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gategrrlI'm full. I cooked up some taco dinner tonight. Taco night is easy--just plop cheese, meat, refried beans and other stuff in bowls, cook up the seasoned meat, and you're done.
Last night I made a simple two-step meal from the The $7 a Meal Healthy Cookbook: 301 Nutritious, Delicious Recipes That the Whole Family Will Love
--the Texas Mash-up. At least, that's what I'm calling it.
Ingredients:
In a *large* skillet, heat up some olive oil, start cooking the chopped onion until it becomes translucent. Minced garlic is good, too.
Add the meat or meat substitute, brown it.
Add in the taco seasoning packet, incorporate it into the mixture.
Add the veggies, allow them to heat in the pot for a few minutes.
Add in the broth and sour cream and the smashed up potatoes.
Mix it all up together-potatoes, meat, veggies, sour cream, everything.
Scoop the mixture into an 8x8 baking casserole dish (I used my glass Pyrex) and stick it in the oven for about 15 minutes at 400F until it heats through. Oh yes. You might want to top it with some Parmesan, as the recipe calls for, or sharp cheddar, which is what *I* called for!
I think it came out pretty good. Mermaid tried a little bit, but didn't like it. Tall Boy wouldn't even try. But Mermaid's friend who was staying overnight went back for seconds. There is currently 2 cups of left-over in the fridge now. I'll have it for lunch tomorrow. I still have two slices of the turkey meat loaf I made three days ago. I put those in the freezer today.
Surprisingly, even with the potatoes and the sour cream, this Texas Mash-up's calorie count was only ~340 calories. And it was very filling, too!
Last night I made a simple two-step meal from the The $7 a Meal Healthy Cookbook: 301 Nutritious, Delicious Recipes That the Whole Family Will Love
--the Texas Mash-up. At least, that's what I'm calling it.Ingredients:
- 2 baking potatoes--boil and mash, but don't add milk or butter
- 1 lb of ground meat (or tempeh or meat substitute)
- 1 medium onion, chopped up
- 1 packet of taco seasoning
- 1/2 cup or so of low-fat sour cream
- 1 16oz bag of frozen mixed veggies--broccoli, cauliflower, carrots. I was fortunate to find it in the store: it's called the "California mix".
- 1/4 c beef broth (I didn't have any on hand, so I just used some chicken broth--I would have used veggie broth if I had some of that)
In a *large* skillet, heat up some olive oil, start cooking the chopped onion until it becomes translucent. Minced garlic is good, too.
Add the meat or meat substitute, brown it.
Add in the taco seasoning packet, incorporate it into the mixture.
Add the veggies, allow them to heat in the pot for a few minutes.
Add in the broth and sour cream and the smashed up potatoes.
Mix it all up together-potatoes, meat, veggies, sour cream, everything.
Scoop the mixture into an 8x8 baking casserole dish (I used my glass Pyrex) and stick it in the oven for about 15 minutes at 400F until it heats through. Oh yes. You might want to top it with some Parmesan, as the recipe calls for, or sharp cheddar, which is what *I* called for!
I think it came out pretty good. Mermaid tried a little bit, but didn't like it. Tall Boy wouldn't even try. But Mermaid's friend who was staying overnight went back for seconds. There is currently 2 cups of left-over in the fridge now. I'll have it for lunch tomorrow. I still have two slices of the turkey meat loaf I made three days ago. I put those in the freezer today.
Surprisingly, even with the potatoes and the sour cream, this Texas Mash-up's calorie count was only ~340 calories. And it was very filling, too!
