn how to urinate elegantly.

 

[perc-o-prince]

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"Guys, recipes for Italian food, please!"

Tell me what's on hand in your fridge and pantry, and I'll give you a recipe. That's mostly how I cook, though there are always some staple dishes that most people build off of.

Leftover idea:
Got leftover meat, but not enough for a serving or a meal? A couple of hamburgers from a cookout (like, maybe, a New England wash-in??)? A pork chop? Sausage? Chicken? A piece of steak? Take the meat (sans bones, skin, fat) and put it in a Mason jar in the freezer, with a thin film of tomato sauce to protect it. Next time you make a pot of pasta sauce, plop the meat in while the sauce is simmering!

Change-up an old favorite! Do you make baked ziti? Next time, take a couple of boxes (per pound of pasta) of thawed chopped spinach and mix them in for Baked Ziti Florentine!

Chuck

 

[toggleswitch]

~Tell me what's on hand in your fridge and pantry, and I'll give you a recipe. That's mostly how I cook, though there are always some staple dishes that most people build off of.

Oh yes Mistah-Sistah, that is what I do. A bit of this, a slice of that and there ya go!

Ya can't go in with a recipe in mind; you go in think how do I use what I have (decaying) in the fridge. Unless there is company coming, then you buy! (ducks and runs)

Of course, if they come over unannounced, all is fair in love and war...er super emergencies. (Hello "Chicken Delight" I'll need two buckets of chicken, ASAP.

I may have to lean on your resourcefulness in the future!
Many thanks!

 

[perc-o-prince]

Ya can't go in with a recipe in mind; you go in think ho

That sounds like a pot of sou or stew waiting to happen!

Actually, I do have some fave recipes that I use for things I don't make that often, or want to make the SAME as my mother made them. I'll pull a couple out, maybe tomorrow. Italian or Polish (kielbasa) sausage maybe?

Here's the Country Club Eggs we did for Sunday breakfast (adapted from a recipe from my step-mother):

-Grease a 9x13 pan and preheat the oven to 350.

-Cook, drain, crumble 1.5# breakfast meat like bacon or sausage. Set aside.

-Tear 9-10 slices of bread (or leftover hamburger/hot dog rolls!!!) into the pan.

-Blend, mix, or otherwise combine well, 9 eggs and 3 cups milk. Add salt and pepper to taste (1/4t each to start).

-Pour egg mixture slowly and evenly over bread. Sprinkle with crumbled meat. Use a spatula to press the mixture down a bit to be sure everything's wet.

-Top with about 1.5 cups shredded cheese.

-Bake about 20 minutes in the middle of the oven, then move to the top and turn the oven down to 300 for another 40 minutes.

Let cool slightly and serve. Feeds about 6 for breakfast as a main dish, or 8 with another dish like mixed fruit.

Now, where can you go with this? Well, for one.....

Substitute 1.5c raisins for the meat and omit the cheese. Maybe throw in some chopped walnuts if you like too! Add some cinnamon and nutmeg to the egg mixture instead of pepper. Serve with whipped cream and you have bread pudding!

Chuck

 

[exploder3211]

Sorry did not mean to offend, Gadget Gary.. It just struck me as off...

I think it has to do with sweedish meat balls, those things have such a horrible taste and look like that