Texas Chili Dogs

1 lb. bottom round steak, trimmed and cut into 1" pieces
2 TB vegetable oil
1 medium onion, chopped fine
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 TB chili powder
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 cup chili sauce (you can find this by the ketchup and hot sauce at the store)
2 TB yellow mustard
2 TB hot sauce (optional)
1 TB Worcestershire sauce

Also: 8 hotdogs, 8 hotdog buns, shredded Cheddar Cheese

Process the steak in a food porcessor until finely ground. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat until shimmering. Add the ground steak, onion, garlic, chili powder and cloves and cook until the meat is no longer pink, about 5 minutes, breaking up any large pieces with a wooden spoon. Stir in the ketchup, chili sauce, mustard, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to medium low and cook until thickened, about 30 minutes. Serve over hotdogs.

Note: If you don't have a food processor, or don't want to bother, it works well to just dice the meat with a knife. You will want the pieces pretty small though.

Amish Breakfast Casserole

Ingredients:
1 pound sliced bacon, diced
1 medium sweet onion, chopped
6 eggs, lightly beaten
4 cups frozen shredded hash brown potatoes, thawed
2 cups shredded Cheddar Cheese
1 1/2 cups small curd cottage cheese
1 1/4 cups shredded Swiss cheese

Directions:
In a large skillet, cook bacon and onion until bacon is crisp; drain. In a bowl, combine the remaining ingredients; stir in bacon mixture. Transfer to greased 9x13 baking dish.
Bake, uncovered at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until set and bubbly. Let stand for 10 minutes before cutting.

My modifications:
Instead of frozen hash browns I made my own by just grating the potatoes. I also used only Cheddar Cheese since that's what I had on hand. I sprinkled over the top onion powder and garlic powder; I thought this tasted fantastic...no one else noticed the powders.

This got 6 thumbs up here!

Pizza Chicken Bake

This is FABULOUS! Phillip had 4 servings...WOW!

Pizza Chicken Bake

3 1/2 cups uncooked bow tie pasta
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 cup sliced mushrooms (I used a can of mushrooms)
1 jar (26 oz) herb-flavored spaghetti sauce
1 teaspoon pizza seasoning blend (I didn't have this so didn't use it)
3 boneless skinless chicken breast halves, quartered
1 cup (4 oz) shredded mozzarella cheese

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 2-quart round casserole with nonstick cooking spray.

Cook pasta according to package directions unitl al dente. Drain and place in prepared dish

Meanwhile, heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add mushrooms; cook and stir 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in spaghetti sauce and pizza seasoning.

Pour half of the spaghetti sauce mixture into casserole; stir until pasta is well coated. Arrange chicken on top of pasta. Pour remaining spaghetti sauce mixture evenly over chicken.

Bake, covered, 50 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink in centers. Remove from oven; sprinkle with cheese. Cover and let stand 5 minutes before serving.

Recipe says it serves 4....I used a box of bow tie pasta from Walmart and used 5 small pieces of Chicken that we broiled for 15 minutes while the pasta was cooking. The chicken was only a little pink when we put everything in the oven. I also used about half of the cheese in the spaghetti sauce mixture and put the rest on top. We only baked it for about 30 minutes because the chicken was almost done. It was Awesome!