Dinner ideas...

These 3 meals I made this week and my family loves them....

Beef & Noodles

Normally, I'd use left over pot roast meat but the roast i had made wasn't big enough to yeild enough leftovers. Instead i used Hormel Beef Tips (located in the refrigerated section).

1 pkg Egg Noodles

1 pkg Hormel Beef Tips

Salt & Pepper to taste

1. Cook Noodles per directions (1 pkg was more than enough for my family of 3 adults, so i ended up saving about 1/3 of the noodles for mac and cheese the next day)

2. Cook Hormel per directions (i heated mine on the stove in the pot i used to boil the noodles).

3. Add noodles to meat. (i added some and stirred it up, then added a little more until it looked like enough, if your family is big you might need 2 pkg of hormel to make it meatier).

4. Add a little salt and pepper.

This tastes just like the beef and noodles my mom made when i was a kid....

Chicken Taco Salad

I was inspired by Taco Bell for this dish, just as good in my opinion..

You'll need

Boneless Skinless chicken breast (I used 2 pieces for my family of 3)

1 can refried beans

Taco seasoning packet

1-2 heads lettuce

1 small tomato

green onion or regular onion (opt)

Shredded cheese (any kind u like)

Salsa

Sour cream

1. Chop the lettuce, tomato, & onion; set aside.

2. Chop chicken into bite size pieces & cook in skillet. When it's fully cooked add taco seasoning (if chicken is dry might ad 1-2 TBSp of water) stir until mixed up.

3. Heat up beans

4. Everyone make their own salad using what ingredients they like...

(optional add it crunched up tortilla chips)

Chinese Sweet-and-Sour Pork/Chicken

this is from the Everyday Chinese Cookbook and taste very close to take out sweet & sour but not a sugar loaded artifically colored dipping sauce....

Although this recipe calls for deep frying and breading cut up pieces of pork (which i did) i imagine most people would not want to endure that kind of work, though it was so good!

1 pkg Breaded Chicken (popcorn would be good maybe)

1. Cook as directed

For sauce:

1 TBsp veg oil

1 garlic clove, minced

1 spring onion (green onion)

1 small green pepper

1 red chili

1 Tbsp Soy sauce

2 Tbsp light brown sugar

3 Tbsp rice vinegar

1 tbsp tomato puree/paste

1/2 cup beef broth (or water)

1.Heat oil in skillet, add garlic, chopped onion, pepper,& chili. Stir fry a couple minutes. Add soy, sugar, rice vinegar (i didn't have any so i substituted sherry or cooking wine, tasted just as good),tomato puree, & broth. Bring to Boil.

2. Add chicken and stir, serve over rice.

So So yummy!