Pizza Casserole

Hey!
Hope you all are having a wonderful week! Only 1 week until Christmas!! Yayy!! I love Christmas :). We don't have any snow on the ground yet, though...hopefully we will get some for Christmas Eve at least!

I have to share this Recipe for PIZZA CASSEROLE!...I had never heard of it before!, But then one day as I was browsing on PINTEREST (addicted to it!) I found this recipe and it sounded so delicious! So we tried it and it is sooo very yummy!!!....A great and easy thing to make when you are in the mood for pizza, but don't want to order in ;)

Here is the link for the original website where the recipe was found.
http://www.recipelion.com/Casserole-Recipes/Mamas-Pizza-Casserole/ml/1

And here's the REcipe!:

1 Bag Egg Noodles
1 Extra Large bottle of Ragu Pizza Sauce (I use 2 small jars of the Great Value brand)
3 C. MOzzarella Cheese (I use the Fiesta Blend shredded cheese)
1 1/2 lb. ground beef
1 package pepperonis

Brown meat and boil noodles.
Preheat oven to 350
Layer sauce, half noodles, half meat, half sauce, noodles, half cheese, meat, sauce, cheese and pepperonis.
Cover with Foil and bake 30 min. Remove foil and bake another 15 min. Let it sit for 10-15 min so it has time to set! And then its ready to enjoy!!!
For Tyler and I, i only use half a bag of noodles and 1 lb. of ground beef, and about 1/2 a package of the pepperonis and we still have 1/2 of it left over for the weekend :)
Experiment with the toppings!..Add chicken or bacon and veggies too! yumm!!

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Best Pasta Salad

Hey guys!
Hope everyone's having a great week! How's your Christmas shopping going?! Guess what?! Only 12 days till Christmas!!!! Yayy! :)
This Pasta Salad is so delicious! And a perfect side dish to take to a potluck, party, or family dinner! It has such a great pop of flavor! Yumm :)
It's uper easy to make and only takes about 15 min to throw together.

Here's the recipe:
*16 oz. Noodles (I use the Tri color rotini noodles)
*1 green pepper
*1 Onion
*2-16 oz. bottles Italian Dressing
*a few carrots
**you can add tomato and celery if you wish :)

1-cook the pasta according to the directions. Drain. Rinse with cold water
2-Cut up the vegetables and poir into a bowl.
3-mix in the noodles and dressing. Stir. And put in fridge! Let cool for about 2 hours before digging in!

This is our favorite pasta salad! What do you think?!

Enjoy your day everyone!!

Vegetable Chow Mein

My fiancé LOVES Chinese food! I think he could eat it everyday! So I thought I would try to make homemade Chinese!

I made this chow mein and orange chicken...The orange chicken did not turn out :(
So if anyone has a great Chinese chicken recipe let me know!!
Until then we will make meals out of this AMAZINGLY good chow mein!

Recipe:
*2 carrots
*green pepper
*red pepper
*celery
*8 oz. angel hair pasta
*3 tablespoons oil
*sprinkle of ginger
*3 garlic cloves
*1/4 C. Chicken broth
*1/2 C. Hoisin Sauce (recipe below if you don't want to buy this)
*2 tablespoons soy sauce
*2 tablespoons honey
*salt and pepper
*Onion

1- boil veggies 1 minute. Drain and put in bowl of ice cold water. Drain
2-cook noodles 5-7 min. Rinse with cold water and pay dry
3- Heat oil in skillet, Add noodles, ginger, garlic and cook 2 min. Add veggies cook 3 min. Add broth, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, and honey stir until thick add salt and pepper

Recipe for Hoisin Sauce:
*4 tablespoons soy sauce
*2 tablespoons peanut butter
*1 tablespoon honey
*2 teaspoons white vinegar
*1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
*20 drops hot sauce
*pepper
Combine all and add 1/2 C. To noodles and veggies.

This has an excellent taste to it! Mmmmm!! Enjoy supper!!

Manicotti

I don't know about you, but we LOVE pasta!
I've always wanted to make Manicotti so I finally tried it a couple months ago!
It makes a lot and is very filling...so make room in your fridge for leftovers!!
This recipe is DELICIOUS!!!

Manicotti:
*1 pint part skim Ricotta Cheese
*8oz. Mozzarella cheese
*3/4 C. Parmesan cheese
*2 eggs
*1 teaspoon parsley
*Salt and pepper
*1 jar spaghetti sauce
*1 lb. ground beef
* 5 1/2 oz. Manicotti noodles

1-cook manicotti, drain and rinse with cold water
2-preheat oven to 350
3-Cook ground beef in skillet
4-Combine ricotta cheese, mozzarella, 1/2 c. Parmesan cheese, eggs, parsley, salt and pepper
5-pour half of spaghetti sauce in bottom of 9x13 baking dish. Full manicotti shells with cheese mixture and place them in the pan.
6-mix rest of sauce with ground beef and pour over shells. Top with remaining cheese mixture.
7-Bake 45 minutes!

Enjoy!! I like to serve mine with either garlic toast OR the Italian Bread recipe from my previous post :)
It's excellent!

Chocolate Eclair Cake

Hi all!
Looking for an amazing winter dessert?! This is it! I made this yesterday and Tyler was amazed with it! He said it was sooo delicious! :)

Give it a try!

Recipe:
*1/2 C. Butter
*1 C. Water
1 C. Flour
*4 eggs
*large box vanilla instant pudding
*2 C. Milk
* 8 oz. cream cheese
*8 oz. cool whip

Preheat oven to 400 and grease pan
On stove melt butter and water bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add flour. Mix well. Then add in one egg at a time. Press into pan on bottom and sides. Bake 30-40 min until brown
Soften cream cheese and whip with a mixer.
In a separate bowl prepare the pudding as directed. Slowly add to cream cheese mixture. Mix and cool in fridge
Let crust cool completely pour the pudding mixture into crust and top with cool whip. Refrigerate
Serve with chocolate sauce ad ENJOY!!