Easy Dinners

Spaghetti with meat sauce:  Serves 5

• 1 lb ground beef
• 2 jars of spaghetti sauce with roasted garlic
• 1 lb thin spaghetti
• 1 loaf French bread

1. Brown and rinse ground beef.
2. Add spices to taste (salt, pepper, Italian season, garlic salt)
3. Add jars of sauce to ground beef. Simmer in pot on low heat.
4. Put a large pot of water on stove and bring water to a boil.
5. Add spaghetti to boiling water.
6. Turn heat of water and spaghetti to low and cook per package instructions.
7. Drain water from spaghetti.
8. Cut French bread in half long ways.
9. Spread with butter and sprinkle bread with garlic salt.
10. Place bread in oven on broil. *Keep a close eye on the bread. It only takes a few minutes to toast and melt the butter.

Tips:

1. You can add mushrooms, onion, chunks of tomato, peppers, and anything else you like to your sauce.
2. use a large pot for your noodles. The bigger the pot and lots of water will stop the noodles from sticking together.
3. Drain and rinse the ground beef for a better taste.

 One of my favorite easy dinners

Beef tips and gravy with rice:  Serves 4

• 4 round steaks
• 1 box instant rice
• 4 packages brown gravy mix (makes 2 cups each)

1. Cut round steak into cubes (they cut easily if you put them in the refrigerator for about ten minutes.)
2. In a skillet brown cubes of round steak. (use a small amount of water)
3. Drain off water when steak cubes are browned.
4. Add 4 cups of water to meat.
5. Bring water and steak to a boil.
6. In a bowl, mix 3 cups of cold water with  four packages of gravy mix.
7. Pour gravy mix into boiling water with meat.
8. Use a whisk and stir until the mixture is thick.
9. Turn off heat.
10. Make rice according to directions.

Serve beef tips and gravy over rice. Make your favorite veggie and enjoy.

Pizza Burgers:     makes 16 open faced pizza burgers

 This fast and easy recipe has been in my family for over fifty years. It will feed a crowd. You can double or even triple the amount. I had lots of cousins growing up and we all still eat these. My kids are grown now but they still ask for this delicious meal.

• 8 lbs. hamburger meat
• 1 package hamburger buns (8 count)
• 1 box Velveeta cheese
• 1 jar pizza quick (pizza sauce)
• 1 tbsp oregano
• 1 tbsp Italian season

1. Brown ground beef.
2. Drain and rinse.
3. Put hamburger in a large pot.
4. Add oregano and Italian season.
5. Leave on low to medium heat.
6. Add Velveeta cheese. (cut into medium chunks)
7. Add Pizza quick
8. Cover pot
9. Stir frequently while cheese melts.
10. Preheat oven to broil.
11. Raise rack as close to the broiler as possible.
12. On a cookie sheet place bun halves face up.
13. Spoon mixture onto buns
14. Place in oven and broil until mixture is browned.

**Note: Watch them closely. They don't take long.

This is a fantastic open faced sandwich. One of my boys can eat seven of them. Serve with chips and dip. Left overs are great.

Frito Chili Pie:

• 2 cans Hormel Chili with beans
• Hot Sauce
• Diced onions
• Fritos Corn Chips

1. Heat Chili in a saucepan.
2. Layer crushed Fritos chips into the bottom of soup bowls.
3. Cover chips with Chili, onions, shredded cheese, and hot sauce.

We always ate these when we went camping. They are so fast and easy.

Sloppy Joes:

• 1 Lb. ground beef
• 1 Large can of Hunts Manwich mix
• 1 pacage buns

1. In a skillet, cook ground beef.
2. Drain juice
3. Add Manwich mix
4. Heat and serve on buns

Great with chips and a pickle. How fast and easy was that?

 Gracie Allen's Classic Recipe for Roast Beef

1 large Roast of beef

1 small Roast of beef

Take the two roasts and put them in the oven.
When the little one burns, the big one is done.

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