What's for Dinner?

Tonight my family is having Stove Top Easy Chicken Bake. I've made this at once before but I usually make a few slight changes, such as:

• Instead of using raw chicken I used pre-cooked chicken (tonight I used some chicken i cooked the night before for teryaki chicken wraps, just made double so i only had to cook it once). I would suggest using left-over chicken from a roast or turkey. Or canned chicken.
• I also do not use frozen veggies. I used 1 can of green beans, 2 cut & cooked carrots, & 1/2 cup frozen corn.

But it may be possible to make this a "pantry" meal (everything from the pantry or dry storage goods). Just use canned meat and veggies, you might be able to leave out the sour cream or replace it with some evaporated milk maybe or dry milk (i might try using 1/4 cup to try out so not to have too much liquid). Then you could stalk up on this so you could have it at anytime and nothing would be a risk for spoiling if you lost electricity.

Here is one of my Favorite recipes. I don't know where I got it but I love it. I'm sure their are different versions but if you like a slightly sweet savory beef and noodle dish, try this one.

Beef Paprika

1/4 cup shortening

2 lbs beef stew meat/ cut up

1 cup sliced onion

1 small clove of garlic, minced

3/4 cup of ketchup

2 tblsp Worcestershire sauce

1 tblsp brown sugar

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp paprika

1 1/2 cup water

2 tblsp flour

1/4 cup water

3 cup cooked noodles (i use 1 pk wide egg noodles)

1. Melt shortening in large skillet; add meat, onion, & garlic. Cook and stir until meat is brown and onions are tender.

2. Stir in ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, sugar, salt, paprika, & 1 1/2 cups of water.

3. Cover and simmer 2-2 1/2 hours.

4. Blend flour & 1/4 cup of water (cold water!), stir gradually into meat mixture.

5. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil for 1 minute.

6. Serve over cooked noodles. (if you don't like noodles try rice)

Makes about 6 servings