Taco Casserole

Taco Casserole

 

 

Ingredients:

1/2 Kilo ground beef

1/4 Cup chopped onion

Chili Powder or Taco Seasoning

3/4 Cup chopped green peppers

1 Can chopped Tomato's (or 1 1/2 Cups of chopped fresh tomato's)

Cheese

 

Biscuit Topping:

1 1/2 Cup Flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder (High Altitude - 1 teaspoon)

1/2 Cup melted butter

2/3 Cup milk

 

Brown the meat with the onion and season with the chili powder or the taco seasoning.  Prepare the biscuit topping and spread in the bottom of a 9x13 pan.  Top with the hamburger. Evenly sprinkle on green peppers and tomato's.  Top with cheese.  Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. 

Hummus Dinner

This is what we had for dinner.  What did you have??

 

 

I used this hummus recipe .  I cut up red and yellow bell pepper, cucumber, pickles, carrots, cheese and broccoli.  I boiled some eggs and then sliced some tortillas and bread.  We even had some mint to wrap up with the veggies.  Grab a few veggies, a mint leaf or two, wrap it in bread or tortilla, dip in the hummus.  Yum !  Our family devoured this entire tray of veggies for dinner.

 

Ice Cream Cake

Ice Cream Cake

 

I've had more people ask me for this recipe lately, so I thought I'd post it on the blog.  This recipe takes a bit of advanced planning, but it is a fairly easy and fun dessert. 

 

I start out by making one recipe of this chocolate cake.  I have two round cake pans.  I line the cake pans with parchment paper or foil.  I pour one batch of the chocolate cake batter into the two pans.  If you don't have two cake pans, you can make this in a regular cake pan and then just cut the cake in two so you have two square halves.  Bake the cake and then freeze the cake.  Once it is frozen, take the cake out of the cake pans, wrap with foil and keep the cake pieces in the freezer.

 

I like to make my own ice cream, but if you don't have an ice cream maker you can buy ice cream and follow the same recipe.  Make a batch of this ice cream.  Layer the same pan/s that you cooked your cake in with foil or parchment paper.  Spread the ice cream out smoothly in the cake pans and put it in the freezer until it is frozen hard and then remove it from the pan.

 

Take a plate or a cutting board that is covered with foil and lay out the ice cream cake layers.  Start with a layer of cake on the bottom.  Then ice cream.  I find it nice to put a layer of something a little crunchy on top of this ice cream layer.  It could be chocolate chips, crushed cookies, nuts, etc.  Layer another layer of cake and then top with the last ice cream layer.

 

 

Make two packages of dream whip (you can get this on and off at Fantu and Shoa).  Make the dream whip according to the package instructions and then cover the cake with dream whip.  I usually sprinkle chocolate chips on top just to make the cake look nice.  If you can't find dream whip, you could make a regular batch of icing and ice the cake with that.  This makes a fun and special dessert.  It's a big hit in our household.

 

 

 

 

 



 

Ice Cream

Ice Cream

 

 If you have an ice cream machine, this is a GREAT vanilla ice cream recipe.

 

1 Cup whole milk

3/4 Cup sugar

pinch of salt

2 Cups Heavy Cream

1 Tablespoon Vanilla

 

Whisk milk, sugar and salt together until the sugar is dissolved.  Stir in the cream and vanilla.  If you need to make it in advance, this can be made ahead of time and refrigerated overnight.  

 

Pour into an ice cream maker and let it churn until the ice cream thickens.

 

 

 

For chocolate ice cream:   Add 3 Tablespoons of brown sugar and 5 Tablespoons of cocoa powder.  Mix together with the milk, sugar and salt and then pour into the ice cream maker.

School Lunches

School Lunches

School finished up the end of last week & I thought I'd post the last of my school lunch posts for this year.  Here's what we made for school lunches the last week or so of school:

 

Popcorn for snack time.  Grilled Cheese, Carrots with honey mustard dipping

sauce and a smoothie to drink.

 

 

Banana for snack time. Quesadilla, sliced tomato's and a reeses peanut butter cup.

 

Banana for snack time.  BLT wrap, leftover salad, chocolate cake and chocolate milk to drink.

 

This is my daughter's favorite lunch.  She asks for this lunch almost every day.  I have my house worker make the fir fir the night before and then I heat it up and mix injera into it before I pack her lunch.  This is cheese for snack time.  Fir Fir and a boiled egg with injera to eat it with, Broccoli with honey mustard and milk to drink.

 

Pudding cup (that we found at Fantu) for snack time, Leftover pizza, carrots and broccoli with honey mustard dipping sauce, 2 sugar cookies and milk.