This one pot pasta is really quick & a perfect solution for dinner if you just don’t know what to have, you are starving & want to eat soon!!! This really does not take long from start to finish!
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Ground Beef Tacos
This Ground Beef Taco recipe makes a delicious quick dinner! No-fuss, one pan & easy to make!
The recipe is from BonAppetit.com…. here is the link to the original recipe… I changed it a bit but not too much.
It is a really simple recipe. Some diced onions are sautéed…some spices are added, then ground beef…cooked until done… some tomatoes, black beans & corn…. almost a chilli but not quite!
My local Italian store has some really nice tortillas..this time I used small corn & wheat ones.
Top these tacos with some avocado & we used hot sauce & salsa!
Easily adapted to your taste..if you don’t want to add black beans..use kidney beans instead. or just leave the beans out if you do not like beans! I love the corn in this recipe, corn adds a nice sweet flavour here.
You can always top these with shredded cheddar cheese if you want or even replace the ground beef with vegan ground round!
Here is the recipe
Ingredients
1 – 2 tbsp oil
1 medium-sized onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
red pepper flakes… I just put a shake of the jar in…use a s much as you like depending on how ‘hot’ you like your food! you can always spice this up by adding hot sauce when serving
salt & pepper
1 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp paprika
1 pound of ground beef
1 can of black beans…15 oz can , rinsed
12 cherry tomato..or more i you like, cut in quarters
1 cup of frozen corn… you can thaw this but I did not, I just added the frozen corn & cooked it long enough so that it was not frozen any more!
1/2 cup water
12 small tortillas
For Garnish,...
1 avocado, finely chopped or mashed if you prefer
salsa
hot sauce
chopped cilantro if you like it
Method
- Heat the oil in a large skillet
- Add the chopped onions & cook until lightly browned
- Add the garlic, cook for a minute or so
- Now, add the red pepper flakes, salt & pepper, chilli powder, cumin & paprika. Mix well
- Add the ground beef breaking up any lumps. mix it well with the other ingredients so that all of the meat is coated with the spices/onion mixture
- Cook until the beef is completely cooked
- Add the black beans, tomatoes, corn & water. Mix to combine all of the ingredients
- Stir often & simmer until the tomatoes are soft, the corn is defrosted & the water has reduced down
- I removed the meat mixture to a bowl & wiped out the skillet, then I warmed up the tortllas in the skillet before serving them
- Top the tortilla with some meat mixture, avocado, salsa etc…
Enjoy!
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Quick & Easy Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
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This is my go to meal & has been for years. The kids always loved it but now that it is just Murray & I at home I add various vegetables to the sauce. This time I have added sautéed mushrooms & spinach.
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Quick Salmon Patties
These salmon patties are a staple in our house. I keep a couple of cans of salmon in the pantry to whip up these patties for dinner anytime. They are good as the main in a meal, on a bun as a burger or cold from the fridge.
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Ground Beef Tacos
This Ground Beef Taco recipe makes a delicious quick dinner! No-fuss, one pan & easy to make!
The recipe is from BonAppetit.com…. here is the link to the original recipe… I changed it a bit but not too much.
It is a really simple recipe. Some diced onions are sautéed…some spices are added, then ground beef…cooked until done… some tomatoes, black beans & corn…. almost a chilli but not quite!
My local Italian store has some really nice tortillas..this time I used small corn & wheat ones.
Top these tacos with some avocado & we used hot sauce & salsa!
Easily adapted to your taste..if you don’t want to add black beans..use kidney beans instead. or just leave the beans out if you do not like beans! I love the corn in this recipe, corn adds a nice sweet flavour here.
You can always top these with shredded cheddar cheese if you want or even replace the ground beef with vegan ground round!
Here is the recipe
Ingredients
1 – 2 tbsp oil
1 medium-sized onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
red pepper flakes… I just put a shake of the jar in…use a s much as you like depending on how ‘hot’ you like your food! you can always spice this up by adding hot sauce when serving
salt & pepper
1 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp paprika
1 pound of ground beef
1 can of black beans…15 oz can , rinsed
12 cherry tomato..or more i you like, cut in quarters
1 cup of frozen corn… you can thaw this but I did not, I just added the frozen corn & cooked it ling enough so that it was not frozen any more!
1/2 cup water
12 small tortillas
For Garnish,...
1 avocado, finely chopped or mashed if you prefer
salsa
hot sauce
chopped cilantro if you like it
Method
- Heat the oil in a large skillet
- Add the chopped onions & cook until lightly browned
- Add the garlic, cook for a minute or so
- Now, add the red pepper flakes, salt & pepper, chilli powder, cumin & paprika. Mix well
- Add the ground beef breaking up any lumps. mix it well with the other ingredients so that all of the meat is coated with the spices/onion mixture
- Cook until the beef is completely cooked
- Add the black beans, tomatoes, corn & water. Mix to combine all of the ingredients
- Stir often & simmer until the tomatoes are soft, the corn is defrosted & the water has reduced down
- I removed the meat mixture to a bowl & wiped out the skillet, then I warmed up the tortllas in the skillet before serving them
- Top the tortilla with some meat mixture, avocado, salsa etc…
Enjoy!
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One Pot Pasta With Fresh Tomatoes
This one pot pasta is really quick & a perfect solution for dinner if you just don’t know what to have, you are starving & want to eat soon!!! This really does not take long from start to finish!
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Lamb Chops
I don’t like lamb but Murray does, so I put some lamb chops on the BBQ for him! They are not a first-cut lamb chop but these have more meat per chop & are thick so he was a happy guy!
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Salmon Patties
I posted this recipe awhile ago but I feel like making these quick salmon patties for dinner tonight so I am reminding you all about this delicious & quick recipe!!
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Gnocchi with Mushrooms
Wow! This recipe is fantastic. The recipe was posted on cookscountry.com. We love mushrooms & I add them wherever I can! I have some friends who do not like mushrooms but I bet they could make this recipe without the mushrooms & just make the sauce. It is vegetable broth, parmesan cheese & some cream. That would be good on the gnocchi as is I think! I did not use cream, I just used 1% milk which I had in the fridge. I didn’t have any vegetable stock so I just used water! It worked out just fine. Very tasty. Murray said it was better then he thought it would be!! I like posting his comments about dinner because he is a good gauge as to what is good (sometimes!!!) I roasted some cauliflower, broccoli & peppers to have along side of the gnocchi. I think this recipe would also be good with some spinach added to the sauce at the end just to wilt the spinach. I love adding fresh spinach to most of my sauces. If you are concerned it might water down the sauce, because spinach lets off water when it cooks, just precook it, drain it & then add it to the sauce. I used the vacuum-packed gnocchi and prepared it just as the recipe said. I thought maybe I should have boiled it first, but I trusted the recipe and it was the right decision. This is defiantly worth making!
Here is the link to the recipe
PLEASE NOTE: this website is now asking for a membership & offers a 14 day free trial but wants a credit card #. This has changed I think since I made the recipe. I in no way am suggesting that you join this website. I have nothing to do with it and unfortunately I did not write the recipe down. Your choice as to whether you want to do join or not. I did not so I am assuming things changed since I posted this recipe.
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Lemon Chicken Piccata
This recipe was posted on Facebook from 99easyrecipes.com. The directions were very easy to follow. I had all of the ingredients available, but if you don’t they are easy to get. The chicken I used was schnitzel so it was very thin. I did not warm a serving platter as directed in the recipe. I was making this for later so didn’t need a warmed serving dish. I did put the chicken in the oven, just in a pie plate, while the sauce was being made. I had the oven at 325F so that it didn’t get dried out! The other change I made was that I did not use butter as directed in the recipe. I added some vegan margarine. This dish would be very good served with a nice rice dish to soak up some of the delicious sauce. Murray thought it was a bit too ‘lemony’ for him, which is funny because it is a lemon chicken piccata, but he just ate the chicken without a lot of sauce and it was just fine for him! If you don’t like lemony chicken this recipe might not be for you, but if you do it is delicious!
Here is the link to the recipe
http://99easyrecipes.com/lemon-chicken-piccata/
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Quick Salmon Patties
These salmon patties are a staple in our house. I keep a couple of cans of salmon in the pantry to whip up these patties for dinner anytime. They are good as the main in a meal, on a bun as a burger or cold from the fridge.
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