I am posting two recipes that we actually did not eat this week. I have had strep throat the past two days so I haven’t been cooking like I had hoped. I will be back to cooking again today though, but here are two dinner ideas in the meantime!
Slow Cooker Night: Scalloped Potatoes with Ham
Serves Six
3 lbs potatoes, peeled, thinly sliced
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
2 cups chopped cooked ham
2 cans cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup milk
1/2 tsp garlic powder
Place potatoes in slow cooker. Mix cheese with ham. Mix with potatoes. Mix together soup and water. Add garlic powder and spices to taste. Pour over potato mixture. Cover, cook on high 4 hours.
*This can also be cooked in the oven at 350 degrees for 1 ½ hours.*
Makes four servings.
Serve with a tossed salad & bake-off biscuits.
Amy’s Tips
Make sure those potatoes are sliced thinner than thin or you will have uncooked potatoes in this dish. If you can’t get them thinly sliced (maybe you are knife deficient like me?) then diced small will also work well.
Italian Turkey Burgers
Courtesy of Taste of Home Magazine.
Makes Four Patties
1/4 cup spaghetti sauce
2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 pound ground turkey
4 buns (use leftover buns from when you had the Chicken BBQ)
1/2 cup spaghetti sauce (meatless variety)
In a bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Curmble turkey over mixture and mix well. Shape into four 3/4-in.-thick oval shaped patties. Coat grill rack with nonstick cooking spray before starting the grill. Grill patties, uncovered, over medium heat for six to eight minutes on each side or until meat is no longer pink. Place each patty on a bun and top with spaghetti sauce.
Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals 306 calories, 12 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 92 mg cholesterol, 680 mg sodium, 24 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 25 g protien. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 1-1/2 starch, 1 fat.
(Amy’s Notes- I prepared these on my indoor grill. The patty is very delicate so you have to be careful when flipping these to make sure that they don’t fall apart. If you are worried, you could throw in a handful of bread crumbs to keep them together. These taste like a giant meatball!)
Italian Spiced Oven Fries
Prepare the oven fries as directed, but this time spice them up with 1/2 tsp garlic powder and 1-2 tsp oregano. These could be dipped in the sauce, but we just served them with a generous shake of Parmesan cheese.
I originally had planned to include a nutritional analysis of the foods posted, but due to time constraints, I am not able to keep up with both the blogs, the website, moderating the forum, and writing articles for the site & other publications. Something had to give, and the inputting of each recipe into the nutritional software is what is going to have to be put off for now. I hope everyone can understand!
If you are interested in calculating the information yourself, the program that I purchased is the Shop ‘N Cook Software. It is an excellent program for creating grocery lists & storing your recipes. It also computes the nutritional analysis on each of the recipes. They do offer a free 45 day trial and the cost for the program is $34.95.
I will continue to provide nutritional information for the recipes that are already stored in the software, but newer recipes may not include this information.
Thanks, everyone!
