Corn Bread Taco Bake

Budgets have been tight with the pandemic clearing and extra money vanishing. So our food budget has gotten tight. . . We have gotten creative.

Corn bread Taco Bake

I cook this in crock pot or slow cooker, but you can cook this in an oven.

Start making corn bread. . . let go for about an hour,
Then layer salsa (I use mild, but if you can handle the heat, you can get hotter.)

cook pound of beef on the stove (add taco seasoning or make up your own with paprika, black pepper, red chilli flakes, chilli powder, etc season to your liking)

I also make a rice mix (spanish, beef or other flavored)
Layer the rice and beef over the corn bread, then add cheese.

Within several hours, dinner is ready.

You can add corn, black olives, onions, peppers, tomatoes. I also put sour cream on my own bowl.

Happy food

I’ve have made some really good meals this past week.

Sunday Chicken Marsala (drunken chicken)..it was over baked potatoes and they were good. Cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, and sauted breaded chicken in olive oil. Then cooked down in Marsala wine.

Ricotta cheese stuffed burger with sauted green peppers.

Homemade beef stew

I miss not having an oven as baking really makes me happy, but that is another blog.

September 2020: 4

Beef Stroganoff on baked potatoes..

(You can use mashed potatoes, fried potatoes, rice, pasta, noodles, dumplings and even just bread or toast.)

I took a roast this month and divided it into many meals.

Beef stroganoff is a comfort and filling dish.

September 2020: 2

Beef Strognoff over bowties noodles.

Beefy and tasty.

Beef soup

Imagine the show Chopped.

You have the following ingredients: 1 pound beef roast, can of corn, can of green beans, and rice.

I made a beef veggie soup over rice and it was hardy.

It was good to have on day when you are stuck inside avoiding a virus.

I have to say that fat on your beef is your best friend for flavor.

Naughty Food

There is a term I heard called food porn. I laugh at the term, but today I took some shots if the food we made. . .

Steak. Yumm.

Phase one of dark forest cake (chocolate and cherries)

Sweet potato fries

Yummy amazing food.

Shredded beef tacos

Sunday for the football games, I made shredded beef taco. I took a roast in the crockpot and let it cook (while I was working on my book.)

Then I pulled it apart with forks and added taco seasoning. I added cheese, salsa and sour cream.

You also add lettuce, black olives, onions etc.

My brother added jalapeñoes.

Chilli corn bread bake

I looked through my house to find something different for dinner.

I took a pound of hamburger,(I precooked) leftover salsa, two cans of diced tomatoes, a can of corn, and bunch of seasonings and then them into the crockpot for two hours.

Then I made corn bread mix and put it on top of the beanless chilli and cooked it for another 90 minutes. It turned out awesome.

Beef Stroganoff

I had sliced beef pieces, mushroom, sour cream and egg noodles. So I spiced everything up and made beef stroganoff. I marinaded the beef with ground pepper and Worcestershire sauce.

(I currently cannot handle onions with my stomach, but I have seem people add onions, and pepper to it.
I’ve also seen people use hamburger with it, but I prefer beef chunks.)

However it a hit a spot and it was eaten so fast, that I forgot to grab a picture.

It is so easy, but I usually never have the left over sour cream. (We had steak tacos Sunday and fish taco Monday, so I had left over sour cream today.)

Noodles are one of my comfort foods.

Busy Weekend

Theme: Bacon

Zero, Turtle and I got another change to work in the huge kitchen again. Saturday we made so much. It was a really nice night, and we accomplished so much.

Zero made Mayo and BBQ chicken with homemade mashed potatoes.
The mayo chicken was creamy and really good with some black pepper over those mashed potatoes.

Then we got out the bacon. . .

Zero made two meatloaves . . . Plain BBQ glaze and cheesy stuffed bacon wrapped one.
I personally loved the bacon wrapped meatloaf just a bit more. (It was even better the next day.)

Turtle made a roasted chicken with bacon and green pepper stuffing.
It was really good and very juicy. I also didn’t realized that green pepper was that good in stuffing. I learned a few things this weekend.

We also got a bag gruyere cheese from a friend as they have extra. We took the cheese sauce with thinly sliced potatoes and of course bacon and made our own homemade au gratin potatoes.

We also made bacon saute yellow squash and french fries.

We had so much food left over. I didn’t have to cook on Sunday. We had left over for dinner and still some left. Yay.

It was nice that we put down the Internet and the phone and just focused on the food. Sometime we need to forget everything around us and focus on what in front.

By the way, I love bacon!